Chapter 61 Here Again (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
The "noodle man" danced again.
Lumian confirmed that this mysterious dance could indeed incompletely stimulate the black thorn symbol on his chest, that is, the pattern appeared but the accompanying horror sound was almost non-existent, and there was only a little illusory whisper.
This is a great benefit to his use of the "special" of dreams.
But at the same time, he found two problems:
Although Lumian is an extraordinary person and a "hunter" whose body has been greatly enhanced, he also has no confidence in himself.
Second, this mysterious dance seems to be able to really pry the surrounding natural forces, with extraordinary charm, so much so that after Lumian memorized it for a while, he found that his spirituality was extremely consumed.
"After reading this time, I have to go back and rest." Lumian looked at the "Noodle Man" who danced the "Mysterious Dance" for the third time and sighed silently.
The spirituality of the "hunter" is really useless!
After today's incident, he could almost confirm that the hidden existence corresponding to the thorn symbol was closely related to this dream ruin.
There are both black marks on the priests of the main hall and dancing monsters that can inspire the thorn symbol, so it's surprising to say that it has nothing to do with that hidden being!
Thinking of the same symbol on the chest of the priest in the main hall, and thinking that the dream ruins also restarted with reality and fell into a cycle, Lumian believed Aurore's speculation more and more:
Deep down here may hold the key to breaking the loop, and there should be a significant part, if not all, of them.
That's why the mysterious lady kept hinting at me to unlock the secret of the dream ruins? The more Lumian thought about it, the more hateful he became, raised his left hand without an axe, and made an obscene gesture of "I x you xx" to the black thorn symbol on his chest.
He wasn't worried about whether he would anger the other party, not to mention whether the hidden being could sense it or not, whether he saw it, but he had already fallen into the time loop brought by him, and the people around him were becoming more strange and dangerous than the others, which made Lumian feel that the problem would not be more serious.
After watching the dance for the third time, Lumian rubbed his somewhat empty head, braved the slight heat in his chest, left the ruins the same way, and returned to his home on the other side of the wilderness.
Before leaving the dream, he tried to consolidate the part of the dance move he had memorized, almost missing his waist, breaking the ligaments in his knees and tearing the muscles on the inside of his calves.
"Shit, this is not something normal humans can do!" Lumian scolded and lay down on the bed.
Because of the great spiritual consumption and deep fatigue, he quickly fell asleep.
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When Lumian woke up, the sky had just brightened, the sun had not yet risen, and the red moon had lost its luster.
He sat up straight slowly, with a sense of satisfaction after a deep sleep, and the spirituality he consumed was perfectly replenished.
Walking to the window, Lumian pulled open the curtain to let the morning light outside into the house.
The next second, his eyes froze.
The guy, who was a circle larger than an ordinary owl, appeared again on the elm tree not far away, looking at him in a condescending manner.
Lumian quickly came back to his senses and opened his mouth:
"Auror! Aurora!"
Quick, the suspect is here!
Track it!
Hearing the shout, the owl spread its wings and flew to the edge of the village.
It flew lower and lower, and soon disappeared into the woods on the edge of Kordu Village.
It took a few seconds for Auror, dressed in a white silk nightdress, to enter Lumian's bedroom.
She asked with a look of chagrin:
"Is it that owl?"
"Yes." Lumian looked out the window, "Has the 'white paper' kept up?"
Aurore pulled down her long blonde hair and said hatefully:
"Why does it always choose the time of the underworld?
"I was sleeping soundly just now, and you woke me up, and before I could release the 'white paper', it flew away."
"Didn't you say that there is something in your heart that you can't sleep well?" Lumian instinctively replied.
Aurore rolled his eyes:
"Always not sleeping well will affect your mental state and lead to signs of loss of control.
"People are always nervous, uneasy, and afraid at the beginning, and when they get used to it, they become numb, and only by sleeping well can they stay awake and rational."
"I can only wait for the next time......" Lumian was very regretful.
Aurore thought for a while:
"Let's summarize the pattern of its appearance, we can't keep guarding the stump and wait for the rabbit to hit it by itself, and we have to rest, we can't guard it all the time."
Lumian recalled the previous times:
"It's all from late night to morning......"
"Then why this time?" Aurore further asked, "This can only be regarded as a performance, not a pattern, think carefully, what have you done in the few times it appeared, the corresponding night, or the first half of the night, and have you repeated the same behavior?"
