booktalesy Chapter 3854 The Call of the Dark Corner
Chapter 3854 The Call of the Dark Corner
Chapter 3854 The Call of the Dark Corner
"Can you find a chance to ask me if the missing core members of Prada Media have gone to a dark corner like Paipai?"
Angel sent the following message to Gleipnir in the private chat channel.
Soon, I received a reply from Gleipnir: "Okay."
While waiting for the answer, Angel looked at the "Sealing Ritual Formation Diagram" again.
He actually understood the Sealing Ritual of the Lightless Space. He also knew why Abigail went to the southeast corner of the shadow as soon as she controlled Gleipnir's body.
There was indeed a blind spot in the sealing ritual.
This kind of ritual usually affects the entire body. As long as one blind spot is destroyed, the entire sealing ritual will be completely ineffective.
By then, Abigail, who is trapped inside, will be able to escape in advance.
If it weren't for the information provided by Gleipnir, Angel would have destroyed the southeast corner of the ritual. But now, he decided to take it a little longer before breaking the ritual.
According to Abigail, as long as someone enters the dark space, their consciousness will be marked by the unstable aura of the dark corners.
Once marked, the possibility of being captured and swallowed by dark corners will increase.
The mark of consciousness is a big trouble for ordinary people. That is why Pai Pai set up such a "dream bureau" to avoid affecting ordinary people.
But this mark did not have any negative effect on Angel, as he was always chasing dark corners. With this mark, the possibility of him encountering dark corners would increase.
Thinking of this, after hesitating for a moment, Angel decided to let his body enter the "lightless space".
But before that, he needs to avoid the "Dream Game" set up by Paipai.
According to Paipai's setting, anyone who enters the lightless space will be immediately caught in the "Dream Game" and their consciousness will be pulled into a dream.
If you want to avoid it, you must start from the root of the sealing ritual.
As Angel opened the "Sealing Ritual Formation Diagram", he searched for possible locations where the "Dream Bureau" nodes might be stored. Once he found something, he controlled Gleipnir's body to confirm it.
After three consecutive failures, Angel found a location that was suspected to be a "Dream Bureau" node on the fourth try.
Calling it a "node" is actually just Ingres's habitual expression.
In fact, it is a ball of magical energy, or in other words, the afterglow left by casting fashion magic.
In other words, the "dream game" that Paipai had set up was probably a kind of fashionable magic that she used. Angel didn't know what kind of magic it was, but it didn't matter.
As long as he is sure that it is magical energy, he will have a way to block and suppress it.
Angel's method was also simple and crude. He directly controlled the nightmare aura in Gleipnir's body and created a thin layer of membrane around the ball of magic energy.
Under the blockade of Nightmare, the existing "Dream Game" will not become invalid, but no new "Dream Game" will be born.
In other words, even if Angel entered the Dream Bureau, he would not be affected by it. At the same time, Gleipnir could still communicate with Abigail in the Dream Bureau.
After doing all this, Angel felt at ease and let his main body step into the dark place.
After the main body entered the lightless space, Angel immediately discovered the "abnormality" that he could not perceive through the God's perspective before.
The entire lightless space is in an extremely unstable state.
The surrounding space energy is sometimes thin and sometimes thick. If a magician releases some magic in this space, even the lowest level magic, it is possible to cause the thin space to collapse and be destroyed.
From this we can also see that Paipai’s “Dream Bureau” is not only about protecting intruders from being marked by dark corners, but also about protecting the lives of intruders.
However, apart from the disorder in the space, there is nothing wrong with anything else here.
The entire space was exactly the same as what Ingres saw from the God's perspective. It was indeed a one-to-one replica of the cellar. Even the holes in the ground and the scratches on the walls were exactly the same.
If it weren't for Gleipnir's intelligence that he knew that this was the Dark Corner's way of deceiving the rules of the real world through "imitation" so that the Lightless Space could slowly stabilize; otherwise, Angel would really doubt whether this was the original appearance of the Lightless Space.
Ingres wandered for a moment in the darkness.
