Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 274 Shipwreck Cemetery, Blue Dragon King

Because she had consumed so much energy and could not resist the sleepiness, Violet fell into a deep sleep involuntarily. Suddenly, she felt a little cold.

From somewhere, a damp and cold wind with the smell of sea water blew in, blowing away the heat from her body bit by bit, and also blew away the lingering sleepiness.

"Well, didn't Byron cover me with a blanket? Isn't he too careless towards a girl?"

Until she couldn't stand the cold anymore and opened her eyes again.

But he unexpectedly found himself no longer on the bed in the captain's room of the Golden Deer, but in a huge building that was difficult to describe in words.

The sleepiness disappeared and I was suddenly fully awake.

He jumped up immediately and looked around vigilantly.

"Is this the temple?"

The building was made entirely of some kind of slippery green stone, and was tall and wide enough to accommodate hundreds of giants gathering here.

The ground of the building is tilted, with half of it submerged in water and the other half above the water.

In the very center stands an octopus statue whose shape is hard to describe.

In the dim light that seemed a bit gloomy, the statue had a huge human skull on top, and many tentacles covered with suction cups emerged from the holes in the skull.

It looked familiar, but the girl couldn't remember where she had seen it before.

And although it is clearly a rock statue, those lifelike and slippery tentacles seem to be really wriggling and constantly emerging from that big skull.

Then he wanted to follow her gaze into Violet’s mind.

"The Era of Luo Yan has arrived, and all living things have died. In the eternal deep sea mansion, the sleeping god who is still dreaming even though he is dead is waiting. Dream, dream."

Whispers and murmurs rang out from every corner of the temple.

Hallucinations appeared before her eyes, as if the empty temple was quietly and completely filled with some huge invisible object.

Violet was startled. She didn’t dare to look any further and immediately forced herself to look away.

But she still felt uncontrollable nausea, as if something slippery was wriggling in the grooves of her brain, carrying her emotions and memories out of all the holes in her skull.

The mumbling began to echo repeatedly in the cranial cavity, becoming clearer and clearer.

"Oh no, that statue belongs to some super-sized being!

But how could the pollution come so quickly? I am obviously a third-level master craftsman, and my anchor is strong enough.

Even after the world rift, when we saw from afar the real body of Mammon the Worm of Greed sinking in the Sea of ​​Essence, it had not been so seriously polluted.

I am not in the right state. This is no longer the real world. All information has become concrete, and all truth has become an absurd dream!"

Just when Violet saw through the truth of the world, the sound of a bubble being popped was heard.

The spiritual glow surged from the depths of her heart, forming an invisible barrier on the surface of her body.

The pollution from the super-sized existence was immediately reduced by 90% like a tide.

The girl then breathed a sigh of relief.

I am extremely grateful that I have mastered the "flow state", which has greatly enhanced my control over myself. Otherwise, I would have been polluted before I could distinguish between dreams and reality.

At the same time, one thing was also confirmed.

"I did enter a dream, and it was not my own dream, but a public dream that was contaminated by super-sized beings."

As soon as she thought of it, the two curse marks that had just been tattooed on the back of her left hand and the back of her right foot began to radiate light and instantly surrounded her body.

When the light faded, Violet's legs had disappeared, replaced by an amorphous ball of blue light.

When I looked down, I found that I was still wearing only the silk nightgown I wore before going to bed, and I had no other equipment.

The strength of the third-level master craftsman was immediately destroyed by more than half.

The only thing that can be brought into the dream is the spirit, and the two curses that have just been successfully engraved, [Profanation] and [Abyss].

The changes in her body came from the materialization of the two seals in her dream, allowing her to experience the transformation after the ritual was completed in advance.

As your mind moves, imagine the ball of light changing its shape.

However, he found that he could only follow the route of the [Witch of Disaster] and transform into various aquatic monsters.

