Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Not long ago, I witnessed the scene of evil spirits migrating to Xinghai Tavern in groups.

According to Xue Xueer and "Tea Cat", Xinghai Tavern is the exit between dreams. As for the evil spirits, they actually retain the desire to survive, and their predecessors are the same as us.

As a result, the evil spirits received Su Erin's command from the demon king, and combined the command with their instincts, using this as a thrust to generate the idea of ​​escaping from here through the Xinghai Tavern.

When I learned about this, I was worried that unrealistic creatures like the evil spirits would go to reality and cause serious chaos there. I wanted to catch up with the evil spirits and stop them, but Xue Xueer used the reason that "returning to reality is equivalent to giving up" Stop it.

With no other choice, I decided to go back to the base to discuss this matter with other people. On the way, I met Su Luoyang, who was alone. He didn't know how to get back to the base, and he wanted me to take him back.

"It's too much, don't you know the way back to your home base?" I curled my lips in a complicated mood, "Wow, the stupid cat is really unreliable!! Forget it, we just happened to go back to the base, you and us let's go."

Coincidentally, on the way, I can discuss with Su Ruoyang about the evil spirits and the Xinghai Tavern.

Just when I took Su Ruoyang and Xue Xueer to the direction of the stronghold, the ear-piercing cry for help hit my heart with extremely strong despair, like dense parasites swarming into my brain.

Breathing quickly for no reason, I clutched the clothes on my chest in pain, trying to relieve the depression in my heart.

"What, what's the matter?"

Su Ruoyang followed me and stopped, frowning slightly to observe my abnormality.

"This is Ren Shengcai from clock number eight... Get out of here, get out of my way...!"

"Yes... Zizizi—— can anyone hear me?! We can't hold on—"

The sound stopped abruptly, and the remaining noisy signal collection sound and sharp tinnitus played a discordant symphony.

"Hey! What's going on? Talk!"

There is no longer any response, only meaningless noise is left. Anxiously, I stretched out my fist and pounded hard on my temple, but I couldn't stop the "radio" in my brain from making noise.

"Tch...Xue Xueer, you bring Su Ruoyang back to the stronghold! By the way, tell him about the Xinghai Tavern."

This situation does not allow me to hesitate any longer. I gave Xue Xueer a concise order, and before I even had time to explain, I stepped out of my back heel and stepped on the ground, using my strength to rush into the air, preparing to rush there as fast as possible——

"Hey! What happened?"

Su Ruoyang took a step forward and asked me hastily.

I turned my body floating in the air, opened my right hand that was full of intense emotions, and explained:

"There's no time to explain! There must be an accident on the 3rd and 8th clocks! After you return to the stronghold, get the rest of the people to rush over to help! We're in the cave above!"

After explaining these things, I urgently accelerated the speed of the flight and rushed to the sky. Compared with rushing back to the stronghold, this place is much closer to where they are at the eighth clock. If I can't handle it, at least I can procrastinate for a while.

When I tried my best to look into the distance, I could finally see the evil spirit, but the upward speed was too fast, and an evil spirit with a sheep's head and a horse body rushed towards me at high speed, like a demon in Western mythology, and I couldn't dodge it at all. .

Thinking about what to do, I instinctively slowed down, and as a result, my upper body was pushed backward by an irresistible airflow, and the bloody mouth flowing out of bright blood opened to me, and the next moment, a dazzling silver light flashed, splitting it open instantly two halves.

The sword light fell swiftly and retracted the scabbard, the "tea cat" looked at me with its head tilted sideways, and then disappeared.

I secretly thank her for her thoughtfulness from the bottom of my heart. The current "tea cat" is not the tea cat itself, but the reappearance of my impression of her, the tea cat in my eyes, and I need to use my mental power to maintain her existence.

Therefore, she can't be with me all the time like she used to. But when I was in danger, she appeared in front of me without saying anything, which was also in line with her character.

"I'm sorry for the places I can't see, 'Tea Cat'."

A pendulum clang sounded in the distance, and the hands moved to 8 o'clock unconsciously.

I increased to full speed again, and rushed to the location of the holes in the crimson sky as fast as possible.

When I approached the source of the cry for help that came into my mind before, I found that the overwhelming black shadows formed the city wall, as if a part of my vision had been hollowed out. I could only hear screams, but couldn't see what was going on inside.

