Part 5 THE RED PRIEST Chapter 122 Unreasonable Details
”This, which one is Grocer?” In the dream world, Leonard looked ahead with a bewildered expression.
There was a huge bonfire, surrounded by more than a dozen gray and blue-skinned vertical Cyclops that looked no different to him.
Frankly speaking, without relying on the ability of the “Faceless Man”, I can’t recognize them either……. To me, if there is no difference in age, hair, height, scars, clothing, and maturity, giants all look alike… …Klein mumbled a few words in his mind, and calmly looked sideways at Ms. Justice, as if to say that you are the “audience”, this should not be difficult for you.
Audrey raised her hand and pointed to a giant who was gurgling and drinking, occasionally pulling back his voice to roar in praise:
”That’s Grocer.
”It seems that in the custom of the giant clan, the expression of affirmation and appreciation is not applauded, but roared, and the louder the roar, the higher the praise.”
Miss “Justice” is now acting like a folklorist …… Luckily, it was just yelling, not singing, or the noise would have been much worse, and it’s obvious that none of the giants here are good at music, and what they just yelled was not much of a rhythm… …Klein nodded gently to Audrey “Justice”:
”Start channeling.”
As Audrey stepped forward, Leonard stepped back, raised his right hand, rubbed his chin and said:
”You said that in the Second Age, which transcendent race widely possessed the extraordinary characteristic of the ‘darkness’ pathway.”
”Not the Demon Wolves?” Klein glanced at Leonard, wondering if his fellow poet had contracted the traditional disease of the “Night Watchers”-bad memory.
”I know.” Leonard kept his posture unchanged from earlier and said with a slightly odd expression, “Then how do they play ‘Midnight Poet’? Or was the name of the magic potion called ‘Midnight Hisser’ back then?”
”In the beginning there was no magic potion name …… “Klein was accidentally led astray by Leonard’s thoughts, the scene of this guy crouching on the ground and howling at the moon immediately came to his mind, and he couldn’t help but whisper, “It might be be more suitable for you, no need to write poetry, very simple.”
Leonard’s mouth twitched a little and said:
”There are different kinds of poets, I’m the chanting type.”
As the two of them chatted, Audrey’s guidance gradually progressed, and Grosser’s dream world successively revealed the “Forest of Decay”, the “Barren Tunnel”, a corner of the “Giant’s Royal Court”, the town of Morningside, and the Kingdom of Gold, The Kingdom of Gold and other places.
Since Grosser was not the attendant of the Giant King and other “deities”, he could only occasionally see these high-ranking existences when he was on duty in the “Decayed Forest” or certain palaces and passages of the royal court, and he did not dare to look directly at them, but had to kneel on one knee and bury his head to greet them, therefore, the Giant King Omiel, the Giant Queen Omibeira, and the Giant Queen Omibeira, had to kneel on one knee and bury their heads to greet them. Therefore, the images of Ormil the Giant King, Omibra the Giant Queen, and Bardhere the Giant King’s eldest son, “the God of the Morning”, are not visualized in the dream world, but only exist in the form of portraits.
Similarly, Grocer knows very few secrets, and his knowledge of history and the world situation is not as good as that of the “elf singer” Shattas, but it is interesting to note that in the “Court of the Giants” and the giant family, the term “betrayer” is synonymous with Sue Sue Sue. However, an interesting point is that within the “Giant Court” and the Giant Clan, the synonym for “betrayer” is Sunyasolem, an ancient god who they claim betrayed their alliance and caused the fall of Lilith, the originator of the Blood Clan.
Klein was deeply skeptical, because the irritable Sunyasolem was obviously not good at this kind of thing.
The “Queen of Natural Disasters” seems to have that ability, but the problem is, k want to plan something, it is very difficult to hide from his spouse, the real ancient god, Sunyasolem …… In comparison, the giant king Olmir is the betrayer is more reasonable! …… In the midst of Klein’s cursory analysis, Audrey shifted the direction of the guide, trying to get Grosser to show what he had seen outside the “Court of the Giants”.
Unfortunately, this giant left the royal court, passing through the town of morning sun, arrived in the golden country not long, got the travel book, into the book, the corresponding region of the local customs and people do not know much.
”One of the most valuable pieces of information at the moment is how to avoid the front after going deeper into the area where the ‘Giant’s Royal Court’ is located from ‘Afternoon Town’, from the ‘Decayed Forest ‘ and ‘Desolation Tunnel’ to enter the interior.” Audrey ended her guidance and walked back to Klein and Leonard, “This will be very useful for little ‘Sun’ in their next exploration.”
”Well, that can be told to him at the next gathering.” Klein said with a nod.
He was about to propose entering the collective subconscious sea of the book world via Grocer’s dreams when Audrey suddenly looked back as if in thought:
”There’s one detail that doesn’t make too much sense.”
”What detail?” Leonard carefully recalled what he had just seen and heard, and didn’t find anything suspicious.
”Justice,” Audrey said with a glance at The World:
”Among the things related to the ‘Forest of Decay’ where the Giant King Olmir’s father and mother are buried, the rule that only that ancient god can enter is very unreasonable.”
