Chapter 330 : Chapter 330

Chapter 330: The Plan Changes, the Purge of the Nightmare Demons Begins Ahead of Schedule

"Um... Big Sis Little Han has been gone for a long time. I hope nothing bad has happened, right?"

"No way, no way! Nothing bad will happen to Big Sis Little Han!"

At this moment, inside a sealed laboratory.

This was a laboratory at the base, requested for absolute privacy and possessing a certain level of confidentiality.

It had also been arranged with various protective spells by me, making it the safest place in the underground city.

With the help of the Fool's Dream, neither the dream nor reality could violently break in here in a short amount of time.

In the center of this place, Bai Yu stood alone and silent, her gaze fixed on the rune ritual marker for the spatial teleportation anchor point that had already been set up.

And the group of Fool's Dream here were huddled together in worry, afraid that something would go wrong with the thing that Big Sis Little Han had taught them to make by hand.

They were now carefully checking the rune ritual again, as well as the energy crystals that powered it.

The source of these crystals was Earth Vein energy, a high-concentration crystal ore of extraordinary power that was the easiest to mine in the underground city.

There was also a large number of spare crystal ores on the side, just in case.

And at this moment, the rune ritual of the spatial teleportation anchor point shone with a great white light, and the energy was being consumed at a rapid pace.

"Quick, be ready to replenish the energy crystals at any time!"

Bai Yu immediately said.

She had a teleportation spellbook, so she knew that teleportation was a very magic-consuming spell.

Depending on whether there was a reserved teleportation marker, the distance, and the size of the teleportation, the consumption would fluctuate quite a bit.

But before the energy crystals could be replenished, a large teleportation gate opened directly.

Then, a hand reached out, waved, and then the owner of that hand stuck half of their body in.

"Little Han!"

Bai Yu shouted excitedly.

"Big Sis Bai"

At this moment, I turned my head and saw the familiar figure.

I was originally going to tentatively see if anything had gone wrong, but this time it was really a success!

And just then, a huge force came from behind me and pushed me in at once.

"Little Han, be careful!"

Bai Yu subconsciously wanted to catch me, but her hand passed right through my body.

Then, my entire self passed through Big Sis Bai's body and fell to the ground.

In the next moment, the teleportation portal behind me closed.

"Hiss Did the Academy Head just kick me in? So hard?"

I got up and rubbed my buttocks.

I couldn't blame the Academy Head for this.

This teleportation portal couldn't last long, and I was still dawdling.

"Big Sis Little Han, are you okay?"

"It shouldn't hurt, right?"

"Little Han... you... you succeeded?"

At this moment, Bai Yu looked at the Little Han who had passed through her body, stunned for a second, then reacted.

She had been worrying too much...

"Yes, it was very simple."

I got up and looked at the cat girl Fool's Dream surrounding me and finally couldn't help but stretch out my evil hands and smush the cute ears of these Fool's Dream.

The Fool's Dream didn't resist, and even seemed to enjoy it.

"Big Sis Little Han, you can touch me?"

The Fool's Dream I touched said in a surprised voice.

They didn't ask why, as if they had accepted this setting as a matter of course.

Then, under my gentle stroking, they made a very comfortable, purr-like humming sound.

After playing with the Fool's Dream for a while, I finally, at Big Sis Bai's reminder, released the Fool's Dream I was playing with and began to tidy up the scene.

"Little Han... in that case, with you separated from us by reality and dream... won't that cause a lot of trouble?"

"Hmm... probably not. My body is in reality right now, but if I want to attend to the dream, I can use the primal rune ritual I got from the Nightmare earlier to appear in the dream in an independent form of consciousness."

"But... can you manage both sides like that? What about your real body?"

"Good question!"

I nodded.

This was also a problem I needed to overcome.

"So now there's a brand new problem that I need to overcome myself."

"Actually, with my current status and identity at the base, I can live just like usual. No one would dare to do anything out of line to me."

"Is that so..."

