Chapter 863: Extreme Joy Leads to Sorrow

After making sure that he was absolutely safe in the short term, Gavin shouted to the Earth Spirit Witch who was fighting with Dushan Witch: "Lord Earth Spirit, killing Dushan Witch is not the point, but fighting for control of this dream.

This black-hearted witch imprisoned a large number of innocent souls of Moshantir citizens in the dream. You should try to seize part of the control of the dream and release those survivors. This is the most convenient way to weaken this dream."

After seeing the cruelty of the war in the nightmare dream, Gavin decisively adjusted his strategy and was not prepared to involve those ordinary Leathermen.

Whether in front of the Horror Army, the Shadow Army, or the Nightmare Monster Army, they are not just cannon fodder. If they are not careful, they will become food for the enemy to become stronger.

Compared to staying here, it is better to release them from the nightmare dream, which will help them more.

The earth spirit witch sensed it a little and couldn't help but shouted angrily: "Dushan, you bastard, you should go to hell, you should be cut into pieces, they are also your people, how can you do it?"

"People? Earth spirit sister, have you become stupid by practicing earth magic and turned your brain into stone?"

Witch Dushan responded confidently, "We are the descendants of the noble Romansa Empire, we are the inheritors and guardians of Imaskar's knowledge, and they are just a group of Rus barbarians, our guards, and tools for us to rebuild the empire.

You are the real traitors, you betrayed your own race and your own duties, and regarded a group of lowly slaves as your own people."

The dark witch's argument has already involved the history of the Kingdom of Leatherman.

This history can be reversed to tens of thousands of years ago, the same era of the dwarf kingdom of Shanatar.

Not only the Eastern Region of Despair, but the entire eastern part of Faerun was once ruled by an empire called Imaskar. The ruling class of this country was called the Artificers, and their supreme ruler was called the King of Artificers.

They were not only good at using teleportation magic, but also good at making various powerful magic instruments. Many magic creations called the Artificers were excavated from the ruins of this empire.

The magic civilization they created was thousands of years earlier than the Netheril Empire, and even more brilliant.

The most famous thing they did was to use inter-dimensional portals to capture countless slaves from a world without magic, which also laid the root cause of the destruction of the empire.

Because the world where those slaves lived, although there was no magic, there were gods.

These slaves, who were later called the Mulan people, became the best springboard for their gods to invade Faerun. They sent their most powerful saints (divine incarnations) to Faerun to lead their people to fight against the Artificers.

With the help of these divine powers, the Imaskar Empire collapsed completely and the King of Artificers died in battle.

Those divine incarnations established the Mulhorand Kingdom in the east of Faerun, which combines royal power and divine power, and it has continued to this day.

Most of the prosperous areas of Imaskar were occupied by the Mulhorand Kingdom, and the only remaining Imaskar people were forced to the extreme cold land in the north, which is now the East of the Despair, where they established the Lomansa Empire.

However, there is a powerful barbarian empire, Nafir, here. The two sides fought for land ownership until they both died.

The Leatherman witches were a secret women's association formed by the Lomansa Empire on the eve of its collapse. Their purpose was to protect the heritage and magical knowledge of the Lomansa Kingdom and wait for the opportunity to revive the Lomansa Empire.

As for the Rus barbarians, they migrated from the northwest of Faerun continent, where the city of Luskan is now located, through the ancient portal left by the Imaskar people. They formed an alliance with the Lomansa witches and began to intermarry with the Lomansa people in large numbers, changing their name to Leatherman.

Strictly speaking, the Leatherman people and the Uthgar barbarians have a common ancestor.

The root of the Leatherman witch split was planted at the beginning of the founding of the country. At that time, there were completely different differences among them on the issue of how to deal with the Rus barbarians.

The mainstream is naturally that the two sides cooperate sincerely, intermarry with each other, and form a new kingdom, which is the path that the Leatherman witches are now insisting on.

The other faction is the theory of noble blood. They should maintain the pure Lomansa bloodline, especially the witches, because pure bloodline is the source of their power. Those Rus barbarians will pollute their blood and greatly reduce their spellcasting limit.

The Leatherman witches are inferior to the previous generation. Most of the most powerful witches are pure-blooded Lomansa, which also verifies this argument in disguise.

And the Dushan witches have always been the leader of this argument. After they broke up with the Leatherman witches completely, they still maintained a high level of activity in secret, because this theory of noble bloodline is very popular among those pure-blooded Lomansa witches.

This is also the reason why the dark witches mercilessly sacrificed the Leathermen people in large numbers, because they never regarded them as their own people, but just a group of slaves.

"It is unreasonable to be complacent. This world is constantly developing. Lomansa is only our history, and Leathermen is our present. We can only develop better by looking forward, instead of being immersed in the past."

The earth spirit witch seemed too lazy to waste words with the Dushan witch. The terrifying earth elemental power surged under her feet, and the dull and loud shout resounded throughout the dark Moshantir City, "Wake up."

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The shaky houses in the dark city of Moshantiel began to collapse one after another.

