Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 4422 No one participated

Chapter 4422 No one participated

"The special dream realm 'Dawn Dream' is about to begin."

Current number of participants: 0

"Mission objective: Not yet activated."

"Note: At least nine anchor points are required for the initial activation of Dawn Dream."

The above is the image that appeared in Angel's text box when he touched the vortex.

At that time, he suppressed his doubts and focused on reassuring everyone.

Only when everyone had left and he was the only one left in the room did he show a look of surprise and doubt for the first time.

Why is the number of participants still blank?

According to Luigi, Uriel and Guleimo were both sucked into the vortex.

Sam also witnessed Sean being dragged into the vortex.

Logically, there should be 3 participants currently, so why is there still 0? Surely they didn't just get sucked in and then logged off?

Uriel and Grimo can log off, but Sean can't, right?

So even if someone goes offline, there should still be at least one person participating.

Angell's brow furrowed deeper and deeper, his mind filled with enigmas. He tried to analyze the information in the text box, but apart from the so-called "nine anchor points," there was no other usable intelligence.

As for these so-called anchor points, they are probably prerequisites for the mission, so there's no point in analyzing them now.

Therefore, we should first examine the internal situation before making any decisions.

Thinking of this, Angell returned to the vortex and slowly reached out his hand... The next second, the miniature garden perspective was activated!

……

This is a dimly lit, secret hall.

The hall is quite spacious, somewhat like the main hall of a noble family's home, and can accommodate dozens of people without feeling crowded.

But why call it a "locked room"?

Because there are no doors in the entire hall, it is a nearly completely enclosed secret room.

On the ceiling, which is only five meters high, you can see several ventilation holes about the size of a baby's fist, but it is pitch black outside the ventilation holes, and you can't see the outside situation at all.

Inside the secret room, there were already six people.

They are Camillo, Blanche, Rigota, Guleimo, Uriel, and Sean.

Although all six were in the hall, they were divided into three small groups. Camillo was exploring the hall alone, seemingly searching for a way out; Rigota, Gulemo, and Uriel were standing under a wall candle on one side of the hall, looking at each other in silence, their eyes filled with tears; while Sean and Blanche were standing under a wall candle on the other side, talking in hushed tones.

The scene before him was what Angell saw after entering the sandbox perspective.

When Angell saw the interior clearly, he was completely dumbfounded.

Why are there six people?

He had previously thought that only Gulemo, Uriel, and Sean had been sucked into the vortex, but now it seemed that Blanche and the others had also been sucked in.

As expected, just as Angor had predicted, they were sucked into the "Dawn Dream" suspended in the void before they could even sneak into the Dream Crystal Plains.

However, the fact that there were six people didn't really surprise Angeldo, since he had already guessed this outcome.

The question is, since there are already six people in the instance, why is the current number of participants still showing as 0?

After hesitating for a moment, Angell decided to ask directly.

"Excuse my intrusion, I apologize for disturbing your enjoyment." Angell's voice echoed in the secret hall.

The next second, everyone was stunned and looked up at the sky.

“Mr. Angell, is that you?” Blanche’s eyes flashed with joy as she responded enthusiastically.

Angel nodded in response: "It is I."

After a pause, Angell continued, "You all seem to be in some trouble right now. Do you need any help?"

Blanche immediately exclaimed, "We need to! We need to! We're trapped here!"

"Can you tell me what exactly happened between you?"

Before Blanche could speak, Camillo said first, "Let me speak to Mr. Angel."

As he spoke, Camillo glanced at Uriel in the distance: "Over there, the siblings are reunited and the partners are reunited. I bet they have endless things to talk about right now."

Then he looked at Blanche and Sean: "And Blanche is still trying to help Sean regain his past memories."

"So, why don't you let me talk to my husband?"

After Camillo finished speaking, Blanche instinctively wanted to say something, but Camillo glared at her and she could only obediently shut up.

Angell: "Of course."

Camiro: "Let's go over there and talk, so as not to disturb them."

After saying that, Camillo walked to a corner of the secret hall, away from the others and even away from the light of the wall candles, deliberately hiding in a dark corner.

