Chapter 403: Swirling Spirit Butterfly
It was unknown when it started, but the sky had become so dark that one couldn’t see their own hand in front of their face, with only the howling of the wind echoing in their ears.
“Whoosh…”
The wind grew louder and louder, like the shrieks of ten thousand vengeful spirits. The sound was sharp and piercing, making one’s hair stand on end.
This kind of wind,
was undoubtedly a fatal threat to a helicopter.
The helicopter behind them swayed back and forth, the pilot yelling frantically through the window, his face full of panic.
Outside,
the wind grew stronger and stronger.
White wind columns even became visible to the naked eye, the wind and waves surging like a tide, the helicopter struggling within it.
“Creak…”
The propeller made a strained, strange sound, and parts of the fuselage could no longer hold, with a few screws popping out.
It’s over!
Despair filled the pilot’s eyes.
The next moment.
Time and space ceased and froze.
Karl moved slowly as if walking on flat ground, each step causing time and space to refract like glass.
All sorts of bizarre scenes appeared behind him, like shattered mirrors, reflecting various strange scenarios.
There were scenes of wings breaking and crashing, the despair of an approaching storm, and the fear of falling from the sky…
Everything was the pilot’s greatest fear.
“Found it!”
Karl’s eyes twitched slightly, and the ten thousand images around him shattered with a bang, revealing a colorful butterfly in mid-air.
“Swirling Spirit Butterfly.”
He had seen this creature called ‘Swirling Spirit Butterfly’ in a wizard’s book, a creature of dreams.
It was born from the dreams of sentient beings, possessing the ability to manipulate the dreams of others, capable of killing without a trace.
Its physical body was very weak.
So weak that even a baby could easily kill it.
But it was very terrifying. Without the proper methods, even a third-order powerhouse could fall victim to it.
Around the ‘Swirling Spirit Butterfly’, the colorful halo was like a series of special mirrors, reflecting the pilot’s dreams. Nightmares played out one after another, dragging the pilot into the abyss.
The more fear there was,
the stronger its power became.
And vice versa.
However, Karl, as a fifth-order deity and ancient knight, had extremely pure thoughts, making it impossible for the Swirling Spirit Butterfly to manipulate him.
Moreover.
Karl was also a bloodline wizard, possessing the ability to walk in dreams. After detecting something was wrong, he quickly found his target.
“Snap!”
With a light flick of his finger.
The Swirling Spirit Butterfly shattered on the spot.
“Shriek!”
A shriek followed immediately, the shattered Swirling Spirit Butterfly transforming into a vortex, and then eight sharp blades pierced through the vortex, appearing in front of Karl.
The blades held open the vortex, and a terrifyingly huge spider could vaguely be seen behind it.
The spider was coiled among the stars, and the rise and fall of its abdomen caused the entire galaxy to tremble. The strange eyes on its body turned slightly, looking directly at Karl across the distance of time and space.
“Newly born ancient knight, you are at odds with the gods!”
“Dream Lord?”
Naturally, Karl knew the identity of his opponent, a seventh-order main deity who controlled ‘dreams’.
“The path of the ancient knight is to fight the heavens and battle all beings, to temper oneself, and is inherently at odds with the gods.”
“You are very strong, but this is not a place you should be.”
“Boom!”
Violent power erupted from Karl’s body, pure battle aura carrying a will to fight the heavens and the earth, blasting forward.
The Dream Lord, who had tried to peer into this world, let out a low growl and retreated helplessly.
The seals of the gods were not something it could break through, at least not in the short term.
“Dreams!”
Rubbing his temples, Karl shook his head lightly:
“This is troublesome.”
According to the records in the wizard’s books, the real world only consisted of the material world and the corresponding Astral Plane.
But in the eyes of some beings, there were others.
Such as the Abyssal World, the Dream World…
Especially the Dream World, which was bizarre and unpredictable. Every sentient being had their own Dream World.
