Chapter 205

"Although this is not a formal Holy Grail War, I chose the deserted wilderness to conceal my identity... King Gilgamesh, if you continue to laugh, I will have a headache." Lansemello looked at the golden Gilgamesh in front of him and sighed helplessly, "I need your help with something. Would you like to listen to me?"

"Isn't this why I answered your call?" Gilgamesh looked down at Lansemelo. "Then tell me."

"...That's it." Lanser-Melo waved away the illusion created by magic in front of him and looked directly into Gilgamesh's eyes. "Although King Gilgamesh is enough in terms of manpower, I still hope to wait for an opportunity to kill him with one blow - at least when the mastermind is present."

"After all, although Azar is stupid, he will never fall into such a trap unless someone puts a delicious bait in front of him."

"Then I will follow your spirit back." Gilgamesh nodded, and turned into a blue spirit and disappeared in front of Lansemelo. "It just so happens that Solomon asked me to tell you about the current situation in Chaldea. Although he thinks it's okay for you to be alone, he still allowed the magician from the astronomy department to bring people to find you."

"Noah said that Taigong Wang is here... Who else did Kirsh bring?" Lansemero used magic to erase the traces of his presence here and returned to Sumi Castle along the same route. "To be honest, although I don't think I will encounter any trouble that will endanger my life, I haven't found the answer to how to return to Chaldea yet."

"I should have returned to Chaldea when the Flower Goddess fell."

"It was the Vengeful Ghost and the detective." Gilgamesh's voice surrounded Lansemello. "So, someone detained you by force at that time?"

"I only woke up five hundred years ago. From the death of the flower god until five hundred years ago, the records of that period are like a sleep for me." Lansemero lightly climbed over the thick tree roots that emerged from the rainforest. "In short, there is no record at all. You can even say that it was like I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, I was already in Teyvat five hundred years later."

"Although the guess that she was forcibly detained is probably correct... But I have accepted an extra mission, so I have no complaints about it." Lansemello smiled and narrowed his eyes, but the atmosphere around him became dangerous. "After all, the culprit has already died, and I can't ask her descendants to settle the score - that child is still my student now."

"...Just don't act like Merlin." Gilgamesh reminded his student, but he didn't think she would repeat the fate of the Demi-Dreamy, so he paused and directed the topic to another direction, "Then, regarding the next action - I will act according to your request. Other than that, you don't need more cooperation, right?"

"Well, before the action begins, King Gilgamesh should just do as he pleases." Lansemero stopped some distance away from Sumi City and used magic to project a map of Sumi City in the air. "But since I cannot leave Sumi City openly, I need King Gilgamesh to confirm some information."

"They should have a site for experiments near Sumi City." Lansemero marked several locations on the map and introduced them to Gilgamesh. "That will be the battlefield that King Gilgamesh needs to go to when the time comes - but I'm not sure where it is yet, so King Gilgamesh needs to confirm it one by one..."

"Well, or you can just pick a location, King Gilgamesh - I still trust your luck." Lansemelo smiled, dispelled the projection in front of him, and after adding several magic spells to himself to hide his tracks, he walked towards the direction of his residence. "I'll leave this matter to you - I have an appointment tonight, so I'll take my leave first."

After returning to the dream again, Lansemello took the Heart of God from Narcida's hand, blurring the boundary between reality and dreams in some people's consciousness - while standing on the platform in front of the Order House waiting for the arrival of the invited guests; and while waiting, Lansemello changed the Order House uniform on his body into another set of clothes specially used in occasions when he appeared as the Dreamless Tree King.

——According to the speed of letter delivery, she should be able to meet the outstanding graduate of Life Science that Nafis always talks about tonight.

It is impossible for anyone to not have dreams. Sumire lost his dreams simply because the wise men who led the project needed so many dreams as experimental resources. However, the scholars who participated in the project did not have their dreams harvested, so their consciousness naturally would not appear in dreams.

However, this also made it convenient for her to meet some people in her dreams who she could not see without leaving Sumi Castle - Lansemelo first added suggestion magic to Nafis who was responsible for writing letters, and then Nafis wrote down the suggestion magic for the recipient when writing the letter... As long as the letter was opened, the recipient would receive the hint to come to Sumi Castle to see her.

——As for how it came about…Since Sumito does not have dreams, then anything that can be remembered must have happened in reality.

