the last gentleman

Chapter 497 The Darkest Corner and the Abyss

William recalled his acting experience. The fear he brought to the audience was based on his own childhood experience, and the fear interpretation was based on the orphanage.

The environment, atmosphere, and William playing many teachers with different personalities constantly bring various pressures to the audience.

What kind of phobia is it?

William couldn't figure it out for the time being, but he could vaguely feel that a seed called 'fear' had taken root in his body, and this seed would grow with the increase in the number of performances, and finally take shape with the completion of his path.

"What is fear, I still can't fully explain and define it. It's just a 'scripted' imitation of the feelings brought to me by the orphanage in the past... To have such an effect in this performance is completely equivalent to taking a shortcut. I have to find out own unique fears.

Write the script independently, create a closed scene similar to an orphanage, endow the participants with rules that can restrain the body and spirit of the participants, and perform original interpretations of characters.

Only in this way can I get my own fear, instead of simply imitating the orphanage.

Phobias match my crazy brain very well. Once the phobias take shape, they will definitely help my crazy brain, and "education" will become more effective.

By the way... You can ask Mr. Zucker about this, the phobia he possesses should have a good mixture with the epileptic brain. 』

Thinking of this, William is going to make strict plans for the future time.

"Catherine, the Magic Banquet is held before the official performance, right?"

Catherine sat by the bed with her black and white stockings coiled up, tilted her head, and moved her fingers, "That's right, there are still 29 days left!"

"Okay, I have to plan the arrangement for this period of time to prepare for the upcoming magic banquet and even the official performance."

"Ah? You're still thinking of a formal performance. It's unbelievable that you, a newcomer who has just been here for less than a day, can participate in the Devil's Banquet... The formal performance is completely different. Now you are difficult to control. At most, you can help Uncle Jaen Pass the props."

"Let's prepare a little bit, just in case there is a chance.

By the way, I am going to Mr. Jain's magic house to inquire about [Abyss], and then I may go to the zoo to discuss the combination of epilepsy and phobia with Mr. Zucker. Do you want to come together? "

Hearing the word abyss, Catherine started scratching her head quickly, and even scratched her scalp accidentally.

"Hey! You don't need a break, do you? You haven't had a break since you came to the circus,
First, we walked around a whole circle and made dishes in the back kitchen, and last night we had a dream rehearsal all night, and today's performance encountered an accident and temporarily changed the hypnosis strategy. "

"Isn't dream rehearsal equivalent to sleeping?" William poked his head, "My epileptic brain can find various gaps to sleep in."

"No... I don't really like Uncle Jain taking off his mask and revealing the abyss."

"Huh? Is it different from usual?"

"It's just that I don't like it, the feeling of being stared at by those eyes is particularly uncomfortable, and besides, the entire circus probably doesn't like being watched by the abyss.

It is rumored that those who have been watched by Uncle Jia En will eventually go to the abyss.

As for the zoo, I don't want to go either, that exhibitionist Zok hates it to death!You go alone, I will fall asleep on the bed and wait for you, anyway, I only need to fall asleep to do all kinds of rehearsal training. "

Catherine had been so sleepy for a long time, she fell asleep after making a goodbye gesture, black mucus dripped from the corner of her mouth while she opened her mouth to breathe.

At the same time, there is also a strong sense of danger spreading in Catherine's body.

William had a very intuitive premonition that if he got close to Catherine at this time, he would be attacked by some kind of monster, even more dangerous than when she was awake.

"Catherine has a certain similarity to the insomniac Gallon,
The 'nightmare tentacles' in her body may also be related to creatures from other worlds..."

William got up and left the room, heading towards the deepest part of the Magic Zone,

Pass through the innermost independent passage, and stand in front of the black door exuding the abyss again. This time, Jain no longer opens the door himself.When William stretched out his fingers and lightly tapped on the surface of the black door.

hum!
The straight passage that he is currently in has actually flipped, and William can be sure that this is definitely not the influence of thinking, but a real space flip.

Until the channel flipped to a vertical state, the black gate turned into an opening to the abyss.

Falling into it... Hum!

The moment the body fell into the black gate, it was invaded by darkness, and when it recovered, it had already fallen on the soft object, just in a sitting position.

Click!The lights turn on.

