Sword of Dawn

intuition……

Driven by her intuition, she finally stretched out her finger slowly and lightly touched one of the grains of sand.

Chapter 1237

Direct contact with shadow dust.

Of course, Amber did not do this simply because she was overheated. Although she usually has a naughty and jumpy personality, her strength of cowardice is beyond the reach of others. Cherishing life and avoiding danger has been her survival principle for so many years—if she is not sure Well, she wouldn't casually come into contact with such unknown things.

Others have already touched these shadow dusts, whether it was Mordill himself who brought them out at first, or Victoria and Maggie who were responsible for collecting and transporting samples later, they have all touched these sands, and they did not show any symptoms afterward. What is unusual? Facts have proved that although these things may be related to gods, they are not as harmful to ordinary people as other god relics. It is no problem to touch them.

These thoughts quickly turned in my mind, and Huber's fingers had already touched the gray-white grains of sand—such a small thing, there was hardly any tactile sensation on her fingers.

Amber blinked, looking at her fingertips, a small grain of sand stuck to her skin, and the grayish-white edges trembled and spread over her fingertips like mist.

"There's really no response..." She muttered to herself, shaking off the sand with her hands, and leaned back lazily—but the expected touch of leaning on the back of the chair did not come, and she She just felt that she suddenly lost her center of gravity, her whole body fell backwards, and the chair under her body suddenly disappeared—everything in front of her was shaking in disorder, and all this happened so fast that she didn't even have time to exclaim , I felt like I fell firmly on a piece of sand.

"Oh my god..." It was not until this time that Amber's exclamation sounded half a beat later, and the short exclamation spread far away in the endless desert.

A dry breeze was blowing from a distance, and the texture of sand and dust was underneath her body. Amber stared wide-eyed and looked around, and saw an endless gray-white desert stretching in her sight, and the sky in the distance was pale. Everything she sees is only three tones of black, white and gray - she is all too familiar with this kind of scenery.

"Eh..." Hu Po got up from the ground, and those gray-white sands fell from her body one after another. She was stunned for a moment, and then she muttered guiltily, "Isn't it inappropriate to die today..."

Although she was muttering so much, the nervous look on her face dissipated slightly, because she found that the familiar feeling of being able to control herself and her surroundings in the shadow world was the same as before, and the "connection" from the real world was never After disconnecting, she can still go back outside at any time, and she doesn't know if it's an illusion, she even feels that her perception and control of the shadow power is much stronger than usual.

In addition, the environment here is indeed the Shadow Realm she is most familiar with. Her good condition and familiarity with the environment made her calm down quickly.

It's just that she calmed down, but the nervous vigilance in her heart did not dare to diminish at all. She still remembered the information Maggie brought, and remembered the other party's description of this gray-white desert—this place is very likely to be the place where the Shadow Goddess lives. The country, even if it is not the kingdom of God, is also a different space similar to it, and for mortals, this kind of place itself means danger.

This danger is caused by the essence of divinity, and has nothing to do with whether she is "Shadow God's Chosen".

Amber took a deep breath, her cognition of "Shadow God's Chosen" was as firm as ever, and then she began to look around, trying to find the things Maggie described in this vast desert—the mountain-like A huge throne, or the ruins of a city like a black silhouette in the distance.

However, she looked around, and found nothing in her sight except the gray-white sand and some strange black stones scattered on the desert.

"Strange..." Amber couldn't help muttering in a low voice, "Didn't Maggie say that there is a throne or altar as big as a mountain here..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the sound of the wind, a gust of wind that came from nowhere suddenly swept past her, and the monstrous gray-white dust was blown up by the wind, rumbling in front of her like a mountain rising from the sky Long ran over, and this terrifying scene that covered the sky and the sun caused Hu Po to rush out for more than ten meters in an instant with a "Oh my God". Head, and made a plan to run back to the real world once the sandstorm really crushes it.

