Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Xinghai Tavern.

In the simple fortress composed of invisible barriers and four rock walls, Lin Yu suddenly opened his eyes, let go of the heavy breath suppressed in his chest, retreated to the ground and sat down.

The black knight's disguise covering Lin Yu's body flickered for a moment, as if it was on the verge of failure.

"Hey Zhihei, did you say that the Fallen Soul has a 'relic' that he's always wanted to find in the cracks in his dreams?"

Zhiping was taken aback when he heard the words, then he stepped forward to help Lin Yu up, nodded his head and said:

"Yes, clock number three and I went to investigate this relic before, but we couldn't find any clues!"

Xia Yinci approached Lin Yu curiously, crossed her hands behind her back, and met Lin Yu's gaze.

"Are you okay now~ Have you peeked into the fallen soul's heart?"

Lin Yu lowered his head and shook it from side to side, unhappily clenched his right hand that was about to fall off the bandage.

"I didn't see its heart. All I saw through it were...the minds of those observers. For example, the observers are not as harmonious as we imagined, and they are divided into many camps due to different opinions-"

The observers of a certain camp agree that the world itself is a whole, and only "I" is the only existence. In order to expand their power, they created fallen souls to participate in this domination war and accomplish something for them.

"This matter... is what you said earlier, Shihei, 'finding the relic'."

Observers were strictly prohibited from interfering with the cracks in the dream, so they had to entrust the hands of the ruler to find the relic. After the war of domination is won, as long as the dominator is on the same side as him, they will be able to master this relic.

Instead of taking the risk of choosing an unfamiliar ruler, it is better to let the envoy who replaces you win the battle of domination. So the messenger they created is the No. 1 ruler of the No. 1 clock—the Fallen Soul.

"Hmm... no wonder it always yells weird things like 'let you be me'~" Xia Yinci put her index finger on her lower lip, and continued to ask with great interest, "then the 'relic' they are looking for what is it then?"

"The reason why it is called a 'relic' is because those observers did not realize the importance of this item to them in the future when they participated in the domination war, so now the Fallen Soul needs to fetch it for them."

——The so-called "relic" is the core of "Prison Arena".

According to the view of the "common self" of these observers, their ultimate goal is to make all human beings one.

At this stage, observers cannot do this. Because observers are prohibited from returning to the real world, "dominating reality" and "becoming an observer" are actually two choices, which are essentially equivalent to dominating reality or dreams.

You can't have both fish and bear's paw, the winner can only choose one of them as the spoils of dominating the war.

Closer to home, it is impossible for people in reality not to dream, and observers have the opportunity to see them at any time, the problem is how to prevent them from escaping back to reality? When humans experience nightmares, the subconscious mind can forcibly wake itself up.

The answer lies in this relic. The Prison Arena has the power to seal the dreamer in the dream because of its core. The dream madman wants to snatch this core and lock everyone who comes to the dream into the dream.

"After that, they have time to complete their long-cherished wish to integrate everyone."

In this way, the reason why this year's Dream Madman - Observer No. 12 hates Tea Mao, is not because Tea Mao doesn't want to be the next Dream Madman, but because Tea Mao doesn't want to be with They are together.

According to the memory of the observer, the tea cat carried this core when it won, so the dream madman had the idea of ​​wooing her to join the army. But the tea cat chose to refuse. She stood on the opposite side of them and sent the core back to the arena of imprisonment.

"If we manage to snatch the core of the fallen soul, we should be able to contain it~"

Xia Yinci raised up an index finger, blinked her clear blue eyes, shook her index finger and said:

"I think, if Kaede Watanabe left us with the necessary information before he left, then he might have used "Shape-shifting" to change the position of the core... It should be when one of us hand."

Xia Yinci's gaze flicked over Lin Yu and Zhiping, and a small scene flashed before Lin Yu's eyes. The object whose position is exchanged with the core should be a large number of items that will not affect too much when taken away.

Then, a certain name blurted out from Lin Yu's lips——

"It's the Mirror Master! It's the fragments he threw... So, the core is in the Xinghai Tavern?"

"Then leave this matter to me~ I can use gravity to shake out the core as a front-end threat."

