The current dream world space looks extremely weird and disordered. In addition to the normal dream world scenery, there are more and more strange scenes mixed in. For example, an area is full of giant trees and colorful grass that are unique to the dream world, but next to it has become a hot lava lake. The boiling magma that is incompatible with the dream world is constantly surging in it. At the edge of the lava lake, a lava waterfall flows down, and at the source of the waterfall, it is a vast ocean that seems to have normal water. In the distance of the ocean, a huge city can be vaguely seen, and a rotating gear canopy hangs above the ocean...
The dream world at this moment, if described in one word, is chaos, very chaos, forests, oceans, lava, factories, glaciers, deserts, abysses...all kinds of scenes are pieced together in a chaotic manner, like a kaleidoscope that makes people dazzled and confused, making the whole dream world look bizarre and complicated, making it impossible to see what is what and where is where.
This... is the manifestation of realm disorder. The Night Sky Dragon used its divine power to mix and knead countless worlds together. It's like a Rubik's Cube. If the completely uniform side of the cube is the dream world, and the other completely uniform sides are other worlds, then what the Silver White Dragon did was to completely mess up all the sides, making one side appear in different colors, and let the parts of other worlds squeeze into the dream world.
The reason why the dragon did this was very simple, which was to make the wind lose its way... When the realm and space were confused, when all directions were no longer meaningful, when all the signposts led to the wrong results, when the starting point and the end point were reversed, then no matter how fast a runner ran, no matter how unhindered by obstacles, he would not be able to reach his destination, and the meaningless signposts and distorted directions would always send him back.
Just like what is happening now, in this chaotic space, the spider and its dream cocoon that should have left the dream world reappeared at this moment, suspended in mid-air, facing the silver-white dragon. The spider's eight eyes showed obvious astonishment.
At this moment, facing the Spider Queen incarnation on the holy cocoon, the silver-white dragon continued to fly. Seeing this situation, the Spider Queen incarnation began to take other countermeasures.
Mist, when the giant spider incarnation opened its mouth, blood-red fog of confusion gushed out from it and began to spread into the space, quickly covering itself and the holy cocoon, and then quickly spreading to the surroundings. The spider seemed to want to use the fog of confusion to block the dragon's attack on itself.
Facing the rapidly spreading fog that could make everything lost, the silver-white dragon silently opened the mouth of its dragon head, and then in the dragon's mouth, an extremely black ball condensed, which was in sharp contrast with the silver-white light all over its body. After it grew bigger and bigger, the silver dragon silently spat out this colorless black ball towards the rapidly spreading red fog.
When the pitch-black ball left the dragon's mouth, it began to expand rapidly in the air. Then the space and light around the ball began to tilt and twist, swirling and absorbing into the interior of the ball. The spreading thick fog was also madly sucked in by its powerful attraction when it passed through the pitch-black ball.
As the black ball grew bigger, the attraction it created became stronger and stronger. Not only the fog of confusion, but also all kinds of things in the strange space around it began to be affected, attracted and rolled up into the air. Under the strong gravitational force, the giant trees in the dream world began to be uprooted, the magma in the lava lake kept surging into the sky, and the ocean was drawn out of huge water columns, interweaving with the hot magma and surging to a certain place. The gears above the steel sky twisted and shattered, and were pulled into a slender structure leading to endless darkness.
The black hole, this black hole created by the silver-white dragon is now ruthlessly devouring everything in the surrounding space. The diffused red mist of confusion was quickly absorbed by this small black hole in an instant. The spider and the holy cocoon that appeared in it were not spared and were sucked into the endless darkness by the huge gravity. In the whole space, only the silver dragon can stand safely in the gravitational tide.
Faced with the attraction of the black hole, the spider seemed to have completely lost its room for resistance and fell into the endless darkness together with the holy cocoon. However, the spider queen seemed unwilling to see her incarnation and prey disappear in vain, so she attacked again.
