Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Although they are all ideological products of the dream world, compared to the previous "devourers" or "super-large evil spirits", the "fallen souls" in front of us are obviously detached from their existence.

"Fallen souls joined at the beginning of this domination war, and were born at that time."

Now, just because the process of devouring the dominant power was interrupted by the number six clock, such inexplicable anger was triggered, which is enough to prove that "Fallen Soul" is a more veritable giant baby than "Super Large Evil Spirit".

"At this point... I will not leave any retreat for you."

The fallen soul who muttered to himself straightened his back that had been bent just now, no longer concealed himself with a steady tone, and laughed arrogantly:

"Whether it's escaping from here or seeking backup, I won't give you any chance."

As soon as the words fell, the eyes full of numbers flashed a fierce flame.

As a result, light blue paper curtains were reflected on the ground in all directions, and they were folded on all sides just like the process of making cardboard boxes, including all of us in it, forming a huge cube.

Standing on the edge of the cube, Zhiping held his right hand and stretched his fist towards the blue screen, wanting to use his dominance ability to crack the screen wall, but a strong static electricity rushed to his arm with light, as if it would squeeze him tightly. Stick tight.

Zhiping couldn't help but retract his hand, the feeling of suspected anesthesia was still jumping on the skin.

"This is... from that time..." Arkat's expression suddenly changed, as if recalling something important.

"Hey! Big guy, what do you mean by the backup you just said!"

Lin Yu asked the fallen soul loudly, and the fallen soul turned his eyes extremely slowly when he heard the voice. In fact, Lin Yu was quietly pinching the knuckles of his index finger with his thumb, so as to suppress the uneasiness that would be revealed in his voice at any time.

"I understand how you feel. The weak like to bluff, don't they?"

Fallen Soul's tone seemed to be deliberately fooling Lin Yu, and all the numbers in its eyes jumped to 1 at this moment.

"You know what backup means. Unfortunately, I ran into them on the way here."

A few minutes ago, the main road leading to the edge of the city.

Depart from the temporary base and rush all the way to the destination half a city away. Su Ruoyang led the way based on the memory of having been there twice, and Xia Yinci, Su Huilin and Charte followed him and approached the Xinghai Tavern.

"Leave the matter of finding Xiao Lulu to the black cat! Even if Watanabe Feng is indeed present, the sisters should be able to deal with him with ease. As for the others, they will meet me at the Xinghai Tavern! After all, I cannot rule out the possibility that the fallen soul is present."

—— Not long ago, Su Ruoyang, who was still at the base, received a contact from Lin Yu.

"What about you?" Su Luoyang asked anxiously, fearing that the signal would be interrupted at any time.

"I'll go there now... It will definitely take a lot of time for you to come over there! But the three of them may not be able to wait for you to come over! So I will try my best to delay the time as much as possible, and you should hurry up too!"

Afterwards, the signal was interrupted abruptly, and Su Ruoyang felt that the presence of the messenger that Lin Yu said must have blocked the communication.

"The black cat is alone.. is there any problem?"

When he was about to reach the next corner, Su Erin asked with a little worry. Hair hangs to the corner of her mouth.

"It's okay...she said she has a way to find Xiao Lulu."

Su Ruoyang stretched out her hand to help Su Huilin brush away that strand of hair, and answered Su Huilin's question with a slightly heavier breath.

When he turned his gaze back to the front again, Su Luoyang noticed that the light in his field of vision suddenly dimmed, as if there was a shadow shrouded directly above. He frowned uncomfortably, raised his eyes and looked up into the sky, only to see a horrified smiling face.

The black shadows covering the top of the field of vision are like feathers falling from a crow, and it is easy to associate it with disaster or misfortune. The monster made up of jumping numbers reminded Su Luoyang of another person.

When Su Ruo closed his eyes, his arms were involuntarily hooked, and his body was pulled backwards. In the next second, the opponent slammed his entire body down, spewing gravel and smoke around.

"Yo... look what I found? It turned out to be a backup team."

The contemptuous tone was full of disdain and contempt, Su Luoyang carefully looked at the monster in front of him, and realized that the legendary "fallen soul" was similar to the mother of the Core Research Association, but not the same person.

