On the body that originally belonged to Gu Mian, a new round of mutation began. Dark red lines spread on its body, and spiked legs grew out of the bloated and short body that had just grown out, scratching and piercing the holy cocoon. The head that originally had no mouth cracked into a horrible spider mouthpart, and the whole image changed from a deformed moth to an even more deformed half-moth and half-spider image, becoming a complete monster.
Afterwards, the monster shifted the gaze of its countless compound eyes to the dream cocoon beneath it. For the Spider Queen, she had more than one target today.
"You...are also me..."
After the final murmur, the monster on the holy cocoon opened its fangs and bit the holy cocoon beneath it.
The moment the spider's fangs pierced into the holy dream cocoon, the entire dream world began to shake suddenly, and tragic wailing sounds seemed to scream out from every corner of the dream world. From the place where the spider bit, dark red lines began to spread rapidly on the surface of the holy cocoon, and quickly spread to the entire surface of the holy cocoon.
All of a sudden, all the creatures in the dream world began to wail, and the psychedelic fresh grass began to dry up and harden rapidly, turning into sharp thorns.
In reality, Tivian's body was sleeping in the streets and alleys. Millions of citizens opened their eyes one after another at this moment, staring blankly upwards. Eight sharp spikes were slowly growing from the edges of his normal pupils. Everyone spoke in confusion as if they were sleepwalking, shouting out the same words in unison.
"Welcome...Welcome...Welcome...Welcome...Welcome...
"The Queen of Pain... The Queen of Nightmares... The Witch of Wind... The throne of the night sky is ready for you..."
Countless repeated, dull and mute chants were echoing in the streets and alleys from the mouths of millions of residents in Tivian. The forest phantom in the Tivian sky was now dyed with an abnormal dark red. The storm rolled up again over Tivian, swirling with dark red wind and rain, covering the sky over Tivian and gradually spreading to the entire Plit.
"Oh...
"Uh... pain... the power of torture... is eating away at the holy cocoon... that is... the evil power of the Spider Queen... why is this happening..."
Beside Dorothy, the originally suspended black cat began to twist and struggle under the influence of an unknown force, speaking in pain.
In the ruins of the church district in the northern part of the city, where another round of confrontation was underway with Atcheri, Guskina laughed loudly and arrogantly as she watched the sky turn dark red and the movements in the dream world.
"Hahahaha! Praise the ladies! Your doomsday has come!"
Standing not far in front of Guskina, looking at the arrogant appearance of the enemy in front of her, Atcheri's silent and serious eyes, those eyes shining with a faint silver light, gradually became a little dim.
At this moment, Tivian, for some unknown reason, the influence of the Spider Queen suddenly increased greatly, and began to affect more people besides the Plitt royal family. The influence of the Mirror Moon Goddess, which originally covered this area, quickly shrank at this moment. Such an influence was directly related to the current situation in the Crystal Palace.
"Ugh...Ahh! It hurts! My head hurts...Why...it's suddenly like this!"
On the ground of the Crystal Palace, the little fox Salia, who had just questioned Charles IV and completed the main task, was now lying on the ground holding her head, curling up while talking in pain. On the other side, a more serious situation was happening.
"The great enemy... is coming again..."
With his eyes wide open and his hands covering his forehead, King Charles IV of Prit stood on the ground, powerlessly resisting the powerful control that attacked him again. With his previous experience, Charles IV was already prepared this time. Before letting the enemy use his body to cause a greater disaster, he began his own determination.
"puff!!"
With the last bit of consciousness remaining, Charlie IV guided his last bit of wind power to cut himself. Suddenly, sharp cutting edges appeared all over Charlie IV's body, including arteries and even neck. Amid the gushing blood, Charlie IV fell in a pool of blood with his eyes wide open.
Charlie IV committed suicide to avoid becoming the Spider Queen's puppet again.
Under the oppression of the dark red sky, amid the whispers of countless sleepwalkers, and amid the scarlet storm, the entire Tivian fell into the most desperate situation...
The situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and it is now the most desperate situation since the war began.
