Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

What puzzled Esther was that when she first stepped into the room, she was reflected in the mirror, but the skylark was not reflected in it.

When she heard Leomaster mention "Shadow", she remembered to look at her feet.

The result was not what she expected. Although there was a halo around her, there was no shadow of herself. There was nothing under Skylark's paws.

"Leo Master, calm down." Esther said, and even released two more rings hanging around her, letting more light fall on Leo Master's body.

The buzzing sound continued, and the fear in Leomaster's eyes was dispelled. He looked at the skylark in a trance and fanatically: "What should I do?"

Esther was not worried about having him by her side. Leomaster's spirit seemed to be on the verge of collapse. She did not want to stimulate him too much, and she was also worried that distorting dreams around him would cause Leomaster to suffer. Wake up from a dream.

"I will go to investigate the situation of the black knight. If you are afraid, protect yourself."

Leomaster lowered his head deeply and said nothing. He opened a small crack in the door for Skylark.

After Esther flew out, Leomaster closed the wooden door tightly.

Esther circled the hall, and she soon caught the sound of footsteps far away in the cell, as well as the sound of hard objects colliding with the cell door.

The "devil" that Leo Master was afraid of was still looking for him everywhere. Esther was not sure if her good luck was on the line again, which made him stay in the cell area during this period and did not run again. Go to the storage room over here.

This left Esther and Leomaster with time for initial communication, laying a sound foundation for subsequent communication.

If Esther can provide some kind of help in this matter, then Esther's request to take her away later will seem logical.

The skylark flapped its wings and flew in the direction of the sound.

But within a few seconds, the scene around Esther suddenly became turbulent, and the water-like lines continued to spread, until a vortex of light bloomed from her body, and the shadow of the black door appeared, swallowing Skylark whole -

Leomaster woke up from his dream.

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Klein opened his eyes from his dream.

Warm sunlight fell into the cabin through the closed windows, and there was no change in the room.

While reviewing his previous two dreams and guessing Leo Master's location, he got up from the bed and straightened his clothes.

Then Klein looked in the direction of the desk in confusion.

The room was so quiet, Esther didn't ask any questions about that dream? When had her curiosity been caged?

Klein smiled in his mind and shook his head, then walked to the table and rapped it twice with his knuckles: "It's time to get up."

Skylark still didn't move.

Klein tried to poke the exposed feather tufts twice, but there was no response. His spiritual intuition did not warn him. Yes, Esther, who had been sleeping, did not pose any danger, but her condition made Klein feel Something is wrong.

He took out the coin, silently said "Esther is still in the dream world" seven times, and flicked it into the air.

The tossed coin rotated, forming a circle that constantly subverted itself. Klein's eyes followed it as it rose and fell, but he did not receive any direct inspiration from the picture.

The coin landed in his hand, giving heads, and the answer was a simple "yes."

Esther is trapped in a dream...

Klein felt uneasy, so he placed the Skylark, who seemed to be peacefully immersed in sleep, in the cage, locked it, and then walked out of the room quickly. He was going to ask Cattleya if it was dangerous to fall asleep at noon. .

But just a few steps out of the door, Klein met the familiar "strongest hunter": "Hey, Gehrman, where were you in your dream? I didn't even see you."

"Why do I need to be seen by you?" Klein's rhetorical question was not friendly, but his current mood fit very well with Hermann's character, and it was impossible to be friendly.

Hearing Anderson say that "when you leave the dreamland" and "when you re-enter" are in the same position, Klein frowned again, but he didn't show it and just brushed off the topic indifferently.

Then, Anderson mentioned that he heard the sound of opening the door and footsteps in the depths, but no one came out. In his thoughts, Klein quickly remembered that someone had peeked at him before.

Klein did not chat with Anderson for too long, but went to the captain's cabin.

The answer he finally got from the "Star Admiral" made Klein relieved. He could sleep at noon. Then he asked again: "What will happen if I keep sleeping in a dream?"

Cattleya was stunned for a moment: "To be honest, I don't know... is it that skylark? I'm not sure whether animals' dreams are any different from people's. Maybe it will be more affected by this sea area. "

Klein nodded but didn't say anything. However, looking at his indifferent attitude, Cattleya could basically confirm her previous guess.

"If it keeps sleeping, it's hard to guarantee what will happen. As a bird, even an extraordinary creature may not have much self-control. A person would also be confused by falling into a dream for a long time. It may be in a dream. Flying too far."

Klein said "hmm" in a deep voice, and then walked out of the captain's room.

Cattleya sighed softly when she saw him leaving.

I hope Gehrman Sparrow will not stay too long because he is worried about the bird's condition. This sea area is too dangerous, and the "Future" still has to leave as soon as possible after finding the mermaid.

If the skylark hasn't woken up by then, Cattleya doesn't have any good options.

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After Leo Master wakes up, Esther is involved in another dream.

