A thunderous roar came from all directions as the black fog collapsed like an avalanche. The illusion disappeared in a few seconds. Lily shook her head in a daze. When the scene in front of her stabilized, she was already in the Black Forest.
Lily blinked, and a trace of confusion flashed in her golden eyes. The false cognition and the real memory clashed for a while before her memory gradually broke free from the ice. The previously blocked memory was restored. She remembered how she came to this place, and also remembered the army of beasts she led, and remembered the landlord who had been missing for many days.
Recalling the bowl of braised pork ribs that she did not get to eat in the illusion, the husky maiden could not help but pout with an aggrieved look.
Then, she saw the monster that was struggling to escape on the ground, surrounded by smoke and black fog.
"Don't run!" Lily immediately raised her hand, but when she tried to grab it, she found that the 'brick' she touched in the illusion did not exist here. The conflict between reality and illusion was a little confusing, but she quickly came to her senses. She summoned her Frostmourne and Flamejoy and pointed their claws at the twisted mass of meat. "I'll stab you to death if you run again! I can poke five holes in you with my claws! "
Lily's movement had alerted the others in the camp. The human campsite lit up. Calaxus and two high-ranking templars grabbed their weapons and came out of the tent. The two demonic wolves and the old demonic ape, Gruglu, who were on guard at the edge of the camp, also came running. The monster, wrapped in smoke and dust, had shown terrifying mental power in the illusion, but it seemed to be much weaker in reality. Of course, it could also be that Lily's brick had injured its mind and caused it to be paralyzed. It had not managed to crawl two or three meters away until it was surrounded.
The two demonic wolves came to Lily and immediately bowed their heads and touched the shoes of the alpha respectfully with the tip of their noses. The old demonic ape immediately realized what had happened when it saw the smoky thing on the ground. "Alpha! I've been keeping watch just now. This strange thing is … "
"I know. It's not your fault." Lily waved her hand and pointed to the two imps on the ground. "They brought them in."
The leader of the imps had come to the alpha. After hearing Lily's words, it immediately screamed in horror and was about to rush up to the two unlucky imps. But Lily waved her hand to stop it. "Hey, don't worry, it should not be their fault. If I'm not mistaken, they were unknowingly infected."
The imp leader and the old demonic ape looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
At this time, Calaxus stepped forward. "Alpha, what happened?"
"This thing has been hiding in the shadows of the two imps," Lily said, pointing to the smoke monster on the ground. "When I saw the two imps suddenly got up and walked toward your tent, I felt something was wrong. When I called out to them, we were attacked."
As a four-time graduate of Peking University, Lily explained what had happened in a few words. At the same time, she also told Hao Ren about her conjecture. She had been running around with Hao Ren for three years. She might not have learned much, but at least she had learned a lot. So, all kinds of weird things were not strange to her. She guessed that the smoke monster might be some kind of thing born from the victim's mental power, or even … this thing could parasitize the host's mental world.
Calaxus was shocked when he heard Lily's speculation. He had been a church scholar for many years, but he had never heard of a monster parasitic in the mental world. He had read many monsters of Chaos in various ancient books that were good at mental attacks, but a thing that could emerge from nightmares and enter the real world was a bit challenging.
He stared at the alpha wolf with widened eyes, not knowing how this mysterious and powerful leader of the pack had come to such a conclusion. He was also deeply curious as to where this incredible knowledge of the alpha wolf had come from.
"I'm not just guessing." Lily knew what Calaxus was thinking when she saw his expression. She flicked her ears. "First of all, you were there when the two imps came back. You can be sure that there was no other 'thing' at that time. Second, when they came out of the camp, I saw it with my own eyes. I'm sure that the monster really came out of the shadow. Finally, I just fought with this thing."
Lily's mouth twitched. She thought of the bowl of pork ribs that she did not get to eat. She shook her head. "It created an illusion in my mind, and then I knocked it down with a brick in the illusion. When I woke up, it fell down in the real world. My brick is just an illusion, but this … "
As she spoke, she used her foot to flip the smoke monster over. Sure enough, on the monster's back, head, stomach, or somewhere else, a lot of tentacles had been broken off. Some black substance kept flowing out from that spot, forming a mud-like puddle on the ground. Apparently, this was a wound.
