The huge hole created by void erosion remained silent, looking down at the girl from an absolutely high position looking up to the sky silently.

After feeling the changes around her for a moment, Alice confirmed that the entrance to the deep passage showed no signs of further expansion, and the state did not look like it would disappear in a short time. So she calmed down and started trying to contact the person she had previously been with again.

A pottery doll she used as a wayfinder.

But she soon realized the fact that the pottery doll was not in the empty space on this side of the lake with her. It had never even crossed the border bounded by the lake from the beginning. It was unknown where it was exiled.

at.

"Even the summoning spell has been invalidated...Forget it, I have no choice but to regret those specialty clays of Dark Stone City..."

Alice exhaled and continued to control the flying spell to resist the attraction from above. At the same time, she accurately found the corresponding casting materials and built the prototype of the secret eye spell around her, completing a magical organ directly connected to vision.

The invisible eyeball gradually takes shape and floats beside the body, stably providing the caster with an all-round perspective with real vision - if it were not limited to its field of vision range of only 0 feet, this would be a more popular spell.

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The area ahead is unknown and mysterious that she has never set foot in. Even based on her knowledge of the previous world, it is the limit to grasp the extremely similar properties of the mirror realms of the two worlds. Or strictly speaking, the two worlds

The similarity in the mirror realm went beyond luck and chance, and was so suspicious that she didn't want to think about it in detail.

But what is different from the world over there is that at least more than half of the areas in the mirror world here have been occupied by others. As a result, she can only borrow the permissions of the first three floors at most, and cannot easily penetrate into the last four floors, which is more powerful.

energy area.

It's a bit confusing, but...

If we regard the "mirror world" as some kind of authority attributed to gods, everything can be explained.

Alice combed her long hair that was flying upwards. After thinking twice, she put away her weapon, found a ghost potion that could temporarily transform her body into an illusion, pinched her nose and drank it with a grimace.

As the pungent and foul-smelling strange liquid slides through the mouth and esophagus, and enters the stomach and abdomen, the girl's body temperature drops to freezing point in just a few seconds. The transparency that starts from the fingertips gradually spreads throughout the body, until the flesh and blood body is completely

Transformed into nothingness.

Before the inner armor, robes and various magic accessories that had lost their support were attracted by the hole above and flew away, Alice promptly stored her belongings back in the storage subspace, avoiding the embarrassment of losing her equipment.

He hurriedly put on the illusory black robe specially designed for ghosts, and moved his body a few times uncomfortably.

"Okay, this way it'll be fine... Just remember not to fly too high..."

She nodded to herself, trying to ignore some minor issues, and finally let go of the flight control woven with magic, and obeyed the gravity that sucked her upwards, imagining that she was in a rushing river, flowing along

The water rushes down and merges into the vast sea of ​​nothingness.

The field of vision rose steadily at a light and fast speed, gradually transforming into a deep black that even light could not escape. Only the faint light from the distance could be seen flickering from time to time.

Strangely, her mood also calmed down, as if the bright starry sky in front of her that was difficult for ordinary people to see evoked memories of the distant past.

"Although I vaguely guessed it just now,... the person who projected this star field is really..."

This is a scene that can only be reproduced by eyes that have seen the real starry sky.

Deep and far away, the stars seem to be within reach but out of reach.

Alice lowered her head and glanced at her feet, and found that the pure white void had shrunk into an indiscernible point of light, which was almost difficult to distinguish from the starlight in other directions.

The mystical eye that provides true vision follows her side faithfully and feeds back the results of her observations to the caster - this is a "void" where there is no life, no moisture, and even the air is so thin that it is close to nothing.

realm".

That is a vacuum environment in the physical sense.

She swallowed back her subsequent comments, lowered her eyes and silently listened to the increasingly clear unknown call. After a while, her face gradually became worse, and she slowly let out a mouthful of cold and biting ghostly breath.

What is certain is that the source of the call is somewhere on the sixth floor. As long as you break through the last mirror door and step into the seventh floor, the deepest and core realm of the mirror world, you will definitely get the answer to the puzzle.

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The problem, however, was that she couldn't tell where the call she heard came from.

Back and forth, up and down, left and right, as long as Alice listens attentively, she can clearly hear the noisy sounds mixed with countless languages ​​and chaotic content entering her auditory nerves from all directions, sending those chaotic words without substantial meaning into her

mind.

It was as if... the whole starry sky was calling her.

No, it is impossible for the starry sky without physical consciousness to send out a call, not to mention that this is not a real extraterrestrial realm, but a mirror image of the mirror world that reflects someone's spiritual scenery and presents it to visitors.

"Moreover, I didn't feel any malice... It was completely different from the atmosphere on the previous two floors..."

Alice was both a little relaxed and more confused. After thinking for a long time, she came to a tentative inference: the domain masters on the fourth and fifth floors were not the same entity as the mysterious person who held ownership of the world in the mirror on the last two floors.

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But what is this? Since the world here regards the control of the mirror realm as authority, why is there such a situation of sharing power?

