Mage? Spell Engineer!

I am in a dream.

Rorschach felt this clearly. At this moment, he was like a ghost, passively watching everything that happened:

In the forest that blocks the sky and the sun, giant trees topple over one by one and break out of the ground one by one. Stars fall from the burning sky, strangely blocked by the seemingly fragile tree crown.

The burning leaves and other standing tree trunks cracked and trembled, coupled with the wail of the main trunk crushing, the entire forest contained the cries of birds and animals in this background sound.

The angle of view passively increased, and Rorschach changed from looking up at the forest of giant trees to looking down, and all he could see was an almost doomsday scene.

The boundary between heaven and earth, the burning and rebirth of the forest occur at the same time, as if there are two forces anxiously tug-of-war.

A dark green giant stood in the center of the forest, roaring upwards to the sky. What responded to it was a more concentrated and violent stream of fire from the sky.

The roar that inspired more fear than the Beast King was suppressed by the sky-piercing explosion.

Purple-black dirty blood oozed from the burned and torn wounds of the giant beast, and then healed rapidly, growing redundant polyps.

This means that every time it is injured, the giant beast becomes more ferocious and terrifying. Similarly, every time the tree crown is restored and filled, the new giant trees become more chaotic and public. The trees around the giant beast have broken away from the category of plants and turned into thick trees waving towards the sky. Huge tentacles.

The power in the sky seemed to be aware of the evil change of the giant beast and the forest, and stopped the falling of the flowing fire until a golden light penetrated the giant beast and continued to burn him.

The roar suddenly turned from deafening to silent. Rorschach couldn't hear it anymore, and could only judge from the movements of the giant beast that it was still spewing out his own pain and anger. No more birdsong or beast roar could be heard, everything was completely silent.

Not only could he not hear, Rorschach also felt suffocated. He tried to expand his chest and inhale, but it was in vain, only heat waves poured into his lungs, bringing desperate burning pain.

His vision quickly receded, and he was finally far away from this weird battlefield. Something seemed to precipitate in the silence and heat wave, crystal clear and broken.

At the last moment of retreating, Rorschach saw shimmering fragments all over the sky. The sky collapsed, the earth shattered, and red patches of land rose up.

The world is turned upside down, and dreams are shattered.

This dream was too clear...there was definitely something dirty. Rorschach sat up and wanted to confirm the time.

"The felt cloth is quite thick, so no light penetrates the room at all..."

After opening the temporary door curtain, Rorschach realized that it was not the shading effect that was good, but the lack of light.

The night falls like this.

Rorschach walked out of the cave and was surprised to find it was pitch black outside. Abruptly, there are tiny hazy fluorescent lights scattered near and far.

He stretched out his hand and saw that his five fingers were also covered in milky white fluorescence. It is precisely the weak, lack of penetrating light that makes the world darker.

Rorschach did not use [Light Technique] rashly. He returned to his cave dwelling and waited in the darkness for a while for his eyes to adapt. After a while, the outline of the room could gradually be seen clearly.

When he went out again, it was no longer completely dark. At least he could see the rough land. He carefully walked towards other fluorescent lights and found many human-shaped light groups lying directly on the ground.

No tent? Looking back, the cave dwellings are there, and looking at the highest point, the temporary clock tower is also there.

These fluorescent lights...are the mages and apprentices, and a small number of workers also have a fainter light.

Rorschach planned to find the humanoid with the brightest light, and judging from the position, it turned out to be Nemo who was leading the team.

But when Rorschach was groping in that direction, a group of bouncing pink light groups blocked the way.

Rorschach tried to step over, but the pink ball of light immediately rolled to Rorschach's feet to stop him from walking towards Nemo.

Rorschach, who was completely unaware of the origin and nature of the light group, did not dare to step on it rashly and retracted his steps. The pink light ball immediately jumped up and down, and Rorschach could actually read his happy mood.

These all came out of nowhere... Rorschach found that there were more and more dumplings, forming a luminous road, like a luminous runway that guides planes to land at night.

Apparently these groups were also trying to guide Rorschach somewhere.

Hongmen Banquet? There should be no malice... Despite thinking this, Rorschach still mobilized his magic power to prepare to cast a spell. As the aether was mobilized, he noticed that the light around him grew brighter.

He walked under the guidance, trying to observe the environment he passed, but other areas were still dark and dense, making it difficult to see clearly.

Rorschach could only feel that he was descending most of the time. After an unknown period of time, he seemed to have reached the bottom of a ravine somewhere.

"You will send me back, right? I can't find a way." Rorschach tried to communicate with the obviously conscious light ball, but only got a ball jumping. He didn't know whether the other party understood it or not. , agreed or not.

Rorschach raised his hand and looked at his wrist. The brass medal was still tied to his hand. At this time, the inner seal also glowed with fluorescence. "It should be Master Nemo's [Secret Mark]... Is all the ether-related ones highlighted? Then these little light balls..." Fortunately, I didn't take off the name tag comfortably before going to bed.

An obvious turn, the scene blocked by the cliff appeared before Rorschach:

A blue forest, with a glow rippling through it, like... the Cherenkov radiation when a nuclear power plant reactor is starting and operating. Rorschach thought of an apt but unmagical analogy.

Walking into the silent forest, Rorschach could feel the shadowy creatures walking through the forest, paying voyeuristic glances.

Walking deep into the forest, a clear spring spreads water waves. It is connected to a stream that does not flow out. When the water waves spread to the shore, blue flowing fireflies rise up covering the entire forest.

There are broken reflections in the water waves. In another flash, the owner of the reflection appeared in front of Rorschach, a tall creature with the head of a deer sitting on the ground, wearing a robe made of leaves. He is surrounded by light groups and small beasts, just like the gods here, noble and holy.

"Good afternoon, exorcist."

An elegant and solemn female voice, extremely deep by female standards. He spoke ancient Arabic. In His mouth, mage seems to mean "one who drives spirits."

"Hello...ma'am. Who are you? Where is this?" The response was very stumbling.

The original owner of Rorschach was a farmer's child and did not have the conditions to learn Yabo from an early age. Although he studied hard at the Royal Academy, his level was similar to the "mute English" of college student Rorschach.

"What I am and what this place is, I have already shown you."

"My dream? You are the giant beast..."

"The afterimage, the echo. This world is separated from where you came from, from the 'barrenness' of the Dryats Forest."

The Forest of Dryats, as ancient scholars called the black forest at the junction of the empire and the kingdom, seems to have had an owner in this never-ending forest.

The deer's eyes were covered with long eyelashes, and he lowered his eyes no longer looking at Rorschach.

Rorschach followed the opponent's eyes and saw a new scene reflected in the deep spring: the red earth, the pink sky torn apart, watering every soil plain and ravine.

"For those who come from the other side, if you are not prepared, you will all become wandering souls here."