Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The super-large evil spirit screaming up to the sky seemed to express its unwillingness loudly, the gap spread from the chest to the surroundings, and the tiny blue crystal chips scattered like trickles in the sun, circling radially to the sky, gradually moving away from the sight .

If the evil spirits are compared to the will of the dead and to wandering souls, then the "giant baby" is the destination that these wandering wills have found, and it is also the way out they have found, stemming from the instinct of not wanting to die.

The original size of the giant baby was not so huge. In fact, it was formed by the evil spirits fused with it to form this super-large body.

"Finally...it's over, isn't it..." Chalt let out a long breath, but his slightly relaxed expression immediately tensed up in a more serious state, and he turned to the back and said, "—Obviously still It's not over."

The young man who came from a distance leaned the stick on the back of his neck, wrapped his arms around the stick and rested his elbows on the stick, and approached with a slightly arched waist. Beside him is a man of unknown gender with a pumpkin head and overalls.

"I said, the guys at clock number six are really a bunch of trash, they are no match for the Devourer at all."

While showing off his achievements as if talking to himself, the mirror master came to the opposite of us and stopped.

"Hey, can't you say that? They can defeat the Devourer, but it's a pity that we stand in the way."

The tone of the lantern is between that of a boy and a girl. Whether it is a male voice or a female voice, it is not strange. The tone of the speech is more like malicious ridicule than sympathy or pity. It has a bit of a cat crying.

I don't know why the lantern didn't care about us at all. Instead, it raised its head defiantly, stretched out its right hand to its forehead, and looked around, like a wild cat looking for a companion. The gaze stops in a certain direction and the focal length is added.

"Ah, I found you~"

After throwing down the lantern, we walked in the direction of the black cat. The cyan vines shuttled back and forth between the water curtains, approaching the young man in the wheelchair, and the young man hung the dead fish eyes and spread the water mist to meet the vines endowed with monsters.

Although neither of the two sides is at a disadvantage, they are already on the verge of the collapse of this balance. The black cat's ability to survive until now, except for her own strength, is actually related to the general's poor mental state.

"Is the target a black cat? No, I still want to act with my closest companion."

Unable to figure out the intention of Lantern Abandoning Mirror Master Ignoring, it is always unfeasible for the black cat to deal with three people. I hurriedly looked around at the people around me, and my gaze passed over Arquette and the boy of steel, and finally landed on Chalt.

"Charter, you go help the black cat!"

"I....?"

"The strong light released by the lantern will temporarily deprive us of vision, but your absolute observation will not be affected, and you can rely on absolute observation to act. With you, the black cat can deal with the "flash bomb" of the lantern."

"Well, I'm really the only one who is suitable." Charter reluctantly agreed.

"I'll go with you!" The Iron Boy hurriedly stepped forward, making a proposal to Chart in a hasty tone.

Chart was stunned for a second, then nodded and acquiesced to his proposal.

"Hey... self-righteous guys, do you think you can slip away in front of me?"

With full strength, the Mirror Master quickly threw his stick at the two people who turned and ran away. I immediately raised my right hand flat and pushed out the solid barrier. The swinging stick tore through the air and hit the invisible barrier, tearing apart the cracks like an explosion.

Although the power of the attack exceeded my expectations, it was successfully blocked anyway.

"I said, just tell me if you're upset. I know that your companion has abandoned you, so I have some emotions in my heart, but we won't be kind to you as a living target. Why don't you settle the score with me?"

I deliberately mocked the Mirror Mirror like a cannonball, and he clenched his fists angrily as I expected.

"Don't meddle in your own business! Wait, wait until I kill you and complete the mission, then it will be Lantern's turn!"

"Well, Reina will hate you for being so indiscriminate—"

Just halfway through the words, the force exerted on the swinging stick suddenly jumped to a higher level, the cracks on the transparent barrier quickly escalated into incomplete holes, and the swinging stick penetrating the barrier was close to my field of vision.

Arquette drew out the rapier sharply and wanted to split the stick, but before my eyes, the stick stopped in front of my eyes and suddenly stopped, as if the front end had hit an invisible obstacle and could not get any closer.

