Chapter 588 Children's Dreams and Nightmares

In the fairy kingdom, it seems to be a sacred and rare thing for mortals to meet the queen.

Because just as Aiwas was walking on the dreamy rainbow bridge, the fairies around him gathered more and more visibly.

They all came here to watch.

Perhaps because Grace was already a familiar figure to the fairies, the curious fairies gathered around Aiwass. The first fairies lay on top of him, while those who came later flew low around his feet like puppies. Those who arrived later could only circle Aiwass, following him like floating cannons.

I don't know when it started, but suddenly I heard singing from the front.

There was only a brief moment of confusion at first, and then everyone immediately synchronized into a very harmonious chorus.

The fairies produced all sorts of musical instruments in their hands. Although they looked small, they were resounding, and when they came together, they became a roaring, surging wave of sound.

When the fairies gather together and begin to sing, a fairytale miracle is revealed.

At first, there was a floating magic carpet, which allowed Aiwas to sit cross-legged instead of walking; then the magic carpet turned into a silver-white carriage, and two unicorns appeared in front to pull the carriage.

Then, at a visible speed, the carriage gradually grew in grandeur—from one tier to two, then three. Finally, it transformed into a giant cake tower, with Aiwass perched on top, a fruit-like decoration. In addition to the two unicorns, a large number of white doves were pulling the carriage.

Before Aiwass, an old piano materialized. It was practically alive—it too had tiny, fairy-like wings and hovered before Aiwass. Clearly, a fairy had transformed itself into this form.

He touched the piano keys with some nostalgia, with a look of melancholy in his eyes.

Soon, Aiwass struck the keys.

It was a rather awkward sound, but it contained a wealth of emotion. Soon, Aiwass became proficient again.

Grace, who was behind, looked at Aiwass in astonishment.

...The Archbishop also knows this?

The surrounding fairies joined Aiwass in his singing. Soon, the joyful chorus transformed into a symphony. It wasn't a difficult piece, but it had a humorous, fantastical quality.

Against the backdrop of the "background music," the cake cart under Aiwass sped up. Grace behind him was no longer walking on the ground, but flying through the air. Even so, the main group was getting further and further away from her.

Soon the Rainbow Bridge reached its apex and the other side could be seen from afar.

It was a palace of exaggerated size.

The pure white spire-like palace, upon closer inspection, was made of ice and snow. Snow was still falling above, and two rows of toy soldiers in red cotton coats at the doorway were shivering with cold.

At the end of the rainbow bridge was a steep, curved slope. The cake cart Aiwass was on was flung into the air along with the fairies. The fairies who didn't fly high enough were swatted away, spinning and falling. Only the fairies on Aiwass's body could scream and spin along with him.

What defied all physics was that when the cake cart beneath Aiwass began to spin, the massive, towering cake tower didn't disintegrate or throw Aiwass off. They were like a bone spinning at high speed in the air, making a whirring sound like a boomerang.

At this moment, a carpet made of blue ice suddenly spread out from inside the ice and snow palace.

But the ice carpet didn't just lie flat on the ground. Instead, it circled several times like a roller coaster. Finally, as it reached Aiwass's body, it cut the tall cake cart in half!

Only the small section of the tower cake, about a meter tall, where Aiwass sat, had become a cart. Like a child in a supermarket cart, Aiwass raced through the ice roller coaster at high speed, whizzing around and around. All the while, the shivering fairies persevered, playing music to Aiwass's soundtrack.

Aiwass had no choice but to continue playing the piano.

But in the process, more than half of the goblins on him were also thrown away - with each goblin lost, the ensemble lost a layer of sound. In the end, only the little goblin Nilim hid in Aiwass's sweater, clinging tightly to Aiwass's collar, and managed to avoid being thrown off.

Of course, maybe it was just because she was doing nothing, while the other fairies were working hard on their instruments.

And in the end, only Aiwass's solo was left.

But even in the wind and snow, the sound of the piano easily penetrated the sky.

As the cake cart glided across the ice carpet at high speed, the gates of the Ice Palace opened one after another in response to the music. The toy soldiers in red cotton coats guarding the gates raised their heads in unison and saluted Aiwass with their chests puffed out.

They looked less than half a meter tall, and beneath their thick cotton-padded clothes, they were visible to the naked eye as if made of wood. Yet, they were shivering with cold, looking like living creatures.

——Although this scene looked quite fairy-tale and interesting, Aiwass knew that these simple-looking toy soldiers were actually very scary phantom demons, on the same level as succubi and punishment demons.