Just as I was about to break through an entrance in the shadows and break into it, I instinctively contracted my pupils, stopped in a hurry, grabbed the evil spirit that was kicked down from above, and blocked my face——

If there were only pure evil spirits, I would definitely rush up. But the figure in front of me made me realize that things are not simple.

Looking from my direction, I could just see a slightly familiar figure waving a fan gracefully, with a sly arc at the corner of his mouth. There's no way I'm mistaken, she's the fluid-manipulating Reyna of Clock One.

Why is the ruler of clock number one here?

At this time, for some reason, the clock of the ruler in the distance was abnormal, and the hands turned to an abnormal time.

I clenched the unsettling air restlessly and stayed where I was at a loss. It is impossible for her to come here alone, there must be other companions, and I will only die if I rush forward blindly.

what to do? Wait for the person Su Luoyang and the others notified to arrive before acting?

This seems like the best approach so far, but it cannot be ruled out that something will happen by the time they arrive.

——It's better to say that if you wait any longer, the people inside will only be reduced to total annihilation.

Since they asked us for help, it means that the situation has reached a very tense point, and they have no room to wait.

I can only rely on me who has come here. Is there anything that only I can do?

There was a flash of inspiration in my eyes, and the clock in the distance changed again. I suddenly got the answer and let go of my clenched fist.

The crimson flame disappeared from my pupils, and the black shadow that had been in the air just now fell to the ground. Reina stared at the direction there in confusion, and found that the person who came out of the previously blocked position was the Mirror Master.

"I remember sending you to destroy Clock Number Six, why are you here?"

The Mirror Master stretched out his hand and touched his head in trouble, the panic in his eyes was fleeting, and he asked arrogantly:

"Hey, why did you send me?! I have already planned for this matter, do you need to send me?"

Lena waved her hand in annoyance, her slightly disgusted eyes staggered from the Mirror Master's direct gaze, and turned around, no longer caring about the Mirror Master's justification. The Mirror Master seemed to be holding back his anger, and he caught up with Reina who had dismissed him in three steps at a time.

"You bastard... Forget it, how is the situation here?"

Seeing that Lena turned away again, the Mirror Master simply stopped persuading her. He put the stick back between his hands to support it, and casually approached the general who was pulling the wheelchair over, looking towards the shadow seemingly unintentionally. glanced at it.

"Anyway, clock No. 3 and clock No. 8 were successfully separated according to the plan. Where are you?"

The general lifted the dead fish eye, glanced at the mirror teacher, and stroked the edge of the wheel of the wheelchair with his fingers.

"Ah, this..."

The mirror master waved his stick and held it with one hand, turning his eyes to avoid the general's sight.

Gradually, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

——How do I know which side the situation over there is!

Don't ask me such boring questions, okay?

During the preparation time for the new rules, we had a conflict with the ruler of clock number one.

At that time, I wanted to use a person with thousands of faces to steal the image of the mirror, but was interrupted by the combination of the mirror and the general, so the content read was like a rare bird, and I could barely restore the mirror's appearance.

As for the Mirror Master's way of speaking, I can restore it to 30% at most. I don't know why the content I read from Mirror Master's thoughts at that time was related to Reina, but thanks to this, I was able to cope with what Reina said naturally.

Because I know that no matter what is said, as long as the mirror master talks, Reina will basically ignore the past with arrogance.

But I can't deal with the general... Besides, I'm not good at dealing with this gloomy type.

Remember what Reina said..."Send you to destroy Clock No. 6"?

"Huh? Those guys from clock number six, except for that guy with glasses, number one, are nothing worth mentioning."

I tried my best to put on a look that deserved a beating, and spread out my hands to make an arrogant declaration.

As for how much he owes a beating... In short, in my eyes, if the optician deserves a beating, I will make an expression of how much he deserves a beating.

"Oh. Well, as expected of you." The general seemed not to want to take my word for it, so he responded perfunctorily.

In any case, it was finally hidden. But the only information I got was that clocks No. 3 and No. 8 were separated.

They at clock number one obviously meant to watch from the sidelines, and they were not going to intervene, nor were they going to let the ruler of clock number eight out. In short, it's a way to kill people with the evil spirit's knife, which fits their style very well.

