When Uriel's "dream" state dissipated, although there was still confusion in his eyes, this confusion was different from that in the "dream" state.
In the "dream" state, Uriel feels confused about everything around him, and seems to be wondering whether he is in a dream or reality.
As a gifted citizen, Uriel's confusion in his eyes was more about why he was sitting at the table... and why Luigi came to the second floor.
Uriel rubbed his somewhat swollen head, and some memories emerged in his mind.
Oh, he remembered.
Luigi performed an excellent piece of music that won his approval.
He tried to pave the way for Luigi, and even wrote a letter of challenge to his old colleague Gulemo...
These memories are actually what he "dreamed" about Uriel. As a gifted citizen, Uriel did not know that he had "dreamed" about Uriel's upper body, but the memory was preserved.
Uriel rubbed his brows and said slightly tiredly: "I have already written a letter to Gulemo. If nothing unexpected happens, he should arrive soon. At the latest, it will not take more than two days."
Uriel turned to look at Luigi: "In order not to miss the time, if you want, you should stay with me before he arrives."
"There are two rooms next to it. You can choose one to live in first."
After speaking, Uriel ignored Luigi and came to the piano and played a piece of music silently.
This piece of music is the "Black Sheep Confession Song" played by Uriel not long ago.
Along with Uriel's playing, Luigi also received a fairyland reminder that the mission was completed.
"Special Dream "Uriel's Choice" Main Mission 4, Challenge Successful."
"Evaluation: I am who I am, and I am not a substitute for anyone. Rather than choosing the shortcut of crawling, it is better to stand straight and overcome the thorns."
"Currently, main mission 4 has been completed, and main mission 5 will be started after the rewards are settled."
"Reward settlement: There is no reward for this mission. You can get the storage reward of main mission 3."
"Deposit Reward: Letter of Recommendation from the Chief of the Imperial Music Ensemble."
The main quest 4 this time is actually quite simple. No matter how you answer it, you can ultimately make the main quest a step further.
However, judging from the evaluation given by this fairyland prompt, because he did not choose the "climbing shortcut", he will need to "walk straight through the thorns and thorns" in the future.
Just from the words, you can tell that the road ahead may be bumpy. It is not that simple to get Chief Charlotte's approval.
In addition, the fairyland prompt also makes one point.
Uriel's copy has not yet been completely completed. After he gets back the deposited recommendation letter reward, main quest 5 will probably be released.
"A dungeon with such a small area has such a long task process..." Luigi sighed while settling the rewards.
Soon, the "Letter of Recommendation from the Chief of the Imperial Music Ensemble" was obtained by Luigi.
Although this letter of recommendation was marked as a "Wonderland mission prop", it did not have an independent fairyland space. Luigi had no choice but to keep the letter in his arms.
As the letters of recommendation were collected, the copy of "Uriel's Choice" began the fifth round of main quests.
"Special Dream "Uriel's Choice" Main Quest 5—Challenge: Use the harp to perform and compete with the visitor Gulemo."
"Please note that after Gulemo's visit, he will enter the "dream" state."
"Please note that you can only challenge this task once."
"Please note that in order to win, you must be prepared for battle."
"Main mission 5 will officially start after Gulemo enters the "dream" state."
In fact, before the new main mission started, Luigi had roughly guessed that the new main mission must be related to Gulemo. It turned out that it was really a duel with Gulemo.
Therefore, Luigi was not actually surprised. The only thing worth paying attention to was the sentence in the fairyland prompt: "In order to win, please be sure to prepare for battle."
Preparation before war, what does this mean?
Should we continue to dig out more musical scores to facilitate our response? Or something else?
Luigi was a little confused, so he came to the side and asked Angel in a low voice.
Angel has also analyzed the new fairyland prompts at this time, but unlike Luigi, what he cares about is not the "preparation before the war", but another sentence: Gulemo will also enter the "dream"
"state?
This surprised Angel.
The dream state, to put it bluntly, means that real creatures dream into fairyland through unknown channels.
Uriel can enter the dream state, most likely because there is some unknown level of entanglement between the copy of "Uriel's Choice" and the real Uriel?
In other words, the copy has an extremely deep connection with Uriel.
But "Gulemo" is different. He is a side character triggered by Luigi in the main mission 4.
If Luigi had chosen to "accept the identity of the Joker" at that time, this "Gulemo" would not have appeared at all. In other words, this is a self-evolved variable in the sandbox game.
Since it is a variable that has nothing to do with the main plot, it must not have much to do with the dungeon "Uriel's Choice".
But even so, it can pull "Gulemo" into a dream state. What's going on?
The power of Dreamland is so powerful that it can be pulled into the metaplane at will?
Angel was confused.
The power of Dreamland is indeed very strong, and the water is very deep, but Angel does not think it is powerful enough to pull people in the meta-plane at will.
In the "dream" state, there must be other operating logic unknown to him.
Angel felt itchy at the thought of this.
He was too curious about the rules of "pulling people in". If he could really pull people in at will, wouldn't he be able to pull his mentor Sanders into the dungeon across a whole world?
Of course, Angel personally feels that it is not that simple.
But it doesn't stop him from thinking about it.
Anyway, it’s okay now. Maybe we can take this opportunity to search for relevant information in the power tree?
Just when Angel was eager to give it a try, Luigi asked in his ear: "Wonderland prompts me to prepare for the war. What kind of preparations do I need to make?"
Because of Luigi's inquiry, Angel also temporarily suppressed the thought of searching for power, and instead thought about his question.
After a long while, Angel considered his words and replied: "In my opinion, the so-called pre-war preparations can be roughly divided into two types: either to trick others, or to improve yourself."
What is the purpose of preparing before a battle? To win in the decisive battle.
