Mystery: Lucky One

"Olmir, the traitor!" Suddenly, a loud and thunderous voice rang out, shaking the entire palace violently, causing Siatas and other servants to lower their heads in fear.

Alice was unusually quiet—she was covering her ears with her hands.

Audrey the Justice did not stop guiding them, and the dream continued. They saw that the Queen of Disasters, Cosinamu, was not affected at all, with a cold expression and a calm voice:
“Isn’t this a fact that has already been established?

"His credibility is the exact opposite of his size."

Alice began to lament that Miss Judgment was not there.

The dream continued. Under the guidance of Audrey the Justice, Siatas' dream revealed a lot of the history of the Second Epoch. The content was far different from the records of the major churches, and even the City of Silver had some parts that could not be taken into account.

Next, Audrey guided them on some aspects of elven customs and the Western Continent. When everything was over, they appeared in Mobet and Siatas's dreams again.

Audrey looked at the Fourth Epoch Viscount who was curled up in a corner of the asymmetrical bed, with his hands and feet being tightly entangled by the elf. Her expression suddenly softened, and she said with a smile:
"They seem to be doing well the way they are now..."

"No, no, no. It's terrible to have such a violent, direct, imaginative, and daring wife! Only someone like Mobet would like her..." Leonard put his hands in his pockets.

Alice looked at him thoughtfully. Leonard met her gaze and continued with some enlightenment:
"On the other hand, a senior 'thief' does need a woman like Xiatas to manage him. Hmm... I wonder what kind of opposite sex the other people in the old man's family like...

“Well, they don’t need us to admire or oppose them. This is the way they get along with each other. Emperor Roselle once wrote a poem that said, life is precious, but love is even more precious…”

"If it's for freedom, both can be abandoned?" Alice added the second half of the sentence.

Klein glanced at the two of them and shook his head slightly.
"Let's go, next one."

So they followed Klein again. They wanted to go find the protagonist of this travelogue, but they stopped when they met the Loen soldier Longzel. "Justice" Audrey recognized his identity as a Loenese at a glance and asked:
"Can I enter his dream? I want to get the potion formulas of 'Judge' and 'Punishment Knight'."

"I have," Alice reminded.

Audrey, who was only considering "judging" Xio, paused and looked at Leonard and Klein. Klein glanced at Alice before saying:

"I have it too."

Leonard thought for a moment and said, "Let's go in and take a look."

They finally entered Longzel's dream, but when they came out they all felt somewhat disappointed. Except for Alice, who they already knew, Leonard and Audrey realized that the characters in the book were probably gone.

The value of Groselle's dream was also not too high, mainly because of the precedent of Siatas. However, it did fill in a lot of gaps regarding the giants.

After discussing for a while, they came to the interior of the "Giant King's Court" through Groselle's dream, trying to enter the palaces where dusk was frozen.

Under the influence of "Justice" Audrey, the more than ten-meter-high gate opened like paper, revealing the cliff behind.

Audrey made a staircase appear on the edge of the cliff. They walked down the spiral staircase and, with Audrey's comfort, entered the deep and quiet spiritual world.

This effectively prevented Groselle from becoming restless subconsciously. As for loneliness...

"Ms. Justice, there's a hand that's about to reach out from there! And it's a rotten palm... Ugh, it's so ugly, you better make it disappear!"

——With Alice around, it’s hard to feel lonely.

As Alice was startled, Leonard asked curiously, "Can you confuse reality with the future?"

"I can't," Alice spread her hands, "but the 'monster' can... the 'machine' is also hard to fully identify. It takes a 'lucky person' to remain relatively sane."

Alice paused for a moment when she said this, and smiled as if she was sighing:

"Fortunately, I chose the 'lucky one'. If I had gone backwards, I would have had less time to adapt and more room to maneuver. If I had gone forward...

"I'm afraid your impression of me now is really that of a psychopath."