Klein hadn’t noticed anything wrong with this detail, but after being mentioned by Ms. “Justice”, he immediately had some thoughts and said with deliberation:
”The Giant King’s father and mother are equivalent to the originator of the Giant Clan, and normally, they should be the object of sacrifice and worship for the entire clan ……”
”Right, no matter which race, they all have certain ancestor worship emotions, the Giant clan is no exception, as can be seen from Grosser’s dream, they, the caretakers, will often sacrifice those two Patriarchs on their own outside of the ‘Forest of Decay’.” Audrey nodded approvingly, “If there are no other factors influencing this, the Giant King should occasionally organize the key cultivated objects within the clan to worship the Patriarchs, rather than stipulating that they can only enter on their own.”
”Perhaps there is a great danger hidden within the ‘Forest of Decay’, aren’t those giants of the oldest age all crazy, tyrannical, and irrational? After they die, it’s not something too hard to understand for their corpses to pollute the surroundings and affect the entire forest.” Leonard gave his guess.
Audrey and Klein shook their heads at the same time, dismissing the claim.
”If it’s just danger or contamination, the Giant Queen Omibella, the ‘Morning God’ Bardhere can obviously defend against it effectively, and with the help of the Giant King, there will almost never be a problem, but the K’s still aren’t allowed to enter the ‘Decay Forest ‘, not even if they follow that ancient god.” Klein simply stated his opinion and speculation, “Perhaps there are other secrets buried there than just the Giant King Olmir’s parents.”
”This is a big possibility.” Audrey nodded seriously.
Her turquoise eyes turned slightly in her silver and white masked face, hinting at some curiosity.
”If that’s the case, what would be a secret that can’t be known to wives, children, slave gods, or clansmen? Kind of interesting ……” Leonard broke into a smile, letting his thoughts fizzle out.
After discussing for a while, the three of them grabbed the time to pass through the “barren tunnel” and went to the interior of the “Giant’s Court”, trying to enter those palaces solidified in the light of dusk.
According to Klein’s experience, this was actually the way to the edge of the Grocer’s dream.
This time, there was no need for him to falsely open the “writhing hunger” and utilize the power of the “living corpses” to open the heavy gate of the giant guard’s residence, but Audrey “Justice” directly influenced the dream world and made the gate more than ten meters high a papier-mâché. Audrey “Justice” directly affects the dream, so that the ten-meter-high door is as light as papier-mâché and opens back on its own – due to the rejection of the “No Dark Cross”, Klein actually did not wear the human skin gloves.
Outside the door was a gray world, and in front of it was no longer the “Court of Giants”, but a cliff.
After a brief exchange of information about the various situations that might be encountered when entering the collective subconscious ocean, and after having a corresponding plan, Audrey made a staircase appear on the edge of the cliff.
This staircase circled around and went deep into the deep, gray, silent world of the mind where the bottom could not be seen.
Three people did not delay, step on the ladder, step by step downward.
In this lonely and quiet environment that makes people want to go crazy, Audrey “Justice” will use “appeasement” several times every time she descends a certain distance.
This is not only to appease Klein, Leonard and herself, but also to appease the subconscious of the gray cliffs – the Grosser, so that the other side does not become agitated and contaminate the astral or mental bodies of the three.
The countless rotting giant palms that Klein had “encountered” last time didn’t appear again, and even the most unbearable feelings of loneliness, silence, no end in sight, and no end in sight within this mind world didn’t seem so scary because of the fact that they were acting in small groups and were able to speak to each other.
”This is the Mind World, the Realm of Consciousness, ah, it really isn’t quite the same as the others.” “Stars,” Leonard looked from side to side, as if he wanted to use a few lines of poetry to express how touched he was, but in the end, he chose to give up.
In any other place for any other task, Klein might have told his fellow poet to keep quiet, but here, he felt that it would be good for the other man to say whatever he wanted.
”Justice,” Audrey said earnestly, again not rejecting the exchange:
”The feelings that we intuitively obtain are the essence of this environment, the cliffs, cliffs, and gray and cloudy worlds that we see belong to a kind of mapping of our subconscious mind here, and if we were to change to another race, it might not necessarily be like this ……”
”…… It’s only now that I find psychology quite interesting.” Leonard said with interest after listening.
Klein glanced at him, holding back from saying that with your personality and habits, you really aren’t suited for the “audience” pathway.
After this exchange, the three of them had been descending for who knows how long, and finally stepped on solid but vague grayish ground.
From here, looking upwards, you can see a swimming and swaying light and shadow, they are dense and overlapping, forming an illusory sea.
Klein, Leonard and Audrey were about to walk forward, but suddenly there was a “current” of water, and a blurred light figure stood up from it.
It was a gray-blue giant six or seven meters tall, with dragon scale leather wrapped around his chest and abdomen, and the exposed area was covered with all kinds of patterns, symbols and markings that could not be described in words and exceeded the scope of normal senses.
His one vertical eye was filled with blood, radiating a berserk aura with an obvious destructive tendency without hiding it, while his mouth was gnawing on a bloody human leg.
This was a giant at the demigod level!
He was a figment left over from the great sea of the collective subconsciousness, perhaps from some actual encounter of the ancestors of humans or other races, or perhaps originating from the sightings of giants such as Grocer.
No sooner had he appeared than that madness spread to Klein and the others like a contagious plague.
This was a world of direct contact between spirit, consciousness, and mind!