Volume 1: Stranger in a Strange Land Chapter 56: Testimony and Answer
"Nightmare...So you are the one I mentioned before..."
Cas asked, breathing heavily.
"Yes, the Nightmare Lord's followers, the maidservants serving Lady Juamara."
The other party smiled and nodded in reply.
"So Liliana's soul is also..."
"I was the one who dragged him into the Nightmare Swamp. I was planning to help my contractor, but he didn't seem to appreciate it."
"You don't have to do this kind of thing, and there's no need to tell him all this nonsense..."
Simon on the side suddenly spoke, and the illusory snake shadow behind him stretched out its tongue towards the nightmare maid.
The nightmare maid nodded immediately, and perhaps because the movement was too large, its originally unstable head rolled off its neck.
"Alas, this mimic body is still too badly damaged..."
After a moment of silence, the head that fell to the ground said helplessly.
Perhaps in response to its words, a sound of something breaking was heard, and the entire charred body quickly turned into black mist and began to dissipate.
A woman shrouded in a dreamlike mist, whose appearance kept changing, appeared where the charred body had disappeared.
The nightmare maid who returned to her original body let out a strange "Huh", then looked up at the dome of the tomb.
"The link with Ye Zhihuai has been broken. Did the woman break free?"
The perfect mimicry of the Nightmare Maid requires the disguised object to be imprisoned in the nightmare swamp, creating a dream for the other party that is synchronized with reality. This way, the real reactions and details of the mimicked object can be perfectly restored, achieving an imitation that no one can detect.
But since it did not actively cancel the mimicry state but turned back into its original form, it could only mean that something went wrong with the original body in the Nightmare Swamp.
Duke Simon said directly:
"It's time to begin the final part of the ceremony. Hurry if you want to claim your reward."
The nightmare maid nodded and said, "Don't worry, I have made all the preparations on my side. The little witch was caught by my men as soon as she left the tomb."
Before it could finish its words, a bolt of lightning struck it.
At the same time, Duke Simon, who was standing next to the nightmare maid, took action. The giant snake shadow behind him swung its tail violently, deflecting the lightning to another direction.
With a loud bang, the thunder hit a sarcophagus nearby. Not only was the sarcophagus blown to pieces in an instant, but a large hole was also blown in the granite platform.
Even though they were several meters apart, the powerful shock wave still caused the Nightmare Maid to take two or three steps back.
After steadying its feet, it looked in the direction where the lightning was coming from.
Cass stood up from the throne. At this moment, he was holding the "Judgment Four" in his hand. His body was flashing with silver thunder and his eyes were shining with dazzling light.
"Who did you say was caught?!"
The voice of Cass was just like that of Duke Simon before, like thunder exploding in the sky.
After hearing their conversation, Kass grabbed the sword and instantly entered the battle state. In an instant, the lightning rune on his skin lit up, and a violent, unparalleled, surging power emerged from the depths of his soul and wrapped around the sword in his hand under his guidance.
So he swung his sword in the air, and a bolt of lightning struck out along the sword.
The Wang Kou Ritual is a two-way process. Since he was the one who "stabbed to death" the God King Oka before, he is naturally the new master of that power.
Of course, Cass himself had no idea what this sudden surge of power was all about.
But now that I have the sword in my hand, there is no need to say more about what I should do as a swordsman.
Duke Simon looked at Cass who stood up aggressively without any panic, and even joked to the nightmare maid beside him:
"How is it? The opponent is probably at the peak of Legendary level but not at the Divine Realm level. Do you want to give it a try?"
The nightmare maid flew back more than ten meters and said hastily: "He has the Judgment Armament in his hand now, don't let me fight him head-on."
Simon then turned his head to the staggering demon Gray Rash beside him, who was also shaking his head in panic.
Perhaps because everything was going according to plan, Simon felt very relaxed at the moment.
Kas's current state is probably similar to the state when he obtained the authority of the God-King before. However, because he restored the mirror image of Wang Kou's transformation more closely in the second ceremony, his current level is far superior to that of the other party.
not to mention……
"I, Simon Walder, the king of the newly born Blackwater Kingdom, the commander of the Corrupted Moon Tide, and a loyal servant of the Three Goddesses of the Moon, humbly pray for the Three Goddesses to bear witness here."
Seeing that everything was ready, Simon put his hand on his chest, slowly bent down and shouted.
The intricate patterns engraved on the tomb's ceiling lit up, and a deep darkness quickly spread over it.
In less than a few seconds, the dome of the entire tomb was replaced by a starless night sky with a bright moon hanging in the middle.
Cass rushed towards Simon with the lightning-fast Judgment Four in his hand, but under the night sky, he was stopped abruptly before he could get five steps away.
Several spider silk threads appeared on Cass's hands and feet, and he was lifted into the air like a puppet.
"The weaver of fate, the goddess of change, Beatrice!"
Looking up along the spider silk, a huge spider shadow appeared in the night sky, occupying about one-third of the night sky.
"Guardian of the cycle, goddess of rebirth, Camilla!"
A shadow of a butterfly with broken wings appeared, surrounded by countless flies and insects, and the countless flapping sounds gathered into a symphony that made people's scalps numb. The shadow of the butterfly also occupied one-third of the night sky.
"Giver of inspiration, goddess of art, Jawmara!"
The last third of the night sky was shrouded in an ever-changing mist, and in that mist a pair of bright eyes slowly opened.
Three majestic voices drowned out all the noise and echoed in the minds of everyone present.
