novelonline Chapter 2396 Story Characters and Audience
Chapter 2396 Story Characters and Audience
Chapter 2396 Story Characters and Audience
Although this is a good idea, Shade believes there are problems:
"Miss Shandel's soul is just petrified, but it still exists. This is indeed feasible. But we don't know what and how to trigger the illusion against Miss Shandel, and is the power of this illusion really strong enough to reverse the magic of the ancient gods?"
The lady smiled and said:
"We were both there when Granny Sienod and Miss Knight encountered the illusion. I saw some clues from the illusion. I can use the secret method unique to our tribe to summon a fog, just like the demon did last time to actively invite the illusion."
Xia De listened carefully. He knew that this lady was going to use the power of God:
"Do you need any conditions?"
"Of course, to construct a real fantasy, we need some actors. Granny Siamnod, Miss Knight, you need to play the roles in the fantasy."
"no problem."
The old elf and the female knight immediately nodded in agreement. Of course, they also wanted to rescue Miss Sandel.
"And you, of course you have to play a role in the illusion as well."
The saint with golden eyes spoke to Xia De again, but after Xia De nodded, he smiled and added:
"Of course, you have a more important mission. Since it is an illusion, it naturally has to have a background story. Since the purpose of weaving the illusion is to bring Leah Sander back, then in the illusion, you need to complete the following mission: Make the soul of this mermaid princess shine like gold in the mist of chaotic consciousness."
This is obviously some kind of description. After thinking carefully, Xia De continued to nod:
"I understand that giving the soul of stone warmth, and allowing the fixed soul form to become active again because of the quality of will."
He already had his own plan, and even thought that if it still didn't work, he would try to use "Soul Whip" on the mermaid girl in the illusion. Xia De thought it would be better not to do that.
The fire crackled and the wind in the desert was almost silent. The silvery sand rolled with the wind under the swaying shadows of the crowd. The cat head sticking out of the stranger's chest yawned, then lazily curled up in Shade's clothes.
And in this silence that almost made people fall into an eternal sleep, the people gathered around the fire and listened to Shad finish telling the story he had woven.
"how do you feel?"
After Shad finished expressing his thoughts, he asked the other people in the small camp.
Granny Sienod nodded:
“Nice story, but what roles are we going to play?”
Miss Meister's smile was still mysterious and peaceful:
"Any character in the story will do. You have experienced illusions before, and we need you to support the new illusion."
"Then I will be the witch of the deep sea."
Granny Sienod said, not caring about this being a "villain", and the female knight thought for a moment before speaking:
"Can I play the roles of different genders? Can I be the prince?"
Her temperament really doesn't fit with any other major female character in the story, but fortunately this is the Fifth Age, and the "prince" in the story that Shade is about to tell can certainly be a woman.
"No problem, then I will be the lucky human princess who finally marries the prince."
The Saint also chose a role for himself, and then looked at Shade:
"how about you?"
"It seems like there's nothing left among the main characters?"
The story is not complicated, and Shade happened to act in an opera written by Dorothy:
"I don't want to play any other mermaid princess. As for the mermaid king, well, it doesn't seem right for me either."
The light brown lady then asked softly:
"Think carefully, what is missing from this upcoming 'drama'?"
This question immediately occurred to Shade:
"Narrator? Audience?"
Then the saint stretched out his right hand in front of him, and with a light wave, thick white fog came from all directions, enveloping everything except Shade and the bonfire.
The elf, the female knight and the saint also disappeared in the fog. Shad did not try to see through the fog of the "God of Mist". He placed his left leg across the sand and his right leg on the sand, sitting in front of the fire and staring at the flames.
After waiting for a while, the stranger's steady voice told the not-so-old story:
"A long time ago, there was an ancient mermaid kingdom in the depths of the sea. The king and queen of the kingdom gave birth to seven princesses, and the youngest princess was the most beautiful. The innocent and beautiful little mermaid played with the fish in the sea all day long, accompanied by dolphins and whales, and wove the most beautiful silk with octopuses and crabs."
There was a gurgling sound of water in the fog, and the thick fog dispersed a little. Shad looked up and seemed to be sitting on the bottom of the sea. In the almost completely transparent water above, Miss Sandel, who appeared in the form of a human body and a fish tail, was smiling and swimming with a group of red and white striped minnows.
Water plants swayed on the ground beside Shade, and crabs and shrimps crawling on the seabed moved slowly, but all avoided the campfire and Shade beside him.