Judging from the system rules of the potion sequence, this phenomenon is simply unreasonable.

But it doesn't matter, she never needs to consider these rules, not to mention the purpose of her coming here is not to gain any authority.

After drinking the second bottle of ghost potion to extend her state, Alice looked at the starry sky in front of her, which was too far away, and seriously began to think about what spell she should use to break through this predicament.

Interpreting those calls was the first option she eliminated.

In fact, she had already tried to do this, and as mentioned before, the content she could discern were all meaningless words and short sentences.

It is neither praising beautiful things nor expressing personal disgust. It is just throwing out irrelevant thoughts like heaping scraps.

And since the content of the call couldn't help, she should consider getting clues from other angles.

for example--

Alice stared at the twinkling stars in the distance, letting her thoughts sink into the quietly flowing bright river of stars.

Pathfinding... No, the prerequisite for using pathfinding is that you must know and be familiar with the target location, and she didn't even know what was waiting for her at the end of the call.

In the same way, to open a door to another world, you need to clearly identify the location on the other side of the portal, or name a specific creature. Otherwise, it is impossible to establish a stable transmission path.

Maybe she could try...go to a nearby star to check the situation first?

But if the mirrored starry sky on this level really reflects the true state of the universe today, then the distance between the planets is likely to be a long distance measured in light years. At the moving speed of the flying spell, even if a certain planet is visible

It may take an unimaginable long time to reach the planet that seems so close...

"No...if this continues, the train of thought will still go back to a dead end, and there will be no way to break through..."

Alice shook her head, looked around, randomly picked a direction with bright stars in front of her, and floated away, preparing to look for anomalies in the environment that might be clues.

But the result was obviously disappointing to her.

After the six-hour effect of the two ghost potions had passed, the girl who was still stuck in the mirror starry sky had already drank the third and fourth special potions with bad taste. Those calls also became daytime as the real time passed, and they became indistinguishable.

Can be heard again.

"Are you going to wait here for the night to come..." She turned around twice to herself, looking down at the ragged edges of the ghost's robe rotating and swinging with her movements in the weightless realm.

As elegant and light as a real ghost, "Well, there is nothing to consider. If you exit from here, you will have to pass by the fourth and fifth floors again if you want to come in. Unless I go through the hostile mirror,

The master of the middle realm seized the authority that represents the fourth and fifth levels—"

Her scheduled plan is to find the source of the call within two nights and to unravel the secret behind the starry sky before the silence of the full moon arrives. But if things don't go smoothly, she will have to leave after the full moon night.

Deep down, waiting for the arrival of next month.

The girl counted the number of stars silently in her heart with some boredom, and at the same time suppressed the inappropriate thoughts that appeared in her mind:

"If you ask Klein to divine the starry sky here...will you be able to tell something?"

No, no, let alone the fact that she has no way to use physical props and can't contact him with spiritual magic. Even if she tells him the problem, divination without a medium and known conditions will fail directly——

"Well, wait a minute, it seems... there is indeed another solution." A flash of inspiration came to her, and her eyes suddenly brightened, "If he could hear the prayer of honor in the mirror world... right

, yes, this method is worth a try!”

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After a lot of hard work in the early morning of that day, he went to the East District to find the missing Mr. Detective Zerrell. Klein slept in bed until six or seven in the morning when the sky was dim, and then he was awakened from his dream by the illusory voice of prayer ringing in his ears.

Came over.

"Who is it, so early in the morning..."

Mr. Fool, who was in the early stages of starting his business, originally wanted to ignore this prayer and sleep well before getting up to deal with the affairs of this Tarot Club member.

He pulled up the quilt and turned over, preparing to continue the previous dream plot, but unexpectedly, the hateful guy who chanted the name of "The Fool" saw no response, and continued to pray even harder, as if he was annoying.

It was like an alarm clock that repeatedly played noise in his ear, but it was still the kind that couldn't be turned off.

Klein suddenly lifted the quilt and stood up. Suddenly he intuitively guessed the person who could do such disrespectful behavior——

He opened the window of his bedroom, took a few breaths of the pungent air in the fresh morning haze of Backlund, and then he completely lifted his spirits. He hurriedly locked the windows and doors, and used "Holy Night Powder" to decorate the spiritual room.

He walked four steps against the wall and went above the gray mist to listen to the content of the prayer.

Sitting on the Fool's high-backed chair, Klein slowly exhaled and reached out to touch the rippling prayer light.

"To the Fool who does not belong to this era, the mysterious master above the gray fog, the yellow and black king who controls good luck, I would like to invite dear Mr. Fool to come to a special place for a relaxing short trip.

Please remember to bring divination props and keep yourself in good condition, because I may need your help to do a little divination a few times... Well, that's it! Please reply as soon as possible! Don't say you are still sleeping in, I know you usually

Everyone is already up by this time!”

The familiar voice belonging to Alice and "Lover" came into his ears, making Mr. Fool, who really didn't get enough sleep this morning, sigh and smile bitterly.
To be continued...