Angor waited until Gleipnir was out of sight before he looked at Laplace. "Since we have nothing else to do before Ancient Tooth Fairy arrives, do you want to take the chance to inherit the power now?"
Back at Rabbit Hill, Angor already talked to Laplace about the authority, and he understood Laplace's request. However, Angor needed to craft a mirror to support the passage through Rabbit Hill, so he didn't come to the Dream Crystal with Laplace right away.
Now that he had some free time, Angor decided to ask Laplace about it.
Laplace looked to the south and shook his head. "Not now. Let's wait for a while."
"You're waiting for Luigi?" Angor could guess what Laplace was thinking from her expression.
Laplace nodded. "Let's wait until Luigi comes out. I don't know much about the power of authority, but if it can become the fundamental law of the Dream Crystal, it might affect other authorities as well."
Luigi was still in the dungeon created by the authority of Wonderland, and Laplace was worried that she might affect Luigi when she inherited the power.
Angor was going to say that they wouldn't affect each other, but he decided against it. That was just a conclusion he made based on his experience in the dream wasteland. But the dream wasteland was different from the dream wasteland.
The dream wasteland didn't have a "dungeon" like Wonderland.
Angor couldn't predict the future, so he couldn't say for sure.
Laplace's apprehension was likely to come to pass.
"You're right. Let's wait for Luigi to come out." Angor considered. "We have nothing else to do anyway.
Do you want to check Luigi's dungeon? "
Laplace considered for a moment.
She didn't refuse.
According to Gleipnir, it had been three hours since Luigi went into the two-story attic.
There was still no news from him.
Angor wondered what was going on inside.
If it was a special dream like the one in Sunshine Circus, Luigi wouldn't show up for such a long time.
Luigi might have already been put under house arrest. But …
Luigi didn't go offline to ask for help, so it probably wasn't a "fun and challenging" dream like the one in Sunshine Circus.
Perhaps it was similar to the special dream of "Helen's Dream" that she had encountered before.
As Angor said, he still needed to wait for Gleipnir to bring Ancient Tooth Fairy to him.
I'll just take it as killing time.
Unlike Luigi, they did not walk near the double loft.
Although the two-story loft was only about ten miles away from them, they could change their entry location by going offline and going online.
There was no need to waste time and energy.
Laplace and Angor logged off.
When they went online again, they were already near the two-story loft.
He saw the two-story attic before.
They were all looking at it from God's perspective and did not really look at it in detail. Now that he looked at it up close, he realized that this two-story loft was actually so … shabby.
The door was patched with iron sheets.
The broken windows were plastered with old newspapers.
There was also the mottled paint that could fall off at any time, and the dust and stones scattered on the ground.
All of them were silently describing the dilapidated condition of this two-story loft.
Previously, the sky was cloudy, so it could still cover a little.
Now that the Instance Dungeon had been opened,
A faint light shrouded the two-story attic.
Under the light,
It was full of filth.
Neither Angor nor Laplace cared about the shabby attic.
What they cared about was …
What kind of story was hidden in this shabby attic, and what was Luigi going through right now?
He then turned to Laplace and said, "You wait outside for a while. It's best if you can.
Stay away from this loft.
I'll go take a look. "
Laplace nodded.
She knew what Angor meant.
Special dreams had different abilities.
There were many special dreams that could pull people into them if they got close.
Think about "Sunshine Circus". After they cleared the challenge, they directly started recruiting people from all over the realm. The so-called "entire realm".
That referred to the entire Dream Crystallization. The Sunshine Circus had this kind of large-scale recruitment mechanism.
Maybe this two-story loft was the same.
They were here to check on Luigi.
They were not here to help Luigi through the challenge.
So …
They still had to avoid what needed to be avoided.
Laplace retreated fifty meters continuously.
He was about to stop, but he thought about it again.
He still felt worried.
He moved back another fifty meters. Until he was a hundred meters away.
Then he nodded at Angor from afar.
Angor was speechless.
That's way too far!
Angor was going to tell Laplace to stay fifteen meters away. If something went wrong, he would just take Laplace and go offline.
He didn't expect Laplace to be so … cautious.
It could only be said that the incident with the Sunshine Circus had left a deep impression on Laplace. He was already a little frightened.