Is there any way to distract them?

"So the task on your side has been completed. Why are you alone, the messenger and the lantern man, have you gone back?"

The general's sudden question made me can't help but turn my eyes back to him. So the mirror is acting with these two people? Now I'm the only one coming here, no matter how I say it, it will arouse his suspicion.

Now I can't care so much... I pretended not to take it to heart, met his gaze and replied:

"Ah...? They? The two of them went back first, let me come over and check the situation."

My answer caused the general's eyes to flow with a strange color, but his eyes quickly returned to their original state, and the two hanging eyes stared at me blankly, and their eyes passed me directly.

"There are two things that I think need to be corrected with you."

The tight breathing just relaxed, and the hands on the shoulders plunged me into the deep waters of depression again.

"First. The messenger is with me. He didn't act with the mirror."

The tone of the dark green pupil did not fluctuate, but it was like a rope wrapped around my neck gradually getting heavier.

"Second. Even if Lantern is injured, he will never go back first. He is the one who likes to worry the most."

The weight on the shoulders is light enough to not be measured, but its real weight is far beyond reality.

Behind me at this time is a mechanical army of thousands of people. They stretched out their right hands forward neatly, making exactly the same movements as the dark green pupils, and even the slightly squinted eyes of the dark green pupils would follow suit.

"It's disgusting. Please don't show us this face again. How about showing your true face?"

--Failed. I didn't expect this gloomy man to deliberately plot against me, let alone the dark green pupils hiding in the dark.

Maybe it wasn't unforeseen, it's just that I was so preoccupied with my own business that I didn't think about other problems at all.

I swallowed, and had no choice but to pretend to raise my hands in a gesture of surrender, but I was counting silently in my heart. The camouflage wrapped around my body immediately disappeared from bottom to top, revealing Lin Yu hidden behind the skin of "Mirror Master".

So only in the next moment, the silver light passing by his shoulders flew towards the rear, and there was a crisp sound of collision between metals-suddenly summoned the mechanical units in front of the dark green pupil to block the slash with his arm.

"Hmm~ I don't know if the timing of my appearance can make your heart flutter for a moment, Master?"

The "tea cat" who appeared in front of me as promised hugged my back, put his wrists on my shoulders, and exerted a little force diagonally downward, and the mechanical arm was suddenly chopped off with a slightly harsh sound of wear and tear. Immediately afterwards, she swung down, cut off the blade of the mechanical arm and continued to attack, splitting him in half with a slanted straight line.

"How can it be so easy to be moved! Really!"

My pupils dodged left and right, my palms pressed against the side of my neck for no reason, and I turned my head to the side.

The right hand of the dark green pupil was used as a pointer, and he sharply stretched forward to command the army behind him, and the black and oppressive oppression came straight towards me. "Tea Cat" walked around behind me, immediately grabbed my arm and took me back.

"Since it has been exposed! You know what to do, right?"

I asked the tea cat hurriedly. In this case, it is most appropriate to simply rush into the siege of the shadows and create chaos.

"Eh... I should, I know."

The dazzling mechanical soldier staggered his dark green pupils and guarded him invisibly. The hand sword that fired lasers was approaching my field of vision with the sound of mechanical joints operating and rotating.

The "tea cat" that set up the sword tried to block the flashing laser light, but it passed through the sword out of thin air and attacked us.

"Oops……!"

Realizing the miss, I and the "tea cat" pulled back at the same time, but the turbines under the feet of the mechanical arms were spinning rapidly, and they easily caught up with us. The machine closest to us pulled its arm back, directly oppressing my field of vision.

At this moment, a bright white curtain wall suddenly separated us from the mechanical arms. The laser beam that broke out from the curtain wall steadily blocked the opponent's stabbing attack, and the extended mechanical palm immediately pushed the opponent's head away.

"Hey, Lin Yu... Only one person dares to deal with so many people?"

"Are you allowed to take Elus to single-handedly fight more than ten dream stealers?"

Charter taunted me with condescending tones, and I fired back, not to be outdone.

Before I knew it, I always felt that I could see the shadow of William in Chartres.

That long-winded man I hated very much in the past, but now I miss it for some reason.

For no reason, I raised the corners of my mouth, sparkled the flames in my eyes, and put on the mask of the "Dark Knight" in an instant.

