Today, I led dozens of brothers from the Holy Knights to annihilate a group of horse bandits that were causing trouble in the area and returned in triumph.

Sitting on a tall snow-white horse, I slowly walked into the gate of the imperial capital. The streets were lined with civilians who welcomed my return from victory. They handed me flowers and freshly picked fruits.

The girls cheered at me with shy faces, and the boys looked at me with admiration. I smiled, held my head high, maintained the majesty of a knight, and waved slowly to the crowd.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a strange figure in the crowd. The thing looked like a person, but it didn't look like much. Although the outline of the hands, feet and head could be seen, there were no bumps or curves in the whole body, and there were no curves in the face.

There are no facial features, no hair, nothing.

I was startled and thought I had seen it wrong. I rubbed my eyes and took a closer look. The whole body of the thing was gray-white, and it looked like a gray-white shadow.

I shook a companion behind me in surprise, wanting him to take a look too, but the companion said;

"There's obviously nothing?"

My companion's words stunned me for a moment. I looked around. None of the other companions around me, including the civilians around the thing, seemed to have seen the strange thing. It seemed that I was the only one who could see it.

I shook my head and braced myself to stop paying attention to the strange thing, but that thing seemed to be following me. No matter which direction I turned my head, the strange thing would always appear in my sight.

middle.

My mind began to panic inexplicably. In order to overcome this panic, I drew out my sword and rushed towards the strange figure. As soon as the strange figure saw me rushing towards him, he turned around and ran away. I kept chasing him.

behind him.

The two of us chased and escaped through the woods, across rivers, and over mountains...

The distance between me and the strange figure was getting closer and closer, and now I could see more clearly. The gray, shadow-like figure had a hollow space in its chest, as if it had been dug out by something.

I can see directly from his back to the road in front of him,

I muttered to myself; "This monster is so disgusting..."

I slashed at the monster with my sword, and the flying sword light instantly caught up with the monster, and at some point, a gray, shadow-like sword-shaped object suddenly appeared in the monster's hand;

"Bang~"

My sword light was blocked by the monster, and I shouted: "It is indeed an evil thing. If you can block my sword, you have some ability!"

I flew up and fought with the monster, but the more I fought, the more frightened I became, because the monster used exactly the same moves as me. No matter what sword skills I used to attack the opponent, the opponent could use the same sword skills.

Blocking my attack, I forced the monster back with a sword, and asked in a cold voice;

"What the hell are you!"

The monster scratched its head in confusion, and suddenly looked up at me. A human face slowly appeared on the monster's originally empty face. I widened my eyes in surprise, because that was my own face;

"Who am I? I forgot..." The monster pointed to his chest; "Did you see it? I lost my heart, so I lost myself..."

The monster's words made my hands and feet feel cold. I seemed to realize something, but I didn't want to admit it.

On a gorgeous big bed, Hunter suddenly woke up. He was sweating profusely and stretched out his trembling palms, picked up a water glass next to the bed, drank a sip of water, took a deep breath, and did it again.

A nightmare.

Ever since he killed the previous leader of the Holy Knights and imprisoned the Emperor of the Empire, he has not had a peaceful night's sleep.

Touching his neck, which was covered with cold sweat, Hunter smiled bitterly and shook his head.

At this time, the bedroom door was suddenly opened, and a man wearing a funny cat face mask walked in. Hunter was stunned for a moment and asked doubtfully;

"Who are you?"

The man in the cat-face mask seemed to smile, and then said: "The leader is really too forgetful. Haven't we met in the palace before? But it doesn't matter. I just came to remind the leader that if you don't

I hope that if another paladin dies, please restore His Majesty the Emperor’s sanity.”

"What the hell are you talking about!"

Hunter was just about to pull away the quilt and get up, but suddenly found that the quilt on his body had not been lifted at all, or that he had not reached out to lift the quilt at all.

Hunter could feel his body, and his brain was trying to give instructions to his body, but this body didn't seem to be his, and he just lay stiffly on the bed, motionless.

"What's going on? What did you do to me?" Hunter screamed;

But when Hunter looked up, he found that the man wearing the cat-face mask had already disappeared. The scene that appeared in front of Hunter made Hunter's scalp numb for a while.