This level of resemblance would not be accidental. The appearance of the fallen soul unknowingly confirmed the speculation hidden in Su Luoyang's heart - the mother's madness in the other side of the dream must have been the result of the secret intervention of the dream madman.

Even if there is no evidence and no evidence, Su Ruoyang has concluded the guess in his heart only based on the one-sided statement of No. 6 clock.

The fallen soul shrouded in smoke and dust was only revealed by the eyes with purple light. Su Ruoyang held down the pointed hat that was almost blown away by the wind, and watched him vigilantly.

Contrary to Su Ruoyang, Su Huilin who pulled him to a safe place rushed into the smoke and dust without thinking. She took the initiative to narrow the distance between her and the Fallen Soul, and decided to strike first. The silver light hidden in the cuff instantly flashed danger.

"Ah... aren't you afraid of me? What an unexpected reaction."

Swinging the blade at an incredible speed, the raised right leg made a gesture of stepping on the fallen soul's chest. The unforeseen Fallen Soul couldn't help taking a step back from the coherent movements and oppressive aura, pushing the distance away from him.

"Oh, oh, do you mean...you are also a child of the gods?"

"I don't know gods or anything. I'm just an ordinary person who has had a relationship with the Creator."

Su Huilin's cold eyes and casual tone sounded better than the sharp knife in her hand to the fallen soul.

"Hey, you didn't consciously say such words that people can't help but envy..." There was a crack in the steady tone, and it cried out with a trembling voice, "Your arrogance without even knowing it is also an unforgivable original sin." .”

As soon as the voice fell, as if predicting that Su Erin would attack, Fallen Soul stepped on the air to perform a double jump, and quickly rushed into the sky, and at the same time, bright flames jumped out of the eyes with accelerated digital jumps.

The blue screen, which appears horizontally, is folded on all four sides. When Su Huilin held the confidence that she could definitely catch up with the fallen soul, and drew closer to it, the blue curtain closed from above turned into the ceiling of this insurmountable domain, blocking her sharp blade.

It was as if the effect sound of the electric field being hindered sounded when the blade collided with the blue screen, and the Fallen Soul jokingly looked down at Su Huilin who was separated by the wall, and then its voice was always trembling with breaking sounds.

"I like the dominance ability of each of you very much, I like it very much... Wait... I will come to play with you when I get back the lost property and the Thousand Legion. Honestly, stay here and wait Follow me..」

Seeing the fallen soul turn around and leave, Xia Yinci immediately pulled down with both hands, trying to use gravity to drag him to the ground, but found that her control ability could not affect the fallen soul, the gravity of the mutation was only in the "field" function within.

Chart looked around, ran to the edge of the field, raised the muzzle of his gun, aimed at the blue screen and pulled the trigger. The bullets ejected from the muzzle stay in the center of the curtain wall and cause concentric ripples, as if blocked by a strange force field.

"Damn...are you trapped here!"

After a few minutes. Another closed field in the Star Sea.

"This guy! Trapped us here... Are you going to make a break with us here?"

According to the current situation, there are obviously more people on the side of the temporary alliance than clock number one, but Lin Yu doesn't feel that his side has the upper hand at all, and it's already barely enough to deal with the fallen souls.

"To make such a decision after only being interrupted once, is really worthy of the name of a 'giant baby'..."

From time to time, the accumulated water on the ground condensed into a mirror-clear water curtain, and the magic turret facing it was pulled off to lock the insurance to prop up a golden hexagram, and the wave energy that oppressed the nearby light pierced the sky and scattered the water curtain.

The constantly flashing "Number Eye" released its dominance ability to counteract the violent wave energy, and then small objects such as paper clips, thumbtacks, screws took the opportunity to throw into the air, and flew to the huge body of the Fallen Soul.

Just as he was about to dodge, the mechanical units with the same pace and the maids mixed in the team stopped the Fallen Soul's footsteps, even if he was trampled into mud by the Fallen Soul. As a result, the dazzling glare took away their vision.

The young man with long hair and full chin, Kong Lan, controlled the flying trajectory of small objects, but lost his vision, so he had to rely on the scenes he remembered to act. In the end, the red-haired boy Tong Xing snapped his fingers to make the object gigantic.

