As Angel went deep into the jungle, the noise coming from inside Tizamo Town quickly disappeared.
But she knew that as time passed and the sleeping residents continued to "wake up", the various scenes she saw on the streets and in the manor would happen one after another during the Dream Invasion festival, just like in previous years, involving all participants.
Ordinary fighting, destruction and releasing inner desires will not cause real harm to the body in reality, but vicious events are inevitable. Those who really die will fall into a slow but inevitable end within three months after the end of Dream Festival, or they will be killed by primitive tribes who worship the power of Dream Festival and believe in "Death".
Only by figuring out the source of the power to create "Dream Festival" as soon as possible can more casualties be avoided.
Otherwise, even if Angel takes out "Salinger’s Blood Banner" and asks everyone in the dream to worship her and suppress their desires to spend the night, "Dream Festival" will still be held again on the same day next year, and she cannot stop everything every year.
Making up her mind, Angel continued deeper along the trail trodden by hunters in the jungle, and soon approached the location she reached in the last uninhabited dream.
"I encountered a hazy fog that day, and then I escaped from the dream and returned to reality, but now is the period of 'Dream Festival', it shouldn't be so simple..."
She thought about it, her steps slowed down, she was careful and vigilant, her eyes kept flickering, and she looked at the blind spots in her sight through the nearby mirror formed by dewdrops and puddles, and soon made new discoveries.
In the direction away from Tizamo Town in the jungle, a huge black stone appeared at the location where Angel "awoke" last time.
Different from last time... Angel felt happy. What she was most worried about was that she would wake up immediately after stepping into the depths of the jungle as before. She would never be able to enter the Dream Invasion festival again and could only wait for the next opportunity a year later.
This is why she did not move quickly through "Mirror World", but had to observe with the naked eye down to earth. Her purpose was to find any abnormalities, not to rush to the edge of the dream.
Through the mirror, Angel observed the boulder and slowly approached it without stopping.
It was a boulder the size of a single-story house, with a dark surface, but upon closer inspection, there were a large number of ridges or depressions, as well as small textures connecting them, as if it were made up of countless small stones.
The primitive jungle surrounds the boulder to form a square-sized open space. Humus accumulates on the ground. Sections of dry tree roots arch and droop, like blood vessels on the surface of a giant's body.
There was deathly silence all around, no human beings, no animals, not even the noise of the nearby plantations could reach here.
In the few days since arriving at Tizamo Town, Angel has already visited all the surrounding areas. She is very sure that there are no black boulders in this jungle in reality, only empty squares that are not much different from other forest clearings.
Therefore, this is a stone that only exists in dreams, and it is the only anomaly I found tonight... Angel felt like "I finally found you" in my heart. He bypassed several giant trees entangled with vines and stepped into an open space with tree roots like knotted blood vessels.
At this moment, her vision went dark, and several scenes came into her eyes one after another and entered her mind:
There are scenes of a large number of figures wearing black burqas, with complex runes painted on the exposed skin, and wearing bone jewelry, worshiping around the "black boulder";
There is a scene where a gap is exposed near the ground in a black boulder, which is opened like a stone door, and the figures in black robes around them flee in fear;
There is a scene where an object covered in viscous liquid, resembling both a dry human hand and a branch, slowly protrudes from the inside of an open black boulder, and is pulled back into it by some strange force;
There is a scene where an old man wearing a rusty iron crown and strange robes, with skin as white as jade and eyes as black as night, stretches out his hand with oily feathers and flowing yellow pus, and presses the head of a man in black robe...
These pictures flashed extremely fast, and some even required Angel to use Spirituality to recall in order to identify the specific content. However, the old man's hand in the robe, which was full of tears and had feathers growing out, made her heart tighten, and she thought of "Samaritan Women's Spring" underground Trier.
That was the hand of "Underworld Daoist" that pulled back Blood Emperor Tudor who was wandering in the depths of the spring, trying to escape from "River of Eternal Darkness"!
Is it Western Continent, the "River of Eternal Darkness" Dao Integrator who sacrificed his life to suppress Blood Son of Heaven? Wasn't he dragging Tudor behind Trier... no, preventing Tudor's Residual Soul from leaving? How come it appears in the Southern Continent?
Did those scenes just happen simultaneously now, or were they images from the previous Dream Festival period?
Could it be that the force that created "Dream Festival" is not just a little pollution from Sefirah, but another tributary of "River of Eternal Darkness"? Its essence is connected with the underground spring of Trier, and with the true body sealed in the Western Continent, so "Underworld Daoist" that enters there can appear in Dream Festival?
