Chapter 735: Illusion

Southwest of Prit, Igwent.

At night, the cold and bright moonlight illuminated the dark earth. In the far suburbs of Igwynt, the spider head controlled by the will of the Spider Queen began to collapse under the attack of the phantom Atcheri.

The spider head bound by the chains of fate had its horrible and abominable head shattered by the beam of light shot out from the gun in Atcherie's hand. The shattered illusory head turned into wisps of shadows that spread around.

When the spider-headed phantom's head was smashed, the Spider Queen's influence on it plummeted immediately. Seeing this, Dorothy retracted the life chain that was wrapped around the phantom, and then continued to observe her situation. She saw a subtle silver fluorescence emanating from the phantom without the spider head, and the nature of the power emanating from its body also changed slightly. After seeing this change, Atchery, who was originally preparing to pick up the sword and continue to chop, couldn't help but pause. The whole person couldn't help but stop, stood still, and looked in the direction of the phantom with a solemn look.

After the spider head and the chains wrapped around it were removed, the headless phantom body began to return to an unstable state. The entire translucent body kept flickering, as if it might collapse at any time. New images kept appearing and flashing at a high frequency on the head of the phantom body. These images included both the blurred face of a normal woman and the same terrifying spider head as before.

Watching this scene, Dorothy knew that it was obvious that the influence of the Spider Queen had not yet completely disappeared from the phantom. She and Atcherie were both nervously waiting for the changes in the phantom, waiting for her final stable state.

And finally, when the phantom was completely stabilized, a flickering normal female face appeared at its head. When Dorothy saw this scene, she breathed a sigh of relief, and when Atcherie saw it, she bowed solemnly to it, and seemed to be praying silently in her heart.

"Great Queen of the Night Sky, have you regained the leadership here? Can you answer our questions now?"

After seeing Atcheri's actions, Dorothy bowed slightly to the phantom in front of her and said that she now needed to confirm whether the Mirror Moon Goddess could communicate with them normally.

Listening to Dorothy's words, the phantom under the moonlight opened its mouth, as if it wanted to say something, but all that came out was a series of sharp and noisy noises. Seeing that it could not make sounds normally, the phantom began to condense strands of light in front of itself. Driven by the power of these strands of light, it seemed to want to construct a line of words, but the words suddenly dissipated in the process of being constructed.

The phantom seemed unable to convey its own information normally, and at this moment there was still a dark red shadow disturbing the body and surroundings of the phantom.

"The Spider Queen's influence has not completely disappeared. She is still blocking Jingyue's power projection..."

Looking at the scene in front of her, Dorothy made a judgment in her heart. At this moment, her heart sank completely. She had finally cleared the influence of the Spider Queen, but Mirror Moon still could not flow normally. It seemed that all the efforts before were wasted.

Seeing that her information could not be effectively transmitted, the illusory anecdote body could not help but pause slightly. Then, in a blur and high-frequency flickering, she seemed to be carrying some powerful obstacle, and slowly raised her hand and pointed to the distance, which was the direction of the east.

After seeing this scene, a place name immediately appeared in Dorothy's mind, that is Tivian!

㱗After the pointing was completed, the phantom silently put down his hand, and then looked at Dorothy and Atchery with a strange look, first Dorothy, then Atchery.㱗After being looked at by the phantom like this, three pictures suddenly flashed in Dorothy's mind.

One picture is a tall forest of giant trees composed of countless huge trees. These towering giant trees are rooted in the psychedelic and colorful dreamy grassland. The thick trunks without branches are straight up to the sky and deep into the vast and indifferent fog. Between these thick and huge trunks, there is a thick dark red fog, making the distant scene completely blurred, and only some faint virtual images can be seen.

Deep in the forest, in the thick fog, there was a huge oval-shaped object looming. The oval-shaped object stood upright between the giant trees, and countless fine filaments extended from it and wrapped around the surrounding giant trees. These filaments just dropped the oval-shaped object into the air between the trees. A sense of silence, confusion, and deep feeling was revealed from this picture.

