Volume 1: Stranger in a Strange Land Chapter 53: Changes in the Moon Realm
"How are you going to save her?"
Vincent asked anxiously.
William looked down at Liliana, who was groaning in pain from the nightmare, and replied:
"If you want to awaken the soul trapped in the Nightmare Swamp back to the world, I know three methods in total."
"Three?"
There was a hint of surprise in Vincent's voice.
"One is to use [Lion's Heart] on her to let her break free from the nightmare by herself, and the other is to use [Soul Guidance] to slowly lead her soul to the living world. But both of these methods take too long. Things at the Holy Tomb are more important, and I don't have that much time to spare right now. As for the last method, we need to find the Moon Realm Monster that pulled her soul into the Nightmare Swamp, so..."
"so?"
Vincent asked nervously.
William took out a soul storage crystal and said:
"I plan to go directly to the Moon Realm and bring her soul back directly."
William remembered that in the game, he had a mission to save all the villagers who were dragged into the Nightmare Swamp. If he had to guide the souls of hundreds of people one by one, that mission would probably have made him vomit blood.
But that was the time when the Moon Realm was invading the Vic Continent on a large scale, and all kinds of Moon Realm portals attached to Moon Realm rifts were everywhere, so he traveled directly into the Moon Realm and came to the Nightmare Swamp, forcibly packed up the souls of all the villagers and brought them back.
Of course, I later learned on the forum that the village was a place specially set up by the developers to help players improve their proficiency in illusion magic and necromancy magic, but that’s a story for another time.
"Go directly to the Moon Realm?"
Vincent looked at William blankly and asked:
"How do we get there?"
The World Shell's blocking effect on the Moon Realm and the real world is two-way .
Unless one is a practitioner of Moon Realm magic who opens a passage through a contract with a Moon Realm monster, or finds a stable Moon Realm rift, no living being in this world can enter the Moon Realm.
As for these two methods, the former is absolutely impossible given the other party's attitude towards the Moon Realm, and as for the latter, a stable Moon Realm rift is not that easy to find.
After hearing Vincent's words, William just turned around and looked at the portal leading to the observatory behind him, his eyes full of helplessness and self-mockery.
"Isn't it right there?"
William sighed.
"What do you mean...wait, are you saying..."
Vincent immediately realized what the other person meant, but for a moment he found it hard to accept.
Could it be that the essence of the Star Lighthouse is a Moon Realm Rift?
But how is this possible?
If this is the case, what are all the magic chanters under the Star Law now? Are their lives not only in the hands of the Star Council, but also in the hands of the Void Kings of the Moon Realm?
So what was the real purpose of the Star Law being proposed in the first place?
Vincent didn't dare to think any further...
William ignored the shocked Vincent and walked to the wooden bed. He picked up Liliana who was still in a nightmare and walked towards the portal.
At this time, Vincent said to William as if waking up from a dream:
"Wait...wait a minute, the magic fluctuations in the observatory are too strong. If you just pass through the portal like this, will it explode due to interference..."
Do you know that it is dangerous to use the portal when there are magical fluctuations around you? I didn't even have time to remind you just now, so how could you just walk through the portal like this?
William rolled his eyes slightly, then said:
"Don't worry about that. The medium I use to open the portal is void crystal. As long as you don't use lightning spells above the master level to directly bombard the portal, there will be basically no danger."
Void crystal?
Vincent had been in a hurry to save his daughter and hadn't paid attention to it. It was only at this moment that he noticed the appearance of the medium that had opened the portal earlier.
There were six pale blue gems that were slightly smaller than eggs. Just by floating there, they constantly stirred up ripples in the space.
He subconsciously glanced at the pale blue gem inlaid on the ebony staff in his hand, which was of the same color and emitted the same spatial ripples. It was the same as the six gems - except that his own was much smaller.
It really is a void crystal...
Vincent didn't know what to say.
