Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1043 Empty Box
"…Why did they let the Mad King live?"

Yasen didn't understand: "Don't you just want him to become a god? Even if the Mad King becomes a celestial being, what will he do? Will he expel all the children of the moon from the country?"

But during the reign of the Swan King, the Son of the Moon always kept a low profile.

There are so many inhuman nobles that even the Son of the Moon has become anthropomorphic.

At that time, the Swan King would never have such a strange need. It can even be said that the Son of the Moon and the Swan King are almost in the same camp - at least they both need to get these nobles out. If the Son of the Moon comes to power, they are at least willing to obey the orders of the Swan King and will not openly assassinate him.

"In the beginning, maybe I just wanted to prolong his life."

Aiwass guessed, "I guess... maybe they want to revive him so that the Son of the Moon has a chance to become a high-ranking official in the Iris Kingdom. Since the three Grand Dukes don't know the truth, they may also think that the death of the Swan King is related to the three Grand Dukes. They may think this is an opportunity.

"It's also possible that they just want to force the Swan King to transform into the Son of the Moon. It's not impossible... As long as the Swan King's head is cultivated with the adaptability of the Path of Love, even if it only has the power of the first level, the Son of the Moon can use the 'corpse' of this head to create a complete Son of the Moon Swan King.

"For the Moon Children who have always longed for a country of their own, this can be considered a way to fulfill their wish."

He was really guessing.

Because Aiwass's job is basically to fast forward and skip CGs, he knows that some parts are either CG beginnings that cannot be skipped, or those that can be understood roughly by fast forwarding and watching a few words.

For example, this mission was because a wild "dream medium" appeared in Iris. Dream mediums refer to people who are born with the ability to have lucid dreams. They are extremely rare, and most of them are ordinary people. Although there are some extraordinary people, they have basically become dream monks.

Because they can have lucid dreams, they can distort their dreams at will and create entrances to designated areas of the dream world out of thin air.

Through this entrance, extraordinary people in the material world can directly enter the dream world by entering dreams. Dream mediums can also often enter the dream world themselves... Although the dream world is extremely dangerous, they may also be accompanied by some friendly creatures and thus be protected.

After all, they are not in and out, but can enter and exit at any time. Therefore, some dead people will use dream mediums to bring messages to people in the material world, or conduct some illegal cross-border transactions that "do not conform to the principles of sand timepieces."

——He can be called a smuggler in the fairy world.

In this mission, the protagonists need to go to the dream world to investigate one thing - the Lord of the Crown suddenly lost his response, and even the Pope could not call him. So one of the cardinals found a dream medium through his own connections, hoping that they could take the protagonists and their party to the dream world to check the situation.

The mission at that time used the dream world passage opened by Arsen's dagger.

In the first adventure, they did not find the crown master - or rather, the dream medium said before they set out that he had not been able to enter the dream world for a long time, and it has been like this recently, "the signal is not very good." But the cardinal naturally did not believe it... because no dream medium would need a "signal" to enter the dream world.

As a result, when they tried to enter the dream world, they understood why the dream medium said that - because the entire "dream" of the iris was tied in a knot.

People's dreams are extracted by some force, twisted into whirlpools, and unable to flow into the dream world.

Aiwass remembered the scene very clearly - the end of the gray sky in the dream was distorted into a funnel-like rainbow color.

It's like there are auroras above the dark clouds.

——This is actually a very dangerous signal.

The dream world is a reflection of the material world. It is the common subconsciousness of all intelligent life in the material world that creates a clear dream world. Without these consciousnesses, the dream world is a void of chaos. Only when the first fire of wisdom is ignited in the void, the dream world has order and color, and only then does it have the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon.

It's like a virtual network built with the computing power of all machines - this is also the reason why the general direction of the Pillar Gods of the Dream World is to maintain the stability of the material world... at least they don't want large-scale disasters or wars to happen in the material world.

The current situation is that the dream of the Iris Man is being gradually stripped away from the dream world.