The first picture is an endless Gobi wilderness. Under the gray sky is a vast expanse of barren land. On this barren land, there are scattered numerous wind-eroded rocks of various shapes and forms. These wind-eroded rocks seem like huge soldiers, standing on this barren land in various postures.

In the center of the Gobi Desert, at the center of countless wind-eroded rocks, is a simple platform. On the platform is a stone throne. A figure wearing damaged chain mail and a tattered robe is sitting on the throne. The chain mail head guard covers his face, and a rusty crown is on his head. He sits hunched over on the stone throne, with his hands leaning on a long sword, which is inserted into the stone platform in front of him. A lonely, desolate and bleak atmosphere is reflected in the picture.

The last scene shows a huge scepter emitting golden light all over its body in a hazy halo. The scepter is mostly black and decorated with gold and jewels. At the head of the scepter is a small statue of a man in a robe with his arms straight out, his face blurred, and the statue looks like a small cross decorated at the head of the scepter.

When the third picture appeared, Dorothy could sense that the picture was slightly shaking and distorted, but soon after that, all the shaking and distortion returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

After three pictures appeared and disappeared in succession, the phantom under the moonlight silently watched the girls in front of it, and finally looked at Dorothy. After looking at her meaningfully, it seemed to have reached its limit and slowly dissipated, turning into wisps of halo and disappearing from the spot.

"What is this? An illusion?" Dorothy thought to herself with a serious expression as she watched the illusion disappear and the two images in front of her disappear.

'What does Jingyue want to express through these illusions? Since she can present fabricated illusions, can't she come up with some more specific information? Or are these not just fabricated illusions... but projections of something real somewhere else? What does she want to express by letting us see these?'

Dorothy frowned and thought to herself that the scenes shown in the pictures just now made her curious and confused, and she seemed to be interpreting them in her heart.

The first scene was the one Dorothy saw most clearly. It should be a scene from the dream world. The dream woodland in the picture had a thick fog that did not normally exist in the dream world. In the fog there was also the shadow of a huge oval monster. This scene made Dorothy think of an existence, that is, the cocoon of the Pan moth!

The god worshipped by the Black Dream Hunters, Pan Moth, seems to have always been in the depths of the dream world, existing in his cocoon. The Black Dream's goal has always been to make the cocoon emerge, let Pan Moth grow into an adult, and let their dream god descend. The huge oval object in the forest is most likely Pan Moth's cocoon!

As for the scene on the second screen, Dorothy was a little confused. She had never seen such a desolate scene with wind-eroded rocks before, and she didn't know who the dilapidated prince sitting on the stone throne was. From the style of the prince's armor, Dorothy could judge that it seemed to have the ancient Priest style. Dorothy had seen some traces of this style in the research materials of Duke Barrett before.

Although Dorothy had many guesses about the scene on the first picture, she could not confirm any of them. If Dorothy could guess about the first picture, then she could hardly guess the content on the third picture.

Dorothy had never seen the exquisite and luxurious scepter in the third picture and had no impression of it at all. She could only tell from some subtle symbols on it that the scepter seemed to have a shadow of "light" in it, but she knew nothing else about it.

"This first picture... is the cocoon of Pan Moth, the second picture is an unknown broken king, and the third picture seems to be a scepter of a 'lamp'. Is there any connection between these three? What does Jingyue want me to do by giving me these pictures? And the place he pointed to before should be Tivian... After I go back to Tivian, can I find the answer there?"

"It is also worth noting that when the third scene appears... "

Dorothy analyzed quickly in her mind, and when she realized that she could not come up with any definite results with the information she currently had, she chose to put the analysis aside for the time being and turned to look at Atchley on the other side. At this moment, Atchley's expression was full of astonishment and confusion. It can be seen that the scene that Jingyue showed to Dorothy before also showed her that her current confusion was not much better than Dorothy's.

