Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

"Anderson's communication skills are pretty good."

Seeing that Klein would pay attention to the movements of this "new passenger" from time to time, Esther couldn't help but make such a comment, because Anderson had already started drinking with a few pirates hiding in the shadows behind the cabin.

"What do you think?" Klein pressed the brim of his hat, with only indifference in his eyes.

Skylark snorted vaguely twice, and finally just left one sentence: "Whether he compared me to that mural intentionally or unintentionally, I don't like what he said. I feel that he is provoking me, and he really deserves a beating. ."

"But you're just a bird, Norns."

Klein said this.

Esther flapped her wings twice in dissatisfaction, and her slender wings drew arcs in the air. The skylark flew away from Klein's shoulder and fell directly into the window of his bedroom.

There was no movement in Klein's eyes, but he chuckled in his heart. His words seemed to be considered a provocation. But judging from Skylark’s reaction, it shouldn’t be “Zoya” controlling it...

Klein's uneasiness never dissipated.

As a diviner, he would not easily ignore any signs of spiritual intuition. Such provocative jokes were just an insignificant temptation by Klein.

Esther can also be dissatisfied, which is much better than "Zoya's" emotionless attitude.

It was only about three hours, because darkness fell again, so Klein returned to the room and lay down on the bed again.

He glanced at Esther. Skylark had also heard Cattleya's ship-wide announcement and was dragging a handkerchief over himself.

Compared to the cage, Esther preferred the satchel she had been carrying for a long time, so after stuffing everything back, Skylark lay on it again.

Being so free to choose a place to sleep and worry about small details makes Klein feel more reassured about Esther's situation. It seems that the fellow villager has not been too seriously affected by "Zoya"...

Klein hesitated for a moment and considered putting Skylark back in the cage, but because the night was approaching and there was not much time left for Klein to take action, he had to give up this idea.

He closed his eyes and Hibari buried himself under the handkerchief.

——

Esther found that she had also entered a dream, but not as a human being, but in the form of a skylark. The white joints on the tips of her wings also appeared, which gave Esther a lot of confidence.

She looked around, it was pitch black, without any light.

But she didn't need light to perceive the world around her, so Esther let go of her consciousness.

Circles of light swayed from the skylark's body, and soon formed a sphere that was almost like a ball of light, enveloping the dazed bird in the center with great force.

This sudden change made Esther feel strange. Her special perception did not open up, but showed other forms of power.

Please, this is a little different from what I imagined. Can I still evolve in my dreams? Is it possible that there is also super evolution?

Esther blinked hard, but the wheel of light that was constantly rotating around her did not dissipate. The gentle light made her feel full of motivation, and she even had the confidence to distort the dreams around her.

This sense of self-confidence is not arrogance. Esther can feel an inexplicable control firsthand, just like a person who knows how to bend and stretch her arms and bend her fingers to grasp. It is also like the instinct that Esther feels when she adapts to flying. .

This sudden ability can be exciting or disturbing.

"Well, this must be within the scope of 'Zoya''s ability and has nothing to do with me." Esther muttered dissatisfiedly, but since she had such an advantage, she immediately thought of exploring the dream.

However, she quickly recalled some of Klein's previous warnings during the conversation. Klein was very aware of Esther's impromptu random thoughts, so he specifically reminded her that "dreams are very dangerous."

After a moment's hesitation, Esther had no choice but to shelve this idea. In any case, the threat to her from dreams was much smaller now. It shouldn't matter if she was just looking for the exit from this place.

With this thought in mind, Esther converged most of the tangled and tumbling circles around her, leaving only one of them, letting it float around her like a halo to illuminate the nearby environment.

Hey, angel bird? This is so silly. I don’t know where Klein is, and I really want to show him this. I can also hang the halo directly on his head and give Klein the glory of destiny. Then he will become the angel Gehrman...

Putting aside these messy thoughts, Esther found half a skeleton in this black cell, which was covered with tooth marks of unknown creatures.

The skull and shoulder blades of the skeleton were much wider than those of normal people. It had only one eye socket and looked very deformed. Esther was curious whether the creature that was eating the skeleton was still nearby.

It's good if the other party can communicate. If you can't communicate, you will die. It's a simple truth.

In addition, the cell was covered with dust, but it was not so narrow that Esther felt cramped. Perhaps it was because Skylark itself was relatively compact.

But to a bird, those thick black bars and the heavily chained prison door are useless. With a light twist, Skylark flew directly out from the middle of the railing and landed on the less dusty aisle.

It's so quiet here that it makes ordinary people feel panicked, and deathly silence is the main theme of this space.

Esther was very careful when she flapped her wings just now, and did not make any noise. Now she landed on the same cold and hard ground. She turned her head and looked back and forth along the two ends of the passage, but her observation did not yield any results. What was happening nearby? nothing.

There are no directions or signs, so where do we go? Just pick a side?

Just when Esther's difficulty in choosing began to show up, she heard a movement from a very distant place. Through the control of her dreams, Esther sensed some kind of raging thunder and lightning turbulence.