"Or, Big Sis Bai can help me guard my body when you're free. It's not impossible for me to stay in the dream when I have nothing to do."

"That's not a bad idea," Bai Yu nodded at this moment.

"Huh? Is Big Sis Bai really going to do that?"

"I don't usually have much to do. I don't mind finding something for myself to do."

"Sigh then Big Sis Bai, don't you go doing anything indescribable to my body when you're free, okay?"

"Little Han, I'm talking about something serious with you. Your words are getting more and more improper, aren't they?"

Bai Yu waved her hand in mock anger, wanting to teach me a lesson, but her hand passed right through my body.

"Hehe can't hit me! Even if Big Sis Bai wants to do something to my real body, it's actually fine. I absolutely won't secretly come back to see if Big Sis Bai has been touching me, okay?"

After playing around with Big Sis Bai for a while, we prepared to go back directly.

My departure didn't cause anyone to notice anything unusual.

After all, they wouldn't be constantly checking why an outsider would suddenly have a physical body, such a fantastical thing.

And on the way back, I was also thinking about the things the Academy Head had told me earlier.

Even though I had recovered now, I still felt too shocked, whether it was about the current state of this world or... the origin of my [Transcendent Knowledge].

And I also had a new understanding of my experiences after enrolling in the academy.

It turned out that the Academy Head had been paying attention to me from the moment I awakened my talent.

The Academy Head could have taken back what was originally hers.

Faced with such a difference in level, I had nothing to say.

But the Academy Head didn't do that, and even... supported me, invested in me.

This kind of decision, this kind of magnanimity and level of being, was something I couldn't aspire to right now.

It could be said that the Academy Head was my second benefactor, the first being Teacher Ji Niang, and Big Sis Bai was my best friend.

And the reason I could teleport back so easily this time was also due to something crucial that the Academy Head gave me.

The Academy Head had said that the place I originally lived in had the spell effect released by that Grand Spellbook, which suppressed the effect of transcendent power.

That's why I could only create sparks when I tried to cast a fireball with my bare hands at the academy.

The sparks I made by drilling wood for fire were about the same.

But the existence of the spellbook, to a certain extent, bypassed this spell weakening effect, so the spell effect released by the spellbook was guaranteed, but it was also suppressed.

In principle, the transcendent powers mastered by other academies were also suppressed.

So, it wasn't that they were weak, but that the suppression was too severe.

And our Witch Academy had spellbooks, so the Witch Academy in the main world was, to a certain extent... an existence with a modifier.

Pure transcendent power would be suppressed, but a spellbook that relied on True Editing could ignore the Grand Spellbook's effect to some extent.

Similarly, the powers of the other three top-tier academies were also the same.

For example, the elves relied on something similar to the elven bloodline and the World Tree's offshoot, the angels relied on the Angel Halo and the uniqueness of their divine art inheritance, and the wizards simply used their mental power and knowledge to pry open the transcendent, carrying out an equivalent exchange of transcendent energy, with the additional blessing of wizard tools.

And the remaining small academies... could only fend for themselves.

In any case, in the main world, transcendent power had to be suppressed.

If you didn't have a say, then don't speak.

The Academy Head said these things as if they were a matter of course when she was explaining them to me, because strength was the basis for speaking here.

I looked at the two extra spellbooks in my body.

These were given to me by the Academy Head in her personal name.

One of them was the teleportation spellbook, allowing me to stably return here from the Witch Academy.

And the other... was a Resurrection Spell.

The Academy Head didn't explain much about why she gave me this.

She just said she thought I might need it.

Could it be that I will die?

This was my first thought, but I didn't think I would.

Then I could try to understand the essence of the Resurrection Spell, or perhaps the Academy Head had tacitly approved of me being qualified to explore the boundary between life and death.

Of course, it could also be related to severing the Earth Vein chains?

In any case, it couldn't be meaningless.

The Academy Head didn't explicitly say what the essence of this resurrection spell was.

Was it a soul resurrection spell, a soul-substance resurrection spell, or a simple body-memory resurrection spell?