However, she didn't feel the sand falling on her body. The rumbling noise came and went faster. After a while, she felt that the sound in her ears disappeared, and the oppressive feeling brought by the monstrous sand and dust also followed. After disappearing, she kept squatting on the ground with her head in her arms and waited for several seconds before she dared to stand up slowly and turn her head.

She saw a huge throne standing in front of her eyes. The bottom of the throne was like a collapsed ancient altar. The collapsed and broken stone pillars were scattered around the throne, and each pillar was bigger than anything she had ever seen in her life. The thickest tower is even more spectacular, and near the altar of the throne, you can see the broken slate floor and various scattered and damaged objects, each of which is huge and exquisite, like a fragmented heritage in an era that has been forgotten by the world presented before her eyes.

Amber stared at all this with wide-eyed eyes, and even forgot to breathe for a moment. It took her a long time to wake up, and vaguely realized that the appearance of this throne was most likely related to her "idea" just now.

"That is to say..." She muttered in a low voice, and slowly turned her head to look across from the throne. Now she is no longer the little thief who knew nothing many years ago. This kind of information allowed her to accumulate extensive occult knowledge, so facing the strange situation at the moment, she quickly had a preliminary conception, "These things are already here, but before I realized them, they were nothing to me. Invisible? Or..."

She looked at the endless desert in the distance, and recalled Maggie's description in her mind: There was a black silhouette on the opposite side of the desert, which looked like a city ruin, and Ms. Ye sat on the slope as if watching the ruins forever. On the decadent throne...

The desert in the distance seemed to have changed faintly. The hazy sand and dust rose from the end of the horizon, and black silhouettes began to emerge in the meantime. However, just before those shadows were about to condense, Amber suddenly reacted and tried her best to control it. She recalled her own associations with those "city silhouettes"—because she suddenly remembered that there was not only a city ruin, but also a crazy, twisted, indescribably terrifying monster!

"I can't think about it anymore, I can't think about it anymore, if I think about it, I don't know what will appear... As long as you can't see that kind of thing, it's fine, as long as you can't see it, it's fine, don't see it, don't see it..." Hu Po Breaking out in a cold sweat, the knowledge about divine pollution was frantically alarming in her mind, but the more she tried to control her thoughts, the more the thoughts about "city silhouette" and "twisted and chaotic meat" stopped in her mind. It kept popping up, and in desperation, she bit her tongue hard, and then a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in her mind——

"Let the function y=f(x) be in a certain interval..."

Amber desperately recalled the "Ultimate Horror, Darkness, Nightmare, This World's Darkness, Eternal Uncleanness, and Shocking Book" that she saw in Gao Wen's study room. As soon as she recalled the beginning, she felt that her mind was blank—don't say anything. There are city silhouettes and indescribable pieces of meat, she almost forgot her own name...

"Huh... so dangerous... Fortunately, this thing works."

The half-elf lady patted her chest, and glanced into the distance with lingering fear, and saw that the shadow that had just emerged from the end of the dust had indeed retreated to the "invisible place", and this confirmed her guess just now : In this weird "Shadow Realm Space", the state of certain things is related to the observer's own "cognition", and she, a "special observer" who has a long history with the Shadow Realm, can control it to a certain extent The range that you can "see".

As for certain things related to divinity, as long as they cannot be seen, touched, or heard, as long as they do not appear in the cognition of the observer, then there will be no contact and influence.

"Unbelievable... Is this the authority of the Shadow Goddess? Or do all the kingdoms of God have this characteristic?"

Amber muttered in a low voice. In fact, she didn't usually have the habit of talking to herself, but in this too quiet desert, she had to rely on this kind of talking to herself to calm her nervousness.Then she withdrew her gaze into the distance, and to prevent herself from accidentally thinking about things she shouldn't think about again, she forced herself to turn her gaze to the huge throne.

On the throne, she didn't see the mountainous figure that Maggie mentioned could cover the sky by standing up.