Not long after, there was the sound of some kind of iron door being knocked down with force: "Clang!"

Esther did not hesitate and flapped her wings more frequently to fly towards the place where the violent collision was heard. No matter what the source was, she had to go and see.

The feeling of thunder and lightning just now reminded Esther of the many "storm" charms that Klein collected like stamps.

Soon, she heard the sound of heavy footsteps. The humanoid creature in the dream seemed quite unscrupulous and did not care that she would be discovered by others.

Just as Esther approached the source of the sound, she was already at the edge of a hall.

She saw the back of a knight in pitch-black armor, a wooden door that flew upside down across the ground for some unknown reason, and a blue-jeweled cane raised in another person's hand.

There seemed to be another person in the smaller room deep inside, but he was huddled in the corner and shivering.

From Esther's perspective, it was impossible to see the face of the person in the room clearly, and the three people were scattered in a triangle shape. The young man holding the cane in the middle was in a very subtle position. He was alert to the two directions around him at the same time.

The hurricane flew out of the cane layer after layer, and the blue light shone on his gold-rimmed glasses, protecting Gehrman Sparrow who was inside.

But the knight was constantly swinging the huge and heavy sword, slashing away from the hurricane one after another, and more and more violent winds were blowing out.

Esther flew harder towards the end of the room, and the ring around her suddenly became brighter.

The black-armored knight didn't seem to notice the skylark approaching behind him. He suddenly inhaled briefly to accumulate strength, and then he raised his sword high and slashed down with force. The hurricane actually made a roar.

The violent force of the two parties collided with the wind and waves that spread suddenly, blowing away all the old debris piled nearby, including the nearest Klein.

The dream was violently turbulent, on the verge of collapse because of such conflicts.

People who are in a dream will naturally be close to waking up.

——

When the sunlight outside the window disappeared and the quiet night just fell, both Klein and Skylark closed their eyes and quickly fell asleep.

But less than two minutes later, Skylark opened his eyes again.

Round stars sparkled in its eyes.

Skylark took off the handkerchief on his body, turned around and put it into the satchel that he had pressed before. After a moment, it came out again, holding the Holy Emblem of the Night with undulating black light in its mouth.

Skylark opened its paws at Klein's long windbreaker hanging on the coat rack, and a broken and loose knot flew out from it and landed in front of it.

Skylark gently nudged the peace knot twice, and it spontaneously scattered into several scattered thin threads. Under Skylark's incredibly dexterous claws, it was quickly woven into a new ring. The Holy Emblem of the Night was being Tie it on.

Skylark put the rope around his neck and quietly observed the sleeping person on the bed.

After a few seconds, Skylark suddenly felt something and crouched down on the top of the satchel again. It covered itself with the handkerchief to block the "new jewelry" on its body, leaving only a little bit of its head exposed, and then closed its eyes.

In the dream, everything around me suddenly became blurry.

When he was blown away by the wind and waves, Klein subconsciously rolled twice, and fell off the bed with a "plop", almost falling face first to the ground.

Klein immediately opened his eyes, and his thoughts were not completely separated from the conflict in the dream for a while, including the ring of light that seemed to be gradually approaching and the flying skylark.

Klein subconsciously reviewed what he had just seen. This was already his fighting habit. The thoughts racing through his mind instantly made him regain consciousness.

He glanced past the window, where no sunlight was shining.

Oops! You have to go back to sleep quickly, the night is not over yet!

Klein propped himself up and jumped back on the bed.

When he raised his head, he also glanced at the table. There was still a skylark covered under the handkerchief, and Esther didn't seem to wake up.

Klein felt relieved when he saw the light yellow feather clusters exposed. He quickly closed his eyes and concentrated on the meditative state so that he could enter the dreamland as soon as possible.

When his breathing became steady again, Skylark shook off the handkerchief on his body, got into his satchel and dug out the wooden box, and took out the nearly complete layer of snake skin from inside.

Large points of light fell off its feathers and poured into the snake's body, filling it up.

The snake skin was like an inflated balloon, gradually swelling and becoming three-dimensional, finally condensing its light and turning into an identical skylark - including the bare white wing tips, they were exactly the same as the skylark with marks under its eyes opposite.

"Sleep, keep sleeping." Skylark said.

The puppet turned into a light spot came over affectionately, placed it against Skylark's neck and chirped softly. Then it stuffed the things on the table back into its satchel, lay back on it and covered it with a handkerchief.

The head of the puppet Skylark fell slightly, and it seemed that it had fallen asleep peacefully, perfectly executing the "sleep" command.

Apart from the Holy Emblem, Skylark took nothing else and flew straight towards the window.

It steals the distance between itself and the window.

Feeling the coldness of the airflow under its wing feathers and the soft sound of the waves hitting the hull of the boat, the skylark let out a happy and meaningless laugh.

It swirled as it lifted the distance, as if taking elegant ballet steps into the quiet and blurry night.