And the Dream Lord could use any dreaming being as its entrance and exit, freely coming and going.
Just like what happened just now.
Even with the seals of the gods, the Dream Lord was still able to transmit a trace of its power from afar.
It wasn’t strong,
but it was still unsolvable for ordinary people.
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The base.
Auston, in his crisp suit, frowned as he looked around. Although the environment hadn’t changed, he felt something was off.
A strange chill was accumulating in his heart.
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A butterfly phantom flashed in his eyes, his vision seeming to blur, and the scene before him changed.
“You guys!”
He turned around, looked at the soldiers pushing the snowmobile, and frowned as he shouted:
“Where are you going?”
“Mr. Auston,” one of them turned back and said,
“The base is missing a few pieces of equipment. We’re going out to bring them back. This is a mission assigned by the General.”
“Hmm.” Auston nodded slowly. Just as he was about to look away, the longsword at his waist suddenly unsheathed itself.
“Clang…”
A sharp, dazzling sword light sliced through the dark night, creating a rift tens of meters long on the polar ice field.
“Puff!”
The rift passed through the soldiers, their bodies instantly stiffening, and then splitting in two.
The shattered corpses, without the protection of their protective suits, froze at a visible rate in the extreme cold.
Just then.
Several black lines shot out from the corpses, rushing towards the crowd not far away.
“Black Worms!”
Auston’s eyes narrowed, and he shouted:
“Someone is infested by Black Worms! Freeze this base, no one is allowed to leave…”
“Boom!”
Before he could finish speaking, a cannonball shot out from the wall, heading straight for his position.
Huh?
How could this be?
Auston’s expression changed drastically. The slender sword in his hand, which seemed like it was for a performance, suddenly trembled, and the incoming cannonball was instantly split in two.
“What are you doing?”
Black Worm infestation?
Impossible!
Everyone in the base had been thoroughly checked. Even if there was an oversight, it wouldn’t be possible for them to infiltrate the outer perimeter personnel so quickly.
But…
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Cannonballs continued to rain down, and the cooling system spewed out frost, trying to freeze Auston completely.
It seemed…
The soldiers guarding the base were treating him as an enemy.
“You’ve got the wrong target! It’s not me, it’s them!”
Auston roared, charging forward with his longsword. His speed was as fast as lightning, a single dash covering tens of meters, far surpassing even the fastest cheetah.
“Open!”
As he charged, he swung his sharp sword, and the solid alloy wall in front of him was torn open.
Swordsman Auston!
This was his registered name in the Night Watchmen organization.
The longsword in his hand was called Cutting Teeth, a weapon of a certain archangel, with a rank as high as the fourth order.
Wielding the sharp sword, Auston charged straight through, until he broke into the barracks, which was already in complete chaos.
Soldiers were killing each other, the gates were already open, and various vehicles were roaring as they drove away into the distance.
“They can’t leave!”
If these people were infested with Black Worms and left the base, then…
The whole world would be finished!
As the thought flashed through his mind, a surge of insane killing intent welled up in his heart.
“Die!”
The sword light intensified.
The sword light expanded like fireworks, engulfing the entire base at an alarming speed, drowning everyone within it.
Including Auston himself.
He didn’t notice that the others were looking at him as if he was a lunatic who had lost control.
No one knew why he was killing people.
Nightmare.
Had silently manipulated Auston.
…………
By the time Karl arrived, the base had been completely frozen.
Auston, with a look of despair, was holding the sharp sword through his heart, dead at the entrance of the base.
“Even a third-order superhuman couldn’t resist it?”
Karl frowned:
“No.”
“Although Auston had the power of a third-order, he didn’t have the mindset of a third-order. His strength relied too much on external objects, and in the end, he could only perish with the dream creature that invaded him.”
“But…”
“The Dream Lord’s methods are indeed terrifying, capable of manipulating a third-order superhuman to become a killing machine without a sound.”
“I wonder if any Swirling Spirit Butterflies escaped?”