"This should be the place Mordir saw in the 'dream'..." Amber muttered inwardly, "According to Maggie, the Shadow Goddess is sitting on this throne... Where is she?"

Standing under the throne, she raised her head with difficulty, and the mottled ancient boulder and the altar were reflected in her amber eyes. She stared blankly for a long while, and couldn't help but whisper softly: "The Shadow Goddess... This place is really a shadow." Is it the kingdom of the goddess?"

She looked at her side, a broken boulder that fell off a certain pillar was stuck in the nearby sand, and there were thick and beautiful lines on the boulder. It has been standing here for many years. Scales seem to have lost their usefulness here.Thoughtful, Hu Po stretched out her hand to touch the pale stone, only to feel a cold touch, and a... emptiness.

She is the Shadow God Chosen.

She had heard the voice of the Shadow Goddess more than once.

That voice is warm and bright, without the slightest hint of "darkness" or "coldness". That voice will tell her many happy things, and it will patiently listen to her complaining about the distress and difficulties of life, although the frequency of this voice has become more and more frequent in the past two years. There are fewer and fewer, but she can be sure that the feeling brought by the "Goddess of Shadow" is completely different from this barren and desolate desert.

The lingering atmosphere in this desert...is not from the Shadow Goddess, at least not from the "Shadow Goddess" she is familiar with.

But this desert still gave her a very familiar feeling, not only familiar, but also very kind.

Amber took a deep breath, turned around and walked towards the throne, she climbed up the huge stones around the fallen altar at the bottom of the throne, and crossed the huge gap between the stones that seemed to be a gap-the size of the throne So large that even if she had stood beside its pedestal before, it would have been a long and arduous climb to actually reach the foot of the throne.

She didn't know what she wanted to do, she felt that she probably just wanted to know what she could see from the direction of the throne, or maybe she just wanted to see if there was any different scenery on the throne, she felt that she was really daring—— The owner of the throne is not here now, but she might show up sometime, but she still dares to do this kind of thing.

But she still climbed towards the throne unswervingly, as if something there was calling her.

But just when she finally arrived at the foot of the throne and began to climb its body covered with ancient mysterious lines, a voice suddenly came from not far away, scaring her almost to the point of rolling back to the original path——

"Little girl, what are you doing?"

Amber was startled immediately, and she sat down on the ground as soon as she let go of her hands. The next second, she jumped up like a frightened rabbit, and immediately hid behind the nearest boulder—she still wanted to Using the Shadow Step to hide in the Shadow Realm, I realized that I am now in a different space that is suspected to be the Shadow Realm. The shadows around me only flickered for a moment, and then disappeared into the air without a sound.

She felt her heart beating fast, and she probed her head to pay attention to the movement outside. After a while, the voice came to her ears again: "Little girl, did I scare you?"

It was an elderly voice, gentle and kind, without any hostility. Although only the voice was heard, Amber immediately imagined the figure of a kind old man standing in the distance in her mind, and she immediately began Maggie to provide information, and quickly corresponded to the voice Mordir Wilde heard in the "dream".

The Shadow Goddess is not on the throne, but that voice that is exactly the same as Mordir is?

Amber quickly regained her composure, and roughly determined that the other party should not be hostile, and then she dared to poke her head out, looking for the source of the voice.

"Little girl, I'm here, do you see it? There's a pillar here..."

The voice sounded again, and Amber finally found the source of the voice. She calmed down and walked over there, and the other party greeted her with a smile: "Ah, I didn't expect to see guests here." , and seems to be a normal-thinking guest, although I heard that a very small number of intelligent creatures have occasionally strayed here, but I have never seen it since I came here... What's your name?"

"Amber," said casually, staring at the top of the one-meter-high stone pillar, "Who are you?"

"You can call me Wilder," said the old and kindly voice, "I'm just a useless old man."

Amber took a deep breath, not daring to relax at all: "Mortil Wilde? Are you that great adventurer?"

