The sunset is set, and the glowing moon shines its light into this world. The shadows overlap with each other split into broken kaleidoscope-like afterimages under the moonlight.

Those were tiny black debris as fine as sand and dust, peeling off from the decaying phantoms and sedimenting into the huge darkness that built the foundation of the world. Even the moonlight that penetrated all the phantoms could not illuminate the deep darkness, only the black like sludge lurking under the ground.

Moonlight is magical, and the magic contained in it penetrates into everything. Curt didn't know whether the moonlight magic that filled the body was illusion, but even though they were just hypocritical and unreal phantoms, it still made him, who only had the soul, feel full of power.

Most of the magic power of living creatures is contained in the body, flowing through the body along with veins similar to blood~~m liquid, and finally gathering in the heart and mind. Their existence is like physical strength. As long as you take proper rest and take nutrients from food, you can refine magic power from the body.

Spells master the flow of magic through learning and training, and control them to create phenomena called "spells" according to certain rules. For them, it is natural to consume magic, and how to effectively utilize magic is the focus of research.

But unlike humans, souls are virtual bodies condensed through magic. The essence of their bodies is magic. If they consume magic or absorb magic, they think they are building components of the body again. Therefore, whether it is a soul with self-consciousness or a spell who has escaped from the body, they will try to avoid using magic in this situation - after all, this means actively exposing the body to danger.

But the current situation seems to be somewhat different from the common sense in Curt's understanding. Liqi consumes magic without caring about it. The thick silver fog surrounding her is the spell she released. She turns the magic power in the moonlight into food. While consuming it, she consumes more magic power to repair her own losses.

Her body entangled in darkness emitted a luster similar to silver fog, and some dim magic power sprayed out from her body and spread around. Perhaps due to the consumption of magic power in her body, her figure also flickered with the spread of silver fog, almost dissolved into the fog.

"If Liqi doesn't mind, I want to ask, where are we going?" Curt looked at Liqi's face. She was concentrating on controlling the operation of magic. "Although today's moon phase is enough to supplement your consumption, it's too fast to act at this speed."

He looked up at the moon in the sky. Although the less bright crescent moon does not have the magic power as full moon, it can steadily spread the magic power to the earth. Because of this, Liqi can absorb the magic power dispersed in the air at a stable speed and use them as a supplement to her power.

Then Curt glanced at the fleeting shadows hovering around him. They were virtual images constructed by countless thoughts, and were re-explained in this world with such unreal phenomena. Whether it is the living or the dead, their remaining thoughts became components that constitute the world.

The virtual and real images flashed by around them, and the silver mist gradually eroded everything around them, and all the afterimages were broken under its touch. They looked similar to those scattered black fragments, but they dispersed them mercilessly.

The mist flashed with dim light wrapped around the figures of the two, wrapping them up in a world constructed by illusions. In this silver fog operated by Liqi, their souls quickly moved along the established track and soon rushed out of the complex alleyways in the old city.

Curt could not hear the sound of the wind, nor did he feel the obstacles of the friction air. Before he knew it, they had already passed through the obstacles of the layers of phantom walls and flew towards the sky above.

What was passed through was not only the phantoms that built the world, but even the clouds made of unknown materials were shattered in the silver fog Chu Pingxia. When Curt discovered that Liqi's action of controlling the spell finally stopped, they had already reached the thick clouds.

"It's okay, that's enough."

Taking a deep breath, Liqi glanced at Curt and said, "Today is a crescent moon. This level of power is just right - not too much, nor too little. If it is a full moon, I dare not use magic like this. If those unstable magic might be done, there will be problems."

The silver mist slowly spread around and eventually became a platform supporting Curt and Liqi's standing. The darkness that evaporated from the ground merged into the hypocritical clouds under her, and then turned into pieces of raindrop-like debris under the magic of the moonlight.

The moon is like a huge silver plate, floating above the clouds as calm as the sea, brushing the sky and clouds with a thin layer of silver. Curt has never seen such a big moon. It is embedded on the dark sky, full of hypocrisy as if artificial.