——Actually, that’s exactly what happened.

"Wow, it's so dangerous. It's hard to resist a sudden increase in power."

I relaxed the strength of my fingers a little, and swung my hand to my right, the barrier immediately resisted the Mirror Master's stick and changed its flight trajectory. Seeing that the swing stick deviated from the direction and flew farther and farther, the Mirror Master snorted unwillingly and withdrew his hand.

The speed of the swinging stick became slower and slower, and when it came to a standstill, it accelerated back to the Mirror Master's hand along the same trajectory as before.

"What a nagging guy."

"Thank you for the compliment."

Although the tone is pretending to be relaxed, the situation is not optimistic, because the current overall situation——

There are 6 people on the other side: dark green pupil, mirror master, general, lantern, Reina, and messenger; our side has 8 people at clock number 8: Arquette, Lin Yu, Chart, Xiao Luoluo, Xue Xueer, Yingzi, Silver and Iron Boys.

The reason for excluding Clock No. 8 is that their condition is extremely poor, and we have already put in all our efforts to deal with the Devourer, so we can't expect them to help. We only hope that when they are targeted, they will have enough energy to escape on their own.

Even if clock number eight is not counted, we still have the advantage in terms of numbers. But at the same time, our energy consumption is far more than theirs - which is certainly not a good sign.

If possible, letting Xiao Lulu evacuate us safely is the best choice. But the messenger who interferes with the signal transmission with the outside world does not know where it is hidden. It must have been hidden during our fight against the super-large evil spirit.

However, this also proves that the messenger itself does not have high combat effectiveness.

"Infinite... mirror image..."

Whispering in a low voice, the mirror master fumbled his hand into the jacket vest, and suddenly pulled out the fragments of the broken mirror and threw them towards us one after another. Instinctively, I flicked my cheeks sideways to catch my reflection in the mirror.

"Araki—!"

The manic tone made the Mirror Master's voice dumb. The Mirror Master looked at us ferociously, as if he had been wronged by shame and humiliation, and his hands beside him were also clenched into claws.

My reflection stuck in the lens behind me was suddenly replaced by an unfamiliar face, and his figure was pulled further and further away in the lens, showing the burly figure of this man in Taoist uniform and his delicate face.

"Tsk, you're still the same guy!"

I quickly hooked Alket's shoulders and lay down with him, avoiding the spell that flew out of the lens and passed us, the burning temperature almost reached my body.

"But it looks like you're having a hard time coping with me in the 'old way'!"

The provocation of the mirror master made me look back in a hurry, and saw that the fragments thrown by the mirror master were arranged into a long corridor as expected, and Arquette and I were trapped in it by the mutual reflections between the mirror surfaces.

At first, our figure was reflected in the mirror, but in the next second, the reflections in all the fragments were replaced by the same figure, and then the dreamer of the mirror master——Araki's deep voice jumped over the mirror and came to the eyes.

"Let's fall into reincarnation!"

As soon as the words fell, I had expected to pull up Arquette and separated him to the two sides, one spell after another crossed from the other side of the mirror, although the speed was not fast, but they consciously followed us closely, and we couldn’t get rid of it no matter what .

I ran into the same situation again. This time I can obviously use the power of the black knight, and I don't need to unilaterally dodge the mirror's attack like last time, but the increasingly obvious exhaustion of my body is holding me back.

It has to be said that Clock One's tactics of using Wraiths and Devourers against us worked, they only fought us from beginning to end, but we spent a lot of energy dealing with super-sized Wraiths and Devourers.

In addition, the four people on the third clock have injuries of varying shades, so their injuries must also be taken into consideration. Therefore, on the whole, we are indeed at a disadvantage compared to the No. 1 clock.

Having said that, it's not that I don't have a way to reverse the situation - if I break this single-handed situation and keep doing two things to escalate the disputes in various places into a melee, it may not be impossible to take advantage of each other's advantages.

I locked my target on the dark army of thousands in front of me, and looked back from time to time to pay attention to the offensive situation of the mirror master.

