Accompanied by the Red Devil’s self-explosion that destroyed both of them, the illusion world turned upside down. Ye Chui’s perspective, along with the headless knight’s head, was buried underground by the surging earth around them. In the headless knight’s wail, Ye Chui’s vision fell into complete darkness.
Ye Chui quickly opened his magic guide book to release a light magic spell, but he still could not dispel the darkness before his eyes. A trace of worry surged in his heart. At that moment, a blurry shadow appeared in front of him. That shadow soon became bright and clear, turning from illusion to entity, from hazy to real. It was a woman with long black hair.
Moreover, she was a woman Ye Chui was quite familiar with. He had seen her figure in the time shadow of the Sword Burial Ground. She was the Goddess of Fate from the gods’ clan!
The goddess smiled as she looked at Ye Chui. In her arms, she held the headless knight’s head, which seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, quiet like a fine head sculpture. She slowly walked to Ye Chui’s front and opened her mouth to say a sentence. Unlike the last time when he only saw her face but heard no voice, this time Ye Chui clearly heard her words: “I will always be watching you…”
As she said these words, she raised her hand and used both hands to hold the headless knight’s head, slowly handing it towards Ye Chui. Ye Chui reached out to take the head, but his fingers passed straight through it. The head was just a phantom, untouchable. The next moment, his vision suddenly brightened. He was standing in the flying magic vehicle.
Debbie, Green, Lisa and others surrounded him with full concern. On his body was the necromantic cloak, one hand holding the scythe of the undead, the other holding the book of the undead. Great doubt surged into Ye Chui’s heart. Debbie and the others had the same doubt, so they almost spoke at the same time: “What happened?”
Stunned for a moment, Debbie spoke first: “You suddenly put on the cloak without a word, picked up the scythe and the book of the undead. We called you but you did not respond. You scared us to death. What exactly happened to you just now?”
“I saw some illusions, just like [Time Shadow].” Ye Chui explained. He took off the necromantic cloak, tilted his head and thought for a bit, then looked at his puzzled companions and said, “Why don’t you all try it too.”
So, with great interest, Debbie, Green, Lisa and the others took turns trying to put on the cloak and hold the two holy artefacts. Debbie tried first. Her expression was slightly dazed for an instant, then she recovered her clarity. “I seem to have seen illusions too… but not very clear. It was like someone was kicking a ball or something, and the ball rolled right in front of me…” The little girl said with a face full of recollection.
“…” Ye Chui was speechless. What ball rolled in front of her? That was the headless knight’s head, okay?
Then he let the others try. Among them, Lisa and Gunie could barely see some blurry images and some messy sounds, but they could not figure out what exactly happened. As for the others, including Posley, Green, Xilaisi and them, they were even less able to see. They just felt slightly dizzy, while the rest saw nothing at all.
The result was obvious. Not everyone could sense the illusions. Compared to others, Debbie, Gunie and Lisa could see more images, but they were unclear and far from matching the 1080P ultra-high-definition high-bitrate VR quality that Ye Chui saw. It was as if these illusions were specially prepared for Ye Chui. Debbie, Gunie and Lisa just happened to glimpse a bit.
“Why is it like this?” Posley frowned in confusion.
Ye Chui thought of a possibility. He let Jiji try touching the necromantic relics too. Sure enough, Jiji triggered the illusions as well. The little girl dragged the long cloak, looking like someone experiencing VR for the first time. Her small body kept swaying, and her mouth let out cries of “Jiji, jiji jiji”. This was enough to confirm she saw the same scenes as Ye Chui. Her small hands occasionally shot out a few rays of white light, as if helping the headless knight attack that Red Devil.
When she finally calmed down, Ye Chui helped her take off the cloak.
“Jiji?” The little girl’s face was somewhat dazed. When she clearly saw Ye Chui’s face, she immediately pounced into his arms and eagerly described what she had seen in her mouth: “Jiji jiji jiji jiji jiji…”
“You speak properly. What did you see?” Ye Chui quickly soothed her.
“Selt… Ti, Selti…” Jiji said with difficulty.
“Selti?” Ye Chui was stunned.
Posley said in surprise: “Selti seems to be the name of the headless knight. Does Jiji know Selti?”
“My Jiji was a Valkyrie in the divine realm back then, familiar with those from the gods’ clan.” Debbie explained proudly.
Posley was slightly stunned. Valkyrie spirits were divided into many kinds. As guardians of the divine realm, their numbers were immense. Even among Valkyries, not all knew the gods’ clan personally. In fact, most Valkyries had never even seen the appearances of the gods’ clan with their own eyes. The Valkyries who could approach the gods’ clan were no ordinary ones. This Valkyrie called Jiji was actually very familiar with the people of the gods’ clan?
She did not know that Jiji belonged to the wealth goddess’s close guard Valkyrie, and she was a life formed by the fusion of several Valkyries, naturally extraordinary.
“Selti… body, exploded, head, Jiji, buried again.” Jiji continued to describe with difficulty.
