Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

"Hey, what's the matter?" During the time of being stunned, Charte was the first to speak, "What are you going to do!?"

"Ghost knows what's going on..."

I snapped back to him angrily. Almost at the same moment, the surrounding townspeople lowered their heads powerlessly like a machine whose power was cut off, or like puppets on strings at their mercy.

"Boom! Boom!..."

I always felt that the continuous knocking sound was directly below me, Xia Yinci and I looked at each other, and she also frowned slightly, not knowing what was going on. However, this sudden change did not intend to leave room for us to think at all. The usual scene in the town was smeared with indelible crimson paint by the mob who broke into the gallery, and suddenly turned into a picture of hell.

Screams full of resentment and pain came from all directions, adding to the piercing sound of each other, Xia Yinci and I instinctively changed from "face-to-face" to "back-to-back". The townspeople yelled sharply and fell to their knees on the ground. The green veins eroded their bodies, and the dark and lifeless pupils suddenly glowed red. Then, countless evil spirits biting each other rushed towards us. come.

Almost at the same time, just as I was about to grab Su Huilin and Xia Yinci to escape, they grabbed my left and right hands and ran towards the woods. And Elus held the pointed hat that was almost blown away by the sweeping wind with her left hand, grabbed the staff with her right hand and hit the ground, and the six-pointed formation quickly expanded into a huge disc to push away the charging evil spirits. By doing so, we have distanced ourselves from the evil spirits.

Just as Elus breathed a sigh of relief, half of the evil spirits had broken wings on their backs, and the evil spirits who had regained their momentum rushed up together. Without a word, Chart grabbed Elus's cloak, picked her up, and quickly chased her in our direction. Elus, who was lifted up easily, simply covered half of her face under the cloak, only revealing a pair of eyes expressing resentment at being treated as a portable battery.

The trails in the woods are intricate, Su Huilin and Xia Yinci both ran in two different directions to the trees lying in front of me at first. Perhaps aware of the differences of opinion, Su Huilin let go of my hand and ran along the road on the left, Xia Yinci also pulled me to the other side. Basically, there is no clear destination, and we only move forward in the general direction of the arena of imprisonment-we have also reached a point where we are in a panic.

Su Erin, Chart, and Elus were all scattered to different trails because of the fork in the woods. I felt the howling spirits chasing after me, so I dared not look back. There are all branches under my feet that are easy to trip, and Xia Yinci is pulling me to run very fast, so I have to hand over the front to Xia Yinci and just pay attention to the obstacles under my feet. However, I gradually discovered that Xia Yinci actually followed the scattered branches. Taking a closer look at the branches, there are signs of breakage in the middle, presumably Xia Yinci concluded that following it will lead to the arena of imprisonment.

Even above the woods, groups of evil spirits gradually gathered, making cries between mourning and roaring, sometimes hoarse and sometimes sharp. At this moment, Xia Yinci suddenly tripped over a branch, and I lost my balance and gradually leaned forward, getting closer and closer to the ground. I instinctively called out the words "time is still" again, and fell hard on the ground. On the branch, the skin of the palm was cut by the sharp point. I didn't have time to be dazed, so I stood up hastily enduring the pain, and stabilized Xia Yinci's body that was frozen in a half-fall. I took her hand and released the still negative of the world, and continued to run along the footprints made by the broken branches.

"Hey, thank you..."

The light and ethereal voice was quickly dispersed by the roar of the evil spirit, and I clenched Xia Yinci's little hand tightly. Just like I entrusted the future to Xia Yinci just now, she is sure of the same now. The bright front that was closed by the dense jungle gradually began to become clear, and I moved my feet vigorously in that direction. A clear lakeside reflected the blood in the sky, and it was close at hand.

But as a result, when I was about to pass through the woods, a rusty bear trap appeared at my feet without warning. In order to avoid it, I swayed my footsteps, but was caught by the bushes at the exit. I lost my balance and led Xia Yinci to continue running for a certain distance after leaving the jungle due to inertia, and finally knocked my head hard on the mud. , fell down in embarrassment. I propped myself up on the ground and turned back. The scars on my palm from the sporadic stones made my heart sting, but at least I sat up. I saw that the evil spirits that had been following us just now also poured out from the exit seven or eight meters away from us.

Xia Yinci next to her bit her lower lip lightly, her slowly raised hands seemed to indicate that she would use her dominance again. I quickly grabbed her arm.

"Hey! You've overused just now, it's absolutely impossible to use it again so soon!"

"I know..but there's no other way than doing this, isn't there?"

Just when Xia Yinci was going to go her own way, her eyes that looked forward trembled suddenly, and the gravity that had just changed quickly recovered... This is because we all discovered that the evil spirits were blocked by us. Meters away, they haven't rushed towards us for a long time - to be precise, it should be as if there is a layer of hard glass to stop them from a certain range.