Moreover, they have all lived for a very long time. Any one of them that descended into the material world would have a minimum energy level of 6. And depending on the "atmosphere", they could also have all sorts of outrageous buffs superimposed on them.

Thinking of this, the scene before him immediately became terrifying—at least thirty or forty terrifying phantom demons of the sixth energy level or above surrounded Aiwass. And as Aiwass went deeper, their number continued to increase.

In fact, they are all apostles of the Fairy Queen.

The Fairy Queen's status is that of a Celestial Master. However, she isn't called a "Fairy Celestial Master" according to the rules because the title of "Fairy Queen" can be inherited—Titania isn't the first Fairy Queen, nor will she be the last.

While most goblins don't live to be twenty, any goblin has the potential to become the Goblin Queen. This is a perfectly natural rule of the tribe: the Goblin Queen creates new goblins. If a Goblin Queen finds life boring, she can resign. Then, a goblin matures and becomes the new Goblin King or Queen.

There are no clear rules for promotion, nor are there clear responsibilities and terms of office.

Everything is like the rules of the path of beauty, vague and determined by one's heart.

Titania is a very fickle fairy queen. The "decoration style" of her fairy palace changes frequently. Every time it changes to a different style, they will transform into creatures of the corresponding style.

The Fairy Kingdom does not have a specific appearance, or in other words, every child who is invited into the Fairy Kingdom may imagine where the Fairy Queen lives, and the place may become what the children imagine.

No matter what the Fairy Kingdom becomes, these "moving things" and the actors in them are actually the same group of people.

If it is a spring manor, they will become handsome servants and maids; if it is a candy house style, they will become candy soldiers; if it is a horror theme, they will be floating ghost servants or haunted tea sets.

The ice palace in front of you is actually a crystal ball. If you walk over from outside the Rainbow Bridge, you will find that the Fairy Queen is surrounded by a huge crystal ball. So this is actually a toy theme. So they are actually acting as wooden toy soldiers.

Aiwass was particularly impressed by them - because they even had memories. In a later fairy copy, there was a candy soldier who would say to the player, "Hey, why are you here again?" when he met the player.

These "toy soldiers" are the extension of the Fairy Queen's authority. They all have real and pure souls. They are the Fairy Queen's believers in life and her apostles after death.

Some of them are fanatical followers—or lickers—who have fallen in love with the Fairy Queen because of her breathtaking, mind-destroying beauty. Of course, their pursuit is doomed to be fruitless... because fairies do not need sexual reproduction. In a sense, they are like plants, relying on flowers and fruits to reproduce.

Others are tired of the intrigues, hardships and pains of the real world and would rather immerse themselves in this eternal and beautiful fairy tale world. These people are pure in heart, so they can play with fairies.

For these people, this might be considered a kind of "wonderful afterlife"—a world without hunger, pain, or death. All they have to do is obey the Fairy Queen's orders, play different roles with a group of equally pure-hearted friends every week, and entertain the Queen, the fairies, and the children. And they can live happily ever after.

The only regret is that they don't have any vacation time or personal time. They can't leave the Fairy Kingdom either...because the Fairy Queen is very kind to them and has given them a lot of power; this also makes their inner selves very terrifying.

While these soldiers themselves lacked the fairy's miraculous ability to manifest their wishes, since they were essentially the Fairy Queen's "imagination," the illusion was incredibly powerful—not that it was so strong it could not be dispelled. Quite the contrary, the illusion had no protection and would shatter if dispelled.

However, if the illusion is not discerned, their attacks will be clumsy and comical, like elite soldiers in puppet costumes pretending to fight in slow motion. If they attempt to dispel the illusion, they will be distorted into bizarre and abstract horrors, their attacks becoming incredibly fast and fierce, and they will possess abilities completely different from the style of the paintings, which can be wiped out on the spot.

It's like "Didn't you notice the assassin sneaking in? His stealth is so poor", "We did, so let's keep quiet and pretend we didn't see it."

Because of this cumbersome mechanism, the various statuses attached to them can only be removed by completing the corresponding mechanics - which is not difficult, but it emphasizes collaboration. Although the dungeon itself is indeed fun and interesting...but that is usually when playing with familiar friends using voice chat.

Taking into account that from time to time there will be teammates who are not intelligent enough, too lazy to think or do not understand the mechanism, and drag others to death together, the matching environment of the fairy dungeon will become like a disaster movie.

At this time, every time I reopened the game, the phrase "Hey, why are you here again" was quite devastating.

And these creations are actually part of the fairy tale.

——They are actually "children's nightmares."

Nightmares are actually part of fairy tales.

(End of this chapter)