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Chapter 572 The Ecology of Classical Texts

Eight projected visionaries from the Dream Realm floated above the forest and chatted for a long time.

The murky eyes of the lowly natives within the reservation could not detect the psychics, nor could they hear their voices.

The natives regarded these "strangers" who brought the magical spells as saviors, unaware that in the eyes of the clairvoyants they were merely a convenient tool to knock on the door of R'lyeh.

They chanted incantations with utmost devotion on the ground, calling upon the gods who lurked in the distant depths.

Meanwhile, the projections of the psychics floated in the air, chatting away, seemingly bored out of their minds.

...

But what the psychics didn't know was that a shadowy figure was sitting on a thick, horizontal tree trunk in the forest nearby.

Given the limited level of spiritual vision possessed by those with the ability to see clearly, they naturally could neither see nor hear any trace of someone deliberately concealing their shadow.

Three different life sequences emerged in a small forest.

I wonder what level of existence that guy named K in R'lyeh is.

Who knows, while Milo was looking down at the Spirit Visor, the one in the sea was also looking down at him...

That makes four life sequences, hehe.

...

After listening for just a few minutes, Milo had already grasped the basic information.

For example, these heavily dressed guys come from a place called Cold Plains in the northern part of Dreamland.

For example, half of these guys actually participated in the siege of Ussa.

Furthermore, this group's cross-boundary projection was achieved at great cost. To put it bluntly, it's not much different from the siege of Usa; it's all about seizing a certain book.

If I remember correctly, the reason Usa fell was solely to protect the human dreamer—James Sheffield.

This is because this person once helped Usa's cat, and he has the Nash Chronicles in his mind.

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In the end, the cats of Usa lost the war, and their home was destroyed.

It is unknown whether there are any other survivors besides the kittens that Pinkerton risked his life to bring to Selph.

Sheffield, on the other hand, was killed and buried.

After being forgotten, his tomb was buried in the Xin Tomb Complex underground.

The above is the story of the Usa War, which took place nearly two hundred years ago in the Dreamland timeline.

The root cause of the war was the coveting of the Nash Chronicles by the army of visionaries.

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This time, the purpose of these eight visionaries projecting into the world of lucidity was also for another ancient book.

They couldn't possibly be here to rescue these indigenous people trapped on the reservation, could they? Hehe.

You can tell from their conversation.

First of all, for an ordinary psychic to project from the dream world to the conscious world, they need to pay an extremely high price. It is not simply a matter of learning a certain technique and then applying it. The conscious world is a place that the gods are watching, and the barrier between the two worlds was probably also built by the gods. This behavior is tantamount to violating the will of the gods, and is inherently extremely risky.

This shows that these eight people are all incredibly audacious.

It can also be determined that they do not belong to any temple's clergy, at least not on the surface.

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But there is an even more intriguing detail here that is worth pondering.

That is, the degree to which evil scriptures are cherished and valued in the dream world seems to far exceed that in the conscious world.

The Necronomicon, the Book of Ebon, the Chronicles of Nath, and so on... all these things, which are considered evil tomes in the waking world, are enough to make psychics flock to them in the dream world, even to the point of starting wars for them.

why?
Because all these original texts, translations, translations of translations, and fragments of translations of translations exist only in the waking world; they do not exist in the dream world.

It's like the gods played a cruel joke. In the conscious world, a series of books containing terrifying cosmic truths and realities remain, yet the conscious world deliberately maintains its mediocrity. Even if ordinary people occasionally find fragments of these texts, they can't understand them, or if they do, they go insane…

In the dream world where clairvoyance is as common as dogs, even if a clairvoyant tries their hardest, they might not be able to see a single symbol in the scriptures...

"Wait a minute..."

Milo suddenly realized something.

"There are differences between gods; they cannot be confused..."

The Old Gods and the Outer Gods are not on the same side.

The gods in the dream are the old gods.

Yog Sothoth, who was carried away by a dog, Engel Korath, Imnar's biological father, and the High Mother Goddess, who was forcibly aborted by Milo, are all Outer Gods defined as a combination of evil, darkness, and malice.

Ironically, the ancient texts have little to do with the Old Gods; they record more about everything related to the Outer Gods.

Do you remember the three levels of magic distinguished in the scriptures? The third level is ordinary spells, the second level is the Summoning of the Ancients, and the highest level of magic is the summoning of the supreme Outer God avatar.

Clearly, it was not the gods of dreams who left the scriptures in the waking world.

They should be eager to destroy all these scriptures.

Because these are products of the Outer Gods and the Old Ones, and those are their mortal enemies, right?

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"Hmm—so the psychics in the waking world are deprived of the right to dream, right?"

Milo sat on a branch of a horizontal tree, talking to himself.

The gods clearly did not want the scriptures to be revealed in the dream realm, as that would only increase the risk of the arrival of other gods.

Ancient texts serve only two purposes: either drive people mad or turn them into clairvoyants.

The latter must have the contents of this book in their mind. And if this lucky person is lucky enough to become a dreamer without being driven mad by the book, they can enter the dream world and even officially enter the dream world after dying in the waking world.

That would be tantamount to indirectly bringing evil scriptures from the conscious world into the dream world.

To prevent this from happening.

The ability of psychics to enter dreams must be stripped away; the gods have even taken away your right to dream, in order to prevent future troubles.

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It's not hard to see the way the gods of dreams operate.

Hmm? This civilization has progressed to the point of touching forbidden things underground? Then let's wipe it all out and start over!

Hmm? If a psychic enters a dream, they'll bring the scriptures into the dream world? Then let's all stop dreaming!
Yes, that's roughly the style.

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It's easy to see how special James Sheffield was.

He didn't go insane or become a visionary after reading "The Nash Chronicles".

Finally, it even entered my dream.

This is tantamount to exploiting a loophole in the divine order.

Although his death was quite gruesome in the end.

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It is precisely because of this special relationship between ancient texts and the two worlds.

Therefore, the visionaries in the dream world will experience this feeling of being starving.

The things that best enhance spiritual vision and contain the most knowledge and mysteries are separated in another world. As a spiritual visionist in the Dream Realm, you may have heard the stories in every book, but now these books and their translations are locked in a world with a bunch of useless people who know nothing and might go crazy if they just look at them. How itchy your heart must be.

It's like being single for twenty years and locked in a basement next to a pleasure house—utterly agonizing. You can even hear the girls in the slumped-over pleasure house having a pillow fight. (Girls always have pillow fights when they get together, right?)

(End of this chapter)