The magnificent sun was sinking into the distant horizon. The corona that was covered with faint wood grains had become a narrow arc. The halo rising from the edge of the corona diffused in the background of the clouds. It was like a sea of fire in the sky, burning fiercely in the last few minutes of the day. In the afterglow of the setting sun, Gwen saw the whole city immersed in a golden-red sea.
He stood at the end of the terrace, looking in the direction of the Gloom Mountain Range. The cold wind of winter blew in from the side, carrying with it the commands of the guards during the evening drill. In this rare moment of leisure, he quietly thought about the counterattack plan on the wasteland and the next journey to Tarlonde. Until a familiar scent suddenly appeared in his perception, interrupting his already vigorous thoughts.
He looked in the direction of the scent and saw a distorted shadow quickly forming in the air. Amber jumped out of the shadow and hopped a few times in front of him. The next second, the unique and penetrating beep of the Shadow Assault Goose broke the silence on the terrace at dusk.
"Hey! Something's wrong! Let me tell you something's wrong! I think I might have accidentally run into the divine kingdom of the Mistress of the Night … "
Gwen's thoughts and the silence on the terrace were shattered at the same time. The shocking information that Amber blurted out made his expression freeze on the spot. After a full ten seconds, he finally reacted. He stared at the mischievous and jumping half-elf in front of him. "Huh?! What did you say?! Say it again?! "
"I think I might have, maybe …"
"Delete this pile of auxiliary words!"
"I was just studying the sand, and I don't know how I ran into the divine kingdom of the Mistress of the Night …" Amber suddenly shrank her neck. Her face was full of "I just made a big mistake, but I didn't die, but I'm still very nervous now that you found out" expression. "Fortunately, I didn't see the god directly …"
"You studied the 'Shadow Sand' … and you studied yourself in the divine kingdom of the Shadows?" This time, Gwen was finally sure that he was not hallucinating. He stared at Amber and repeated it again. He then took a deep breath to let his blood pressure and heart rate that suddenly soared slowly back down. It had been a long time since the mischievous and jumping half-elf had the power to make people's blood pressure soar, so much so that he almost forgot how much trouble she could cause if left alone. At this moment, he was thankful that his body was tough enough. Otherwise, when Amber opened her mouth, his heart and blood vessels would have collapsed. "Tell me, what happened?"
"Ah, it's like this …" Amber hurriedly nodded and spoke quickly, and before Gwen could take out something to slap her on the wall, she told him about her recent experience. She wanted to show her fearless spirit of exploration, and stressed that she really just wanted to do some research on the Shadow Sand, and that it was completely out of her control that she accidentally entered the divine kingdom. But obviously, her worries were completely unnecessary.
Gwen did not care about these details at all, and from the beginning, he had no intention of beating Amber up. After all, he gave the Shadow Sand to Amber to study, and if there was an accident in the process of the research, it could not be considered a "responsibility accident". Instead of investigating whether the Shame of All Things was careless or overconfident in the research process, he was now more concerned about the series of huge amounts of information that she mentioned when describing the divine kingdom of the Mistress of the Night!
"You saw the source of the voice that Modiel Werder heard? That was a book? And that book called itself 'Werder', and did not know the name 'Modiel'? "
"There was no one on the throne of the Mistress of the Night? That book said that she may have gone to the 'border' to deal with 'trouble'? There's trouble at the border of the Shadow Divine Kingdom … Is it the pollution that we are worried about? "
"You said that the Mistress of the Night often dreams? The way to escape from the Shadow Divine Kingdom is to jump from a high place, like waking up from a dream? "
"Be careful of the sentries? Be careful of what sentries? Even Werder himself did not know? That the whole book recorded just this one sentence of warning? "
The more Gwen listened, the more shocked he became, and his eyes widened. With Amber's extremely clear and complete description, a series of significant information even made him feel a little dazed. Throughout the process, more than once he took advantage of Amber's slight pauses to confirm some details, and every detail that he had doubts about was quickly supplemented by her.