In a dark corner, Camillo whispered, almost inaudibly, "Mr. Angell, can you hear me?"

Angel could tell that Camillo didn't seem to want the conversation to be overheard by outsiders, so his reply was no longer "public" but was directly delivered to his ears: "You can hear me."

Camillo noticed that the people under the candlelight in the distance did not react, so he whispered, "Mr. Angell, you can ask me anything you want to know, and I will tell you the truth."

Angel paused for a moment, not immediately inquiring about the "Dawn of Dreams," but instead asked curiously, "You seem to be deliberately avoiding them?"

Camillo nodded: "Yes."

"why?"

Camillo was silent for a moment, then said softly, "I feel that many of the things that are happening to us now may be related to... the Supreme Will."

"It's best not to discuss this kind of topic in front of ordinary people. The more they know, the less good it is for them."

Angel could tell that Camillo was telling the truth.

However, he didn't quite understand how this suddenly got involved with... the Supreme Will?

However, he didn't immediately ask any further questions. Compared to this sudden appearance of a supreme will, he wanted to grasp the general situation first before considering anything else.

Angell: "Although I don't know what you're talking about yet, that's not important for now. Let's get to the point."

“I have been sent by Luigi to investigate your situation.”

Angel briefly explained the external situation: "...Luigi witnessed Uriel and Guleimo being sucked into the vortex, but he himself was excluded. Because he was very worried about their situation, he asked me to help him."

“I used some special magical artifacts to pinpoint the location of the crystal artifact in ‘Dawn of Dreams,’ but when I arrived, I discovered that Sean had also been sucked into the vortex.”

After explaining the general situation, Angell got to the point: "I originally thought only the three of them were sucked into the vortex. Why are you, Blanche, and Rigota here too? So what exactly happened to you?"

Camillo took a deep breath: "The vortex not only appeared in Uriel Dungeon and Rabbit Town, but also on the Boundary Membrane."

"At that time, Blanche and I were about to break through the boundary membrane and enter the Uriel instance with Rigota when a vortex suddenly appeared. We didn't have time to resist and were sucked in."

"Not long after we arrived here, Uriel, Guleimo, and Shien also arrived one after another."

"..."

Camillo recounted what had happened on their side to Angel.

Except for the fact that Camillo and the other two were sucked into the vortex outside the boundary membrane, the other situations were exactly the same.

At least for now, Angell hasn't seen any clues.

Perhaps, the Wonderland Power simply wants to gather everyone in Dawn City together and then open a new instance?

Angor: "Have you received the dungeon quest yet?"

Camillo shook his head: "No, we didn't even know this was a dungeon."

If Angor hadn't told them that this was a copy, they would still be completely in the dark; they even heard the term "Dawn's Dream" from Angor.

Camillo's answer was somewhat unexpected by Angell, but upon closer reflection, it seemed to make some sense.

After all, there are currently 0 participants in the instance. In other words, in the perception of the Wonderland Authority, these six people in the secret hall are not considered challengers at all.

If we exclude the challengers, then it seems reasonable that they didn't receive any dungeon quests.

only……

Since they are not challengers, why bring them into the instance?

Angell: "I noticed you seemed to be exploring the interior of the hall. Is there any clue?"

Camillo shook his head: "Nothing has been found so far. The entire hall is a secret room, and there's nothing inside. If there is anything strange, it is that there are nine stone pillars in the hall, with some very ordinary patterns carved on them."

"I don't know what the patterns on the stone pillars represent, but if I had to point out a clue, this might be the only one."

Camillo's words startled Angel.

He had noticed the stone pillars before, but only considered them as supports for the hall and did not investigate them immediately.

But now Camillo mentions that there are strange patterns on the stone pillars, which is undoubtedly a clear clue in the empty hall.

But what surprised Angell the most was... there were nine stone pillars?

The number "nine" is subtle, because according to the hints from Wonderland, at least nine anchor points are needed to activate and start the Dream of Dawn.

"Could it be that these nine stone pillars represent nine anchor points?" Angel murmured to himself.