In the Dragon Spine Mountains of Storm Province, an extreme weather phenomenon called "thunderstorm" occasionally occurs. Thunderstorm does not mean a thunderstorm, but thunder falls like rain, turning the area within a radius of several kilometers into a scorched land.
After the thunderstorm phenomenon is over, if someone is willing to risk his life and rush to the scene in time, and is lucky enough, he may be able to find a small amount of pale blue dust called "void salt" before it dissipates.
The essence of "Void Salt" is solidified thunder, which is the spark that flew down when the Holy Spirit "Father" chiseled open the sky. It is also the most top-notch alchemical material. Basically all the great secret ceremonies and rituals of the lightning-related system will require this material.
Void Crystals are the product of refining a large amount of Void Salt. It is no exaggeration to say that they are priceless.
It is the most coveted spell medium for all magic casters who specialize in lightning spells, and its affinity for lightning magic has reached an incredible level.
Even an ordinary person without any magical talent can cause considerable lightning and thunder by just throwing the Void Crystal out.
The void crystal embedded in the spell medium in Vincent's hand is probably only the size of a pigeon egg, but this can already be regarded as the most superior lightning spell medium.
This very staff was a thank-you gift from Duke Simon to the Duke of Whiteland of Storm Province five years ago after the latter reached an agreement on a huge trade export agreement.
As a result, the person in front of him directly took out six egg-sized void crystals and used them as the medium for casting the portal?
The word "wasteful" is not enough to describe the other party's behavior!
"What are you still standing there for? Come here quickly."
After William passed through the portal and returned to the observatory, he turned around and shouted to Vincent who was still in a daze on the other side.
Vincent came to his senses and walked over immediately, just in time to see the other person squatting down and laying Liliana flat on the ground.
Seeing that he had come over, the other party waved his hand to cancel the portal, and the six void crystals flew back into his pocket with his movement.
"Is there anything I can do?"
Vincent asked, forcing himself to look away.
William pulled a few strands of hair from Liliana's head and replied:
"You just need to guard her body here. We are only going to the Nightmare Swamp to grab a soul. We will be back soon."
As he spoke, he wrapped the hair around his fingers, stood up, walked to the star map of the Stranger constellation, and placed one hand on it.
Vincent asked with some concern:
"You're going to the Nightmare Lord's domain to snatch souls directly. Aren't you afraid that He will hold a grudge against you?"
As the Lord of Nightmares, if the souls dragged into the Nightmare Swamp by Jumala can break free from the nightmare on their own, it does not violate his belief that "reality is a waking nightmare, and nightmares are a confused world."
But it is another matter for an outsider to rush in and snatch the soul back, which will make the Void King feel that his authority is challenged.
The Lord of Nightmares is an extremely petty person even among the Void Kings.
Therefore, Vincent asked this question with some uneasiness.
But in response, William just smiled and said:
"It's okay. It's not the first time I've offended that bitch. This is just a small matter."
Before he could finish his words, the star map that William was pressing suddenly burst into red and black light, and he was instantly sucked in.
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The moon is a mirror that reflects the light of the sun.
The Moon Realm is also a mirror.
It hangs high in the sky, reflecting all the thoughts of the world.
Every laugh, every scream, every guilt, every anger... all thoughts will intertwine and echo in this area, and then amplify into a never-ending storm, sweeping across the world, and finally becoming the nothingness that fills the sky.
In this turbulent change, forces of the same nature gradually gathered together, forming countless moon realms representing different concepts.
There are thirteen moon realms that form independent kingdoms. The concepts that make them up are so profound and solid that the power gathered by the overlapping echoes is strong enough to shake the world itself that is the source of their sound.
And that is the realm of the thirteen Void Kings.
After stepping into the rift between the real world and the moon realm, William felt an unprecedented sense of detachment, and everything he felt with his physical senses was constantly changing.
Compared to the present world which has already landed and become a stable reality, in the Moon Realm, all physical laws are pale lies, and even the things that exist here do not have a fixed shape.