In this bizarre space, a huge crack suddenly appeared. From the crack, eight huge eyes appeared, staring at the scene outside.
Several giant and sharp spider legs that were hundreds or even thousands of meters long stretched out from the broken space, reaching towards the spider incarnation and the holy cocoon that were being sucked into the black hole, as if trying to pull them back. Facing the scene in front of it, the silver-white dragon opened its mouth again. What gathered in its huge mouth was not the pure darkness like before, but a dazzling white light. At the same time, a strong and violent gale blew around it.
Finally, in a flash of light, the silver dragon's white breath gushed out, spraying towards the extended spider's foot. This was the endless wind that was completely compressed and released in a form similar to light. The white light mercilessly cut off the giant spider as it passed by. When the foot was broken, the entire space began to vibrate violently with a sharp sound, as if the spider's rear body was roaring in anger.
When the giant spider's legs were cut off by the white light, the spider incarnation and the holy cocoon could not avoid being swallowed by the black hole. The spider incarnation's body was twisted and stretched by the uneven huge gravity into an endlessly slender state, and then it was swallowed into the pure darkness together with the holy cocoon. After swallowing the spider incarnation and the holy cocoon, the black hole that had been expanding suddenly stopped expanding and began to shrink rapidly until it disappeared.
In that space, a giant crack with eight eyes appeared. After seeing this, it began to close rapidly. However, it seemed that the silver-white dragon did not intend to let it go completely. It then spread its wide wings and flew straight towards the closing crack at high speed. At the last moment before the crack closed, it finally rushed into it.
Finally, the rift was completely closed, and the entire abnormal space began to gradually recover. The scenes that did not belong to this realm began to fade rapidly. The oceans, lava, cities, factories, mountains and other landforms that belonged to the alien world disappeared quickly, and the towering trees and colorful grasses returned to where they were.
The dream world is returning to normal, not only the changes brought by the disordered space, but also the changes caused by the spider queen's erosion are disappearing rapidly. The scarlet thorns that have emerged from the ground in various places and entangled on the giant trees are slowly fading and shrinking back into the soil. Even the illusion of the city of Tivian and the spider appearing on the ground are gradually fading. The boundary line between the dream world and the Tivian world is becoming clear again, and the boundary between dreams and reality is beginning to be separated in an orderly manner again.
Soon, the woodland in the dream world returned to its former glory, with colorful grasslands stretching endlessly and tall treetops reaching their peaks. Everything was so quiet and deep, and everything was so peaceful, as if the war before had never happened.
The dream world returned to its usual silence, and this silence lasted only for a moment before the unusual movement reappeared. Under the dark treetops, between the towering trees, after a flash of dazzling silver light, the huge and majestic figure of the silver dragon reappeared on the scene, slowly descending in the melodious sound.
The silver-white dragon reappeared in the dream world intact. After slowly landing on the ground, it raised its head and looked at the open space between the giant trees. Then, in a distortion of space, the huge white holy cocoon that had been sucked into the black hole before reappeared in the woods. Countless crystal clear and slender silk threads extended from it, entwined around the giant trees, and suspended the holy cocoon in the air again. At this moment, the holy cocoon no longer had the dark red mark left by the spider.
After relocating the holy cocoon, the silver-white dragon spread its wings, and then its entire body was immediately enveloped by a soft silver light. In this silver light, the dragon's body began to shrink rapidly, from a giant size of hundreds of meters high to about one meter high.
Then, this little bit of silver light began to split, and the wind became two parts and dispersed. After the silver halo dissipated, two semi-transparent figures of girls who looked exactly the same appeared. That was Dorothy's appearance.
At this moment, in the woods, two silver-haired girls who looked almost identical, wearing almost identical clothes, stood facing each other. The only difference was that one of them had silver light in her eyes and a gentle smile on her face. The other seemed to be waking up slowly from a deep sleep, and after opening her red eyes, she looked at the girl in front of her who looked like herself in the mirror with a slightly confused look.
