The breeze blows through the vast and boundless green earth, and the wind echoes a murmur that cannot be recognized by the human ears. Even though the real world outside is already full of ice and snow, in this neural network rooted in the spiritual world, the bright spring still stops between the plains and the valleys for a long time.

In the center of the boundless "Spirit Plain", next to several rolling hills, a huge city is standing quietly. The sky above the city is covered with light golden ring-shaped magic arrays composed of countless rapidly refreshing runes. There are several golden light flows that run through the heaven and earth between the city and the giant magic arrays. Those light flows represent several information hubs that establish connection with the real world. The end of each light flow is connected to a large building in the city, and these buildings are the transit stations for the "inhabitants" in the Dream City to enter and exit the city.

The city center area, corresponding to the real world of Cecil's Royal District, a largest light flow connected to the pyramid facilities on the surface. At this moment, the light flow above the facility trembled slightly. Somewhere in the square next to the pyramid, a figure suddenly emerged from the air.

This is a middle-aged man with a gentle temperament and elegant temperament wearing monocles.

Yuri woke up from the dizziness when he connected to the network and moved his neck slightly - of course there was nothing behind his neck, but the "nerve remnants" that remained when he was lying in the immersion cabin and contacted the cold metal contacts still lingered in his perception. He looked left and right at the people coming and going in the square, and then walked towards a figure waiting for him not far away. As the "nerve remnants" in his mind gradually receded, he raised his hand and greeted the figure: "Magnan!"

"I've been waiting for you here for a century!" Magnan's loud voice exploded in Yuri's ear the next moment, and the latter even suspected that the sound could be heard by everyone in half of the square, "What are you entangled in the real world?"

Yuri subconsciously rubbed his ears and looked at his old partner standing in front with a little dissatisfaction: "You have been away from the real world for too long. Have you forgotten how many troubles there are in reality that will delay a person's time planning? It's not a convenient neural network outside, and everything you do takes time..."

Halfway through hearing, Magnan showed impatient appearance and waved his hand to interrupt Yuri: "Okay, I understand, I understand, I will look back and ask Pitman, I know he has a special medicine for constipation..."

Yuri was stunned for a moment at first, but the next second he almost completely lost the gentle and elegant demeanor he had tried to maintain in his daily life: "Damn it! I'm not talking about this!"

Magnun waved his hand indifferently: "I understand, I understand, I was like you before I was middle-aged... OK OK, I won't say it."

This loud guy ended the topic accurately before the old partner's anger was picked to the threshold, making Yuri, who had maintained a gentlemanly demeanor in front of all students and researchers, blushed but had no choice but to stare at Magnan for a long time before retracting his gaze with anger: "Open the channel - I'm not here to argue with you."

Magnan shrugged, waved his hand in the air, and said to the air: "Duvalt-we're here."

The invisible ripples suddenly fluctuated. In the seemingly calm and continuous mental space, a "habitat" hidden at the bottom of the data was silently opened. A short and secret passage appeared in the dream city, and layers of halos appeared around Magnan and Yuri, and then the two disappeared in an instant as if they were "deleted" by something.

The next second, they appeared in another space: a grassland that was equally vast but more empty than the "upper layer" appeared before the two of them. The grassland was shrouded in the night, but the starlight in the sky made the night sky look dark at all. Not far away was a small hill, which was covered with a slight halo, as if all the starlight was focused on it, and a huge white spider lying quietly at the foot of the hill, looking like it was resting.

This is the deeper space of the neural network, which is the "computation layer" located under the "appearance layer" and "interaction layer". All network data is exchanged frequently and at high speed in the most primitive state here. Although this exchange and computing process are essentially almost entirely carried out by the human brain, the human mind cannot directly understand this place. Therefore, everything presented here - including the grassland under the night sky and the starry sky - is just an interface created by the managers of this layer of space to facilitate entertaining "visitors".

For Magnan and Yuri, who are former priests of the Eternal Sleeper, this space has another meaning: it is the habitat of the upper narrators of the "God of the Past", and it is the place where Naretiel and Duvalt use it to "storage" the body.

Yuri and Magnan looked at each other, and both saw a little emotion in each other's eyes. The latter looked up at the starry night sky, and couldn't help but shake his head and muttered: "Now the location of these stars is the same as the real world."

"Accountants in various places have left a line for Naretiel after the technology upgrade. She can view the stars through the observatory's equipment at any time - this is what His Majesty promised," as soon as Magnan finished speaking, a voice came from the side. Duvalte, wearing a black dress and carrying a lantern, appeared out of thin air. "The starry sky you see now is that Naretiel projected in intact after seeing the stars at various observatories of the Empire. Recently, she is trying to record the trajectory of each star, and calculate the position of our planet in the universe...at least between these stars."

Magnum blinked: "…this sounds amazing."

"Your Majesty said the same," Duvalter nodded with a smile, and then he took the two visitors forward and came to the huge white spider in a flash. "Naretir was worried at first that she would be blamed for taking up free computing power for this, but his Majesty obviously supported her doing so, and even arranged a group of astrologists to participate. Of course, we are not here to talk about this today."

