Louis was slightly stunned.

But his expression changed quickly.

As soon as the sweet potato was ready, the scene in the dream returned to the beginning when the potato was first put into the pot.

The woman's hollow voice continued to recite the recipe.

Louis felt his scalp tingling.

But in the dream, he couldn't control himself and could only continue making the sweet potato.

As the dream scene repeated itself again and again, the woman's hollow voice continued to echo.

Louis felt himself getting more and more tired, and suddenly, after reaching a certain level, the scene disappeared and he woke up.

The temperature of the hot water for soaking has been slightly lowered.

Louis rubbed his brows, feeling that this dream... not only did he not get a good rest, but made him even more exhausted.

"Curse of the Undead?"

Louis suspected that it was because the Sleeping Festival was approaching that he was stuck with something dirty.

He looked at the somewhat panicked maid beside him and said in a deep voice, "How long have I slept?"

The maid whispered:

"Your Highness, we called you outside just now, but you didn't respond. It has been an hour."

Louis nodded.

Luckily, he had put on his underwear when he took a bath, so it wasn't that embarrassing.

What’s strange is that in the past, Louis would not remember the content of his dreams after waking up.

But this time every detail of the dream was clear.

Louis thought for a moment, turned to look at the maid and said, "Let the kitchen light up the stove."

Not long after, he stood in the kitchen and easily made a delicious dish of candied yam.

The chef beside him couldn't help but admire and said, "Just in terms of candied yam, your highness's level has surpassed many chefs."

Louis frowned and said nothing. The point was not that he could make candied yam, but that he could clearly reproduce every scene in the dream.

Logically, this shouldn't happen.

Conventional curses are difficult to work on him.

The Sin Dragon Armed Forces themselves are one of the sources of curses that embody the resentment of the Sapphire Dragon Clan, and are almost impossible to be affected by external forces.

Just look at the Midgard Serpent.

After he activated the Sin Dragon Armor, even the Earthly Python felt uneasy.

Feeling a little uneasy, he didn't even have time to rest and went out directly to look for Teacher Kino.

Jinuo lowered his hand from Louis and said with a frown, "Are you sure you are cursed? I don't feel anything abnormal in your body."

Louis said calmly:

"Am I overthinking it?"

Jinuo said: "It's hard to say. I suggest you go and ask Gandalf, the Lord of the White Tower. Sir Gandalf is better at this than I am."

"OK."

Louis turned around and went to the White Tower again.

After Gandalf examined Louis, he came over with a serious look on his face:

"It's troublesome."

Louis said sternly: "What do you mean?"

Gandalf was silent for a long time.

Louis panicked: "Sir Gandalf, please say something!"

Gandalf said, "Please help me look through the records first."

After saying this, he took down the scrolls containing the precious experimental records in front of Louis.

Louis' scalp tingled when he saw this.

The smell reminded him of those old Chinese doctors who would turn to medical classics when diagnosing diseases.

It made him feel terrified.

Not long after, Gandalf put down the scroll in his hand and sighed deeply:

"well!"

"Sir Gandalf, what is going on?"

Gandalf shook his head and said, "My judgment is that everything is fine."

Louis: ??? I don’t know why, but when he looked at Gandalf’s face, he suddenly wanted to hit him.

Gandalf said helplessly:

"Don't blame me. From a mage's perspective, your overall condition is pretty good now."

"I really can't see what's wrong with you."

"But since you are so nervous, why don't you go to the Church of Death and Sleep and ask the priests there for their opinions?"

"If the necromancer is the person who is best at utilizing the power of the dead, then the priest of the Church of Death and Sleep is the person who is best at dealing with the undead."

“Maybe they can have some unique insights there.”

Louis nodded.

The Church of Death and Sleep is located on the edge of the inner city.

Although death is not welcomed by ordinary people, the Church of Death and Sleep is indeed a serious and orthodox church.

Because of Gandalf's letter of recommendation, the regional archbishop of the Church of Death came directly to help Louis see what was going on.