The skylark spread its wings in time to avoid the free fall that fell into the dirt. Esther did not fly too high. Instead, after briefly scanning the surrounding environment, she quickly landed on top of the faceless scarecrow.

At first glance, this dream seemed very peaceful. At least it was out of the dark and cramped prison, and there were no black-armored knights chasing people around.

The fields of orange-yellow wheat are densely packed, and the wheat stalks are bent down under the weight of heavy, deformed and huge ears. It seems that they will be broken at any time. It seems that a big harvest is about to happen.

The golden expanse is vast, but as far as the eye can see, there are no ridges or paths for people to walk on. There are no buildings nearby, only a few pimple-like hills in the distance, with thin black strips sparsely inserted on them.

The blue-purple sky is filled with tiny drop-shaped clouds, which is very strange.

There were twisting vortices rolling in the sky. When Esther looked up, they were just moving lines. But as soon as she looked away, she could feel countless eyes opening in the whirlpool above her head.

The eyeballs rotated crazily in the whirlpool, and liquid condensed and fell from the surface of the eyeballs, but after falling, it directly turned into clouds and stagnated in the sky.

Esther restrained the aura around her. The space here was bright enough and she didn't need to be distracted all the time to maintain it.

The skylark sat on the scarecrow's shoulder, looking down at the wheat fields below.

Esther always felt that those overly large wheat ears were like tumors, with uneven skin that seemed ready to burst at any time, and long barbed whiskers growing out of each grain, standing up unevenly.

Maybe I shouldn't be a skylark, I should be a crow...but I hate crows.

Esther thought this and fluttered her wings twice. She saw a house with smoke coming out of the house at the foot of the mountain, and began to consider whether to fly there to take a look.

At this moment, the faceless scarecrow at Skylark's feet suddenly moved, and the sutures on its neck continued to break until it could completely turn its head.

The head made of wheat straws was forcibly turned ninety degrees, and the thin rods on the face suddenly began to squirm. Two fist-sized buttons were squeezed out from the inside, with several bloody muscles attached to them. The buttons were strung on the scarecrow. Deep in the head.

The skylark didn't move, just stared at it.

The scarecrow didn't make any movement, but Esther noticed that the threads on his neck that had just broken were being recovered and tied up bit by bit, and the head was re-sewed tight.

Esther really wanted to ask it: What are you looking at?

But before asking this question, Skylark tentatively stretched out his right paw and made a simple grabbing motion towards the scarecrow's neck.

Curiosity, coupled with a certain affected mischievous mentality, prompted Esther to do this.

The next moment, Esther was flapping her wings with all her strength and flying upward.

Skylark holds a large ball of twine tightly in his paws. The ends of the twine are covered with blood-stained wheat awns. Some of the ends are still hung with small pieces of skin or flesh fragments. Red blood beads are constantly seeping out from the top, drop by drop. Towards the golden fields.

As all the threads were stolen by Esther, the scarecrow's neck began to shake uncontrollably, as if it was trying to raise its head and use its button eyes to track the figure of the evil skylark.

But this action is not suitable for the scarecrow's neck that has lost its sutures. When its head is raised upward, the whole thing falls back, revealing the living thing hidden inside - or, it is the owner of this dream.

Esther looked down at the scene below. With difficulty, she caught a glimpse of a face that barely retained a human face from inside the grain-like ears of wheat.

But it was only a face whose gender was difficult to distinguish. That person's eyes, nostrils, and mouth were all stuffed with ears of rice. The tips of the wheat awns were constantly opening bloody holes in the skin, and they were squirming to use the wheat straw to seal the defects. Mending.

The poor person's flesh and blood became nutrients, and he was forced to nourish the endless harvest with his body, and the wheat full of vitality in turn injected vitality into the living person's body, making him or her completely unable to die.

Although this is just a dream, it is also another portrayal of reality.

The dream owner's experience will probably not be much better. He is trapped in a predicament where even death becomes a luxury, and is constantly being eroded by the distorted power of the outside world.

This person may have gone crazy a long time ago, and even his consciousness has become numb. He is just dreaming of a good harvest surrounded by wheat ears.

Esther had to let go of her claws, because the wheat awns were twisting and turning up, trying to penetrate into Skylark's body and make her become part of the fertilizer.

She looked down again, but there was nothing she could do except a little compassion. Those wheat ears would not even allow the dreaming life to die. If Esther wanted to go down to help that person "liberate", it would only be because The backlash of the wheat field leads to awakening.

The reality will not change.

The skylark let out a soft cry, and the dream suddenly began to tremble, and ripples rippled from Esther's body in circles.

She used her ability to control dreams to briefly affect the stability here. Since the owner of the dream had already suffered a mental breakdown, Esther was able to do this easily.

Then the skylark raised its claws to grab it again, stealing the distance between itself and another dream, spiraling through the black door shadow among the ripples, and flying to other places.