——In other words, someone tried to block Iris’ subconscious network.

So they were forced to return to the material world to investigate and check the situation. As a result, they found that the incidence of "nightmares" in the entire Iris range was very high, so high that people thought it was normal. Even foreign tourists who came to Iris and had nightmares only thought that it was because "Iris' nights were disturbing" and they were frightened and did not sleep well. But this was not the case.

It is that when everyone dreams, their spirit is being extracted by some grand ritual.

As we all know, extraordinary people can restore their mana while dreaming. The principle of those alchemical potions that quickly restore mana is basically to make people enter dream sleep immediately, skip those dreamless sleep, and directly contact the dream world with high intensity to restore mana.

But even ordinary people can gain magical powers when they come into contact with the dream world.

To be precise, it is because their souls cannot store magic power correctly. So if people keep dreaming, they will feel very tired.

It is because the washing magic power has slightly hurt their souls, just like the stones that have been polished smooth in the river have actually been "slightly hurt" and thus become smooth.

The grand ceremony of Iris is to have everyone supply all the overflowing mana to one place when they are dreaming.

For the extraordinary, this will not make any difference - the promotion ceremony does not enter the dream world through this channel, and ordinary extraordinary people do not need to enter the dream world, and their mana is also recovering normally. In other words, the dream medium will occasionally feel that "today's network connection feels unstable", but since it can be connected correctly at other times, it is not a big deal.

But for ordinary people, this will increase everyone's mental burden. Originally, they would not absorb the mana at all, but now they have to actively absorb it. This process will undoubtedly increase mental loss... and lead to the mental instability of the Iris people.

However, this indirectly increased the probability of the emergence of extraordinary people - those who were half crazy were usually more likely to become extraordinary people, and long-term absorption of mana also made it easier for their souls to be opened up into containers. In fairy tales and martial arts novels, it was the kind of people whose meridians had long been opened up, so it would be easier for them to develop.

——In principle, someone is mining with their brain.

Once I realized this, the matter became serious.

It's not that this has caused irreversible damage to people... but because it takes the brains of an entire country's civilians to mine, and it takes who knows how many years. What on earth are they going to do with this level of mana?
Assuming that this "Dream Vortex" is only open for one month a year, and only for a total of ten years - that also means that a wave of terrifying magic power has accumulated, which is enough to easily blow the entire iris flower into the sky!
——This level of magic power is enough to create a god out of thin air!
And later on, the players discovered that... there really was someone creating a god.

As a former fourth-level energy, the Swan King has the ability to write scripts and control fate. He is stuck at the critical point of being promoted to god, and the grand ceremony is halfway through... At this time, he can easily exert extraordinary abilities far beyond his usual level. Because at this time, he is considered a "reserved celestial official."

As long as his promotion ceremony is over, he will be able to obtain the position of Heavenly Master.

"As a result, the Count of the Moon Son got stuck at this point... He sealed the Swan King, who was a 'demigod' but had only one head, in the 'Box of Nothingness'. This is a magic box filled with the power of nothingness. As long as the mechanism is pressed, the person inside will lose all thoughts and give up all dreams.

"And because the Swan King has not actually died, he can hypnotize the Swan King's head and inject information through whispering, so that the unconscious Swan King can have corresponding dreams and use his subconscious to write the 'script'... and guide the future of the entire Iris in disguise."

Aiwass said slowly: "He only needs to press the mechanism to make the Swan King's dream vanish. This can prevent the future from getting out of control.

"——Since the third rebellion, the continuous rebellions are all because the Swan King has been having that dream."

At the end of that strategy copy, when the Swan King, who was at low health, finally opened his eyes and woke up from his dream, his name changed.

No longer an “empty box”.

Rather, it is a "nearly damaged container of nothingness".

The Count of Moonson had no idea what a stupid and terrible thing he had done.

Just one step away...

The Swan King is about to change from being the Celestial God of the Path of Beauty to being the Pillar God of the Path of Nothingness.

(End of this chapter)