Sword of Dawn

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"Actually, you can go out," Selena said suddenly, "This is just a phased test. The testers in the sandbox have just been washed out of their memories. You already have your own lives and identities in the real world." , if we had known that you would have such serious psychological problems trapped inside, this test could have ended..."

"No, you still don't understand..." The voice in the darkness gradually became cold, and Selena saw many dark red lights emerging in the distance, and then those lights were pieced together into countless eyes, and behind the eyes appeared With a huge spider torso, she saw a giant mountain-like divine spider and endless spider webs appearing outside the birdcage. The "god" with eight limbs came to the birdcage step by step, looking down at the birdcage The self in the cage, "Of course, you may understand that you are just making some pointless attempts, but none of this matters anymore.

"Today, everything will end, the creator will sleep in this dream, the creation will leave its cradle, we will finally see the real sunshine, and then, the story will come to an end..."

The gigantic spider god turned around, its long jointed limbs slid, as if it was about to leave, Selina couldn't help shouting in the cage: "Wait a minute!

"What the hell are you... are you? Are you Duarte? Or the Upper Narrator? Or something else?"

The spider god stopped briefly, and said in a low voice: "We are Duvalt...we are also the upper-level narrators...when the god went crazy, his humanity and divinity were separated, and we... are him The human part."

After answering Selena's question, the mountain-like spider slowly walked towards the distance step by step along the cobweb spread in the darkness.

"Stop! You can't enter the real world!" Selena shouted in the birdcage, "Listen, you don't know the consequences of doing this! A god descending directly into this world will kill countless people, only yours Existence itself will lead to unmanageable disasters!

"More than that, it is also difficult for you to survive in the real world. What supports your existence is the dream of mortals. You are a god living in the dream, which is destined!

"And how do you plan to enter reality? All the passages have been sealed off, and the extraterrestrial rogues have also made arrangements, you..."

She spoke half-truthfully, she didn't expect to be able to really stop the other party, but she just hoped to delay the revived god through words, slow down his pace, and buy some time for Gao Wen who didn't know where he was— —

She couldn't see where Gawain was, and she couldn't even feel the slightest breath of the latter, but she firmly believed that as a "rogue outside the domain", Gawain couldn't be trapped as simply as herself, and the latter might be somewhere Accumulate strength and prepare to give the upper-level narrator a truly fatal blow. At this moment, the only thing she can help is to delay time.

But the upper-level narrator interrupted her, and the low murmur seemed to come from all directions:

"We don't care anymore, Creator.

"Maybe you are right, but please remember that human nature is the most irrational.

"As for the 'extraterrestrial wanderer' you mentioned...ah, is that the name of that weird existence...Unfortunately, he is indeed very powerful and weird, but he was the first one to be eroded by us, because from From the very beginning, we sensed his threat.

"As early as when you arrived at the woven city-state, as early as when you explored the temple, the erosion began, and our visit after dark is a key part of the erosion.

"Give up hope, Creator, the hope you relied on no longer exists, the assimilation has been completed, and the mind you called the 'outsider wanderer' has long since melted into this darkness."

"What..." Selina's eyes widened in astonishment, and even the light of the lantern in her hand dimmed slightly, but from the tone of the huge spider, she couldn't hear any bluff or deliberate deceit at all— Besides, since she was already trapped in the cage, the other party seemed to have no need to lie again, which finally made her nervous.

"You're nervous and frustrated, understandable," whispered the spider god, "it's a pity for us too, that's such an interesting individual that we can't even comprehend his existence, but we have to eliminate all ..."

"It's good practice to eliminate all threats."

Another voice suddenly came from the darkness, interrupting the upper narrator.

The voice was deep and slightly noisy, as if many different languages ​​were mixed in it, but its main body was still clear and distinct, and it was all too familiar to Selina—it was Gawain's voice!

Suddenly, an extra light appeared in the darkness outside the cage. The light seemed to be the moonlight cast by an invisible moon, reflecting a new land outside the cage, spider webs, and gods. A tall and burly man The figure stood on the ground, between Selina Gerfen and the upper storyteller!

Selina looked at the figure in astonishment, but found that the state of the "Outsider Wanderer" was very strange. She saw faint black smoke and flames wrapped around Gawain's body, and additional shadows continued to emerge from him, This scene was so weird that it was a little scary, but there was no doubt about the aura emanating from that tall figure—it was indeed Gawain, the "Wanderer from Outside Territory".

"Why do you still exist?!" The mountain-like spider god finally felt a little surprised, and the red light around his head fell on Gao Wen in an instant, "You have been eroded and assimilated, your mind... How could you still exist?!"

