It's Okay
"Dreams are absurd and unknowable; they may contain some patterns, but those patterns can change in the next moment." Alice sat on a magnificent tall chair, her small legs wrapped in white silk resting there quietly, the rabbit in her arms nowhere to be seen.
"So what you need to do is stay alert at all times, be aware of the changes in the dream, and at the same time maintain your own stability. Otherwise, you might change yourself along with the changes in the dream."
"Like before?"
"That's right." Alice jumped off the chair. "I used this change to involve the changes in your dreams, overwriting your memories and turning you into someone else."
"That's why I said your dreams are undefended. You will change yourself because of the changes in your dreams. So the first step to becoming a dream wizard is to maintain your independence from your dreams in order to establish your first line of defense against them."
After speaking, Alice glanced at Lu Li, and the feeling of entering the Dreamlands resurfaced. The next moment, a memory of a paladin covered him. When Lu Li opened his eyes again, he was already wearing armor, holding two swords in his hands, looking at the motionless shadowy hybrid in front of him.
Residual bodily memories caused Lu Li to instinctively swing his sword, slicing the person in front of him in two with a single strike. Blood, internal organs, and filth were exposed. Lu Li squinted, looking at the scene before him with some confusion.
He instinctively felt something was wrong, and stared blankly at the corpse before him. Things shouldn't be like this. Just then, his teammate, another knight from the Inquisition, approached and asked, "What brings you here, Grotesque?"
"Grotesque? A strange and absurd thing?" Lu Li thought of his name, holding his knight's sword, watching his knight companion approach. The unease in his heart grew stronger, and then Lu Li swung his sword without hesitation.
His companion's head flew off, Lu Li said, confused, "I don't remember it being like this?"
"Grotesque, you've been infected by the monster! You'd better accept your judgment!" The other companions who arrived later saw Lu Li still lost in thought and charged towards Lu Li with their knight's swords.
Lu Li looked at the person rushing towards him. His memory told him that it was his companion, a brother who had come from the Holy Church Academy. However, a sense of unfamiliarity filled Lu Li's heart. So without hesitation, he flicked his longsword and thrust it out.
The knight opposite seemed quite surprised, frantically trying to block the sword strike, before Lu Li pierced his throat with his sword, dying in utter bewilderment. What kind of swordsmanship was that? Why was it so different from Grotesque's usual fighting style?
Lu Li, who was used to using that kind of attack, felt increasingly uneasy. So he picked up his knight's sword and chased after the others. Even those who were closest to him in his memories, Lu Li felt a strange sense of unreality and immediately struck with his sword.
As Lu Li continued his slaughter, the people of the Tribunal learned that Grotesque might have been corrupted by an unknown entity and had gone completely mad. So they Lu Li and used divine magic to restrain him.
The bishop, dressed in an elegant white robe, approached the restrained Lu Li, extended his hand, which was radiating a white light, and pressed it against Lu Li's head, seemingly to assess Lu Li's condition.
But the next moment, the bishop's expression changed drastically, and he shouted wildly, "It's all fake! Hahahaha, it's all fake! We're just dreaming! We're all fake..."
The bishop lost control of his body, and the holy light power within him went out of control. He became a bomb of holy light and suddenly exploded. Lu Li also took this opportunity to break free of his restraints and looked at his familiar yet unfamiliar former companions around him.
A dark shadow spread from the ground, covering Lu Li's armor and completely blackening it. He nimbly dodged the incoming divine spells and, seeing the charging knights, picked up a branch from the Lu Li.
The pitch-black shadow spread, completely blackening the branches, and met the longsword swung at the knight opposite. The longsword was sliced in two by the Lu Li branches, as if it were a bubble, and pierced directly into the knight's heart.
More and more shadowy figures began to float. With the support of these shadowy figures, Lu Li unaffected by the opponent's divine magic. The opponent's power seemed weak and powerless, and the opponent's longsword and armor seemed like mere bubbles that could be punctured at the slightest touch.
Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, Lu Li discarded the tree branch he had picked up. The branch, now faded black, was snapped in two by Lu Li's kick. No one knew that it was this very branch that had just killed all the tribunal personnel in the vicinity.
A bewildered Lu Li toward the city not far away, until there was no one left in the city. Lu Li took a wooden stick he had picked up at random and stabbed the city with all his might. The next moment, it seemed as if the world had been pierced through.
Lu Li looked at Alice in front of him, who said happily, "Good progress. By the thirteenth experiment, you could already sense something was wrong from the very beginning. As long as you continue, your memories will soon no longer be blocked."
"We still have time, shall we try one more time?" Alice asked Lu Li.
Lu Li curled his lip in boredom. "Can't we change our perspective? It's so boring being alone all the time."
"Well, if it's Grotesque, it's okay to do that kind of thing," Alice nodded.
"What exactly did you learn from my memories?" Lu Li looked at Alice in front of him, and the next moment everything changed again.
"Grotesque, let's go." Lu Li turned around and saw a hairy, burly man beside him holding a cute little girl of two or three years old, saying anxiously.
Looking around, Lu Li felt that strange yet familiar feeling again, and blurted out, "No need to run anymore, the people from the tribunal ahead have already arrived."
"What interesting bastards." A knight appeared out of nowhere, sword in hand, and walked towards them. "Let me count: two big bastards and one little bastard. What do you suggest I do with you later?"
"How about this, I want to cut open that little body and see if her tiny internal organs are as sweet as pig's offal?" the knight said pervertedly. The Inquisition had been facing all sorts of strange beings for a long time, and in the long battles, countless people's minds had become twisted. But as long as they still believed in the Lord, they were still knights of the Church.
The burly man, trembling, handed the girl he was carrying to Lu Li as he watched the approaching knight. Then, still trembling, he charged at the knight, shouting, "Grotesque, take my daughter and go! Go!"
The burly man clung tightly to the knight, no matter how the knight slashed at his body with his sword, he held on fiercely, frothing at the mouth as he cried out, "Go! Go!"
"Is it alright?"
"Didn't I already say? If it's Grotesque, it's okay to do that kind of thing." The little girl raised her calm face and looked at Lu Li.
"So what the hell did you learn from my memories, Alice?" Lu Li shook his head.
"Go, Grotesque, take Alice with you!" The burly man, knocked to the ground, clung tightly to the knight's leg again and roared.
"Die!" the knight roared, his sword killing the burly man instantly, but he found that the man's hands were still gripping his legs tightly.
"You're courting death." The knight severed the burly man's hand with a single sword stroke, and with two severed arms still attached to his feet, he walked towards Lu Li: "You bastards, die!"
The next moment, Alice waved her hand, and the knight vanished into thin air.
Forget it, I won't add those requests to support the official version. There's no need for those who use pirated versions to increase the cost for those who read the official version. By the way, the hater gave me a 10,000-yuan reward today, so I'll try updating four times today.