The Academy Head knew that my essence was soul, so this resurrection spell must have some kind of meaning.

I'll find some time to look into it later.

When I'm in the dream, I'll violently dismantle it and see what the spell ritual inside this resurrection spellbook looks like.

If I can study it, I'll study it.

If it's too complicated and I don't understand it at all, then I'll temporarily shelve it.

...

Several days later.

At this moment, Ninglan New City had already fallen into turmoil.

The City Lord's frequent unusual movements and the issuance of new regulations had naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many people in the city.

Coupled with the impending mutated beast tide outside the city and the forced conscription to resist the beast tide, Ninglan New City at this moment was already a suppressed volcano, which could be completely ignited by a single spark.

But on this piece of ruin, only Ninglan New City was the last gathering place for humans.

No one could leave, and no one could watch the fire from the other side of the river.

The needs of the citizens in the city were actually not high, and they didn't care who the City Lord was.

But once the City Lord touched the fundamental interests of most people in the city, then what would happen was self-evident.

And what was the most fundamental interest of most people, or rather, all people... naturally, it was survival.

No one wanted to die inexplicably one day.

The topic of the City Lord colluding with the Nightmare Demon and using the Nightmares to impose a high-pressure rule on Ninglan New City was becoming more and more intense in the city.

The vindication of the outsiders was also quietly happening.

More and more people revealed that the outsiders they had come into contact with were investigating the matter of the Nightmares.

More people were expressing the contribution of the outsiders in expelling the Nightmares.

For the citizens who had lived in Ninglan New City all their lives, their lives were like a pool of stagnant water.

They could only come into contact with the world within the city.

They could only see the reports that were stopped from being published.

The only gossip they could deliberately spread was between neighbors.

Any topic could spread like wildfire in Ninglan New City, especially for the reversal of public opinion, they were very keen on it.

If it was said that the City Lord had lost control of public opinion, it could only mean one thing, that is, the City Lord had fed those guys in the city too well.

When the problem of food and clothing was solved and the stability of the city was consolidated, entertainment became the mainstream topic.

Any daily chat or anything that happened in the city might be published in tomorrow's newspaper by those crazy reporters.

Many things couldn't be suppressed, just like at this moment, the City Lord of Ninglan New City was no longer worthy of being their leader.

"It seems those lowly people in the city have a lot of opinions about your rule, or... is this a situation you're happy to see?"

At this moment, in the Ninglan Township Fortress, the unrestrained Nightmare Demon no longer avoided the officials here, and brought the secret matters to the surface.

At this moment, Ninglan Qiuyun looked gloomily at the officials below.

His heart was bleeding.

Things were gradually getting out of his control.

He had still underestimated the power of the Nightmare Demon.

Even if a major purge was carried out, Ninglan New City would still experience a reform that would hurt its bones and muscles.

But he couldn't understand why the Nightmare Demon would so quickly grasp the lifeline of an entire Ninglan New City.

The corruption of those officials was now being brought to the surface.

It seemed that without the other party's intervention, they would be destroyed by their own actions.

"You... Nightmare Demons, what on earth do you want from our Ninglan New City..."

Ninglan Qiuyun suppressed his emotions and asked with the last bit of reason he had.

"Hehe, is this the tone you use to talk to me? I don't know where you got the courage?"

This Nightmare Demon said with a smile, then sat directly on a corner of the City Lord's desk.

She looked down on the officials below, as if she were the City Lord.

"But seeing that you're at the end of your rope, I'm not against telling you. In our eyes, your Ninglan New City is just a small springboard. Our target is the last pure land of the main world. Of course, there are also those Nightmares. The beautiful Destiny within those Nightmares, or rather, from the very beginning, our target was those Nightmares. Those outsiders are also here for the Nightmares. We are just two groups of hunters chasing after the Nightmares. It's just that our goal is very clear, while those outsiders are still kept in the dark."

"You... just for this? Then why did you have to... our Ninglan New City..."