Dorothy still maintained her dragon form, still flying in the bloody storm with her wings spread. Although the situation had reached such a critical point, at this moment her eyes were staring but not full of despair, because she knew that the situation was not yet completely hopeless.
Although the Spider Queen was in checkmate, she was not completely helpless. A move Dorothy had started to make some time ago had now become her last hope in the current situation.
"Now...it's up to you..."
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Let's go back in time a little bit, back to a time before.
When the opening ceremony of the World Expo was still going on, and the whole Tivian was still in a bustle, something went wrong with the ceremony of Charles IV, and it affected the seal of Guskina in the church area. When the boundary between dream and reality was not blurred, the door of fantasy dream was not opened, and the fog of confusion had not completely enveloped the whole Tivian.
Somewhere in the sky above Tivian, Misha, the former captain of the Security Bureau and a knight of the Plitt royal family, was riding the wind quickly to the designated location.
After deciphering the secret history of the Dopreet Wind King Rebellion from the secret letter left by her ancestors together with John, Misha immediately reported the contents to the Rosicrucian "scholar" in a peculiar way, and then immediately flew to the battlefield where the fighting had already begun.
However, while in flight, Misha soon received an urgent notice from the "Bachelor", asking her to go to a place before entering the battlefield. Misha did not hesitate and immediately flew straight to the coordinates in East Tivian, not far from the conference venue.
After a while, Misha arrived at the location, a residential building hidden near the conference venue. After quickly entering a designated room, Misha saw a familiar scene.
In this room, a ceremony seemed to be about to be held at this moment. In the dark room, only a few candles were lit in the corners to provide faint light, and a little incense was floating in the room. A series of soul fires emitting faint light floated in the air in the room, emitting a cold brilliance. A large and extremely complex magic circle was being drawn on the floor of the room. Misha could roughly judge that it was some kind of "silence" magic circle, but it was much more complex and huge than the "silence" magic circle she had known before, which was used to summon souls.
In the center of the magic circle, an antique wine glass with a skull pattern was floating. Several men and women dressed in luxurious clothes, who looked like some kind of Tivian nobles, were lying unconscious in the corner of the room. At the side of the magic circle, opposite Misha, a woman in a blue robe and a veil was sitting there. Misha had seen her before. She was a very powerful "Silence" extraordinary person in the Rosicrucian with very strange abilities. The last time she faked her death and escaped, it was she who helped her solve the problem of the Anyin Bureau communicating with her soul.
"Hurry up, time is running out. Lie down on this magic circle now and we will start the ceremony right away."
Looking at Misha who entered the room, Nefnis spoke frankly with a serious expression, and Misha did not hesitate too much after hearing it, and lay down on the magic circle directly.
"What are we going to do?" After lying down, Misha still spoke with a hint of uneasiness, while Neveu spoke bluntly without saying a word.
"Explore the past and memories..."
While muttering, a shadow slowly appeared behind Nefer. It was a man with a scimitar on his waist, wearing exquisite armor in the exotic style of Northern Ukraine, and with a dignified appearance. He was the founder of the E'Adus Baruch Dynasty in Northern Ukraine, the spirit of King Rahman.
After the incident at the Rahman Tomb, King Rahman's soul was channeled to the New World, where he rested in a place of repose and soothed the damage to his soul. It was only recently that he had almost repaired the damage and was able to resume new activities.
Just now, Dorothy contacted Capac and the old shaman of the Tupa tribe and asked them to cooperate with Neveu on this side to channel Rahman's soul to Tivian to cooperate with the ceremony here.
"Let's start again."
Looking at Misha lying in front of her, Nef took a deep breath and said, and Rahman behind her also nodded slightly at this moment, then leaned forward and leaned on Nef.
After being possessed by Rahman, Nef's eyes changed immediately, becoming more calm and majestic. Facing Misha lying in front of her, Nef slowly stretched out her hand, touched Misha's arm, and then slowly closed her eyes, activating the power from her soul.
At the same time, the Lamp of Hell floating above the magic circle also emitted a faint light.
"Show me your bloodline and memories..."