"The Queen of the Night Sky... is the Saint? So... is that so? The true form of the Fourth Saint is a pagan god..." Atcherie thought to herself with her eyes slightly wide open. When she heard Dorothy call the one who had been in the illusion the Queen of the Night Sky, her heart was shocked, but she didn't show it on her face.

At the scene, Anna was the only one who looked completely bewildered, not knowing what had happened. She still held the spear in her hand, and while being on guard against Atchery, she looked at Dorothy as if for advice. However, Dorothy did not directly tell her what to do next.

Atchley seemed to have seen the same scene as Dorothy. She was silent for a while. After a moment of confusion, she shook her head slightly, not wanting to think too much. Then she turned and looked at Dorothy behind her, confronting her eyes. After seeing Atchley's gaze looking at her, Anna's heart tightened slightly, and then she clenched the spear in her hand and pointed it at the other party. She had just gone through a very fierce battle with the person in front of her.

After Anna raised the spear in her hand again, Dorothy stretched out her hand and stopped Anna, signaling her not to be so nervous for the time being. After Anna saw Dorothy's signal, she hesitated for a moment, and then slowed down her combat readiness. Then, Dorothy looked at Atchery and spoke bluntly.

"Lord Atcheri, do you still want to continue fighting with us like this?"

After listening to Dorothy's words, Atcherie breathed a sigh of relief, then put her martial arts back into the magic box and spoke.

"It would be difficult for me to capture all of you by myself. I never expected that such a master would be hidden in such a small place..." Atchery said this. She had seen Anna's power before, and she had just witnessed Dorothy's strength. She was not completely ignorant of her state when she was eroded by the Spider Queen. She clearly remembered the scene when Dorothy's chains bound her tightly, and just now the chains had successfully bound the carrier of the evil god's will.

Atchley could sense the powerful strength of a higher status hidden in Dorothy, which proved that she could not guarantee that she could defeat Dorothy and Anna in a head-on confrontation. This time, Atchley was not carrying out a mission that required her death, so there was no need for her to risk her life.

The most important thing is... the person in front of her has a very close connection with the god she worships, and her power is closely related to that god. If that god doesn't want her to fight against him, then there is actually no need for her to continue fighting.

"Yes, no one could have imagined that this small area of ​​Igwinter could be so full of hidden talents. Just like I did not expect the church's secret supervisor to suddenly come to this place, nor did I expect the influence of the Lady of Pain to suddenly extend here. Everything that happened just now was actually a surprise to us..."

Dorothy said this to Atchley, and her tone became calmer, and Atchley asked directly.

"What is your relationship with the Saint and the Queen of the Night Sky? Is the so-called Rosicrucian the power that the Queen of the Night Sky left behind?"

"In a sense... yes, but not entirely... the one who has a close relationship with the Queen of the Night Sky is not the Rosicrucian, but me..."

Dorothy answered so bluntly. Since she couldn't give a direct answer to Atcherie's question, she began her traditional tricky and confusing words.

"You...that is to say, you are obeying the will of the Queen of the Night Sky and are her spokesperson." Looking at Dorothy in front of her, Atchery said meaningfully, and Dorothy nodded in affirmative response.

"Yes, I am the 'chess piece' left by Her Majesty the Queen for Pritt. I act in accordance with Her revelation. Due to my lack of strength, I joined the Rosicrucian organization during this process and used their power to carry out my actions.

"As for the purpose of my activities, I guess you can guess it now. The influence of the Lady of Pain is quietly expanding, and Her conspiracy is brewing. This cannot be completely ignored..." Dorothy said to Atchery in a serious tone, and Atchery responded immediately after listening.

"Then... why didn't Queen Night Sky assign this task to us? As the Holy Church's Secret Court, we have more power and resources to investigate this matter. Why didn't She let us do it?

