Chapter 747: Lost Territory
East bank of Plitvian, Tivian.
In the northern city of Tivian, above the huge square of the Cathedral of the Holy Hymns in the cathedral district, thick beams of light descended from the sky, covering the evil creature in the magic circle. The shackles of faith and silence originally imprisoned it tightly, but a sudden accident loosened the imprisonment.
The Ghost Guards are essentially an extension and evolution of the guardian power attached to the King of Pritt. Therefore, when Charles IV, the current King of Pritt, suffered a backlash during his guardian ceremony in the Crystal Palace, the Ghost Guards around the magic circle in the church square were also affected. The existence of all the Ghost Guards on the scene became erratic for a moment, and it seemed difficult to maintain a stable form. This change in the Ghost Guards directly caused the shackles on the evil creature to be temporarily reduced by one layer.
When the power of confinement began to weaken, Gesijina began to break through the other seals on her body with all her strength. She devoutly chanted the name of the Lady of Pain in her heart again, and her master began to bestow her power on her without reservation.
"You...can't...bind me now!!"
With a series of crackling sounds from her bones, Geskina's entire body gradually grew larger. The extra arms that had been suppressed and disappeared began to grow again on her body. Geskina's face also split in several directions again, revealing a huge blood-red eyeball. Her originally pale skin was once again covered with hard black hairs that were arranged side by side like sharp needles.
Under the divine power granted by the Spider Queen, Geskina, who had transformed into a terrifying body, resisted the power of faith that was descending from the sky. While slowly breaking free from the cage, she stared at Archbishop Samuel of Pritt, who was wearing a luxurious priest robe, with cold and terrifying eyes.
At this moment, from the empty sky, several extremely sharp swords suddenly fell from the sky, and shot towards the magic circle that imprisoned Gesijina on the ground with a swishing sound, and pierced directly into Gesijina's body, head, body, arms, chest... Every part of Gesijina was instantly pierced by these swords. At the end of these swords, there were thin iron chains connected, extending to the distant sky and then disappearing into nothingness. The iron chains emitted a faint fluorescence, which made Gesijina's figure slightly startled. The movement slowed down a little.
These long swords came from the support of the Holy Steel Ship, Twilight Shadow, which was still hidden in the light and shadow above the sky. Facing the out-of-control situation in front of it, it was now trying its best to control it. It was also now assisting Samuel to suppress Guskina with its greatest strength. However, facing the current Guskina, even with the help of Twilight Shadow, it still could not save her from escaping the cage. Guskina's movements continued, and the changes on her body had not stopped. The assistance of Twilight Shadow only temporarily suppressed her progress, and could not change the fundamental status quo.
Facing this increasingly powerful divine monster in front of him, Samuel maintained the bondage of his rank with a very solemn expression, while looking at the ghost guards around him whose states were erratic and even gradually disappearing. He couldn't help but feel extremely depressed.
What happened on King Charles IV's side? This is the biggest confusion in Samuel's mind at the moment. Although he is not clear about the specific principle, he can still judge that the Youton guard who just assisted him seems to be from King Pritt.
Now facing Geskina, whose divine power is gradually growing stronger, Samuel can only hope that Charles IV can recover as soon as possible. Otherwise, once Geskina breaks through the shackles of faith, no one in the entire Tivian... the entire Pritt will be able to control her.
This is the Golden God's Chosen One, the true God's representative on land! A divine being more powerful than ordinary gold!
"Mr. Supervisor... where are you!? The situation right now... is getting a little out of control!"
"We must... immediately notify Shenglinshan!"
While maintaining the Binding of Faith and exerting the final pressure, Samuel also used a little of his energy, contrary to the instructions given to him by "Atcherie", to make an emergency contact with the distant Mount Saint through the extraordinary system in the Cathedral of the Holy Songs, and began to inform other cardinals of Tivian's emergency situation at the moment.
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It's also Divian. At this moment, there are three hidden places on the edge of the city and other corners.
On the rooftops of these small buildings located in remote areas and difficult to detect suspicion, three groups of mysterious figures are gathering at this moment. The three groups of people wearing pale white robes with "moth" patterns printed on their backs gather together, muttering to themselves and looking up at the sky with ethereal expressions.
"The hour has come... and yet the rain has not fallen...
"The ritual seal has not been deployed... The tentacles of the harvest... failed to extend...
"The plan failed... The plan must succeed...
"Since you cannot harvest others, you must harvest yourself...
"The coming of the moth requires sacrifice, if not him, then me..."
Looking at the clear sky, three groups of people, located at different places in the city and far apart, were forming a circle, muttering and chanting in unison, with wooden expressions. In the middle of the three groups, in the center of the circle, there were three figures standing silently. They were wearing robes similar to those of the people around them, but slightly more complicated. They were also staring blankly at the clear sky.