After rubbing her eyes and shaking her head, Dorothy tried to wake herself up from her sleepiness. She looked at the things in front of her blankly and then spoke slowly.
"You...you are...the Goddess of Mirror Moon?"
While trying to stay awake, Dorothy asked the familiar yet unfamiliar person in front of her directly, and the other person smiled and nodded slightly before answering.
"Jingyue? If you like this name... then it is..."
The girl who called herself Jingyue answered Dorothy in silence. Dorothy was stunned when she heard her answer, and then she immediately sobered up.
The being before him was Jingyue! This was the first time he had a direct conversation with a god!
After understanding the current situation, Dorothy immediately perked up, and after calming herself down, she continued to ask.
"You can now...talk to me directly?"
With a hint of surprise, Dorothy asked the girl in front of her, while Jingyue spoke slowly in the image of Dorothy.
"Yes... The ritual you performed this time is the highest-level and most influential of all the rituals related to me in the entire Fourth Epoch. I can also use it in the kingdom of day to show the most magnificent miracle so far in this epoch. Although this miracle has come to an end, there are still some remnants, and simple communication can still be achieved...
"I don't have much time now, so if you have any questions, just ask... I will try my best to answer within the scope of permission..."
Jingyue answered Dorothy's words in this way. After listening to Jingyue's answer, Dorothy paused, and then immediately spoke.
"What happened to the Spider Queen? What happened to the Butterfly God? What happened to the Wind Knight?"
In a serious tone, Dorothy asked Jingyue the most pressing and critical question at the moment, and Jingyue answered slowly and calmly.
"I attacked Morrigan's territory and injured his lord as the incarnation of the dragon that merged with your creation. However, due to the fading effect of the miracle, I was unable to achieve further results and could only return to the safe area first.
"Due to the damage Morrigan has suffered, he will not be able to affect the real world or other worlds for a period of time. He needs to lie dormant for a while to recuperate and recover from his injuries... and digest his achievements... In the short term, you don't need to consider his threat anymore."
Jingyue spoke to Dorothy calmly. After listening to Jingyue's words, Dorothy looked at the Holy Cocoon in the distance, then refocused her gaze and asked Jingyue seriously again.
"The so-called victory... could it be the Wind Knight? In the end, even you couldn't save the Wind Knight..."
"Yes... When I arrived, it was too late. Although the Dream Seed was saved, Arthur's remains had been completely devoured by Morrigan. Despenser kept the remains secret for a thousand years, but they were eventually found by Morrigan. He was just like before, always so persistent..."
Jingyue answered slowly. Although the remains of the Wind Knight were taken away by the Spider Queen, he did not show any obvious emotional fluctuations when he said this. He did not feel sad or regretful. It was as if he was talking about an ordinary thing.
"So... the significance of the Despenser Secret Ritual is just to prevent the Spider Queen from finding the remains of the Wind Knight?" Dorothy continued to ask Jingyue, and the other party continued to answer.
"This is only one of the reasons. The more important thing is to ensure that the Storm Throne will not fall due to Arthur's death. Let the corpse be placed on the throne, and then use the bloodline to keep the corpse incorrupt. This is exactly what I left for this kingdom to ensure that the Storm Throne will not fall... You must know that not all gods of nature have a special growth period like the dream god, and their growth process can be guided in various ways to avoid corruption."
Mirror Moon answered so gently. After listening to Mirror Moon's response, Dorothy realized that Despenser's secret ritual to prevent the Spider Queen from spying was just an additional effect. In order to prevent Storm Path from falling, in this Fourth Epoch, it seems that any god born naturally on the throne will be in a fallen form. Therefore, Mirror Moon used the god's bones to occupy the throne, and used the kings' secret to ensure that the god's bones would not decay.