The man on the mirror kept waving his index finger, manipulating the spell that was chasing us. Soon the front will no longer allow us to retreat, and the Mirror Master takes half a step back and throws his stick at us with all his strength.

The dangerous light reflected by the swinging stick came at an elusive speed, I clenched my teeth and tried my best to turn my upper body sideways. The stick that brushed against the shoulder pierced the skin and spattered blood, then flew away to the front of the lens, reflecting countless mirror images of the stick, running counter to the first stick that flew into the mirror world, and attacking us together.

"Well, I admit that you are more difficult than before!"

After I finished speaking, a strong silver light flashed behind me, and the sound of glass shattering followed one after another, and the lenses stuck in the back space were disintegrated by the incredible power of the giant sword swing.

Dozens of swinging sticks that were about to spray out my brain sprayed through my brain instantly shattered like a broken mirror, and accompanied by flying crystal chips spread out a gorgeous picture in my field of vision. The girl put down the giant sword and stood among the fine shards of light.

I didn't have time to appreciate the scenery, so I quickened my pace and rushed towards the mechanical soldiers in front.

"Hey, what do you want to do?" Alkaite obviously couldn't understand my motives for rushing into the Thousand Army, and asked in confusion while waving the rapier to split the yellow charms coming from all directions.

"I didn't want to do anything, it's just that there's no reason to use the snatched mask."

Of course, there are many other reasons for me to stare at the dark green pupil.

One of them is: the courier may be hidden among the mechanical soldiers.

Although the information we have is not as good as Clock No. 6, I definitely have the most experience fighting the ruler of Clock No. 1 among the people present, especially the dark green pupil and Mirror Master. I definitely know better than anyone here. .

If, if my guess is correct—

"Arket, if the Mirror Master rushes over, please help me hold on for a while!"

Before waiting for a response, I dashed down and pushed aside the mechanical units on both sides to get in. The chasing charm couldn't adjust its trajectory in time, and the mechanical soldiers that hit the outermost edge exploded into an uproar.

Accompanied by electronic noises caused by mechanical failures, the mutilated arm was ejected with sporadic electric sparks in the dazzling firelight. As I expected, the nearby "puppet" did not attack me.

"what are you doing?!"

Seeing that Mirror Master accidentally injured his own troops, Mo Lutong couldn't help but cursed.

At this time, Molutong was concentrating on manipulating the troops on all sides. While trying to break through Xue Xueer's strong city wall, he was dealing with the battle maids who had sneaked into the army. Although it is not overwhelmed, it is still a hard battle.

"I didn't mean to hurt you by mistake, that kid Lin Yu sneaked in."

The Mirror Master responded to the dark green pupil's question a little anxiously, and swung his stick at me who was mixed in with the mechanical arms. Alket turned the hilt of the sword sharply at his fingertips, and the swing stick that was slightly off track brushed my side cheek and penetrated the body of the mechanical soldier.

Despite this, the mechanical soldier still followed the instructions persistently as if he hadn't noticed the attack.

The black cat's evaluation of the army of thousands is not wrong-even though the dark green pupils control an army in number, they are puppets that need the dark green pupils to command all the time, and they will only act according to unified instructions.

"Tsk! Don't make trouble for me! Lin Yu, I'll leave it to me. You're just getting in the way!"

Perhaps because the mirror master hurt the dark green pupil's army again, the dark green pupil's tone was a bit anxious, wishing that the mirror master was as far away as possible, so as not to affect his performance.

The previous thousand-man army can be regarded as the same person with multiple clones, and although the dark green pupil can issue four commands at the same time, it is actually just changing from "one person" to "four people".

"Lin Yu! Where are you hiding, come out quickly!"

The dark green pupil's voice echoed in the sky, appearing very sullen.

The four armies that can only execute the same command are basically just four people with multiple bodies, unable to respond to emergencies, so even if they are attacked by someone other than the target, they will not respond.

"The commander of a majestic "Army of Thousands", instead of using his many subordinates to search for someone, he still has to shout everywhere? Tsk tsk, you are really aggrieved as a commander."

"Shut up! It doesn't take me a lot of trouble to get you out of the ant!"