After all, William is a human being living in the material world. Even if his willpower is full, the rapidly changing environment around him will make him feel unable to adapt.
He had been to the Moon Realm many times in the game, but the experience was completely different from this real visit to the Moon Realm.
The way the developers let players experience the changing nature of the moon realm is basically to first play a clip that can make people with photosensitive epilepsy die on the spot, and then play an audio clip that is enough to give people nightmares for days.
At this moment, William felt the crazy changes in the Moon Realm, which were hundreds of times more exaggerated than in the game.
But soon, all shapes began to solidify in William's eyes and became orderly and concrete things.
It was not that the Moon Realm itself was fixed, but that the will of William who was observing the Moon Realm was fixed.
In the Moon Realm, form is just a facade, and only will is eternal.
In other words, in the Moon Realm, as long as he thinks something should be like, that thing will be like that in his eyes.
Although this "I think" can only superficially affect his perception of the other person's appearance, and cannot truly change the other person's scale and depth. But at least, this also allows him to act normally as in the real world.
At this moment, William was floating under a turbulent storm. Beside him, a huge pipe made of pure magic power passed through the storm and led to a dark red star in the distance.
This is the magic circuit that connects the Star Lighthouse of Thorn City in the present world and the Stranger Constellation.
This place turned out to be an ownerless land in the Moon Realm, and had not yet been brought under the rule of any Void King.
William was a little surprised.
He originally thought that the magic circuit that broke through the shell of the world and passed through the Moon Realm to the Astral Realm would definitely be incorporated into the territory of a certain Void King. After all, that was the best way to invade the real world.
I didn't expect it to be built in a neutral zone.
Why hasn't the Void King come to grab this great spot?
William still remembered that the King of Dead Blood and the Demon of Ruins, the two void kings that symbolized destruction and devastation, had beaten each other's brains out in the Moon Realm in order to fight for control of the Moon Realm rift in the Scar of Sorrow.
He took advantage of the opportunity when the two were fighting each other and led the End Watchers to launch a counterattack, taking the opportunity to push the front line back.
But why, after so many years, and now that there is a rift in the Moon Realm, why don’t we fight for it?
William thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he gave up.
After all, we are lacking key intelligence now.
And the purpose of his trip was not to investigate.
So, William left a [Teleportation] magic circle near the crack and then flew up.
In the Moon Realm, as long as your willpower is strong enough and you firmly believe that you can fly, then you can really fly, and you don’t even need to use magic.
With William's willpower, let alone such trivial things as flying or teleporting, it would not be too difficult for him to even open up a territory of his own in the Moon Realm.
Of course, the trouble is that various void kings will come to you afterwards.
The sky of the Moon Realm is extremely lively, with scattered ownerless spirits everywhere, many of which cannot even take on the most basic form.
William ignored them and continued to fly higher.
He traversed the web woven of prophecies, leaped over words of exhortation and pulled the rope. He pushed aside the pain that had solidified into wax in front of him, and then fanned away several balls of burning anger that wanted to attack him.
In the end, he surpassed everything and flew to the "highest point" of the Moon Realm.
Of course, there is actually no concept of the "highest point" in the Moon Realm. William just arrived at a place where he could have a panoramic view of the Moon Realm's "topography".
There he saw the thirteen kingdoms.
There are ruins with flying ash, cemeteries with lifeless spirits, lakes with ever-surging waters, and forges with blazing flames.
Compared to a thousand years ago, the territories of the thirteen countries are larger and the power contained within them is also greater.
Even looking at them from a distance, William could feel the terrifying aura within them.
how so?
When they invaded the human world a thousand years ago, they were not as powerful as they are now.
William thought.
But the question only stayed in his mind for a few seconds.
It is meaningless to speculate without sufficient information. The most urgent priority right now is to save people.
So William's eyes were fixed on a foggy swamp.
Then he relaxed his mind and fell in that direction, allowing himself to plunge into the misty swamp.
