Chapter 1043 Empty Box
“…Why did they let the mad king live?”
Yasen didn’t understand: “Don’t they just want him to become a god? Even if the mad king becomes a god, what will he do? Will he expel all the sons of the moon from the country?”
But during the reign of the Swan King, the sons of the moon kept a low profile.
There were so many nobles who were not human that even the sons of the moon became anthropomorphic.
At that time, the Swan King could not have such a strange need. It can even be said that the sons of the moon and the Swan King are almost in the same camp - at least they both need to get these nobles out. If the sons of the moon come to power, they are at least willing to obey the orders of the Swan King and will not openly assassinate him.
"At first, maybe they just wanted to prolong his life."
Evans guessed: "I guess... maybe they wanted to revive him so that the Son of the Moon would have a chance to become a high-ranking official in the Iris Kingdom; since the three grand dukes didn't know the truth, they might also think that the death of the Swan King was related to the three grand dukes. They might think this was an opportunity.
"It's also possible that they just wanted to force the Swan King to be transformed into the Son of the Moon. It's not impossible... As long as the Swan King's head is cultivated with the adaptability of the Path of Love, even if it only has the power of the first energy level, the Son of the Moon can use the 'corpse' of this head to make a complete Son of the Moon Swan King.
"For the Son of the Moon who has always longed for a country that belongs to them, this is also a way to fulfill their wishes."
He was really guessing.
Because Aiwas's task is basically fast forward and CG is basically skipped, he knows that some of them are either the beginning of CG that cannot be skipped, or those that can be understood roughly even if you fast forward and see a few words clearly.
For example, this mission is because a wild "dream medium" appeared in Iris. Dream mediums refer to people who are born with lucid dreams. They are extremely rare, and most of them are ordinary people. Although there are some extraordinary people, they have basically become dream monks.
Because they can have lucid dreams, they can distort their dreams at will and create entrances to designated areas in the dream world out of thin air.
Through this entrance, extraordinary people in the material world can directly enter the dream world by entering dreams. Dream mediums can also often enter the dream world by themselves... Although the dream world is extremely dangerous, they may also be accompanied by some friendly creatures and protected.
After all, they are not in and out, but can enter and exit at any time. Therefore, some dead people will use dream mediums to bring messages to people in the material world, or conduct some illegal cross-border transactions that "do not conform to the principles of sand clocks".
- They can be called fairy smugglers.
In this mission, the protagonists need to go to the dream world to investigate one thing - the crown master suddenly lost his response, and even the pope could not call him. So one of the cardinals found a dream medium through his connections, hoping that they could take the protagonist and his party to the dream world to see the situation.
The mission at that time used the dream world passage opened by Yasen's dagger.
In the first adventure, they did not find the crown master - or rather, the dream medium had said before they set out that he had not been able to enter the dream world for a long time, and it had been like this recently, "the signal was not very good." But the cardinal naturally did not believe it... because there would be no "signal" to enter the dream world without a dream medium.
As a result, when they tried to enter the dream world, they understood why the dream medium said so - because the "dream" of the entire iris was tied up.
People's dreams were extracted by some kind of force, twisted into a vortex, and could not flow into the dream world.
Aiwass remembered the scene at that time very clearly - the end of the gray-white sky in the dream was twisted into a funnel-like rainbow color.
It was like there was an aurora above the dark clouds.
- This is actually a very dangerous signal.
The dream world is a reflection of the material world. It is the common subconscious of all intelligent life in the material world that together created a clear dream world. Without these consciousnesses, the dream world is a void of chaos. Only when the first fire of wisdom is ignited in the void, the dream world has order and color, and only then does it have the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon.
Just like a virtual network built with the computing power of all machines - this is also the general direction of the pillar gods of the dream world to maintain the stability of the material world... at least the reason why they do not want large-scale disasters or wars to happen in the material world.
And the current situation is that the dreams of the Iris people are being gradually stripped away from the dream world.