"Hehe... as a ruin abandoned by the main world, your Ninglan New City has stood here for thousands of years. There is also the protection of Destiny here. What we are chasing is not just the Nightmares, but the Destiny within the Nightmares. And the Destiny in Ninglan New City is even more so."

"Destiny's protection?!"

"You... you still want to take away the Destiny of our Ninglan New City?"

"Yes but... looking at you, you don't seem to understand the importance of Destiny, and you're even doubting the authenticity of Destiny, right? But it doesn't matter, it's best if you don't believe it."

"I believe, of course I believe what you say. You can take the Destiny you want, just don't harm our Ninglan New City anymore!"

Ninglan Qiuyun said in a deep voice.

"Hahaha! What an ignorant statement! Let us take it? What do you think Destiny is? Once Ninglan New City loses the protection of Destiny, then you won't be able to survive here. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, calamities, they will mercilessly destroy your beloved Ninglan New City."

Hearing the City Lord's statement, the Nightmare Demon immediately burst into laughter.

But even so, she was still explaining to this ignorant person in front of her.

After all, some people without the corresponding cognition didn't even know what kind of existence they were facing.

But her explanation completely touched the City Lord's reverse scale.

"You are declaring war on our Ninglan New City!"

"That's right, you didn't know? Right, the asymmetry of information can only create such foolish existences like you. In my eyes, you are just a bunch of idiots being slowly eaten away by us. Declare war? Didn't your son already break with you? The destruction of Ninglan New City doesn't even need my intervention."

"Ninglan Qiuyu..."

Ninglan Qiuyun sat back down in his seat with a thud.

"What? Have you lost hope? Don't I remember you have some tricks up your sleeve? A Type IV extraordinary killer, the path paved for your son, to clear the obstacles for his ascension, a weapon used to hunt Nightmare Demons. I heard that one of our partners died at the hands of your Type III extraordinary killer. I wonder if it's true? I'm so scared but so what? Can your extraordinary killer kill me?"

The Nightmare Demon was taunting the City Lord to his face on one side, while her body was hidden in the dream on the other.

"Those outsiders were personally driven out of the city by you, and your only hope... hmm! Who!"

Just as the Nightmare Demon was confidently provoking, her abdomen was pierced by a sharp weapon, followed by a cold, self-deprecating voice.

"So Nightmare Demons can also be killed."

Then, a figure appeared from a shadow.

Just as he was about to land another blow, the strike landed on an empty space.

It was obvious that the other party had decisively escaped from the dream.

"Tsk..."

"You... a wizard? Damn it! Weren't you driven out of the city!"

But what greeted her was not the wizard's response, but the sound of a sonic boom.

A bullet carrying a berserk aura with extraordinary power instantly tore this Nightmare Demon apart.

The shattered flesh and blood scattered, dyeing this place red.

Half of Ninglan Qiuyun's body, who was closest to this Nightmare Demon, was dyed red with blood, but he just calmly wiped the blood from his eye sockets and looked at the officials below.

"The plan has changed. The purge of the Nightmare Demons will begin ahead of schedule. And... I'll have to trouble you all as well," Ninglan Qiuyun said, his gaze turning to the wizard.

"Understood, but you acted a bit too hastily."

"I had no choice. We know too little. Destiny's protection... I never knew about this concept. But if they want to seize our so-called Destiny's protection at the cost of our destruction, then they deserve to die, and I can only cut my losses in advance."

"That's true. After all, you also have to prioritize your survival. In any case, thank you for now. This is the first time I've heard about Destiny... the intelligence that this Nightmare Demon said this time will be the reward."

This person once again put the mask-style wizard tool on his face, and then his entire person disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Let's go. We've been old partners for so many years. I know what kind of character you all are. Let's fight for our Ninglan New City one last time. I'll give you a dignified end," Ninglan Qiuyun looked at the officials below and said.

The officials below were silent.

It was not the fear of death, but the fear of the City Lord's decisiveness.

And what was more crucial was that after the City Lord made this decision, he was destined not to get his own dignified end.