If you want to increase your winning rate in decisive battles during non-combat times, you must either use extra moves or step up your efforts to improve yourself.
Using extra moves is to trick your opponent.
For example, before the decisive battle, applying external force to the opponent can make him unconscious, or even make the opponent sick and have physical problems... This can greatly weaken the opponent's ability during the decisive battle.
And this is very difficult for Luigi.
After all, Gulemo is still a dungeon NPC who has not appeared in the game yet, and there is no way he can use any external moves.
Since you can't play outside the game, you can only improve yourself.
This self-improvement includes: improving one's piano skills, finding better performance instruments, discovering more musical scores that can be used...etc.
As long as the learning is beneficial to the duel, it is self-improvement.
Luigi scratched his head: "I feel like it's too late to hone my piano skills. There seems to be no way to find a better instrument. I can't leave this dungeon before the end of the main mission... Could it be that I can only continue now?
Looking for sheet music?”
Angel: "Looking for music scores is a way of coping, but there are other ways to improve yourself, such as targeted training."
When it came to targeted training, Luigi immediately thought of how he had asked Angel to help find music scores, asked Jon to help review his performance, and asked helpers to analyze Uriel's micro-expressions in order to gain Uriel's approval.
, confirm Uriel's preferences, and then use this to find a more suitable score.
He was able to secure the third seat in the Imperial Music Orchestra, which shows that targeted training is indeed a very good method.
However, according to the fairyland prompts, he has only one chance for the decisive battle with Gulemo.
There's no way to analyze Gulemo's preferences, let alone do targeted training?
After Angel heard Luigi's question, he smiled.
In the past, Jon often said, "Those who are in authority are confused, but those who are onlookers are clear." Angel thought it was a bit exaggerated, but now looking at Luigi's expression, you can tell that he, as the person involved, has also fallen into a "confusion."
"The analysis of Uriel's micro-expressions was something done before and has been rewritten. Moreover, our special training for Uriel is also because we don't understand Uriel, so we can only start from the very beginning to find flaws."
"But Gulemo is different..."
Luigi looked suspicious: "Gulemo is different? What's the difference? I don't know Gulemo either..."
Angel sighed: "It doesn't matter if you don't know him, but Uriel does."
Uriel made it clear before that there was a gap, or even hatred, between Gulemo and him. And Angel once heard a saying: The person who knows you best is often not your close friend, but you.
's enemy.
This sentence may be too absolute and biased, but in most environmental contexts, it can also be regarded as a motto.
Luigi doesn't know Gulemo, that's for sure.
But it is equally certain that Uriel must know Gulemo.
Therefore, the "be prepared for war" specifically recorded in the Wonderland reminder may not refer to asking Luigi to collect more music scores, but to find a way to understand Gulemo.
Uriel is the best medium to understand Gulemo.
"Also, since there is a gap between Uriel and Gulemo, he may also have some information about Gulemo recorded here." Angel: "You can search the attic to find more information."
Uriel asked Luigi to stay in the attic temporarily to rest, but maybe there were other reasons.
Uriel himself can serve as a medium for Luigi to learn about Gulemo, and the newspapers and books in the attic may also be able to find information about Gulemo.
Collecting this information, concretizing Gulemo's image, and conducting targeted training may be the solution to main task 5.
After listening to Angel's analysis, Luigi also suddenly understood.
Yes, isn’t the biggest intelligence agent Uriel?
Before, the relationship between him and Uriel was similar to that of "interviewer and interviewee". It was basically impossible to get information from Uriel.
But now, he has passed Uriel's "interview", and in a sense, they are already considered "peers".
If asked as a peer, Uriel would most likely not refuse.
Moreover, judging from Uriel's attitude and his current behavior of playing "Black Sheep Confession Song", Uriel admires himself very much.
He was even willing to endorse Luigi with his own identity and wrote a letter of challenge to Gulemo.
He certainly doesn't want Luigi to lose to Gulemo.
After all, it is your own endorsement, and it is your own face that you lose.
In this case, if Luigi asked Uriel for information about Gulemo, Uriel would definitely be happy.
After Luigi realized this, he immediately began to embark on the two major tasks of "searching the room" and "defeating Uriel".
Angel, on the other hand, took advantage of this moment to sink his thoughts into the power tree.
He wanted to search for more inside information about Gulemo entering the "dream" state.
…
Far away in space and time.
Dasman Empire, City of Auroville.
The early morning light slowly awakens this city that has been silent all night. The dim haze is penetrated by golden thorns, and the whole city is immersed in a warm atmosphere.
A corner of the city, on the second floor of a dusty attic.
The summer morning light passed through the broken window and shone on Uriel's face.
Under the warm light, Uriel slowly opened his eyes and woke up from his sleep.
He raised his hand, subconsciously blocking the light outside, and then sat up from the bed with a tired look on his face...
He sat on the bed in a daze for three full minutes. It wasn't until morning singing from the Glorious Church came outside that Uriel's thoughts slowly returned.
The children's choir has its own function of purifying the soul. Even if Uriel does not like the many evil deeds of the Glory Church, he is still happy to listen to the three times a day prayers of the Glory Church.
While listening to the faint singing, Uriel stretched his waist.
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the piano opposite the bed had become extremely clean. In the past, it was full of accumulated debris and dust.
Why does it feel so clean today? There seems to be the fragrance of piano oil in the air?
After a moment of reflection, Uriel thought of last night, Butler Cha's visit, and a fantastic musical dream he had?
In that dream, he heard a piece of music that was almost perfect in his mind to fight against religion.
No, it’s not a dream!
Uriel felt that after Butler Cha left, he fell asleep again, as if he had had a second dream.
In this dream, he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have learned the name of the dream music from a performer.