Ash stood up, walked to the air vent, and used the reflection of the metal fence on the air vent to confirm the eye color of this body.
Smoky grey.
The smoky gray eyes unique to moonlight elves.
The body he currently occupies belongs to the moonlight elf Sigourney.
What would an elf-like Sigourney look like?
Ash had always wanted to meet him and had secretly imagined it many times.
After entering the Crystal Forest, she realized that Sigourney might have been imprisoned by Rachel here and transformed from an elf into a vampire, and her feelings became even deeper.
So that's why I had such a dream after relaxing and resting?
Ash looked around and found with regret that, except for the metal fence on the air vent, there was nothing here that could reflect his current appearance.
But the metal fence could not reflect the complete appearance. Even the eyes reflected on it were distorted into strange shapes by the arc cylinder.
The dream was so clear, but I couldn't get a complete look at the moonlight elf Sigourney...
Ash retreated to the corner in frustration. Was this his dream? Even his dream did not satisfy his desire for a mirror.
"Elf?" A weak voice came from the next room. "Are you okay?"
Ash was stunned. His dream had a plot? Who was this? Was he calling him?
Seeing that he didn't answer for a long time, the voice next to him became a little anxious: "Elf, are you okay?"
Ash hesitated and replied, "It's okay, I'm fine."
"You scared me." The voice relaxed, as if still feeling a lingering fear. "I thought you really committed suicide... You haven't made any noise for almost a whole day and night. I called you but you didn't respond. It was so quiet that it was scary."
The voice breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I heard your footsteps just now."
This person was chattering on and on, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, or had been frightened for too long, so he let it all out in one breath.
"I know you can't accept being transformed into a vampire. But you don't have to give up your life and hope now."
"Think about it, what if you could escape? You could see the blue sky and forest again, and reunite with your family and friends. Think about those wonderful times, are you really willing to give them up?"
"Don't you elves hate the act of strangling life the most? If you commit suicide, your soul cannot return to the forest, right?"
"Can you hold on for a while?"
“Don’t give up on yourself easily.”
"I'll stay with you."
"Look, I came here half a year earlier than you, and I'm still trying to stay alive until now, right?"
"Even if, even if you are really transformed by Rachel...if you fail, then there is nothing we can do. But if you succeed, his experimental goal will be achieved, and you won't have to suffer anymore - you will be his most precious work, he won't be willing to destroy you, and he won't be willing to damage you. You can bargain with him and walk out..."
…
The weak voice spoke for a while, then paused, caught its breath, and continued.
His voice was gentle, like that of a kind and patient senior, who patiently gave advice, hoping that his junior next door would give up the negative thoughts of seeking death.
As the one being comforted, Ash listened to his words and curled his fingers up little by little, clenching them into tight fists.
The fingertips sank into the palm of the hand, causing a dull pain.
He finally realized—
This might not just be a real dream.
This is reality.
It is very likely that this is the reality that Sigourney experienced as a moonlight elf and as a captive experimental material.
Why did he "dream" of this reality?
What should he do now? How should he leave this "dream"?
Wait for nature to wake up?
Ash wanted to know Sigourney's past, but he never thought of using this method to spy on someone else's past without the owner's permission.
But even if he wanted to wake up, until the morning in his dream came, he was still in the small cell, with no sign of leaving.
I knew it was early in the morning because someone handed in a portion of fresh fruit through the gas window.
Two dry and rigid words: "Breakfast."
I couldn't even tell whether it was a male or female voice.
Ash rubbed his stomach, which was aching from hunger. He had no intention of leaving the dream by starving to death - the situation was so strange that he was not sure whether he could leave if he starved to death - he stood up and walked over to take the fruit.
A relieved voice came from the next room: "That's right, elf. Eat more. If you are too weak, you won't be able to survive the experiment."
Ash, who was starving, bit off half of the fruit in one bite.
And so, Ash lived in the cell.
One day, two days... more than half a month passed, and he became more and more aware of his situation - this was not just a dream. He even suspected that if something happened to him here, he would be implicated in reality.
Therefore, even though he was confused about his current situation, he still treated it calmly and cautiously.
He did not try to attract more attention, but quietly blended in, and through Bart next door, gradually got to know the situation here.
