old dream

Chapter 235 Dream Backtracking
For most of the next few days, Colin lay in a semi-conscious trance.

The large wounds on his body had been roughly stitched up, and some were opened due to beatings, but most of them were closed and scabbed, and there were bursts of itching from time to time.

Someone injected him with a blend of pheromones and inhibitors on time, so that the concentration of stimulants in his body was kept at a very low level, enough for the body to start self-healing without regaining the power to resist.

The abundance of life is smoldering in his depths, like a tiny fire, slowly repairing the severely injured body.

It was Luca who saved his life, but it seemed that it was only to torture him.

After being unconscious again for a long time, Colin began to feel his hands burning.He looked up in bewilderment and saw only his thumb on the rope.The two fingers cannot bear the weight of the whole body, and it will be necrotic in a short time, or the entire skin will be strangled off.

But Colin didn't get nervous because of this, as if the threat in front of him had nothing to do with him.He dimly sensed consciousness, then found nothing.It seemed that someone came to torture him again with a whip, but Colin closed his eyes, his consciousness drifted away from this body again, the pain faded away, and he slowly returned to sleep.

The pure white flame is reflected on the surface of the water without ripples, burning silently.

Colin felt his body was floating in the water.The dark sky is dotted with stars, but they may also be reflections at the bottom of the water.He no longer sensed the scene in his consciousness, but he could know that "it" was by his side.The "teacher" who had forgotten his face and was taken away by others.

The spirit body still does not speak, and exists safely. "It" just watched from the sidelines most of the time, just as it has been silent for more than ten years.

It still has no form, but it makes Colin feel a little bit of familiarity and nostalgia.After all, it was only here that he could get a moment of relief from the endless self-compulsion, and he could not think about the 40 Ori and the one thousand pounds of redstone for a while.

Such dreams have become more and more frequent since embarking on the path of ascension.

But this time, the things in the dream became much clearer than before.Perhaps it was a large amount of out-of-control high-density spiritual elements that once again impacted the shell of the heart that was already riddled with holes.

Those fragmented memories were reorganized, and after subconscious instinctive guessing and processing, meanings grew like seeds one after another.

Still not accurate enough, but at least recognizable.

The white flames in front of my eyes began to be stained with color, surrounded by thick black smoke, the smell of blood and the scorched smell of volatilized corpse fat.

The battle was over, and soldiers in khaki military uniforms were cleaning the battlefield.There was a faceless figure walking ahead of him, but Colin felt unfoundedly that it was Lenz.

Such a scene should have happened more than once. This time, it was because of a certain sentence that Lenz said that he had a strong impression of this scene.

He seemed to be referring to an incident from the past.

Prophecy is difficult.

In the past ten years since then, Colin has rarely heard of this incident.

What is it... new century, 33 years, revenge.These broken and messy sentences circled hard in Colin's mind.

"Do you believe in the most famous prophecy?"

Lenz seems to have put it this way:

"I don't think anyone would have cared about such flimsy predictions if they hadn't been so eager to kill so many of them."

In 600 of the new calendar, a year that crossed the century, the alliance authorities created a tragic prophecy in Anhe.

The shadow of this event hangs over half of the known world, and from 600 to 609, nine years later, before several major cult leaders were executed, large-scale hunting and persecution never stopped.

The cause was the prophecy made by the First Order at that time for the arrival of the new century.The oracle has long since been seen, regarded as a hoax by the monks of old, part of the distant memory of an age of superstition.This prophecy should have been just a routine blessing, but the First Order at that time stubbornly wanted to convey to the world the absurd oracle they claimed to have obtained from "Su", one of the twins.

Fire and tree, faith and blood are the two pillars to maintain the existence of the alliance, but one of them betrayed the alliance that year.

The prophecy says 33 years later, which is 633 years.At that time, the great Anhe alliance will be wiped out.

A biplane propeller plane almost passed by Colin's side at low altitude, and the violent airflow dispersed the billowing black smoke.Lenz immediately picked up the binoculars hanging on his chest to check the direction in which the plane was going.It was still 619, and the local war in Senal would come to an end two years later.One of the warring parties experimented with new warfare technologies here, throwing in flamethrowers, poison gas and the world's first air force.And they are just one of the border princes of the huge alliance, the Justus family that is being divided up by the powers.

In the known world at this time, almost all the living space has been squeezed out by the alliance's "covenant country-border prince-colonial" system.And outside of Anhe's native land, there is not even a second country with qualified industrial capabilities.

It has been 19 years since the prophecy was made, but there is no sign of it being fulfilled.The Ankh Alliance is in full swing.Even if it is going to decline due to its terrifying scale, it is absolutely impossible to perish in just a dozen years.

"I have never believed in, nor feared those gods who are as ethereal as reflections, but I have always felt that this prophecy is true."

Lenz looked at the departing plane through the binoculars, chuckled and said:
"After all, He said so easily what we are going to do."

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Possibly due to wound infection, Colin started to have a fever, and the coma time became longer and longer.

The torture continued, but because he looked like he might die at any time, the person who did it couldn't help but feel scruples.

Luca came again, but only stood aside against the wall, calling off occasionally.

He came up and grabbed Colin by the collar:

"Remember the funeral when you were promoted to 'Soldier' ​​a month ago?"

Luca stared at him, but Colin was in a daze, his pupils out of focus.

"You killed the man I sent you?"

"..."

Luca let go of Colin's collar, and Colin's head fell forward, only because his arms were hanging from the beam that he didn't fall to the ground.

Blood oozes from the stitched wound on his body again, Luca frowned looking at the patches of bright red.

He had seen the uncontrollably spreading crystal patterns under Colin's skin.

There were a total of six large wounds on the limbs and torso, which happened to bypass the large blood vessels and nerves, which may be related to the growth law of the crystal map itself, which allowed Colin to preserve himself.But seeing those deformed structures that have developed to the late stage can still make people creepy.

"Do you know why Jingtu is called Jingtu?" Luca asked.

Because of the severe pain, Colin recovered a little bit of sanity, and looked up at Luka slightly.

"Because in its structure, it records the trajectory of the wizard's spirit element operation during his lifetime."

Luka twitched the corner of his mouth and said:
"I have dabbled in this kind of thing occasionally, and it is very popular."

"To me, wizards are more pathetic than scary. Since any power has a price, each of them is a consumable. One day your power will withdraw and leave. Most wizards must Find support before exhaustion. And this support is money and power."

Just like an athlete's golden age is only a few years, after retiring, he can only face a life of disability alone.

And after a wizard is exhausted, his situation will only be more miserable.

"Just for such a silly thing, you choose to betray me?" Luca asked incredulously:
"Is the Colin I know such a stupid person?"

(End of this chapter)