Blue Sword

Purgatory is completely different from Hades.

If the essence of the underworld is sorrow, then the essence of purgatory is pain.

The moment they stepped through the portal, everyone felt an oppressive feeling welling up in their hearts.

It was a feeling that was difficult to define. It was not only physical discomfort, but also spiritual depression and pain, which gradually overflowed from the depths of the soul.

"Ah~" Medusa took a deep and free breath in her heart, "Have I come to heaven?"

"It's hell." Medea said coldly.

"I'm just making a metaphor..." Medusa was speechless.

Different from the sunny and beautiful scenery of Hearth Island, the sky in this half-plane of Limbo is red, as deep red as a red-hot fireplace roof, and the ground is dark and dark, composed of finely crumbled soil that looks like coke. , it feels soft when you step on it, as if something has been crushed.

On the distant horizon are continuous mountains. The mountains are extremely sharp and point high into the sky, like countless saw-toothed blades. At the bottom of the valley between the mountains, there is a red city, which is the so-called Lingbo City.

The city has no city walls, and its architectural style seems to deliberately imitate the mountains in the distance. It is composed of the same number of dense and sharp buildings, extremely narrow at the bottom and extremely high at the top, standing like long and narrow fingers.

Sheila was completely stunned. The magnificent and strange world in front of her gave her an extremely unreal, magical and false feeling. Medea had been here several times as a child, so her mood was more stable than Sheila's. She just looked into the distance calmly.

Malkina whistled, and four tall horses came running from a distance. Their fur is also dark black, almost mixed with the earth of the same color. It cannot be seen at all without moving, but when the horse's hooves step on the ground, sparks will splash out like flint and flint striking each other.

And their pupils are also ruby-like crystals, and something seems to be burning inside.

The smallest horse among them came to Sheila and silently lowered its smooth neck and head, as if to signal her to sit on it. However, Sheila froze in place and did not dare to step forward.

"Go up." Seeing her look like she wanted to escape but didn't dare, Asik urged.

"I...wait!" Before Sheila could react, Asik had picked her up from behind and placed her firmly on the black horse.

Although there was no saddle, she sat extremely smoothly on the horse - more precisely, the black horse seemed to be spiritual, firmly supporting the owner riding on its back.

"This is..." Silla asked hesitantly.

"Children of the night, nightmare beasts." Malkina said with a smile, "They feed on people's nightmares and can travel freely in purgatory and the ocean of subconsciousness. Nightmare beasts are extraordinary creatures with very picky tastes. As long as they identify a person, they will Then I won’t eat other people’s nightmares.”

"You mean, it... is eating my nightmare?" Sheila heard what she meant.

"Yes, have you slept very peacefully recently and rarely had scary nightmares?" Malkina asked with a smile, "This is why it is close to you. In a sense, you are its feeder." host."

"That's it." Sheila slowly stroked the little nightmare beast's mane, and the latter neighed happily.

The other three nightmare beasts also came to their corresponding "owners". Asker's Nightmare Beast is the tallest, majestic and majestic. It touches his chest affectionately with its nose. It is obvious that the leader is also under a lot of pressure during the day and makes the Nightmare Beast eat to its fullest every night.

Malkina's Nightmare Beast is smaller in size and looks very ordinary and docile. Only Medea's nightmare beast is not only skinny, but also looks sickly when walking.

Medea:………………

The nightmare beast looked at her rather resentfully, and then snorted.

Obviously, due to the existence of Medusa, this nightmare beast is almost never full, and most of the painful emotions in nightmares are withheld in advance.

The four nightmare beasts carried the four people and galloped forward quickly, and soon arrived at Lingbo City.

Lingbo City has no city walls. Just like Hearth Island, it is alone in a demi-dimensional space and naturally does not need any defensive measures.

The houses closer to the edge are lower and have flat roofs. Most of the surrounding residents are hunched exaggeratedly, pacing hard like old women, wearing linen black robes like shrouds, with eagle claws. In his withered hands, he held a cane that was as tangled as a tree root.

"These are..." Silla asked tentatively again.

"Yes, they are not human beings." Malkina smiled slightly, but didn't say much.

The residents here are not humans... Sheila did not continue to ask, just stared at these old woman-like creatures, trying to remember the details of each other's appearance.

The deeper you go inside, the buildings on both sides of the road become taller and sharper. It seems that the architectural style here is characterized by slenderness and sharpness. The surrounding pedestrians gradually turn into some kind of ivory-colored, puppet-like creatures with faces. There are no facial features on his face, no thin lines on his limbs, he just walks calmly on the roadside.

Before Sheila could ask, Malkina introduced:

"These are not humans either."

"What race are they...?" Sheila asked.

"The ugly ones in the surrounding areas are pistos (believers), and the ones in the city are fanatico (zealots)," Malkina said.

"Then what race are you, Malkina?" Ask asked casually, "Bishop?"

"You are so funny, Mr. Asker." Malkina lay on the back of the Nightmare Beast through the veil, laughing so hard that she couldn't get up, and said seriously, "I'm just a weak woman with no strength."

"Don't believe her." Medea quickly reminded him in the psychic communication.

"Of course." Ask said that he had been wary of her for a long time. "Is this a psychic?"

"I don't know." Medea shook her head, "My spiritual intuition didn't respond to her."

"But that doesn't mean she's not a psychic," Ask said. The synchronic induction of spiritual intuition in this world is not omnipotent, and many secret techniques can play a shielding role.

"Compared to her, the person you are about to meet is the one you should really worry about." Medea said, "She is a true psychic demigod. You have no psychic-related abilities, and your thoughts are like those in front of her. It’s like a diary spread out, completely visible to the other party.”

"So what can you do?" Ask asked her sideways.

"I can help you shield your mind." Medea narrowed her eyes. "Although with her demigod-level psychic ability, she can easily break through my defense, but at least we will have perception-not in an undefended place. Under such circumstances, I don’t know how much my mind has been read.”

"What about Sheila?"

"Let Sheila stay in the side hall. I guess she is just interested in you."

The two communicated secretly in the spiritual communication channel, and then explained to Sheila, and soon reached an agreement.

The palace of the Succubus Queen has the same shape as other buildings in the city, still in the shape of a monument high into the sky. Entering the palace door, Silla suddenly said:

"I won't go. Is it okay to take a walk around the area?"

"This..." Malkina hesitated.

"Malkina, the only people my mother wants to see are me and the leader." Medea said calmly, "Or did she give you a death order and must bring all three of us to see her?"

"Indeed not." Malkina smiled, "Actually, His Majesty originally wanted to see only Mr. Asker. Inviting His Majesty to accompany him is my personal suggestion to Your Majesty."

Medea:………………

"Look." She said to Asker in the communication channel with some sourness, "She and I don't have any mother-daughter relationship. Whether we can get the potion later depends on your performance."

So Sheila left the team early and wandered around the city. Under the leadership of Malkina, Ask and Medea walked deeper into the palace.

The nightmare beast here is Nightmare, and in the previous copy of the Hearth Island guide, the nightmare everyone killed was Incubus. The two are not the same extraordinary creature.