Chapter 807: Chapter 502 Will
Generous Church District.
In the sunny garden, Chen Lun and Floey were sitting on a wooden bench. The tranquil girl with light golden hair leaned against his chest, and Chen Lun gently watched her resting face with her eyes closed.
“Floey.”
“Hmm…”
The girl lazily humd in response.
“I might need to go out for a while.”
Chen Lun said softly.
“Alright, I’ll still wait for you here like before.”
Floey said, with a faint smile on her lips.
Chen Lun’s eyes also reflected a tender smile.
He still rembered the past when he fled with Floey from the dungeon of the Red Apple Church. Every ti he ca back from an outing, she would silently stand at the gate, not knowing how long she had been waiting, and finally softly say, “You’re back.”
He lowered his head to gaze at her, and after a mont, he spoke in a low voice:
“But this ti, I can’t guarantee I’ll co back.”
Floey’s brows furrowed slightly as she slowly opened her eyes and sat up, her light purple eyes flickering with worry and tension.
“Is it so kind of danger?”
She cleverly guessed sothing.
“You could say that. But this ti is different from the past; I can’t avoid it…”
Chen Lun smiled slightly.
Floey tightly grabbed his hand and said in a deep voice:
“I’ll go with you!”
Chen Lun rely shook his head.
“It’s useless. This is my destiny; no one can help … If I don’t make it back, I hope you can take the rest of the Circus and leave the Royal City, find a hidden corner to slowly grow… The coming turmoil in the Spirit World will beco even stronger. Only by ascending to a higher position can you forge a future.”
He had already prepared for the worst. If he failed in his challenge against Destiny, Howard shouldn’t implicate Floey and the others. But the waters in the Royal City were too deep, and the main storyline had many uncertainties. Therefore, Chen Lun hoped these companions could leave and live well.
He believed that with the talents of Floey and the others, they would definitely reach great heights one day. In that case, he wouldn’t have to worry anymore.
After listening to his words, which sounded like a farewell speech, Floey could no longer control her emotions. Her eyes glistened with tears, and her ethereal voice trembled:
“Who is your enemy?”
Chen Lun didn’t answer her. He just quietly stared at her beautiful face, as if trying to imprint it deeply in his mory.
Floey was a bit angry. It was the first ti she truly felt angry at him. Her clenched fingers were even turning white.
“You have to tell who it is… If you die, I need the motivation to keep living… I will avenge you at all costs!”
Chen Lun felt Floey’s intense emotions and unwavering determination. As he watched tears welling up in her light purple eyes, his heartbeat briefly stopped.
Then he sighed softly.
He raised his hand to cup the girl’s face, gently wiping away her warm tears with his thumb. Chen Lun gazed into her eyes and said in a deep voice:
“His na is Howard… If I fail, he will then ascend to beco the Angel of Destiny, and you will stand no chance!”
“Even so, I will silently gather strength until I reach the sa height… and then kill him!”
Floey said resolutely.
She looked at the face she loved so deeply and changed her tone to gentleness:
“Don’t forget our promise. If you forget, or if you get lost, we will eventually et on the Moon.”
Chen Lun gave her one last embrace.
It was both a farewell and a response.
Because behind this vow, it symbolized Death… If he did not return, Floey would surely find a way to avenge him. Regardless of whether she succeeded, she would inevitably die.
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Under Floey’s calm gaze, Chen Lun left the garden alone.
He didn’t tell the rest of the team about this. It was both to avoid worrying them and because there wasn’t much point.
This was his own matter; no one could help.
However, just as Chen Lun was about to find a place to enter the Dream Realm, he saw Alec rrily humming a song while walking down the path, returning from outside play.
The two of them exchanged a glance.
Alec grinned, placing a hand over his chest in salute, then exclaid loudly:
“Mr. Jack, safe travels!”
Chen Lun couldn’t help but stop in his tracks and look deeply at the fellow in front of him.
For a long ti, he had suspected that Alec harbored big secrets, but no matter how he probed, he found no clues.
Now this seemingly casual remark coincided especially well with what he was about to face.
“Do you know what I’m going to do?”
Chen Lun asked with a light smile.
Alec shook his head in confusion, then shrugged and said:
“No idea, but aren’t you about to go out?”
“Forget it…”
Chen Lun sighed, feeling he was being too sensitive.
Yet Alec hurriedly added:
“Oh, Mr. Jack, I found so inspiration during my journey this ti and wrote a brand new poem. Would you like to listen?”
“No, maybe next ti.”
Chen Lun politely declined, preparing to leave.
“Just listen! It won’t take long! Mr. Jack!”
But Alec persistently ca closer.
“If you don’t listen, it ans you look down on , the great minstrel Alec! No way! I have to make you listen!”
As he spoke, he pulled out a harmonica and began to play a tune.
