Chapter 1043 Empty Box
"…Why did they let the Mad King live?"
Yasen didn't understand. "Is it just that they don't want him to become a god? Even if the Mad King becomes a celestial minister, what will he do? Will he expel all the children of the moon from the country?"
However, during the reign of the Swan King, the Son of the Moon always kept a low profile.
There are so many inhuman nobles that even the Son of the Moon has become anthropomorphic.
At that time, the Swan King couldn't possibly have such a strange request. It could even be said that the Moon Child and the Swan King were practically on the same side—at least they both wanted these nobles gone. If the Moon Child came to power, they would at least be willing to obey the Swan King's orders and wouldn't openly assassinate him.
"In the beginning, maybe I just wanted to prolong his life."
Aiwass speculated, "My guess is... perhaps they want to resurrect him, giving Moonchild a chance to rise to the top of the Iris Kingdom. Since the three Grand Dukes don't know the truth, they might also believe the Swan King's death is related to them. Perhaps they see this as an opportunity."
"It's also possible that they simply want to forcibly transform the Swan King into the Son of the Moon. It's not impossible... As long as the Swan King's head is cultivated with adaptability to the Path of Love, even if it only has the power of the first level, the Son of the Moon can use the 'corpse' of this head to create a complete Swan King, the Son of the Moon.
"For the Children of the Moon, who have always longed for a country of their own, this can be considered a way to fulfill their wish."
He was really guessing.
Because Aiwass's task was basically to fast forward and skip CGs, he knew that some parts were either CG beginnings that could not be skipped, or those that could be understood roughly by fast forwarding and reading a few words.
For example, this quest was due to the appearance of a wild "dream medium" in Iris. Dream mediums are those who are born with the ability to have lucid dreams. They are extremely rare, and most of them are ordinary people. Although there are some extraordinary ones, they have basically become dream monks.
Because they can have lucid dreams, they can distort their dreams at will and create entrances to designated areas of the dream world out of thin air.
Through this entrance, extraordinary beings in the material world can enter the dream world directly by dreaming. Dream mediums can also often enter the dream world themselves... Although the dream world is extremely dangerous, they may also find some friendly creatures to accompany them and provide them with protection.
After all, they are not in and out, but can enter and exit at any time. Therefore, some deceased people will use dream mediums to convey messages to people in the material world, or conduct illegal cross-border transactions that "do not conform to the principles of sand time."
——He can be called a smuggler in the fairy world.
In this quest, the protagonists need to investigate a matter in the Dream World: the Crown Master has suddenly become unresponsive, and even the Pope cannot call upon Him. So, one of the cardinals uses his connections to find a dream medium, hoping they can take the protagonists and their group to the Dream World to investigate.
The mission at that time used the dream passage opened by Yasen's dagger.
On their first adventure, they failed to find the Crown Master—or rather, the Dream Medium had suggested before their departure that he hadn't been able to enter the Dream World for a long time, and recently, the "signal wasn't very good." But the Cardinal naturally didn't believe it... because no Dream Medium needed a "signal" to enter the Dream World.
As a result, when they tried to enter the dream world, they understood why the dream medium said so - because the entire "dream" of the iris was tied in a knot.
People's dreams are extracted by some force, twisted into vortexes, and unable to flow into the dream world.
Aiwass remembered the scene clearly - the end of the grayish-white sky in the dream was distorted into a funnel-like rainbow color.
It's like there are auroras above the dark clouds.
——This is actually a very dangerous signal.
The dream world is a reflection of the material world. It is the collective subconsciousness of all intelligent life in the material world that creates this clear dream world. Without this consciousness, the dream world is a void and chaos. Only when the first flame of wisdom is ignited in the void does the dream world have order and color, and only then does it have the heaven and earth, the sun and the moon.
It's like a virtual network built with the computing power of all machines - this is also the reason why the general direction of the Pillar Gods of the Dream Realm is to maintain the stability of the material world... or at least they don't want large-scale disasters or wars to occur in the material world.