The shock and loud noise caused by the bombardment attacked everyone's eardrums. The two who could only judge the situation by their hearing did not hear the sound of the sharp object piercing through their bodies, and thus resentfully judged that the attack did not hit the enemy.

"Zhihei took three steps back, raise your head now!! Attack the direction in front of you that is inclined at forty-five degrees!"

Following Alket's instructions, Shihei drew his arms backwards, collided his fists to create a violent momentum, and then rushed forward with both fists.

The wind blowing past is a reminder of the danger ahead. The hard cudgel hit Zhiping's fists, and the suddenly swirling air shattered the cudgel that bounced off the mirror surface, turning into fine dust and scattering to both sides.

At the same time, everyone's vision gradually returned to normal, and the flickering scene became clear. Due to the dominance ability of the lantern used too many times before, the offensive of depriving vision has weakened now.

"Everyone! We found the source of the [Signal Interruption], it's by the sidewalk!"

The rulers who regained their vision quickly scanned their surroundings to confirm the nearby threats. Zhiping immediately stretched out his fists and smashed down into the ground, the flames in his eyes flashed out immediately, the ground cracked like an earthquake, shaking the ground for a while.

Several cracks appeared on the cracked ground, and the accumulated water on the ground seeped into the gaps. Zhiping's eyes fell on the dry sidewalk next to Xinghai, and he saw the figure in green clothing crawling underneath with his fingers grasping the edge.

Was it hidden there from the beginning? Arquette suddenly understood that they knew that they could see the ability to dominate, so they hid the messenger behind Reina's ability to manipulate water.

Reina has been making signs that the water surface of the sidewalk is using the control ability, thus hiding the messenger who is using the control ability behind it. Arquette, who hadn't carefully looked into it, would not have discovered the two overlapping abilities.

Seeing this, Zhiping immediately changed direction, stepped on the ground with his right foot and circled towards Reina's position, but at the same time, he felt uneasy - because the Fallen Soul had left a gap of about 20 seconds and did not attack.

"Everyone is on alert! Fallen souls are preparing to "devour"...the target is...Gin and Sakurako!!"

Sure enough——Arket's warning caused the Fallen Soul to show an annoyed smile. It stomped on the ground and rushed between the mechanical units, reaching out to grab Arkay—

"Whispering is really annoying!"

"Compared to the Devourer... your weakness is the same as that of a super-large evil spirit, it is speed! As long as you prepare in advance, you can barely dodge it..."

Arquette muttered softly, trying to dodge to the side with the help of the blade of the sword on the ground. Pukong slapped the broken rock away with his palm, and the hoarse voice from his throat seemed to announce his anger.

But soon, Arkat's joy turned into astonishment, because the Fallen Soul was only a feint to attack him, and its real purpose was not Arkaite. The rock that was shot into the air smashed in Sakurako's direction.

Realizing that something was wrong, Arquette widened her eyes in dismay, and stepped back on her toes. Knowing that he couldn't keep up with the falling speed of the rock, he still walked through the mechanical arms and ran towards Yingzi.

At this critical moment, the figure rushing towards the rock flung Sakura away with both hands, his unsteady footsteps turned his toes and turned backwards, the crack caused by the rock hitting the ground continued to his feet.

"Hey, do you want our control power?"

With a hoarse voice, Gin shouted loudly to attract the Fallen Soul's attention. The fallen soul did not want to hide its strong desire at all, it took heavy steps, and quickly approached Yin who was looking directly at him.

"Wait, Silver! What are you trying to do?"

Rather than being swallowed by the fallen soul and allowing it to use my dominance, it would be better to kill myself and die with it.

Silver watched the fallen soul without looking sideways. The scattered gravel under the feet is enough to cover up the traces of the magic circle. Silver was about to seize the moment it rushed towards him, and pressed the switch to detonate. No matter whether it succeeds or not, it can make the Fallen Soul unable to succeed.

Come on... Silver's thumb hidden under the cloak gradually approached the controller tightly held in his hand, but just a second before the fallen soul was about to press down on the whole body, someone pushed Silver away with all his strength. , grabbed his hand.

"You inflexible old-fashioned magician, we won't trade our lives!"

Lin Yu grabbed Yin and fell heavily to the ground with him, and the choking smoke rushed to his face in an instant. Yin's gaze suddenly became astonished, and he raised his upper body in a daze, only to see Zhiping flashing through the water curtain and grabbing the messenger's collar.