The heavy rain that was expected had not shown up at all. Those who were placed here to cooperate with the heavy rain to perform the ceremony had not yet arrived at the scheduled time, but the necessary conditions for the ceremony had not yet arrived.
However, for these hypnotized "Moth" believers, this ceremony is necessary. Since the ceremony lacks the conditions for performance, they must create the conditions, even if it costs a terrible price.
"The coming of the moth requires sacrifice, if not him, then me..."
The special figure in the middle of the three ritual groups repeatedly muttered something, and then those people around them who seemed to be of a lower status began to step forward, and the people around them began to slowly circle around each other, chanting mysterious spells as they circled.
As this spell was chanted, three huge circular magic circles gradually lit up under the feet of these people, and the people in the center of the circle were also in the center of the lit magic circle.
As the mysterious ritual progressed, a semi-transparent virtual image was released from the three people at the center of the ritual. After surrounding themselves for a while, it quickly expanded and was released into the sky.
Three magnificent and huge virtual images suddenly appeared in three far-flung corners of the city of Divian. They had huge bodies of twenty to thirty meters long, with huge insect-like moth wings, tons of tons covered with countless white cocoons, fat abdomens, mouthless heads, and chests covered with countless illusory tentacles.
Pseudo-moths... or as Hei Meng himself called them, three huge mature scaly moths appeared in the sky above the city at this moment, overlooking all the tiny things in the city. The hypnotic waves that came with their appearance spread out from themselves to the surroundings, causing people in large areas to fall down one after another and fall into a deep sleep.
After the three pseudo-moths suddenly appeared at the edge of the city, they did not immediately start hunting or join in the battle with other enemies in the city. Instead, they just hung quietly in the air. Their huge bodies gradually turned into tiny points of light, scattering in the space.
Decomposition, that's right... The first thing these three mature pseudo-moths did after appearing was to self-decompose. The huge bodies of the three pseudo-moths were almost completely decomposed in an instant, and a huge number of tiny dots of light suspended in the air were broken into pieces, which quickly gathered towards the sky.
Sacrifice is a necessary part of the ritual that the Eight Pointed Priests are going to perform. They originally wanted to use the sigils that spread throughout the entire city of Tivian to expand the scope of their ritual to almost the entire Tivian. In this ritual, hundreds of thousands of ordinary residents will be sacrificed, and their extracted spirituality will be used in the next stage of the ritual.
Because the rain clouds were blocked above the distant sea and there was no rain to wash them away, the marks on the souvenirs that Bajian and Hei Meng originally set up were unable to break away from the colors of other camouflages and stand out on their own. The first stage of the ceremony could not be carried out at all, so Hei Meng could only launch a backup plan.
The first stage of the ritual was essentially a mass sacrifice of the inhabitants in order to obtain a huge amount of spiritual energy for the next ritual. The current Black Dream shifted the target of sacrifice from sacrificing the inhabitants to sacrificing the pseudo-moth itself.
Each pseudo-moth grew by absorbing the spirituality of a large number of ordinary people's dream cocoons. Its spirituality is not only huge, but also of higher quality. In addition, before this operation, the only three pseudo-moths left in the Black Dream Hunting Group actively linked a large number of "moth" believers scattered around the world, deceived ordinary people, slaves bought from human traffickers, and many of their own slaves provided by the Eight Points. The sacrifice of a pseudo-moth will also cause the joint sacrifice of all those linked to it, and the spirituality released will continue to be used in the next stage of the Black Dream ritual.
During the process of this ritual, waves of invisible hypnotic waves as a by-product quickly swept across the entire Tivi'an environment. Almost all ordinary people and low-level extraordinary people fell into a deep sleep under the influence of this wave.
Above Tivian, countless tons of spiritual light spots were slowly floating up to the sky, and gradually gathered in the clear and cloudless sky, forming a giant magic circle that almost covered half of the city. After the complex magic circle flickered with a faint light, the patterns inside it gradually began to become transparent. Through this transparency, the people below could observe the interior of the giant magic circle, revealing another different scenery that was not in the real world.
In the resonance between the magic circle and something in the inner world, the barrier between the realms is becoming thinner and thinner. The grand ceremony that the dark dream world and the inner world have been preparing for a long time has finally been successfully launched.
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Just as the turbulent undercurrent was flowing and surging in Tivian, and the competition in various aspects was slowly unfolding in secret, in the inner world different from the real world, in the dream world, a fierce confrontation was also entering its most intense stage.
When the roar from the ancient world sounded in the forest, the ancient and distant roar turned into pure primitive and wild power, which came from the mouth of the dragon and bombarded the ground from top to bottom, causing countless giant trees in the dream world to fall and affecting the distant other side.