While muttering, Neveu relied on Rahman's soul and the Lamp of the Underworld used in the ceremony to use her abilities. At this moment, she truly felt the flesh and soul in Misha's body, and behind this flesh and blood, she saw some kind of connection and "channel" extending into the distance.
Then, Neveu let her will enter that passage without hesitation. After that, her will was like riding a roller coaster, moving forward at high speed in some narrow tunnel. Beside her, countless pictures flashed past her and swept away into the distance. Among these pictures were castles, people, wars, and manors. They seemed to be all kinds of records and bits and pieces.
Finally, Neveu completed her journey through the "channel" and reached the designated destination in one breath. Then she felt that the flashing images around her disappeared, and were replaced by a stable environment.
After the shuttle was completed, Nef's will felt that it was now in another strange scene. The magic circles and candles in the original ritual room disappeared, and were replaced by an extremely spacious space.
This... is a huge underground space. It is a large dark space with a length and width of dozens of meters. What is presented inside is a semi-ruined scene.
At this moment, Neveu seemed to be able to "see" that there were several figures standing in front of her. They were all wearing ancient-style knight armor that was only available hundreds of years ago. They seemed to be several knights. These knights were covered in blood and there were traces of battle damage on their armor.
Surrounded by those knights, at this moment, a man wearing more luxurious armor and with a stern face was squatting there, supporting another man wearing ancient aristocratic robe and cloak, with black hair and a pale face in his arms. The man in the robe looked weak at the moment, with wide eyes and blood flowing from the corners of his mouth and eyes. He was holding the hand of the man in luxurious armor tightly and spoke tremblingly.
"You came...just in time...Baldrick! And...you chose to believe me..."
Stretching his body forward, the noble man in the long robe called the man named Baldrick and spoke weakly incoherently, while Baldrick asked nervously.
"Jeffrey...what's wrong? What happened here?"
"The Great Enemy... I was plotted against by the Great Enemy. No matter how hard I tried, I still couldn't guard against Him. In front of Him, even the people I trust the most are not trustworthy... I am dying soon, but for Pritt, this ritual must go on. We must use this to correctly guide the power of the night sky to this country, so that the secret can be kept forever...
"I can't do it anymore. The ritual is still in the final stage... You have to take over from me..."
Shakingly holding the hand of his former enemy, the Dark Lord Jeffrey stared with bloodshot eyes, looking at Baldrick in front of him. Baldrick couldn't help but be startled when listening to Jeffrey's words. Then he turned his head slightly, looked at the knights behind him, and also looked in the direction where Neveu was at the moment, and spoke sternly.
"You all wait here! Don't come near without my life!"
"Yes!" The knights all responded respectfully to Baldrick's words, including Neveu, who could see "her" hands in a salute gesture.
That's right, at this moment, Neveu is watching the scene from someone else's perspective. This place is not somewhere else, but the ruins of the Howling Spear Dynasty's capital, Solfoston, during the Wind King Rebellion more than a hundred years ago. It is the ceremony site for the secret-guarding ceremony established by the "Mad King", Volthiov!
This was the scene where Jeffrey, the Dark King and successor to the King of Secrets, tried to complete the unfinished ritual of the Mad King. According to secret history, Jeffrey was eventually ambushed by the Eight Pointed Ones here, interrupting his own ritual. This secret-keeping ritual was eventually completed by Baldrick who arrived later, and this was the beginning of Baldrick becoming a new line of Secret-Keepers.
This is Rahman's ability. As a Soul Blood Knight, Rahman has the ability to find and discover power from the blood of his tribe. This ability also allows him to learn many unknown secrets through his blood.
Neveu relied on Rahman and through the ritual guided by the Lamp of the Underworld, she came into contact with Misha. Through Misha's bloodline, she went back to more than a hundred years ago and observed the memories of Misha's ancestor Amper. At that time, Amper was experiencing this important scene. Now the perspective that Neveu is using is exactly Amper's perspective!