In fact, I also think you are sick now... Klein glanced at Alice and didn't say what was in his mind.

Alice's words were a little strange, and Audrey couldn't help but ask:
"Selected?"

Alice blinked and a smile spread across her face.

Audrey stopped asking questions and tactfully guided Leonard to avoid the topic. They stepped on solid ground while chatting. Alice stomped hard on the gray ground. She raised her head again. Above her head was a hazy and illusory ocean with light and shadows swimming in the middle.

When Alice looked up, a blurry figure had stood up. It was a gray-blue giant about six or seven meters tall, with leather with dragon scales wrapped around his chest and abdomen, and the exposed parts were covered with all kinds of patterns, symbols and logos that were beyond the scope of normal senses and could not be described in words.

His single vertical eye was bloodshot, exuding an undisguised violent aura with an obvious destructive tendency, and he was biting a bloody human leg in his mouth.

This is a giant at the demigod level!

Alice frowned in disgust, firstly because of the human leg, and secondly because of the crazy emotions that were spreading over her. Silver light flashed in her eyes, and then the surging emotions returned intact and turned into waves in front of the giant.

Leonard was surprised for a moment, but as he was experienced in combat, he immediately used the ability of "Requiem Master" and coordinated it with Audrey's "Calm", calming the giant down.

Alice removed the loop, and Klein took out the cross and poured the prepared blood on it. He spoke with a solemn expression:
"Light!"

Not surprisingly, the gray-blue giant became part of the blazing light.

Next was Audrey's psychological treatment time. Leonard spoke rather restlessly:

"Sequence 4 is indeed a level of qualitative change in life. However, the fear I felt just now was just that, not as strong as the emotion I felt when facing a pregnant woman."

Alice and Klein looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Is that a pregnant demigod?" Audrey asked curiously.

"She is pregnant with the child of the True Creator," Alice replied.

Audrey said nothing, she knew this and therefore knew what it meant, but asked after the treatment: "Where should we go next?"

"Is there no core area here?" Klein asked.

"No." Audrey shook her head seriously. "As long as there are living beings, there is a collective subconscious ocean. There is no such thing as who is nobler than who. This illusory ocean will not really surge. The situation in different areas mainly depends on the surrounding environment. We call it the 'sedimentation effect'. In simple terms, the collective subconscious ocean in Loen will be quite different from that in Intis, because it mainly precipitates the strong emotions and feelings of generations of Loen people. In turn, this also affects the people of the two countries, making them have different temperaments or personalities to some extent..."

After a brief explanation, Audrey "Justice" gave a conclusion: "If this is the case, how could there be a recognized core area of ​​the collective subconscious ocean?"

Why does this sound like something like the cultural heritage and spiritual core... Alice looked at Audrey thoughtfully and interrupted:

"So, even demigods are equal in the ocean of subconsciousness?"

"No," Audrey denied, "Demigods are more likely to contaminate others, and the effects are more intense."

Alice opened her mouth and then closed it again, looking at Klein. Klein asked calmly:
"So you can't give me any effective advice on where to go?"

Alice was sure that Klein had absolutely no romantic feelings towards Audrey.

Mr. World is deliberately reminding me... Audrey, who had gained enlightenment from Klein's expression, gathered her thoughts and nodded calmly:
"Yes."

Klein turned his gaze to Leonard again. Leonard waved his hand and said:

"Don't look at me. My domain is in the dream world, not in this strange sea of ​​collective subconsciousness."

So, without any hesitation, Klein looked at Alice and said:

"You lead the way."

"?" Alice was stunned. She never expected that the blame would be placed on her. She opened her mouth wide, pointed a finger at herself, and looked at Klein as if to confirm.

"Because I don't know where to go," Klein said frankly, "In this case, I might as well follow the guidance of fate."

"...just keep quiet." Alice agreed.

