Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 48: Curtain
It wasn't long before all the cages in the dungeon were filled to the brim.
All those torturers were stuffed into cages, and each cage was burning with emerald soul flames.
The wails and screams of the tortured people came one after another. Compared with the previous scene, the prison of pain at this moment was more like hell.
After doing all this, William turned around and sent all the rescued phantoms back to the real world.
These phantoms are the spiritual projections of some unlucky people in the present world. They accidentally wandered here while dreaming and were then imprisoned, causing them to have nightmares every night about being tortured by a group of sadists.
They were still lucky. If this was the year when the Nightmare Lord was on duty, they might even have their souls pulled here.
"Um... Sir William, didn't you say you were here to negotiate?"
The crow messenger asked worriedly, looking at the torturers on fire in the cages around him.
William had used this soul fire when interrogating it before, and it knew very well what kind of extreme pain that was.
And now the person in front of me has set all the Moon Realm monsters on fire at once. Isn't this a bit...
"Ah, you can rest assured about this. This cage is called the Torture Cage. As long as the sentient being trapped inside is tortured painfully, it will continuously provide power to the Jawmara. The key is to torture it to the extreme. As for what is put inside, it is actually not important."
William said as he walked up the spiral staircase.
"In fact, most Void Kings don't care that much about such details...Okay, you can lead the way."
Even within a moon realm, changes are happening all the time.
Maybe the door led to a hall in the last second, and it led to a poison pool in the next second. In addition to the Void King himself who can fully grasp and control the changes in the entire Moon Realm, and the demons under his command who can control their own domains, only the existence called the Messenger can see through the laws of change in the Moon Realm and guide people to specific places.
Of course, there is also a simpler and more brutal way, which is to kill all the way through. After killing almost all the Moon Realm monsters in an area, the portal to the next area will automatically open.
William originally thought that this design of hiding the map loading would be rationalized after crossing over, but he found that it had not been changed when he came to the Moon Realm last time. Or is this also a reasonable mechanism of the Moon Realm?
Fortunately, he had a messenger who had seen the Nightmare Lord himself, otherwise he might have to kill his way to the Nightmare Lord's throne and then tell the other party that he came here for cooperation.
If you do this, forget about cooperation, it might even be a problem whether you can escape from the Nightmare Swamp.
After all, back then, I led the entire Judgment Seat to fight in front of the thrones of the Void Kings, but I couldn't make the other side show any health bars. Now, more than a thousand years have passed, and the opponent's strength is much stronger than before, while I am the only one left on my side.
Outside the door of the dungeon was a stretch of withered rice fields that stretched as far as the eye could see, and in the rice fields there was a strange scarecrow with a hideous smile painted on it placed at regular intervals . The lanterns in their hands moved automatically without wind, making a creaking sound.
The crow messenger shuddered as he looked at the scarecrows, then he gathered himself and turned into a storm of crow feathers and flew in one direction. A pair of wings made of pure light spread out from William's shoulder blades, and he flapped his wings and followed behind the storm of crow feathers.
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The bedroom of the Nightmare Lord is divided into seven areas from the outside to the inside by seven layers of curtains, which symbolize the seven basic forms of nightmares: shame, loss, pursuit, weakness, falling, imprisonment, and death.
Generally speaking, except for the nightmare maids who are responsible for conveying the orders of the Nightmare Lord and the seven demon generals corresponding to the seven nightmares, who can enter and leave the bedroom when ordered, all other family members are not allowed to approach this place.
For the Nightmare Lord, the unknown and the vague are His most important sources of power. Not only for mortals, but even for the Moon Realm monsters under His command, He still needs them to remain afraid of Him at all times.
Therefore, any Moon Realm monster that dares to challenge this rule and attempts to enter the bedroom will meet a very miserable end. Their essence will be torn apart by the Nightmare Lord himself and embroidered into the curtains of the bedroom, causing them to be tortured by eternal nightmares.
In fact, in order to maintain his mystery, Zhuamala not only did not allow other Moon Realm monsters to approach his bedroom, but He himself had never left the bedroom. Even in the war with the living world a thousand years ago, He only made his own incarnation and personally delivered it to the door of the bedroom, and then He returned to the deepest part of the bedroom.
Therefore, inside the Nightmare Swamp, many highly intelligent Moon Realm monsters would often open several layers of curtains in their sleeping chambers to judge the importance of a matter to Ms. Clawmara.
Generally speaking, when the demon generals under his command come to meet the Nightmare Lord, the curtains of the bedroom will be opened one layer, and Ms. Zhuamala will allow them to report on the outermost layer.
Every thirteen years, when the Nightmare Lord takes over the calamity year, the curtains of the bedroom will be opened twice, because the Nightmare Lord wants to better project his power to the Vic Continent. Of course, if a demon comes to report something at this time, it can only stay on the outermost layer.
When messengers from other Void Kings arrive, Jawmara will open one to four layers of curtains depending on the relationship between the king behind the visiting messenger and Him.
So far, the only time all the veils were opened was in the middle of the war against the present world more than a thousand years ago, when Lady Djormala created her own incarnation and then opened the seven veils to send Him out.
Despite such strict regulations, the high-level Moon Realm monsters still instinctively set up their territory as close to the bedroom as possible without angering the Nightmare Lord. This was done to get closer to the Lord who created them.
This day seemed to be an extremely ordinary day for those high-level Moon Realm monsters near the palace. Of course, the concept of time in the Moon Realm is very vague, so calling it "this day" may not be a very accurate term.
But no matter what, the bedroom of the Nightmare Lord was still closed with seven layers of curtains as usual, and the surroundings of the bedroom were also in a peaceful silence. Of course, calling it peaceful may not be accurate, after all, there is no such thing in the domain of the Void King.
In short, those high-level Moon Realm monsters tried to communicate with the mortals in the world through dreams as usual - either to inspire nightmarish inspiration for those weird artists, or to control mortals to commit sins while sleepwalking, or to guide out-of-control dreams into the Moon Realm.
However, at this moment, two sounds of breaking through the air suddenly came from the distant sky.
The attention of all the Moon Realm monsters nearby was drawn to that undisguised voice.
In the morbid sky that looked like it was painted by a mental patient, a storm of crow feathers and a person with holy wings flapping behind him were flying towards the bedroom of the Lord of Nightmares.
The Moon Realm monsters present had some impression of the former, and it seemed to be a messenger sent by the Moon Realm Lord not long ago.
A mere messenger from the Lord of the Moon Realm should not even be qualified to meet the Lord of Nightmares, but Ms. Zhuamala opened two layers of curtains for it.
This caused widespread discussion among the high-level Moon Realm monsters nearby at the time.
As for the one flapping his holy wings, although the Moon Realm monsters present didn't know who he was, his appearance made them all feel even more shocked.
Because he is a mortal.
A mortal, not to mention how he came to the Nightmare Swamp, how dare he fly towards the bedroom of the Nightmare Lord?
To say it was suicide is an understatement.
This has not happened in hundreds of years .
All the Moon Realm monsters nearby held their breath, waiting for punishment from the palace.
Sure enough, there was movement in the bedroom.
But not in the way they imagined.
The curtains outside the bedroom opened five times at once, and a mist spread out from them, forming a huge female shadow.
A voice that sounded extremely sweet, but at the same time stirred up fear in the hearts of everyone present, echoing all around.
"Disaster, you are not welcome here!"