"You even peeped into my heart, didn't you?"

Facing Yin Chensheng's questioning, Lin Yunan admitted it bluntly, and stood up while propping himself up on the ground. When the gravel pierced the wound on his palm, he couldn't help clenching his teeth, enduring the pain and holding the blood-stained palm.

"You really aren't an orthodox magician. In reality, you're just an ordinary college student, right? You're deeply influenced by Harry Potter, and in the eyes of others, you're a paranoid-level secondary disorder. You suffered long-term campus violence in high school. "

After chanting like a mantra, Gin felt the discomfort of being prying into his heart for the first time.

"Sinners who committed voyeurism... Do you have the idea that there are too many crimes to overwhelm you?"

"Hey, I swear, I only learned these things from your heart, and I didn't dig deeper."

"That's enough... knows me better than my mother."

Hearing Yin's complaint that was quite "lifelike" for the first time, Lin Yuqing couldn't help smiling and raised the corners of his mouth.

At the same time, the scattered lenses came to the two people's places, and the sticks they had seen many times hit them directly. The tea cat who appeared talking to himself swung his huge sword, drawing a circular trajectory and chopping off the approaching sticks one after another.

Taking advantage of the gap won by the tea cat, Lin Yu took Yin and retreated to Arkaite and Yingzi. Sakura frowned, pushed Gin's shoulder hard, then stretched out an index finger to stare at him and warned:

"Don't do that stupid thing again! I won't be so arrogant as to expect everyone else to survive. But at least, we can't die because of a suicide attack. We don't trade our lives."

An elusive light flashed in the depths of Yin's eyes, he was stunned for more than a second, and nodded his head seriously.

"Okay, the same thing will never happen again."

Lin Yu let out a long breath, and covered the palm of his right hand with his left hand to suppress the pain. He sent a question to Arkat through the communication channel created by one person with thousands of faces:

【I said, Arquette, didn't you guys fight Clock No. 1 before? Or did they kill their rulers at the very beginning of the war of dominance, is there any experience that can be used for reference? 】

These words reminded Arkat of the dominance ability that the Fallen Soul used just now, "Field". He looked around the blue cube that restrained them again, as if confirming a certain conjecture of his own.

The water curtain hit them. Arquette shook her head lightly, grasped the hilt of her sword tightly and took a posture.

【The two rulers of Clock No. 1... Sure enough, we didn't kill them. 】

Alket split the water curtain from the middle with a rapier, but the Mirror Master raised one corner of his mouth, and the water curtain suddenly scattered irregular fragments like a broken mirror, and the yellow charm immediately pulled out from these "lenses".

[It is indeed my plan to hunt down the ruler of Clock No. 1, and we did meet three rulers of Clock No. 1 at the time, but we will definitely not be the ones who kill them. 】

At the same time, the magic cannon fired from the side directly penetrated the entire field, instantly burning the flying spell.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief to block the mirror master's attack, the fallen soul stretched out its palm enough to hold Lin Yu's whole body, and slapped it as if facing an ant, and raised a pungent smell with a "bang". soot.

【At first we thought we met a man and a woman, but later we found out that the two were actually escorting a strange humanoid to a certain place. The dominant power of that female ruler is a "field" that seals off a certain space. As for the man's dominance ability, he released poisonous mist that obstructed his vision. 】

Lin Yu was taken aback when he heard the words coming from his mind. He couldn't help but glanced at the blue-curtain cubes around him, and at the same time recalled the choking smoke that would spread out every time the Fallen Soul rushed over.

[Those two people's fighting ability is actually not very strong, and we have the advantage in numbers, basically we have a certain chance of winning. So we relaxed our vigilance a little bit. Unexpectedly, a dream thief came in to disrupt the situation, and the poisonous fog released greatly affected our vision. Later, it turned into a three-way melee between us, clock number one and the dream thief. When the smoke finally cleared, all I could see was the humanoid crawling up the wall of the cul-de-sac. Because the resulting realm locked us in, we didn't catch up to it. 】

The mechanical units in the formation trapped the fallen soul's hand in the middle and tried hard to contain it. Sakura then gave instructions, and the maid walking between the mechanical units stabbed the fallen soul's hand with a spear.