As he spoke, he raised his arm slightly and pointed to the open space not far away. Magnan and Yuri looked over there. At first glance, they saw something like a cocoon being fixed to the ground by a large number of spider silk. The "cocoon" was more than one person tall, with a translucent shell, and something seemed to be locked inside. Naretiel's "human body" was just around it, surrounding it, as if communicating with the things inside the cocoon.

Yuri looked a little surprised: "Can Naretiel communicate with the caught 'fragment'?"

Duvalter shook his head: "It's just one-sidedly constantly asking - Naretire is trying to dig more secrets from that fragment of mind, but I don't think her method works."

Yuri and Magnan looked at each other and walked towards the place where the "cocoon" was. Halfway through, they heard Narithir's chattering questions - the upper narrator walked around the "cocoon" in circles, and then stopped to ask: "Where did you come from?

“How many legs does the God of War you believe in?

"Does the God of War know that you became like this? Did He change it for you? How did he change it specifically?

"How did you connect with that god of war? Do you still need to pray after you become like this?

“Can you hear me?

"Oh, you don't want to say it, then... where did you come from?"

In the translucent cocoon, Malm Dunit's spirit body was firmly imprisoned by the power of the upper narrator. He had not dissipated yet, but he had obviously lost the ability to communicate, leaving only a stiff face and a godless eyes, looking dull and wooden.

"...All ancestors," Magnan immediately shrank his neck as he looked at the scene, "If I were to do with me, I must have already called it..."

"Ah, you are here!" Naritiel heard the sound coming from beside her and finally stopped from the circle. She looked at Yuri and Magnan happily, and ran over with a smile, "Where did you come from?"

"I just finished my work in the real world. Magnan should have been patrolling between nodes before," Yuri said immediately, and then his eyes fell on the "cocoon" not far away. "What are you getting?"

"If you are talking about direct 'interrogation', there is no gain," Naretiel shook his head. "The internal logic of this mental fragment has been disintegrated. Although I have tried to stimulate and rebuild it in various ways, he has not yet been able to respond to external communications - as you see, most of them cannot be repaired."

Magnan quickly reacted: "That is to say, what gains besides 'interrogation'?"

"That's right," Naretiel thought for a while, "I tried to disassemble this fragment, and by directly reading the memory - this method would miss a lot of information, and it might further 'damage' the sample, but it was a bit rewarding.

"According to the memory I have drawn out, this mortal pope named Malm Dunit pulled out his soul world from his body and dedicated it to his god through some crazy sacrifice ceremony. Then the god didn't know what he did, making this soul a state that could be split and reorganized at any time... So what we caught was just a 'incarnation'...

"Malm Dunit's original body should be no longer in this world. He is likely to be with that 'God of War', but the remaining memories in the fragments do not mention how to establish connection with that entity, nor do they say how to establish connection with theGod of War.

"In addition, I also found a very important message - it's not just us who caught a 'incarnation'. If that's right, that human emperor named Rosetta Augustus should have also caught one."

Magnan's eyes widened: "Roseta? Are you saying that Emperor Tifeng also caught a Malm Dunit?!"

"Well," Naretiel nodded, "Although these avatars can move independently, they seem to be able to perceive the states of other avatars - in a broken and vague memory, I saw an avatar being defeated in a certain extraordinary showdown and swallowed up by a very powerful force. And the strongest message that the incarnation was when it was defeated was a name: Rosetta Augustus."

Magnum and Yuri looked at each other in a short while, and after a brief shock, they realized the importance of this information at the same time.

Malm Dunit in the "Cocoon" is just a dull and fragile "incarnation", which looks very miserable, but this is because he is facing the power of the upper narrator here - a former god who has left the throne. Even if it is weaker now, it is far from a crazy mortal soul that can compete with him. If Narithir had not taken action...

Malm Dunit will be a terrifying threat! He has devoted himself to God and gained strange and unpredictable power. In addition to the elusive incarnation projection ability, he also carries spiritual pollution from the God of War - this pollution is particularly fatal and special. Even if ordinary mortals can fight against it, they will have to take huge risks and pay a huge price!

However, it was such an incarnation that was defeated miserably in the "Extraordinary Showdown" with Rosetta Augustus and was even "swallowed"...

Devour, this is not a word that can be used casually - it means that Rosetta Augustus hid a card, which is at least equivalent to an upper narrator!

He kept this card just for the God of War? Or was he going to use it for the God of War after this disaster?

"We must notify Your Majesty of this!" Yuri said immediately, "Roseta Augustus can 'swallow' Malm Dunit, who is contaminated by gods. This has exceeded the scope of normal humanity. He is either no longer a normal human or... borrowed some very dangerous power!"

"I called you here for this," Naretiel nodded seriously. "I know that both of you came from Tifon and happened to have a special origin - Yuri, you were a nobleman of Aldernan, and your family had been in contact with the Augustus family for a long time. You should know the "curse" of the Augustus family; and Magnan, I know you were from the Church of the God of War, you should know the God of War, right?"

As the "God" created by the former Eternal Sleeper, Naretiel obviously knows a lot of things. Yuri is not surprised by this. He fell into a brief thought, and Magnan next to him muttered awkwardly: "This... I have been leaving the God of War Church for too many years..."

Yuri couldn't help but glance at him: "Your memory shouldn't have declined to remember the rules and regulations of your priests, right?"
Chapter completed!