"What do you mean by the setting has changed?" Upon hearing Hao Ren's words, Lily was the first to yell. "Could it be that there's a script in this world? And the guy who wrote the script tore up the draft at the last minute! "
"There's no such thing as a 'script' in this world, but there might be a 'script'," Hao Ren said as he threw the old book on the table. At the same time, the text in the book was still being refreshed, and some new paragraphs were overwriting the old ones. It was all happening right under their noses, and there seemed to be no need to hide it. "Vivian, let's begin," Hao Ren said as he threw the old book on the table.
Vivian nodded and opened her arms. Lily, on the other hand, had no idea what was going on. She blinked as she looked between Hao Ren and Vivian. "Hey, what are you two talking about? The affair is already out in the open, so why are you still being so secretive …"
Truth be told, Hao Ren sometimes really wanted to shut the mouth of this dumb * ss up.
Rheia, on the other hand, was even more confused as to what Hao Ren and Vivian were up to. The mage clutched her iron staff nervously as her eyes darted around the group. "Why do I suddenly feel that you guys …"
Before she could finish, a distant and mysterious chime of a bell rang out from nowhere. The chime felt like it was knocking on everyone's soul, and when it rang, the entire world seemed to be disrupted, and everyone could not help but stop what they were doing.
Along with the ringing of the bell, streaks of blood-red moonlight with a tinge of blood appeared.
The crimson moonlight seemed to penetrate the walls and roof of the library as it quickly and evenly filled the entire space. Outside the mage tower, the entire White Maple Leaf City, and even the entire L 'Haronne continent was shrouded in the crimson moonlight.
Whether it was the flaming monsters that were attacking the city, the guards that were organizing the defense, or the birds and beasts that were fleeing in fear, they all showed a strange state of sluggishness the moment the crimson moon appeared. Then, as if they were summoned, they raised their heads and looked at the mysterious celestial body that had just appeared in the sky — a red full moon that illuminated everything.
Vivian's hair fluttered in the wind, and powerful energy waves emanated from her body. Under the crimson moonlight, countless blurry phantoms appeared. She looked down at her hands and smiled. "Ever since I cured my mental illness, I feel that summoning the crimson moon is getting easier and easier."
Lily stared blankly for a moment before she cried out in surprise, "Woah!! Battie, what's wrong with you? Why did you summon the Crimson Moon all of a sudden? You scared me! Don't you know how traumatized I was after you used that thing to kill me in my past life?! "
Hao Ren patted Lily's head comfortingly, and at the same time looked at Rheia, who had not spoken a word. "Without summoning a powerful enough 'alarm', how would you wake up a sleeping god?"
Rheia had been in an eerie state of silence since the beginning, and now she was looking up at the moonlit ceiling, as if she could see through the thick stone and concrete and see the crimson moon in the sky. As she heard Hao Ren's words, a confused expression appeared on her face, and that expression was quickly replaced by contemplation and realization. Her eyes were changing rapidly, as if countless personalities were awakening within her, and in the end, all her expressions turned into a faint smile. The 'Miss Mage' looked at Hao Ren. "How did you find out?"
"There were too many clues, but every clue was very secretive, and it took me a long time to piece it all together." Hao Ren also had a smile on his face. "But the most direct one … is probably because I haven't had a dream for so many days."
Rheia smiled and shook her head, and the next second, her figure dissipated like sand in the wind.
Along with her, the entire world disappeared.
The Mage Tower, White Maple Leaf City, the Great Plains, Longwind Ridge … all of L 'Haronne was shrouded in light at the same time, before turning into light particles that filled the sky, and after a few seconds of dissipation, the true face of the world was finally revealed to Hao Ren and the rest.
Dark, cold, and dead. Countless broken celestial fragments floated in a chaotic space, and between the shattered continents were energy arcs that spanned hundreds of kilometers. Dead floating islands floated and rotated at the edge of the larger continents, and indescribable shadows leaped between the floating islands.
A murky, dust-like remnant air mass wrapped around the shattered continents, and it was probably part of the atmosphere, and for some mysterious reason, it did not completely dissipate after the planet shattered.
Hao Ren and his friends were standing on the wreckage of one of the floating continents. There were only a few energy flows connecting the wreckage to the surrounding celestial debris. There were almost no recognizable wreckage on the scorched land.
