No matter where in the world, legends related to mirrors seem to inevitably bring mysterious, weird and terrifying colors.

People are afraid of darkness and revere death. When they see themselves reflected in the mirror, they sincerely let their imagination run wild, thinking that the mirror that reverses things is the entrance to another world, and as long as they turn around and move away

If you look out of sight, or if you are exposed to the unsettling darkness, terrifying dead souls will emerge from the mirror, and even living people will be pulled into the world on the other side of the mirror, forever trapped in the cursed cold silence.

The traditional supernatural story "Bloody Mary" is a well-known classic case.

Just call "Bloody Mary" three times in front of the mirror in the dark room, and she will appear in response to the call.

Of course, this is the version of the story that Alice knows. As for the various horror legends related to mirrors currently circulating in human society, she believes that there must be a specious "Bloody Isa" and "Bloody Anna" among them.

The mirror world on the fourth and fifth floors is a dangerous realm made of these fears.

Or it should be said that it is precisely because the roots of fear are rooted here. Those weird, resentful and malicious spiritual bodies belong to the indigenous people here and are part of the mirror world. Therefore, even those without extraordinary powers

Ordinary people can occasionally successfully complete psychic rituals using mirrors as a medium, and pay a price for their actions that others cannot predict.

Today's trip is the second time that Alice has left the relatively safe outer area and gone deep into the fifth-level mirror world, which is close to the depths.

Different from the unmanaged edge areas of the first three floors, the mirror realms on the fourth and fifth floors may change at any time. One second, they may be walking through the fragmented mirrors as deep and dark as a spider web, and the next second they may be moving forward.

He stepped into the trap of the natives in the mirror, and was trapped in the same place by countless mirrors reflecting his own figure, unable to find a way out.

This was not a normal situation that should occur, just as the pair of golden vertical pupils that suddenly lit up at the bottom of the lake should not show hostility towards her.

There is only one explanation.

The fourth floor, which was broken like a spider web, and the fifth floor, which vaguely reflected the visitor's appearance, already had owners, and the unknown domain controller was full of malice towards uninvited outsiders like her.

and hostility.

Alice figured out the reason in the last exploration, so this time she passed through the confusing obstacles on the fourth floor as quickly as possible, directly reached the fifth floor, and looked for the entrance to the deeper area.

It was supposed to be a special mirror door, but it was deliberately hidden by someone unknown, becoming the biggest obstacle to further exploration.

Last time, she spent too much time on the fourth floor, and it was almost dawn when she arrived on the fifth floor. It didn't take long for her to hear the vague and low whispers at all. She lost the sign and continued to explore.

It would cost more time, so she chose to return to reality and wait for the next opportunity.

"Today's situation looks different from before..."

She muttered to herself and flew back a short distance, noticing that her broken reflection on the lake did not follow her, but stayed strangely in the center of her huge vertical pupils, remaining still as before.

It's like a black and white photo frozen on the silver lake.

The next moment, she suddenly felt something in her heart and flew upwards without warning. A huge and grotesque triangular head covered with dark moss-colored scales suddenly rose from the bottom of the water, bringing with it a large splash of water.

The miss passed by the edge of the girl's robe.

But she couldn't help but relax, and soon there were a second pair, a third pair, and more pairs of cold eyes belonging to reptiles, like lanterns that were lit, rising and falling in the silver-white lake that had disturbed the calm.

Seeing such a scene, Alice closed her eyes quickly and cast a spell to confirm that the noise from the deep was still urging her in a place not near or far from her, so she decisively flew away from the lake and planned to evacuate backwards.

The film is full of strange waters full of dangers, and distances itself from those pairs of snake eyes.

Theoretically, there is no real water in the mirror world. This body of water obviously cannot be something as simple as a lake.

However, the response of the giant snake's head was faster than hers. As if guarding the territory, but also driven by the aggressive predatory nature, dozens of thick giant snakes' long necks covered with pale scales were lifted out of the water, open and flowing with sticky fluids.

The fishy smell of saliva bit into her.

Alice maintained her intention to fly backwards and upwards. She stared for a moment, and was about to locate the breakthrough point among the many giant snakes. However, she intuitively turned around and looked back, and found that the first giant snake that explored the surface had quietly circled around her.

Behind him, while blocking the retreat, he also got close to within thirty meters.

She did not dodge or retreat, her lips opened slightly, and the silver-blue long staff held in her right hand pointed directly at the huge snake head facing her:

"(The law commands death)."

The giant snake's long-necked march lost momentum and began to fall downwards. Alice put her feet on the head of the dead snake to help, and immediately gave herself an invisibility effect, maintaining her balance and floating upwards for several meters.

The other giant snakes seemed to have lost the goal of chasing them, twisting and dancing in a confused and manic way, looking for the intruder everywhere.

Alice silently lowered her head and looked at the snake's neck that was knocked down to the lake surface by its own weight and dragged back to the bottom of the water, far away from the water splashing more than ten meters high.

"It's not an illusion, but a certain form of life, but it's definitely not a real snake. It doesn't rely on heat sources to lock its prey..."

She noticed that the boots were unusually gray, and immediately cast a spell to try to lift the petrification curse. The stoney gray feeling that was about to spread soon subsided from her body.

"Is it the eyes? The petrification curse transmitted through sight... No, a curse of this degree will be exempted from resistance, so the only possibility is that the curse comes from the dead giant snake..."

While thinking, Alice quietly returned to a level close to the lake surface and observed a strange phenomenon.

On the silver-white lake that was constantly disturbed by the giant snakes, her reflection still stayed in the distance. It seemed like the starting point where she stopped, split into pieces by water ripples.

Something caught her reflection beneath the surface of the lake... Can you find the entrance to the next level in the water?

