novelraw Chapter 277
Chapter 277
277~ Stalemate~
"Princess... Your other half... is with me!"
Other half? What other half?
"Dream control authority."
The Empress took the lead in answering, and a voice from the other end of the phone also came through, exactly the same as what the Empress said.
If they could obtain complete control authority, returning to reality would be completely no problem.
But she still couldn't understand why the Little Princess's dream control authority had been split into two parts.
Was it a coincidence? Or was it because of some other reason?
However, the urgent matter at hand was to first inquire clearly about Maid Xiao Xi's whereabouts.
After the Empress leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words, the Little Princess turned and continued asking.
"Xiao Xi, where are you right now?"
"In the trunk."
"Huh?"
The corner of the Little Princess's mouth twitched slightly, her eyes looking toward Chen Ze's trunk.
"Chen Ze..."
"It wasn't me! I didn't! Don't make wild guesses!"
When did he lock someone's maid in his trunk!? When he was refueling those gas cans, he didn't see anyone lying in the trunk either!
He was done for... This time, even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn't wash him clean!
"Mm... I believe you, so could you open the trunk first and let's take a look?"
This wasn't believing him at all!?
Hearing the Little Princess's perfunctory words, he felt somewhat desperate for a moment.
Opening the trunk, Maid Xiao Xi was lying inside very weakly.
"Princess..."
Her voice was almost inaudible, but she still forced herself to sit up, revealing a pale smile.
"Princess... I brought back your other half."
"Xiao Xi!!!"
Tightly hugging her personal maid Xiao Xi, she felt somewhat indescribable sorrow in her heart.
Her personal maid Xiao Xi had brought back her other half of dream control authority! She didn't know where she had brought it back from, and her body had suffered such severe injuries.
Shadow was spreading on Maid Xiao Xi's body, but it seemed that because she carried the dream control authority on her, this shadow hadn't truly eroded into Maid Xiao Xi's body.
Without saying more, the Little Princess immediately began treatment...
Using the half of the dream control authority she possessed in her hands to clear away the shadow on Maid Xiao Xi's body.
Although the clearing was very slow, at least it was effective.
However, just clearing the shadow attached to Maid Xiao Xi's body took so much time. Trying to rely on dream control authority to clear away all the shadow was obviously unrealistic.
"Princess, please make good use of me... Although I'm not your real personal maid... I think I should also be able to help you out..."
"That's enough, Xiao Xi."
Gently soothing Maid Xiao Xi, the Little Princess's hands became increasingly gentle.
"Xiao Xi, sleep well. We'll talk when you wake up. You're tired."
"Okay..."
Since this was the Princess's order, she would obey properly.
Just like that, she closed her eyes and fell asleep in her Princess's embrace.
......
"Fei, come help me. Let's lift Xiao Xi into the car."
She didn't know how Maid Xiao Xi had appeared in the trunk, but she knew Chen Ze definitely didn't have the ability to knock Xiao Xi out and throw her in the trunk.
It must have been Xiao Xi using this incomplete control authority to find a way to escape back.
As for what method it was, she didn't care. As long as Maid Xiao Xi was still alive, that was good. Although this wasn't her real personal maid, at least that heart had always been directed toward her.
"Fei, if I have complete control authority, can I stop that thing?"
"No."
Based on her research into dream magic, complete dream control authority wouldn't have much effect on the Little Princess's own old shadow.
This shadow originated from deep in the Little Princess's heart. It was brought by the indelible harm deep within the Little Princess, reaching deeper into the Little Princess's heart than this dream. So dream control authority was useless, unless that shadow could stop expanding.
But that was also a product of the dream's collapse. All the feedback from the dream's collapse was imposed on that shadow. To stop the expansion, they could only stop the dream's collapse.
But the problem came again. The reason for the dream's collapse was because the Empress had done very outrageous things, causing the dream to not develop in its original direction. And the Little Princess's dream as a whole wasn't too solid to begin with. After being messed with like this, the balance scale directly tilted toward the collapse side, and it was also almost irreversible.
The Empress estimated that perhaps the dream's collapse caused the method she had originally set up to exit the dream to fail?
Originally, she had done it this way to avoid accidents that would cause the two to suddenly exit the dream, wanting to properly figure out the Little Princess's past... Who would have thought they'd actually get stuck here because of this.
"Then is there a way to get the control authority on Xiao Xi's body back into my body?"
"There is, but Xiao Xi will disappear."
"Why?"
"Because your Xiao Xi is essentially the other half of dream control authority."
Maid Xiao Xi herself was the other half of control authority, produced because of the Little Princess's deep inner dependence on Maid Xiao Xi.
Previously, she hadn't paid much attention, but by now, she had figured out the essence of this Maid Xiao Xi, which was the Little Princess's other half of dream control authority.
"Is there no other way to get the control authority while preserving Xiao Xi?"
"No."
The Empress shook her head.
And after receiving this negative answer, the Little Princess appeared somewhat disappointed.
After covering Maid Xiao Xi with a blanket, she sat by the car and began thinking about how to solve the shadow's continuous expansion and devouring.
"Fei, can you use dream magic again inside the dream?"
"No. Theoretically, there's no way to stack another layer of dream magic within a dream. Forcing it would cause the dream to collapse. But right now, the source of collapse is your shadow, so forcing it would only cause that shadow to expand drastically."
Moreover, whether they could truly achieve stacking another layer of dream magic within a dream was still a question!
"Oh..."
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly thought of something and immediately asked again:
"Then if Xiao Xi and I use dream control authority together, would it be equivalent to complete control authority?"
"Uh... probably?"
This was also the first time she had encountered this kind of situation. She had no certainty in her heart either.
After all, the number of Great Archmages was scarce to begin with, and something like dream magic wouldn't generally be researched by ordinary mages when they had nothing better to do. She estimated she was the one who had researched this kind of magic most thoroughly on the entire continent. Even Cecilia might not have researched it as thoroughly as her.
Moreover, all the books didn't record detailed content about this type of magic, much less record situations where dream control authority split in two. How would she know if it would work or not?
What's more, the ones who possessed dream authority were the Little Princess and Maid Xiao Xi who was herself half of the dream control authority. She couldn't try it personally, and she didn't dare stack another dream magic on top.
With things developing to this point, it had already reached a stalemate.