It seemed that the earth elemental power caused by the earth spirit witch collapsed it. In fact, she used her power to send these souls back to reality. Without their support, these houses would naturally collapse into ruins.

"No!" Witch Dushan screamed in despair.

The souls of these Leathermen were the key to the anchoring of the Shadow Nightmare Tree in Moshantiel City.

When these anchors were removed one after another, the distance between the two sides would become farther and farther.

In the end, let alone collecting the souls of the Leathermen, even the souls of those who died in the battle would be unable to converge inside and go to where they should go.

As the white flames on the Shadow Nightmare Tree burned wildly, her ability to control it became weaker and weaker.

"Huh!" Witch Dushan suddenly realized that something was wrong. The burning speed of the Shadow Nightmare Tree seemed to be not more intense than at the beginning, but was declining.

The state of the instigator was not quite right either. His spirit had obviously become much weaker, which was the result of a large amount of mental power consumption in a short period of time.

Although the opponent's ability was evil, it was not completely without consumption.

He was just an extraordinary spellcaster who had not even entered the legendary level, and his own power was limited.

I was fooled by him and chose the wrong direction of attack.

I should not have sent the shadow army to attack him directly, but directly fought with him at the shadow nightmare tree and exhausted him alive.

It's not too late now.

Witch Dushan immediately adjusted the battle plan.

The shadow army gathered again, and under the blazing white flames from the shadow nightmare tree, they rushed towards it one after another, even if they had no chance to get close and were burned to ashes, they didn't care.

Soon, a dust rain fell from the sky - soul dust.

Gavin's spirit was waning at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he urged: "Lord Earth Spirit, move your totem land away from here first. I can't hold on any longer. Be careful not to be contaminated and desecrated by them again."

"Where are the other sisters? Why haven't they arrived yet? We can't give up the Earth Totem Tree so easily. This will leave trouble. Du Shan will be able to use it and come back at any time." The Earth Spirit Witch was unwilling to give up the Earth Totem Tree easily.

It had been lost from her hands once, and she didn't want to lose it a second time.

Gavin was secretly anxious, but he couldn't tell the Earth Spirit Witch some things, so he could only explain: "Lord Earth Spirit, you have been sleeping for many days and don't know the situation outside. Our war with the Tukan people has broken out.

The other masters are on the lake, confronting the Tukan people. For a while, there is no way to withdraw from the battlefield in large numbers.

Witch Dushan also took this opportunity to help the Tukan people make trouble in Moshantir City and distract our attention.

My mission this time is to rescue Lord Earth Spirit and to lift the siege of Moshantir City. The matter of the earth totem tree will be solved later."

The answer he gave was impeccable, in order to further confuse Witch Dushan.

Gavin didn't know whether the dark witch leader believed it or not, but the Earth Spirit Witch believed it firmly, because her totem land was integrated with the shadow nightmare tree, so she had a memory of what happened in Moshantir City and knew the situation here clearly.

While the two were asking and answering each other, on the Shadow Nightmare Tree, Witch Dushan regained the initiative and began to infect the Earth Totem Tree from top to bottom again.

Gavin's manipulation of the destruction of evil was retreating little by little.

For the Shadow Army of Witch Dushan, this process was very tragic. Every point of progress had to pay a large number of Shadow Ghosts as a price.

Witch Dushan, who had tasted the unique dream of the Shadow Nightmare, was a little crazy. She would rather abandon the entire Shadow Army and take it back, because the future it represented was not comparable to the Shadow Army.

Rumble!

The violent tremor spread from the Shadow Nightmare Tree to the entire Dark Moshantir City, and then to the real Moshantir.

This was a sign that the Earth Spirit Witch had moved the totem land, and she directly moved it to the Moshantir City.

And as her power was withdrawn, the Shadow Army took back the Shadow Nightmare Tree from Gavin faster.

"Retreat!" The Earth Spirit Witch stretched out her hand and grabbed the miniature puzzle lock that covered Gavin, forming an earth element layer on the outside.

When the earth element layer collapsed, the scene in front of her had completely changed. Both the Shadow Nightmare Tree and the Shadow Army led by Witch Dushan disappeared, and they had returned to reality.

"Haha... It's mine. This tree is finally completely mine. I didn't expect that the Earth Spirit's totem land would be the biggest obstacle for me to control this tree. If I had known earlier, I would have completely crushed her into the nutrients of this dream."

Witch Dushan, who had recaptured the Shadow Nightmare Tree, could not hide her deep excitement in her words.

It was a huge loss for her to have the Earth Spirit Witch rescued. Being able to desecrate the totem land of a top-level Haslan Witch was an unprecedented thing even for her.

But the gains from it were enough to make up for this loss. Her control over the Shadow Nightmare Tree reached a level that she had never had before.

Now she only needs to stay in the tree to know the entire dream like the back of her hand and can change many of the rules here in an instant.

If she had such strong control before, how could she be attacked by someone and played with her metacarpal bones?

Witch Dushan directly set her sights on those horror monsters. Their compatibility was so consistent with the nightmare and dream, and they were sent to her door by herself. Then she became a member of this dream and became a new weapon in her hand. !