When Dorothy knew that the secret-keeping ritual being performed by Charlie IV was wrong, she immediately began to wonder where the mistake was. So she thought of the information that Kapak had provided her a few days ago about the preliminary completion of Rahman's recovery, and then she thought of letting Neve borrow Rahman's power to directly spy on the memories of the people involved in the Wind King Rebellion, hoping to find some clues from it.
Neveu had snooped into the memory of a royal family member before, but it seems that due to the residual influence of the power of secrets, Dorothy could not directly snoop into the memory of Baldrick, the person involved, so now she began to settle for the second best. The secrets kept by the secret-keeping king seemed to be leaked only by herself in the form of speaking. Although the power of secrets has been broken now, some residual power still seems to have an influence. Therefore, Dorothy asked Neveu to settle for the second best and use Misha to use Ampel's perspective to examine the scene of that day.
After giving orders to his men, Baldrick took Jeffrey to one side and began a real secret conversation. At this moment, Amper continued to respectfully obey Baldrick's orders and guard the surroundings while observing the scene in the ceremony venue in front of him.
From Ampere's perspective, Neveu could see that exquisite statues of various kinds stood in rows on both sides of the space, many of which were broken and incomplete. In addition to deep cracks on the originally flat ground, there were also many pieces of rubble scattered around. On the ceiling of this underground space was a very large semicircular dome, surrounding which was a circle of moon phases painted on it. In the middle of the dome was a circular opening, through which sunlight shone from the outside, shining on the ground below and forming a circular light spot.
On the open ground, a huge and complicated "shadow" magic circle is engraved on it, and the light shining down from the opening of the dome is shining in a regular circle on the center of the magic circle. There are moon phase symbols like the ones drawn on the dome around the magic circle, and a circle of incense ashes is placed on each moon phase symbol. Behind the full moon symbol, there stands a tall statue of Mirror Moon. However, this statue is in ruins, with defects and cracks everywhere. Some time ago, the statue and this ritual site were affected by the Roaring Gun riot. The riot that was enough to destroy the entire city also affected this hidden ritual site underground.
After carefully examining this ritual site built by the Mad King from Ampel's perspective, Neveu witnessed the return of Baldrick who had obtained the secret. In this ritual site, he completely completed the secret ritual from the Mad King and made an ending. Finally, with a loud declaration, he became the new Secret-Keeping King of Pritt.
Finally, Neveu withdrew from the blood memory observation and returned to reality. At this moment, the diffuse mist in the sky outside the window had been pierced by the light descending from the sky, and the confusing fog was dissipating.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
"What's wrong with you? Did you see something just now?" Starting from the ceremony venue, Misha looked at Nef who was gasping for breath beside her and couldn't help but said curiously, while Nef swallowed and looked at you and spoke frankly.
"I saw... a lot of things... Anyway, you go and support other places first. I'll take it easy here..."
Nef said this to Misha, and Misha nodded slightly after hearing what Nef said. Without asking any more questions, she immediately stood up and flew out of the window to the conference venue not far away, and joined the battle going on over there.
Neveu was still sitting beside the magic circle. After she had almost finished catching her breath, she silently closed her eyes and, through prayer, passed on to Dorothy the sealed memory of Ampere that she had just observed through Misha's bloodline.
At this moment, Dorothy, who was directing Anna to cooperate with the little fox to complete the legal canonization, immediately began to analyze it carefully after receiving the information given by Neveu. Although Amper's memory was only about the appearance of the ceremony site, Dorothy still read out some abnormal and suspicious points from it.
In the ritual field, a circular moon phase diagram appeared. Among the symbols around the ritual array, the full moon symbol was in the most honorable position, not only facing the Mirror Moon statue, but also surrounded by the most incense ashes. The dome-like structure of the ritual field was very similar to the Mirror Moon Chapel in the temple in the lake of Gramorn that Dorothy had seen before. Thinking of the characteristics of the Mirror Moon Temple in Gramorn, Dorothy immediately thought of where Charles IV's ritual went wrong, confirming her previous conjecture.
It's time! I'm afraid there was a problem with the timing of the ceremony held by Charles IV from the beginning. A large part of the secret ceremony is to contact the Goddess of Mirror Moon, guide the power of Mirror Moon, and greatly enhance the influence of Mirror Moon. Such a ceremony should naturally be held at the Holy Time of Mirror Moon.
