Chapter 242 Illusion
The venue for the Sea and Mirror Heart Trial is located in the forest behind the mountain of Braeside. The huge lake is bottomless, the lush shade of the trees covers half of the sky, and the scattered sunlight is scattered on the lake.
Due to limited space, the number of onlookers was greatly reduced compared to the previous round, and most of them stood in groups of three or four outside the cordon.
While Lu Yi was listening attentively to the principal's rambling speech, he was also thinking about the underwater illusion.
Previously, with the support of 857's system, he had hardly ever worried about the possibility of his thoughts being spied on, but the unavoidable illusion before him forced him to face this problem.
From the moment he knew about the illusion, Lu Yi wondered if the illusion would read his memories of his past life. After all, if the illusion wanted to produce the effect of making people lost and crazy, it would start from the most fearful and vulnerable part of their heart.
Lu Yi deduced several possibilities in advance, such as the Klein family repeating the mistakes in the book and him losing the person he loved, or he opening his eyes to find that it was all a dream and he was still the weirdo who grew up in an orphanage and was out of tune with everything, or - actually there was no other possibility.
These two possibilities are the only ones that scare him, and they are also the most likely to be exploited by the illusion.
Lu Yi took a deep breath. Not far away, Principal Braceside had finished speaking and the crowd's eyes were focused on him.
His luck was not very good. Among the three Sea and Mirror Heart trialists, he drew the first lot and was the first to go on stage.
After swallowing the magic pill for breathing underwater, Lu Yi walked into the water without hesitation and sank to the bottom of the lake in one go.
For a moment he remembered his baptism in the holy water font. It was also bitingly cold. In the dim water where he had lost most of his vision, everything became quiet. All sounds were silent, leaving only the rise and fall of his own breathing.
During the baptism, Ares' tentacles were causing trouble - although Lu Yi didn't know at the time that the tentacle was a clone of Ares, he probably couldn't have imagined that he would have such a deep bond with the owner of the tentacle, the god named Lord of Slaughter.
Now that the tentacles are no longer there, Lu Yi's mentality has become calmer.
Everything he has and what he has experienced in the past give him the courage and confidence to face anything that happens.
After sinking for a long time, a faint light finally came from deeper inside.
Lu Yi was cheered up and quickened his pace.
Along with the light, there was also a faint whisper echoing in the water. This dizzying effect did not affect Lu Yi at all - from the moment he noticed the light, he immediately blocked his hearing.
The underwater monster was indeed the Nightmare Beast as Wavelin said. If one entered the Nightmare Beast's territory without any precautions, one would be disturbed by the whispers before even seeing the Nightmare Beast's true form, and would walk straight into the chaotic vortex.
The Nightmare Water Beast used its special skills to block the attack, and the rest was a pure fight.
Putting aside the restrained fire element and the water element of the same attribute which was suppressed by the environment, Lu Yi still had several elements to attack and exploded colorful elemental light underwater with his own strength.
The Nightmare Water Beast is indeed difficult to deal with, but it is nothing to the ruthless Lu Yi.
He had countless skill scrolls, and countless attacks known for their lethality. Others worried about not having enough skills, but he was struggling with which one to choose when he had too many skills.
But no matter which one is used, it is enough to cause fatal damage to the Nightmare Water Beast that has lost its trump card.
After a few minutes of one-sided beating, the Nightmare Water Beast whimpered and died completely.
The last bit of light in the dark underwater disappeared.
There was not a drop of blood on Lu Yi's fingertips, and even his breathing was not disordered. He swam towards deeper depths without stopping.
This section of downstream journey took even longer, much longer than the previous one, so long that Lu Yi began to wonder if he had unknowingly entered the illusion of the Sea and Mirror Heart Trial.
But when he looked around carefully, the scene was still the same. The strange deep-water creatures were still swimming around, and the algae and corals looked like dead things in the dim environment.
I don’t know how long I swam like this, but I saw light ahead again.
The light was so bright that it was out of tune with everything underwater.
Lu Yi muttered to himself, it’s finally here.
——The illusion of the trial of the heart of the sea and the mirror!
Lu Yi plunged into the light.
…
“Wow—”
“Woo woo—”
The baby's cry echoed throughout the magnificent palace, but after touching the isolation barrier, it was retained inside the palace.
The pain of childbirth made Lena faint, but soon the mermaid power in her blood made her wake up again.
Except for the crying of the baby, there was only deathly silence in the inner room. The maids knelt on the ground with trembling bodies, and an ominous feeling was quietly spreading.
Lena propped up her weak upper body, sweat still flowing from her forehead, and her golden hair stuck to her cheeks wetly, but it did not detract from her stunning appearance at all.
She shouted hoarsely, "Brother...Sairen!"
A man's voice responded from the outer room behind the screen.
"I am here."
"Come in!"
"No, Queen, this is against etiquette! Even if Count Klein is your brother, you can't..."
"Yes, yes, Queen, please don't..."
The kneeling maids all raised their heads and lowered their eyes in prayer.