Xia Yinci clenched her hands into fists and put away her dangling index finger. At this moment, there was a sound like glass shattering outside, and the rock wall was knocked into a crack in the next second. Lin Yu, who had no time to think about it, nodded to Xia Yinci.

"I'll leave it to you. One more thing—the Fallen Soul is a product of the imagination and cognition of the observers, but because its coefficient of existence is unstable, the observers connect it with the ruler's clock... "

The rock wall was completely shattered, scattered rocks flew towards the three of them, Xia Yinci shifted the gravity to the right to push away the obstacles, and ran towards Su Luoyang using the rocks as a cover to disperse them. And Zhiping and Lin Yu stepped on the wall on the right to escape from it.

"To put it simply, what do you mean—" Zhiping asked in a hurried tone, confused.

"In short, its life, its ability to devour others, and everything else come from Clock No. 1. In other words, Clock No. 1 is its "heart." We need to destroy the entire clock to harm it. "

"But we are trapped in the 'field', how to get to clock number one?"

Lin Yu smiled helplessly, summoned several barriers along the way to block the flying ribbons, and joined the decision-making team. He breathed a sigh of relief, and pointed out an index finger to Zhiping, showing a meaningful smile.

"There is one more person outside the domain. I think——this task is best suited to her."

The blood-colored sky pointed by the bandaged index finger crossed the black figure, several cyan vines grew out of thin air and climbed up the dial of the clock, dragging the girl in the black dress to the center of the clock.

"Destroy the ruler's clock... Do you want me to do this kind of thing? Lin Yu, you really like to make things difficult for others~"

The broken pointer landed on the edge of the clock dial, and only the numbers 1 and 4 were still shining.

The black cat smiled lightly, and the handcuff on its left hand rubbed against its leg. The black cat standing in the center controls the vine protruding from behind, making it wrap around the edge of the clock, cuffing the whole clock like a claw machine.

"It really doesn't work ~ Lin Yu, you still need to tell Su Luoyang to adjust the time to my ruler's time."

At the same time, Lin Yugang, who received the news from the black cat, explained the situation with Arquette and Chart.

"It still has a 'heart'...isn't it? So you mean, now we must turn the time to Xiao Luoluo, who is responsible for destroying the heart. Before that, we must find a way to sustain the attack of the fallen souls ,Right."

Arquette quickly understood the current situation, and Lin Yu nodded in response.

"It just so happened... I also observed the situation." Charte straightened his deerstalker hat with a little pride, and he explained in a high-profile manner, "According to my absolute observation, the fallen souls split into three have an advantage in power Significantly weakened."

"There is no need to emphasize "absolute observation" let alone "yours"."

"As far as I can see, the speed of the largest fallen soul is the same as before, but its strength is one-third of the original one. According to my observation, the strength of the other two fallen souls is less than one-third of the original body, but their speed is about 1/3. Very sharp."

"You don't need to emphasize it, why are you so excited..."

"In short, that means..." Alkaite frowned, and analyzed seriously, "We can completely reintegrate the attack team, auxiliary team and containment team, and then split them into three groups to deal with them, right?"

Chart enjoyed the pleasure of ignoring others, and clapped his hands together to acknowledge Arquette's statement.

"That's right! The deployment team and the decision-making team stood still, and the other teams were reassigned to deal with fallen souls—"

"Besides, we have more effective means to restrain fallen souls." Lin Yu, who was ignored and dissatisfied, pushed Chalt away childishly, and added to Arquette past him, "It's The "relic" I was looking for."

The time of the ruler's clock reversed again, and the hands returned to 7 o'clock following the golden flames in the pupils.

"Okay!" Su Ruoyang turned around and looked at Xia Yinci who was beside him, and asked suspiciously, "What do you want to do?"

Xia Yinci's eyes were looking directly at her, her eyebrows were slightly bent, and her pupils seemed to possess breathtaking power.

"Remember what I said?"

The clear voice seemed like stars that couldn't be touched, Xia Yinci said word by word,

"If one day I am in danger in the future, you must come and save me."

The familiar words caused Su Ruoyang's thoughts to drift to the past, thinking of those sad star eyes.

"I hope you can keep your promise."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Su Ruoyang felt a little uneasy, and stretched out her hand to grab Xia Yinci's shoulder, but she seemed to have predicted that he would do this, and took a playful step back on tiptoe.

