Chapter 30 Chapter Twenty Nine

The illusion in front of me disappeared.Murphys, the spotless room we are in, and the ancient Eastern European battlefield six hundred years ago, D, Vera, everything. There is nothing here. Except darkness.A bone-chilling darkness engulfed the entire world.I'm falling in the darkness where everything disappears. I bit my lip tightly, desperately trying not to make a sound.I try to imagine myself flying. I thought of that first moment when D jumped off the steep cliff in Bonnelli with me on the eve of the wedding, and I felt the same way.At that time D once said that I am not afraid of heights.Now I finally know that he was actually referring to the night six hundred years ago, when his younger brother Radu led the Turkish army to besiege Bonary Castle, when the demon suddenly appeared in the top room of the tower, it was me, six hundred years ago For the first time, Odell led him to jump off the cliff from the window.

It turned out he was taking revenge on me.A smile played on my lips.I was surprised to find myself laughing. But that doesn't change anything.I'm still falling in the dark. fly!I told myself. I recall riding a galloping horse with Sylph in the Land of Evergreens. When we jumped off the cliff, two huge wings soared from under us, and the strong air current made me cry.But at the moment I don't have wings on my back. I recall that earlier, when the devil Lotbar took me away from Brown Castle, our bodies were as light as a feather, and we could jump in the snow-covered night sky with only one leap on the top of a cedar tree. gliding.But at the moment, there is only a thick black "nothingness" under my feet.

Lotbar can't fly. D can't fly either.Even Sylph, the wind elf with great powers, can't fly. So how can I possibly fly? You must fly.A voice in my head said to me.Otherwise you will die. I tried to stretch my arms, but my body was too heavy.An inexplicable gravitational force pulled me down from my feet and kept falling.My body is getting heavier and heavier. I thought about D again.After Morpheus let me see everything, I thought I had entered that garden deep in his heart, and seen that deserted corner locked by heavy chains.Now I should go and turn it on.Because the key is not with him.I don't even remember myself, but I was the one who took the key away.

Six hundred years ago, what should have happened has already happened, and it is a pity that I was not with him; and six hundred years later, although my appearance has changed, my heart has not changed, and I am still like six hundred years Loved him as much as before, and I ended up being his wife, and I'm going to do my best to stop things that shouldn't happen. I want to go back to him.Just like the oath I once made under the witness of the elemental spirit: cherish him, love him, respect him, and protect him.He has lost his sword, but I am willing to be his sword, hold his hand tightly, and stand up with him to face this turbulent world.

Because he is the brave and fearless dragon knight, and I am the devil Odell.The fate of six hundred years has connected us closely. Yes, I am the devil Odell, the most powerful and ancient blood in this land flows in my body.Don't be fooled by my looks, I'm not a weak little girl. I never was. I opened my arms and flew up in the dark. But my eyes were still pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.Who's to say I'm flying if there's no point of reference?Maybe I'm still falling.But my body is not as heavy as before, it seems that gravity has completely disappeared.I was floating like a bubble in absolute darkness.It's also like a blind man walking in the dark, and my extraordinary eyesight is useless at this moment.

"When vision can't achieve the goal, you have to learn to use other senses." I seem to hear Mr. Stefano, the mask maker, say to me. hearing.When a person is blind, his hearing tends to be more acute. I could hear indistinct screams in the distance.I know those are travelers who fell into the void like me.Some sounds lasted for a long time, and some just disappeared after a short sound.Besides, there is another voice here.In fact, it has always been there, but the sound is too weak and too general, like the buzzing of insects flapping their wings, or the continuous rotation of large dust particles in the beam of light passing through the window sills, or the humming of the deep sea. The fish swung their long fins rapidly, but there was no water around them.

It can't be called a "sound", but more like a rhythm.Like a pulse, with each breath, the whole dark world around me gathers, expands, and repeats. I suddenly and inexplicably thought that if the shadows had a sound, when the shadows changed positions with the light source, then this would be the sound they made. I thought of those shadows I saw in the Venice inn.It was they who devoured the traveler in Venice, and it was they who finally pulled me into this "void".But the "void" is not empty.Because this is the country where the shadows are.There are thousands of black shadows around me.They buzzed and vibrated at high frequencies in the dark, like insects flapping their invisible wings, like fish diving in places where there is no water.

I carefully avoided the black shadows gathered around me and continued to fly. I followed the sound, and I remembered a screaming traveler ahead to my left.But when I passed him, the voice suddenly disappeared.A familiar hum took over.A few dark shadows rushed towards me.I dodged with difficulty, thinking that my ears had an illusion just now. Then strange things happened again.I clearly heard a poor fellow on my right exhale his last breath, but for a split second the air trembled and a great hum from the same location flooded me again. I suddenly understood something.I think I already know the origin of these shadows.They are not demons, for they are the travelers themselves who fell into the void.It is they who devour their companions, feed on the consciousness of each other, and then the victim turns into a new grabber, just like ouroboros devouring its own tail, repeating itself in an infinite circle.

The vibrations continued.Discordant screams were cued out one by one, and then a hum covered everything.Sombra's movements were astonishingly fast. I must thank Murphys.If my consciousness had stayed here before, I'm afraid I would have become one of them. I held my breath and pricked up my ears to listen carefully.I hope to hear an unnatural note again in this harmonious resonance. I found it!This is much easier than I imagined, thinking that when you are familiar with the rhythm of all the order around you, that voice suddenly jumps out. It was there that I heard a vibration, awkward and raw as if it were a parody.

A masked impersonator. The shadows couldn't find him because he was wearing a mask. But I spotted him right away because I knew he was wearing a mask. Mario. The missing Venetian mask maker.