Players looked on with curiosity.
In their understanding, opening this barrier seed to only require reciting a password. So why... had Salvatore taken out a transformation elixir?
Could this be an elixir "used to substitute for saying the password"?
He couldn’t be that abstract, could he?
Moreover, this elixir bottle, which Salvatore had taken out for the first ti on this journey, was opaque — its exterior was wrapped in a copper shell, resembling the kind of laser pointer sold at convenience stores.
But Maria would not keep her doubts to herself.
"What kind of potion is this?"
Upon seeing it, she imdiately asked, "Does your influence pool also require a special transformation elixir to enter?"
"Ah, that wouldn’t be necessary."
Salvatore casually explained, "This is my latest invention... I call it the ’Echoing Elixir.’ Specifically, it stores the influence out of the body and liquefies it.
"If a ritual or spell requires this influence, just consu the corresponding ’Echoing Elixir.’ You can temporarily gain that influence without worrying about it suddenly causing echoes or reacting with other rituals.
"This bottle of Echoing Elixir contains a high-level influence known as ’Star’s Gravitation’... it is used to wedge my shadow."
Salvatore looked up, drank the elixir in one gulp, and quietly explained, "If you enter this influence pool without holding the influence of ’Star’s Gravitation,’ the other consciousness connected to you will swap bodies with you the mont you enter.
"As far as I know, there is a child nad Defu in your side who swapped bodies with her cat. This influence pool requires you to already possess so influences to enter the nightmare... However, if you are just here to investigate, I recomnd taking a look inside first."
"It sounds sowhat like communication evolution."
Lin Yiyi, pulling Jiu’er, whispered, "That kind where snailmouth and coverbug swapped and changed shells."
...So, after the communication evolution, did it transform into a cat hunter?
"I feel it’s more like the fusion summon from the neighboring set..."
And the nas Defu and Chocolate did indeed seem like they could rge.
Thinking of this, Jiu’er couldn’t help but laugh and whispered, "And they now call it connection exchange evolution."
Salvatore did not pay attention to them.
After consuming the elixir, his whole person suddenly exuded a strange charm. It gave a subtle and dangerous "calm" feeling — much like a matte dagger under moonlight, filled with a mysterious allure.
He reached out his hand and placed it over the barrier.
Salvatore softly, fluently chanted in the Elvish language:
"Those who cannot learn lessons from death, are destined to repeat the sa mistakes."
After Salvatore’s words fell, the dark, deep forest in front of him suddenly twisted. It unfolded like a vortex right before his eyes...
Directly looking at it would bring about a dizziness akin to drunkenness. It could even cause one to lose their balance... to the extent that they wouldn’t be able to stand.
As the dizziness gradually dissipated, so "false trees" vanished like phantoms, and so previously hidden clearings finally erged.
On the forest floor, a narrow, twisting path covered in leaves also appeared.
At the end of that path, one could just make out a tall stone gate.
In the deep night, the gate subtly shimred with a pale blue fluorescence.
If it appeared in a ga, it would be the type of mission target that "makes you want to touch it as soon as you see it," as if touching it would transport you to another world.
Although aside from Salvatore, the other people had never actually entered here... the players had been watching the livestream of the children and Defu. Although the livestream from the children’s side had been cut off, the others weren’t affected.
And the child had left a recorded stream as well.
So they wouldn’t be lacking in sufficient information.
"The design of this stone gate... It would be cooler if there were a couple of statues wearing hoods at the entrance.
"If I didn’t know beforehand what this door was for," Lin Yiyi remarked, "I might have thought it led to Draenor."
"You’ve probably been waiting in line too long."
Jiu’er retorted, "The fog inside is clearly white, not a green mbrane."
"It’s also possible that Spell opened a door to Mute Town."
Lin Yiyi argued.
They were frolicking, and had already ventured into the Mist.
Though they had known what would happen, stepping through the door still made them slightly nervous.
This ti they hadn’t brought children... They had no specific influences and weren’t Elves; they probably entered from the side of Xitan Pulan—that is, the "Reality Side of the Influence Pool."
Lin Yiyi and Jiu’er simultaneously shut their mouths and silently passed through the Fog Gate.
At this point, a multitude of unfamiliar prompts suddenly appeared before Lin Yiyi and Jiu’er:
[No Initial Influence: Whisper of Elegance detected.]
[No Initial Influence: Nature’s Hymn detected.]
[No High-Level Influence: Gravity of the Stars detected.]
[No High-Level Influence: Moth’s Fable detected.]
[No Awakened Elents detected.]
[Performing additional assessnt...]
[Assessnt Targets: Otherworld creatures, Summons, Humanoid, Human, Female]
[Endymion’s Remnant detected.]
[Control Auth: Inspector]
[Specin Storage Vault III-251-11 limited release granted, permission count: 1]
"...Hmm?"
When Lin Yiyi ca to her senses, she found herself standing guard in front of a store, her body clad in lightweight armor that gave a sense of lightness, with a delicate pure white rapier slung at her waist.
She was surrounded by the unusually prosperous scenery of a city.
Buildings, so dozens or nearly a hundred ters tall with strange, sculpture-like, unidentifiable structures. All these structures were intertwined with vines... but they didn’t grow naturally in corners or cling; they seed more like "the buildings had grown from the vines."
Occasionally on the neat pavent, sothing resembling a maglev vehicle silently sped by.
Giant, unfamiliar creatures looking sowhere between an armored giraffe and a long-necked turtle with exceptionally tall legs crossed the sky.
On the street, roughly thirty people were visible. The Elves had different hair colors, but their pupils were almost all green.
There were also many billboards around, exuding a slight cyberpunk vibe—only, the color sches were mostly forest-based with occasional silver-white tallic parts, giving an overall comfortable and natural feel.
At this mont, it was twilight outside, and the warm glow made her sowhat lethargic.
Lin Yiyi froze for a mont, then ran her fingers through her hair behind her ear.
Seeing the bright golden shimr, she realized she had entered the body of an Elf.
And unlike in nightmares, always filled with an urgent, terrifying sense of doom... here, there was a warm and peaceful feeling. It was like a carefree paradise out of a fairy tale.
Lin Yiyi always felt compelled to let slip a serene smile.
"Just like the old man downstairs~"
She couldn’t help but hum a tune.
"...A’gang?"
And just then, Lin Yiyi heard a very soft, tentative young voice.
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