The evil spirits waved their claws angrily and resentfully, but they seemed to hit the "air" again and again, and they couldn't get any closer. I realized that someone's dominance must be at work, so I hurriedly turned around, and saw a tavern with a carnival atmosphere standing out of place in the center of the lake that was blood-red by the color of the sky .

"After passing through the woods, this is the place we are looking for... Kaede Watanabe told us so."

I swallowed, looking at the tavern with its chilling excitement, and the lake of blood that spread around it.

"So... this should be the "Beast Arena"~"

"It's "Prison Arena"! What kind of cold joke are you telling at this time?"

Xia Yinci's lower lip was bitten off with a white spot. I rubbed my shattered forehead, and there were bursts of tingling pain in my palm, and I accidentally wiped the blood oozing from the scar onto my forehead. I raised my head, and countless figures hovered in the sky. It seemed that there was a barrier above, preventing them from attacking from above.

"Speaking of which.. the other people must have passed through the forest to this place, right?"

The red and white road cliffs draw a clear dividing line between the jungle behind the statue and the town. This so-called dividing line presents an overall characteristic of bending inwards. Therefore, the deeper you go into the woods, the more you will see the road ahead. The illusion of a way out. Looking around from the circular lake at the exit, the boundary track between the jungle and the mud is a semicircle with the center of the lake as the center. In this way, no matter which trail you choose after entering the jungle, as long as you exclude the possibility of going back and the general direction is forward, you will definitely reach where we are.

The difficulty is that the townspeople here seem to be far more familiar with the jungle environment than we are—I think it is for this reason that we who ran into the jungle first were followed by the townspeople who turned into evil spirits. Another problem is that there are animal traps lined up at the exit of the jungle that cannot be noticed from a distance. Just now I almost stepped on it before I tripped. If the direction just now was not outside the forest, we would have been torn to pieces by the evil spirits Bar.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly stood up and looked around. The evil spirits were still gathering around the periphery and couldn't get any closer.

Accompanied by the hexagram faintly seen after the sudden burst in the shadow of the tree, several figures approached the way out of the jungle. Running a little farther away from us was Su Huilin and another slightly familiar figure. After thinking for a while, I realized it was the dark knight. As a result, I suddenly understood what was going on with this invisible barrier to keep the evil spirits out. I thought it was a defense set up by the Dream Thief.

But think about it the other way around, why the Dream Thieves didn't send people to guard outside the tavern, and the tavern's doors and windows were also closed, as if they were worried that their breath would be smelled by "something". Could it be that they already knew that this kind of strange phenomenon of the birth of evil spirits would happen, so they didn't leave anyone outside, but chose to hide all the members inside and "carnival"...?

I frowned and looked at the woods again. Elus, who was being held by Chalt, was facing the direction of the chasing evil spirits, raising her staff and releasing magic that hindered their pursuit from time to time. Charter's dreamer, Jack dressed as a magician, is at a certain distance from them, like a silhouette under the refraction of light, moving freely in the woods, juggling irrational evil spirits.

But at this time, the evil spirits who were staring at us were probably also attracted by the sound, and the hand stretched out to us suddenly froze, as if they could no longer feel our breath, and turned faintly to the direction from the forest.

"Hey! Damn it!! Why do you act like you can't see us... Doesn't this put them in a predicament?"

"Maybe there is another controlling ability..." Xia Yinci tilted her head slightly, looking directly at the tavern in the bloody center, "There are other controlling abilities affecting this place."

What she said suddenly made me realize that Dream Thief may have the ability to "hide the existence of the ruler within the specified range" among them, so they hide there calmly. And when we stepped into a certain range, we gradually lost our existence in the eyes of the evil spirits, so they turned their attention to Su Huilin and the others.

The abilities of Chart and Su Erin are useless at this time, and it is absolutely impossible for Elus to deal with the evil spirits in front of her alone.

I tried to consider the feasibility of using time stillness to dismantle the trap of the bear trap, but I have used it too frequently during this period of time. When I stopped Xia Yinci and I from falling just now, I tried my best to restrain the time stillness . Plus this unit isn't particularly convenient to disassemble, and if it flows ahead of time, I'm in trouble too.

In addition... Maybe her ability is not useless, and, I still have a method that has yet to be tested - it was discovered by me inadvertently before.

I took a deep breath, closed my eyes with desperate thoughts, stretched out my palm in the dark nothingness, and a shining light faintly appeared in the center of my field of vision, I seized this moment He clenched his fist tightly, firmly grasping the fleeting perception, and pressed his fist to his chest.

"If this is the "fantasy clock" you mentioned, Qianyan..."

What is held in the palm of the hand is the ethereal touch that will disappear at any time. I reverently felt something in the palm of my hand, and the touch vaguely pointed to the shape of the minute hand. This gave me the confidence that "what I have in my hands is the minute hand of the ruler's clock".

"Then the stereotype I really need to break is the rotation of the hands of the ruler's clock, right?"