+We are here to witness+
As soon as he finished speaking, Cass, who was controlled by the spider silk, sat back on the throne like a puppet. A mist enveloped him, and corrupt vines broke through the floor tiles and extended to his whole body, locking him firmly on the throne.
Simon knelt down on the ground and said:
"Please all the kings bear witness to the final stage of this king's transformation, to the rebirth of the God King and the silence of the God of Death."
The final outcome of Wang Kou's transformation of the myth was that under the witness of the gods, the god of death, who was originally the dead, was reborn as the king of gods, while the king of gods, who originally sat high in the sky, became silent and became the god of death.
However, this is a state that all previous Wang Kou rituals have never restored.
But at this moment, under the witness of the three Moon Realm Void Kings, Duke Simon, no, the new Black Water King, is going to push this ceremony to an unprecedented level!
The door of the tomb opened, and a floating mist nightmare imprisoned Liz as she walked towards the throne.
"Ka...Kas? What...what happened to you? Are you okay?"
Liz asked in panic as she looked at the man who was currently imprisoned on the throne.
Under normal circumstances, Cass might be in the mood to laugh at the other person's offlineness and reply with something like "Do I look okay?"
But at this moment, there was no other emotion in his heart except panic.
He tried to break free with his hands, but the vines were so powerful that his efforts were like a drop in the ocean.
The nightmare maid who had been hiding far away before came over at this moment. She grabbed Liz from the mist nightmare's hands and walked in front of Cass.
As Cass watched it coming, he couldn't help but feel a strong sense of uneasiness rising in his heart.
He shouted to the nightmare maiden who had disguised herself as Nezemar:
"You just need me to help you complete that ritual, right?! I am the descendant of that dark swordsman, and have nothing to do with her. Let her go!"
But the nightmare maid only gave him a mocking chuckle, and that smile was 70% similar to the one that Nezemal had given her before.
It said to Liz in her hand:
"Do you remember what I told you before, that your vitality is not enough, so don't waste it in a place like this?"
Liz looked at the Moon Realm monster in front of her with a puzzled look. Judging from her expression, she was probably still wondering why it mentioned what Nezemar had said to her before.
But Cass instantly understood what the other party was going to do.
He struggled desperately, and the thunder rune appeared on his skin again, but the mist wrapped around him just circulated slightly and eliminated the thunder into nothingness.
"No... don't do this... please, don't do this, this has nothing to do with her..."
The Nightmare Maid smiled and let go of her hand. Liz quickly flew to Cas's throne, but a transparent barrier blocked them.
"Run, run!"
Cas shouted at the witch in front of him.
Liz said nothing, but knocked on the transparent barrier anxiously.
Cass opened his mouth but before he could say anything else, he suddenly felt a surge of life beginning to flow into his body along the invisible link between the two of them.
His heart sank suddenly.
Liz stopped her actions and looked at her hands. Golden scales were peeling off her body uncontrollably and then disappeared into the void.
"Is that so..."
Liz looked at Cas at the other end of the barrier with sudden realization, then smiled at him.
She turned around and looked at the nightmare maid beside her, and said softly:
"If you want me to save him, I would be willing to do so without going through so much trouble."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Cass again and asked with a smile
"So, what about your previous answer? Have you ever considered helping me take care of the garden or something?"
Cass choked up. He looked at Liz, whose face was gradually getting older as golden dust continued to fall off her body, and said slowly:
"Then are you willing to hear the truth?"
Liz's eyes widened.
"Please, I'm almost dying! Even if you don't want to, can't you just lie to me?"
Cass forced himself to smile and said:
"The truth is, I've always planned to help you with the garden after this is all over."
"Really?! Are you telling the truth?!"
Liz, whose face was as old as a skeleton at this moment, shouted with radiance, and even planned to fly up to celebrate like usual.
It was a pity that she was too weak at the moment. She fell back to the ground tremblingly after flying for only a few seconds.
“What a pity…”
Liz sighed, then said with a self-deprecating smile:
"Well, it's not such a pity, is it? After all, I would have been the one to witness your death with gray hair, and then regret it for the rest of my life. But now the situation has reversed. This may be a unique and wonderful experience among witches... ahem..."
After coughing weakly a few times, she looked at Cass with a smile and said the last words:
"But don't feel regretful for too long. After all, we witches are very open-minded about life and death..."
After saying this, the "old witch" slowly closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep...
Feeling the last bit of life force flowing into his body, Cass looked at the nightmare maid with a happy expression on her face and asked slowly:
"In fact, even if Liz isn't here, you can transfer her vitality to me through the life connection between us, right?"
The life connection between him and Liz is intangible and will not be limited by distance.
The nightmare maid took a deep breath, with a deeply intoxicated expression on her face, and then she replied:
"Yes, actually it doesn't matter whether she is here or not."
"Then why did you bring her here?"
Cas asked calmly.
The nightmare maid replied with a happy face: "Because this is the reward I agreed with the Duke at the beginning. Do you know what the most important thing is for nightmares?"
Cass said nothing.
The Nightmare Maid replied:
"The feeling of powerlessness... the feeling of powerlessness that you can't change anything, and this strong feeling is our powerful food."
After a moment's silence, Cass suddenly let out a huge roar.
The nightmare maid just stared at the collapsed man in front of her, watching the veins bulging on his right hand that was tied to the throne as he tried in vain to break free from the restraints of the Void King.
A satisfied smile appeared on its face.
The smile stopped when the other party twisted his right hand completely off.
Is this guy really crazy?
It comes to mind.
Then, the nightmare maid saw the other party put his twisted right hand into his pocket and tremblingly took out something from it.
A demon-sealing rune that flashes with electric light.