Angor wasn't too worried about Laplace's safety. After all, he could control Wonderland with the Tree of Authority.
Without hesitation, Angor took several steps forward and approached the shimmering light barrier in front of the loft.
He activated the Tree of Authority and focused his mind on the shabby two-story loft.
…
It was the same feeling Angor had when he was observing Helen's Dream.
He wasn't looking from God's perspective.
He was looking from a box. Angor stood outside the box.
He quietly peeked at the miniature box inside the "light barrier".
The core of the box was also a two-story loft, which was as shabby as the outside world.
The only difference was that there were people both inside and outside the loft.
Inside the loft, there was a middle-aged man wearing a checkered felt hat.
He was sitting in front of a window on the second floor, playing a piano as if no one was there.
The sound of the piano was very beautiful and elegant, but when the notes floated in this dilapidated and dusty attic, there was a sense of dislocation as if the zither was being burned.
Leaving the loft aside, the middle-aged man's playing skills were already very good.
He was good enough to play the piano in a big theater.
Angor was sure that he couldn't beat this man. The man's playing skills were probably at the same level as Jon's. The only difference was that Jon's playing was as passionate as the notes. He could get excited when he wanted to, and he could also enjoy expressing his emotions when he wanted to. This middle-aged man, on the other hand, was good at playing the piano, but he didn't have much emotion.
Complicated emotions were hidden in the elegant sound of the zither. These emotions were not brought about by the music. They were the man's own emotions.
He didn't play the piano for the sake of playing. He just wanted to vent these emotions. However, the more he did that, the more complicated the emotions would become.
He used the music to calm his emotions, but the music would bring more emotions to his mind.
His complicated emotions were like a knot that kept twisting and tangling together.
On the other side, Angor saw Luigi standing outside the attic.
The man was playing an old harp. When he reached certain notes, the harp would go higher as if it was responding to the middle-aged man's music.
Angor didn't know what was going on. Luigi seemed to be immersed in his playing, so he didn't want to disturb him. He looked around and left the loft.
Laplace saw Angor opening his eyes and quickly asked about what happened in the loft.
Angor spread his hands and explained the situation in a helpless tone.
"A piano and a harp?" Laplace frowned. "Is Luigi the one who's moving?"
Laplace wondered if Luigi was tricked.
Angor shook his head. "At least for now, Luigi is playing on his own. It seems he's trying to use the harp to solve the middle-aged man's problem."
"I think that's what this dream is about."
Laplace asked, "You mean, a musical duel?"
"Something like that. Maybe it's a duel, or a confrontation. Or maybe it's just a simple conversation."
He paused and looked at Laplace. "Do you want to see what's going on with Luigi? If so, I can use an illusion to show you what's going on. "
Laplace considered and nodded. She wanted to see what Luigi was doing with her own eyes. Was it really a musical duel like Angor said?
Soon, he returned to Box Garden's view. At the same time, he used the power of Celestial Changes to show what was happening inside the box using illusions.
Laplace also saw what Luigi was doing.
Just as Angor said, Luigi was sitting cross-legged beside the loft with his eyes closed. Now and then, he would play the harp to match the piano's music.
Luigi didn't say anything. The middle-aged man was also immersed in his own thoughts.
The special dream was like a long-lasting musical mime.
However, Laplace could tell that Luigi wasn't being forced. He was playing the harp on his own accord.
This meant Angor's theory was probably correct. This was a musical duel.
As time went by, although the piano and harp were both melodious, Laplace was a bit bored because of the emotional asymmetry.
Besides, Gleipnir might have reached Tooth Immortal Ruins by now. She should log off and synchronize with Gleipnir's mind.
With that in mind, Laplace was about to tell Angor to stop the illusion.
But before she could say anything, the scene in the loft changed again.
The middle-aged man finally stopped playing. He placed his hands on the keys and let out a series of accents.
After a long time, the man sighed deeply.
Following his sigh, the entire loft became completely still as if someone pressed the stop button on a movie.
"Is this Time Stop?" Laplace said in a low voice. Her eyes were filled with interest. She had originally wanted to go offline, but at this moment, she had temporarily extinguished that thought.
"I don't know. But even if it's Time Stop, only the loft is still. Luigi can still move. "
Laplace looked at Luigi's direction in the illusion. As expected, Luigi's body, as well as Luigi's, was filled with vibrant colors.