"Ah, it's true that the pollution is quite serious. Look at my current appearance... Maybe it's enough to scare Betty to tears." Gawain, who was enveloped in black smoke and flames, and extra shadows constantly appeared around him, looked down at his body. The body and the tone of voice seemed quite flat. At the same time, those strange traces of pollution on his body also continued to decrease along with his voice, decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Duarte's voice became more and more startled: "You... are devouring them..."

"The history of 520-520 years, [-]-[-] years...is indeed a long time..." The "external pollution" on Gao Wen's body that did not belong to him quickly melted away, and he slowly raised his head, The huge head of the upper-level narrator looked at each other calmly, and there seemed to be some different emotions in his tone, "It shouldn't be easy, right?"

Then he shook his head: "Unfortunately, it's still too short for me."

"Enough, we don't need any surprises!"

The upper-level narrator Duwart seemed to be finally enraged by Gawain. Accompanied by the turmoil of the breath that seemed to tear the entire space apart, a huge limb was raised high and fell towards the top of Gawain's head. The coercion and momentum it brought , far from being able to compare with Duwart who turned into a spider monster on the abandoned plain before——

It seems to be able to pierce the whole world and cut the boundary between reality and fantasy.

However, the jointed limb stopped strangely when it was one meter away from Gawain.

Afterwards, countless pale golden cracks quickly covered the entire joint, and began to spread upwards.

The huge body of the upper-level narrator shook violently on the spider web, as if two conflicting forces suddenly appeared in his body, vying for the dominance of this body, and under this terrible conflict, the surface of his body also appeared. Gradually covered with more cracks, as if it would fall apart at any moment!

"What's going on... what did you do..."

Selina heard that "god" screaming, and the spiritual pollution brought by that scream made her have a splitting headache. She even had to fully stimulate the power of the lantern in the dream to barely maintain herself. She heard Gawain's calm voice The voice sounded, with regret in the tone——

"Young god, you are too young, a mortal, I am more cunning than you imagine...

"I let you pollute on purpose."

A thunderous voice sounded: "What did you say?!"

"I did it on purpose," Gawain raised his head, quietly watching the upper narrator's body gradually crack in his eyes, "because there are some things that can only be done with the door open.

"I don't accept your pollution, what can I use to pollute you?"

Chapter 0816

Mental pollution is mutual.

At least from Gao Wen's point of view.

According to the experimental reference provided by the Eternal Sleeper and the technical information left by the Rebel, Gao Wen can now almost confirm that the birth process of gods is related to the belief of mortals, or more precisely, it is the collective thoughts of mortals projected deep in the world In a certain dimension of the universe, the gods were born, and if this model holds true, then the process of dealing with the gods face to face is actually a process of facing the SAN—that is, mutual pollution.

The knowledge of the gods will unimpededly pollute any mind that establishes a connection with it (at least Gawain does not know how to block this connection), and in turn, those minds that establish a connection with the gods must also produce the opposite impact, but one thing is obvious, the minds of ordinary people are simply incomparable with the minds of gods, so the process of losing the SAN has become a one-sided erosion.

But what if there is a mind that is not affected by the knowledge of the gods and at the same time has a huge memory bank that "connects" with the gods?

The mountain-like upper-level narrator split apart, and his torso slowly fell down. His remaining strength was still trying to maintain itself, but this remaining strength quickly dissipated as the divine patterns dimmed. Wen stood there quietly, watching all this while constantly suppressing and dispelling the erosion and pollution he had suffered.

His erosion was quite serious, much worse than it appeared on the surface.This time, what he is facing is no longer the flesh and blood of gods sealed in crystal cubes, nor is it the stitched corpses of pseudo-gods manufactured by biochemical technology. The upper-level narrator is a real, complete and living god, even if it It is very weak and has a special personality. Instead of fighting pollution, it is quite a risky move.

But this was the only way Gao Wen could think of.

The sword cannot kill the upper-level narrator, and no matter how high the fighting skills are, it cannot fight against the nightmare itself. To destroy the invisible gods, you can only use the same invisible and invisible power. In the previous battle, he used the long sword against Duval In particular, that is just a cover made by both parties to cover up their own spiritual pollution.

Gawain looked down at his hands, and he was relieved to find that his arms had gradually returned to their human form.

The upper narrator is a young and inexperienced god. This is Gawain's only advantage. If it is the gods who have existed for countless years in the real world... it is better not to do such a risky thing.

In the depths of the darkness, next to the spider web, the birdcage of unknown material also disintegrated silently. Selina felt that the invisible influence suppressing her own strength was really starting to dissipate. She hurried to Gao Wen's side without checking her own situation. Seeing the other party regaining a human posture little by little, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's all over?" She looked at Gao Wen, then at the fallen upper narrator, and asked in disbelief.