I couldn't see Qianyan, and I couldn't hear her voice—but I used my wild sixth sense to conclude that she was near me.

A faint flame appeared in an empty field of vision, and as it became more dazzling, it traced the traces of the clock stroke by stroke. I loosened my five fingers and gripped the pointer more firmly, pushing the pointer originally pointing to "3" clockwise to "8". So I opened my eyes out of breath, and put my injured hand back on the muddy ground stuck with gravel due to lack of strength in my body.

"Erin! Use your "Devil Lord Command" to disperse these evil spirits!"

The pair of pupils shining with purple light in the jungle trembled slightly, reflecting the faint light source around him. It took her a second to look at me to confirm my seriousness, then she turned around and exchanged places with the dark knight, sticking to his back, the crimson flames were like thunder and lightning waiting for an opportunity, dazed in her eyes, ready to move, "Here So far—the evil spirits are gone!"

The lightning that was expected to be stabbed was delayed for a few seconds, and the moment it escaped from the eyes, it spread its light wings like wings, skipping Elus and Chart and swept away the evil spirits in the jungle. The scene where nearly a hundred evil spirits stopped in unison, bowed their heads respectfully and backed away, made Su Huilin seem to have really turned into the devil king of hell.

Elus looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment, jumped off Charter, and ran forward with him.

The evil spirits that were blocking the exit of the jungle were ordered to retreat and stepped forward into the jungle. As a result, the evil spirits who stood in a row this time and ignored the order to dodge were bitten by the traps placed behind the grass. As a result, he pulled out the trap with all his strength, and limped away into the depths of the forest.

Charter and Elus who were running over quickly stopped the car, faced them and carefully retreated behind them, then turned around and continued to run out of the jungle, and they were relieved until they came to us. I was looking in Su Erin's direction, when I heard her gasp suddenly, let out a soft "hiss", lowered her head and fiddled for a while, before being hugged by the dark knight and leaving the jungle, approaching us .

"It's really surprising..."

Charte looked at Su Huilin's direction in a daze, and said brokenly:

"It's not just that the evil spirits listen to her, but the dark knight in Dream Thieves is also under her command. I really don't understand what happened. Should I put on a surprised face and say, 'This is the Demon King instruction?"

I didn't pay attention to what he was thinking, but stood up hard, and hurriedly took a few steps closer to the dark knight. Su Huilin's right leg was bitten by the trap and had a not shallow scar.

"I didn't expect that you, the exorcist girl, would step into the trap in the end. I wanted to praise you for how handsome the "evil spirits retreat" just now, so let's forget it..."

"Well... I thought you would feel sorry for me..."

"Hey, don't you see I'm distracting you?"

Su Huilin shook her head bluntly.

Please don't be blunt about this kind of thing please.

I sighed softly, and looked up at the dark knight who was half a head taller than me. He was staring at the center of the lakeside without saying a word, as if there was something familiar to him that seemed familiar to him.

"It's pitch black... Knight, right... have you been here before?"

"Never come."

So is it just because of the fanatical atmosphere emanating from the Dream Stealer there that you instinctively cast your gaze? Even though the Dark Knight was unsuspectingly deprived of the right to control the war, it is reasonable to say that he is still a member of the Dream Stealer, and it should be possible to retain a little yearning. In fact, I didn't expect him to come in handy at such a time.

And at this moment, someone whispered in a low voice from above, so I raised my head. A bright white curtain wall was horizontal in the air, and the evil spirits that flew out of it were biting together with the same kind. The person who called us——Lin Yu, dressed as a vampire, mixed in with the evil spirits did not disobey him. He waved his hand at me flamboyantly, and quickly fell down. Finally, he happily fell on the invisible barrier and walked along the road. Sliding down the slick barrier, he fell into the leafy undergrowth. Consciously keeping a little balance, he stumbled and ran in front of us stepping on the grass.

"This..." The dark knight was stunned, then turned his head stiffly and asked us, "Is this your companion?"

"Although it's a bit embarrassing," Chalt scratched his hair in embarrassment, and replied instead of us who were silent, "but it's true."

The black knight raised his head slightly, and Lin Yu's left hand was able to break through the air as he slapped the barrier, but probably because his whole body was leaning against the barrier, he suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell in.

At the same time, several unknown rulers descended from the sky near the barrier in a hurry. Although the evil spirits (replicas?) that appeared in that curtain wall held back most of the evil spirits, there were still a certain number of evil spirits chasing after them, which made them so panicked.

"So these are your companions too?"

"That's right, that's right... isn't it the Ruler who you left a letter saying to bring the number eight clock?"

Lin Yu panted heavily, waved his clothes to create a cold wind, and stood up tremblingly. Only then did the rulers who were blocked on the periphery approve the access, rushing in eagerly.

The barrier then closed the gap again, blocking out the undead who were about to break in together.