Looking at Miss Sandel's expression again, her smile was clearly a bit stiff and unnatural. Not to mention compared to a professional opera singer, even an ordinary person's forced smile would be more normal than this.
Her smile was like a sculpture artificially shaped, and her body movements were like a puppet being manipulated. Thinking of this, looking at Miss Sandel's current state, it even felt a little weird.
However, Shade learned one thing from this: mermaids in the deep sea do not only use shells and seaweed to cover their upper bodies. Fairy tales are indeed lies, and mermaids in the deep sea also wear very decent clothes woven with special materials.
The familiar scene of ocean life did not seem to elicit any response from the petrified soul, so the story around the campfire continued:
"Father and mother always told the little mermaid that the world above the sea was dangerous. But the adult sisters always excitedly told the little mermaid that the world above the water was so bright and colorful, and how magical the ships built by humans who walked on two feet were.
The clever little mermaid princess could always imagine scenes she had never seen from these stories. So every night when she went to sleep, the world on the sea surface would sneak into her dreams. Thinking and hoping, finally, the little mermaid princess could not resist the temptation and quietly went to the surface of the water alone one day.
A richer scene appeared in the water area in the fog. First, seven beautiful mermaids gathered together to talk. Then, after a quick scene transition, Miss Sandel, who had a fish tail and a human body, swam hard upwards.
But in fact, the altitude she was at did not change, it was just that the ocean scene in the fog kept moving downwards.
Shad raised his head and looked at the scene, watching an exaggeratedly bright light gradually appear above Miss Sandel, who was like a puppet.
And when she touched the light, the scene was completely filled with sunlight in an instant, and then turned into mist.
But the sounds around did not disappear, except that the gurgling sound of water disappeared, and was replaced by the clear sounds of seagulls and cruise ship whistles.
The white fog then dispersed again, allowing the clear sea scene to appear before Xia De's eyes.
Miss Sandel "surprised"ly emerged from the water, and "excitedly" looked at the sky, the sun, and everything on the sea.
The sound of the whistle in the distance became louder. She was first "frightened" by the huge cruise ship, and then quickly hid under the water.
But she did not swim away or retreat into the deep sea. After carefully discovering that the ship had no ill intentions towards her and had not even noticed her, she slowly swam under the cruise ship on the seabed.
After following the cruise ship for a while, she finally popped her head out from the side of the ship, and then smiled as she watched the human creation in front of her, which was as tall as an underwater hill, slowly moving forward on the water.
All her expressions and postures were so strange that this sunny scene seemed like a ghost story. As the fog dissipated a little, Miss Knight, dressed in men's clothes, appeared on the deck of the tall cruise ship.
This gray-haired female knight was originally capable and handsome. At this moment, she was wearing a black formal suit. Although her short gray-white hair was loose, she could still be seen as a woman, but it was obviously completely different from her appearance when she was wearing armor.
She was holding a glass in her hand, standing behind the railing of the deck, staring into the distance. Suddenly, she accidentally dropped the glass into the sea.
So the "prince" grabbed the railing with one hand, leaned half out of the deck and looked down, and then he saw the mermaid in the sea, covering her forehead with one hand, holding the wine glass with the other, looking up with half confusion and half anger.
She was a little angry at first, but when she saw the sunlight spreading downward from the top of the "Prince", so that the edges of the already handsome face seemed to be glowing, Miss Sander blushed. Of course, this expression was also very strange, as if she had applied too much blush directly on her cheeks.
She smiled shyly and looked at the "prince" for a moment, then placed the glass in the water. The water ball wrapped around it and flew upward until it was caught by the "prince" again.
When the "prince" looked down at the sea again, the blue-haired girl was no longer there.
The "Prince" scratched his hair in confusion, then turned and walked back to the cabin.
The scene freezes, and Xia De, who is sitting alone by the campfire watching this scene, continues:
"After returning from the sea surface to the mermaid kingdom in the deep sea, no one knew that the little mermaid had just briefly come into contact with the sunlight and the human world. She kept what happened in her heart, but the prince quietly slipped into her dream at night and drove away the familiar fantasy dream of the ocean.
She got the news of the ship from her sister, and thus knew the identity of the "prince". So the little mermaid longed, longed, longed to go to the sea again and see the prince.
The sunlight deeply attracted the girl under the sea. Finally, she made up her mind and followed the route of the horror story her mother told her in her childhood memory, and headed to the most terrifying abyss in the deep sea.
(End of this chapter)