The dark green pupil was enraged by the words that touched his anger point, and he swung his right hand vigorously to the side, and generously called out an army that was fighting Xue Xueer, but he used it to deal with a mere person who had sneaked into the thousand-man army.

"Tsk. Shouldn't I be honored to use so many people against me?"

If my guess is correct——

"When distinguishing different people, what is used to distinguish people is only their masks, but they can't touch their hearts. But if I know everything about you, I can copy your masks. This is, "one person with thousands of faces"—— "

The flame hidden in the depths of the pupils suddenly surfaced and landed in the center of the pupils, reflecting an ancient clock whose hands were oscillating to 12 o'clock, and the pupils turned black like the midnight sky. The Dark Knight's disguise gradually crumbled.

At this moment, the eyes of the dark green pupils came into focus, and they met my eyes that were shooting out the flames. He immediately raised his closed right hands and waved them to my chest to give instructions.

The mechanical soldiers who received the order immediately went against the current and approached me.

So only in the next moment—the moment the flames burned out, another "dark green pupil" appeared in front of the mechanical soldiers without warning, waved their right hand at them, and pointed behind them as well.

The mechanical soldier whose instructions had been changed turned sideways 180 degrees neatly, but saw the commander's hand pointing backward, repeating the conflicting instructions caused the mechanical soldier to stop in place and stop operating.

The dark green pupils widened their eyes in disbelief, fixedly staring at me who was transformed into him, and swung his right hand vigorously.

"Hey! Show me clearly, your target is him! You can't tell who is a fake!!"

At this moment, I, who was closely connected with the dark green pupil, clearly realized that his cognition had been seriously shaken.

The reason why my previous words touched Mo Lutong's anger is precisely because Mo Lutong himself hates this army that can only be used as a puppet. He has been trying to change this situation, but he can't do anything.

When he was young, Mo Lutong founded a smash-hit communication network company. He relied on the company's rising popularity to earn a lot of money. His carefree life made him ignore the company's fatal flaws.

In fact, he is the only real decision maker in the entire company, and everyone follows his orders. He ignored the need to develop managerial talent and enjoyed the fun of being a dictator alone.

His orders permeate every aspect of the company. In his opinion, night is the most suitable time for this line of work, while daytime is the period of burnout. So he swapped work and rest time, requiring employees to start work every evening.

This non-following rotation mode has had a positive effect on the company to a certain extent, but at the same time it has caused dissatisfaction among some employees, and the negative emotions have been used as a fuse, and the trend of spreading has intensified.

Because he will always formulate anomalous rules similar to "day and night reversal", although each time it only causes some employees to be unhappy, but repeated similar effects will snowball this negative emotion and eventually cause chaos.

In the middle of the year, the dark green pupil officially declared the company bankrupt, lived a life of nomads, and finally settled in one of the few slums in the city, living in a house called a "box" that no one would suspect.

The mask of reality is reflected in the dream world, because the dream world is the cognitive world. Whether it is appearance, dress, personality, dream maker or dominance, more or less will be interfered with by one's cognition in reality.

At any time, what Molutong lacks is the ability to control the individual. He always issues orders for the whole habitually, ordering everyone, but never caring about the impact on the individual.

Being overly authoritarian, he can only control the whole body composed of puppets, and this cognition continues to become his shackles in the dream.

"I said, you can be regarded as a genius in a certain way, right?"

My sudden conversation made Mo Lutong panic, he stared at me fiercely, and clenched his right hand tightly. He ignored my question and repeated the movement of swinging his right hand, sweating profusely on his face from anxiety.

"Why, you just can't understand such a simple and easy-to-understand reason?"

While speaking, I raised my right hand and snapped my fingers under the eyes of the dark green pupil in a hurry. The mechanical soldier who ignored his instructions suddenly moved forward as if fully charged, and approached the dark green pupil with a turbulent momentum.

"This kind of thing...how is it possible! You are my army of thousands, right!!"

Dark green pupils gradually panicked. Regardless of the fact that the troops controlled by his left hand were fighting with the battle maids, he hastily instructed them to stop other tasks and sent them in large numbers to deal with the "rebel" puppets.