William, who regained consciousness, sat on a leather sofa,
Mr. Jain, wearing a mask, came from the side, holding two cups of freshly brewed tea, one of which was delivered to William, who sat on the opposite side of the sofa.

This is Jain's magic house, but the process of entering the door is simulated as falling into the abyss.

"How does it feel to fall into the abyss? Although you have no sense of fear, your spirit and consciousness are also instantly deprived of darkness."

William scratched his head, "Yes...this is different from the feeling of the original tomb."

"Of course it's different. The abyss of the original tomb was directly controlled by the original dead, stable and very friendly to the dead. The abyss formed by the extremely dark place is not controlled by anyone, and belongs to a completely unknown area.

[Very Dark Land] was originally listed as a forbidden area in the old world. Only treasure hunters who are not afraid of death, or very few people who are really intimate with the darkness and have a need for the abyss will go there.

The abyss that appears in the extremely dark place with a small probability is even more dangerous.

You took the initiative to come to me to seek the knowledge of the abyss. Since you performed very well today, let me give you a little science on the formation history of the abyss.

This is necessary for your follow-up to reach the abyss. "

"Okay!" William's epileptic brain was fully activated, ready to record Jain's words verbatim.

"Before the fall of the evil sun, the light emitted by it can penetrate 99.9% of the old world. There is also the 0.1% of the area that cannot be illuminated, which is called the "corner".

Sin, disorder, and chaos piled up there. It was an absolute dark zone, and even the pursuit of the monastery would not involve it.

Therefore, many wanted criminals and malignant patients will choose to go to the "corner" to spend the rest of their lives there.

As the war broke out in the old world, the wanted criminals, villains, anonymous people, etc. of the "corner" also joined the war.

They are cruel by nature and regard war as a rare gift in a thousand years, and fight the invaders to the end regardless of the cost, so that the comprehensive death rate of the "corner" can be ranked among the top three dead areas in the entire old world.

The evil sun fell, and the war ended.

The already dark "corner" became even darker, and the ground was filled with the corpses of criminals and foreign invaders.

Under such an extreme link, some kind of unknown disease related to darkness, chaos and evil is generated inside.

This disease will devour all light and hope, laying a layer of darkness on any object and continuing to erode.

The "corner" where this unknown disease was scattered was officially renamed the "Extreme Darkness". As time went by, the accumulation of unknown diseases formed large and small potholes in the Extreme Darkness.

The abyss is also formed by the evolution of these potholes, but the evolution rate is very low, only 0.001%.

As for where the abyss leads to, the essence and meaning of existence, this answer needs to be explored by yourself, and my dictation is useless. "

William drew an important inference from these remarks.

"Corner, dark area, could it be that Mr. Jain, you were..."

Jain waved his hand, "No, no, I'm not a wanted person, nor a villain. I was just born in a "corner".

Although the survival rate of newborns there is less than [-] in [-], I was lucky to survive, and I learned enough magic skills to make a living in the "corner", and I have always remained neutral.

Because I was indoctrinated since I was a child that once I left the corner, I would be taken away by the monks, and I didn't know much about the outside world. Even if the war broke out and the evil sun fell, I still chose to stay in the corner.

Until the formation of the darkest place,
Until I was involved with a large number of war corpses in the abyss formed by accident in the local area.

After an unknown amount of time, I climbed out, and it seemed that I was the only one who had completed the climb... But this does not mean that I have completely escaped from the abyss.

Because I have been waiting under the abyss for a long time, the darkness there has eroded and changed my constitution,

The most intuitive one is the [eye pupil], assimilating it into an abyss.

Although such eyes allow me to see the scene in the abyss clearly, it also brings me a curse that cannot be removed. If I don't wear a mask, I will pass the abyss out, and let more external patients be affected and fall into it.

The magic I was originally proficient in has also been changed into a unique abyss magic, which will bring disaster if I don't control it well.

However, I was lucky.

When I climbed out of the abyss, lost my nature, lost my purpose and direction,
The [Boss] appeared in front of me, giving me a sense of belonging and direction, as well as the [home] I had always dreamed of.

So I love everything about the circus, and I am willing to train more talents for it, such as William you, or a clown with nightmare qualities like Catherine, even if she does not belong to my department, I will ensure her stability growing up. "

(End of this chapter)