"I don't know what Mordir you're talking about, my name is Wilder, and I'm indeed an adventurer," the great adventurer who called himself Wilder said happily, "I really didn't expect...do you know me? "

"I don't know you, but I know you," Amber said cautiously, then raised her finger and pointed at the other party, "And I have a question, why are you...a book?"

Chapter 1238 A Word of Warning

It was a thick book with a pitch-black cover. The cover was made of an unknown material. It was as smooth as a mirror, and there were dots of light shining from time to time inside. Think of all the people who are busy on the streets of the imperial capital, but other than that, there are no words or symbols on the cover of this big book, neither the title nor the author.

It just lay quietly on the top of the stone pillar, the cover of the starlight seems to guard the contents of the book tightly, and the stone pillar itself is reminiscent of the reading desk in a church or library... Perhaps, it is really this effect?

Amber couldn't help but glance back at the huge throne. Compared with the mountain-like throne, the small stone pillar and the big black book on the pillar in front of her can be described as small as sand... If If this is Ms. Ye's reading desk, then it must be quite uncomfortable for him to use this thing...

Amber's head couldn't help running out of tune associations, but her attention soon returned to the big black book, and she heard the old and gentle voice from the book again, with a smile in her voice Meaning: "Yeah, I do seem to be a book, even though I feel like I was once a human...human being, isn't it amazing?"

"Have you always been like this?" Amber asked the question cautiously. Although she was roughly sure what was going on with this weird place and this weird "big book", under the premise that the situation was unknown, her every One sentence must be well thought out, "How long have you been in this place?"

"Always... that's an interesting question, because I don't know why or when I came here," the voice from the big book said with a smile, "I've been here for a long, long time. Yes, but here, the passage of time is very indistinct, and I'm not sure how long I've been here...how did I become a book?"

The voice from the book seemed a little confused. He seemed to be recalling it, but finally sighed regretfully: "I have no memory at all."

Then he paused, and then said with a little curiosity: "It's you, little girl, how did you come here? You don't look nervous at all... you don't look like an ordinary person who strayed into an unknown place at all. "

"I...my situation is quite special," Amber responded to the question of the "great adventurer Wilder" while deliberating, "I come from the Shadow Realm, so I know more or less about this place."

"Oh... the world of shadows..." The voice in the book seemed to be a little blurred for a moment, as if the thoughts of the great adventurer were disturbed by some hazy memories that suddenly appeared, "I know, there are always people in the world of shadows. Strange things will happen... but to be honest, I never knew that there would be human-looking creatures like you in the Shadowlands, or...half-elves?"

This topic will continue endlessly, and Amber immediately took advantage of the moment when the voice in the book paused to take the initiative of the topic back to herself: "Mr., do you know where this is?"

"Here? Oh, this is Ms. Ye's divine kingdom," the voice in the book immediately replied, frankly speaking with a straightforward attitude that made Amber unexpected, "At least it used to be."

Amber opened her eyes slightly for a moment—even though she knew from the previous information that this endless gray-white desert might be Lady Ye's kingdom of God, the impact of hearing this fact with her own ears was still different. , Then she noticed another word used by "Wilde", and couldn't help repeating, "It used to be? What does this mean?"

"Ms. Ye has left His divine position, and she has been away for many years... The Kingdom of God is no longer the Kingdom of God," the voice in the book said slowly, with a tone of exclamation, "He called this place a dislocation. And the forgotten world... I don't quite understand His perspective on things, but this statement is very consistent with the facts—it just sounds a little naughty."

"Where is Miss Ye going now?" Amber asked immediately, and then looked back at the majestic throne. The throne was still empty, and the owner of this kingdom of God showed no sign of showing up. Is it the Kingdom of God?"

"Oh, Ms. Ye is not here now," Wilder's voice replied immediately, with a trace of confusion, "but most of the time he will sit on that throne... I don't know where he went, I just live here temporarily A passer-by here is not qualified to control the whereabouts of the hostess here. But I guess she went to the 'border' to deal with troubles over there... There is an unexpected guest who is always making trouble there, and it is her who deal with the ensuing troubles The main reason for leaving the throne occasionally over the years..."

