North Shore of Conquest Sea, Navaja.
The moon set and the sun rose, time twisted and turned, and in the blink of an eye, a night had passed quickly. As usual, Navaja welcomed another morning.
In the morning, the people of Navaja woke up from a deep slumber. For most people, last night was just a very ordinary night. After waking up in the morning, everyone went about their business. The only difference was that they seemed to have slept more soundly and deeply last night.
And just as the citizens of Navaja finished washing up and went out to work as usual, some unusual situations on the streets made them realize that something seemed to have been wrong last night.
First, almost all the restaurants and street stalls that were supposed to be open for breakfast were closed. People who were used to eating breakfast outside searched for a long time and found that they couldn't even buy a single breakfast. After asking, they were surprised to find that the reason these stores were closed was surprisingly uniform: everyone had overslept, so they didn't have time to open the stores and set up stalls in advance.
Not only breakfast, but the citizens of Navaja also discovered some other problems this morning. For example, the police who were supposed to be on patrol were found sleeping on the street, for example, there wasn't a single newsboy on the street because they didn't have time to prepare newspapers, for example, a thief was found sleeping on the roof by the owner, and so on...
Among this series of events, the most peculiar was the patients with senile decay. Almost all of the patients with senile decay who were originally admitted to the mental hospital were found to have run out of the mental hospital early this morning and were sleeping on the streets.
Even more astonishing was that a large number of these senile patients, who were originally considered incurable, miraculously regained their consciousness after being woken up! Although they were still a bit dazed and confused, they were no longer as empty and foolish as before, like an empty shell. They could speak normally and indistinctly, and could even recognize relatives and friends on the street. Although their consciousness did not seem to be fully clear, their overall condition was much better than before.
Although senile decay has never been widespread and has not affected the city's functions and the lives of most citizens, the high incidence of mental illness compared to other cities has always been a shadow in the hearts of Navaja's citizens. The three mental hospitals on the outskirts of the city and the various rumors that have circulated in secret for more than ten years have made senile decay a cloud hanging over the city of Navaja.
Most residents of Navaja know about the existence of this strange disease and fear it, constantly worrying whether this disease will befall them. In recent years, as the incidence of senile decay has continued to rise, people's fear of this disease has gradually increased. Some young people have gradually chosen to leave this city shrouded in strange diseases. Many residents of Navaja have been shadowed by senile decay. If this strange disease continues to develop like this, the fear surging in the undercurrents.
And the sudden improvement in the symptoms of some senile decay patients made many people who feared senile decay feel a burst of joy. Seeing hope, they couldn't help but rejoice and praised the grace of the Three Saints.
All in all, after experiencing a rather chaotic morning, the overall situation in Navaja finally slowly returned to normal, and the basic order of the city was restored.
After a busy night, Dorothy, who returned to the hotel late, slept until noon. Even the noisy seagulls outside the window didn't wake her up for a while. By the time she stretched and got up, it was already late in the morning.
After getting up, Dorothy first opened the closed curtains, opened the window, and looked at the vast sea and the lively coastal city. After taking a breath of the air brought by the sea breeze, she returned to the room satisfied and then began to wash up.
After washing up, Dorothy changed out of her pajamas, found a small brown checkered dress from her suitcase and put it on. After combing her hair in front of the mirror and putting on her hat, she put on her small leather shoes, and then walked down the stairs with light steps.
After leaving the hotel, Dorothy found a restaurant she had eaten at before and felt was quite good. She ordered a potato pancake, a bowl of cold vegetable soup, a fried meat roll, and a glass of milk as her breakfast and lunch for the day.
While eating slowly, Dorothy also began to pay special attention to the conversations of other guests in the restaurant to confirm the impact of last night's events.
'It seems that the people in the city who were affected by the hypnosis are basically all awake this morning... After being hypnotized by that moth, normal people will only sleep for one night at most as long as the hypnotic effect doesn't continue... Although many people encountered strange situations in the morning, almost no one knows about the events of the night. Except for those few people from the Church, no one saw that moth.
'And... many of the senile decay patients whose dream cocoons were originally drained have started to recover slowly. Yesterday, when I saw those Spirituality being restored to dream cocoons in the Woodland, I wondered if those senile people would be able to recover a little... I didn't expect them to actually recover. It seems that even if the dream cocoon is drained, if the drained Spirituality is not deeply digested, there is still a chance to recover, while some other Spirituality that has been deeply digested seems impossible to restore to a dream cocoon...'