After a moment, the regional archbishop said with some doubt: "Your Highness Louis, have any relatives of yours passed away recently?"

Louis was stunned for a moment: "No?"

Both he and the original owner should be helpless in this world now.

The original owner's hometown had long been destroyed by the blood sacrifice carried out by the Church of the Abyss, and it remains a wasteland to this day.

The Archbishop frowned and said:

"That's strange. There's a special aura of death lingering around you. This is usually a sign that only people whose relatives have passed away recently will have."

"What do you mean?" Louis asked curiously, "Does it mean being haunted by ghosts?"

The archbishop shook his head. "People always have concerns. Sometimes, they care too much about the living, and part of their soul will remain in the world."

"They are not evil spirits, and the death energy they possess is more neutral and peaceful."

"On the Star Continent, quite a few of the elders who came to us in dreams were from such souls."

"Normally, this is a rare occurrence, but it has been different lately."

Louis raised his head and said, "Because of the Sleeping Festival?"

The Archbishop nodded. "Around the time of the Sleeping Festival, the death energy of the Star Continent expands to its maximum in the year, and the silver moon will be dyed bright red."

"In this case, the power of such ordinary souls will be further strengthened."

"So during this time of year, this phenomenon of dreams reaches its peak number in the year."

"Of course, in terms of total number, it will still be very rare."

Louis added: "Will this dream situation hurt me?"

The Archbishop shook his head: "It's not a vicious ghost. At most, it just makes you unable to have a good dream."

"For many families who have lost loved ones, this kind of meeting in a dream is not a punishment, but a reward."

"There are even many people who have been told in dreams who choose to believe in our church afterwards."

The Archbishop said with a smile on his face.

"It doesn't matter, that's fine."

After receiving a specific reply, Louis left and chose to return.

He had no interest in knowing what the woman in his dream was like.

It has nothing to do with me.

I just want to have a good sleep.

When passing Central Street, Louis asked the coachman to stop.

I was not seeing things.

There is a road leading to the Shadowless Underworld on the central street.

For normal people, the road to the Shadow Underworld is simply invisible.

But for Rimuru, who has already absorbed a lot of the flesh and blood of the creatures of the Shadow Underworld, and Louis, who copied this ability from Rimuru...

That path is too obvious.

“Isn’t this road a little…”

In Louis' sight, in the shadow area that the lights of Central Street could not touch, there was a channel flowing like ink, crawling around like a cat and bug.

After Louis came out of the Shadowless Underworld, he took a good look at the situation in this area.

Unlike the directly formed ink channel at St. Louis College.

That kind of channel is called a "strong channel".

It is the type that normal people can see and can also go to the Shadow Underworld through this channel.

But there is a problem with the strong channel, it transmits randomly.

After being teleported, you are not in the same place, so you lose connection.

This was the situation with Louis and his friends before.

And the channel like the one Louis saw here is a "weak channel".

Such a channel space is unstable and can be more easily repaired by the crystal walls of the Star Continent.

However, during the repair period, this weak channel will continue to heal and crack due to the repair of the crystal wall, and this will happen repeatedly for a long time.

So what appeared on the Star Continent was shadows rolling around like mad cats and insects.

Moreover, ordinary people cannot enter this shadow passage.

Because the space inside is unstable, only professions such as Wanderers who have a strong connection with the Shadow Plane and the Shadowfallen Underworld can enter the Shadowfallen Underworld through this passage.

But there is one thing about the weak channel that is much stronger than the strong channel.

That is, as long as the crystal wall has not completely filled the weak channel, people who fall into the Shadow Underworld can immediately return to the cabinet through the weak channel.

Just in this respect, I don’t know how many times better it is than the rogue transmission through the strong channel.

"Huh?"

Louis watched the creature rolling rapidly around the street, and finally moving like lightning to the passage under his feet, and the whole person disappeared on the side of the road in an instant.

send.