Alice thought for a while, took out a prepared clay doll from the subspace where the sundries were stored, activated the crystal core embedded in it, and let it act as her temporary familiar, and then threw the clay doll into the lake.

in, waiting for feedback.

However, the moment the pottery doll completely sank into the lake, she could no longer sense the crystal nucleus reaction on the other side of the lake. It was as if all connections had been cut off by some unknown boundary, giving people an unusually ominous intuitive premonition.

The shortcut of entering the water directly through the lake is obviously not feasible.

Is there any way to get past this common sense door...

Alice's eyes wandered to the side, and then stopped on the giant snake that poked out of the lake and swung its triangular head.

There seems to be a way to go underwater... that is not very clean and sanitary.

Alice pondered with a frozen expression for a full two minutes. The invisibility spell she had previously applied was almost expired. Then she nodded slowly, added the invisibility effect and mage armor, and turned around to pick her target.

Since both attacking and being attacked will cause the invisibility to fail, she chose a giant snake whose head was slightly far away from other similar snakes. She first used negative debuff spells such as weakening and slowing to incapacitate it, and then cast a transformation spell.

He shrunk his size and threw himself into the mouth of the giant snake.

In order to prevent herself from fainting due to the strong smell of the giant snake, she simply used illusion magic to create a false sense of smell and deceived herself into smelling a normal smell. She also put a universal antidote in her mouth to prevent the accumulation of toxins, along the

Walk forward along the dark and sticky fleshy passage.

The deeper you go, the more abundant the digestive juices seep out from the walls of the passage, which is rich in longitudinal folds. Alice carefully controls the speed of her flying spell to ensure that she does not encounter those that are highly corrosive.

of mucus.

Perhaps because of her reduced body size, she felt that she had flown far away before reaching the giant snake's enlarged digestive stomach. But strangely, this place was as "clean" as the esophagus she had seen before, and there was no food residue accumulated here.

The only signs were the slowly contracting gastric mucosa and the ticking gastric juice of the giant snake, reminding her of the passage of time bit by bit.

However, exploring the reasons for this would be putting the cart before the horse, so Alice decided to take action in this relatively open space to open a direct exit to the outside world.

She held up the spherical magic shield for herself, raised her head again and looked in the direction she came from, and read out the words of the command containing powerful magic power for the second time:

"(The law commands death)."

The giant snake that died immediately did not make any struggle, but still fell unbalanced due to its huge size, causing a terrifying tremor in its stomach that was equivalent to the shaking of the earth.

She calmly maintained the spherical shield that was constantly being attacked, silently counting the time of her descent in the sense of weightlessness, and floated up after the surrounding environment regained stability. She held down the spell-casting material package around her waist and attacked the giant snake.

The corpse undergoes the dissociation spell.

As dust like falling snow danced, the girl held her breath silently, looking through the obstacles along the way and looking straight at the figure in front of her who seemed to have been waiting for her for a long time.

It was herself wearing a mage's robe and holding a silver-blue staff.

With a pair of golden vertical pupils open, her eyes showing a cold texture, "Alice" was hovering quietly above the lake on the other side like her.

The other side of the lake is not a body of water according to common sense, but a clear, empty, mirror-like lake.

"I knew it……"

She smiled helplessly, raised her left hand, and used the activation gesture to activate the two protective spells on her body. In the next second, she saw two flashes of the same color on the person opposite her who also had magic runes outlined.

of magical aura.

Looking at her, the copy of Alice with golden vertical pupils imitated her expression, and outlined the same sarcastic arc at the corner of her mouth.

"It's interesting. The domain master who controls the fourth and fifth floors seems to have never restrained his hostility towards outsiders and regards this place as his own private property, but..." Alice breathed out softly and calmly

Looking at herself on the other side, she held the long staff flat and made a sword-holding posture, and her favorite weapon made of liquid metal material switched and reshaped according to her instructions, condensing into the form of a one-handed rapier.

.

"Forget it, let's not talk about the domain master, let's talk about you...heh, the offensive power is so strong, but it's nothing like me."

The two people who jumped through space using short-distance teleportation at almost the same time still maintained a not too close distance from each other. The difference was that the golden-eyed Alice holding a rapier had already made a straight stab, and Alice

The person himself just smiled and talked to his reflection in a chatty tone.

"As expected of me, you know that you must close the distance to deal with me and suppress me in close combat before you can seize the opportunity, so you chose a rapier with increased force sensitivity-"

The chat was interrupted, and two equally slender figures in robes teleported away from their original positions again at this moment, allowing the rapier blade to be covered by the flame enchantment effect. Golden-eyed Alice, who chanted the force field wall in parallel, suddenly raised her head and looked up at the body above.

Without hesitation, he activated the negative energy spell "Finger of Death" stored in the magic jewelry.

The "body" that followed this negative energy spell appeared in the shape of a spiderweb-like mirror, shattering into invisible pieces and blending into the whiteness of the surrounding space.

"This is really cheating. Not only can you use my spells, but you can also consume my magic items unscrupulously... It is not convenient to replenish these things here. I am a little reluctant to use them myself." After pulling away, Alice expressed distress.

With an expression on his face, he sighed, "Oh, what should I do? If I had known better, I wouldn't have brought these auxiliary supplies. I can already guess what action you will take next... Well, you want to squander those spell scrolls, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of roiling dark clouds suddenly appeared above the empty lake. Howling wind, lightning and thunder suddenly came, and a deafening and terrifying roar broke out.

Alice took a helpless breath, pressed her ears that were buzzing from the thunder, and could almost describe the next scene - the clouds would gradually expand, covering the entire visible space, and then descend.
To be continued...