Dorothy thought to herself. During her eavesdropping, she also noticed that the senile people who could recover were those with a shorter medical history, who had not been senile for too long, while many patients who had been senile for many years still maintained their previous symptoms without any signs of recovery.
'After I killed that moth... some of the Spirituality that burst from its body returned to their original dream cocoons, and the other part of the Spirituality slowly dissipated. Those dissipated Spirituality are very likely because they were absorbed by the moth for too long and could not return to their original dream cocoons... It's a bit of a pity that not everyone can recover in the end. The Black Dream Hunter Group has left too deep and long-lasting damage to this city, and it's impossible to fully recover...'
Dorothy said with a sigh in her heart. After confirming the current situation in Navaja, she began to do her real business and seriously read the memory bubbles she had harvested last night. According to Dorothy's judgment, these should be the products of the Black Dream Hunter Group members' minds being severely damaged along with the moth.
Some ordinary memory bubbles quickly shattered, while some memory bubbles with Spirit Sight remained and were absorbed by Dorothy in a mimicked state. As early as her first time entering the Dream World, she had seen this special memory bubble that carried secret transmission knowledge.
While eating lunch, Dorothy began to read the information in the memory bubbles. Soon, she found that the content of these memory bubbles mainly consisted of three parts, equivalent to three secret transmissions.
The first part of the content recorded a new method of accumulating Spirituality, called Dream Hunting Method. According to the content in the memory bubble, this method of accumulating Spirituality can obtain "Shadow" Spirituality by hunting Dream World creatures or even other Dream World mimics. In addition to cultivating Pseudo-Moth to drain the Spirituality from ordinary people's dream cocoons, the Black Dream Hunter Group also seems to use this method to accumulate Spirituality. This seems to be a fairly common method of accumulating Spirituality.
'Dream Hunting Method... As expected, this is a method of accumulating Spirituality in dreams. Grego often goes to the Dream World in a mimicked state, probably mainly using the Dream Hunting Method to hunt Dream World creatures... But unfortunately, my Dragon mimic seems to scare away any Dream World creature, so it would probably be very difficult to use this Dream Hunting Method to hunt Dream World creatures...'
Looking at the content in this memory bubble, Dorothy thought to herself. After occasionally communicating with Little Fox and Grego in the Dream World, Dorothy had already speculated whether there was a method of accumulating Spirituality that could obtain Spirituality in the Dream World, and now her speculation was confirmed. However, it was a pity that her Dragon mimic did not seem suitable for hunting Dream World creatures that were more sensitive to the Dream World. She could only deal with Extraordinary mimics or Pseudo-Moth and other more bizarre Extraordinary creatures.
'If I had learned the Dream Hunting Method earlier, I should have been able to absorb a lot of that moth's Spirituality last night. With so many light spots, I wonder how much'Shadow' I could have absorbed...'
'On the other hand, if I had absorbed the Spirituality that burst out of that moth, so many senile people wouldn't have woken up this morning. I don't know if the Spirituality absorption of this Dream Hunting Method can specifically filter out which Spirituality can be restored to a dream cocoon and which cannot... This needs to be experimented with more later.'
Examining the Dream Hunting Method she had just obtained, Dorothy thought to herself with a somewhat complicated mood. She regretted not being able to absorb the Pseudo-Moth's Spirituality, but was also relieved that some of that Spirituality had successfully returned to the dream cocoons.
After reading this part of the content, Dorothy began to extract the Spirituality from it, and as a result, she obtained 3 points of "Shadow" and 1 point of "Qi" (Awakening/Enlightenment).
Afterward, Dorothy began to read the second part of the content in these memory bubbles, and then she found that this was a special prayer and worship ritual for the Pan Moth, which could be considered the creed believed by the Black Dream members.
In this part of the content, Dorothy saw the reason why the Black Dream Hunter Group believed in the Pan Moth. They believed that the Moth God was originally the Butterfly God, and the Butterfly God foresaw that this world would move towards a future of despair in increasing pain, and the only choice to escape the painful future was to completely abandon reality and for everyone to enter an eternal beautiful dream. Therefore, it transformed into the Moth God to lead all of this.
'Longing for a vain and beautiful dream era? And claiming this is salvation for everyone? Heh, this is really in line with the style of a cult, attempting to'save' others and'save' the world with various means.'