This was normal, as the Star of Creation was covered in an endless ocean, and there were very few buildings on the solid crust of the planet, and those pavilions built on the surface of the Sea of Origin, which once relied on divine power to maintain stability … they were now floating in the void between the continents, and were more thoroughly shattered than the planet itself.
Everything happened in a short period of time, so even when the true face of the world was unveiled, no one knew what was going on. The first one to realize it was Y 'zaks, who was usually calm and had been through a lot of storms. The old demon rubbed his chin as he pondered. "So, we have been trapped in some sort of illusion? So this is the true face of the Umbral Realm? "
When Y 'zaks said that, everyone came to their senses. Nangong Sanba looked around and grinned. "Heh, this looks a little like the Umbral Realm …"
Hao Ren looked up and saw the Petrachelys floating diagonally above them. The beautiful silver-white spacecraft was adjusting its posture and flashing its headlights. Nolan sounded excited. "Boss! We can fly! We can fly! "
"Okay, okay, I know you can fly. Now turn off the headlights and turn on the radar." Hao Ren had no choice but to calm down. "Change the search mode to divine power detection. If I'm not wrong, the Goddess of Creation is nearby."
"Okay, don't worry, you … err, Nolan understands."
Watching the Petrachelys switched to detection mode and began to slowly wander between the broken celestial fragments, Hao Ren retracted his gaze to his friends. While Y 'zaks had guessed some of the content, the complete truth of the matter still needed to be explained by him.
"Do you still remember the last battle in Star Cluster X?" Before explaining everything, he first asked a question. "We killed a dreamer, and the giant brain said something before it died."
"Oh, the brain that lives in the dream, right?" Lily immediately remembered. "It said something about the dream being destroyed, and then two people waking up from the dream, blah, blah, blah … wait a minute, Mr. Landlord, you mean … the dream that the brain said …"
"As you can imagine, the moment we arrived in the Umbral Realm, we were living in a dream." Hao Ren smiled as he pointed at the celestial fragments that stretched out in the darkness. "L 'Haronne is not a real planet, but a dream. That is why that world is so strange. All the species in the Plane of Dreams are mixed together, and there is a lot of specious history, many unexplainable historical relics, the Great Pit, and those things in the Great Pit … These illogical things are actually quite easy to explain, because they are all products of dreams. And the real world — no, it's what you see, the Star of Creation that has been blown to pieces. "
Wuyue hugged her arms and curled her tail. She felt goosebumps all over her body when she thought about how she had been living in the dream world for so many days (although elemental creatures did not have this setting). "Holy sh * t … I was scared when I watched Inception back then, and now I've experienced VR …"
"Dreams always have a source." Y 'zaks frowned as he said in a low voice, "The source of this dream world …"
"The goddess of creation, or the goddess of annihilation, or both of them together." Hao Ren kept the smile on his face as his tone turned serious. "To have the ability to create such a 'dream', and in the Umbral Realm at that, it could only be the two of them. But based on the peaceful state of L 'Haronne, perhaps the goddess of creation has the upper hand in this dream. "
Lily's eyes darted around. "Then that Rheia …"
She still remembered what Hao Ren said to Rheia before the dream world disappeared.
"I'm guessing she could be a 'clone'," Hao Ren said. "But I can't be sure of the specifics. We need to find the goddess of creation's true form before we can understand everything, including how I determined the truth of the dream world. That will have to wait until then."
"Ouch —" Lily let out a long sigh. At the same time, she looked at the broken world. She looked up at the dark, chaotic space and suddenly found something. "Hey, Mr. Landlord, look over there!"
Hao Ren looked towards the direction Lily was pointing at and was stunned.
A floating fragment of the continent was slowly moving, and the sky that was originally covered by it was now exposed. In the depths of the chaotic darkness, a glimmering place could be vaguely seen.
It was another planet, another planet that was torn apart. Judging from the distance, it was obvious that it was not part of the Star of Creation. The planet seemed to have suffered a better fate than the Star of Creation, as it was only split in half, and did not turn into an asteroid belt in space like the Star of Creation. But even so, for the natives on the planet, it was still a disaster.
But …
Hao Ren narrowed his eyes as he took a closer look at the planet.
"I'm afraid … L 'Haronne is not entirely a dream."
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