Is that black boulder a container, a tomb? The branch with black mucus extending out from the inside is Residual Soul, another Beyonder suppressed by "Underworld Daoist"?
The brief hallucination ended, but stormy waves set off in Angel's mind, and thoughts emerged one after another.
Based on what "Pale Empress" said before, Evernight Goddess's enthusiasm for this exploration, Angel has already made some guesses.
She saw that the hallucination no longer appeared, and the black boulder still stood quietly in the middle of the open forest, so she pinched the cold holy symbol on her wrist and walked towards it walking on the thick carpet of decaying leaves.
After taking a few steps, the bright feeling appeared again. She came from the open forest to another open space with boulders and more than ten men in black robes surrounding it.
That was one of the scenes she just saw!
The open space before was an illusion, but this time is it real? No, I am in a dream now, and both places may be real... As soon as she realized it, the people in black robes kneeling around the black boulder noticed the intruder, and all looked at him, changing from kneeling to standing, without concealing their hostility.
Some of them condensed the radiant Greatsword in their hands, some held up a set of metal armor that covered their whole bodies under their black robes, some opened their mouths, and transparent ghosts flew out of their teeth, and some of their foreheads lit up, and the illusory Bronze Gate itself appeared.
"Guardian", "Dawn Paladin", "Spirit Warlock", "Gatekeeper"... Angel, who was familiar with most of Potion's powers, immediately judged that these men in black robes belonged to "River of Eternal Darkness", the three Pathway's Mid Sequence Beyonder.
From the primitive totems and bone ornaments drawn on the skin under their black robes, it is not difficult to draw another conclusion: they all belong to the primitive tribes near Tizamo Town, and are participants who were brought into the Dream Invasion environment together by "Dream Festival".
No wonder this dream wants to bring a large area of primitive jungle into its effective scope. It turns out that it is to bring them in... Are they guarding this huge stone, this tomb or prison?
Angel's thoughts turned and he confirmed the identities of the people in front of him.
It seems that Numinous Episcopate's information is wrong. They are not the primitive tribe that worships "Death", but the guardians of the tributaries of "River of Eternal Darkness". They are part of Dream Festival's concealment of its existence from the outside world. There are so many Mid Sequence Beyonder is most likely to come from a gift, rather than a normal Potion promotion... No, maybe it is not Numinous Episcopate's mistake. The "dark" Pathway already has secret authority. In reality, these tribe members may behave very ordinary, and it is difficult to find out the problem even through divination...
Looking at the people in black robes who were getting ready for battle and approaching him, Angel gathered his thoughts, the power belonging to "War Bishop" emerged in his body, and shouted in a very majestic tone:
"Kneel down!"
She used Loenese, but the power contained in it did not need to be conveyed through words to make the "River of Eternal Darkness" gifters in front of her who did not possess divinity tremble. Led by the leader "Guardian" who held the light Greatsword, they all lowered their heads and knelt down on the ground again, as if facing the black boulder.
Fortunately, the power of "Red Priest" Pathway can suppress them. Otherwise, would we have to rely on the charm of "Demoness"? Angel chuckled secretly, bypassed the black-robed people who bowed their heads and knelt down and dared not speak, and continued walking towards the black boulder.
She doesn't want to kill people in "Dream Festival" if she doesn't have to, which would lead to them actually dying in reality. Even Indulgence's own servants and Mistress, the slaves who physically release the anger in their hearts, the townspeople who fight in the streets and even hunt the same kind, are just victims controlled by the negative emotions and malice absorbed into the dream.
As for the men in black robes in front of them, Angel speculates that they are the executioners who attack Tizamo within three months after "Dream Festival" every year and kill those poor people who die once in the dream but will die sooner or later in reality.
They are also just slaves of "Dream Festival"...
The only thing Angel is curious about is what is the purpose of the "malice" that has been sucked into Dream Invasion. If it is just to hide this black boulder in the dream, it has "hidden" power and the protection of this group of benefactors is enough. Why should the residents of the entire town be involved?
Thinking of the empty look in Amandina's eyes he saw just now, Angel sighed secretly and stood in front of the black boulder.
Until now, the boulder has not moved at all, which is different from the scenes she saw of "the stone door opening" and "arms stretching out".
It seems that it was just a fragment that happened in the past, not a prophecy. The number of black-robed men in that scene does not match the present... Angel thought about it, walked around the boulder, and paused for a moment at the location where a door was opened in the hallucination. He found that the subtle lines were perfectly matched, and there was no entrance or exit at all.
If I use brute force to break it, it may cause Sefirah's power to leak. I'm not afraid. Tizamo Town will probably be destroyed. It seems that I can only try that method...