【At that time, I thought that the other two had escaped before it. I didn’t expect that there would be rumors that we killed them. But after meeting the master of Clock No. 1, I realized that the death of those two was a fact. In the past, I also wondered if we killed the two rulers by mistake when we did some trigger game mechanics with the Dream Thief. But now, I finally understand the ins and outs of the whole thing——]

The palm of Shi's waved away smashed a row of mechanical units into the wall, and the shattered mechanical parts scattered all over the ground. Lin Yu, who maintained the thousand-man army and the communication channel, covered the right hand that controlled the troops with a little pain, and squeezed his hand into a fist.

"Annoying puppet! Do you know how much this hurts!!"

As if wanting to publicize his pain, the fallen soul who revealed the essence of the giant baby twisted his face and shouted. Lin Yu covered the completely red bandage on his palm with his fingers, secretly complaining whose hand hurt more.

【That humanoid monster is Fallen Soul. The task of the man and woman was to escort the fallen soul to a certain place, and they happened to meet us. In order to escape, the fallen soul devoured the abilities of those two when the smoke filled us and blocked our vision. The poisonous mist dissipated in the end was actually the result of the man's death. As for the domain that blocked us, it was released by the fallen soul. 】

Arkaite's confession made Lin Yu feel a little complicated. Lin Yu's original intention was simply to ask Arkaite, a senior, if he had a way to deal with the No. 1 clock, but the truth he got now may be regarded as wrong.

"Anyway...thank you, I came up with a plan that is not very feasible but may reverse the situation."

It is not yet known what happened to Su Ruoyang and his party after they met Fallen Soul, but Lin Yu felt that their backup was basically hopeless, so it was better to rely on them to think of other ways.

[Alkate, now I will add Mirror Master, Lantern, and Reina to our public channel. At least the mirrorer's character, he certainly doesn't know about it yet. Please repeat these things to them. 】

Lin Yu was able to make such a judgment, thanks to his "foresight" in the Weeping Ying Noodle Restaurant, he had a peek into Master Jing's thoughts, so he had a deeper understanding of Master Mirror than others.

In order to save Molutong from the hands of the black cat, the mirror master "killed" Molutong with his own hands, protecting him with four hours of death. The mirror master who protects his companions by all means cannot allow the fallen soul to kill his companions.

At best, the worst plan is that they can't convince Reina and Lantern, but at least the Mirror Master can pass this level.

As for why the messenger was excluded, it was because he had the ability to transmit and connect information. Lin Yu couldn't rule out the possibility that the messenger turned against the general and fornicated the fallen soul.

Lin Yu's proposal stunned Arquette for a few seconds. He glanced at Lin Yu in disbelief, then shifted his gaze to Mirror Master and the others who wanted to kill them immediately.

[Is this the plan you said? It was even worse than William's previous plan to deal with the Dream Thief. 】

Hearing that Alket's tone was not disgust but joking, Lin Yu provocatively said:

【How about it? Choose between chivalry and life, do you want to accept this worst plan? 】

Alket raised the corner of his mouth, facing the mirror master's next attack, he straightened the rapier in his hand, and made a posture like an athlete starting to get ready.

[Ah, sorry.. I am no longer everyone's knight, and now I only prove my knight status to a few people. 】

And Lin Yu, the Mirror Master, Lantern, and Leina on both sides of the Arkaite sub-station didn't know what they were planning. The Mirror Master moved his sore fingers, gripped the stick again, and stepped forward with his front legs to throw the stick.

The moment he let go, it seemed that there was an unpleasant voice coming from the depths of his consciousness.

【Hey, can you hear my voice? Don't look at others, I'm talking about you. I want to talk to you. 】

Lin Yu's pretentiously lazy tone seemed to be the fuse that detonated Master Mirror's anger. Master Mirror glared at Lin Yu viciously, but the other party blocked his mouth as if he had predicted that he would retaliate.

【I know what you are going to say, "Is there something you can't say in person", right? 】

It was indeed what I almost said, and it was completely verbatim. This feeling of being guessed made doubt and discomfort replace the anger in the Mirror Master's heart.