With just a thought, the entire nightmare dream began to shrink sharply, forcing the beings inside to fly in the direction of the shadow nightmare tree involuntarily.

After most of the horror demons were driven under the Shadow Nightmare Tree, Witch Dushan suddenly attacked.

Countless shadow tentacles hung down from the boulder canopy, tying up the horror demons tightly. No matter how they screamed or struggled, they could not escape the entanglement of the shadow tentacles. On the contrary, the number of shadow tentacles entangled was increasing. The more there are, drag them towards the Shadow Nightmare Tree.

Soon they were swallowed by the Shadow Nightmare Tree, but within a few minutes, they were spit out one by one.

Between entering and exiting, they have been labeled as nightmares and dreams. They are no longer aggressive towards everything here, but have become the guardians of this place.

Seeing that the most powerful Horror Demon Lord was also forcibly swallowed by the Shadow Nightmare Tree, Filancini's figure emerged silently again, and couldn't help but taunted: "I've seen stupid people, but I haven't seen them. If you are such a stupid person, you can't talk nonsense, and you can't eat food randomly, especially these monsters of unknown origin, you are not afraid that they will be indigestible and poison yourself to death. "

"Who are you? I have no enmity with you, why do you want to go against me everywhere?" Witch Dushan asked angrily.

"Don't you think this question is very childish and ridiculous? At our level, do you think it's our own emotions that affect our words and deeds?" Filancini said calmly.

The other party's answer immediately caused Witch Dushan to fall into a brief silence. The anger that kept surging in her heart calmed down a lot in an instant, "Yes, everything is for profit. I didn't expect you to see it more clearly than me. Much more, then you can stay with me.”

The Horror Demon Lord also emerged from the Shadow Nightmare Tree, leading his army of Horror Demons to kill Filancini aggressively.

The entire nightmare was compressed again, and countless shadow tentacles stretched out from all directions, trying to trap Filancini in it.

"If you want to take action with me, you must first understand your own situation." The second before the other party formed an encirclement, Filancini stepped back into her magic cabin.

This is her safe house. No matter how tightly Witch Dushan surrounds her nightmare, there will always be a door open for her.

After returning to her magic cabin, Filancini immediately cut off all connections between it and the nightmare dream, and began to separate the two parties.

"It's not that easy to leave." Witch Dushan's ferocious face appeared directly on the surface of the nightmare.

The nightmare at this moment has been distorted to the extreme.

The face belongs to Witch Dushan, but she is not the only one. There are other faces, large and small, emerging around her body. At the same time, there are countless shadow tentacles gathering and forming around her. Two of the thickest ones are moving towards her. The magic cabin holding Filancini stretched out.

At a quick glance, the Nightmare Dream and the Horror Demon were 40-50% similar, except that they were larger in size, far beyond the limits of normal biological applications.

Filancini sighed helplessly and reminded again: "Before attacking others, first understand your own situation. Look behind you."

This was the first time she had seen someone so stubborn, so hateful and aggressive.

I have reminded him again and again, but he only insists on biting me.

"No matter what happens behind me, you must face it with me." Seeing her two shadow tentacles all tied to Filancini's magic cabin, Witch Dushan said with a proud smile.

Due to the layers of shadow tentacles wrapped around her, Filancini's distance from the Magic House became significantly slower.

Only then did Witch Dushan spare her energy and observe the surrounding situation.

No need to ask, they must be in the etheric fog now. Under normal circumstances, their line of sight will not exceed one hundred or ten meters.

But they are obviously in an abnormal state, especially Witch Dushan. Not only has her control over nightmares reached an unprecedented level, her power is also not the same as before. Although nearly half of the Leatherman souls have been destroyed by earth spirits. The witch rescued her, but she completely swallowed up the invading army of Horrors and Dark Callers.

No matter their quality or the degree of compatibility with nightmares and dreams, they are not comparable to those of ordinary Leathermen, which further enhances her understanding and mastery of nightmares and dreams.

Manipulating the nightmare dream like this and attacking Filancini's magic house as a complete whole is the new ability she has just acquired. She can even control the overall movement of the nightmare dream. This is simply a miracle. An out-and-out etheric battleship, she can freely roam the etheric plane from now on.

Not only can she freely enter and exit the major material planes, but even the inner planes (elemental planes) will become her hunting ground. She can appropriately take a longer view and accumulate enough energy in other places. After gaining great strength, come back and fight with those sisters.

"What is that?" Dushan Witch's good mood was interrupted by the situation behind the nightmare dream. A cold fear gripped her soul, and in an instant, it seemed to completely freeze her. She lost her ability to think for a short time and stared blankly at the scene in front of her.

Behind the nightmare dream, there were countless tentacles condensed from white mist, which looked very similar to the magic hut she used to tie up the other party, but they were incomparable in terms of length and thickness.

Even the thinnest one was comparable to the magic hut of Flancinni, and they were clearly visible even in the etheric plane that was also covered with fog.