"Well...you'll know later~"

Xia Yinci's gentle whisper was like the sound of a gray piano, she no longer stayed where she was, turned around and walked towards Xinghai Tavern.

"Xia Yinci, wait—"

Before Su Ruoyang called Xia Yinci to stop, the ribbons entangled in the rear spread out in all directions, launching a full-scale offensive in all directions with gentle curves. Su Ruoyang quickly swung his sickle and rushed towards Xia Yinci. Ribbon of Yin Ci.

"Hey, Qianyan, can you hear me?"

The horizontal water curtains fell on the ground one after another to form a shelter, and Su Ruoyang swung his sickle to chop the fallen souls who were separated by a water curtain. While it was screaming, Su Ruoyang immediately ran behind the next water curtain, but the fallen soul was the first to smash the water curtain. In the scattered water mist, Su Ruoyang's figure was exposed in its field of vision among.

Just as Su Ruoyang was about to hold up the sickle to block the fallen soul's palm, the world fell into a negative film where time stood still.

"If you encounter troublesome problems, you should come to me for consultation. Do you regard me as a psychological counselor?"

Qianyan's awe-inspiring voice suddenly sounded from behind Su Ruoyang, Su Ruoyang didn't dare to turn around, for fear that his small actions would cause Qianyan to abandon him and leave, so he had to keep his back to her.

"No...I regard you as the person who knows me best. You will become my dream maker, there must be a reason."

"The reason is that Xia Yinci exchanged your control ability with her—"

"I know, you were her dream maker. Because of this, you must understand what she means."

Su Ruoyang couldn't help interrupting Qianyan, and the atmosphere suddenly fell silent. Su Ruoyang, who had calmed down, was worried that Qianyan would get angry because of this, so he turned around hesitantly, only to find a pair of clear eyes looking directly at him.

"Oh. Are you willing to face me?"

Qianyan crossed her arms and raised her right eyebrow slightly. Su Ruoyang heard the joke in her tone, and heaved a sigh of relief.

"I didn't expect you to get angry over such a trivial matter..."

"Am I angry? No."

Qianyan lowered her eyes to hide her smile, pushed her hands back, and sat on the huge screw cap behind her.

"No, no...you should have heard what Xia Yinci said to me just now, right?"

"Since she said that, it means that she predicted what would happen in the future and hoped that you would change it."

Qianyan raised her right hand, put the back of her left hand against her elbow, stretched out her right index finger and shook it.

"You mean, she had a precognitive dream about today?"

"Well. What she said is what she expects from you. You should understand what she means by asking you to keep your promise."

The current Su Ruoyang, of course understands what Xia Yinci meant when she mentioned the past.

"Let me change her future, save her when she's in danger...but I can't do it alone..."

Su Ruoyang raised his hand tremblingly, stretched out his fingertips and brushed the brim of the black pointed hat.

Elus not only gave him the motivation to keep going, but also made him lose the courage to do certain things. Something in the back of your mind screams that if you hadn't passed out after unplugging the hands of the twelve clock, things wouldn't have turned out this way.

Just when Su Luoyang lowered his eyes and blamed himself, a white hand grabbed his collar fiercely and pushed him against the wall behind. The black pointed hat was knocked down by Su Ruoyang's hand and fell to the ground.

"Now you also use the fantasy clock, and you also pulled out the hands of a clock. Did you faint this time?" Qianyan's question made Su Luoyang raise his eyes, and fell on her body in a daze.

"I listened to your words and tried my best to believe in the "Imagination Clock", but I didn't get the expected answer."

"No one grows up in a world where time is still, Su Luoyang! There is no reason for the world to temporarily stop changing for your growth. Coma is the price of your growth, and the world will not stand still for you while you bear the price. "

Qianyan loosened Su Ruoyang's collar gently, put her hands on the wall, and restrained him between her arms.

In Su Ruoyang's impression, this was the first time that Qianyan's cold eyes had such intense emotions, and it was also the first time in her flat tone that she no longer seemed to have nothing to do with herself.

For the first time, Qianyan told Su Ruoyang unabashedly that I am your dream maker and I am watching you all the time.

"Work hard to make others love you worthy of the name. This is what Xia Yinci told you. If you insist on turning the efforts of that magician girl into worthless waste, then you can go on decadent."

