This… this…
Looking at the long queue in front of the Entity, with a new Leon punching it every two seconds, Snow Maiden couldn’t help but exclaim in shock: “You… you…”
“Don’t ‘you’ me! Get to work already!”
Looking at Nightmare King who had fallen into the sandsea far away and was twitching every two seconds, Leon sighed in relief and hurriedly urged:
“Hurry up! Run to the next level! I can only control it for less than two seconds each time, so you’ve got a little over three minutes! Go!”
“Ahh! Okay!”
Hearing Leon’s urging, Snow Maiden snapped back to reality and puffed her pale cheeks, continuing to blow freezing winds from her nightmare, her face puffing up like a hamster.
With the nightmare barrier gone, these winds gathered more and more, finally completely enveloping Leon and Snow Maiden.
…
Phew… good thing I thought quick enough! Even though my “processing speed” was slowed down by the Drunken Immortal badge, half on instinct and half on experience, I still managed to figure out what needs to be done.
Feeling that familiar sensation of detaching from the current world, Leon, who has partially sobered up and will soon exit the “drunken dream” state, breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if Nightmare King is weak, it’s still a True God; fighting it head-on is impossible. This life, it’s always impossible. The only way to keep living is to drag it out, play dirty tricks, and find ways to escape.
Unfortunately, there are too many nightmares trying to invade reality this time. The Bureau Director won’t be able to arrive in time. It might last until dawn, so my goal has always been to quickly find Scorpion Bureau Director to ensure my safety.
But this endless desert is too big, and I don’t have the ability to locate people from far away. Even if Scorpion Bureau Director is in this layer of the nightmare, he won’t be able to find me.
So my objective is very clear: I must leave as soon as possible and find a smaller nightmare to stay in, either finding Scorpion Bureau Director or letting him find me.
The problem is, Snow Maiden, as a “nightmare transport,” probably can’t get through the nightmare with Nightmare King interfering. So what I should do is try to control Nightmare King and give Snow Maiden the time to take me through the nightmare.
And the only method that could possibly achieve this is the intense pain brought by the “Screaming Hand.”
Thinking about this, Leon couldn’t help but look through the cold wind surrounding him at Nightmare King, who was being beaten up in turn by multiple versions of himself, its gray mist body shaking all over. He gave it a victorious smile.
Don’t think just because you’re the Lord of Nightmares that you won’t have nightmares! Besides, sorry to say, technically speaking, I’m also your colleague. The synergy between the dream realm and reality works for me too, and the “Desire Dream Infiltrator” has been greatly enhanced.
The core ability of the “Desire Dream Infiltrator” is to let the target’s dreams invade reality. With the double enhancement of the dream realm and the Archer Mark, the “Desire Dream Infiltrator” now has the ability to affect Nightmare King. Moreover, according to the rules of the “Desire Dream Infiltrator,” the more “contact” the target has with me, the more likely they are to be affected. Nightmare King has sent hundreds of nightmares my way, and the effectiveness of the “Desire Dream Infiltrator” has been stacked to the maximum. The叠加 of the dream realm, secret art mark, and anomalous item itself, these three buffs together, how can you block such power?
Besides, during this whole escape, I wasn’t just passively taking hits! Every time it threw a complex and realistic nightmare at me, trying to wear down my spirit, I took the opportunity to “hit back,” planting a short, extremely hidden, even crude nightmare with only one punch action in its soul that was writhing in pain.
Nightmare King, having entered reality, now has flesh and soul. Therefore, the “Desire Dream Infiltrator” before being strengthened by the Archer Secret Art wasn’t completely ineffective against it; it just didn’t cause enough damage.
When I activated the Archer Secret Art and detonated all the nightmares of “punching Leons” at once, using Nightmare King’s own memories as a breeding ground, these “punching Leons” successfully invaded reality and gained the ability to truly hit it.
Even though these “punching Leons” don’t have the real “Screaming Hand,” since they were born from Nightmare King’s memory of getting hit, naturally every punch brings exactly the same amount of pain.