No matter how unreliable she usually was, Amber was after all his intelligence chief, and she had matured in the past few years. In such a serious matter, she was meticulous, and her description of every detail was extraordinarily accurate and covered all the key points. When she finally finished, Gwen had fully understood the entire process of her incredible adventure.
"You really have an incredible experience …" On the terrace under the dusk, Gwen looked at Amber with a helpless expression. "I really did not expect that after not seeing you for half an afternoon, you would be able to do such an amazing thing …"
"This is not what I wanted." Amber was even more helpless than Gwen. "To be honest, I was almost scared to death. You don't know how extreme the means I used to control my rationality to avoid being contaminated by some indescribable things in the Divine Kingdom …"
"Looking at your expression, I know that this' extreme means' is not very serious." Gwen immediately waved his hand. "Let's get down to business first. First of all, about the … 'book' you saw over there. Other than the fact that he called himself Wylde, do you have any clues to explain the relationship between him and 'Modiel Wylde' in the real world?"
"No, I just chatted with him for a while. In that place, other than the frightening throne altar, there was an endless desert, and a talking book. There were no clues at all." Amber shook her head, and then a thoughtful expression appeared on her face. "There is a great adventurer called Modiel in the real world, who looks like a normal person, wandering around the world. There is a great adventurer called Wylde in the Divine Kingdom of the Mistress of the Night, who turned into a book and was placed in front of the throne of God. This sounds more bizarre than the stories of the bards … What do you think happened to Modiel Wylde?"
"I don't know." Gwen frowned, and many guesses surged in his mind. "It sounds like he was split into two parts, and these two parts have a surname and a name respectively. But who knows how all this happened? According to the clues we have, it seems that the Mistress of the Night is the root cause of all this … but I keep feeling that something is not right … "
"I also feel that something is not right." Amber nodded. "From Wylde's words, I speculate that he also accidentally entered the 'Divine Kingdom of the Misplaced Divine Kingdom,' and the Mistress of the Night did not seem to be actively involved in all this. Although we can't rule out the possibility that the ancient god was hiding something from Wylde, for a god … isn't this kind of concealment unnecessary? She couldn't have just wanted to find someone to tell her a story, right? "
"Tell a story … Yes, this is still a problem," Gwen said with a serious expression. "Margie mentioned that after Modiel strayed into the 'other side' several times, he heard his' other self 'telling stories to the Mistress of the Night, and the Mistress of the Night used her own dreams in exchange. But when Modiel returned to the real world, no matter how hard he tried, he could not remember the content of the dreams described by the Mistress of the Night. Have you asked the book about this? What is the dream of the Mistress of the Night? "
"I haven't had the time to ask yet." Amber shook her head regretfully. "I was suddenly 'thrown' back to the real world, and there were too many things I wanted to ask at that time, so I didn't think of these at the moment. I only know that the Goddess of Shadows seems to be in a state of 'dreaming' for a long time, and even her 'dreams' are not interrupted whether she is awake or asleep. I can't imagine what kind of situation that is. The things of the gods are really too difficult to understand. "
"Enya once told me that the 'dream' of the gods is by no means a simple dream. As an existence born from thoughts, all the thinking activities of the gods can actually be seen as the result of mutual reflection with the real world. Even if the gods have been separated from their thoughts and have gained freedom, their dreams and the real world will still be inextricably linked," Gwen said in a deep voice while stroking his chin. "It is precisely because of this layer of reflection that the gods will consciously control their dreams to avoid losing control of their power. In this regard, Amoun, Mirmina, and Enya, who have now gained freedom, are no exception.
"But I don't know if the Goddess of Shadows is also affected by this rule. After all, she has been away from this world for too long. More than 1.8 million years of isolation is enough to turn her into an 'extraterrestrial creature' that has almost nothing to do with our real world. It is completely unknown how much of a disturbance her dreams can cause on our side is completely unknown."
When Hu Po heard this, he suddenly blinked and raised an eyebrow at Gawain. "That means he's even more of an 'extraterrestrial wanderer' than you. There's no end to his wanderings … The difference is that you're just scaring people, while he's the real deal."