Above a huge pit several meters wide, a flying dragon flapped its huge wings and swooped down from the sky into the thick dust that was dissipating below, heading straight to the bottom of the pit, which was also the center. The dragon's enemy had just been hit head-on by the roar and pushed to the ground. If it hadn't been crushed to pieces yet, it should still be at this position.
Diving down from the dust, the dragon quickly rushed to the bottom of the pit. Then, amid another tremor of the earth, it stepped directly on the center of the pit, causing a roar. However, the dragon found that the feeling it had just stepped on seemed a little different.
The dragon flapped its huge wings, and a huge wind blew up the dust around it. Then, the bottom of the huge pit appeared in front of the dragon.
㱗At the bottom of the pit, the dragon did not find the remains of the enemy. Instead, there was a pile of broken white shell-like fragments scattered everywhere, as if they were the remains of some huge and solid object that had been shattered.
"These are... pupa shells... That guy must have just made his former pupa into a defensive tool, and urgently summoned it to resist the attack." At this moment, a faint light flashed in the air next to the giant dragon's head, and then a phantom and semi-transparent black cat floating in the air appeared there, looking at the fragments below and said sternly.
This is none other than the cat grandfather of the little fox Salia. At this moment, he is using a special form to leave his consciousness beside the dragon through marks to observe the battlefield and provide various abilities to assist the dragon in its battle.
"There are traces of teleportation into the dream world at the scene... It should have taken advantage of the moment when the attack was temporarily blocked to open the dream world portal and escape. I can track the traces of the transmission fluctuations. Please be patient, sir. I will open the door for you and chase it immediately!"
After further inspecting the scene, the black cat said bluntly, and Dorothy, who had transformed into a dragon, nodded slightly in response after hearing these words. After that, the black cat did not dare to slack off, and began to use his own power with a faint glow in his eyes.
As the black cat's power was released, a huge dream portal quickly took shape in front of the dragon. Then the dragon drove its huge body through the colorful portal and went to other locations in the dream world.
Soon, when the dragon came out of the portal again, what appeared in front of her was a new dream area, a dream forest that had not been destroyed. After the dragon flew over the forest, it immediately looked around, quickly scanned the surroundings, and quickly found its target.
At the foot of a huge tree not far from the giant dragon, a figure was standing there. Gu Mian, who had just barely escaped the disaster, was now weakly suspended in the air. The originally huge moth wings behind him had become tattered, with large pieces of fluff falling off, and many of the tentacles with barbs had been torn off. The slender and weird limbs had obvious unnatural bends.
Although Gu Mian's evasion skills had blocked most of the damage from the dragon's roar, he himself was definitely not completely unaffected. Although his injuries were being quickly repaired through spiritual power, it would obviously take more than a short time to restore them to their complete state. Facing the almost uninjured dragon, it was almost impossible for him to engage in a head-on confrontation.
After seeing Gu Mian, the giant dragon Dorothy transformed into roared, spread its wings without stopping, and flew towards Gu Mian quickly, wanting to defeat it completely. At this moment, the seriously injured Gu Mian faced the direct attack of the giant dragon and seemed to have no chance of resisting.
And it was at this moment, facing the giant dragon's overwhelming pressure on Gu Mian, a strange look suddenly appeared in his inhuman eyes. At this moment, in his strange amputated hands, he was holding two pieces of pitch-black jade.
There was a strange movement of the black jade in Gumian's hand, and suddenly, the entire dream world forest was filled with fog. The white fog appeared out of thin air, spreading rapidly and almost immediately filled the entire forest space. Countless giant trees became vague shadows looming in the fog.
In an instant, the dragon's entire body was enveloped by the sudden thick white fog. A thick fog also appeared between the dragon and Gu Mian as a barrier, and the dragon's eyes suddenly became blank, unable to see anything clearly.
That’s right, these mists are emitted by the holy cocoon of the moth, and they are the mist of confusion that creates the maze in the center of the dream world!
When Gu Mian escaped by teleporting, he teleported to the maze. After he entered the maze, he immediately used the two black jades in his hands to manipulate the fog here to disperse temporarily. After waiting for Dorothy's incarnation of the dragon to catch up, he immediately used the black jade to make the fog of confusion appear again, covering the surroundings.
At this moment, the dragon will be completely trapped by the fog of confusion. Not only can it not find its place to attack, it can't even leave, and will be trapped here forever. However, Gu Mian holding the black jade can trap the dragon here, dispel the fog for itself in a small area, and then teleport away immediately.
Gu Mian knew that the dragon had the help of old friends and enemies, and would definitely be able to follow his trail, so he deliberately set a trap, and the other party was fooled. Now the dragon that was about to launch an attack was surrounded by fog, and any of his attacks would be deflected by the fog. The powerful dragon could no longer threaten him! He would be trapped here forever!
Gu Mian was thinking this in his heart, looking at the white mist in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a little proud, but this pride only lasted for less than a second before it suddenly shattered.