Bart was the first person to speak to him. His race was unknown. He was Rachel's experimental material and was taken out of the cell every few days. Ash could hear the stone door of the cell being opened. He stood on tiptoe and hung on the air vent to peek in. Every time he saw a figure shrouded in a dark cloak. He was very tall and extremely skinny, like a malnourished straw that could be broken by a breeze.
When I went out, I saw your back.
When he came back, he was carried back by an alchemy puppet.
Therefore, Ash was never able to see his face clearly.
Bart lived in the cell to the left of Ash, and the cell to his right had been empty since he arrived. According to Bart, a moonlight elf had lived there not long ago, but unfortunately died in the experiment.
It seems that Ash was captured by humans as a replacement for the dead moonlight elves, and was sold to Rachel at a high price as experimental material a few days ago.
Bart is the "old man" of this wizard tower.
He is an "old man" who has been on the experimental table repeatedly and still insists on living to this day.
He knows a lot.
Perhaps Rachel was not shy about his experimental materials and was willing to show off his genius experimental ideas to them, wanting to let the materials lying on the experimental table know what a great project they were participating in.
Anyway, Bart knew about Rachel's experimental plan and told Ash about it.
Rachel didn't know what inspiration she got from the ancient documents, and for a long time, she had been trying to artificially create magical creatures.
His ultimate goal is to transform humans into magical creatures.
The transformation of humans into magical creatures is actually based on facts.
Isn't the first embrace of a vampire the transformation of humans into vampires?
But Rachel didn't want an ordinary transformation.
What he wants is for humans to possess the blood talents of magical creatures and contain fragments of rules within themselves, while at the same time not losing the spiritual world of humans themselves, so that they can continue to learn magic and comprehend the rules.
From Ash's way of understanding, what Rachel wanted was the state of the people on Broken River Plain.
It is both a magical creature and a human.
In Rachel's opinion, only such an existence could completely conform to the rules of the world and break the current situation where there are no more legends on the throne.
Most likely, become a true God.
He used the vampire's First Embrace as a breakthrough point and put each race on the experimental table, trying to uncover the mystery of the vampire's transformation.
Through this, humans can be transformed into magical creatures step by step.
He ultimately wanted to apply the results of the experiment to himself.
Bart doesn't ask Ash's name, he always calls Ash "elf".
He said that after the elf was sent to the wizard tower, he knew that Rachel was going to transform him into a vampire step by step, so he resolutely chose to die. That day, he heard the elf say "goodbye" to him and then quietly went down.
He wanted to call for help, but the elf's resolute will to die still echoed in his ears when he said goodbye. The elf said goodbye to him deliberately, and also asked him invisibly not to try to save him.
He had no right to deny the elves their right to die, nor did he have the right to drag the elves back from a peaceful death to this hell on earth.
So he listened to the silence in the next cell and did nothing and said nothing.
He lay quietly in bed, lost in thought, until he heard footsteps next door again.
"I'm glad you're okay." Bart would say this from time to time, with a very happy and grateful tone.
Ash was in a daze, incredulous.
Is the elf that Bart mentioned Sigourney?
Sigourney was once captured and sold by humans. When she learned that she was about to be transformed into a vampire through experiments, she actually had thoughts of suicide?
How is that possible?
The Sigourney he knew was the only elf who had become a vampire and survived, with a strong will and firm belief.
I will never choose to give up my life so easily.
It is impossible to fall into such an embarrassing situation.
Ash firmly believed this.
Therefore, if Barthes was not lying, then the "truth" now presented to him was actually false, tampered with, and fabricated.
When Ash was determined about this idea, the environment around him was shaken for a moment.
The shaking of the environment happened in the blink of an eye, so Ash didn't see it.
But in the outside world, Sigourney, who was sitting in the glorious magic circle, suddenly turned her head and looked at the dark pine coffin next to her.
He sensed a hint of the devil's presence.
The devil is projected from the abyss into people's hearts. It is invisible and intangible. Once it attaches to a living body, it is impossible to discover and destroy it with just the simplified version of the glorious magic circle.
He stood up, his expression grim.
He should be the one targeted by the devil, but now, it is Ash who is being entangled.
Does that little devil know how to deal with the cunning devil?
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