"Charter, get ready to use your absolute observation!"

"I don't need you to tell me."

Chart is like the incarnation of the barbette, higher than my voice. The ancient clock in the right eye emits a crimson flame, passing by and penetrating into the black shadow where there is almost no gap. The focus of observation is from This breaks into the inner circle.

"Don't think about it!"

Lena put away the fan in her hand, and the low-altitude water vapor condensed into the air with her swinging hand, forming a curve more than ten meters long, aiming at Chart to launch an offensive.

At the same time, turquoise vines tore through the empty sky and appeared behind Reina out of thin air. The suspended vines speeded up and wrapped around her arms like a python, interrupting her coherent movements.

The flow of water that turned into a sharp blade stopped, and I took the opportunity to spread my arms and use the black knight's control ability to break the condensed water column with the barrier, and the milky white water vapor immediately spread around.

"Tsk...you have the same ability as the general, is that so?"

Reina tried to break free from the restraint of her arms, but the force of the vines directly caused deep purple bruises on her arms.

"No, move around."

The black cat narrowed its eyes lazily, and its disheveled hair fell on Lena's bare shoulders. The warm breath exhaled from behind touched Leina's sensitive nerves, making her body unable to exert strength, and her eyes were slightly blurred for a moment. confusion.

"You...don't..touch my body...!"

Reina's words seemed to be orders, but her tone was surprisingly weak. The black cat's pink tongue protruded from between the lightly pursed lips, moistened the cherry lips playfully, and let out an itchy breath.

"Huh? Don't you like it...but I think you seem to be enjoying it?"

The style of these two people seems to be different from ours, right?

Hey, it's strange, why is the line of sight always drawn over there involuntarily?

"I found a loophole... Hey, don't stand there in a daze! Let's go!"

Charte yelled at me through the filter formed by the mist, and I quickly pulled my eyes straight.

Cough cough.. Leave them alone! I put away the strange thoughts provoked by the black cat, and lamented the season of lilies blooming.

By the way, why is your face so hot, Charles? Wow, you sullen man are so prudish?

"Lin Yu, this position is the easiest to break through due to multiple internal attacks." Charte frowned halfway, raised his thumb with his backhand, and showed me the approximate position, "Hey, hurry up and use your little trick It breaks."

"Hey, you're going too far. I didn't even say that your power of observation is a trick."

I used the dark knight's arm that was two or three circles thicker than mine, transformed through "one person with thousands of faces", and stretched it into the black shadow that melted like ink falling into the water.

The moment the five fingers wearing black leather gloves clenched into a fist, the glass-like transparent barrier started from the fist, ran over the black shadows and spread rapidly, and the black shadows on both sides squeezed by the barrier opened up enough to allow one person to pass through. Entrance.

At the other end of the entrance, the fiery red monster roared at us with an inconceivably terrifying aura.

I stepped forward, and Chart behind me followed me and prepared to rush into the shadows.

But while this was happening, someone tore up our passes—

"O evil spirits that tear apart the silent night, I order you to destroy the ruler of clock No. 2 at the cost of your life!"

A gloomy male voice attacked the black shadow like an uninvited guest. The moderate volume just penetrated the entire circle of evil spirits, and the orders of the dazzling flames flew out mixed with the strange excitement of the other party.

—Someone used the dominance ability. However, in my impression, there is only one person who uses this command to activate the dominance ability, and that is Su Erin of "Devil King Command".

The moment I recognized the voice of the general, I suddenly remembered what I had witnessed at the alley next to the stronghold.

"Hey! You bastard... stole the ability of our ruler?"

"How can you say it was stolen? I just borrowed it."

As soon as the provocative words fell, the eerie and terrifying atmosphere suddenly felt like earthworms running up his back, causing a nauseating feeling in his stomach. Hundreds of pairs of empty gazes with murderous intent pierced my body.

To be precise, the target is not only me, but also all the number two clock rulers here.

The blood claws twisted to an incomplete shape screamed and stretched out towards me, the bloody face of the evil spirit was directly facing the near view from the top, and the sharp and piercing cry seemed to want to tear my will into pieces.