"Listen to me." Lena interrupted them directly and spoke in a voice that everyone in the room could hear, "What are you doing now? No - in fact, you are not doing anything. You are just caught in a daydream with your eyes open, and you can't remember anything after waking up..."
The young and beautiful queen seemed to be driven by a magical power at this moment. Her voice, which was hoarse in the last second, was instantly soaked with dew, light and soft, like the most lingering whispers between lovers.
The maids in the room froze at once, their eyes dulled as they stared blankly ahead.
Sairen Klein walked silently into the inner room.
Lena Klein was leaning over and hugging two crying babies. She looked up at him tiredly, and her voice became hoarse again.
"How are things going over there?"
“The child stopped breathing during the birth process,” Sairen replied.
"…Is this an accident?" Lena asked with some difficulty.
"Of course, you know, the doctor said a few months ago that the child was weak in the womb."
"What a pity..." Lena murmured, her expression seemed to be both crying and laughing, "What a pity!"
"Do you believe the rumors about the Victor royal family? What about killing one's own siblings and immoral love? This is too absurd! Do humans like to make assumptions? Even if those assumptions may be completely illogical!"
“Perhaps this is a curse passed down through blood,” Sairen whispered.
-
Victor V was not the old king's only son; he also had a twin brother with whom he once had a close relationship.
Why did I say once upon a time? Because the prince who was a fellow countryman of the king had been gradually forgotten in death, not only because of the passage of time, but also because of the taboo curse that the Victor Empire was not allowed to mention.
The newly victorious founding emperor fell in love with his identical twin brother. After squeezing the last drop of blood from the prince during his conquest, he killed him in a foreign country thousands of miles away from the capital.
The unwilling prince's soul lingered after his death, and he returned to the capital with the purest and most hateful thought that his soul would wander forever neither in heaven nor in hell. His heart-wrenching pain turned into one blood-cursing curse after another.
He shed tears of blood for the person he once trusted the most and loved the most.
The prince's soul floated above the castle, his eyes filled with sorrow and grief.
"Why did you betray me?"
"Why are you killing me?"
"I curse all your bloodline, brothers born from the same womb will kill each other! This immoral love will never see the light of day! The empire will collapse, and the blood will be shed!"
"Luther Victor! You are going to - go to hell!!"
Victor IV scoffed at the curse, but half of it came true on Victor V.
The prince, immersed in extreme immoral love, eventually went on the road to destruction and was finally beheaded by Victor V himself on the outskirts of the royal capital.
From then on, no one in Xinshengli dared to mention the royal curse of this immoral love of killing brothers.
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"I don't believe it." Lena lowered her eyes and pursed her lips, her gaze falling on the two babies in her arms.
Maybe they were tired of crying, the two babies had fallen into a deep sleep. Although separated by soft bedding, their similar faces seemed to be facing each other in perfect harmony.
"They are the most precious treasures bestowed by the Sea God on Wende and me. No matter what curse it is, they can never be harmed... I won't allow it."
“But you actually have to separate them, don’t you?” Sairen whispered.
Lian Na bit her lower lip unwillingly, and after a long while she said hatefully: "Human race! If they were still in Beiqiao, if they grew up in the mermaid's territory, they would definitely be the closest brothers who help each other!"
"Are you willing to go back?" Sairen asked casually.
Lena was immersed in the pain of having her blood dispersed, and was unaware of the expectation and nervousness hidden in his eyes.
"Of course not!" She answered without hesitation, "How could I abandon Wen De? It is shameful to betray your partner!"
"But he is just your husband as a human! He has not even gained the recognition of his father!"
"My approval is enough!" Lena said stubbornly.
"...Which child do you want me to take away?" Sairen suddenly changed the topic.
Lena was silent for a moment, looking left and right, feeling extremely conflicted and reluctant to leave.
Sairen urged, “There’s not much time left.”
Lian Na made up her mind and left the weaker brother on the bed, and handed her brother to Sairen's arms.
"He is your brother, you must take good care of him!"
As Lena spoke, tears began to well up in her large, clear blue eyes.
"...Don't be sad, I'm just raising him. I'm not taking him far away. I can bring him to see you often."
"How can it be the same?" Lena said sadly, "I have to watch my own child call someone else mother..."
"Have you thought of a name for him?"
"I've decided, let's call them Lu Yi. The older brother is Lu Yi and the younger brother is Lulton."
"Lu'vi, lu'et." Sairen said in the merman's language, "One and two, nice names."
"I should go now. They won't be delayed for long. Wendel should be back soon."
…
Lu Yi opened his eyes and the sound he heard was that of a baby crying.
He was a little confused, but soon realized that something was wrong.
——He seemed to have turned into a little baby.
A baby is awake much less than he is asleep.
After several months of being half asleep and half awake, Lu Yi finally figured out the current situation.
He should have been born again in an imperial aristocratic family in the Western Middle Ages. The only family members he had met so far were his parents and a little brother.
Speak of the devil, here comes his serious-looking little brother——
"Luyi Klein, my father and mother have gone to a party together. I will take care of you today." Astor said seriously, "I think you should have recognized me as your brother by now. Although you can't speak yet, it doesn't matter. I won't despise you."
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