"Hurry up... Hurry up and kill these traitors!!"

"As expected, no matter how simple the truth is, those who don't understand it will never understand it."

I raised my left hand, raised a finger, and suddenly stretched it forward, pointing at the dark green pupils facing me.

Among the mechanical units fighting with the forces controlled by my right hand, some soldiers received my instructions, stopped fighting and approached in the direction of the dark green pupil. The situation changed again and the dark green pupil took a few steps back, tripping over his own scepter .

"What kind of cheating method did you use?! Impossible...Why can you only instruct a few people?"

The dark green pupil frantically stretched out his hand to stabilize his body with the help of the staff, watching helplessly as I stretched out my middle finger, ring finger, until I spread my palm horizontally, almost all the forces in his left hand were under my control.

However, it may be that there are too many soldiers to control at one time. I just started to not be able to support this level of quantity. There was an intense pain in the depths of my brain that was ready to move, which made me twitch with pain in my eye sockets.

"'Cheating'? It's such a nostalgic word." I walked through the mechanical arms, "Let me ask you, do you remember what you said when you invited me to participate in the domination war?"

The dark green pupils trembled desperately, as if trying to remember something. This is the first time today that he listened to my words and tried to think, instead of just ignoring every word I said.

"Forget it, right? That's right, if you remember what you said, you won't still not understand this truth."

At that time, I rejected Molutong's request; however, a few years later, I accepted the tea cat's invitation.

【This confused gentleman, you perfectly meet the criteria we need—please join us in the war of domination. If you don't know what that is, don't ask. 】

【You only need to know that if you win the domination war, you will gain the power to control reality. 】

——This is the original words of Mo Lutong, and his purpose and benefits are fully revealed in two or three simple sentences. The feeling he gave me at the time was that it didn't matter even if the person invited was not me.

If I reject him, then he can find someone else to replace me, and he won't have any memory of me. His attitude made me feel that once I agreed to his invitation, I would become his subordinate instead of his "companion".

The dark green pupil who only pays attention to the whole does not know how to understand the individual's thoughts. He does not understand that what the individual needs is the sense of identity of being "needed by others", so he gives me an extremely "utilitarian" feeling.

That sense of alienation and oppression, and the attitude of not treating the other person as a human being, were the main reasons why I rejected him.

"There is one thing I have to admit - in terms of overall control, no one can match you. However, there is one thing, you will never be able to compare with the countless times that you have called students into the office to communicate alone just to build bonds I."

Even though I used lucid dreaming as a cheating method, by prying into the hearts of others to give solutions that cater to the other party, and to deceive the students' trust... But this cannot erase the fact that I play the role of the listener every time.

I cheated. As Molutong said, I did cheat.

In the classroom my orders often do not work, but have the opposite effect. For example, when I heard a loud voice, I would slap the table and shout "quiet", but the students often became lively after only a second of silence.

This kind of control over the whole is what Molutong is good at.

Not once, though, have I been turned down when I individually ask a student to help me with something.

Because of my bond with individuals, I have the right to instruct them——

No matter what happens, I will not order them to do something as an orderer, but in the form of advice, suggesting that the other party do so. I will always be a listener. Individual face-to-face communication with students,

Over time, what I have established is the fetters between individuals, rather than the majesty of individuals over overall management.

Compared with the way that Molutong uses "interests" to bind each other, the way I and the students strengthen mutual trust is more applicable to individuals. Although it is the turn of the whole, there will be a lack of control.

"What you are missing is the bond with the individual. By the way, this directly affects the sense of trust."

"No... you don't understand anything!"

Having said that, his increasingly shaky cognition is indeed causing him to gradually lose his control power.

The dream world is the world of imagination and cognition. I expressed my point of view through words, and he unconsciously recognized my point of view, so he subtly shook the cognition in his heart and promoted new changes.

At first, the dark green pupil tried hard to reject my point of view by ignoring it, but he opened the closed entrance because of the fact that happened in front of him-the Thousand-Man Legion was controlled by me, and wanted to know what I had done.