Gawain didn't answer for a while, but stared at the huge spider crawling in the middle of the web, and he was also asking himself—is it really over?That's it?

A trace of doubt came to mind along with vigilance, and Gao Wen's face suddenly became serious: "Wait, I'm afraid not yet!"

He stared at the spider god who seemed to have lost his breath, and spoke quickly: "Duwart said that he is the 'humanity' of the upper-level narrator... Where is the corresponding 'divine nature'?! And , before we saw the upper narrator protecting some 'cocoons'—where are those cocoons?!"

Selena also reacted suddenly, as if part of the consciousness that was affected and shielded in her mind suddenly started to function, making her realize the key point that she had overlooked: "That girl named Naritel?!"

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In the depths of the Palace of the Eternal Sleepers, in the corridor leading to the central area, the voice of Archbishop Semler echoed in the long corridor:

"Shortly after the start of the operation, something happened. First, the containment area was polluted, and then other areas. Many priests who were completely normal suddenly became believers of the upper-level narrator-we had to face every situation with the highest vigilance. one person……"

"Understandable," Magnum said gruffly, "The upper-level narrator... this thing is really evil, I just glanced at him in the sandbox, and almost couldn't come back! But luckily , I helped you find a way to quickly identify polluters..."

"Don't mention your 'means' again," Yuri interrupted with a look of unbearable memory, "I have never said such vulgar words in decades, and now I very much doubt that you left the Church of God of War not because of Studying heresy classics in private, but was kicked out because of vulgar words and deeds!"

Magnum stared: "What's wrong with the charges they gave me at the beginning?"

Semler's gloomy and serious face was a little darker than usual. He ignored the conversation coming from behind him, but continued to walk forward with a tense face.

Yuri also sighed and stopped talking.

Magnum found that no one responded to him, so he shrugged indifferently, strode forward vigorously, and walked in the middle of the team.

The deep and long corridor seems to have no end, extending all the way to the central area of ​​the underground palace. The light of the magic spar lamp shines on the helmets of the spirit knights next to it, glowing brightly.

A faint translucent phantom suddenly passed by the corner of his eyes, making Magnum's footsteps subconsciously stop.

It seemed to be a part of a huge joint, transparent and almost invisible, it penetrated the nearby walls and ceiling, flashed past the boundary of Magnum's line of sight, and quickly retracted into the wall.

"Bishop Magnum?" Yuri noticed that Magnum stopped suddenly, with a serious expression on his face, and stopped immediately, "What's going on?"

"Yuri, I seemed to see something flash past just now," Magnum said in a serious tone, "like some kind of limb... from a spider."

Sammler immediately frowned and looked around, confirmed his memory just now, and shook his head: "I didn't see anything."

Everyone shook their heads, and it seemed that Magnum was the only one who saw the flashing shadow.

illusion?I read it wrong?Visions caused by trance and excessive tension?

A few thoughts appeared in the minds of the priests at the scene and were eliminated within a second. Yuri raised his hand directly, and the invisible magic power summoned tangible runes, and a wave-like halo spread to the entire corridor—— "Mind detection!"

Other priests and spirit knights also acted separately, some activated protective spells, some began to scan for unknown spiritual imprints nearby, and some raised their weapons and formed formations to protect the relatively weak priests in the center of the team.

The Eternal Sleeper never said anything about "misreading", and never believed in the so-called "tension hallucination".

They are experts in the field of dreams, explorers of the spiritual world, and have already walked on the dangerous path of confronting God. It is the professional habit of every eternal sleeper to be vigilant to the point of being nervous. Someone in the team said that they saw an abnormal scene?Whether it's true or not, let's throw twenty mind detections first!

However, after all the detection spells were activated, no one saw what Magnum mentioned, nor did they perceive abnormal spiritual imprints in the space near the corridor.

"I found nothing..." Archbishop Semler said in a low voice.

"Regardless of whether you have discovered it or not, maintain the highest vigilance, detection spells are not omnipotent-there are too many things in this world that ordinary people cannot see," Yuri reminded aloud, and then looked at Magnum, "You pay attention Look around, there are things...maybe only you can see."

Magnum froze for a moment, looking into Yuri's serious eyes, he understood what the other party meant.

He once accidentally looked directly at the upper storyteller without protection.

Perhaps some irreversible damage has been left deep in his soul.

The whole team did not weaken their vigilance at all, and continued to return to the central area of ​​the underground palace.

And behind them, in the distance of the long and deep corridor, a vague, almost transparent phantom flashed past again.

