Chapter 332 : Chapter 332

Chapter 332: Ninglan New City's Converged Protection of Destiny

Fear and terror are instinctive emotions that arise when facing the unknown.

Essentially, one fears two things: death, and a life worse than death.

Playing with a Nightmare Demon in a dream was perhaps the most laughable joke.

After experiencing initial confusion, the other party quickly reacted.

The problem and predicament she was facing now were merely the dream itself, and the one who was best at playing with dreams was the Nightmare Demon herself.

After realizing this, she began her counterattack.

"Impossible! You! How can you possibly master the power of the dream! This is impossible! I'm dreaming... I can't possibly lose to a witch in this aspect!"

When both of us had mastered the same ability, the next contest was about our own means and tricks.

But it was obvious that the other party couldn't outplay me.

Then she barked like a defeated dog here.

"Then you probably haven't seen much," I casually retorted.

In the next moment, I became serious.

After all, I didn't have that much time to tame a Nightmare Demon.

"My patience has reached its limit."

In the next moment, I gave this Nightmare Demon a heavy blow.

The dream that trapped her shattered.

In the next moment, the Nightmare Demon collapsed to the ground like a dead dog.

After all, her energy had been consumed by me too much, and now she was in such a predicament.

In the dream, she couldn't beat me.

In reality, because she had consumed too much energy, now she really couldn't even get past the security and protection here.

After all, frequent travel between reality and the dream had been proven by me to be a significant drain on the Nightmare Demon, and this was my purpose.

"Now, are you interested in chatting with me?"

At this moment, I stood in front of this Nightmare Demon and asked.

"You... what do you want to ask..."

"Your purpose for coming here."

"Of course, it's to use this place as a springboard to invade your main world... The main world is such a good place, why can't we have a piece of the pie? Then there's snatching your Destiny. You natives don't even know what Destiny is, right? A bunch of puppets being toyed with by the script. You're so strong, you must be a Child of Destiny. Let me tell you the truth, this encounter of yours was actually destined from the beginning, but you foolishly thought it was some kind of accident!"

"Oh."

"Oh? Is that your only reaction? Do you have any idea what this means! It means you are just... just a person being played with! Your fate is being controlled, everything you have is not your own will! You are not living for yourself!"

"Of course I know what the script is, what a Child of Destiny is. I also know that you're a low-level thing among the Abyssal Demons, right? Belonging to a transcendent race, and you're this weak? How do you sleep at night?"

At this moment, this Nightmare Demon was so speechless by my string of words that she didn't know how to reply.

How was this completely different from the intelligence she knew!

What about the foolish main world natives?

What about the foolishness of knowing nothing!

"Also, there's one more thing you guessed wrong. I'm not some Child of Destiny. I don't care for that Destiny. What you said has nothing to do with me."

"And let me reiterate my question. Your purpose for coming here! Here, the underground city. Why did you come here! Besides you, are there any other Nightmare Demons down here!"

"What?"

"Not going to talk? It seems we need a few more rounds."

As I spoke, I made a gesture as if to activate my ability, which immediately intimidated this Nightmare Demon.

"Don't! Don't! I'll talk!"

"Tsk... Nightmare Demons are also afraid of death?"

I pouted and complained.

This reminded me of the Nightmare Demon I killed back then; she was very stubborn.

"Hurry up and talk."

"One! Just me!"

"And then? The purpose."

"To investigate the situation in the underground city. The underground city is too tightly controlled by that City Lord. We can't find any opportunity to come down."

"Oh? Don't you Nightmare Demons have many methods? Can this kind of thing still stump you?"

"We... didn't notice the underground city at first. Later, when we did, we didn't pay too much attention. By the time we started to take it seriously, the passage to the underground was already sealed. That City Lord also wouldn't let us interfere with the underground city..."

"Oh? You're also afraid of that City Lord?"

I raised my eyebrows, a little surprised.

"Afraid? How is that possible? We were just worried that guy wouldn't be obedient..."

"Not obedient... oh... since you want that City Lord to be obedient, then what is your plan?"

"You think I'll tell you?"

"Hmm suddenly got tough? Did I hit a matter of principle?"

"Kill me! Kill me if you have the guts! Kill me now! I won't tell you these questions, kill... ugh!"

At this moment, this Nightmare Demon's eyes widened.

Her body in the dream was pierced by my blow.

Her expression was as if she was shocked that I had actually killed her again.

"This is the first time I've heard such a strange request. As you wish," I watched her slowly fall down, that incredulous expression not fading until the very end.

In the next moment, her body turned into a bubble.

But it didn't matter, didn't I still have the Resurrection Spell?

Watching the other party revive again, a smile that would make even a Nightmare Demon tremble appeared on the corner of my mouth.

"Congratulations on completing the achievement of your life: dying twice."

"You!"

"Come and try my methods. You can't escape the laboratory here, nor can you escape life and death. The sooner you talk, the sooner you'll be reborn. Understand? Hehe."

