old dream

Chapter 196 The Giant Tower of Hell
When Hilpert became a lamp girl from an ordinary person, the servants who served her day and night bowed their heads and congratulated her:

"Extremely happy, you broke through the veil of self again."

Why "again"?Deng Nu sat on the edge of the bed, only a slight ripple appeared in her deep and drowsy heart, and then fell silent again.

The lips of the body seemed to say something, but the words could no longer be understood.

Because the current "she" no longer exists, it is not the girl without a name who is talking to these people.

But Patriarch Valeria, or, the lamp that stands on the shore.

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Consciousness advances along the connection of the spirit element, and Hilpert enters the connection between Bohr and the virtual world.

Countless non-human wailings merged together in the space, turning into a homogeneous, undulating, unknown sound.

After cutting off all material senses, the lamp girl reopened her "eyes".

What catches the eye is Urju No.30 District II Hell, the territory of "Wheel of Burning Execution" Ixion.

A land of nothingness that only exists in the imaginary world.

Colin once saw a prison city made of cages in a wilderness here.But what the lamp girl saw was a giant tower that stretched almost infinitely.

Hilpert has followed the path of lights since he was a child, so he can better understand the original appearance of things in the virtual world.

The tower is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, like a thick cave stalactite.The spiral steps are densely surrounded, like stacked iron coils.And on the inside of each step of the stairs, there is a narrow cell; in each cell, devils of different shapes are imprisoned.A ten-kilometer-long staircase can be divided into a full [-] steps.But the ten-kilometer-long spiral is not enough to enclose a quarter of the average circumference of the tower.

Not long ago, Colin didn't see a single devil, just a large empty metal cage.But what Hilpert sees now, there are countless devils stacked and squeezed in this tower, and they will be punished forever.

This is the perception gap.

But there are too many devils imprisoned here. Even the Urju dynasty, the descendants of the demons, could not slowly build up cells in this tower.So in fact, the demons only set up a closed loop at first, using this as the "principle" for the formation of the tower.In the thousands of years since then, the pattern of hell has continued to grow itself along the "principle".And the birth, torture and death of every devil is to replenish the power for this process.

So in a sense, a hell is a huge hearth.

The Sanctuary of the Brotherhood is nearby.

Hilpert tried again to feel his connection to the light, but it seemed faint.

The Cincilian Shore Lights are artificial creations, possessing physical bodies, placed on the Material Plane, on the high basalt cliffs north of the Narrow Sea.

The lights stand on the shore, throwing light into the dark sea.

Just as it stays in the material world, it explores the abyss of the imaginary world and burns quietly.

But now, Hilpert has dived too deep, and is too far away from the lights on the "shore".After the light penetrates the dark water body, it is not so obvious.This will make her weak.

In the creed of the lamp, the lamp girl is forbidden to enter the virtual world.Maybe that's one of the reasons.

But it was precisely because of this rule that the two lamp girls in Naleh died in vain at the hands of Boer.Therefore, it would be a bit too far-fetched to say that the prohibition of entering the virtual world is just to protect Lantern Girl.

Now, for the first time, Hilpert has violated this code, and thus understands that its existence has other meanings.

Because it was by diving deeply into the virtual world that she became more certain about a certain fact——

The road of lights cannot erase the self-curse.

The limited perspectives of observers in various civilization circles cause the virtual world to show different silhouettes and angles to the world.

If anyone can erase the self and enter the absolute objectivity, he will also go beyond the existing frequency limit, and theoretically penetrate the panorama of the ten layers of heaven in the spectrum of the imaginary world.

Now, however, the Lantern Girls have been caught in hell in Area 36, ​​trapped in a narrow vision, which proves that they never actually saw the panorama.

The "truth without self" seen by Quansheng Lantern Girl is also just a limited angle, one of countless silhouettes.

Just like no matter how much a person pursues objectivity and neutrality, it is impossible to get rid of tendencies and positions.

Even the cognition of "objectivity" has a position.