The holy time of Mirror Moon is naturally the night of the full moon every month...but the day when this World Expo is held is the time in January that is farthest from the full moon, which is the day of the dark moon!
Logically speaking, the moon is completely invisible during this entire day, whether it is day or night, and this can be said to be the time in January when the influence of the mirror moon is the weakest!
When Jeffrey was performing the ritual, he encountered an assassination by the person he trusted most. Not only was the ritual interrupted, but his spirit was also partially eroded and distorted by the Spider Queen. As a result, when he finally revealed the ritual to Baldrick, there was a slight difference. He said that the ritual, which should have been held at the moment of the full moon, was held on his day and at that moment.
And that day was exactly the day of the Dark Moon. The reason for this phenomenon was that Jeffrey was still awake, and in order to interfere with the judgment of the Eight Sharps, he deliberately chose the moment farthest away from the correct time to hold the continuation ceremony, because his ceremony was not essentially held from the beginning, but a continuation of the Mad King. The Mad King had already held most of the ceremony content at the correct time, and there was no time requirement for the remaining ceremony content.
Therefore, when Jeffrey knew that he was being targeted, he deliberately played an anti-logic on Bajian and started his own continuation ceremony at the most unlikely time to perform the ceremony. However, even so, he was still tricked by the Spider Queen. He was poisoned by the spider under the conspiracy of his own people. When he was confused and unconscious, he was hypnotized by the suggestion of the extraordinary item, so that he forgot the real reason why he chose to perform the ceremony in the daytime under the bright moon, and came to believe that this was the time when the ceremony would actually be held.
In the end, his mistake also led Baldrick astray. Although the ceremony was successful in the end, it was only a sequel to the successful ceremony of the Mad King, not a ceremony they held from beginning to end. Baldrick might have doubts about the time of the ceremony, but after seeing the scene of the successful ceremony in the end, this doubt would no longer appear.
In this way, the Spider Queen had already buried a mine for the first sword-fighting ceremony of the Hyacinth Dynasty a hundred years ago, and quietly waited for the mine to explode. Even though this fatal mine had been buried long ago, the Spider Queen did not wait for it to explode. Instead, she still used the oracle to order the Eight Pointed Ones to use various methods to obstruct Charles IV's ritual that was doomed to fail, even if the entire Eight Pointed Ones Nest suffered huge damage.
Because the Spider Queen knew that Charlie the Fourth and the mysterious "Power of Inspiration" that had suddenly appeared recently and disrupted her arrangements more than once, as if protecting Tivian and working against her, were extremely sensitive. If she did not launch a head-on attack regardless of the cost of sacrifice during this ceremony, but simply waited for the hidden mine to detonate, it would make them all suspicious and notice something, thus directing their attention to the ceremony itself, creating the risk of this hidden mine being found and removed again.
Therefore, in order to cover up the existence of this hidden mine, the previous offensive of the entire Eight Peaks at all costs and sacrifices was necessary, which could fully attract Charlie's attention to the power of "Enlightenment". Of course, these so-called "frontal offensives" are also presented in the form of various other conspiracies, such as the dream world surprise attack and other conspiracies are all part of this "frontal" part, but these conspiracies planned by the Eight Peaks themselves are too shallow compared to the two conspiracies planned by the Spider Queen herself, spanning hundreds of years. In the process of confronting the "Enlightenment", they can only be regarded as frontal offensives.
In this game of chess, the Spider Queen regarded the entire Eight-Pointed Nest as a sacrifice, in order to cover up her intention to kill. As long as she could win this game of chess and successfully obtain two extremely huge trophies, then the sacrifice would be worth it.
After all, just now, the Spider Queen had given up a bargaining chip that was more valuable than the entire Eight Points in exchange for the God of Machinery's concession. The weight of the Eight Points on this chessboard was really not that great...
In this situation, the Spider Queen's advantage is already enormous, and facing this almost dead end chess game, Dorothy couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
"The Holy Hour of Night?"
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