Su Ruoyang was speechless, unable to squeeze out a word from her throat for a long time. What Elus sacrificed her life to save was the person she liked, the hero who had saved her, not the trash who stood still and didn't want to grow up.

The so-called clear desperation and the so-called active giving up are all childish children who dream that the world can stop for themselves, but cannot get their way. They are essentially a form of fear of moving forward and giving up on themselves.

I think those optimists are idiots who don't know the lesson, but in fact, I am surrounded by idiots who are not good at giving up—even in the face of the child of God, Idiots who dream of defeating him and fight for it.

Behind the water curtain that surrounded the three fallen souls, countless iron nails pointed their tips at the fallen souls, ready to go with a sharp trajectory, and many of the nails were expanding to abnormal sizes.

The shaking ground was about to explode rocks, and the invisible curtain wall restrained the Fallen Soul's movements, preventing it from destroying the approaching rock mass in time. Su Huilin was holding a dagger, approaching the back knee of one of the Fallen Souls.

——At this moment of time, the figures of the companions who fought desperately against the fallen souls were clearly engraved deep in Su Luoyang's memory. Su Ruoyang withdrew her gaze and looked at Qianyan, her consciousness seemed to fall into Qianyan's deep eyes.

"Hey, Qianyan. Let me confirm again... The fantasy clock is a highly malleable control ability, right?"

The cold light in Qianyan's eyes turned slightly, as if she noticed Su Ruoyang's change of heart.

"As long as you are willing to accept your delusional cognition, it will change with your cognition."

Hearing the affirmative answer, Su Ruoyang took a deep breath, grabbed Qianyan's arm, and gently pushed it away to the side. Qianyan didn't press against the wall with all her strength, the seemingly tight restraint on herself was actually just her disguise.

"In that case, then I can only believe in the "Imaginary Clock" that you believe in."

Qianyan's icy gaze finally caused ripples along with this small stone, and the moment she showed her smile, a warmth flashed across Su Ruoyang's heart, and his world seemed to rejuvenate in an instant, releasing the negative film that imprisoned the world.

"Hey! Su Luoyang, turn the pointer to the time of the ruler of the black cat!"

The moment time resumed running, Lin Yu's shout sounded from a few meters away. Seeing Arquette and Charte beside him, Su Luoyang gave affirmative glances, and quickly looked in Xia Yinci's direction, she was not finished yet.

It is not feasible to withdraw from Xia Yinci's control time, but there must be a necessary reason for Lin Yu's request.

It is not possible to enter the ruler time of both at the same time... After all, is it really not possible? Who stipulated that this cannot be done, or is it that the common sense from the beginning to the end has imposed non-existent restrictions on the imaginary clock?

"Have a clear hope, and persevere actively. How will you know if you can do it if you don't try..."

Su Ruoyang picked up the pointed hat that fell to the ground just now and put it on, then gestured "no problem" to Lin Yu from a distance. Feeling the hot temperature in his eyes, he closed his eyes, holding the imaginary pointer on his chest as always.

"No—I want more than just this pointer."

Su Ruoyang frowned, dragged her trembling and bleeding hand, assuming that her hand passed through the pointer pointing upwards. Immediately afterwards, the palm of his hand felt the real touch again, and he imagined passing through the pointer again and again. After repeating the same action 12 times, the palm of his hand returned to the original pointer pointing upwards.

"—Hour hands of the 12 clocks, please go to your respective destinations!"

As soon as the words fell, the dazzling light illuminated the blood-red sky. The clocks that actually exist at this moment and the clocks that have been eliminated and disappeared are reflected in the sky. The 12 ruler clocks are reflected in front of the rulers.

Only a moment later, the clock rang the pendulum sound one after another to announce the time to run again. The shining hands on the second clock split into 12 hands like a phantom, and quickly arranged the serial numbers of each pointing to the clock.

The black cat on the No. 1 clock looked at this unbelievable scene in the distance, showing a surprised expression.

"Is it Su Luoyang?" The black cat with the ancient clock reflected in the depth of its pupils felt the power of the skyrocketing, and smiled.