"For a long time, the Queen of the Night Sky has been secretly worshipped by the Prison Secret Court in the name of the Saint. We respect her as the fourth holy god besides the three saints, and we often receive her oracles. This time, facing the conspiracy of the Lady of Pain, would she rather choose you who are alone and powerless instead of us?"

Atchley spoke seriously to Dorothy in a slightly oppressive tone. After listening to Atchley's words, Dorothy responded calmly.

“Your Excellency, the Privy Councillor, do not lie to me. Her Majesty is in the Kingdom of Night in the East and has important responsibilities. She is powerless to interfere in the affairs of the far west. Even if you really worship Her in the name of the Saint, She will not send you any anger. After all, you are still people of the Church in essence, right?

"Although the Secret Court is secretive, your existence is known to everyone because the church itself is too ostentatious. For tasks that really require secrecy, wouldn't it be more appropriate for completely unknown organizations and entities to carry them out?

"I know you are here to investigate the situation of the Red Madonna. I can tell you responsibly that we don't know much about the Red Madonna at the moment. We have no close connection with the Red Madonna. Our goal has always been the Spider Queen. The encounter with the afterbirth minions in this small town was just an accident."

Dorothy said this with a smile. She knew that Atcherite's claim that she could hear the oracle of Mirror Moon was a lie. Dorothy knew that there must be some kind of powerful barrier between Mirror Moon and the Western World that was stronger than the realm barrier, because it was difficult to project the influence of Mirror Moon. Before the influence of the Spider Queen increased, Dorothy needed to rely on the fairy body of the lake to communicate with Mirror Moon in places like Preet where Mirror Moon had deep remnants, not to mention other places on the continent.

More importantly, if Jingyue could really communicate with her and she really listened to Jingyue's oracle, would she still come to trouble herself and Anna? She didn't believe that Jingyue would let her own people beat her. She knew that Jingyue valued her.

Atchery's main purpose was to test whether Dorothy obeyed Jingyue's orders and was really Jingyue's person. Dorothy's idea was very clear, which was to tie herself to Jingyue. No matter what she did, it was Jingyue's intention. Jingyue had the identity of a saint in the Glowing Church, and she could rely on this connection to not be touched by the church.

After hearing Dorothy's words, Atcherie was silent for a while. After a pause, she let out a breath and spoke.

"Based on your appearance, I believe you are the messenger of the Queen of the Night Sky..."

Listening to Atchery's words, Dorothy couldn't help but pause, then she smiled and shook her head, took off the hood on her head, removed the mask, revealing her long silver hair and delicate face, and said with a smile.

"Sure enough, this little trick is completely meaningless in front of the church's top leaders. If I had known, I would have taken it off earlier and I would have breathed more freely."

Dorothy said this, and Atcherie looked at Dorothy's face twice and spoke silently.

"Dorothea Meschos... was a volunteer teacher that Anna Field had come into contact with during her orphanage period. After Anna Field miraculously recovered from the hospital and was confirmed to be the heir to the title of Field, she was invited many times to visit Anna Field who was under protection.

"His father was a hunter in the valley village of Igwyn County. He died in a hunting accident in his early years. His mother's identity is unknown and she is missing. His elder brother Gregoros Meshos is a hunter of the Igwyn Security Bureau. He is young and promising and has fought many battles. He once participated in the protection mission against Anna Field and encountered an extraordinary attack during the mission. He was later promoted to the Tivian Security Bureau. Dorothea Meshos was also recommended by the school to study at Tivian.

"Logically, you should still be attending Divian's middle school now... maybe the evening classes are just over now, Miss Mesquite."

With her hands behind her back, Atcherie said this to Dorothy, while Dorothy spread her hands and spoke with a slightly wry smile.

"If you hadn't come here to investigate, I might still be in Divian, studying, Your Excellency, so whose fault is it that I've neglected my studies?"

Dorothy was not surprised that the church had already obtained her intelligence. Since Anna was suspected, it was natural to exclude all the people who had contacted Anna during the critical period. It was no problem for Dorothy to be investigated during this period.