From this moment on, Molutong is destined to accept my cognition, because he has already doubted himself.

I soothed the sore eye sockets, and hinted that I could complete the task after a while.

"Hey, let me say...Although success or failure is already decided, you still have two armies that you can use, right?"

I snapped the fingers of my left hand in front of the dark green pupil, and the only remaining troops controlled by his left hand turned back in an instant, turned around mechanically, and stepped into the team that was attacking the dark green pupil.

"You bastard..."

The dark green pupil squeezed his eyes hard, and stared at me resentfully with his waist half bowed.

"What? Are you unwilling to mobilize the troops controlled by your legs?" I glanced at the dark green pupil's legs and said deliberately, "Oh...could it be that you hid the messenger in these two teams, didn't you?"

Hearing this, the astonished expression of the dark green pupils basically confirmed my guess. I immediately raised my right leg and kicked forward. The mechanical soldiers piled up in front of Xue Xueer immediately stopped fighting and joined the team controlled by both hands.

Just when I was about to use my left leg again, the voice of the Mirror Master suddenly sounded from afar——

"Hey! I don't feel relieved to leave it to a bastard like you."

I quickly looked around, only to see that Arkaite was still no match for the Mirror Master, and was trapped by the chasing spell. The Mirror Master who handed over the rear to Araki rushed directly into the Army of Thousands, smashing the nearby mechanical soldiers with a swinging stick.

"Don't always do bad things at critical times like this..."

A turbulent vortex surged from the depths of his head, and the hands and right leg connected to the three troops throbbed as if they would be torn apart. Sure enough, it was too much effort to control such a large number of troops just after getting started.

I desperately supported my heavy eyelids and looked towards Xue Xueer. Only a quarter of the original force remained on her side, but the messenger was still missing, which meant that he was in the last team.

Immediately after that, the mirror master split the mechanical soldiers blocking his sight, and quickly narrowed the distance between me and me. I raised my left hand flat, trying to use my index finger to control some soldiers to attack the Mirror Master, but the rapid breathing was warning me.

When my left index finger was throbbing with tearing pain, the Mirror Master raised his stick and threw it at me. Maybe it noticed my bravado, and the tea cat uninvitedly raised its huge sword to block me.

The moment they collided and collided, the two sides pulled up a strange airflow in the air, and there was a loud noise like tearing the air.

I sincerely thanked the tea cat for giving me the space to relax my mind. I turned my eyes uneasily to the army that was still under the control of the dark green pupil, only to find that Sakurako's battle maid team had rushed into the mechanical army.

The mechanical soldier who was fighting against the replica in the white curtain wall was like a puppet at his mercy, and was split in two by the slashing blow, creating an electronic noise of failure warning. In the end, it was suspected that the girl who was the head maid among them A young man in a green uniform dragged out of the crowd and threw it roughly.

The courier stood still at a loss, intending to escape back to a safe area, but the muzzle of the gun in the hand of the maid was pressed against his forehead, and the courier immediately raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"Lin Yu!" Alcatel's voice sounded from the depths of his mind, which proved that the voice came through the communication channel we established, that is to say——"Just now, the messenger's "information blocking" has shaken!"

"Contact Xiao Lulu as soon as possible." After I finished speaking briefly, I put the focus back on the dark green pupil.

At the same time, the eyes of the dark green pupil passed through many mechanical soldiers who were welcoming him, and kept looking at me.

"You're right. Including today, I have done many things by cheating."

The dark green pupils didn't respond to my words, they just stared at me quietly with those dark green eyes, with an inexplicable color, as if they were my listeners at the moment.

I've seen that look before, and not so long ago. His eyes are not indistinguishable from those of William and Zuo Xibai... Maybe, maybe when Sato Kazuhiko left, he had the same look in his eyes, right?

"However, now I don't want to reject my cheating anymore. Because "cheating" is the way I survive in this world devoured by strange food. So, I will continue to cheat in the future. "

As soon as the words fell, the figure with dark green pupils was already buried in the crowd of mechanical soldiers. A few seconds later, together with the legion of thousands of people, it turned into azure crystal chips and dissipated in the black tide of soldiers.