Chapter 166 The Eternal Sleeper
In the Kant territory in the north, the ancient castle where the Kant family lived for generations, the aging Viscount Victor was meeting with representatives of the Chamber of Commerce on the territory.
There were many lights lit in the reception hall, but the bright and constant light emitted by the magic crystal lantern still could not dispel the darkness and gloom that had been entrenched in this castle for many years. In the rectangular hall, there were only a few servants except for the Viscount himself and several representatives of the chamber of commerce. Each of them was reflected on the ground by the light emitted by the magic crystal lantern, making it long, curved and hazy.
However, everyone standing in the hall did not realize the gloom and horror here. In the eyes of the chamber of commerce representatives, today's lord is still as kind and elegant as ever, and magnanimously promised things that are good for both merchants and the leaders.
"The last batch of herbs this year, the potions have been harvested, and the grain has also been harvested," said a representative of the chamber of commerce. "The potions have been found buyers, but the herbs have not sold well this year."
"Don't worry, Mr. Pyrks," Viscount Victor smiled gently, comforting the great merchants in his territory. "The caravans from the Holy Spirit Plain will come soon, and Frostlinburg will come to buy a large batch of medicinal materials, and the hard work of everyone will not be in vain."
The aging Viscount smiled very gently and had good intentions in his eyes. Few nobles would communicate with people who were not nobles in this manner. Although their etiquette standards allowed them to use impeccable polite words when talking to inferior people, their eyes and expressions could not be so "in place", and Viscount Viscount Victor was an exception.
He is a well-known good man who is "kind, friendly, fair and tolerant to the common people". Although he lives in the circle of nobles, every civilian in the territory loves and respects his old lord.
"Sir Viscount, thank you for running for the people in the territory," said another representative of the chamber of commerce sincerely, "Please also pay attention to your body."
"Don't worry, my old bones are still strong," Viscount Victor laughed. "My incompetent son is about to return from the Holy Spirit Plain. When he takes over the inheritance of the family, it will be not too late for me to rest."
Then, the viscount began to ask the merchants about the entry and exit of the territory this year and the procurement of cotton and ore. He asked in detail and professionally, which was really rare among contemporary aristocrats.
But suddenly, a faint wind blew across the castle hall.
There were bright magic crystal lanterns that were not blown by the wind, but the light in the hall suddenly shaking like a candlelight encountering an airflow, becoming dark.
The merchants still did not notice the changes in the hall, and the servants standing around were not abnormal, but Victor Kant suddenly stood up from his chair. He looked up at the dark ceiling of the castle, and a star-like magic halo flashed in his eyes.
Then he smiled apologetically at the business representatives in front of him: "Sorry, gentlemen, today's meeting may have to end. I suddenly remembered that there is another important thing to do..."
At the same time, in a hidden cave near the East Ansu Realm, vines with mixed roots grew windingly, and entangled on the huge rocks in the center of the cave into a form like a huge cyst. Suddenly, the cyst opens, and a beautiful but weird figure of a female revealed from it was revealed.
She had long dark green hair, fair skin and beautiful face, but at the hem of the dress that looked like a priest's robe, what she showed was a terrifying limb that was as tangled as if it were a tree root.
The female principal of the society of all things will eventually die. Since leaving the extreme southern border last time, she has been dormant in this secret stronghold near the front line of the Eastern Front, observing the changes in the situation in the entire eastern region through ubiquitous plants, but a sudden news from the secret path "awakened" her from the state of symbiosis with plants.
The female principal frowned, and her long dark green hair squirmed slightly behind her as if she was alive: "A bishop-level eternal sleeper... has successfully approached and invaded the spiritual world of Gowan Cecil?!"
...
Gao Wen walked in the darkness.
He still clearly remembered what had happened before: the suspicious mercenary leader suddenly raised his head, showed a strange smile at him, and called out his name in a weird tone that seemed to be mixed with many voices.
Then he was brought to this dark, chaotic strange space by some kind of force.
He was completely sure that he was put on a powerful force, but this power should not be the physical fitness and aura strength of the other party that the mercenary leader brought with him. There was no doubt that the physical fitness and aura strength of the other party was just a low-level knight. And at the moment the mercenary leader suddenly raised his head, Gao Wen still remembered that he sensed a powerful force, and the chaotic force suddenly emerged in the aura of the knight leader. The process was like "coming", so he guessed that the mercenary leader should be just a medium, and he might be a victim of some kind, to send this powerful force to him, Gao Wen Cecil.
After the initial panic, Gao Wen had calmed down at this moment.