After reading this part of the content, Dorothy commented in her heart, and then immediately extracted the Spirit Sight from this part of the content. As a result, she obtained 3 points of'Shadow' and 1 point of 'Qi' (Awakening/Enlightenment).
Afterward, Dorothy began to examine the third part of the content of these memory bubbles, and found that this was an advanced version of the second part, a deeper understanding of the Pan Moth faith that only high-level Black Dream members could know. This might be the memory of the leader of this Black Dream stronghold.
In this memory, this Black Dream leader believed that the Moth God was not yet fully transformed at this moment, and its the chrysalis was located at the center of the Dream World. That the chrysalis was transformed from the Butterfly God and was currently in the process of emerging. The Black Dream firmly believed that after this the chrysalis emerged, the Moth God would finally descend and lead the world towards the dream era, and their ultimate goal was to promote the final emergence of the Moth God, and cultivating more scale moths was an important step to accelerate the emergence.
Within the Black Dream Hunter Group, the Pseudo-Moth that Dorothy tore apart was called a scale moth, meaning the scale powder of the Pan Moth. It was cultivated by borrowing the power of the Pan Moth and was a simulation of the form of the Pan Moth after it emerged in the future.
'Pan Moth... that is, the Moth God's the chrysalis is located at the center of the Dream World? Tsk... I remember that the Dream World positioning method uses some powerful entity at the center of the Dream World that constantly radiates fluctuations as a beacon for positioning. Could this beacon essentially be the Moth God's the chrysalis?
'According to this memory, the current Moth God is also in the stage of the chrysalis, and this the chrysalis is also transformed from the Butterfly God. The Black Dream has been emphasizing that there is a succession relationship between the Butterfly God and the Moth God, while Little Fox strongly denies it. This is a bit interesting...'
After reading the last part of the memory, Dorothy thought to herself and then conveniently extracted the Spirituality from it, obtaining 6 points of "Shadow" and 3 points of "Qi" (Awakening/Enlightenment), which was a lot of Spirituality.
Combining the information obtained from Little Fox before and the Spirituality consumption when using electric shock to attract the Pseudo-Moth last night, Dorothy's current Spirituality situation is as follows:
5 "Cup", 4 "Stone", 20 "Shadow", 2 "Light", 14 "Silence", 14 "Qi" (Awakening/Enlightenment).
'As expected, you get what you lack... After dealing with a wave of the Black Dream Hunter Group, this'Shadow' actually increased so much at once and became the highest Spirituality. It seems that I don't have to worry about'Shadow' too much for a while.'
Looking at her current more than 20 points of "Shadow", Dorothy couldn't help but think happily in her heart. As a person behind the scenes, hiding herself is the most important thing. Dorothy, who inherently dislikes being in the limelight, felt a sense of security when she saw so much "Shadow".
'But now the Spirituality of 'Cup' and'Stone' is a little too low. These two commonly used Spiritualities add up to only ten points. For me, a Sequence "Mystic Professor" who mimics a Summoning Thunder Master and a Thread-Controlling Spirit Witch, this amount of Spirituality is too dangerous. I need to replenish it quickly now.
'My quick way to replenish Spirituality is mainly the White Stone Craftsmen's Guild, but there are only strongholds in large cities. I don't know which is the closest large city to Navaja? How long will it take to get there.'
Examining the two seriously lacking important Spiritualities, Dorothy's originally relaxed expression became serious again. In order to make up for the lack of key Spiritualities, she decided to set her next goal to go to the nearest large city and find the White Stone Craftsmen's Guild stronghold there to buy secret transmissions.
'Now that such a big Extraordinary event has happened in Navaja, the Church and the official Extraordinary organizations of Castile will probably come over soon. If they conduct a city-wide search, I will be in some trouble, so I can't stay in Navaja for long. Let's set off this afternoon. Let's go to a nearby large city first, replenish a wave of Spirituality there, and then make further plans...'
Dorothy thought to herself, deciding to leave Navaja today. She planned to buy a map after eating and carefully study where her next destination should be.
'It seems that the trip to Iweig will be delayed for a while...'
'But who cares, I came out this time to travel and relax. Iweig is just a planned destination. It's also good to walk around and visit various places during the journey, experience the local customs, and taste the food everywhere~'
Dorothy thought to herself, and then she took a bite of the potato pancake in her hand. If she had any other Gains in Navaja besides these memory bubbles, it would be the potato pancakes here.