These identical sensations and consistent strength “nightmares” will continue to deepen its memory. I bet the taste of my punches will stick with it for the rest of its life.
Hmm… the only regret is that I was drunk and slow-witted, and didn’t remember to switch to the Painful Badge. Otherwise, the effect would definitely be even better! …
Damn! Damn! Damn! You diehard!! Feeling the terrifying excruciating pain every two seconds, seeing Leon’s disgusting smile, Nightmare King, who fell to the ground in pain, felt its soul tremble.
I am the Lord of Nightmares! How dare you use nightmares against me! And such crude nightmares! Suffering an ultimate humiliation for a god of nightmares, the gray mist giant’s emaciated body couldn’t help but flush with blood.
Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!!!
As the redness gradually spread throughout its body, dyeing all the mist around it red, Nightmare King’s mind was filled with only one thought, strangely recovering some calmness.
Absolutely cannot let him go! This damned cleaner doesn’t know, but I am fully aware that Scorpion Bureau Director is currently in this layer of the nightmare.
To avoid being tracked down by his scent, I endured not moving the scales of the Sand Dune Giant Worm, causing Scorpion Bureau Director to notice the situation here. Now he’s forcing his way back at all costs, trying to return to the Dead Plague City.
If he leaves the endless desert and successfully reaches the upper layer of Dead Plague City, he’ll immediately meet up with Scorpion Bureau Director, and together they’ll break out of the six layers of nightmares. Once I’m held up by Scorpion Bureau Director, it’ll be too late!
Must stop him! After understanding what needs to be done, Nightmare King took a deep breath intermittently, then slowly closed its eyes.
Since human bodies feel pain and human souls can be shaken… then I won’t be human anymore!!! “Stay here!!!”
With a nearly hysterical roar, Nightmare King’s huge body collapsed with a thud, crushing a large number of Leons who were still queuing up to beat it.
Then, under the shocked gaze of Leon and Snow Maiden, the gray mist around Nightmare King suddenly began to “flow,” forming a new Nightmare King two sizes smaller directly above its fallen body!
Not… What the hell is this? Second phase of the boss? “You… Are you crazy?! ”
Before Leon’s complaint came out, Snow Maiden, startled, widened her eyes and screamed: “How dare you? In this world, the unity of soul and body is the first rule! What you’re doing is resisting this world! You’re utterly insane…”
“I am perfectly sane!”
Shedding the flesh and soul that had just coalesced moments ago, regaining the form of a dream realm creature, the newly born gray mist giant expressionlessly said:
“Of course I wouldn’t normally dare to do this, but now that the dream realm and reality overlap, half the rules follow the dream realm’s.
Moreover, I haven’t directly appeared in reality, but in this dream jointly propped up by six Nightmare Messengers. With this extra layer, although there’s still a significant impact, it’s enough for me to finish what I want to do!”
A flush of red suddenly appeared on Snow Maiden’s pale cheeks, and she gritted her teeth and said:
“The ones holding the dream open aren’t you! They’re facing the suppression from the world on your behalf! If this continues, the six of them…”
“The six of them will fulfill their proper value.”
Although two sizes smaller, the Nightmare King in the dream realm form clearly adapted better to the current nightmare world.
It extended its emaciated arm, beckoning to the sun hanging high above the desert. A wave of heat ten times more scorching than before spread out, blowing away the cold winds around Leon and Snow Maiden, forcibly pulling them out of the process of leaving the Endless Desert.
“You seem to start feeling nervous, huh.”
After intercepting Leon and Snow Maiden, the Gray Mist Giant flipped Snow Maiden over, then grabbed Leon and squeezed hard. Although it failed to kill him, it unexpectedly caught a trace of strange emotion.
Tasting the sense of urgency revealed in Leon’s soul, a hint of a smile finally appeared in the blurred face of Nightmare King, which was cold and cruel.
“If I’m not mistaken, your troublesome state seems to be running out of time, right?”
No mistake… Although I drank quite a lot, after such intense movement, most of the alcohol mixed with sweat and evaporated. The drunken dream state has almost dissipated…
Feeling the impending complete disappearance of intoxication, despite Leon’s efforts to suppress it, the sense of urgency became increasingly heavy.
