Chapter 1817
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Rein couldn't answer Angor's question because he only knew about the Nightmare Realm from Sunders.
However, Rhine was sure that it was a creature from the Nightmare Realm that was spitting out living threads.
"Lifeline, puppet, lunatic … Nightmare Realm creature?" His knuckles unconsciously tapped on the table. The clear rhythmic sound reached his ears as if it was the music that opened his memory, which reminded him of something.
Something that happened in Sleepless City.
"Is it Yorkshire?" Sunders muttered the name in a low voice.
Everyone knew the name, including Greya. She had seen Yorkshire in Sleepless City before.
Angor recognized the powerful creature from the Nightmare Realm.
Compared to Yorkshire, he remembered the puppy better. The puppy "swallowed" him, which allowed him to get close to the Source of Mystery. Since then, Angor created the manifestation of Mystery in his illusion.
Yorkshire was the one who brought the puppy out of the Nightmare Realm. However, he couldn't control the puppy because its owner was someone else.
As far as Angor knew, Yorkshire was a puppeteer.
When Sleepless City was covered by the dome, Yorkshire abducted many people and used Lifeline to create prototype puppets. As for the prototype puppet body, it was actually a container that could carry the interlayer space.
The little devil, Gragg, had been forced to change his body and become the current Spivet because he had become a prototype puppet. Back then, Nausica almost became a prototype puppet as well.
The lifeline turned the lunatics into "puppets", which was exactly what Yorkshire did.
Greya pondered. "I remember that Yorkshire was scared away by Mister Phantom's Cursing Puppet and went to the center of Sleepless City. Did it leave the city and come to the ruin at Parmigi Highlands?"
"Mister Rein, what did that thing look like? What's the shape of the lifeline? "
Sunders once saw Yorkshire up close, so he wanted to know if Yorkshire was the one who created the lifeline.
Rein took out his cane and waved it in the air. An illusion appeared in front of everyone.
It was a strange creature. Or … a plant? It looked like an enlarged onion with a small head and a round belly.
The so-called "head" was just an upward transmission tube.
The onionhead's stomach was already very big, but it was still expanding. When it had expanded to its limit, there was a "bang" sound, and a large amount of white floc floated out from the transmission channel on its head.
Like willow catkins, the substance was carried away by the wind to an unknown place.
"This is the entire process of the live thread eruption," Rhine said calmly. "This is a precious image that we have paid a great price to obtain."
Although Rhine didn't mention what price he had paid, for an expert of Rhine's level to specifically point it out, it was clear that the price he had paid was truly great.
Rein looked at Sunders. "Those flocculent substances are the lifeline. Once they enter a person's body, they'll go insane. "
"Lifeline is very invasive. It's hard for apprentices to defend against them. If an official Magus were to remove the natural spiritual force barrier, the Life Thread could also take advantage of the loophole. Therefore, every time the Life Thread erupts, a large amount of energy must be expended to create an area that binds the Life Thread to prevent it from spreading. "
"But there are still some that slip through the net." Rein looked at the wards. These patients were the ones who were invaded by the lifeline.
"We've studied the lifeline, but we can't get any useful information in a short time." Rein sighed. Since they couldn't find a way to deal with the lifeline in a short time, they had to control it to prevent it from spreading. Besides, the lifeline was too contagious. That was why Tree Spirits were assigned as caretakers.
Rein looked at Sunders. "Do you have any idea what this creature is?"
Sunders shook his head. "It's not the Yorkshire I saw."
Yorkshire was a giant golden python. There were countless threads floating around its scales. Its characteristics were very obvious. This onion was too different from a serpent.
However, Sunders couldn't say for sure that the onion had nothing to do with Yorkshire.
"I don't care if it's related to Yorkshire or not. The most important thing right now is to get rid of this onion, or the thread," Greya spoke up. "Otherwise, we can't even begin to imagine what will happen."
Rein glanced at Greya. "Lady Greya is right. The lifeline can't enter the mirror world yet, but the kingdom of mortals is already in trouble. Once it spreads, we might be forced to move away like the Evernight Kingdom. "
They had no choice but to rely on Sunders, who had studied the Nightmare Realm.
Sunders considered. "We can't just think about it. Let's see if there's a lifeline first."
"I don't have one here. But Tree Spirits should have one." Rein moved his lips to communicate with Tree Spirits.
Not long after, a leaf blew in through the window and turned into the shape of a tree spirit.
Tree Spirit approached him with a smile and reached out a hand. A curved leaf appeared in his palm, on which a strand of white thread was lying.
"That's the lifeline."
Sunders took the leaf and carefully observed the so-called lifeline. As its name suggested, it was struggling, twisting, and changing its shape as if trying to escape from the leaf's restraint.
Sunders couldn't find any clues from the lifeline with his naked eyes.
Instead, he used his spirit power to check.
Sunders frowned when he was done with the inspection.
"Did you find anything?" Tree Spirits asked curiously.
Sunders shook his head. "Not yet. I can't tell it's a nightmare creature. But I noticed that it's responding to my spirit power very actively. I can't look inside directly. I just don't know if I'll be able to find any clues if I forcefully investigate … "
Rhine shook his head. "That won't do. Once you probe it with your mental power, it will invade you along with your mental power. If you don't cut off your mental power immediately, your mental power will be polluted to varying degrees. It's not worth it."
If they couldn't use their spirit power to observe the internal structure, they would have to find a Prophet to do something like this.
It would take too much time, and there was no guarantee that they would succeed.
Sunders glanced at Angor who was looking at him curiously. He considered and handed the leaf to Angor. "Take a look."
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