Because he suddenly saw his body lying on the big bed, and his perspective at this time seemed to be on the ceiling. In other words, he didn't know when he was lying on the ceiling, looking down at the other person lying on the bed.

like a statue.

He seemed to be very uncomfortable on the bed, with his eyes closed tightly, and his expression seemed to be very uncomfortable. Hunter wanted to scream, but couldn't make a sound. He could only look at his other self, unable to do anything.

Time passed little by little, and Hunter just looked at his other self on the bed, helpless. At this time, Hunter on the bed suddenly raised his left foot.

It is not accurate to say that it was lifted. The movement was more like someone had tied a rope to the toes and pulled hard.

After that, Hunter on the bed kept his left foot in the air. This weird thing made Hunter's scalp numb for a while, but he still couldn't do anything. It felt like he was being pressed down on the bed by a ghost.

Same.

The next second, Hunter on the bed moved again. He slowly turned his head to the right, and his right cheek was already pressed against the pillow. However, Hunter on the bed did not stop turning. There seemed to be something.

The man was twisting Hunter's head hard.

What frightened Hunter even more was that when he watched his head being turned, he could even feel the sharp pain coming from his neck.

This pain was so real that Hunter could even hear the crisp sound of his neck on the bed. The fear and pain made Hunter almost go into shock. He could only pray in his heart constantly for this kind of pain.

The situation ends immediately.

But God didn't seem to hear Hunter's prayer. Hunter's head on the bed was turned almost 180 degrees before finally stopping.

Immediately, the cat-faced man's voice came in the air again;

"I hope the leader will consider my suggestion carefully and don't let his brothers and sisters die in vain again."

Hunter suddenly sat up with a 'swish' sound. His pajamas were already soaked with sweat. Hunter looked around in shock. After making sure that everything around him was normal, he murmured to himself;

"It turns out it was just a dream...a dream within a dream..."

Hunter twisted his neck and found that his neck hurt very much. It felt like he had a stiff neck while sleeping.

He recalled what happened in his dream just now. Of course he had seen the cat-faced man before. He was the helper that Princess Shasha found when he broke into the palace alone before. However, because he was in a dream, he had incoherent memories.

That's why Hunter didn't know who Ye Zhao was.

"This guy...if the one in my dream just now was really him, that means those Paladins who died in their sleep were all his hands? How could he have such a weird ability...

..."

Hunter frowned, remembering what the cat-faced man said to him in his dream. If the other party really has the ability to enter his dreams, how should he deal with such an invisible and intangible enemy? Is he really going to be released?

His Majesty?

Hunter only considered this idea for a few seconds before being rejected by himself. Since the other party was here to save His Majesty the Emperor, only by holding His Majesty the Emperor in his own hands could the enemy use it as a weapon. Moreover, if His Majesty the Emperor was released,

The things I did before were just...

There was a sudden noise outside the door, and the bedroom door was opened. Hunter looked up. He subconsciously wondered if he was still in a dream, but after seeing that the person who came was his adjutant, he gave up the idea slightly.

idea;

"What happened?"

The adjutant's face was very anxious, and it was still early in the morning. If it wasn't an extremely urgent matter, it would be impossible for the other party to disturb him.

Hunter got off the bed and put on a coat. The adjutant said eagerly;

"Sir, a large number of corpses of Paladins have appeared in the city again..."

Hunter paused for a moment, then asked;

"It's still the same as before. No external injuries were found. Did they all die in their sleep?"

"Yes, my lord!"

"Go and help me find Artis."

"Yes, sir!"

The adjutant quickly walked out of Hunter's bedroom. Hunter had no intention of sleeping at this time. After putting on his clothes, he went to his study alone and waited for Attis' arrival.

After nearly two hours, when the sky began to turn white, Attis finally arrived;

"Mr. Hunter, I heard that you have something urgent to ask me?"

"Well..." Hunter stood up and walked a few steps, then said slowly;

"Artis, you are the best pharmacist in the empire and my closest friend. Now I ask you to make a potion that prevents people from sleeping. Can you do it?"

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