There’s at most five minutes left. If Scorpion Bureau Director can’t find me within five minutes, then I’ll have to find myself in Deathscape.
However, I have a “Life-Saving Survivor” badge, whose hidden feature is that when passing through the Deathscape, I will definitely be bitten by dogs, and each of the three heads will bite once… Speaking of which, is the Hound God also a dog? Will I get rabies if bitten by it? And what would be the symptoms of rabies for the undead?…
Is he… daydreaming?
Looking at the obviously distracted Leon in his hand, the Gray Mist Giant, who had just shown a pleased face, immediately turned cold again.
For a cleaner who dared to humiliate him with inferior nightmares, a swift death would undoubtedly be a favor. According to his plan, he should grab his soul into the dream realm and torture it until the entire dream realm is completely destroyed.
However, in the face of this foreseeable tragic future, he is indeed very tense, but… there isn’t much fear? He even has time to think about random things?
“Aren’t you afraid of me?”
Looking at Leon, who still had some drunkenness on his face, slightly dazed, seemingly thinking of something interesting, and involuntarily curling the corner of his mouth, the Gray Mist Giant tightened his emaciated arms slightly, then asked sternly: “Human, do you want to guess your own future destiny?”
Knowing whether I live or die depends on Scorpion Bureau Director’s performance, and it has nothing to do with my efforts, Leon, with the remaining drunkenness in his brain, looked at the Nightmare King and lazily counter-questioned: “What? Is there a prize for guessing right?”
Carefully sensing several times, finding that Leon indeed had no fear, and even had a kind of “strange lethargy” feeling, the eyebrows of the Gray Mist Giant couldn’t help but painfully furrow.
The most painful thing for someone full of hatred isn’t even being unable to take revenge, but when you’re about to successfully take revenge, making the person you dislike or even hate suffer an extremely tragic fate, and the other party shows complete indifference, and even has time to banter with you.
“Don’t pretend! ”
Confident that Leon wasn’t the type of person who would “face death with equanimity”, the Nightmare King looked down at him and questioned coldly:
“Is it the effect of an Anomalous Item? Do you have an Anomalous Item that can shield against fear?”
There is one… but it’s not an Anomalous Item, it’s a badge.
The series of badges called “Drunk Immortal”, from the initial bronze to the current variant, have always had the effect of resisting fear.
Before gold level, it was resistance to fear, while in the entries of “Drunk Immortal”, although it no longer mentions resistance to fear, fear caused by enemies can also be considered a kind of “attack”. Since I’m still in the “drunken dream” state, the fear in my heart has been directly negated by “Drunk Immortal”.
“Hmm, let’s just say yes.”
After considering the current situation, Leon really couldn’t think of any other methods, so he simply admitted that he indeed had means to resist fear.
After all, I’ve done everything I can. If I can’t win, it’s really helpless. Moreover, I’ve arranged for my younger siblings to leave in advance and entrusted them to trustworthy people. At least I don’t have to worry about their suffering in the future.
Besides, although it may sound unpleasant, to be honest, I’ve been in this world for more than three years. Maybe now is the most relaxed and worry-free time for me.
Hmm… thinking positively, even if I’m enslaved and tortured in the dream realm, as long as the badge system is still there, I might accidentally get a weird badge like “Innate Rebellion” or “Adopted as a Son” someday.
At that point, even if I can’t become the director of the Clearing Bureau, becoming the sovereign of the dream realm would be good too. Wherever you mix, it’s still mixing, right? Right?
…
Is he… really without any fear? Misinterpreting the situation where the person’s thoughts were scattered due to the lingering drunkenness and lack of sufficient combat pressure as genuine nonchalance.
The uncomfortable Nightmare King remained silent for a moment, then couldn’t suppress the anger in his heart any longer. He raised his hand, rested it on the crown on his head, and aligned the mirrored part with Leon’s eyes.
“Great! Today I will see what the thing you fear most is inside your heart!”
(The chapter ends here)
