Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 701 5. Omen

"I'm going to be out for a while, maybe two to three days before I come back."

That night, Merlin, who was about to leave home, was in the living room, telling his three younger sisters what to do.

He looked at Ruiwen first, and he said to Ruiwen:

"Rocket and Groot are going to move to Sulfur Harbor for a while. Those two guys seem to be in love with Earth. You can deliver them for me tomorrow, and Horus will come to pick you up then."

"Nisa has already arranged a place for those two guys to live in Sulfur Harbor, so if Rocket asks you to borrow money, don't lend it to him, that guy is very addicted to gambling."

"Well, say hello to Elsa for me by the way."

Ruiwen, who was sitting on the sofa reading a book, nodded, she knew exactly what Merlin was going to do.

Merlin nodded, then turned to look at Lorna, he said to the green-haired sister:

"You can go and play with Miss Wanda, but you have to go home for dinner every day. Lan will watch over you for me. Don't run around with Kuaiyin, you know?"

"Hmph, I'm not a kid anymore."

Lorna, who was watching a cartoon, proudly raised her head, gave Merlin a blank look, and stuffed a bear biscuit into her mouth, biting into it.

"You at last, Laura."

Merlin turned his head to look at the little girl who was sitting next to him, quietly looking at the comic book. When the latter heard Merlin calling her name, she raised her head and looked at him.

It's been months and Laura still doesn't speak...

"Hey, I'm not worried about you running around. Just stay at home obediently. If you have nightmares at night, go to Ruiwen."

Merlin stroked Laura's hair, he turned to Raven and said:

"Will you keep an eye on her for me?"

"Laura might stab me through the heart in a nightmare..."

Raven reached out and pushed her glasses, she said to Merlin:

"I'm so weak now, but I can't avoid it, unless, you..."

"Don't even think about it!"

Merlin stopped Rui Wen's words, and he said seriously:

"The three magic weapons are very dangerous things. No one knows what the result of using them is. The Supreme Mage's seal on you is very mysterious. It will resist all dark magic power, and I don't think that a mere three magic weapons A weapon can break the seal set by the Supreme Sorcerer himself."

He looked at Raven, and he said:

"Be good, sister, you don't need to fight now, I will protect you."

"But Sannomiya..."

Biting her lip, Raven said:

"No one knows whether Sangong will break away from the seal, I must be prepared."

"You have almost killed the son of Sangong in this world, Ruiwen."

Merlin pointed to himself, and he said:

"The only remaining power seed left in my body is the one in my body. Your power seed has been sealed. Even if Sangong escapes from the cage, it will be difficult for him to rely on that connection to control you or hurt you."

"It's just difficult, but not impossible."

Ruiwen retorted, and Merlin looked at the elder sister with some headaches. Ruiwen has become very quiet and calm in recent years, but that is only a superficial change. The character of this hell princess is actually the same as before, but it is covered up. Under the shell of family affection.

"Wait a little longer, okay?"

Merlin said to Ruiwen seriously:

"After a while, if you really don't want to be sealed again, I will go with you to find the supreme mage."

"Are you serious?"

Ruiwen raised her head abruptly, her eyes filled with surprise.

Merlin looked at his sister, he sighed helplessly, and said:

"When did I ever lie to you? In short, take good care of your two younger sisters for me, and enter the mysterious room when you encounter danger. Gugu will help you."

After finishing speaking, he reached out and rubbed Laura's hair, making a mess of the little girl's smooth hair.

He stood up, waved to his sisters, then opened the bathroom door and entered the mysterious room.He went straight to the fireplace, and with a flick of his finger, the parchment that was placed on the shelf fell into his palm.

"Old friend."

Merlin spread out the parchment in front of his eyes, and said in a familiar tone:

"Tell me."

"what do you want me to say?"

A sentence quickly appeared on the parchment. It was obvious that this guy was playing dumb.

"Don't make trouble, you know what I'm asking, Dream Sand, Sandman, and the dream world... What's going on with those? And, is there a way to untie my connection with the dream world?"

