Chapter 1019 Nightmare on the Tower
Claude was the high-level demon hunter of the cult whom the Demon King's army had captured on the front line. He was in a strange mental state like the other demon hunters of the cult and refused to communicate at all. This was the first time that everyone was interested in him. The contact was fruitless, and he also tried to attack Vivian. Hao Ren originally thought it would take a long time for this guy to recover - after all, even the data terminal couldn't figure out what was going on with the other person's weird mental state, but he didn't expect that he suddenly woke up.
This sudden development was a surprise. Yzaks came to Claude curiously: "Do you know what you are doing now?"
"There are still some...sequelae," Claude stood in the middle of a circle of soldiers. His face was still a little pale. His clothes that had become tattered during the battle had not been changed, and he was still in chains. He looked quite embarrassed. He looked embarrassed and said, "It seems to have caused you quite a lot of trouble."
"It's not just a trouble," Bai Huo stood in front of Claude with his arms folded, "I'll ask you a few questions first to make sure you are really awake."
On the other side, Hao Ren came to La Nina and asked in a low voice: "Have you all seen the situation on the lower floors?"
"I followed the road signs and personnel instructions you left all the way. Of course I saw them all," La Nina's slender tail twisted in the air, and her charming eyes were full of interest in something. , "It's a wonderful phenomenon. If I guessed correctly, the space-time structure of this tower must have been changed, and the people in the tower seem to be imprisoned in the cracks caused by the misalignment of time and space. This world is indeed very interesting."
A succubus who doesn't like men, doesn't like women, doesn't even like her own racial talent, but only likes to lead soldiers in wars and study science. Hao Ren can only sigh that this sister is really worthy of being brought up by Yzaks.
Turning her attention back to Claude, Bai Huo asked him some questions, which were all about the internal affairs of the witcher and the details of several things before and after this "civil war". Finally, she confirmed that Claude had fully recovered his sanity. , couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief: "Huh... Finally a guy has returned to normal. It seems that I can lock these runes on you first..."
"No, just wear these things," Claude took a half step back, the rune chains on his body jingled, "I asked for it. I feel that I am not completely stable, and those...those voices are still there from time to time. I had these echoes in my head, auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, and other thoughts... I felt like I would be safer wearing these things, safer for everyone."
"A voice?" Vivian stepped forward, "You said there was a voice?"
"Yes, a voice...maybe not. It's hard for me to describe it accurately." Claude's muscles tightened obviously when he saw Vivian, as if he had some kind of attack impulse that did not belong to his own will. It still remains in this body, but he and the rune chains on his body jointly suppressed this impulse. As Claude himself said, wearing these shackles is indeed a wise move, "That thing is in my spiritual world." The reverberation is like covering an idea or a personality directly in my brain. It is not...a sound, but more direct and effective..."
"Thinking Seal," Hao Ren interrupted him, "Seriously, you should prepare a few more modern vocabulary textbooks. Sandwiching two modern dictionaries among the moldy potion encyclopedias in the library will make you happy. Be more flexible.”
"Okay, thinking seal, this term is very appropriate." Claude glanced at Hao Ren and twitched his lips, "I know this word, but I didn't think of it for a moment."
"Then the problem really lies in the field of mind control," Vivian crossed her arms. She didn't expect that the question would eventually return to the most superficial starting point. "It's more sophisticated, more effective, and more obscure, but in the final analysis it's still mind control? This answer It kind of disappoints me.”
Claude immediately shook his head: "No, it is different from mind control. I have experienced this process personally, and I can confirm that there is no external force distorting or controlling our thoughts - it just stimulates and amplifies a part of our souls. Thoughts, and then allowed this trend to develop. Although it is bad to admit this here, but...purifying the heresy is indeed the subconscious thought of every demon hunter, including these comrades standing beside you now, if They also 'hear' the thing in my head, and there will be no difference between them and the Presbyterian Order."
Claude's words made a small number of demon hunters at the scene slightly commotion. Some of the less stable demon hunters looked at the Demon King Legion soldiers beside them with awkward glances. However, none of the latter made a sound. La Nina was just indifferent. He said: "Everyone has a dark side in their heart. Extracting and amplifying a specific dark side is not a clever trick for us demons. It's just that the guys who manipulate the minds of the Presbyterian Order and the Saints are more powerful. That’s all.”
Bai Huo murmured softly: "You are quite generous."
"In our homeland, every breathing creature in the world wants to kill us," La Nina shrugged. "We have long been accustomed to being hostile to everyone. By a lower standard, you are simply a model ally, at least you Literally charge into battle with us.”
"Bringing the topic back to you first," Hao Ren waved his hand to interrupt the conversation between La Nina and Bai Huo. He looked into Claude's eyes, "So it's that 'voice', that guy who manipulates thoughts, that affects the Presbyterian Order and the Saints? The current state of this tower..."
He raised his hand and pointed at the remains of Saint Bedolis: "And his current fate, is it also because of that 'voice'?"
Claude didn't notice Bedolis not far away until now. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Saint!"
"He fell here when we found him. The way of death was very strange. His body completely turned into a state of smoke. In the end, only the clothes and some ashes were left," Tutanin explained the situation here. , "So what's going on here?"
There was a trace of panic in Claude's eyes, as if recalling what happened in this tower still frightened him, he lowered his voice: "We awakened an ancient will... a powerful, incomprehensible, incorporeal thing Awakened in this tower, and then quickly affected everyone through the mysterious connection between the various ruins of Corpus."
"Who specifically woken it up? Why did it wake up? What was the original shape of that thing?" Hao Ren asked questions one after another.
"It's the saints," Claude's answer was as expected. "After Elder Hasselblad came back from Ancatero territory, the saints summoned him, and then they immediately had several secret discussions. I don't know their specific details. We were discussing something, but every saint was obviously nervous after that. Then the saints took out a certain ancient sacred artifact from the treasure house and held a ceremony in the ceremonial hall. The situation started to go wrong after that ceremony. .”
Claude tried his best to remember and describe the situation after the ceremony: "At that time, only the saints entered the ceremony hall, and the others were ordered to wait outside. There was a strange buzzing sound coming from inside the door, as if countless people were There was a general quarrel in the hall. Then the ceremony ended, but the saints did not leave the ceremony hall. They sent orders to continue meditating in the hall for a while. My relatively clear memory ends here, and what happened after that... Everyone’s emotions became a little strange, but no one was aware of this abnormality at all. The impact was subtle, and it had already taken effect before we were aware of it.”
"That is to say, at least in your memory, those saints have never left since they entered the hall?" Hao Ren stared at Claude, "Except for the power of 'something' running out of the hall, No one or anything left there, right?"
Claude thought for a moment and nodded vigorously: "That's for sure."
"I'm afraid they were destroyed after the ceremony, at least at the spiritual level." Vivian pointed to the remaining set of clothes and some ashes of Bedolis. "Bedolis may have barely escaped, but only Sticking to this place, the message on the wall is all the information he could leave at that time.”
Lily turned to look at the message on the wall: "According to the message...'that thing' should still be in the ceremony hall."
Bai Huo was a little doubtful: "But the entire Corpus has been 'infected' by it, will it still stay in the hall?"
"Because it hasn't completely escaped," Hao Ren blurted out. "What leaked from the hall was only its power. The saints probably noticed that something was wrong in the second half of the ceremony, so they should have used some method to remove it." That thing's body is imprisoned at the ceremony site!"
Vivian had an instinctive distrust of the witcher saints: "How do you know those saints would do this?"
Hao Ren pointed to Bedolis' last words on the wall: "Because they didn't want to release that thing at all - they didn't even know they would release it!"