Laplace said, "Luigi has stopped playing. Now, we should be able to ask him about this special dream."
Actually, Angor already contacted Luigi without Laplace's reminder.
Luigi was surprised to hear Angor's voice, but he quickly calmed down.
"You're asking me what I'm doing?" Luigi scratched his head. "I don't know. I'm just following the instructions given by the fairyland."
"Fairyland? What instructions? "
Luigi didn't hide anything and told Laplace everything that happened after he entered the dungeon.
"Uriel's Choice" was a type of dungeon they had never seen before.
It didn't require killing, deciphering, or challenging. It was more like a special type of dungeon.
This kind of specialization was only targeted at people who knew music and art.
Luigi never entered the loft after entering "Uriel's Choice". He tried to touch the loft several times, but each time, he was bounced back.
It was as if the loft was in a completely different dimension from the one he was in.
Since he couldn't enter the loft, Luigi decided to walk around and see if he could find any other clues.
Next, he saw a tattered wooden box leaning against the door.
Just as he was about to open the wooden box to take a look, he received the first Wonderland notification.
It asked Luigi to choose a musical instrument.
Without hesitation, Luigi chose the harp.
Thus, a harp appeared in the tattered wooden box.
As soon as Luigi touched the instrument, another notification popped up.
[Special Dream "Uriel's Choice" is about to activate a main quest. Please use the instrument in your hand to untie the knot in Uriel's heart. ]
[Failure will trigger a new main quest.] ]
[There is no limit to the number of times you can trigger the main quest. However, you cannot enter the loft before completing the main quest. ]
[Complete all the main quests and you can leave the dream.] ]
It wasn't hard to tell that this was a series of mandatory quests. The first quest was to use the harp to play music to untie Uriel's heart.
Luigi was currently in the middle of the first quest.
According to Luigi, he had challenged the main quest three times and failed each time.
Each time he failed, the time in the loft would stop. When Luigi reactivated the main quest, the time in the loft would go back to the time before Uriel played the harp.
It was a recurring challenge. If Luigi couldn't untie the knot in Uriel's heart, the next quest wouldn't appear.
Both Angor and Laplace didn't know how to react to Luigi's explanation. They didn't expect this special dream to be so strange.
"Are you going to challenge the main quest again?" Angor asked Luigi.
"Of course!" Luigi answered matter-of-factly. "How can I give up on such an interesting quest? Using music to heal people's hearts. It's wonderful just thinking about it. "
Luigi seemed to know what Angor wanted to say. "Don't worry about me. I tried. I can't leave the dream, but I can go offline. I'll log off when I'm tired. But I'm not tired yet. I'm going to challenge the quest again! "
Both Angor and Laplace didn't say anything else after seeing Luigi's enthusiasm.
Perhaps from their point of view, this mission was too dull and boring.
But for Luigi, it was more like a conversation between music and therapy. It was a chance for art and art to mix together. He didn't feel bored at all. In fact, he was happy to meet a "soulmate" here.
Even if the soulmate didn't respond to Luigi's request, music was a bridge for communication.
Sometimes, silence was more valuable than words.
After making sure that Luigi was fine and still wanted to complete the quest, Angor and Laplace didn't bother with him. Luigi could go offline freely anyway.
Angor withdrew his mind from the special dream, discussed with Laplace, and logged off.
…
When Angor's mind left the dream, Luigi reactivated the main quest.
Time in the attic began to move backward.
When the main quest began, time returned to normal.
The middle-aged man frowned and sat down in front of the piano with a troubled look. After a minute of silence, he took out an invitation letter from a hidden compartment under the piano.
There was no name on the invitation letter, nor was there any other symbol.
The only thing special about it was that the letter was sealed with a red heart made of wax.
The middle-aged man looked at the letter with a complicated expression. In the end, he sighed and put the letter back into the hidden compartment of the piano.
Then, the middle-aged man opened the piano cover and began to play the piano distractedly.
Outside the attic, Luigi heard the song and knew that the main quest had begun again. He adjusted himself into a comfortable position and began plucking the strings of the harp.
The notes of the piano and the harp gradually intertwined as they danced ….
(End of Chapter)
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