Merlin says:

"I know you can do it, right?"

"Have!"

The parchment says very directly:

"But expensive."

"Tell me."

Merlin looked at the parchment, he sighed, and said:

"What you wanted me to do before, what I didn't want to do, I have already done it, Lingdie, Zatanna...Damn it, if I knew the result would be like this, I shouldn't have quarreled with you about these things in the first place .”

"Haha, you can't hide, Merlin."

New words are constantly being refreshed on the parchment:

"While you are chasing fate, on the other side of the chasm, fate itself is receding, and the harder you chase, the faster it recedes... Do you understand? You can't resist it, you can't Dodge it, you can only prepare for fate to come, and it won't be long... Whatever the outcome, the end is coming."

"For the sake of Psylocke and Zatanna, I'll tell you something for free..."

The words on the surface of the parchment quickly dissipated, and soon, new words jumped out again.

"The Sandman noticed you a long time ago, Zatanna girl thought she implicated you, but it wasn't. Merlin, you implicated her... If Sandman's dream sand can be stolen so casually, The dream world has long been messed up, Sandman is very cunning, he used Zatanna's idea of ​​getting rid of the agreement, and with Zatanna's hand, he pulled you into his domain."

"I think you must be very curious, why are you...let an old friend tell you."

"Sandman is the third son of the endless family. He is an incomprehensible creature, different from flesh and blood, and different from spirit. His existence itself is the appearance of rules in a symbolic sense. He is endowed with personality and entity, so he also has troubles. .”

"In the endless sleep, even the dream itself will extend the nightmare, which is the shadow of personification... The Sandman has his own troubles. The nightmare dimension was born in the dream world, and his own nightmare, gathered in that dimension In reality, that is Nightmare, one of the Lords of Dread."

"Nightmare is part of the dream world, but it yearns for freedom, just like its other brothers. It feeds on the fear of all beings to grow itself, but alas, it is only an insignificant phantom, and it can only ingest The nightmares of this world...those sweet fears are its wine, but it is not alone that can drink from a cup."

"When I say this, you should understand, right?"

A meaningful rhetorical question appeared on the parchment, but Merlin did understand.

"That sounds familiar... Orochi?"

"The serpent who claims to be the fearful father, the source of his power, is also the fear of all living beings, oh, I understand...it's not me who attracts Sandman, but the war hammer on my body, to be precise, it's the serpent , as long as the big snake escapes in this world and is strong enough, then the nightmare will become weaker and weaker."

"After all, the fear of ordinary beings has a limit, and that is not enough to be shared by too many creatures who feed on fear."

Merlin pouted:

"It turned out that he was borrowing a knife to kill people... What a shame!"

"Hey, don't be so harsh, Merlin."

Another sentence appeared on the parchment:

"They paid for it. For 7 years, once a week, you and Miss Zatanna indulge in love. Do you know how many men desire this?"

"But I don't want it!"

Merlin rubbed his forehead, he said to the parchment:

"Is it too late for me to throw away the Skadi Warhammer now?"

"What do you say?"

An anthropomorphic mocking smile appeared on the parchment, and it said in words:

"What is more terrifying than getting into trouble with one is getting into two, oh no, three at the same time! With all due respect, the Sandman is the kind of good-tempered creature among extraordinary creatures, but if you really get angry He died, and the result... well, it's not so good."

"To weaken the nightmare, you have to wake up the big snake, and waking up the big snake means that I will offend Odin, and the price of offending Odin is that the entire Asgard God Realm will regard me as a thorn in the side..."

Merlin narrowed his eyes, he looked at the parchment, he said:

"I think this is an inextricable knot, and this is not something I can intervene now..."

"Yes! You know your own strength very well."

Parchment agrees:

"So the Sandman gave you 7 years. He probably thinks that 7 years is enough. This may also mean that the ending will come at some point in the 7 years..."

