Chapter 410

No one’s getting any sleep now? What does that mean?! As the gray mist giant watched his hollow body, formed from hundreds of nightmares, vanish along with a swarm of beetles, he couldn’t help but tremble violently, his eyes full of horror as he shouted angrily, “What have you done?! Where did you send those damn bugs?!”

“I already said, it’s a present for you!”

Recalling how he had lost everyone starting from Anna, reduced to a living corpse sitting listlessly on the bed, too scared even to open an album, Leon looked up at the gray mist giant before him with bloodshot eyes and enunciated each word clearly: “If I say it’s a gift for you, naturally it should be delivered to your home, right?”

“…”

My home… the Nightmare River? You sent those bugs that can devour dreams endlessly into my Nightmare River?!

“Are you insane?!!”

Upon hearing Leon confirm what he’d done, the Nightmare King immediately roared in fury, veins popping out around his eyes:

“You lunatic! Do you even know what you’ve done?! Change it back! Hurry up and change it back!!”

“There are countless nightmares in the Nightmare River! Don’t you understand, if those bugs enter the Nightmare River, within half a day they could multiply into hundreds of millions! Half the Dream Realm will be devoured!”

“They’ll eat their way from the dream world straight into reality! Even your Clearing Bureau won’t be able to stop so many bugs! If you don’t stop, humans will never dream again!”

“Ho ho… who cares!”

After suffering unimaginable trauma at the hands of the Nightmare King and still under the effects of ‘drunken dreams,’ Leon was beyond rationality. He barely had any self-control left.

Facing the Nightmare King’s frantic roar, all Leon did was sneer and retort without hesitation:

“If we can’t dream, then so be it! Not dreaming at night won’t kill anyone!”

“No! No! It’s impossible!”

“Crazy bastard! You crazy bastard!”

Seeing Leon’s resolute gaze, the Nightmare King realized he wasn’t going to back down. Cursing furiously, the gray mist giant turned to rush out of the six layers of nightmare, hoping to eliminate as many bugs as possible before the “Dream-Eating Armor” spread further. But…

“Don’t bother.”

Showing off the back of his right hand where the Archer mark had disappeared, Leon asked with satisfaction in his eyes amidst the gray mist giant’s horrified expression:

“Do you want to guess where I used the last Archer Secret Art?”

“?!”

Dream-Eating Armor?! Realizing the undeniable truth from Leon’s eyes, the gray mist giant felt like someone had ripped off his skull and hammered inside with a ten-thousand-ton hammer, causing everything to spin wildly.

You son of a bitch, not only did you send the [Dream-Eating Armor] into the Nightmare River, but you reinforced them with the Archer Secret Art?! You… you… me…

“I’ll kill you!!!”

Realizing everything was over, the Nightmare King roared and lunged back, wanting to slap Leon into mush. Unfortunately, the “Drunk Immortal” effect hadn’t worn off yet, and no matter how it attacked, the result remained unchanged.

After lashing out in frustration for a while, feeling the Nightmare River disappearing at an alarming rate, the gray mist giant collapsed onto the ground, eyes filled with despair, screaming:

“The Nightmare River… Soul Fall Black Abyss… the Dream Realm… it’s all over!!!”

“You madman! You’re completely insane! Why did I have to provoke you?!”

“Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!”

Amidst the gray mist giant’s chest-pounding cries of regret, the familiar buzzing sound rang in Leon’s ears once more.

“Zzzz…”

[Your extremely insane actions have caused immense psychological trauma to the Nightmare King, successfully activating the hidden Gold Badge “Nightmare of Nightmares”]

[Nightmare of Nightmares: Your extreme madness and complete disregard for consequences, seeking fleeting pleasure at the cost of destroying an entire world, has made you the most terrifying nightmare in the Nightmare King’s heart]

[Wearing Effect: Deeply feared by the Nightmare King, you now reign above all nightmares, none of which can affect you]

[Advancement Route: None]

None of the first content inside 69 Book Bar is visible!

[Hidden Feature (No Need to Wear): As the supreme villain planning to destroy the entire Dream Realm, your infamous name will echo throughout the Dream Realm. All dream creatures below the True God level will experience overwhelming fear just from sensing your presence]

…

Is this… the Scorpio Division’s [Dream-Eating Armor]? Watching countless black-gold beetles with fluttering wings feasting heartily in the Nightmare River, the red-haired bureau director couldn’t help but pause momentarily, a trace of annoyance flashing in his eyes.

These things can infinitely split after eating dreams! Letting them loose in the capital would be fine, but throwing them directly into the Nightmare River makes it absolutely impossible to recover them. What the hell is Edward up to?!

Unaware that these [Dream-Eating Armors] were the result of Leon losing control after being provoked by the Nightmare King and angrily overturning the table.

Watching the beetle army multiply into tens of thousands in the blink of an eye, following the Nightmare River into the Dream Realm and leaving not a single dream untouched, the red-haired bureau director couldn’t help but curse the recklessness of the Scorpio Bureau Director while proactively reeling in the extended [Slaughter Blood Hair].

When the [Dream-Eating Armor] entered the Nightmare River, the nightmares assigned by the Nightmare King to invade reality together were already unable to invade reality.

Although these extremely troublesome beetles wouldn’t consume dream realm creatures and couldn’t directly kill the nightmares attempting to invade reality, they would devour the accompanying dreams of those nightmares.

Without their accompanying dreams, the nightmares were like tigers with their claws pulled, unable to do much. Except for some individuals with naturally larger bodies, even relatively strong ordinary people might be able to beat them. If they couldn’t return to the dream realm in time, when the sun rises, these nightmares would completely dissipate under the sunlight. They probably don’t even have time to run now, let alone think about rushing into reality.

However, although this solved the problem of large-scale nightmare invasions, the dream realm would inevitably suffer heavy damage, affecting reality as well.

The dream realm, composed of memories and fantasies, is also one of the sources of art and inspiration. After this deadly “insect plague,” apart from the massive disappearance of dreams, the world’s artistic creation will likely face a long period of stagnation…

Considering the possible consequences of those beetles, the red-haired bureau director couldn’t help but rub his forehead.

Headache… it’s only been a few days since the start of the year, and such a major incident has already occurred. This year is probably going to rank low again.

The only consolation is that Leon seems to be fine; there was no sign of death around the hair he gave him, proving he was still safe… Hmm? How did the hair beside him increase by one compared to what I gave him?(End of Chapter)