The so-called lack of prejudice still hides a kind of prejudice: prejudice against prejudice.

They did not become lights, but regarded themselves as lights.

So everything in that "insight" is just a soliloquy similar to imaging.

Why... who invented this path, and a series of creeds.

Thinking of the two lamp girls who died in vain at the hands of Bohr because they kept their creeds, and the people who spent their lives in these absurd creeds under the lamp system, they are all people like me, suffering, and even more tragically neglected pain.Hilpert couldn't help but clenched his fingers.

Something bloody protruded from the palm of his hand, and the sharp pain in his chest manifested as the rapier in his hand.The more angry she was, the calmer her mood became.The lamp girl's perception became sharper at this moment, as if a cold torch had been ignited in her consciousness, and she was silently observing her own thoughts.

Because after she was sure that what she saw was not the truth, she became closer to the truth.

As if the clouds and mist were suddenly pushed away, Hilpert's ability to penetrate the frequency boundary was further enhanced.The lights from the material world became brighter again, so the tower in Area 32 was no longer the whole of this world, and its spiral staircase was extending up and down.The Lampmaid saw visions in other frequencies adjacent to it: the River Styx passing through the top of the tower, the valley of black winds sweeping at the base of the tower, and burning tombs.

While she was standing on the spiral staircase, an inconspicuous thin line appeared on a wall beside her.With a touch of the hilt, a whole strange wall fell from the tower, and the camouflage left by the Brotherhood was torn away, revealing the gate that humans had placed here.

A lie can only be established within a certain range, and if it is slightly beyond the perspective, the lie will be vulnerable.

So, she walked into this sanctuary that connects the lives of hundreds of people.

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As Boer suddenly opened his eyes, the devil haunting him reappeared, but Colin's footsteps did not stop because of this.

Because Hilpert had reminded beforehand that just because of the spiritual shock caused by the invasion, Bohr might lose temporary consciousness, but it would never last too long.

It's a pity that because of the wrong timing, he couldn't take advantage of this gap to end his life.

During the sprint, Colin had fired the trigger of Vajra.He has already made up his mind not to use attacks other than physical forms, so as to avoid the danger of being caught by the spirit element connection, even if he faces the wizard above the female moon, he still has the power to fight.

"Boiling and blasphemy..." Bohr stretched out his right hand again, and after bringing the ritual into consciousness, he no longer needed to rely on external triggers.

Lingsu supercharged.

Vajra Multiplication Cycle.

Colin's speed jumped again. He had observed Ball's last spellcasting. At this distance, the old man had no chance to complete the ceremony.

So Bohr had to interrupt the power of the devil and switch to materialization.

A pair of arms glowing with metallic luster seemed to protrude from the void.At the same time, the density of spiritual elements in Ke Lin's crystal map has also jumped to the female moon level.Pohl didn't have any fancy intentions, and was about to smash Colin's body directly with that steel craft-like wrist.

It came down with a heavy whine, and Colin raised only his left arm.

In the left arm, a small piece of crystal pattern has spread too quickly, obviously squeezing and deforming the muscle tissue, almost exposing the skin.

Partial eruption of spirit elements, and matter knots.

Explosion.

After finding the catharsis, the high-pressure spirit burst out at high speed and condensed in an instant.A half-meter-thick life substance suddenly appeared in front of Colin's left arm, and the instantly squeezed air formed a small-scale shock wave, but it failed to bounce off Boer's iron arm.

The iron fist smashed into the mass of life matter, making a cracking sound.The shock wave penetrated the buffer and shattered the mask on Colin's face.But the iron fist failed to penetrate the knot product, and its speed slowed down, and Colin dodged it while moving.

At this time, Colin also cut in front of Boer, because of the previous partial outbreak, the density of spiritual essence in his body had dropped to the level of Chi Erxing.But if it only needs to destroy the fragile human body, it is completely enough.

Lingsu exploded.

In the next second, the dagger in his hand smashed into Boer's body like a shell.

(End of this chapter)