"Border? Trouble?" Amber was at a loss, and subconsciously wanted to continue asking on this topic. However, the moment she was about to speak, a chill and trepidation that seemed to surge up from the depths of her soul suddenly swept over her. Body and mind, let her swallow all the words abruptly, she was extremely disturbed and confused, she didn't know what was going on with the feeling just now, but she soon came back to it - this was a warning from the depths of her soul , it was her power of "Dark Night God's Chosen" reminding her to avoid deadly danger.

In the past few decades of life, this kind of warning will only appear in extremely rare cases, but the facts afterwards prove that every warning has never gone wrong-this is a little secret of hers, and it is also her firm belief One of the reasons why he is the "God of the Night", and the last time this warning came into effect was just before the old Cecil Territory was attacked by the army of mutants.

That time, a strong warning from her heart caused her to run into the cemetery of the ancestors of the Cecil family in a daze, allowing her to survive and witness the greatest miracle in the world. This time, the warning stopped her from blurting out Asking—she was in a cold sweat.

Whatever the "border" and "trouble" are, never ask, never listen!It must be a dangerous thing that will cause fatal pollution if you know it!

"Little girl? What are you thinking?" The voice from the book awakened Amber from a state of distraction, and the voice of the great adventurer Wilde sounded with a hint of concern, "Are you worried that you will be trapped here and won't be able to go back?" ?Maybe I can help... Although I can't leave this place myself, it's easier for a 'visitor' like you who has strayed here temporarily to leave..."

"Ah, I was just a little distracted," Amber quickly reacted, and then looked at the big black book in surprise, "Ah, I wanted to ask just now... Has anyone else strayed into this place besides me? "

"Yes, but that all happened before I came here—Ms. Ye said that I stayed here for a short time, and the cases of outsiders entering this place by mistake sometimes only last for thousands of years. Once or twice, so I haven’t met it yet,” Wilder said slowly, “Ms. Nightmare also told me how to send away those visitors who strayed into this place, in case of emergency…”

"How to do it specifically?" Amber asked curiously.

"See that leaning pillar next to the throne? That's the closest boundary beacon from here. Climb to its highest point and just jump down."

Amber's eyes widened immediately, and when she looked at the big black book, the expression on her face was "I have no grievances with you, why do you think I'm a fool"—this kind of expression was obviously "seen" by the book Here, the helpless voice of the old man came from the book: "I knew you would have this reaction... It is said that the visitors who have strayed into this place also have this reaction, but this is indeed the only way to leave this space, at least It's the only way I know of..."

This is not the only way - Amber can't help but mutter in her heart, as long as she knows, Mr. "The Great Adventurer Mordir" who is currently under the care of the Duchess Victoria has entered this world three times in a row and is safe three times in a row After returning, she herself can escape from here and return to the real world through shadow walking, without having to climb any "boundary beacons" at all.

But after thinking about it carefully, she felt that the situation that happened to herself and Mordir could only be used as an example. Maybe... other ordinary people who were accidentally trapped in this "misplaced kingdom of God" really could only crawl A way to leave this world by jumping off a pillar?

She frowned, and looked at the big black book with a serious face: "I really have to climb on that pillar and jump off to get out of here? Why do I have to do this?"

"I don't know the specific principle behind this, Ms. Ye only told me one sentence," Wilde said while recalling, "She said: Falling is a shortcut to waking up from a dream."

"Falling is a shortcut to waking up from a dream...Dream..." Amber's pointed ears trembled, and a thoughtful expression suddenly appeared on her face, "What does this mean? Could it be that this place is actually just a dream ?”

"I don't know the specific meaning of this sentence, but this is definitely not a dream - the power of the entity is in effect here, Ms. Ye once said this herself. Ah... I guess the reason why Ms. Ye mentioned the 'dream' Maybe it has something to do with him often dreaming?"