Except for the information of "Sealing Ritual in the Lightless Space" received again in the shadow of the southeast corner, there was no other discovery. - Previously, Angel used the power of the fairyland to forcibly intercept the information of the sealing ritual. At that time, the information appeared in his mind; but this time, because the real body entered, there was no need to intercept it, and the information appeared in the "text column".
Ingres did not sense what Abigail called the "mark of consciousness in the dark corner."
"Could it be that this mark actually already exists, but is not counted in the text column?" Angel murmured in confusion, "Or does it mean that it will take a certain amount of time for this mark to appear?"
Ingres didn't know which one it was, and he couldn't even ask Abigail about it. After all, Abigail didn't know the existence of the "text column".
He could only wait silently.
After waiting for about three minutes, the text box did not appear, but Gleipnir's reply came first.
In the private chat channel——
"Abigail didn't know where the elite core members of Prada Media who disappeared were. The only human she met at the time was Pai Pai."
"And Paipai herself said that she and her companions were separated the moment they entered the dark corner."
In other words, that group of elite backbones should have also fallen into the dark corner, but Paipai didn't know where they were.
This answer made Ingres feel helpless.
What he had imagined before was that Paipai and that group of core members would gather together, and then he would go into the dark corner to find them together and bring them back to the world.
With them, you don't have to worry about the main quest and can complete it directly.
But the current situation is that everyone is scattered.
It was not an easy task to gather them together. Because according to the information he had learned before, the dark corner was very, very large. Even if it was just one layer, its area might be comparable to that of a continent or even the world.
If they are really scattered in dark corners, it would be very difficult to find them all.
Unless, the dark corner dungeon opened in Modern City is relatively small...
But if the area of the copy is very small, even if Paipai gets separated from the core group, it should be easy to reunite them, right?
Angel shook his head and could only note down the information and explore the dark corner again when he had the chance.
Gleipnir: "Oh, right, Paipai told Abigail that if it reaches the human world and meets Yusup, and Yusup asks about Paipai's situation, don't say they have fallen into a dark corner, just say they are all fine, or find a random excuse to fool him."
Because Paipai knew very well that once Yusup knew that they had fallen into a dark corner, given Yusup's character, he would probably drop everything and look for the dark corner.
Regardless of whether Yusup can find the dark corner in the end, this is a near-destructive situation for Prada Media.
With Yusup, the Prada beauty pageant may have become a sex show, but at least it still exists.
Without Yusup, even the sex shows will disappear.
Therefore, Yusup could not be told that they were in a dark corner.
"Abigail didn't know what reason to use to deceive Yusup. So, I gave him a suggestion..."
Gleipnir told Yusup that she, Angel and Starworm were not from Prada Media, but loyal fans of the Prada beauty show. They got together to prevent the Prada beauty show from going bankrupt.
If Abigail can't find a reason to fool around, she can just not tell Yusup that it's related to Paipai.
Instead, we told Yusup that we brought it here. In other words, we asked Abigail to pretend to be their special familiar.
By then, even if Yusup had doubts, he would not ask about Abigail's true origins.
Even if we take a step back, if Yusup asked, he would be asking Gleipnir, not Abigail herself.
Angel: "Abigail agreed?"
Gleipnir quickly gave his answer: "It agreed. I have already made an agreement with it. After it is unsealed, it will go with us to Prada Media. At that time, it will hide in my magic book and pretend to be summoned by me."
In this way, they could deceive Yusup and tell him that the Carnival Night Clown belonged to Gleipnir. Then they could persuade Yusup to give up the "sex show" and get back on track with the "beauty show".
Yusup wants to get the "beauty show" back on track more than anyone else. Once it is confirmed that his side will have a carnival night clown, he will definitely change his mind.
In this way, not only can they successfully complete the main mission, but Abigail can also fulfill her bet with Paipai.
Angel asked curiously, "What is the bet between it and Paipai?"
Gleipnir did not answer this time, but directly sent the information of a side quest to Angel.
