When Angel returned to the study, he looked back at the tree spirit.
The tree spirit's expression looked calm, but the hidden dancing flames could clearly be seen deep in his eyes.
For the tree spirit, his greatest pleasure, apart from gossip, is adventure and exploration. Unfortunately, his body is restricted to the mirror world and it is difficult for him to go out and explore. This time, it is rare to follow Angel to the hidden room.
He was naturally very excited about this opportunity to explore.
When the tree spirit saw Angel starting to prepare defensive techniques, he said, "If there is really any danger, you don't have to worry about me. I'm just a split spirit, and it won't have any impact even if I die."
Angel nodded.
"You don't have to worry too much. If there is an irresistible danger, I will have someone come over to rescue you as soon as possible."
That's what the tree spirit said, but there was a hint of excitement in his tone, and he seemed to be very happy to see this scene. After all, how can an exploration without danger be called an adventure?
After Angel prepared his own defense, he immediately began to decorate the study room.
He is not only considering his own safety. If danger escapes from the ruins, it is likely to cause harm to other people in the ruins, so he must set up barriers in advance for defense.
After the barrier was arranged, Angel called Baluba over again and asked him to pay attention to the movement of the barrier. Once the color of the barrier began to become rich, he immediately went to the third underground floor to notify the Mushroom Witch, and then took Baruba with him.
Baya and Ku Doudou left the ruins.
After doing all this, Angel finally turned his attention to the knight's armor.
The moment he placed his hand over the magic pattern and prepared to activate it, the eyes of Angel and the tree spirit began to converge. They were alert, but also implied expectation and excitement.
From the moment he came to this ruins and had his guesses about the hidden room, he had been looking forward to this arrival.
What secrets are hidden in the hidden room specially hidden by the owner of the ruins?
Really, just a bedroom?
With the infusion of energy, the repaired magic energy array on the knight's armor began to emit a faint light. The pattern of the magic energy array escaped from the armor and finally fell to the ground, including Angel and the tree spirit.
Arriving within the magic energy array.
Immediately afterwards, Angel felt his eyes go dark, and there was a slight weightlessness under his feet for a moment, but he soon returned to his original state.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that they had disappeared from the study room, which was as bright as daylight, and were replaced by a dark corridor.
The tree spirit was beside Angel, and he was looking back at him.
Angel also looked back and saw a wall behind him. It is worth mentioning that the same type of magic energy array as the knight's armor was engraved on the wall, and the brilliance was escaping.
"It seems like we won't have to worry about how to get back later." Angel muttered in a low voice and focused his gaze directly ahead again.
The corridor looks very deep, but it is not absolutely dark. There are fluorite wall lamps on the walls on both sides, emitting a faint blue cold light. Although the light is not strong, it can barely be used for lighting.
"Let me check it out." After the tree spirit finished speaking, he pointed in the distance, and a leaf with green light appeared out of thin air and floated deep into the corridor with a gust of wind.
A few seconds later, the tree spirit turned around and said: "The leaves were not in danger and reached the end smoothly. Not far from the end, there is a closed door. Maybe that is the bedroom of the owner of the ruins?"
The holographic map of the ruins gate is clearly marked. The sign above the hidden room is a bedroom. Since there is only one door in front, it is obvious that the bedroom is behind the door.
Although the tree spirit detected that there was no danger in the corridor, Angel was still cautious and slowly walked deeper into the corridor.
After walking about a hundred steps, Angel saw the leaf that the tree spirit had released before, floating in front of a familiar door.
The material of this gate is the same as that of the ruins gate, and even the engraved patterns are similar. It is obvious that the builder is the same person.
Angel stretched out his palm, and a pure white phantom limb came out and gently pushed towards the door.
The door was not locked, and was slowly pushed open with the force of the phantom limb.
When the door was opened, Angel and the tree spirit looked behind the door at the same time.
It was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
Angel was about to activate his night vision ability, but before he could make any move, an inexplicable panic suddenly arose in his heart.