Fish tail, snake tail, jellyfish, crab. After changing into several forms, I found that the most comfortable one was to turn into an octopus tail like an octopus battleship.

Moreover, this form is the most resistant to whispering in the ears and is almost unaffected by any impact.

It was as if he had obtained an identity permit and became a member of this temple.

Violet touched her feet.
"Just use the tentacles, there's no one else here to see it anyway.

The key question now is how to get out.

According to the extraordinary knowledge I have mastered, if it is my own dream, as long as I enter the lucid dream state, I can wake up with just a thought.

But once you enter someone else's dream, or the public dream of a certain group, the danger increases dramatically.

Unless you can find a deeply hidden exit by yourself, or be awakened from the real world by someone with the help of anchoring, it is very likely that you will fall from the shallow layer to the deep layer and then to the lost layer.

By that time, there might be no coming back.

My first option now is to look for a way out, and the other option is to wait for Byron to notice my abnormality and find a way to get me out of here."

Violet decided to take a two-pronged approach.

It twisted its eight tentacles that replaced its legs a few times, slid to the water side of the temple, and slowly swam towards the temple entrance.

After just a few steps of swimming, he quickly adapted to his new body, as if he was born that way.

She looked out through the wide gap in the temple door, which was wide enough for her to pass through easily.

Outside, in the thick fog, stood an extremely huge city.

But the structures of the buildings were very unusual, completely contrary to the geometry she had learned at the Vienna Academy of Arts.

It is somewhat like that small group of emerging abstract artists.

I don't know if they got the inspiration from their dreams.

Its unprecedented spatial structure and dimensions made her feel strongly uncomfortable from the bottom of her heart.

All the buildings are made of huge, slippery green stones, and the city is filled with dizzyingly tall stone carvings, magnificent stone statues and gorgeous reliefs.

Moreover, both the statues and the reliefs are engraved with sticky tentacles, which makes people feel like they have fallen into a tentacle nest.

If it were in the past, Violet would have had goosebumps. But now that she had accepted her new form, her cognition seemed to have changed.

Looking at his reflection in the water, he nodded:
"Well, even a girl with eight legs is cute!

As expected of you, Violet.

Even if I were to randomly take this form when completing the bloodline sublimation ritual in the future, it wouldn’t seem that hard to accept.”

Squeeze out of the door and stand on the tall steps of the temple.

She scanned every street and every window with her eyes, but found in vain that the entire huge city seemed to be empty except for herself.

Dead silence, coldness, and chilling.

Only when the occasional sea breeze blows away some of the fog and you look far into the distance, can you see that there seems to be an extremely vast land behind the city.

Little did she know that the escaped [Contracted Devil] had seen the exact same scene before her (Chapter 257).

“It seems like there’s a new world out there.

So, my father came here before? !”

The girl, who was in a gloomy mood because of the unknown accident that pulled her into the dream, suddenly became excited.

The real world is separated from it by an entire celestial circulation, but in the dream it comes instantly, which is really a big pleasant surprise.

This reminds me of a series of intelligence I had collected before, including "Bridgehead", "Pioneers of the Bay", "Whale Oil Revolution", "Whaler's Footprints", etc.

The dancing tentacles seemed to be eager to explore this place.

"Hey, what is this?"

Suddenly, Violet noticed that there seemed to be something strange under the calm water that covered half of the city.

The whole city fluctuates with the fog, sometimes unreal, sometimes real.

It's like being half in reality and half in a dream.

It is divided by the magnificent temple where it is located, with half of it in the sea, half submerged in water, and half on land.

And every time the city alternates between reality and illusion, the light and shadow will change accordingly.

The calm water surface is like a huge mirror, turning the entire city upside down and revealing another mirror-like underwater city.

The extraordinary knowledge in her mind told her that this abnormality clearly meant an entrance to the deeper realms of dreams!

The girl bit her pink lips and couldn't help but feel conflicted.

