Chapter 1245: Chapter 85: Dreamscape
Lu Li slowly woke up and saw the new wound on Langeler’s hand and the bandage ball covered in dust on the floor.
What woke him was unrelated to this. The Exorcists crowded at the window, their faces showing a panic that could infect their companions.
The young Exorcists were still incapable of containing their emotions or accustod to the crises they encountered.
They made way for Lu Li to walk to the window and look towards where they were staring forward—
The sky was like a stormy ocean, waves surging, with terrifying waves looming overhead as if the sea appeared above them.
Unlike the previously encountered invasion where funnel-shaped vortex storms ford, the clouds now rotated slowly and violently, akin to the difference between a torrent and a massive ocean wave.
This was the source that pulled Lu Li out of his dream.
“When did it start?”
“Just when Porter… about two minutes ago, with no on.” Elson answered.
“Porter what?”
“Porter said at that ti it looked like a chimney.”
In so ways, the towering tower indeed looked like a chimney, if the clouds were imagined as smoke.
“Could it be that the outside has started the attack?” Porter speculated.
The possibility was high, at this point Aileen made a movent, excluding emotion or complaint, she might want to remind Lu Li of sothing.
“Just wait a little longer.”
Lu Li planned to observe for a while. They were not short of ti, and he wanted to know what Aileen was saying.
“What’s with Langeler’s injury?”
“We were just about to tell you… he feels we need soone to ‘sacrifice’ in advance. Accept pollution and beco one of the Vortex People.”
“Elena is enough.”
Lu Li said without turning back, telling them about his conversation with Elena: “Do you have any questions?”
“Can we defeat the Vortex People?” Langeler asked.
“Soon, I will create dreams to familiarize you with the Vortex People.”
Dreams were an excellent testing ground, especially after the pure white stone enhanced Lu Li’s control over dreams.
Lu Li’s waiting soon yielded results, the surging waves of the “ocean” returned to calm, only four or five minutes after he woke up.
There was no reason for the Twisted Shadow to end this invasion briefly. Either sothing unexpected appeared outside, or the change was unrelated to Him.
After confirming the waves cald, Lu Li returned to dreaming at this mont, reuniting with Elena in the “Land of New Hope.”
“This phenonon occurs often, but it has beco more frequent recently, sotis appearing several tis a day…” Elena knew the reason for this dream entry, pointing to the bizarre Spiral Tower standing in the sunlight outside the window: “I only know this anomaly is related to the core area and that tower.”
It seems they haven’t discovered their disconnection, or are still figuring out a way.
“Is there anything I can do?”
Lu Li nodded: “I need you to imagine the Vortex People and Vortex Guards. The Exorcists need to familiarize themselves with the enemy.”
“Okay. Actually, they look more terrifying than their real power… but they’re still a massacre for humans.”
Elena’s impression of the Exorcists was still stuck in the Old Era, she only said half true—humans indeed are fragile, but the theory of firearms can allow them to kill the enemy before they themselves are killed by them.
The nightmare-like forms of the Vortex People erged before imagination, ranging from a few circles to dozens of circles, Elena again imagined plastic mannequins before them, commanding the Vortex People to attack them.
Their attack thod resembled a toad’s tongue, projecting coiled tentacles to strike or wrap up the enemy.
“The weakness of the Vortex People is in the brain and eyes. The forr can directly kill them, the latter will cause them to collapse drunkenly or attack all surrounding presences.”
The pale heads and bizarre eyes of Vortex People with only a few circles were easily identifiable, but those with more than ten circles had twisted limbs already curled into unrecognizable forms, relying only on their clockwise twisting body habit to determine the location of the weaknesses.
Elena imagined a spear, piercing their head or eyes. The spaghetti-like heads of the pierced Vortex People let out a mocking wail, those with destroyed eyes disgustingly scattered into noodle-like soft creatures, twisting and writhing, unable to gather.
These ten-ter long distorted at worms resembled maddening nightmares.
Unfortunately, Lu Li couldn’t yet bring others into the dream or gather everyone in the sa dream; otherwise, Elena could construct the Land of Vortex, and the Exorcists repeatedly try in the dream, increasing their chances of success.
“You can wake up now, I’ll go wake them into a dream.”
Lu Li prepared to exit Elena’s dream, she slightly parted her lips as if wanting to speak but stopping.
“What do you want to say?”
The clear eyes of the young Elena reflected a beautiful scene: “Will you… make Bell… the Land of Hope as beautiful as this?”
Lu Li detected the determination hidden within the words: “We don’t need your sacrifice.”
“But sotis sacrifice is inevitable… I don’t want you all to risk your lives to save a monster, so why not as the one to sacrifice? But doing so might let down my sister.”
Elena’s thoughts coincided with Langeler’s.
This is the cruel reality they must face—the knights overcoming thorns to defeat monsters and outwit wizards to finally save the princess only exists in fairy tales.
Silently, Lu Li and Elena exited the dream, returning to reality.
“Do you have the Sleeping Dream Potion with you?”
“Uh… no.”
The Sleeping Dream Potion wasn’t standard equipnt, they wouldn’t carry a useless potion either, having to use primitive ans to fall asleep successively, with Elena helping to watch over them, Lu Li returned to the dream, entering the first erging dream halo.
Lu Li entered Riel’s dream, transforming his yarn-like chaotic, ssy dream into Vortex Town.
“Mr. Luli…”
Riel, who was in a daze at the periphery, hurriedly greeted Lu Li, who appeared beside him.
“Let’s begin.”
Lu Li imitated Exorcists from a few circles to dozens on the streets and houses of Vortex Town, leaving his dream, entering the second halo, the third halo.
After ten minutes or so, Lu Li left the last halo, glancing around—a few halos were mottled and faded, evidently, dreams were turning into nightmares due to the “Vortex People’s” invasion.
But there was also a halo emitting brilliant colors.
That was Langeler’s dream—he fought the Vortex People bloodily, right hand holding a Spirit-Calling Gun with endless bullets, left hand fetching inexhaustible potions from a pouch throwing them towards the surrounding Vortex People.
When tongue-like tentacles coiled him, he would imagine a dagger cutting off the tentacle, then continue attacking—
“This is a dream, I can treat them however I want in a dream.” he explained to the appearing Lu Li.
Lu Li didn’t oppose his shortcut—the Vortex People were fake, but weaknesses real, the venting-like attack could also deepen familiarity with Vortex People’s weaknesses.
However, before leaving, Lu Li created new Vortex People for Langeler and added new content for this dream: Vortex People would appear continuously twenty ters around Langeler.
The state of Lu Li patrolling each dream persisted for several tens of minutes, unsurprisingly woken up again.
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