"Side Quest "Unfulfilled Bet""
"Mission Overview: Abigail used to be a cool carnival clown until she met "Qisi". She fell in love with Qisi at first sight, and was even willing to make a big bet with the malicious human girl for Qisi. In the end, she lost the bet..."
"Mission objective: Help Abigail return to Prada Media and bring new life to the Prada beauty pageant."
After reading the mission information, Angel was stunned for a moment, then immediately responded: "Have you received a side mission?"
Gleipnir: "Yes, after I made a promise with it, I received the side quest from it."
It was because of this side quest that Gleipnir finally believed Abigail.
It just so happened that this side quest overlapped with the main quest. It could even be said that as long as she completed the main quest in order, this side quest would definitely be completed. So, Gleipnir naturally did not resist and took on this quest directly.
"I mean, you already have a text bar showing up?" Angel was curious. Although Gleipnir could see NPC information before, there was no text bar. But now that he could accept quests, did the text bar appear?
Gleipnir: "No... Information about the side quest, it just popped into my mind."
Angel nodded in understanding.
It seems that when there is no text column, the wonderland information will return to its previous state.
Before the "text space" was integrated into the Dream Crystal Origin, when they entered the copy and encountered the "fairyland information", it all jumped directly into their minds.
Later, after the "text space" was integrated into the Dream Crystal Origin, the text column appeared and the fairyland information began to be recorded in the text column.
"Abigail knows that I can contact you. She wants to discuss with you and ask you to destroy the sealing ritual so that she can leave the Darkness in advance."
Angel thought about it and nodded: "Okay, let it wait for a while."
If Angel didn't break the seal, it would automatically be unlocked after 24 hours. So, it didn't make much difference to Abigail whether it was unlocked in advance or not.
However, there is a big difference for Ingres.
If they want to complete the second round of main missions, they must break the seal, release Abigail in advance, and then find Yusup to complete the mission.
Therefore, this is not a negotiation, but a necessity.
After waiting for another two minutes, just when Angel thought that the text bar might not load the so-called "consciousness mark", suddenly, an effect called "Call of the Dark Corner" appeared on the text bar without any warning.
It seems that it is not that the dark corner mark does not appear in the text column, but that the dark corner mark will not appear until it has been in the dark for at least five minutes...
"Call of the Dark Corner: You are marked by the Dark Corner. Once you enter the capture range of the Dark Corner, you will have a greater chance of being captured by the Dark Corner."
Literally speaking, this is a continuous effect that cannot be defined as a gain or loss.
However, as the holder of the power of the fairyland, Angel can read deeper hidden information from this message.
According to the power of the fairyland, this is considered a "debuff effect". In the game terms on Earth, it is a debuff.
The duration of this debuff is: Permanent.
However, if you have special purification magic, you can remove this negative effect.
What concerns Angel the most is that under the judgment mechanism of the fairyland power, being captured in a dark corner is actually a negative effect.
Does that mean that even the powers of Wonderland consider Dark Corner to be an extremely dangerous copy?
Perhaps when the "Dark Corner" instance appears, we can let Huici determine how dangerous this instance is...
Ingres pondered it in his mind for a moment and then stopped thinking about it.
Now that he has obtained the mark of the dark corner, Angel can naturally prepare to unseal the ritual.
However, before he could remove the seal, he still needed to do one thing: send Gleipnir out of the Lightless Realm.
According to Angel's analysis of the situation, once he starts to dismantle the sealing ritual, the surrounding space will inevitably experience huge fluctuations, and at that time, all living things in the dark space may be affected.
You may not necessarily die, but there is a high probability that you will get bumped into something.
In the copy, Gleipnir's body was actually no different from that of an ordinary person. In order to prevent Gleipnir from getting hurt here, Angel sent her out of the Lightless Space first.
After doing all this, Ingres walked to the shadow in the southeast corner of the cellar and reached out his hand to wipe away the dirt on the ground.
Soon, a line clearly drawn with unknown ink appeared before his eyes.
And this is the formation left by the sealing ritual!