The prelude was quite captivating and delightful, showing Alec’s extraordinary musical talent. However, Chen Lun had no mood to listen at the mont. He walked forward with a helpless expression, while Alec followed him, playing like a street perforr asking for tips.
Eventually, Alec, out of breath, put down the harmonica and began to recite the poem loudly:
“… If it is not you who doesn’t fit this era, then it is the era that doesn’t fit you! Great foreign god! You shall return triumphantly!”
Chen Lun stopped again. This ti, he stared at Alec and said in a deep voice:
“Foreign god?”
“Uh… Did I get sothing wrong? I heard you used to call yourself the ssenger of the foreign god, and my inspiration ca from that. So I wanted to sing a song for you!”
Alec stopped reciting, asking in confusion.
Chen Lun was silent for a few seconds and did not answer. Instead, he asked impulsively:
“Do you think I can co back?”
Alec was startled at first, then raised his eyebrows and laughed lightly:
“Of course.”
Monts later.
Chen Lun deeply gazed at Alec’s departing figure, increasingly feeling that this guy was like a fog.
He didn’t linger any longer and disappeared after taking a step.
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Outside the Royal City.
The evening light gradually dimd. In a very remote countryside, a figure slowly walked by.
Chen Lun found a spot under a tree and sat down.
First, he lit a bonfire the size of a washbasin, then took out the ritual materials he had prepared beforehand and arranged them nearby. He then placed the silver staff flat on his knees. Closing his eyes, he prayed to Cat God Maggie and Philip in his heart.
This ti, he did not expect a response from the two, he just wanted to inform them that he was about to enter the Dream Realm to confront Howard.
In the silent environnt, only the crackling sound of burning wood could be heard.
After a while.
Chen Lun slowly opened his eyes.
There was a hint of disappointnt in his eyes.
As expected, he did not receive any response.
‘It’s ti to go…’
Chen Lun sighed inwardly, took off his hat, used it as a pillow on the grass, and imdiately lay down.
With a slight operation of the [Fleurette ditation], Chen Lun fell asleep within two breaths…
His consciousness remained clear from start to finish, but the environnt in his dream was a process from nothing to sothing. Chen Lun stood quietly in a white space, watching the surroundings gradually transform from rough lines, to twisted and blurry buildings and street scenes, and finally into a plaza very similar to the real world.
Without paying any attention to the various people in the dream, he followed the direction indicated by the staff’s curve and found the underground staircase leading to the Dream Realm.
Just like last ti, he walked down 70 steps and arrived at the area of the “Door of Slumber”… Chen Lun had originally prepared to negotiate with the Lady of Sighs, but this ti, only the stone door stood quietly, with lifelike carvings of various hideous ocean creatures on it.
Chen Lun glanced around at the empty, dim hall and couldn’t help but let out a breath.
If possible, he didn’t want to face the Lady of Sighs directly.
Although he had ascended to a high rank, he still had so apprehension about the Angel of Pain. Of course, Chen Lun had read so mysterious texts before and learned a little about the Lady of Sighs… although she was entrusted with guarding the “Door of Slumber,” she had never hard any unlucky trespassers. If certain conditions were t, she would even let people through.
From this, he knew that the Lady of Sighs was not fundantally chaotic or evil, which gave Chen Lun the idea of negotiating with her.
He leaned on the silver staff, took a step forward, and directly crossed the stone gate.
The staircase continued downwards. Chen Lun walked down another 700 steps. When his vision widened, he once again arrived in the gray forest environnt.
Taking out “Tragic Prince,” which he had bought from the newsboy earlier, Chen Lun perford a divination with the staff and quickly obtained Howard’s location.
The reason it was so easy, on one hand, was due to the “man of destiny” bonus. On the other hand, perhaps Howard deliberately exposed his position to let Chen Lun find him.
“Howard…”
Chen Lun murmured the na and his face beca solemn.
He took a step forward and disappeared from the spot.
In the depths of the Dream Realm, at the top of the Crystal Mountain Range, a black-hatted figure silently appeared on the barren black rock, gazing towards the other side of the mountain.
Chen Lun’s expression changed slightly.
In the Immortal Realm, reaching this sa location would only reveal a void and a never-ending high wall… but now, what was reflected in his eyes was a dazzling star river, an endless sea of stars. At the end of that vast star sea, amidst the high walls, one could vaguely see a lighthouse emitting a rainbow halo!
And in the midst of the endless shining star sea, a solitary blonde man sat on the ground, his back to Chen Lun, seemingly imrsed in appreciating this beautiful and vast spectacle.
Chen Lun took a deep breath and his figure transford, instantly crossing the vast distance to stand quietly a few dozen ters away from the blonde man.
The man seed to notice sothing and chuckled softly.
“You still ca, Jack.”
He stood up, turned around, and wore a satisfied smile.
Then, he slowly took off the gold-rimd glasses on his nose, combed his blonde hair back, and reached out his hand, saying:
“Let reintroduce myself, I am Philip Howard.”
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