This area was an area that Louis had never seen before in the Shadowless Underworld.

As for why? Because there are quite a few Fallen Shadow Monsters here.

I don’t know if it’s affected by the Sleeping Festival, but there are a huge number of ghost-like creatures in this area.

They were a group of creatures like water ghosts.

They were constantly climbing out of the gray-white lake water.

But this time, their target was not Louis, but a young man in a tuxedo.

He was taking off his tall hat, from which a brownish-yellow gas was constantly emanating.

When those gases stick to the water ghosts' bodies, they will corrode them instantly.

It was the first time that Louis saw a living person in the Shadowfall Underworld. Seeing him being surrounded by more and more Shadowfall monsters, he sighed and said, "You are lucky."

Louis reached into the dimensional bag.

Soon, a beautiful long sword like an ice crystal appeared in his hand.

It was the Sword of Reincarnation hatched by Mentor Rogge.

He has already recognized the identities of these monsters.

This is the fallen shadow monster known as the "Unjustly Dead Water Ghost".

Similar to the Fallen Shadow Beauty Snake that Louis had killed before, the Dead Water Ghost is also a reflection of a certain type of person in the real world.

It is a projection of those little people who are suppressed by the cruel reality and have no way out.

However, since the name of the Fallen Shadow Monster is "Fallen", these reflections are naturally more sinister.

The dead water ghosts are even more extreme.

Ordinary people also have ordinary lives, and they don’t need to degenerate to the point of life and death.

The unjustly dead water ghosts represent the worst type of people among ordinary people who can only live a dull life.

Those who can't stand others doing well and even want to drag others down with them.

Once the Shadow Monster formed by this phenomenon catches a person on the shore, as long as the strength difference is not too big, it can directly drag the person into the deep water and make it impossible to escape.

This is the origin of their [Unjust Death] skill.

I'm not talking about the water ghost dying in vain, he died innocently.

Instead, it means that those guys who were dragged into the water by the dead ghosts are innocent.

It can be said that it is a monster more dangerous than the Fallen Shadow Beauty Snake.

The unlucky guy who was surrounded by dead water ghosts on the river bank seemed to be a wizard.

As the number of dead water ghosts around him increased, the pressure on him increased.

At this moment, a streak of light flashed across his body like lightning.

Louis didn't say a word, but just swung the Sword of Reincarnation at an astonishing speed to chop down the water ghosts one by one.

Looking at the increasingly dazzling light of the Sword of Reincarnation in his hand, Louis could no longer suppress the smile on his face.

The strength of the unjustly dead water ghosts is generally between LV4 and LV7.

This level of being neither better than the best nor worse than the worst makes it extremely easy for them to form a group.

But for Louis now, they are more fragile than newborn kittens.

"Lummi-san, you've been so helpful!"

Yes.

He could clearly feel that this battle was completely different from the previous ones.

Firstly, he has transformed some of his abilities into permanent skills, so that every move he makes can cause great damage.

Secondly, the Sword of Reincarnation is showing its power for the first time. An ordinary LV4 would shatter into pieces at the slightest touch when it meets the current Louis.

It is worthy of being the long sword that mentor Rogge has high hopes for, specializing in attacking the dead and the living dead.

In a very short time, he and the wizard cleared out all the water ghosts around.

"Thank you, that's a great help."

The wizard put his hat back on.

Louis took a look at his attire: "Enser?"

The man nodded.

"The unlucky guy who was accidentally dragged into the Shadow Underworld?"

The mage showed an awkward smile:

"Don't say that. Who would have thought there would be something like this on the street?"

Louis looked at him deeply, then said, "I'm going to go back first, do you want to leave with me?"

He felt that this person must be hiding a lot of things.

Ordinary mages cannot enter the Shadowless Underworld through the weak channel.

That is something that only wanderers and people like me who have studied the Shadow Hand Style can do.

However, seeing that this man had no intention of talking, I thought of taking him out with me.

"What's your name?" Louis asked curiously.

