Build an ancient-level power in the nightmare world

In a slightly dimly lit room.

Chris stood quietly, looking at the mark on the back of his hand. His gaze shifted slightly, and a look of seriousness suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"This feeling..."

Chris had already sensed the mark a second before it appeared.

He could control whether the mark on the back of his hand appeared or not. Since there was no one else in the room, he let the mark remain on the surface of his skin.

Looking at the mark on the back of his hand, Chris vaguely heard a voice whispering in his ear.

That's not a sound that actually exists in reality.

A resolute glint flashed in his eyes. With a wave of his hand, a transparent barrier quickly spread out, like a light veil, gently covering every corner of the room.

After doing all this, Chris pulled off the blanket, lay down on the single bed, and wrapped himself up completely in the blanket.

He communicated with the Star Key in his mind, and soon, a strong sense of detachment came over him, and Chris felt his body suddenly lighten.

next moment.

He sensed something, and when he opened his eyes again, he was already standing on the top of the tower.

Chris immediately looked at the back of his right hand, feeling the rhythm of the mark, and narrowed his eyes slightly, instantly entering a state of connection with the astral plane.

A silvery galaxy crisscrosses the sky, with starlight hidden deep within its depths.

The astral plane in Chris's eyes became even clearer.

The whispers in my ear became even clearer at that moment.

He seemed to hear: "Great...stargazer...your devout...believer...Cole...begs...you..."

The sound was intermittent and unclear.

But Chris roughly understood the reason for the change in the mark on the back of his hand: Cole was pleading with him.

He hadn't yet figured out the underlying principle, nor did he know why he was able to receive this prayer, but he still decided to take it seriously.

He believed that Cole wouldn't make a request of him for no reason.

But how should we respond?

Chris frowned slightly, looking somewhat troubled.

His current situation is somewhat like the Holy Spirit responding to believers.

But he had never been a true Holy Spirit and was completely unfamiliar with these things.

He is still in the Torchbearer's stronghold. The situation outside is unclear, and he cannot linger in this mysterious space for too long.

Chris steeled his resolve, and the Holy Seal of the Wind Avatar deep within his soul began to ripple with spiritual energy.

This fluctuation, amplified by Chris's current special state, slowly rippled through the astral plane.

He tried to sense the aura of the holy seal on Cole's body in this way.

In the vast expanse of the star realm, this tiny ripple was completely swallowed up by the crisscrossing, boundless galaxies.

In the darkness, Chris saw a blurry image.

The scene was completely black, with a figure kneeling in the center, head bowed, hands clasped together, and lips moving slightly.

"Could this be Cole?"

Chris stared at the figures on the screen, focusing his attention as he tried to capture more sound.

"Your devout follower, Cole, begs you... to cleanse... the defilement..."

"Purify the impurities?" Chris listened to Cole's intermittent prayers, feeling somewhat puzzled.

He tried to perceive Cole's current situation through the images.

From the moment the image appeared, he could clearly sense that the person in the painting carried the familiar aura of the Holy Seal of the Incarnation of Wind.

That subtle, almost imperceptible connection grew ever stronger.

At that moment, Chris felt he could do so much more.

He carefully sensed the holy seal within Cole's body and suddenly discovered that a hazy gray mist was attached to Cole's body.

The exact location is roughly in the heart area.

"Is this what filth is?" Chris muttered to himself.

"How do we get rid of this gray mist?"

Chris frowned and began to think quickly.

Although time flows much slower in this mysterious space than in the real world, he still felt he needed to speed things up.

"The so-called filth must be some kind of extraordinary power."

"Just like the black line inside Benjamin's body, the yellow mist might be able to dispel it."

Previously, the yellow mist within Benjamin's body was too closely connected to his celestial body, so Chris dared not act rashly.

But the faint gray mist around Cole's heart gave Chris the feeling of it floating on the surface.

The fog didn't even affect Cole's soul.

Of course, it's also possible that it hasn't developed to that stage yet.

He and Cole were now a great distance apart, and the yellow mist he could summon was definitely not enough to send it over.

Chris's heart stirred, and he began to sense the Wind Avatar Holy Seal within Cole's body.

Under his guidance, the holy seal within Cole's body suddenly trembled slightly.

In the video, Cole's body also trembled violently.

His clasped hands clenched even tighter at that moment.

Cole seemed to sense that the mark within him had changed.

A hazy yellow light bloomed within his body, and then he felt a gentle breeze blowing through the enclosed room.

A strange feeling enveloped his entire body, and the palpitations and gloom in his heart completely disappeared at that moment.

Some knowledge he had never encountered before suddenly appeared in his mind.

"The embodiment of wind..."

Cole kept his head down, maintaining a prayerful posture, and couldn't help but murmur a sentence to himself.

At the same time, he suddenly sensed something, and Cole, with his eyes tightly closed, saw for the first time the appearance of the yellow mark inside his body.

It was a nearly circular pattern made up of countless fine threads that rotated and intertwined, with a thread extending from each side.

The pattern was clearly static, yet it gave Cole a strange sense of rhythm.