She turned around and actually started to lead the way randomly, sometimes going straight, sometimes turning, and even repeating a lot of the routes. Leonard looked at Klein several times, as if he wanted to say something, but Klein shook his head and interrupted him. So he had no choice but to follow Alice, walking aimlessly for no apparent reason.

After an unknown amount of time, the view in front of them suddenly became clear and a "huge deep sea pit" appeared before them.

In the center of the giant pit, there is a city the size of an island. The foundation of the city is grayish white, and on it stand magnificent stone pillars tens or hundreds of meters high. Some of them stand there alone, while others jointly support towering and ancient palaces. The whole structure is both strange and magnificent, and it does not seem like something that can be built by ordinary creatures.

Alice didn't actually know this city, but she had heard Klein talk about the origin of Groselle's Travels and the results of divination. The moment she saw this city, a name popped up in her mind:
"The City of Miracles, Levished."

This is the floating city that the "Imagination Dragon" Angerwede imagined out of thin air. Alice was stunned for a moment, then turned to the others, glanced at Leonard who knew nothing, and asked Audrey curiously:
"Can't you use the 'audience' channel to display subtitles?"

"What?" Audrey didn't understand.

Klein's mouth twitched, and before Alice could speak, he explained for her:

“It is to label things, scenes, or people’s language, so that people know the name of unfamiliar things or scenes and know the meaning of unfamiliar language when they hear it.”

"...Maybe?" Audrey hesitated, "I don't know, I haven't tried it before, but I probably can't do it now..."

Audrey pondered Alice's words. Klein continued to ponder the origin of this miracle city. After a moment, Leonard couldn't help but break the silence:
"This city is magnificent and grand, and it obviously does not belong to humans or humanoid creatures, but there is no need to look at it for so long. You are not architects."

Alice rarely felt a sense of intellectual superiority from other people.

Klein gathered his thoughts and glanced at Leonard:
"This is most likely the 'City of Miracles' Levished of 'Dragon of Imagination' Angerweed, a kingdom of the ancient gods in a sense."

"Kingdom of God..." Leonard's pupils suddenly dilated and he repeated the most crucial word.

Audrey “Justice” also came back to her senses and whispered softly, “Is it really Levished?”

“It’s just a possibility,” Klein had calmed down and responded simply, “It’s not floating in the air as the legend says, but it’s sunk to the bottom of the collective subconscious ocean, so it’s hard to say whether it’s true or not.”

At this time, Leonard finally controlled himself, and once again looked towards the magnificent city in the "deep sea pit", and said with a self-deprecating smile:
"I never thought that one day I would come to the kingdom of the ancient gods..."

Alice thought for a moment, patted Leonard's shoulder comfortingly, and promised solemnly:

"When I become a god, I will definitely invite you to visit my kingdom of God."

"?" Leonard stood still and turned to look at Klein.

The corner of Klein's mouth twitched, and he reminded, "He has actually been to Mr. Fool's kingdom of God..."

"That's just a derived space, not the original body..." Alice subconsciously opened her mouth to refute, but suddenly stopped.

She looked at Audrey and Leonard, who tacitly withdrew their curious gazes and pretended that they did not want to hear anything from Miss Destiny.

Klein shook his head and changed the subject: "How do we tell whether the collective subconscious ocean is real or imaginary?"

Audrey thought carefully for a while and said uncertainly:
“There is no way to tell, or rather, the collective subconscious ocean here is also real
"In essence, the collective subconscious is the precipitation and accumulation of strong emotions and feelings. Although the people in this world may be imaginary, their experiences, their emotions, their joy, anger, sadness, pain, and happiness are all real..."

Audrey paused as she spoke, vaguely grasping something but unable to really put it into words.

"Creator..." Alice's eyes were dazed, and then she raised her leg and walked away.

Klein followed and said:

"The objects He imagines will surely materialize, the kingdom He imagines will surely come into being, and the future He proclaims will surely come into being..." (End of this chapter)