Lily had just found this wound, which was enough to confirm her guess.
Lily had hurt the monster in the spiritual world, and the monster had the same wound in the real world. So this thing must have fallen out of the spiritual world.
It was reasonable and convincing.
Calaxus frowned. He instinctively felt that there was something wrong with the alpha's guess, but he could not tell what the problem was. So he could only change the topic. Anyway, one thing was certain:
The ability of this smoke monster was inseparable from the spiritual world and the real world. It had an unheard of attack method, which was a huge threat to unsuspecting ordinary people.
And it was not afraid of the Light of Order.
The smoke monster writhed on the ground. The pure Light of Order that Lily released shone on the monster and seemed to cause it some pain. But no matter what, it maintained its normal mobility under the illumination of the Light of Order and could even attack. This degree of resistance was not only far beyond the ordinary Servants of Chaos, but even beyond the Festered.
"It's obviously a minion of Chaos, but it's in a form that I've never seen before …" The high-ranking monk bent down and cast a few protective spells on himself before reaching out to touch the monster's body. Shrouded in dust and black fog, he touched a cold, soft, and disgusting body that kept changing shape. The touch made him feel nauseous. "Disgusting … It's like some cold-blooded mollusk."
Lily also used Flamejoy to touch the translucent tentacles floating around the monster. Surprisingly, her claws went straight through the jellyfish-like tentacles. "And these tentacles are not real. You see, it's like a special effect."
The high-ranking monk did not know what special effect was, but he could understand what Lily was trying to say. These untouchable tentacles seemed to confirm the alpha's statement: this was a nightmare monster between reality and illusion.
"Alpha, I hope you can lend me this prey." Calaxus bowed his head to Lily and said sincerely, "I just want to borrow it for research. I am a scholar, and studying this kind of monster is my job. "
"Whatever." Lily waved her hand indifferently. "Anyway, this is not edible. You can have it. But try not to kill it. When we find Mr. Landlord, he might be able to figure out what this thing is. "
The alpha always talked about strange things and often mentioned a person called Mr. Landlord, who seemed to be someone important that she had been looking for. Calaxus was used to it, so he did not ask further. He just nodded gratefully and then ordered the templars behind him, "Go and bring me the Jailer Stone."
The two templars had been looking at the monster on the ground as if they were facing a formidable enemy. When they heard the order, their reaction was slow. Calaxus frowned in dissatisfaction. "Why are you so nervous? We came to this continent to investigate the movement of the Chaos. Now we can finally get to work. Don't think that you are refugees just because the spaceship crashed. Sanctum people are not so easily discouraged! "
The two Church Templars snapped out of their daze and ran towards the tent. Soon, they returned with the Imprisonment Stone and the rune chains that were used to imprison the Chaos Daemons.
The so-called Imprisonment Stone was actually a pitch-black stone, about the size of a fist, with a metallic luster and a faint red glow on its surface. This stone was inlaid on a shield-like metal plate. The metal plate was densely engraved with the original text of the covenant given by the goddess of creation to the mortals. Around it were four chains glowing with a light blue cold light.
This set of equipment was specially created by the Theocracy to capture the monsters of Chaos. It had two functions. The first was to bind the monsters and prevent them from escaping back to the Sea of Carnos. The second was to block the Light of Order and prevent the bound monsters from dying prematurely in the world of light.
It was precisely because of the perfect program of capturing and studying the monsters of Chaos that the Theocracy of the Sanctum could understand the enemies that the mortals had to face, and continue to create a variety of targeted sacred objects to maintain the order of Collow and prevent it from completely collapsing.
When the Jailor Stone approached, the monster twitched violently. It suddenly lifted half of its body, and many pairs of blood-red eyes emerged from its body that was shrouded in black smoke. These terrifying eyes stared at Lily with unforgettable hatred.
At last it cried out - in a voice like thunder: "You damned, foolish, ignorant, short-sighted mortal! You have no idea what you are facing. "
Lily put her hands on her hips. "Show me my bowl of pork ribs if you can."
The monster let out a shrill cry and then fell silent.
Lily shrugged. "I know it's all fake. Who are you trying to fool?"
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