It was enough for her to blur the line between reality and dreams.

“I am here.”

Lansemelo raised his eyebrows, looking past the dummies that the scholars had created in their collective dream to replace themselves, and saw the young man approaching the platform from the spiral path. The young scholar with the blood of Balogas was as easy to recognize as his teacher said. Compared with his face, what impressed others first was the pair of tall fox ears.

After entering Sumi Castle, the Void Terminal that everyone wears is attached to his face - although the Void Terminal is always jokingly called a headset by the members of Chaldea, the Void Terminal is indeed not a headset. It can only be said that it is the feeling of turning Chaldea's communication terminal into a head-mounted one.

"Nice to meet you, fellow student Tinari of the Life Theory School." Lansemero sent a message to Tinari through the void terminal after Tinari climbed onto the circular platform in front of the Decree House, "Please come to the Palace of Wisdom to see me - there are too many people here, it's not a good place for a conversation."

Lansemelo disappeared silently among the scholars, and turned into a physical body again after moving into the Palace of Wisdom. He picked up a book from the bookshelf and turned it into the collection of books in the Chaldean library to read. The only thing consistent with the reality about the books in the Palace of Wisdom in his dream was their appearance, while the inside of the books were all pure white pages without a single word.

——After all, even scholars no longer come to the Palace of Wisdom to read literature, not to mention how much ordinary Sumi people can understand.

The collective dream is mainly composed of everyone's impressions of Sumi Castle. The life part can be confused with the real, and the academic part seems a little empty because most scholars will not enter the collective dream. But for Nashida, who is a new branch of the world tree, and Lansemero, who now holds the Heart of the Grass God, the content they understand can just make up for the missing parts here.

Lansemero looked up, and after checking the situation on the nearby bookshelf, he informed Nashida to refine the books in this area. The two of them worked together to add text to the blank books, creating an appearance that was exactly the same as reality.

"...You are Lord Dreamless Tree King." Tinari sat down opposite Lansemello and took the initiative to start the conversation. "This is a little beyond my expectations--"

"Just like who would believe that the Great Compassionate Tree King does not know all the knowledge in the world..." Lansemello closed the book with one hand and looked directly into Tinari's green eyes. "However, I am not here to talk to you about this matter today. In the next period of time, I would like you to pay attention to the scholar who is in the forest dwelling wild talk period."

"This is part of a ranger's job," Tinari replied to Lansemero. "May I ask how you came to notice me?"

"I have a hobby of attending public classes of various schools in the Order Academy - but actually I noticed you because you rejected Nafis' invitation to stay in school after graduation." Lansemero looked away subtly. "Nafis mentioned you in almost every class. If I hadn't wanted to meet you this time, I wouldn't have discovered, when I was looking back on my past experiences, that I was also there when you got the Eye of God."

"Although I was right, I feel embarrassed to bring it up again after such a long time." Tina shook his head helplessly and sighed, "But can I ask why you didn't speak up at the time?"

"I can't tell you the most direct reason, but I can tell you the fundamental reason." Lansemero smiled, and the face of Gilgamesh in the past appeared in his mind. "Individual scholars are not important to me. What is worth paying attention to is only the results of scholars' explorations. Regardless of whether their conclusions and processes are wrong or not, as long as they create content, I will only watch it."

"Even if there is a need to correct mistakes, it should be another scholar - for example, your work at the time, not 'me'."

Although scholars from the School of Life Theory are not as sensitive to language and words as members of the School of Cause Theory, Tinari is a rare member with active thinking among the Sumi people who are now almost completely tamed by the Void System. He was quite sensitive to the change in the tone of Lansemello's words, but was interrupted by Lansemello before he could ask a question.

"Okay, this meeting is over." Lansemero put a finger in front of Tinari and said to him with a smile, "If you have any more questions, come to Sumi Castle during the Flower God's Birthday Festival this year and ask me."

“But isn’t the current Great Sage promoting a policy of denying all art-related content?!”

"Yes." Lansemello accompanied Tinari to the gate of the Palace of Wisdom and watched him leave the Court of the Decrees. "But this year's birthday festival for the goddess of flowers will be held smoothly, and it will be more grand than in previous years. Well, just like when the Great Mercy Tree King had not passed away, there will be flower knights coming to welcome the gods."

"This year's Flower Goddess Birthday Festival will definitely be... a grand and joyous festival."