- In other words, someone tried to block the subconscious network of Iris.
So they were forced to return to the material world to investigate and check the situation. It turned out that the incidence of "nightmares" in the entire Iris range was very high, so high that people thought it was normal. Even foreign tourists who came to Iris to have nightmares only thought that it was because "the night of Iris was disturbing" and they were frightened and did not sleep well.
But this is not the case.
It is that when everyone dreams, their spirit is being extracted by a certain big ceremony.
As we all know, extraordinary people can restore their mana when they are dreaming. The principle of those alchemical potions that quickly restore mana is basically to make people enter dream sleep immediately, skip those dreamless sleep, and directly contact the dream world with high intensity to restore mana.
But even ordinary people will not gain mana when they contact the dream world.
To be precise, it is because their souls cannot store mana correctly. So if people keep dreaming, they will feel very tired.
It is because the washed mana slightly hurts their souls, just like the stones polished to smoothness in the river are actually "slightly hurt" to become smooth.
And this grand ceremony of Iris is to let everyone supply all the overflowing mana to one place when they are dreaming.
For extraordinary people, this will not be any different - the promotion ceremony does not enter the dream world through this channel, and ordinary extraordinary people will not have the need to enter the dream world, and their mana is also recovering normally. That is, the dream medium will occasionally feel that "today's network connection feels unstable", but since it can be connected correctly at ordinary times, it is not a big deal.
But for ordinary people, this will increase everyone's mental burden. The mana that was originally not absorbed at all has to be actively absorbed now. This process will undoubtedly aggravate mental loss...which leads to the mental instability of Iris people.
However, this indirectly increases the probability of the emergence of extraordinary people - people who are half crazy are usually easy to become extraordinary people, and long-term absorption of mana also makes it easier for their souls to be opened up into containers. In fairy tales and martial arts novels, it is the kind of meridians in the whole body that have been opened up long ago, so it will be easier to develop.
——In principle, someone is using their brains to mine.
Once this matter is realized, it becomes serious.
It’s not that this has caused irreversible damage to people... but because it takes the brains of civilians in an entire country to mine, and it’s unknown how many years it has been mined. What are they going to do with this level of mana?
Assuming that this "Dream Vortex" is only open for one month in a year, it has only been open for a total of ten years - that also means that a wave of terrifying mana has been accumulated that is enough to easily blow up the entire iris!
——This level of mana is enough to create a god out of thin air!
Later, the players discovered... someone really is creating a god.
As a former fourth energy level, the Swan King has the ability to write scripts and control fate. And he was stuck at the critical point of being promoted to god, and the grand ceremony was halfway through... At this time, he could easily exert extraordinary abilities far beyond his usual level. Because at this time, he was considered a "reserved celestial official".
As long as his promotion ceremony was over, he would be able to obtain the position of celestial official.
"As a result, the Count of the Son of the Moon was stuck at this node... He sealed the Swan King, who was a "demigod" but had only one head, in the "Box of Nothingness". This is a magic box full of nothingness power, and as long as the mechanism is pressed, the people inside will lose all thoughts and give up all dreams.
"And because the Swan King has not actually died, he can hypnotize the Swan King's head and inject information through whispers, so that the unconscious Swan King can have corresponding dreams, and use his subconscious to write a "script"... In disguise, guide the future of the entire Iris. "
Evans said slowly: "He only needs to press the mechanism to turn the Swan King's dream into nothingness. So as to prevent the future from getting out of control.
"——Since the third rebellion, the continuous rebellions are all because the Swan King has been dreaming about that dream."
At the end of that raid, the Swan King, who was in a low health state, finally opened his eyes and woke up from the dream, and his name changed.
No longer "the box of nothingness".
But "the almost damaged container of nothingness".
The Count of the Moon Son had no idea how stupid and terrible he had done.
Just one step away...
The Swan King was going to change from the original heavenly master of the path of beauty to the pillar god of the path of nothingness.