"Deep Dreams? Should I go check it out?
If we could use deep dreams as a springboard, we might be able to directly see the living conditions of the indigenous people of the New World and obtain first-hand information.

Even try to steal the knowledge about whale oil from their collective consciousness, maybe you can get the original whale oil technology."

She knew that if she continued to dream, there would be both crises and opportunities.

In dreams, space and time have little meaning. It can be said to be the most unreasonable place in the world.

But it can be roughly divided into three major levels: shallow, deep and lost.

Corresponding to the ocean of human collective consciousness: consciousness, individual unconsciousness and collective unconsciousness.

If we regard the inner world of all human beings as a large island on the ocean.

Then the land above the water represents the awakened part of human individual consciousness, which can be reached even by ordinary people, and is where we live in our daily lives and have lucid dreams;

The underwater land part that is exposed due to tidal movement represents the individual's personal unconsciousness. Everything a person has seen and heard in his life is accumulated here and has never been discarded.
The seabed on which all islands ultimately take their foundation is a nation, a group, a country, and the collective unconsciousness of all mankind.

From high to low, it means that the human spiritual world moves from the individual to the collective, and from individuality to commonality.

Until it reaches the collective unconscious, it is the psychological sedimentation of countless similar experiences passed down from generation to generation in all human beings.

Violet was very moved by these sediments:
"We, the extraordinary people of the Tower Sequence who uphold the motto: 'Use knowledge to drive out ignorance', can find all kinds of lost knowledge from the collective subconscious, the seemingly insignificant sparks of inspiration of mortals, and the crazy ideas of a very small number of geniuses.
Dig out all kinds of treasures like digging a mine.

The same is true for the indigenous people.

It is rare to have such a precious place located at the junction of reality and dreams, which can serve as a window.

Once they leave here, even if they successfully land on a new continent in the future, facing the isolated collective subconscious, even the most powerful extraordinary people will be helpless against them.

but"

Behind every benefit there is a but.

Only when they are protected by the [Silver Law] and can bring a little order to the disordered dream, do they dare to conduct shallow exploration.

If a transcendent dares to explore the deep or lost layers directly through his dreams, it means that he is not far from death or madness.

Endless memory sediments rose up in waves, and a single wave could shatter the memory of a mid-sequence transcendent into pieces.

It can even cause a person's self to disappear completely, and the entire personality to dissolve into the collective consciousness.

Moreover, Violet seriously suspected that the source of the pollution that had contaminated the fourth-level heroic adventurer Balboa might be hidden underneath.

After just a moment's hesitation, the Tower Sequence's strong desire to learn about unknown knowledge, the truth behind what happened, and her father's whereabouts, made her decide to take a slight risk.

He wrapped his eight legs around the door handle and the stone fence beside the door, and took advantage of another change in light and shadow to stick just his face under the water.

The place where the vision appeared was still in front of the door of the same temple.

It was just that when I was outside, I was clearly looking down from above, but when I arrived at another city submerged in the sea water, my view suddenly changed to looking up from below.

A delicate face poked out from the puddle in front of the door and looked up at the sky.

As soon as I saw the appearance of this underwater city, my heart suddenly skipped a beat.

“Are these all shipwrecks?”

As far as the eye can see, densely packed dilapidated shipwrecks fill the entire underwater city.

This is clearly a shipwreck graveyard that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Shadowy ghost sailors are coming in and out of the shipwreck, and some are driving their own ghost ships to fight each other.
And among these numerous shipwrecks that were polluted by dreams, they all seemed to have turned into ghost ships.

A huge first-class sailing battleship, it is clearly the undisputed king of ships.

Violet happened to recognize it.

After recognizing its identity, she was so shocked that her eyes widened, her mouth opened wide, and she uttered with difficulty:
"The blue dragon figurehead, there's no mistake, this is the Blue Dragon King that was sunk by the White Rose York family in the legend?!!"

(End of this chapter)