The moment panic spread from his heart, he subconsciously took a step back. It was this step that allowed Angel to avoid a sword light from top to bottom.
A clang sound was heard as the sword light collided with the ground, creating a large crater and kicking up a large amount of gravel and dust.
Only then did Angel see a knight's sword slashing out from behind the dark door.
As the long sword appeared, a tall silhouette slowly emerged in the surging darkness.
Is he a human? Suspense flashed in Angel's eyes. Could it be that his previous inference was correct? In fact, the owner of the ruins never left and still stayed in the hidden room?
When Angel showed a vigilant look, the figure in the darkness also stepped out of the door.
There seemed to be some differences from what he imagined. What appeared in front of him was a man wearing knight armor.
The armor was of the same standard as the outside, and looked very ordinary. The only thing that was extraordinary was the knight's long sword, which emitted a dark and cold light.
Angel didn't know whether the knight in front of him was a human being or an empty shell of armor, but through the peeping gap, he vaguely saw a bit of red light.
Why does this color of red light look familiar?
While Angel was still thinking about the red light, the knight's sword was swung high again, slashing towards Angel.
The knight's slashing speed was simply beyond imagination. He swung dozens of dark sword lights almost instantly, blocking all routes around Angel. Angel tried to touch the sword light with his phantom limb, although
It can resist sword light to a certain extent, but the phantom limb will also be severed.
This kind of attack power has reached the level of a formal wizard!
In just one second, several of Angel's phantom limbs were chopped off.
Although the phantom limb can be regenerated, it still consumes the breath of the nightmare world. The current supply of nightmare breath can keep up, but if it is severed again in a short period of time, it will be difficult to quickly restore the phantom limb.
It seems that the battle must be resolved quickly. Angel thought to himself.
The weakest thing about the sword-cutting knight is definitely its armor. Angel is very familiar with this armor. The material is ordinary and can be broken with just a light touch.
Thinking of this, Angel was ready to attack the knight's body.
However, before Angel could make any move, a force came from behind. When Angel subconsciously wanted to fight, he found that this force was gentle and familiar, it was the power of the tree spirit.
Following this force, Angel was dragged dozens of meters away, away from the door, and returned to the middle of the corridor.
Fortunately, the sword-slashing knight did not come after him.
Angel turned around and looked at the tree spirit standing behind him in confusion. He didn't understand why he suddenly pulled him away.
The face of the tree spirit was a little strange: "I just saw that the ground suddenly collapsed in several places, and several bottomless dark abyss appeared. At the same time, some dark vines stretched out long thorny whips from the abyss, pointing at me
Get whipped."
"It's extremely powerful. It's almost a true knowledge level attack. It can break my body into pieces with just one whip."
"Fortunately, the leaves I left at the door could be used as a substitute to withstand the whip." When the tree spirit said this, his expression became even weirder: "However, as soon as my leaf substitute was killed, I discovered
The abyss around me disappeared. Then, I saw you waving your phantom limbs randomly in the air."
When Angel first heard the tree spirit talk about his personal experience, he felt very strange. Bottomless abyss? Black vines and thorny whips? He didn't see it at all. If there was such a big movement, he couldn't have missed it.
aware.
Angel even wondered if the tree spirit was lying.
But then the tree spirit said that he saw himself waving his phantom limb in the air? Wasn't he resisting the sword light? How could he be waving in the air?
The tree spirit also noticed the confusion in Angel's eyes, and he said slowly: "You are indeed waving your phantom limbs in the air, but there seems to be something weird in the air in front of you. Your phantom limbs are being cut off constantly.
.But I can’t see or even feel the danger.”
"Although I can't see what kind of danger you are facing, I have discovered something strange. As long as your phantom limbs are exposed to red light, they will be cut off; those that extend outside the red light are normal.
of."
"You happened to be in a red light. I guessed there might be something wrong with these red lights, so I pulled you out."