"Miss Ye often dreams?" Amber frowned, "What does this mean? Why does he keep dreaming?"

"Hahaha, how do I know this?" The old man's hearty laughter came from the big black book, "He just dreams a lot, sometimes he dreams when he is awake, sometimes he dreams when he is asleep, most of the time he dreams ——And I am just a passer-by living here, how can I ask the hostess here why she has a dream?"

"This... well, it's logical," Amber scratched her hair, and while carefully writing down the information she had inquired, she thought about what else to ask, but at this moment, her gaze suddenly fell on On the cover of the big black book, she was very curious about the book that claimed to be "Great Adventurer Wilder" (or is this really Wilder himself?), and hesitated for a few seconds After that, I still couldn't help asking, "That... can I open it for you to see?"

The voice from the book was suddenly a little confused: "Open me?"

"Yes, look, isn't your current form a book? I was just thinking..." Rao Yihubo's strong nerves also felt weird when talking about this matter, she gestured Pawing, the more I said, the more confident I became, "I just wanted to open it and take a look...Of course, if you don't want to, then forget it. If you feel offended, I can apologize..."

"Ah no, of course not, there is nothing to offend, I seem to be a book now, um... a book can be opened and read," Wilder's voice sounded a bit weird, as if he himself It was also the first time I thought of this aspect, "It's so interesting, I never thought of this before..."

"Did Ms. Ye never open you?" Amber asked curiously.

"Of course not. His...is rather large in size, so he may not be used to reading such small books, and he himself said that he doesn't like reading very much," Wilde said casually, and then his tone became a little eager, "Little girl, don't you want to open me and take a look? I think you can try it. I have been lying here for many, many years, and I have never been opened. Now I am suddenly a little curious... this book of mine' What is written in the book?"

Amber suddenly smiled, walked towards the stone pillar, rubbed her hands expectantly, and muttered, "Then... did I really fall over?"

While speaking, her hand had already been placed on the cover of the big black book, and a strange feeling came from touching jade instead of paper or leather. The first thing she felt was coldness, like nothing Life was as cold as a stone, and then she carefully opened the dark cover that was constantly wandering with starlight, and finally opened the first page in her eyes of this unnamed book that claimed to be the "Great Adventurer Wilde".

None of the densely packed written records or mysterious and strange patterned portraits that were expected appeared, and only a few large and eye-catching words caught Amber’s eyes on the slightly white paper:

Watch out for sentries! !

The moment Amber saw these few words, Amber felt her heart beat a little faster. She felt that behind these simple letters, there seemed to be a larger information hidden behind these simple letters. These information tried to enter her mind, but they were As if incomplete, the information had vanished by the time she realized it existed.

She looked at the letters in front of her in astonishment, and after a few seconds of stunned, she subconsciously turned to the next page, and the familiar words came into view again:

Watch out for sentries! !

She realized something, and quickly turned back more pages, so on each page, she saw the repeated warning: Beware of the sentry, be careful of the sentinel!Watch out for sentries! !

"Little girl," Wilder's voice suddenly came from the book, waking Amber up from the state of inexplicable nervousness. The old man's voice sounded kind and full of curiosity, "Have you seen it? What? My life? Or important adventure notes?"

"Watch out for the sentries."

"Watch out for the sentries? What does that mean?"

"There are only these few words in it," Amber quickly closed the page, as if it was hot, "Mr., you really don't know what this means? You keep repeating these words from beginning to end throughout the page." In a word, it sounds like a warning... Beware of the Sentinels!"

"I...I don't remember," Wilder said a little at a loss, "Be careful of the sentry? I have no impression at all, and I don't even know what the 'sentry' you are talking about..."

Amber opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to explain all this to the "book" in front of her. At this moment, a sudden sense of weightlessness and dizziness swept over her, interrupting all her thoughts.

The next second, she felt herself falling backwards and falling firmly on the hard floor...

Chapter 1239 Return and the Distance