At this time, the collar of the clothes suddenly hooked my neck, and I felt a pull back. I instinctively stretched out my arms forward, and my body was roughly pulled back a few meters by the "tea cat" behind me, trying to avoid the surprise attack of the evil spirit in front.

Before it was too late to thank "Tea Cat" for her meticulous defense, provocations sounded from the other direction——

"Hey—do you think that this kind of fake copy can still hold me back?"

The dark green pupil used the movement of his left hand as an instruction, and the sound of the mechanical arms waving their limbs with shining blue eyes was intertwined, fighting with Xue Xueer's replica with a layer of white borders.

However, Xue Xueer only restrained some of the mechanical soldiers facing her direction, and three quarters of the soldiers were beyond the deadlock.

The dark green pupil raised half of the corner of his mouth, raised his right arm meaningfully, and waved lightly, one-third of the idle troops obeyed the order to circle behind Xue Xueer, waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

"It's different~ Is it different from the "puppet army" that fell apart when I touched it lightly?"

While rubbing Reina's body, the black cat casually evaluated the dark green pupils. He didn't care about the evil spirits that regarded the number two clock as an enemy, as if they didn't think about how to do it until they stared at him.

"However, the difference between you and the past is that you have changed from a puppet army with only one template to a puppet with multiple templates? Now~ Let me ask you, why do you think that you are the only one who has grown up?"

The moment the voice just fell, the mechanical soldier swung the laser sword and slashed at Xue Xueer's back. At the same time, Xue Xueer freed his left hand, turned his body to the left, and aimed his palm at the enemy's sneak attack, and unfolded a curtain wall that fits perfectly. .

"Tch..." Dark green pupil clenched her fingers, tipped up and grasped the lower end of the staff, took a step forward and kicked her left foot, cursing in her mouth: "Then add another side to you Can you still handle it!"

Half of the remaining troops were arranged in a 45-degree inclined triangle in the air, pressing towards Xue Xueer's front and approaching his field of vision. The indigo laser reflected into her eyes, and then disappeared into her eyes Under the flames, the curtain wall formed by flying out of the flames guarded her front, blocking the heavy blow on the edge.

"not bad."

The dark green pupil didn't intend to leave her breathing space, turned around and swung his right leg, and the last remaining mechanical units rushed to Xue Xueer's rear immediately. At the same time, the frenzy of evil spirits coming from a distance also approached Xue Xueer.

Born from the dominance of the flames, the two curtain walls reflected again are vertically connected to the four curtain walls, forming a cube that exudes white light and envelops Xue Xueer in it.

"Hey! Xue Xueer!" I kicked away the rushing shadow with great effort, and asked Xue Xueer nervously. For some reason, the mechanical arms and the black evil spirits reached a strange balance and attacked Xue Xueer together, forming a wonderful interweaving of light and darkness.

"I'm fine...don't worry about me."

The soft voice seemed to be full of strong power, which made me feel uneasy but had to be relieved.

"Did I tell you~ You're not the only one who has improved here."

The black cat tilted its head and attached itself to Reina's ear, biting her ear like a lover's whisper. She slightly raised her eyes and gazed at the dark green pupil playfully.

When the dark green pupil clenched his right fist resentfully and unwillingly, another pair of empty fish eyes also stared at the black cat. Will

Jun Huan's right eye was printed with a monotonous light, his pupils mechanically turned to the black cat, focusing on the cyan vines behind her, and then he released the flame of his left eye.

The moment the blue flame passed towards the black cat, it actually bounced back a moment later, retracting into the pupil of the general's left eye. The black cat's eyes gently turned to the side corners, and its gaze fell on the general.

"You...what's going on."

The general didn't expect to encounter such a situation, unable to maintain his original composure, he instinctively asked the doubts in his heart.

"Ah, I'm sorry~" the black cat playfully disturbed the vines behind it, and said quietly, "It seems that the dominance you can borrow is limited?"

"How is this possible...! I can't accept only the control ability of the cultivation system! What did you do?"

"Don't be too quick to deny it. This is my ability to control~ But, I obtained it by cheating~"

The self-esteem that the general managed to regain with this control ability seemed to be crushed to the bottom again. He clenched his hands tightly and pushed the wheelchair towards the black cat, but was blocked by several rushing vines.

Everyone else is stuck in a deadlock, and hundreds of evil spirits are rushing towards me and Chart. We will be cornered by evil spirits, and we must use ourselves as bait, unable to take another half step back.