Angel felt even more weird after hearing this: "Red light? Where is the red light?"
"The red light reflected in the door." Seeing that Angel was still full of doubts, the tree spirit took him and approached the door again.
This time, they did not approach the door, but stopped when they were still more than 20 meters away from the door, looking at the door at the end of the corridor from a distance.
When Angel looked over at this moment, his pupils shrank suddenly.
The door was indeed pushed open, but the darkness he saw surging behind the door before disappeared. What appeared in front of him now was the door glowing with red light.
The red light reflected from the door even spread to the surrounding walls, making it look like a blood-stained corridor.
There were no knights, no abyss, and no dark vines... Even the floors and walls that had been destroyed by the knight's sword were intact.
But Angel sensed the consumption of the phantom limb and the aura of the nightmare world, and could be sure that his phantom limb had definitely been severed before, and the tree spirit's words also confirmed this.
Could it be that it is a true illusion technique?
A true illusion has appeared, so you can feel falsehoods and bear real harm?
But soon, Angel denied the possibility of true illusion. Although he did not know much about true illusion, his understanding of true illusion was not bad. To put it bluntly, true illusion is still illusion. As long as it is illusion, it is
There will be a rhythm unique to illusion. Angel has not sensed any fluctuations in illusion before. This is definitely not caused by illusion.
If it's not an illusion, then what is it?
Angel looked at the faint red light behind the door in the distance, and then remembered the flash of red light under the knight's mask before. It seemed to be the same red light, and the same... familiar.
Suddenly, Angel recalled a scene in his mind: in the distant sky, there was a huge royal city like a mirage, and the throne was shrouded in a faint red light.
This picture was seen by Angel from a distance when he was on the top of Rainbow Mountain in the ruins under the Star Pond.
At that time, Gentleman Fei was by his side and told Angel that the royal city was where Minister Nuka rested temporarily. As for the ubiquitous red light, it was a kind of light called "nightmare light"
Strange light.
At this moment, the red light shrouding the royal city in Angel's mind overlapped with the red light reflected in the gate in the distance.
Their colors are exactly the same.
"Could this be...the light of nightmares?" Angel looked at the door in the distance and muttered in a daze.
"The light of nightmares?" After hearing this, the tree spirit touched his chin and thought: "So, it is really possible. I remember you said that the light of nightmares is red, right? And Li
When Weiss first entered the ruins, the red light he encountered was the same."
"When Reeves stepped into the ruins, he encountered red light, and those creatures from the nightmare world had not yet entered the ruins."
"Since the ruins under the Star Pond originally had red light, and this ruins have the same origin as the Star Pond ruins, it seems reasonable that there is red light here."
The more the tree spirit talked about it, the more he felt that this guess was correct. Reeves was still staying at the Star Pond ruins, protected by Ness. In the past few days, Reeves reported everything that happened to him in the ruins, including
The smallest details are explained in detail.
Reeves made it very clear that those who entered the ruins with him encountered red light. When bathed in red light, the walls were no longer walls, but turned into rolling lava; the door was no longer a door.
, turned into an abyss leading to the undead; even the ordinary portraits and statues had mutated changes, the creatures in the portraits emerged from the plane, and the statues opened their scarlet eyes...
Even the ground they were walking on was filled with smoke for no reason, and the smoke would drag people into the unknown world.
This point is very consistent with the previous situation.
When the tree spirit was bathed in red light, an abyss appeared on the ground, and dark vines crawled out to attack the tree spirit.
When Angel was bathed in red light, darkness surged inside the gate, and a knight waved his sword.
They were obviously together at the moment, but they encountered two completely different situations. This was exactly the same situation as Reeves said.
"It must be the light of nightmare." The tree spirit said firmly.
Angel also thought about Reeves' situation, and could roughly deduce that the red light in the distance might be the nightmare light that attracts creatures from the nightmare world.
However, now the problem is before them.
Now that we know about the nightmare light, how should we deal with it?