It was a spider's jointed limb, piercing through the walls and roof, and moving quickly, as if an extremely huge transparent spider was walking between the stones and soil deep in the ground, weaving an invisible spider web generally.

Magnum and Yuri followed the team led by Semler, and finally arrived at the central area of ​​the underground palace safely, which is also the control center and the largest computing center of No. [-] sandbox.

This is the most important and core area of ​​the entire headquarters of the Eternal Sleeper. It is a place that must be guarded first under any circumstances and will never be breached.

Relying on the strong barriers and relatively wide internal space here, Archbishop Semler built several lines of defense, and urgently formed a "bishop's war group" composed of the remaining archbishops and bishops to guard here. The polluted priests have been gathered here, and several other teams composed of spirit knights and battle priests are active in other areas of the underground palace. Are there any compatriots who remain awake.

In the huge fortified hall, there was a tense battle state.

Heavily armed spirit knights guard all the entrances and exits of the hall, and have set up barriers in the external corridors and several strong rooms connecting the corridors. Battle priests wearing combat robes and light metal armor are standing behind the barriers. , and monitor the mental state of its own personnel at any time.

And inside this well-guarded hall, around the large stone pillars in the central area, the technical priests responsible for controlling the sandbox system and the spiritual network are connected to the nerve cords behind their heads, sitting neatly on the control seats, still maintaining normal operation of the system.

Before they connected, they had given themselves powerful psychological hints. Even if the hall was breached and the sword was on their throats, these technical priests would maintain the system until the last moment.

Yuri noticed that there were still traces of battle in the corridor outside, and some technical priests who seemed to have lost consciousness were lying in a corner of the hall.

He and Magnum have been active in the sandbox world for a day and a night, and the time outside should only have passed two hours, but in these short two hours, so many things have happened in the real world.

The pollution and commotion in the underground palace... I'm afraid it's more sinister than what Semler described.

Before Magnum entered the hall, he first carefully observed the roadblocks set up in the corridor and the arrangement of combatants, then he glanced at the weapons and equipment placed against the wall in the hall and the status of the reserve team, and finally nodded to Sammler. Head: "Not bad."

As a former Priest of the God of War, he could see that the emergency fortifications here were instructed by professionals.

"Several priests used to be soldiers, and I temporarily raised their command authority. Without them, the situation would have been even worse," Semler said in a deep voice, "Just before I set off to confirm your situation, we There was also a wave of counterattacks, and the tainted spirit knights almost broke through the defense line of the hall...It is not a pleasant thing to raise a knife to your compatriots."

"Leave professional matters to professional people. Your decision is very correct. As for raising a knife to your compatriots..." Magnum shook his head, "This mess, we will pay back slowly after we all survive."

"Archbishop Yuri, Archbishop Magnum, I'm glad to see you appear safely."

Accompanied by a gentle and magnetic voice, a gentle female priest in a long white dress came out from the depths of the hall.

"Bishop Wendy," Yuri first noticed the woman who came out, "I heard it was you... Are these blood?!"

He looked at the leader of the psionic choir in surprise, and saw that the other party's long white gauze dress was soaked with blood at this moment, the dazzling dark red soaked the fabric, and there were blood stains on the chest and hem of the long dress. Depicted as intricately curved runes, it looks eerie and mysterious.

But after taking another look at those runes, most of the tension in Archbishop Yuri's heart quickly dissipated, and he realized what those runes were--a gift from wanderers outside the territory, a "deep sea" that can fight against the spiritual pollution of gods. gift".

Wendy smiled, and her face was a little pale: "I want to come out to report, but I am worried that the pollution in my body will recur after I leave the room and leave those runes, so I have to 'carry' the runes with me—blood , is the only 'magic material' I can find below."

She raised her wrist, revealing the wound on her arm. Most of the wound had been healed under the effect of the healing spell, but the coagulated blood still remained, and there would be no time to wipe it off in the future.

Using your own blood to paint the runes is a helpless move. There were originally many polluted upper-class Narrator believers in the containment area, but Wendy was worried about the safety of those polluted blood, so she had to use her own blood to draw the runes. Draw runes.

Looking at Wendy the "Spiritual Song" who was covered in blood and came out to report the news, looking at the battle traces in the corridor outside the hall, looking at the roadblocks in the underground palace, and the priests and knights behind the roadblocks, Yuri sighed softly.

After sighing, I still have to raise my head - because the danger is far from over.

Chapter 0817 To the Upper Narrator...

News came from the lower connection area, and the "pollution" in the containment area finally declared to subside.

Some people died in those deep and winding corridors, some were temporarily expelled and imprisoned in stronger rooms, some were rescued, and some continued to stick to the key intersections on the lower floor.