Chapter 1234: Chapter 74: Junction
Through a single-tube telescope with about 10 magnification, the Land of Vortex and the Ashes District were already adjacent.
Perhaps still lacking by a little, but not more than a few steps.
Lu Li handed the telescope back to the Knight Squad.
To truly understand what was happening, they needed a more precise telescope or to go to the junction to investigate.
The latter wasn’t considered, so Lu Li asked rchant Anthony to contact Matthias to scour the warehouse for a potentially higher magnification telescope.
Matthias told Lu Li that there might be telescopes in the battleship and port warehouse, but they only found the Heimgro Number in the forr, which the sea breeze had corroded thoroughly. Lu Li sent a letter to the Twisted Cultists in the underground, asking them to seek out telescopes in the port warehouse.
“You’ve waited all night… You should go rest.”
The Mother of the Marsh advised.
Lu Li did not refuse the suggestion.
If sothing happened, he could wake up in ti, and this ti his role was no longer indispensable.
Lu Li returned to Lake Heart Island, now perhaps the safest place, to rest while he waited.
Lying on a corner bed, the morning light outside the window shone with rare tranquility…
At this mont, Lu Li sat up and took out the eyeball wooden box under the pillow, summoning rchant Anthony to co.
“Have the Knight Squad co over… first ask how long the bats on Silent Hill have been gone.”
rchant Anthony unlatched the door and left the wooden cabin, while Lu Li left the still unheated bed to take the coat from the hanger.
As he dressed, rchant Anthony returned: “About forty minutes ago.”
Lu Li stood by the door. The bat monsters, which cast shadows from the sky every day, were gone, and as he glanced down, knights were hurrying on the distant wooden bridge.
At this mont, an indescribable horror stained the space.
The running Knight Squad beca still, Annie no longer waved her branches, the gentle breeze froze in space, and the Agate Lake without ripples resembled a mirror.
In an unknown tremor, Lu Li slightly tilted his head and said to rchant Anthony, who had not yet left: “Tell the Twisted Figures that they have joined.”
Yet they should already have known.
…
Fragnted voices of conversation echoed in the unfinished square in front of the cave.
Five Banyan Tree Guardians stood at the distant entrance, while Twisted Cultists wandered among the gathering human residents in the square and the Six-legged Monster Shadow Figures on the periphery, providing a sense of security, while the Fluorite Lamp and the Sunshine Box spilling light offered warmth.
They therefore rembered life in the Vena Refuge, but would not recall the despairing atmosphere of that ti — such optimism was sothing their past selves could not possess.
Residents maintained their conversations until the tremor gripped their fervent hearts, causing people to reminisce about the despair and pain once dominated by the grotesque.
The outlying Twisted Cultists whispered, and the pervasive abyssal aura gradually dispelled the pain enveloping the residents.
However, those who had not yet extricated themselves from the previous fear began to worry about the situation above ground.
The Exorcists are still up there…
At the edge of the sa people protected by the Twisted Cultists, the Apprentice Exorcists began to argue.
“Why didn’t the Exorcist let us stay above?”
“We are Exorcists too.”
Hades mockingly stared at the young people arguing, and when they noticed his sneer and fell silent, he sarcastically said, “Stay up there? Exorcists? Huh? Let you stay up there! Let you be Exorcists!”
He suddenly swung his hands wildly as if possessed, attacking these Apprentice Exorcists like a drunken brawler. Unprepared, Yodel and Wenger were hit, Wenger cried out miserably, retreating with tears on his face, clutching his bleeding nose.
This commotion attracted the attention of residents and even the cultists. The Apprentice Exorcists took a few hits, only to belatedly subdue Hades.
In this process, Elson’s face was left with a scratch.
“Need help…” A Twisted Cultist wriggled closer, hissing thickly.
“No need! Not for now…” After a firm refusal, Naveen hesitated and looked at Teacher Hades.
“What’s wrong with you, teacher?” Porter asked with tension and concern.
Hades seed to return to normal but did not appreciate his students’ concern and sneered, “See? You almost couldn’t subdue a crazy sixty-year-old man, yet you want to get involved in a war with the Evil God? Even Ophelia is here. What qualifications do you have to go to the surface? Cough—spit!”
Mucus was rudely spat onto Elson’s shoes.
“We just want to help…”
Porter realized the teacher misunderstood sothing, and helplessly explained, “We saw too much despair in the refuge, and in dreams, we were easily killed by the Waltz of the Dress… we won’t be complacent.”
Hades’ expression stiffened, swallowing with a raised neck, “Lu Li is not soone who will treat you kindly; when he needs you to die, he will show no rcy.”
At this point, the whispering around suddenly sharpened but still couldn’t conceal the indescribable force perating protection.
The Apprentice Exorcists fell silent, with only Hades humming to regain face.
“Did you hear? If you were up there, you’d go crazy in less than ten seconds…”
…
A wondrous and bizarre scene erged from under the cloud cover.
Symbolizing light, sunlight vanished from the depths of the clouds, and the strange phenona produced by the clash of the Land of Vortex and the Ashen Territory changed the sky, like spilled paint, with colors flowing, blending, and intertwining…
When it was discovered that being near Annie reduced dizziness and headaches, Lu Li ca under the Annie Tree.
“Close your eyes.” The Mother of the Marsh whispered.
Lu Li obeyed, closing his eyes and felt a subtle stir on his hair as if sothing had fallen onto it.
“Go save the Knight Squad.”
As the words fell, he heard a sound of bodies hitting the water from a distance, almost buried within the whispers.
“The Twisted Cultists have begun to protect them…” said the Mother of the Marsh, frowning at Lu Li who was discomforted by the abruptly audible whispers, “It will be uncomfortable… but it will not harm you.”
“What is happening?” Luli asked.
“Snowflakes and gale, order and chaos, color and distortion, shadow and death.”
“Be more specific.”
“Like a blizzard falling, order and chaos tearing each other apart, blended colors rging, perating with the shadow of death…”
“Even more specific.”
“I cannot describe it… you would go insane for it.”
“I understand.”
Lu Li, from the Mother of the Marsh’s poetical style description from centuries ago and the scenes seen before closing his eyes, pieced together what was happening: ashes fell like serene snowflakes, but the power of the vortex appeared on each flake, while the colors in the sky twisted around each other, like intertwining snakes in a mating dance…
“Is the Land of Vortex and Ashes District rging?” Standing under the Annie Tree, Lu Li calmly spoke.
That was the most despairing outco.
“Rather than rging, I believe it’s more like the gale tearing the snowflakes apart, and the snowflakes burying the vortex…”
It seed they each wouldn’t compromise, at least temporarily.
Terrifying oscillations Lu Li could not touch continued, entangled, and transpired.
At this mont, the whispers in the void suddenly beca distinct.
The Mother of the Marsh inford Lu Li.
“Philorina has begun…”
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