Curt and Liqi stood above the clouds, looking down at the city of Catris built by countless phantoms below - it seemed as if it had just escaped from chaos and was still in an ambiguous state. All things in the city have no fixed form. Only when Curt shifts his gaze to a specific thing will it slowly reveal a concrete outline from the darkness and then fix its own existence.

This is the image of Katris in the past. The plural phantoms that remain in memory are built through layers of stacks to build their former appearance. But now they have lost the driving force to maintain and are beginning to collapse as the number of people who keep their memories gradually decreases.

But the things that exist here are not only those virtual images. A huge darkness absorbs many broken fragments of longing, and exists in the center of the city like a cocoon. All the images staying around it are distorted, and the broken wreckage is swallowed by the huge cocoon.

Curt felt uncomfortable, as if it was a plant growing from the darkness on the ground, rooted in the deep darkness. Most of the black wreckage that was turning in the city was swallowed into its belly, and the fragments that should have settled into the ground became the nutrient for it to continue to grow.

It seems to be growing, but it has surpassed the largest skyscraper in the city, and it seems to be somewhat similar to the "black sun" I had seen before. The surging darkness is like the black mud manipulated by Seindemocra, slowly rolling around.

"That's the residue of the previous dream. Those guys controlled by spells created these things in the dream. It may be that their will has expanded in that spell. And the guy who controlled that spell might be Seindemocra who used them to create that black thing."

Liqi sighed, and she answered the question Curt wanted to ask in advance, but her eyes passed over his shoulder and swept to the outside of the silver fog, looking at the darkness that was like rain falling. They sprinkled onto the ground, and finally seeped into the deep darkness, and could no longer tell the specific appearance.

"What a weird scenery. Although it feels very comfortable physically, it doesn't seem to be of any benefit to the spirit." Curt looked at the city of Katris illuminated by the moonlight and focused on it. "These residual thoughts seem to want to run into our minds."

When the foggy walls spread out, he noticed that his surroundings were not as calm as expected - there were a large number of spiritual bodies floating outside the silver fog. The scattered images not only stayed in the city, but also had many things at this altitude nearly kilometer from the ground.

He bared his teeth, obviously not liked the strange atmosphere, but could only endure the existence of those things. The remaining thoughts that could reach them were the wreckage that was about to be crushed. Although he wanted to touch the two of them, they disintegrated into endless fragments in the glory of the silver fog.

But instead of returning to the ground like the fragments below the clouds, they continued to decompose into countless dust-sized fine particles floating upwards. Curt could feel that they were different from most of the remaining thoughts, possessing a huge amount of magic and full of vitality that was different from the dead.

They may be some kind of spiritual fragments with a certain degree of self-consciousness, so they actively follow Liqi's spells to come here. However, they can no longer maintain their original form, and can only barely extend the meaning of existence by relying on the body of the living creature.

Curt watched them fly quickly towards the sky above, and in a short while he surpassed his head and had no momentum to stop. So he looked curiously in the direction they floated up, and finally saw the huge darkness covering the entire sky.

"What is this?"

The dark sky above the head was like some huge living creature, entrenched there without moving, without any interest in what was happening under it. Under its body, everything in the world seemed extremely small, and the twinkling stars brought the light to the lower realm through it.

Some, like a black object on the ground, are absorbing the debris of darkness and drawing some strength from it to nourish itself. But unlike the giant cocoon that swallows all the wreckage together without being picky, it seems to follow a certain choice.

"Don't look at that thing!"

Curt raised his head and wanted to carefully observe the huge darkness on the zenith, but he heard Liqi's loud shouts coming from below. He shook his whole body before he noticed that his waist was tightly bound by something like a chain, and it was a bit inconvenient to move.

The translucent chain extended downwards and finally closed in Yu Liqi's hand. Perhaps she found that the situation was wrong and immediately used spells to bind him. Curt took a breath, and at some point he had already flew out toward the top again, almost beyond the range that the silver mist could cover.

It seemed as if those scattered fragments were also attracted by the darkness above. (To be continued...)

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