I'm also trying to survive today [Western Fantasy]

Chapter 223 Nightmare

Just when Julian and others were in crisis, Owen also encountered unexpected things.

As the paladin of the church, Owen is also the team leader this time. He quickly built a temporary camp after leading other church members here. The map is also piece by piece, and he didn't know where it was until he saw the obvious landmarks.

The surrounding environment is very strange, where they come out seems to be a small river ditch?

The river has long since dried up, but the land on both sides is unexpectedly lush and green, completely opposite to the dry waterway.

"Leader." A sturdy paladin came over and reported to Owen: "There is no threat around."

"Very well, continue to be vigilant, in this land abandoned by gods, anything weird may happen."

"Yes, team leader!" The big man turned around to join the others, and then separated a few people to continue patrolling around.

Owen quietly guarded the entrance and exit, seeing more and more people coming in, but he still couldn't see Julian's figure.

There was a bad premonition in his heart, his expression was not revealed, but it was not difficult to see from the tightly pursed lips that he was in an extremely bad mood at this time.

As time went by, more and more people came in, even the chosen ones from countries whose national power was obviously weaker than the Maggie Kingdom came in, but there was still no Julian.

Owen's heart sank gradually. He walked up to a Chosen One who had just entered, and asked in a deep voice, "Have you seen the Chosen One from the Kingdom of Maggie?"

"Ah?" The Chosen One shook his head in bewilderment.

Owen's face was even uglier. It happened that a young woman next to him had a little impression of the two chosen ones from the Maggie Kingdom. After all, they were both pretty good-looking, and she wondered, "They have already come in? I didn't remember." If I'm wrong, they came in ahead of us... Huh? Strange, where are they?"

Owen thanked the woman and turned to leave. He could sense that the system in his mind was still there. According to Julian, since there was nothing wrong with the system, his life was not in danger. It was just Julian's disappearance. There were no clues, and he had no direction to look for.

Helpless, Owen could only comfort himself silently. As long as Julian’s life is safe, nothing else matters. Anyway, no matter where Julian is, after three months, the Land Abandoned by God will be closed, and everyone will be banned by then. Deported, they can meet.

Just after he forcibly suppressed the anxiety in his heart, a group of patrolling knights ran over quickly, shouting as they ran, "Fire! The fire is coming!"

Owen's pupils shrank: "Enemy attack!"

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"Be careful!" Julian burned a grinning little devil to ashes with a flaming arrow.

"Thank you..." The young female mage who was almost bitten thanked her in shock.

Julian shook his head and signaled not to worry about it. At this time, everyone is a grasshopper on a rope. If you help them, you are helping yourself.

At this time, there were less than ten people in their temporary team, and they had been fighting fiercely for more than an hour surrounded by little devils. The number of little devils was almost endless, and their bodies would magically disappear after death.

Julian had a guess in his mind, but there was not enough evidence to support it, so he could only suppress it for the time being.

"what!"

Another knight was injured. As the knights in the front, their chances of being injured are greatly increased. The magicians are all protected behind. It's relatively safe.

If it just continues like this, the ending will definitely not be optimistic.

"Everyone hold on." Cosmo, as the temporary leader, has long been aware of this matter, but everyone's cooperation is not very proficient at the beginning, and from time to time there will be little devils breaking through the defense and entering the inner circle. He was almost done, so he could spare some of his energy and plan to inquire about it.

Here, the only person who can be questioned is naturally only the thin man. His emotions have stabilized a lot after that period of crying like venting, and he just shrank himself into a ball and hid in the corner.

Those other people were not willing to protect him, but they couldn't do anything to throw him out of the protection circle, so they could only treat him as if he didn't exist.

After Cosmo walked over, everyone gave up their energy, hoping that Cosmo could find a solution from that man.

"Enough crying?" Cosmo looked at the man coldly.

The man flinched, his eyes swollen from crying combined with his haggard look made him look very pitiful.

However, Cosmo did not feel this emotion, and still asked coldly: "How did you get through this period?"

"What... what do you mean?" the man stammered.

Cosmo's face sank: "You said that in your dream, you experienced many ways to die, that is to say, you should die at the hands of various demons. With your strength, even these You can't even resist the little devil, so—how did you survive this wave of attacks in your dream?"

The man shivered for a while, as if recalling some bad memories, but when he raised his head, he could see that the people around him gave him resentful looks even after the fierce battle. Obviously, if he said it dishonestly, Certainly no good fruit to eat.

Because of his collapse, everyone knows that it must be because of him that he appeared here. After offending everyone, he can't die if he wants to live.

"The bonfire... the bonfire can drive out those little devils."

Everyone was overjoyed, and quickly moved the defensive circle, approaching the bonfire.