"Don't underestimate the Sandman, Merlin. Although he is low-key, his eldest sister in the Endless Family has a nickname... called Destiny. Being able to survive with such a nickname until now is enough to show the strength of the seventh son of the Endless Family. "

Parchment reminds:

"After 7 years, there will be big changes! You have to be prepared."

"Oh, how can I always encounter these strange things."

Merlin leaned on the sofa sadly, he sighed, but just as he was about to leave, there was another sentence on the parchment.

"Maybe you can go to Bleecker Street for a while. The hairless big sister has always been very sensitive to things like alien invasions."

"In the face of the possibility of a nightmare attack, she may give you some help... The premise is that if she is still staying in this group of stars, she is a busy person. After all, she is the eternal chief holy spirit, multiverse, infinite time and space, Let her come and go."

As a result, just as the last word on the parchment was displayed, a black book locked with chains appeared strangely on the table in front of Merlin's eyes, and slapped the parchment hard.

At this moment, Merlin heard a wail in a trance.

He hurriedly removed the book in front of him, only to see a crack visible to the naked eye on the parchment, as if it had been torn apart.

"It... hurts!"

The parchment curled up, and wailing appeared on the surface, but the line of scarlet letters that appeared after that made Merlin even more shocking.

"She saw me..."

"She knows I exist..."

"No, she always knew..."

"Swish"

All the writing on the surface of the parchment disappeared at this moment. This parchment, which claims to know everything, has lost all its mystery at this moment, just like an ordinary, crumpled piece of paper.

Merlin stretched out his hand and carefully picked up the parchment. The cracks on it were shocking, but there was still magic beating inside, and it was not destroyed.

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, and put the parchment back on the wooden shelf by the fireplace, then he turned to look at the book on the table.

The book was almost exactly the same as the book Merlin had obtained from the Supreme Mage before. It was also protected by an iron cover, and there was a strange emblem on the cover, like a hand making a strange seal.

The whole book is entangled in magic chains, because the book itself has magic power and must be bound, otherwise it will cause magic chaos.

Merlin's last magic book was called "Hogarth's Ancient Body", a super-level magic that is almost invincible in defense under the Heavenly Father, and can directly resist the sound waves of Black Bolt King Destroying Wushuang, and this time, he got it again. read a magic book.

It also came from the mysterious and powerful Supreme Mage... the one without hair, uh, I can't think about it anymore, the parchment with the smelly mouth just now has been severely taught for saying something wrong.

Merlin hurriedly calmed down. He looked at the black magic tome in his hand. After the magic lock was removed, a powerful storm of magic power rushed towards his face. On the first page of the tome, this spell was written in the oldest magic language. name.

"Shape of Ikon...sounds like an illusion."

Merlin manipulated the magic power to resist the magic oppression from the tome. After turning over the first page, he found a note stuck in the book.

The above is a very beautiful font.

It should come from the hands of the supreme mage, it is very simple, only one sentence, but it is more like a warning.

"The option of 'exit' is still valid. If you want to cross the next node, there will be no chance of turning back. But if you decide to continue on, just accept this apology. I also look forward to your miracle.. .”

"hehe"

Merlin chuckled. He carefully clamped the bookmark in the magic book, then locked the bookmark and put it back in his pocket. He stood up, straightened his clothes and hair, and said:

"I've come this far...how can I give up."

"Anyway, thank you."

"buzz"

A dimensional rift glowing with white light opened behind Merlin, and the white-clothed swordsman Miss Ciriya stepped out of it. She looked at Merlin strangely, and said:

"What did you suddenly thank me for? If Elsa hadn't begged me, I wouldn't have come to pick you up. Don't waste time. Let's go. Elsa is still waiting for you over there."

"Ok."

Merlin didn't explain anything. While mentioning the gift he brought to Elsa, he followed Xilia into the dimensional rift, and turned his head to Xuanlan who was busy on the second floor and shouted:

"Lan, put away the three magic weapons, don't let Ruiwen touch it..."

(End of this chapter)