The 12 pointers pointing to 1 to 12 o'clock are like six intersecting straight lines, and then the same trend spreads to the nearest clock No. 3 and clock No. 6, and continues to pass on this trend.

The largest fallen soul roared and wanted to break through the water curtain, but unexpectedly, its entire body failed to disperse all of it when it hit it. The iron nails scattered around aimed at the other Fallen Soul and became huge, dozens of iron nails pierced into its body sharply.

Xia Yinci looked back at Su Ruoyang who closed her eyes and was trying to visualize her delusions. Deep purple flames shone in her eyes, and the reflected clock pointed to her ruler's time. She raised her hands towards the door of Xinghai Tavern.

There was a small sound in the tavern, and the shimmering token fell towards Xia Yinci's palm, and it fell into her palm and was held tightly by her. Xia Yinci immediately turned around and shouted at the fallen soul in the center:

"Hey~ that big, clumsy guy, are you looking for this relic?"

The eyes of the three fallen souls focused on the door of Xinghai Tavern at the same time, Xia Yinci shook the token lightly, and held the thin end of the token with his index finger, as if he was about to break it.

Even knowing that the core cannot be destroyed because of this, the fallen soul, which is actually a giant baby, failed to overcome this psychological suggestion and quickly approached Xia Yinci's direction.

[It was recruited! 】

Lin Yu's joy was beyond words, and he hurriedly shouted through the communication channel:

[Black cat, hurry up now! 】

【I don’t need you to tell me~】

The black cat's slightly sweet voice sounded deep in her consciousness, and Lin Yu didn't know why she had such a reaction.

However, just now, because his brain was on the verge of being overloaded, the communication channels were temporarily disabled. Later, Lin Yu inexplicably felt a force that came from nowhere, and directly stabilized the channel that was about to collapse.

Lin Yu covered his hot eye sockets, as if there was a raging fire in the depths of his pupils.

"Could it be the ruler time?"

The rulers of the whole field took advantage of the gap between the Fallen Soul and squeezed out their remaining strength to pursue it. Only Su Ruoyang knew that the matter would not come to an end so soon, so he hurriedly took weak steps and approached Xia Yinci in front of Xinghai Tavern.

"It's impossible to recover your strength so quickly, what the hell did you guys do?!"

The Fallen souls who crashed into the rock all the way roared and shouted, stretching out their hands and tearing the water curtain and barrier with all their might. Just when everyone thought it could be restrained, the three fallen souls merged into one again unexpectedly.

Arkaite's warning is always to take a slow step. The fallen soul that slammed on the wall flew towards Xia Yinci in front of the Xinghai Tavern at an unstoppable speed. The movement was so fast that Xia Yinci only had time to change his eyes, and it rushed to the front .

"Is it really going to be like this?"

Su Ruoyang stopped immediately, grabbed the pointer on his chest and engraved the same twelve again, but in the end he stretched out to the pointer pointing to 1 o'clock, no matter how hard it would sink into flesh and blood, broke it off.

"When you are in danger, come to save you, right?"

At the same time, the sky shone with the light of the last clock, and the black cat standing on the No. 1 clock hastily adjusted its position to avoid the eleven pointers that appeared out of thin air. They all pointed to different serial numbers, but they did not point to No. 1.

At this moment, the huge body of the Fallen Soul suddenly reflected a strange light from inside, as if there were several forces inside it tearing its body.

In an instant, the ribbon on the back of the Fallen Soul began to pierce into its own body. Its palms were uncontrollably attached to the ground, and the burst of light pierced through its flanks. The burst of light instantly made it cover its eyes and scream in pain.

"Hey, hey... Could it be that the rulers who were devoured by the fallen souls came back to the ruler's time?"

"There are many examples of the dead entering their own dream worlds to survive after death. Their worlds did not disappear due to death. Because they have strong obsessions... Presumably the same situation is happening now."

Arquette couldn't help talking, showing a little nostalgic look.

The dead with obsessions will live in their dream world after death, living a life as they please. This hard-to-distinguish statement was once an excuse for Arquette to comfort herself that Mei Baitu was still alive.

At this moment, a violent roar broke out in the sky, and the extremely dazzling light pierced the sky and opened its wings of light. In an instant, the entire sky was occupied by blue color, reflecting a clear blue sky with twinkling stars.