She stood where there should be a stone door, stretched out her left hand, and shook off Hidden Holy Emblem, which contained the breath of "Blood Emperor" Tudor, the seal of "Underworld Daoist" and the divine power of Evernight Goddess, and let it get close to the surface of the stone that was intertwined with depressions, convexities and fine lines.
As if reciting "Sesame Door Opening", the boulder shook in front of Angel's eyes. A straight gap opened between the originally messy lines, and part of it protruded outwards, as if the inside was pushed away.
The illusive sound of water came from inside, and a cold, lonely atmosphere enveloped Angel, giving her a sense of familiarity.
Same as "Samaritan Women's Spring"...Angel was alert in his heart, quickly took a few steps back, and watched the stone door open completely.
The next second, an arm flowing with black "oil" and composed of dead branches of Distortion stretched out and clasped on the edge of the hole formed after the stone door was opened, clinging on as if to pull out the huge body behind it.
As it moved, Angel felt that his body, his Spirit Body, and even his thoughts and ideas were frozen, no, "bound" by the cage composed of his body.
Now, she no longer had any doubts about her inner guess.
That is "Abomination" which is the same as Suah and "Chained God" Tolzna.
It turns out that the last characteristic of "Chained" Sequence 1 was hidden in the dream, hidden under the nose of "Rose School". No wonder "Mother Tree of Desire" controlled Rose School but could only separate the characteristics from Tolzna. "Abomination" Suah, rather than letting the contaminated Chained God become the real God. No wonder the ceremony of "Dream Festival" has a flavor of the Temperance Faction concept. This may be the key to the effectiveness of the seal...
Angel figured out many things under the aura exuded by this "Abomination".
The only thing she is not sure about is how long this characteristic has been hidden in "Dream Festival" before North Continent colonized it? When Death just fell? Or before "Chained God" was contaminated by Outer Deity?
Thoughts kept flashing in her mind, and Angel did not hesitate in her movements. She had rich experience in fighting "Abomination" and immediately used Mirror Substitution to get rid of the "restraint" state. "Salinger’s Blood Banner" and " The projection of "Sword of Glory" appeared in her hand, and the orange-red dusk light enveloped the forest land, and the breath of conquering everything surged out, causing the people in black robes who were kneeling on the spot to lie on the ground and not dare to move. Short black manes and white feathers kept sprouting from the skin all over their bodies, and they were on the verge of losing control.
It was only then that the body behind the branch-like arm dripping with black mucus came out of the black boulder.
What surprised Angel was that this "Abomination" was not made up of withered tree trunks and branches flowing with sticky black liquid like the Suah Angel had seen, but had a roughly human outline.
He wears a Golden Mask with holes for his facial features. The surface of the mask is painted with black and white paint, forming a strange and heart-stopping expression. His body is covered with incomplete armor made of large pieces of gold. In the gaps, black viscous liquid is constantly flowing. Just looking at it makes Spirit Body and his body freeze at the same time.
Wearing golden armor and wearing Golden Mask's "Abomination"... Angel was a little surprised, but the "Sword of Glory" in his hand was already waving subconsciously, and the invisible blade carrying the power of Flames of Destruction, Petrification and dusk light was about to "flash" into the opponent's body, completely destroying his body.
Regardless of whether Archangel of Sequence 1 is controlled by "Mother Tree of Desire", since "Underworld Daoist" who suppressed Blood Emperor is also suppressing him, there is a high probability that it is not a good thing. Even if she couldn't kill him in the dream, Angel would still find a way to force the other party back into the black boulder, giving "Underworld Daoist" a chance to pull him back into the tributary of "River of Eternal Darkness" like in the phantom fragments she had seen.
But the moment she took action, behind Golden Mask on the face of "Abomination", the eyes that had been closed opened, and the ice blue eyes looked at Angel.
A passage that was obscure and difficult to pronounce flashed through the latter's mind, but she could understand its meaning:
"Wait, I don't mean any harm."
Is it...Devil Language?
Grazing has met a Desire Apostle, so Angel, who knows a little bit about the language used by "Devil" people to communicate, was startled. He held Bone Sword tightly in his hand, the invisible blade was drawn but not released, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the gold-clad figure in front of him.
Although she had guessed it, she still couldn't believe that "Abomination" in this dream was actually talking about Devil Language.
Seeing that she did not continue to attack, the voice in his mind seemed relieved and continued with a smile:
"I felt a familiar energy coming from you and I thought we could talk.
"Out of politeness, communication can start by exchanging names. I am Naboredisley...
"... You can also call me, Farbauti."