The fact is, just as that person said, the group of little devils gradually retreated into the darkness after they got close to the campfire, and never appeared again.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, and took advantage of this rare rest time to cooperate with each other to bandage the wound.

Cosmo didn't relax, and continued to question the man.

The man already had a guilty conscience, and Cosmo's method of pressing questions was very effective, so he unknowingly told everything he knew.

"So, although this bonfire has the effect of exorcism, it needs human flesh and blood to maintain it?" Julian frowned as he listened to Cosmo's words.

That skinny man is also a ruthless person, he somehow found out the pattern, the burning time of this bonfire is limited, when the bonfire goes out, the demon that faded before will increase a level and return again.

The little devil will evolve into a low-level devil, and the low-level devil will evolve into a medium-level devil. He also tried it in his dream. Nothing can continue the bonfire. Only by putting his own flesh and blood into it can it continue to burn.

The thin man relied on self-mutilation to maintain the bonfire in order to gain a certain amount of respite, but this way of drinking poison to quench his thirst would only make his death worse.

"The rest time is only one hour. When those demons come again, more types of demons will be added." Cosmo said to everyone.

Everyone's hearts sank, even the little devils were so difficult to deal with, if they were replaced by other types of demons, wouldn't they all be wiped out?

"It's all this bastard's fault, I'm going to kill him!" A young man stood up angrily, about to kill the thin man.

"Stop!" Cosmo hastily stopped him.

"What are you doing? Do you still want to defend him? If it weren't for him, how would we come back to such a ghostly place!" The man scolded angrily.

"I don't want to defend him, but I don't want us to kill each other." Cosmo shook his head firmly.

"What do you mean? Tell me clearly." The others also looked at Cosmo.

Cosmo explained: "I think everyone should have guessed that at this moment we are in a dream constructed by the Nightmare Lord."

Everyone stopped talking. It was precisely because they guessed this that they despaired. The Lord of Nightmare, the Lord of Nightmare, just by hearing his name, one can tell that his greatest skill must be weaving all kinds of nightmares, and he fell into his nightmare , do these strongest people who are only at level six still have a chance of survival?

"If I'm not mistaken, the dream we're in now should be based on this person's nightmare." Julian looked around, and his eyes fell on the man who was huddled in a corner.

"Based on his nightmare, at least we can understand this dream. If we kill him, who knows what the next nightmare will be like? Don't forget, the reason we can persist until now is because of that man In the dream, I used my own life to test it out time and time again, and changed to a brand new dream, whose life should I use to test it?"

As soon as Julian said this, the young man fell silent all of a sudden. Of course, it was impossible for him to thank that man for this. At most, he just gave a bah and didn't plan to trouble him again.

Cosmo nodded in relief. Julian thought the same as him. Now is not the time for infighting. Without the clues provided by the thin man, their losses would be even greater, not just injuries.

The emaciated man shrank his neck, the long-accumulated fear had crushed him, and unless he pulled himself together, Julian was not optimistic that he would get out of here alive.

You know, in such an environment, they are the only ones who can rely on each other, but that man... Don't expect someone to help him when he is in trouble.

Conversely, if you don't take the opportunity to step on it, it will be considered that this group of people has a broad mind...

Just like what the thin man said, the bonfire began to dim, and everyone stood up immediately, preparing for the next battle.

Now everyone's physical strength is good, no one wants to self-mutilate to keep the bonfire burning, but some people have considered using thin men as 'fuel', but as Julian pointed out, everyone can't afford to change the scene suddenly At that time, they may not even have a chance to breathe.

The bonfire was finally extinguished, and the demons hidden in the dark were ready to move again. They emerged from the darkness, and all kinds of strange demons exuded the smell of sulfur, surrounding everyone.

Several people quickly formed the defensive circle just now, and fell into a hard fight again, and the thin man was surrounded in the center, with his head lowered, muttering something in his mouth.

No one noticed that in the pocket of his trousers, a strangely shaped wooden sculpture exuded a faint dark red light.

A sulphur-like stench gradually emanated from the skinny man's body, but everyone was surrounded by this smell, and no one noticed his change...

Owen Diary:

depressed!Julian is missing again! (Strange, why do I say again?)

The situation does not allow me to go to him, so I can only pray in my heart that he is okay.

Fortunately, the existence of that strange system in the Sea of ​​Consciousness can at least prove that his life is not in danger. I only hope that such good luck can continue until the closure of the Land Abandoned by God!

Goddess of Holy Light bless!

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Julian and Owen live separately in the...

Posted a microblog to complain about wanting to fish, but the readers vomited back, saying that I don't want to... have nothing to love _(:з」∠)_...

Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated [nutrient solution]:

8 bottles of Mujin;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!