At this moment, relying on the extraordinary knowledge that had suddenly appeared in his mind, Cole finally understood that this mark was the holy seal bestowed by Mr. Stargazer, belonging to the Holy Path of the Wind Incarnation.

"……secret……"

Suddenly, Cole sensed a faint, elusive thought emanating from the Holy Seal.

Although the thought was fleeting, it gave Cole a sudden jolt.

"This is Mr. Stargazer's reminder..." Cole slowly opened his eyes.

The unease within him, and the suffocating feeling that made it hard for him to even breathe, completely disappeared.

Cole recalled the thought that came from the Holy Seal and couldn't help but feel a chill of fear.

The stargazer was reminding him to act discreetly.

He had received this reminder the last time he met Mr. Stargazer.

Mr. Stargazer did not want his existence to be exposed.

He was the one who broke the rules set by Mr. Stargazer first.

In order to gather all the materials for the Ironclad Anvil and Sacred Wedge, he took a risk and tried to make contact with a secret society.

Who would have thought that the ritual magic the other party gave him would cause him to be corrupted by an unknown force?

Fortunately, the Stargazer received his prayer and chose to use his divine power to dispel the impurities from his body.

Cole was deeply moved and, once again with the most sincere faith, prayed to the void to express his gratitude.

……

High up in the tower, Chris slowly opened his eyes.

A hint of weariness flashed in his eyes.

Just now, Chris manipulated the Holy Seal within Cole's body, turning it back into yellow mist to cover the gray mist around Cole's heart.

That wisp of gray mist was far more fragile than Chris had imagined.

The moment the yellow mist covered the gray mist, the mist began to writhe wildly, trying to escape the yellow mist's embrace.

But its movements appeared exceptionally slow in the face of the yellow fog.

After the yellow mist completely enveloped the gray mist, the mist quickly dissipated, as if it had been completely absorbed by the yellow mist.

But Chris didn't sense any significant change in the volume of the yellow mist inside Cole's body.

However, after this process, Chris also discovered that when the yellow mist re-condensed into the Holy Seal of the Avatar of the Wind, the aura of that Holy Seal became more pronounced in his perception.

Perhaps because the distance between them was too great, this operation greatly depleted his spiritual energy.

The unexpected situation on Cole's side has been dealt with.

Chris couldn't care less how the other party got tainted by that gray mist.

Hopefully, after the reminder, the other party will be more cautious in the future.

Now, it's time to get down to business.

He wanted to send a message to Benjamin through this mysterious space.

Chris knew very well that to bring Cole and Benjamin into this mysterious space, their celestial bodies would also need to enter the astral plane.

According to the information Chris currently has, entering the Astral Plane heavily relies on specific ritual magic.

Not everyone can get in like him, just because they want to.

However, based on his experience responding to Cole's prayers, Chris discovered a new method to transmit messages without pulling people into a mystical space.

Although this method is very spiritually taxing and can only transmit a very limited amount of information at a time, it is still better than having no way at all.

However, he didn't know what Benjamin was doing right now. He was sure that Benjamin hadn't entered the Astral Plane, nor was he praying to him like Cole was.

His connection with Benjamin now is much weaker than it was with Cole just now.

This method has a very low success rate, but Chris decided to give it a try anyway.

He mentally reviewed how he felt when he responded to Cole's prayer.

The next moment, he mobilized the power of the Holy Seal within his body, trying to sense the aura of the Holy Seal left in Benjamin's body in the Astral Plane.

A moment later.

He didn't sense Benjamin's presence; instead, Cole's prayers echoed in Chris's mind once more.

"Thank you... Mr. Stargazer... for your devout faith... Cole... for absolutely carrying out... your will... and for maintaining... secrecy..."

As Chris listened to the intermittent prayer, which sounded like a bad signal, a strange feeling suddenly arose in his heart.

He suddenly felt that his spirituality seemed to have recovered somewhat.

wrong……

It's not that my spirituality has been restored, but rather that the upper limit of my spirituality has increased!

Moreover, he sensed that his understanding of the Holy Seal of the Avatar of Wind had also deepened.

"What exactly is going on?" Chris felt a mix of joy and confusion.

"Does a believer's faith really work for them?"

After a brief moment of thought, he temporarily suppressed his doubts and tried again to sense the aura of the holy seal within Benjamin's body.

This time, he finally sensed the holy seal within Benjamin's body, as if by some unseen force.

Then, that feeling became clearer and clearer.

Finally, when the connection was strong enough to transmit the thought, Chris directly mobilized all his spirituality and transmitted the two words to Benjamin.

"...Companions...secret..."

After doing all that, Chris felt a sudden wave of exhaustion.

He opened his eyes, and as his consciousness returned to the tower, he immediately communicated with the Star Key and returned to the real world.

……

When he opened his eyes again, all he saw was darkness, and the air he breathed in felt stuffy, due to poor air circulation.

He was covering himself completely with the blanket.

Chris carefully lifted the blanket, his eyes quickly scanning the room.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual about the spiritual barrier around him, he released the barrier, lay down on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

The energy consumption of transmitting information in this way was far greater than Chris had imagined.