"I'm exploring in the ruins of dreams......" Lumian didn't hide it from his sister, and began to recall, "Before it first appeared, I killed the first monster in the dream, before it appeared for the second time, I should have stimulated the symbol on my chest through meditation and found what was 'special' in itself, the third time, I took magic medicine in my dream and became a 'hunter', and the fourth time, that is, today, I, I found a way to stimulate the 'special' of the dream to a certain extent with less damage."
"What can be done?" Aurore blurted out.
Lumian told the "Noodle Man" and its dance, as well as his own attempts.
Aurore was thinking about the owl while listening, and when her brother finished speaking, he said after consideration:
"That owl came to see you and seemed to have something to do with your significant progress in your dream exploration......"
Belch...... Lumian thought about it, and his eyes gradually lit up:
"Indeed!
"The first time I killed a monster, the first time I showed 'special', the first time I took magic potions, stepped into the transcendent path, and the first time I found a way to use that 'special'......
"Similar major developments also have a certain reaction in reality, the owl noticed it and came over to make some observations? Heh, this is smelling."
Aurore said "hmm":
"Then we can consciously create similar opportunities to see if we can squat on that owl."
"I think the next time it appears should be after I have mastered that mysterious dance and can really use the 'special' brought by the symbol on the chest in my dreams." Lumian thought about it and showed a malicious smile, "When the time comes, I will tell you before I try to dream, get ready."
Aurore thought for a moment and nodded:
"I hope to initially figure out who the owl is associated with and what role it plays in Cordoo's anomaly......"
Lumian asked:
"Auror, uh, sister, do you know anything about that kind of dance?
"You know, I'm still just illiterate in the occult field."
Aurore pulled the chair in front of the Lumian wooden table, sat down, and pondered for a while:
"Several notes mention that in ancient times, that is, in the early Fifth Age and throughout the Quaternary, there was some large-scale ritual magic.
"In those ritual magic, there are not only a large number of offerings, but also many participants who delight the target existence with special dances in exchange for a response.
"In fact, as far as sacrifices and rituals are concerned, dance was widely believed to influence nature and communicate with gods from the beginning, and its effect was close to the combination of transcendent language and herbs, essential oils, and other items."
In the world where Aurore and Lumian live, history is divided into five epochs, the first is the Chaos Age, the second is called the Dark Age, and the third is called the Cataclysmic Age, but Aurore heard a pen pal mention that this is also called the Radiant Age.
The Fourth Age is the Age of the Gods or the Age of the Gods, and the Fifth Age is the present, starting 1,358 years ago, called the Black Iron Age.
Among them, the history of the first three periods is no longer verifiable, only myths and legends remain, and the Quaternary period occasionally has documents, materials, notes, ruins, mausoleums, ancient cities, etc., but the overall history seems to be shrouded in fog, with only a faint outline, and this is also due to the fact that the theological texts of the seven major churches often mention some Quaternary stories.
After listening to his sister's explanation, Lumian had a guess:
"That 'noodle man' is the hidden being who dances to please the thorn symbol, hoping to get a response or a gift?
"Is it a large part of its ritual, so it is extremely ineffective? Or is it that the problem of the dream ruins itself led to failure, and can only trigger a little power contained in the symbol in me?
"Hehe, this acts like I'm the god, because I saw the dance of the 'noodle man' and was pleased by it, so I decided to highlight the symbol and give a certain response."
However, this was actually completely out of Lumian's control and belonged to the spontaneous reaction of that thorn symbol.
Aurore smiled:
"You are more like the carrier of that symbol, a tool man in a sense."
She paused for a moment and said thoughtfully:
"I suspect that the dance was 'invented' specifically to please or communicate with the hidden being corresponding to the thorn symbol, otherwise it would not have made a single symbol react......
"Moreover, according to your description, this is not something that ordinary people can jump, it must be done by extraordinary people with special enhancements.
"But the 22 paths correspond to sequence 9 and sequence 8, I know what they are called, I have a certain understanding, no one can dance that kind of dance, and the performance of 'Noodle Man' is not like that of a higher sequence, otherwise you can't escape at all."
"Maybe it is not within the twenty-two paths, it belongs to the gift of a hidden being?" Lumian thought of the mysterious lady's words.
Aurore looked out the window and pursed her mouth:
"I don't know if this has anything to do with the 'man in the ring', which is equivalent to the power of sequence 9 or sequence 8?"
"Yes." Lumian suddenly laughed, "Let me name it, the sequence 9 corresponding to 'The Man in the Ring', 'Noodle Man'!"
Aurore couldn't help but look up at the ceiling.
The siblings communicated for a while and went downstairs to have breakfast.
Learning the Hermes language until after ten o'clock, Lumian went out with important props.
ps: Ask for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)