【Well, finally... the task is completed~】

Under the light of the shattered crystal chips floating in the sky, the girl who spared no effort retracted the vines floating in the air, allowing herself to fall in the sky. The black cat looked at the bright starry sky, occasionally showing a sincere smile.

【Such a big movement, I saw it even if you didn't tell me... What an incredible scene...】

The realm that bound the multitudes has been lifted. Lin Yu pulled his eager gaze away from the starry sky, which was so beautiful that he dared not look directly at it, but was stunned for a second. So, he couldn't help but curl his mouth at the bright scenery.

——The tea cat that appeared at an unknown time straightened its chest and looked at the sky in a daze. It naturally blended into this scene and became the focus of Lin Yu's vision.

Perhaps because he noticed that Lin Yu was looking at him, the tea cat turned his gaze slightly, his cheeks flushed, and disappeared in front of Lin Yu without saying a word. Lin Yu smiled helplessly, and turned to the rulers around him.

The fallen soul regained its footing after finding its unsteady body, and at the same time Arquette and Charte announced in unison:

"It's now!! Everyone obeys the order and strikes hard!!"

"You bastards who don't know what to do or what to do—I'm your reward... You should be honored!!"

Once the ruler's clock disappeared, the power that tore the Fallen Soul from within disappeared. The fallen soul staggered to support his body, and his wobbly eyes drifted to Su Ruoyang's body.

"Is that so...so that's the way it is!! Putting on such an ignorant face for me, but being in a situation that makes me envious!! Why are you, a bastard like you, the focus of the Creator!?"

The Fallen Soul angrily opened its bloody mouth, and stretched out its pitch-black palm to crush Su Ruoyang in front of him, but immediately felt severe pain in his back knee, and his unsteady body suddenly tilted to the right. Kneel down.

"And you trash who can easily see the Creator!" The fallen soul shouted angrily, looking at Su Huilin who approached, as if he had suffered incomparable injustice, "Why do we expect things that we can't do in our lives, it's your turn !!"

Hearing the angry cry of the Fallen Soul, Su Huilin's lavender pupils trembled, and she felt overwhelmed for a moment.

"Sorry, even if my sister doesn't meet the Creator and accept that inexplicable reward, I don't think she can lose to anyone! I admit that I'm a waste, but you don't know how hard she is working behind her back!"

Absolutely not losing to anyone's efforts, this is the result that cannot be fully attributed to "talent". Su Huilin looked at Su Ruoyang who supported her unconditionally, forced a smile, and plunged the blade into its chest.

Don't care what other people think. As long as my brother and Xiaoyin can recognize me, then I have a reason to go on.

The water vapor floating in the sky formed sharp double-edged water darts, which suddenly fell on the fallen soul's body like a torrential rain. After several water curtains on the ground, countless tiny silver needles jumped over the water curtains and shot towards them.

The fallen soul slammed on the ground with its still-moving left foot, but the place where it stepped suddenly opened a huge crack, swallowing his huge foot. It roared to show that it had not yet surrendered, and its palm hit the ground violently its body.

However, its body only bounced up a distance of less than five meters, and an invisible barrier in the air steadily stopped it. The huge momentum bounced him back to the ground, and immediately opened a crack on the ground to throw away the thick smoke.

Xia Yinci lowered her hand, not giving the Fallen Soul a chance to stand up again. Then, the shaking sensation below the ground rushed up the mountain peak, piercing the fallen soul's chest that had been pierced by Su Huilin, splashing out azure blue crystal chips.

Even though fatal injuries have been caused, the fallen soul's body still hasn't shed a single drop of blood, the wounds in the body are filled with pure darkness, and the few differences are just monotonously flickering numbers.

"Let you become me... What's wrong with that? We are a whole of thousands of people. There was only "I" in this world, and we are all "I". Now we are just a separate body!"

The fallen soul kept repeating broken words, insisting on the words of the observers who sent him down.

The huge body disintegrated into illusory particles and turned into phantoms, leaving only the slender skeleton scepter. Among the three pairs of empty eye sockets, only the skeleton in the middle still emits a faint purple light.

"Ah, yes, I, did nothing wrong..."

As if appealing to the last words, the light disappeared instantly, and the scepter also shattered into azure blue crystal chips.

Returned to silence.