"Ethan," the wizard said.

"No last name?" Louis laughed.

"Don't embarrass me, sir. In our line of work, we dare not reveal our entire real name." The wizard said helplessly.

Louis nodded and motioned him to walk towards the cave entrance.

Ethan didn't say much. He was not surrounded by the dead water ghosts. He went straight through the weak passage and left.

It was only then that Louis released Rimuru:

"Eat it. I left some extra monsters here."

Rimuru laughed happily and immediately pounced on the immobilized monsters.

Shadow Magic [Wrongful Death], get it!

After Louis cleaned up the scene, he immediately flew back along the crack where he fell out.

Louis returned to the central street through the weak passage and looked at the unlucky wizard who was standing there repairing himself.

He was looking quietly in the direction of Louis.

After seeing Louis come out safely, his eyes lit up, he made a gesture of gratitude, then turned and left.

Louis understood.

This person is trying to see if he has escaped successfully! "He is a nice guy"

After what happened, Louis no longer had the heart to stand on the street and watch the joke.

It takes a little effort for wanderers to enter the Shadowless Underworld through the weak channel.

But Rimuru absorbed too much power from the Fallen Shadow Monsters.

So much so that the Shadowless Underworld may have already regarded them as local residents.

When he entered the Shadowfell, it opened its body to welcome him.

When he left the Shadowless Underworld, it was even more reluctant to let him go back.

No kidding, after the power of the Fallen Shadow gathered in the Sin Dragon Armor, he could really vaguely feel the consciousness of the Fallen Shadow Underworld.

…

After leaving Central Street, my body, having recovered a little, began to feel tired again.

He knew that his biggest problem now was mental fatigue, so he did not return to the Prince's Palace immediately, but wandered around.

Louis saw Grace in a bookstore on Commercial Street.

The future saint was standing trembling at the door of the store, but with a hesitant look on her face, as if she wanted to go in but didn't dare to.

Louis was happy.

I didn't expect to see this little saint when I went out today.

After all, she was a member of his team and a future partner, so he walked straight up to Grace, grabbed her wrist and walked into the store.

"Okay, you're in now."

Grace stammered and tugged at Louis's clothes, looking like she was about to cry.

"I, I can get in by myself!"

She said with effort.

Louis didn't laugh at her, he just smiled and said, "Actually I also want to come in and buy some books, so I dragged you along."

"If you want to buy anything, go ahead."

——This is a lie.

Louis has always been gentle to his friends.

In order not to embarrass Grace, who suffers from social anxiety, he just made up an excuse.

Hearing him say this, Grace nodded obediently, and her eyes softened a little.

When Louis was about to turn around to buy something, she suddenly grabbed the corner of Louis's clothes and said, "Some basic divine arts of priests are also sold here."

She swallowed hard and continued, "Sister Sister asked me to come here to buy some basic divine arts books. She has already prepared the rest of the advanced and advanced materials for me."

Louis nodded and reached out to touch her silver hair: "Thank you for your hard work, Grace."

Grace's eyes narrowed.

Louis didn't say anything, he just took a copy of "A Guide to the City of Ghosts" from the bookshelf and prepared to go over to pay.

Grace quickly found the book she was looking for. Louis saw her walking towards the cashier nervously and stepped forward before her:

"Boss, check out."

"Okay, I'll charge you 1 silver and 3 bronze."

Grace, who was following Louis, finally mustered up the courage to walk over.

"Boss, check out!"

"4 books, 3 silver and 2 bronze." said the boss.

Grace was a little hesitant trying to open the small bag containing the money.

Louis took her small bag, pulled out three silver and two copper coins, and placed them in her palm.

Grace felt the faint warmth from his fingertips, handed the money to the boss, and then the two left.

Louis felt helpless for a moment as he watched her take a breath after she went out.

How on earth could such a socially anxious person lead a revolutionary army more than a decade later? 　The day is over, and I am about to die 　　 　 (end of this chapter)