"Anchor point?" Camillo asked, puzzled. "What do you mean, sir?"

Angell said instinctively, "It's the anchor point mentioned in the mission notes."

After he finished speaking, seeing that Camiro still didn't understand, he realized that Camiro and the others had no idea about the mission's background.

He quickly told Camiro about the background information he had seen in the whirlpool.

Camillo looked even more confused after hearing this: "We're not part of the participants, so why are we here?"

Angel shrugged: "I don't know, we'll have to wait and see after we activate the Dawn of Dreams instance."

Although Camillo was puzzled, he also understood that Angel was not omniscient and omnipotent, and many clues still had to be discovered by themselves.

“I think your guess is correct,” Camillo said. “Since there are nine stone pillars in the hall and the dungeon information clearly mentions nine anchor points, there must be a correspondence between the two.”

In other places, such a forced connection would be far-fetched. But in the secret hall, the only thing that corresponds to the number "nine" is the stone pillar, so the connection becomes very strong.

Camillo: "I already memorized the information from the patterns on the stone pillars while I was exploring."

As he spoke, Camillo turned around and pointed to different stone pillars, explaining, "This stone pillar is carved with a depiction of an ancient, verdant tree."

"The carvings on this stone pillar depict the rotation of the sun and moon."

"And here..."

Angel roughly sorted them out, and the patterns on the nine stone pillars were: ancient tree, sun and moon, solitary peak, rushing stream, tall tower, evening crow, clouds and wind, fairy, and dream.

Do they represent different objects?

However, these objects are not directly related.

“Perhaps it corresponds to some kind of ritualistic procedure?” Camillo murmured.

Angell: "I also think they resemble images used in rituals, but if they are indeed rituals, how do we activate them?"

You can't just find the corresponding object and place it on the stone pillar, can you?

If they were all small items, it wouldn't be a problem, but this collection includes not only solitary peaks, but also grand imagery such as the red sun and the silver moon, which cannot be used as ritual implements.

For a time, the trail went cold again.

Angell even used a God's-eye view, trying to transcend the perspective of the secret hall and look for clues from the external situation... but still found nothing.

Because the entire secret room was surrounded by boundless void, there were absolutely no clues.

At his wits' end, Angell looked at everyone except Camiro.

Do they have task information in their text fields?

Camillo shook his head: "I didn't ask, but I don't think so."

If they had any information, they would definitely tell us.

"Furthermore, Rigota and Gulemo do not appear to have legal status at present, as they do not have a text field."

Angell: "Ligota looks a bit weak."

Camillo: "Yes, actually she was in a deep sleep before entering this hall. It was only after arriving here that she was able to build a body and awaken under the power of the Supreme Will."

"Perhaps her soul and consciousness were too fragile, which caused her body to become weak as well."

When Rigota awoke, she was bewildered by her surroundings, but fortunately, Uriel and Guleimo entered the hall at that moment. The reunion of the siblings and lovers made Rigota completely ignore her surroundings. The three of them were teary-eyed and completely immersed in their own little world.

Even though Angell suddenly spoke up just now, it only attracted their attention for a moment, and now they are back in the world of three... oh, no, it has now become the world of four.

One more person has been added: Sean.

Rewind two minutes. Perhaps Rigota had regained some of her senses, for she finally noticed Sean in the distance. — Her situation was somewhat similar to Sean's; due to her prolonged slumber, her memories had sunk deep into her mind. When she glimpsed Sean earlier, he seemed familiar, but she hadn't recognized him immediately.

After talking with Uriel and Guleimo for a while, his memories slowly returned, and he remembered what happened before his "death," and even thought of... Shien.

With a complex and wistful expression, Rigota slowly walked toward Sean.

Sean also noticed Rigota.

He had already seen Rigota when he entered the secret hall. He felt that she looked familiar, but he temporarily ignored this sense of familiarity because Blanche was telling him about her past memories.

Now, Rigota has taken the initiative to approach herself.

Seeing this, Blanche gave him a push: "They know more about many things than I do. Why don't you talk to them first?"