This is similar to the previous method of the Judge of Heaven using learning to occupy the seat, but it seems more unstable. It also seems to explain the long-standing madness of the Putt royal family, which occurs about once every hundred years. It is the corruption caused by the corruption of Arthur's divine body... This kind of corruption needs to be curbed by re-holding the secret ceremony, and the Spider Queen also saw this opportunity to carry out her various manipulations.
"So, does that mean that Storm Path is still controlled by the Spider Queen? If so, won't Putt slowly fall into her hands again?"
Hearing Jingyue's response just now, Dorothy spoke seriously again, and Jingyue continued to respond.
"In the long run, that's right. But now that Morrigan is weak, I can take this opportunity to leave a new guardian for Putt to defend against Morrigan's erosion within a hundred years... Although this country will be exposed to Morrigan's fangs again after a hundred years, I expect to settle all grievances with Him before then."
Jingyue answered Dorothy in a calm voice. After listening, Dorothy nodded silently, then turned to look at Shengjian not far away and asked.
"So...what about this cocoon? What will you do with it?"
"Before I leave, I will call upon the correct will within it and strengthen it to a degree sufficient to suppress the fallen aspect, providing sufficient guarantees for its correct emergence. The time has come for the birth of a new dream. After I leave, you should hand it over to the right person... It won't be long before this dream world will welcome its new owner..."
Mirror Moon continued to respond to Dorothy's words calmly. Dorothy could clearly hear that Mirror Moon was referring to Salia and her black cat grandfather. After being controlled by the Black Dream Hunters for many years, Holy Cocoon was finally going to return to the Butterfly Dreamland.
After asking about the current status of several relevant deities, Dorothy paused slightly and changed the subject to ask about other things.
Something far more important to Dorothy herself.
"Empress of the Night Sky, I want to ask you now, what is the relationship between you and me? How much of my secrets do you know? How much can you explain to me?"
With a respectful tone, Dorothy asked sincerely to the girl in front of her who looked similar to her. Hearing Dorothy's questions, Jingyue's expression, which had been calm, seemed to be slightly rippled. After a brief silence, he continued to speak.
"I know that this is the most important question for you who has inexplicably appeared on this platform... Unfortunately, I cannot tell you the answers to these questions..."
Jingyue answered with a seemingly helpless tone, and Dorothy couldn't help but frown and speak bluntly after hearing it.
"Why? Why can't you tell me?"
Listening to Dorothy's puzzled words, Jingyue sighed slightly, then she raised two fingers and placed them in front of her mouth, whispering in a small voice.
"Because the answers to these questions all involve a secret, a secret that concerns the fate of the entire world...
"And I... am the keeper of this secret... This is the greatest secret that I, the dark night, have hidden..."
Jingyue answered Dorothy quietly. Hearing Jingyue's response, Dorothy couldn't help but froze to the ground with her eyes wide open, motionless.
"What...Secret Keeper...My origins and my relationship with Jingyue are all related to a secret. And this secret actually requires Jingyue to be the keeper himself?"
Dorothy was extremely surprised at this moment. What kind of big secret was this that required the Shadow God to personally serve as the keeper? What could Jingyue gain from keeping the secret?
"Secret keeper?... Then who are you keeping this secret from now?" Dorothy continued to ask Jingyue in surprise, and Jingyue answered slowly in a gentle voice.
"This secret is kept from all humans and gods, but the most important person to be kept secret is the 'fallen' body..."
"'Fallen' body..."
"Yes, child...so now I cannot directly reveal to you these secrets that you are so eager to know. But you can still search on your own and understand and decipher the truth from the dusty history." At this moment, Jingyue explained to Dorothy with a strange look, and Dorothy continued to ask in confusion.
"So... where can I decipher these secrets? Can you give me some hints..."
"Continue your journey... After you have learned all the secrets of divinity and stepped into the golden realm, you will be able to reveal almost all the truths you desire...
"If I must give you a hint, the only thing I can tell you is to pay attention to the name 'Hyperion'. He is the key to all the secrets you want to know. He is the most important factor in the current state of this world..."
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