The current situation is that the Iris Man’s dream is being gradually stripped away from the dream world.
——In other words, someone tried to block Iris’s subconscious network.
They were forced to return to the physical world to investigate. They discovered that the incidence of "nightmares" throughout the Iris region was incredibly high, so high that people considered it normal. Even visitors to Iris who experienced nightmares attributed it to "Iris nights being unsettling" and that they were frightened and unable to sleep well.
But that's not the case.
It is that when everyone dreams, their spirit is being extracted by some grand ritual.
It was well known that transcendents could restore their mana while dreaming. Alchemical potions that rapidly restored mana essentially worked by instantly entering a dreaming sleep, skipping the dreamless sleep phase and directly engaging in intense contact with the dream world to restore mana.
But even ordinary people will gain magical powers when they come into contact with the dream world.
To be more precise, it is because their souls are unable to store magic power properly. Therefore, if people keep dreaming, they will feel very tired.
It is because the washing magic power slightly hurts their souls, just like the stones polished smooth in the river are actually "slightly hurt" and become smooth.
The grand ceremony of Iris is to have everyone supply all the overflowing magic power to one place when they are dreaming.
For transcendents, this wouldn't make any difference—the ascension ritual didn't enter the dream world through this channel, and ordinary transcendents didn't need to enter the dream world, and their mana was recovering normally. That is, dream mediums might occasionally feel "the network connection isn't stable today," but since it normally connects correctly, it's not a big deal.
But for ordinary people, this would increase everyone's mental burden. Having to actively absorb mana that they wouldn't normally absorb would undoubtedly increase their mental fatigue... leading to the Iris People's mental instability.
However, this indirectly increased the probability of the emergence of transcendents—those who were half-crazy were usually more likely to become transcendents, and long-term absorption of mana also made it easier for their souls to be opened up into vessels. In fairy tales and martial arts novels, this was the case with those whose entire body meridians had long been opened up, making development easier.
——In principle, someone is mining with their brain.
Once I realized this, the matter became serious.
It's not that this has caused irreversible damage to people... but rather that it would require the brainpower of an entire nation's civilians to mine, and who knows how many years it would take. With this level of accumulated mana, what on earth would they be doing?
Assuming that this "Dream Vortex" only blooms for one month a year, and for a total of ten years - that also means that a wave of terrifying magic power has accumulated, which is enough to easily blow the entire iris flower into the sky!
——This level of magic power is enough to create a god out of thin air!
And later on, the players discovered... someone really was creating a god.
As a former fourth-level being, the Swan King possesses the ability to write scripts and manipulate fate. He is currently on the brink of becoming a god, with the grand ceremony halfway through... At this point, he can easily unleash extraordinary abilities far beyond his normal capabilities. This is because he is now considered a "reserved celestial official."
As long as his promotion ceremony is over, he will be able to obtain the position of Heavenly Master.
"The Count of Moonchild was stuck at this point... He sealed the Swan King, a demigod with only one head, in the 'Box of Nothingness.' This is a magic box filled with the power of nothingness. With the flick of a button, the person inside loses all thoughts and dreams.
"And because the Swan King hasn't actually died yet, he can hypnotize the Swan King's head and whisper information to him, causing the unconscious Swan King to have corresponding dreams. He can then use his subconscious to write a 'script'...in a disguised way, guiding the future of the entire Iris family."
Aiwass said slowly, "He only needs to press the trigger to make the Swan King's dream vanish. This will prevent the future from getting out of control."
"—Since the third rebellion, the successive rebellions were all because the Swan King had been having that dream."
At the end of that strategy copy, when the Swan King, who was in a low-health state, finally opened his eyes and woke up from his dream, his name changed.
No longer an “empty box”.
Rather, it is a "nearly damaged container of nothingness."
The Count of Moonson had no idea how stupid and terrible a thing he had done.
Just one step away...
The Swan King is about to transform from the Celestial God of the Path of Beauty into the Pillar God of the Path of Nothingness.
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