“Again…” Ye Chui felt this was a subtle word. Did that Selti from the gods’ era often have her head buried? He thought of something and continued, “Then Jiji, did you see any other scenes?”
“Jiji?” Jiji looked puzzled, as if asking what other scenes there were to see.
“Oh, nothing…” Ye Chui shook his head. It seemed that even if one could see the complete illusions, only he could see the Goddess of Fate. Moreover, in that scene, the goddess seemed to stand right in front of him. Her eyes looked at him, and he could even see his own reflection in her pupils. She was looking at him as she said those words.
“I will always be watching you…”
“Why can you all see the illusions but we cannot?” Green said with some regret. Debbie, Lisa and Gunie were all old companions who adventured with Ye Chui, but Green was also one of the first to join Ye Chui’s team. Why could he not see them?
“It is probably because of the gods. Debbie can summon Valkyries and shares the same name as the wealth goddess. Lisa inherited the holy scripture of the faith goddess. Gunie has lived under the protection of the golden sanctuary since childhood. Only those with ties to the gods’ clan can see some illusions. The deeper the tie, the clearer the illusions seen.” Ye Chui explained. His magic guide book obviously had a very deep connection to the gods’ clan, allowing him to see images as clear as those seen by Jiji, who was herself a member of the gods’ clan.
A faint worry suddenly surged in Ye Chui’s heart. He felt that everything he experienced in this world seemed to have been calculated in advance…
“What a pity. I also want to see the scenes you and Jiji saw.” Debbie said with some regret, perhaps thinking of something.
“Want to see? Then I can let you see.” Ye Chui’s eyes lit up, and he said with a smile.
He opened the player in his magic guide book and easily found those video files. The first time he saw [Time Shadow], a video file appeared in Ye Chui’s magic guide book: Prologue, Fall of the Giant Dragon. In the Sword Burial Ground, he got “Chapter One, Sword Burial Ground”. Later in Green Leaf Village, during the gap when Ye Chui and Debbie were involved in time, afterwards Ye Chui got the third video segment, “Chapter Two, Reincarnation of the Goddess”.
And now Ye Chui got a new video file, “Chapter Three, Spirit of the Headless”.
This video ended with the headless knight’s head being buried, without showing the Goddess of Fate. Each video file allowed Ye Chui to receive a gift from the gods. The Fall of the Giant Dragon let Ye Chui summon Dragon Treasure. The Sword Burial Ground let Ye Chui summon the golden greatsword. The Reincarnation of the Goddess directly gave Ye Chui the elf queen seed. So what about the Spirit of the Headless… When the video playback finished, a card depicting the headless knight appeared on the video interface.
He could summon the headless knight, but similar to the Reincarnation of the Goddess, the headless knight was not dead. Her head was still alive, so Ye Chui could not summon her. He could only find her. The card’s effect was to create some kind of connection between Ye Chui and the headless knight, like the kind where the elf queen would directly recognise Ye Chui as her father.
Ye Chui tapped a few times on the magic guide book, clicked to send the video file of the Spirit of the Headless, and sent it to Debbie, Green and the others via WeChat respectively. The group felt images surging into their minds and were all shocked into silence.
“Necromantic spirits and guardian spirits are unique to this secret realm world. These things are indeed caused by the necromantic relics, but ordinary people cannot control the necromantic relics.” Posley said thoughtfully after viewing the memories in her mind. “The three holy artefacts are important, but the most important is the headless knight’s head! Only that head can control these three relics!”
The secret realm world was created by the first emperor of the Star Empire. It was also from that first emperor that the Crown War began to be held. It was probably that empire’s first emperor who accidentally discovered the buried headless head and the three necromantic relics in the secret realm world, thus gaining the ability to create necromantic spirits and guardian spirits. The divine people guarded the secret realm world’s guardian, the headless knight’s head and those relics.
Although the three holy artefacts were now in Ye Chui’s hands, the most important head was still in the divine people’s city.
“The headless knight’s head is the key. If we want to defeat the divine people’s city, we must first get that head.” Ye Chui nodded and said. He thought for a moment and made up his mind, then looked at his companions. “The allied army of the three tribes needs some time to reach the divine people’s city. Before that, we must sneak in quietly and get the head!”
The headless knight’s head was something Ye Chui must obtain!
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After discussion, the flying magic vehicle left the oasis camp and flew towards the divine people’s city. Apart from the humanoid magic batteries needed to start the flying magic vehicle, there were only a few people on the flying magic vehicle, including Ye Chui, Green, Debbie, Lisa, Xilaisi, Gunie, Posley, the sixth prince and the eldest prince. The rest stayed in the tribe. The Wind Chief would lead the tribal army on his behalf. Jacob, as Ye Chui’s representative, stayed by his side.
The tribal army began to march towards the divine people’s city, but before that, Ye Chui and the others needed to sneak into the divine people’s city quietly and secretly obtain the headless knight’s head.