The black cat resisted the general while controlling Leina, and Xue Xueer defended against the attack of the evil spirit while facing the army of thousands with dark green eyes. If we withdraw from here, they will be in danger, and the current situation is likely to change.

However, procrastination like this is not an option—although Xue Xueer didn't say it explicitly, it must be on the verge of overloading, and the black cat is just a tactic to delay time. We have to find a way to break the situation.

"Chart! Can you get on the road?" I shouted to Chart through the wailing of the shadow.

Chalt raised the muzzle of his gun, and the bullets he fired splashed away the black shadows. He pressed his temples with one eye closed, and tried hard to find the channel of the stronghold, but failed to connect to the voice over there for more than ten seconds.

"No...! There is no response from her! The postman next to that green-eyed bastard is sending out jamming signals... If we don't kill him first, we probably won't be able to contact the outside world!"

When I heard this, I glanced at the side of the dark green pupil. The messenger pinched the brim of the hat between his thumb and index finger joints, and lowered it down as if to prevent people from seeing his eyes. He didn't move or speak at all.

The black shadows are full of fiery flames. The fiery red monster is so huge that looking at him from the bottom of its feet to the top of its head, the line of sight needs to be moved from the horizontal line at a 45° downward angle to the height where the neck is sore to cover all of him.

Clock No. 8 was in crisis because of the appearance of this flame monster—"The Devourer". They couldn't resist the Devourer head-on, but they couldn't even find a way out.

——It should be so.

Jiangcheng and the others had definitely conceived of retreating here, and it was Clock No. 1 who intervened and blocked their retreat.

The messenger can block their external calls for help, and either of Molutong and Reina can use puppets or water curtains to block the path. Generals who steal the order of the Demon Lord can prevent the evil spirits from attacking them.

They could easily seal off the retreat of Clock Eight, leaving them trapped in the scourge of the Entity and the Devourer, leaving them to fend for themselves.

...

"Everyone, please hold on! We must not give up resistance! What's more, our backup has arrived!"

Even though Jiang Cheng was hoarse, his clothes were scorched black by the flames, and blood gushed from his wounds, he never forgot to cheer for those around him. Ren Shengcai also echoed loudly:

"Yeah! Hold on to me, isn't Brother Buyu here? We'll definitely be fine!"

However, even though Jiang Cheng tried his best to boost the morale of others, the air filled with silence still suppressed the rustling despair.

"You can't hold on." The Devourer's viscous and disgusting voice seemed to echo over the desperate sky of the crowd, as if swallowing a mouthful of thick phlegm, impacting their will with negative words and swift attacks.

After all, Lin Yu, who was just a step away from entering to rescue them, and another ruler wearing a deerstalker hat were attacked by evil spirits and forced to retreat.

All of them have been attacked by the Devourer or the Evil Spirit in varying degrees of injury. It is countless times that they have escaped a fatal blow, and their bodies have already exceeded the limit they can bear. But Lin Yu and the others had no tendency to come in again.

"I... can't take it anymore!" A young man put down the sword in his hand, and the color of his eyes faded.

"Don't give up!" Jiang Cheng tried his best to suppress the trembling voice. In fact, he was also close to the verge of collapse, and blood was pouring out of his chest. He stabilized his tone and said, "Hold on for a while...Hold on for a while Just do it!"

The Devourer opened his bloody mouth and ran towards the sluggish young man. Jiang Cheng clenched his hands, holding back the pain, and hugged the young man's body to avoid the Devourer's attack.

"We can't hold on...!"

"There is still a chance now! The backup is outside and they can come in soon!"

The almost pleading voice faded away amidst the Devourer's roar. Jiang Cheng frowned, hoping that his persuasion would have an effect, but the young man smiled in despair.

"Hey, we can't even beat the Devourer. We can't get through this on our own. Even if we rely on others to escape this disaster, what will happen to the day when we fight against the clock number two in the future? At that time, can we possibly survive? ?”

"That's for later!"

"Forget it, nah... Dominating the war is what we are all about. We all came into this world because we have nothing to do. But we are destined to be unable to win, aren't we?"

"To be able to make it to the final stage, to be reduced to this ending... I think it is enough, should I be content?"