Gwen immediately hit the half-elf's head with a chestnut. "No one will take you as a mute if you don't talk."
What a clever half-elf. Too bad she has a mouth.jpg.
Amber hugged her head after being hit. She murmured and then quieted down. Gwen shook his head and lamented in his heart.
The problem of the dreams of the gods, the problem of the projection of thoughts … These were two of the many strange rules in this world that left the deepest impression on him. Even in the early days, they had made him feel conflicted and confused. All these had subverted his understanding of the "material world" and blurred the boundary between matter and consciousness. For a soul that had crossed over from Earth, the scene presented was almost absurd and disordered.
However, this was indeed how the world worked. The mind could affect matter, and matter could affect the mind. Not only could the two reflect each other, but they could even transform each other when the conditions were right. Whether it was the magicians who used their mental power to shape various magical phenomena and change the form of matter, or the projection of thoughts of mortals to create gods, or the spiritual radiation of gods to change reality out of thin air … all these phenomena were "unreasonable" to the earthlings, but the essence behind them was actually the same.
Sometimes Gwen could not help but think that if there was a theory that could explain the mutual influence and even transformation of mind and matter, perhaps it was equivalent to explaining the "underlying truth" of this world.
Would this theory be hidden in the truth of magic power? Or would it be hidden in a deeper realm that mortals had not yet imagined?
He accidentally fell into deep thought, but soon a voice woke him up from his reverie. "Hey, hey, hey, are you daydreaming again?"
Gwen suddenly woke up and saw a small hand waving in front of his eyes. He looked up at the owner of the hand, and Amber immediately hugged her head again. "I just did it! Don't do it a second time! "
"Okay, okay, let's get down to business." Gwen waved his hand and said as he sorted out his thoughts. "Let's put aside the matter of Wade and the Mistress of the Night. I'm more concerned about the 'sentinel' you mentioned at the end. What does it mean?"
"I don't know. There's only one warning. There are too many possible explanations." Amber shook her head. "But one thing is for sure. This warning is definitely very, very important. Otherwise, it wouldn't have filled the whole book — and such a special 'book' at that."
"Sentinel, it probably refers to some kind of 'guard', and this guard should be an extremely powerful and dangerous being, or the thing it is guarding is so dangerous that it could spread pollution and turn the sentinel into a source of danger," Gawain said thoughtfully. "Based on this standard, the members of the dragon race who are responsible for monitoring the Tide-Defying Tower can be regarded as' sentinels', the Ironmen in the depths of the wasteland of Gondor can also be regarded as' sentinels', and even the sentry towers that the elves have set up on the nodes of the Great Wall are 'sentinels'. And no matter which one of these sentinels has a problem, it's a crisis that we should be vigilant against. But I think that compared to the warnings of 'beware of sentinels' in Wylde's book, these are not enough."
Amber frowned slightly. "Not qualified?"
Gawain didn't explain further, but more thoughts popped up in his mind.
In addition to the things he had just mentioned, there were actually other things in this world that could be called 'sentinels'.
Those surveillance satellites hanging high in the sky, and the orbiting space station 'Firmament' that orbited the planet.
These were used to monitor the state of the planet and keep an eye on the demonic wave and the gods. They seemed to be more suitable to be called 'sentinels' than everything he had just mentioned. And if something went wrong with these things, they were indeed quite 'qualified' to trigger the highest level of warning.
But how could these things go wrong? Although they had indeed been in disrepair for a long time, they had just gradually lost their function and became floating tombstones in space. Gwen could understand most of their states, and he could confirm that there was no possibility of those satellites and space stations going out of control. And even if they went out of control and fell to the ground, for the civilization on this planet today, what was the use of being 'careful' when a bunch of satellites and space stations came crashing down from orbit?
That thing was something that even the Dragon God at his peak couldn't handle.
In Gawain's opinion, since the warning that Amber saw mentioned the words "beware of the Sentinels", it meant that the "caution" of mortals was useful against the dangerous Sentinels. Otherwise, there was no need for such a warning. All the people of the world could just lie down together and be done with it.
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