He walked around in the dark for a while, but could not feel the slightest passage of physical strength. This shows that it is very likely that this place is not a physical world, but just a kind of "imaginary space" that exists in his mind. He suspected that he was trapped in a spiritual cage, but as a soul who had been trapped in a satellite for at least hundreds of thousands of years (or millions of years, after all, he did not count the years at all) and had a real and mutated soul, he could not even feel nervous about this trap.
No matter how powerful a powerful person in this world is, can he compare his lifespan with the satellites in the sky?
I was hanging in the sky and watching you learn to walk upright!
It is because of the arrogance and calmness of becoming a satellite in his heart that Gao Wen is not afraid of the situation in front of him. After confirming that he cannot escape from the current space, he simply stood still and then quietly looked at the darkness in front of him.
It was like looking down at the unchanging ocean and land back then.
He believed that someone who pulled himself into this dark space had a certain purpose, and the other party might be observing himself quietly somewhere, and judging by the patience of most or all carbon-based creatures in this world, the other party could not waste himself.
He will definitely be unable to bear it and jump out on his own initiative.
The only thing Gao Wen is worried about now is that he hopes that this "imaginary space" can be the same as the settings in most stories, with the flow of time different from that in the outside world. Otherwise, if Hedy and others outside think that they are dead again, it will be difficult to deal with the two granddaughters. Maybe they will bury themselves again, and Amber will take away all the things in the grave when he is buried again...
Mom, it's so terrible to think about it.
Gao Wen had various thoughts about the existence and lack of it in his mind, and he didn't know how long the time of this imaginary space had passed. Then he suddenly saw a illusory glimmer of light appearing in the darkness in front of him.
It seems that the "existence" who is quietly watching can finally be unable to bear it.
Gao Wen smiled, and watched the light in front of him become more and more solid, getting closer and closer, and finally turned into a white robe with a smooth white mask on his face. He could not see the figures of men and women. He heard a low voice that could not be distinguished by men and women under the mask: "Duke Gowen Cecil, you are more patient and more calm than I thought. You are truly a great hero seven hundred years ago. Your character is something I have never seen in others."
"Your patience is far worse than I thought," Gao Wen said lightly, "I thought you would spend a hundred and eighty years with me here."
"Please don't be resentful. My method of inviting you may be a bit rough, but my fundamental purpose is just to have a good conversation with you or you may feel more comfortable if you change the environment of the conversation?"
The man in a white robe in a white mask said while waved his hand, and countless colors and lines appeared in the dark space around him in an instant. These color lines formed into various things in a blink of an eye. Gao Wen found himself standing in a vibrant garden, with dense flowers and low shrubs growing around him. Some servants with vague impressions were busy walking around the garden, and not far away, you can see the tall main building of the castle.
All of this looks familiar.
Gao Wen thought for a while before finding the corresponding picture from the original owner of the body. He glanced suspiciously at the man in the white robe in front of him: "What do you mean?"
"Is it because I didn't restore it?" said the man in white robe in surprise. "I have tried very hard to restore this place according to those ancient pieces of memory. Look, are you unfamiliar with the servants? Most of the scenes of this castle are extracted from their memories. Look at the plants and buildings... Is it different from the Cecil Castle in your memory?"
Before Gao Wen could answer, the man in white continued to say to himself: "Ah, the memories extracted from the dream may indeed be distorted. Such a castle that does not conform to the facts may make you feel unhappy. What about such an environment?"
As the white-robed man finished speaking, the scene in front of Gao Wen changed again. The Cecil Castle and garden 700 years ago disappeared, and replaced by a platform located at a high altitude. The platform was decorated with exquisite and luxurious round tables and seats. The round table was filled with various desserts and teas. Outside the platform, you can overlook a magnificent city.
The city has countless gorgeous white buildings. The towering mage tower and floating crystals are dotted everywhere in the city. The blue light flowing with magical light flows between the buildings, embellishing the entire city as if it were the heaven on earth. A huge translucent shield floating with countless runes can be vaguely seen above the city. A further place, you can see a blue light column connecting the sky and the earth rising from outside the city, like the legendary Tower of Babel on Earth...
The ancient Gondor imperial capital, and...the deep blue well?!
"Will you like this scene more?" The man in white robe sat down at the round table, with no expression on his pure white and smooth mask, but a smile in his voice. "After all, you are also a figure who has experienced the glorious period of Gondor. Maybe you would like to recall the magnificent scenes of the heyday of the human empire?"
"Sorry, when the Gondor Empire was in its heyday, I was just a knight apprentice on the northern border of the empire. I don't know what the prosperous imperial capital looked like," Gao Wen sat down at the round table, opposite the man in white robe. "But the scenery is really good, and I can also see what the deep blue well looked like back then."
Chapter completed!