It was as if an invisible wind blew by, and the white mist in front of Gu Mian's eyes suddenly faded rapidly and dispersed in all directions. The huge dragon body that was originally obscured by the white mist suddenly appeared in front of Gu Mian again, rushing towards Gu Mian with a huge sense of oppression. Gu Mian couldn't help but feel shocked in his heart.
How can it dispel the fog of confusion! ?
Such questions filled Gu Mian's mind for a moment, and the answer to his question was not simple. Dorothy used the same method that Gu Mian used.
Dorothy was well aware of Gu Mian's use of the divine fog in the maze to trap people. Before, Gu Mian had used this method to trap Atcherie in the fog, so Dorothy would naturally prepare a way to deal with this trick.
Gu Mian's subordinate, Ku Chi, one of the false moths of the Black Dream Hunting Group, once intended to buy a key item through auction with Mon Carlo. After Dorothy killed Ku Chi, she successfully put the item into her bag and found that the fragment of the treasure called the Crown of the Moon had the effect of transcending confusion.
After learning enough information about Black Dream, Dorothy concluded that Black Dream collected these fragments of the Moon Crown to use them to pass through the fog of confusion created by the Holy Cocoon. The complete Moon Crown should be able to help Black Dream return to the Holy Cocoon.
Therefore, after Atcherie was trapped in the fog of confusion, Dorothy, with the help of the black cat, tried to use the fragment of the Moon Crown in her hand to try to save Atcherie, but ended in failure. If Dorothy only had a fragment of the Moon Crown, she could only ensure that the fog in a small area around her would be dispelled, so that she would not get lost outside the maze and could use teleportation to escape at any time, but she could not find people accurately in the maze, and therefore could not bring Atcherie out.
Although Dorothy could not use the Moon Corona to rescue Atcherie, it was enough to protect herself. When Gu Mian removed the power of the Moon Corona fragment in his hand and let the fog cover Dorothy, Dorothy also activated her own Moon Corona fragment to disperse the fog again.
Roaring, the giant dragon Dorothy transformed into opened its huge mouth and bit Gu Mian straight at her, trying to swallow her whole. Facing the giant dragon breaking through the mist, Gu Mian summoned his spirit and dodged to the side in an emergency, narrowly avoiding the giant dragon's bite. He then began to teleport into her dream world to another place.
"Don't even think about running away! Noka!"
At this moment, the virtual image of the black cat suddenly appeared. Floating in the air, it looked at Gu Mian. The colors in its pupils rippled, releasing deep hypnotic waves of a similar nature to those released by Gu Mian before.
Compared to the fluctuations released by Gu Sleep before, which could threaten the dragon, the fluctuations released by the black cat were obviously much weaker. It should have no effect at all against a complete Gu Sleep, but at this moment, Gu Sleep had just been affected by the powerful roar, and the damage on its body had not yet recovered. It was still weak and was directly affected by the fluctuations of the black cat.
"Aro...Wat..."
Gu Mian, whose teleportation was interrupted, stood there in shock, staring at the floating black cat not far away with great anger, as if he wanted to tear it to pieces immediately after the hypnotic effect ended. However, Dorothy would definitely not give Gu Mian such an opportunity. After he failed to teleport immediately, the dragon immediately slapped Gu Mian with its huge claws, slamming him to the ground and pressing him down.
Then, the dragon mercilessly applied a huge pressure to Gu Mian under its claws, causing it to emit a sharp scream that sounded like a scream. Under this strong pressure, Gu Mian's entire body began to show the risk of collapse, and it seemed that it would completely collapse at any time.
At this moment, another strange change occurred. Above the ground beneath the giant dragon, an extremely vast glow suddenly appeared. Countless mysterious symbols and words spread madly over the ground, spreading to the distant fog that covered the entire earth.
“What… this is…”
Looking at the complex series of symbols that suddenly appeared on the dream world, the black cat couldn't help but speak in amazement. Dorothy seemed to have discovered that something was wrong with the scene, and continued to exert all her strength to exert heavy pressure on Gu Mian, trying to completely destroy it.
However, what Dorothy did not expect was that the next moment, the ground of the dream world under her feet, which was originally extremely solid, suddenly became illusory and transparent, and even lost its substance. The giant dragon, which had lost its support, stepped on empty air and fell downwards. The Gu Sleeping Gu, which was originally pressed under her dragon claws, could not help but slip out of her hands due to the disappearance of the ground. After successfully resisting the black cat's deep hypnosis, it flew away at a very fast speed.
While falling, Dorothy was somewhat surprised to see below her. Through the illusory semi-transparent ground, she could actually see another scene. It was an aerial view of a city, and it was a city that Dorothy was familiar with.
This is Tivian! Dorothy saw Tivian from her dream world! The scene she saw was like the entire forest was floating above Tivian!
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