【I said, stop frowning. You want to ask me "what exactly do you want to say", don't you? 】

[Nagging and nagging, what on earth do you want to say? 】

Lin Yu, who received a response on the communication channel of consciousness, was silent for a moment, as if Master Mirror no longer had the idea of ​​speaking verbally this time, because he was willing to respond to the words through his private channel and was complacent.

Lin Yu's first plan was to communicate with the Mirror Master. Because although he acts impulsively, he has calmly thought about every step of the way in advance. On the surface, it is the most difficult to communicate, but in fact it is the best goal.

In addition, the mirror master is the one who has the right to speak among the three of them.

[I have no other intentions. Now that we are blocked here and our backup has been cut off, we are essentially a bird in a cage. Therefore, I just want to tell someone the truth that he should know before he can't speak. 】

The mirror master saw Lin Yu and Arkaite's eyes meet, and then the mirror master heard the voice deep in his consciousness switch from Lin Yu to Arkaite, so his resistance was also slightly weakened.

"Hey, what's the matter, Lin Yu~ You look like you're about to lose your defense~"

The sound of the lantern was filled with morbid joy, and he ran towards Lin Yu wielding a rusty shovel.

Lin Yu, who maintained the normal operation of both sides, did not have the energy to deal with the lantern at all. Even letting the tea cat appear would seriously consume his mental power, so the lantern came to Lin Yu almost unimpeded all the way.

Silver and Clock No. 6's Control Lan and Tong Xing are busy dealing with fallen souls, while Yingzi and Arkaite are too busy to take care of themselves. Only Zhiping controlled the messenger, grabbed his collar, and rushed to Lin Yu's side to fight the fire.

The right arm turned into an excavator smashed to the ground, once again the earth-shaking terrain separated Lin Yu from the lantern. At the same time, Arquette had explained the whole matter clearly, Lin Yu couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, but coughed.

[What's the point of telling me this kind of thing long-windedly from just now? Why should I trust you guys? 】

[The evidence is right in front of you, the fallen soul is using the dominance ability of your former companion. 】

Lin Yu signaled the Mirror Master to observe his surroundings. This cube area is the most powerful proof.

[This is just your one-sided opinion! 】The mirror master stubbornly denied it.

From the very beginning of the Domination War, No. 1 has never appeared in front of anyone. As No. 2's dark green eyes, it is logical to be the leader, and he has worked hard to learn how to be their leader. During this period, No. 1 never interfered.

The only Dominator who had performed missions with No. 1 in the early stage of the Domination War was inexplicably eliminated. Until recently, No. 1 swaggered over the leader's position and gave orders arrogantly.

In fact, the mirror master knows all kinds of suspicious things better than anyone else, he just keeps silent in his own way.

[I said, I don't expect you to let go of the past, but you don't have to choose the present to settle accounts with me! After cooperating to defeat the common enemy, you can still consider how to deal with the matter between me and you—]

【Shut up! ! Not allowed to talk in my head from now on, this feeling is really disgusting to me. 】

Mirror Master interrupted Lin Yu with a louder voice. Although his tone was extremely anxious, Lin Yu just shrugged his shoulders and waited for his response. Because Lin Yu knew that since he would be anxious about this, things were not without a turnaround.

【Nah! ! I warn you in advance, Lin Yu! ! After working together to take care of this bastard, you will be next! 】

Although the Mirror Master replied that he used extremely awkward terms, he still accepted it anyway.

Of course, this was the worst acceptance line I've ever had.

[Why are you staring blankly, talk! 】

The Mirror Master raised his arrogant tone a little more, Lin Yu inevitably found it a little funny, and replied slowly——

【You told me not to talk in your head! ! 】

After being stunned for a second, the Mirror Master acted as if nothing had happened, and said impatiently:

[Stop playing tricks on me, what do you want me to do? 】

【Very simple. Convince the pumpkin head who is in the late stage of illness first, oh, and your girlfriend...]

Unexpectedly, as soon as the word "girlfriend" was uttered, the mirror master jumped up on both sides of the communication channel and reality at the same time—he waved a stick in Lin Yu's direction without saying a word, and at the same time denied it with a loud voice. road:

[You fart clearly! ! Anyone can be my girlfriend, but she can't! 】

Lin Yu silently withdrew the comment that "the mirror master will think calmly before doing anything".

[For the time being, ignore the "anyone can". 】