"I don't believe it! The Resurrection Spell... how can a main world native like you use a spell like the Resurrection Spell so many times! But don't you dare think you can get a single word out of me!"

"Then let's try."

My gloomy voice echoed in the Nightmare Demon's ears.

I decisively killed her again.

Once again, twice... three times... As long as she went to reality, I would drag her consciousness into the dream and torture her.

After all, I didn't know if I could still get a free resurrection if I killed her in reality.

And so, torture, kill, resurrect...

Once.

Ten times.

Thirty times...

"Demon! Don't come over! You're worse than the demons in the abyss!"

"Thank you for the compliment. But you can still speak so clearly, then... continue to die!"

"Stop!"

Finally, this "stop" seemed to have exhausted the last bit of her strength.

She collapsed to the ground, with no extra strength in her mind to think about why the other party could use the Resurrection Spell so many times.

"Speak."

I just said one word, my tone carrying an unquestionable air, which made the Nightmare Demon on the ground tremble.

"You... you ask..."

"Oh?"

I looked at this pitiful Nightmare Demon.

Had she even forgotten the question I had just asked?

"Then I'll be merciful and ask again. What plan do you have to control the City Lord?"

"To complete the Ruin Ritual and forcibly seize Ninglan New City's protection of Destiny..."

"Tell me in detail what the Ruin Ritual is," I asked nonchalantly.

But I was a little surprised to get this answer from her.

Weren't these Nightmare Demons satisfied with the Destiny on the Nightmares?

You know, the Destiny on the Nightmares was the majority of the Destiny from the last script node, which was not a small amount at all.

It seemed the other party's greed had no maximum, only more.

"Mainly... mainly to destroy Ninglan New City... it requires a change of the City Lord within the city... for the Destiny to flow, the new City Lord must ascend to the position of City Lord in the eyes of everyone... and then the sacrificial ritual will sacrifice the new City Lord to forcibly seize the city's protection of Destiny..."

"Oh ho... so that's how it is... then, that young man named Ninglan Qiuyu's rebellion and patricide was also planned by you?"

"Yes... yes..."

"How wonderful... then how many of you Nightmare Demons came in total?"

"I don't know..."

"You don't know? Roughly?"

"I don't know roughly either... we... we also don't know how many of us came. We were just... we were just forced to come here by the orders of a higher-level demon..."

"Tsk... what else do you know? Tell me everything at once."

Since the other party had already brought out the higher-level demon, she probably really didn't know.

Just like me, I also didn't know how many people were affected by this Nightmare incident, because I didn't care about it at all.

"I... I really don't know anymore..."

"Stubbornness has a price."

But after a round of torture, the other party didn't reveal any more useful information.

All that was left was numbness.

Death and a life worse than death had no meaning to her at this moment.

Although I also wanted to hand this guy over to the extraordinary research base for everyone to study, it was much more difficult to trap a Nightmare Demon than to trap a Nightmare.

And without me, they didn't know if they could contain this thing.

So, to be on the safe side, I finally killed her completely and did not use the Resurrection Spell again.

I even wiped out the other party's information in the dream.

Such a Nightmare Demon had no chance of being resurrected.

After all, the Resurrection Spell also needed a target.

Otherwise, to resurrect out of thin air without a target, that wasn't resurrection, that was creating a person.

But... if that's the case, then is there some kind of connection between resurrection and the ultimate project of creating life in the field of alchemy?

There should be a gap.

After all, resurrection is to let an existing life return to its original state, while creating life is another higher level.

Even if I guided the Fool's Dream to become a true life, in essence, this process was not considered creating life.

After using the Resurrection Spell so many times, I also had some enlightenment.

Looking at the place where the Nightmare Demon had disappeared, I took out that Resurrection Spell spellbook.

Then, I took this opportunity and directly and violently dismantled this spellbook.

I removed the extra structures of the spellbook that were useless to me and the framework of the spellbook's true editing, leaving the most essential spell ritual and runes of the Resurrection Spell.

In the end, I was shocked to find... that the runes involved in this Resurrection Spell... were so simple that all the runes had been recorded in my Memory Bookshelf spellbook!

"This... how is this possible?"

Resurrection Spell... that was the Resurrection Spell... shouldn't this kind of technology be more difficult, enough for a person to spend a lifetime studying it?

Or was it that the great truth was simple, and that I was just overthinking everything?

Or... was all of this within the Academy Head's plan?

I quickly and completely recorded the primal rune spell ritual from the Resurrection Spell spellbook into the Memory Bookshelf spellbook.

Then, the Resurrection Spell spellbook completely disintegrated in the dream.

This was the price or consequence of violently dismantling a spellbook, which was why I usually experimented in the dream.

I wouldn't be willing to do this in reality.

The spell ritual of the Resurrection Spell was now in hand.

Then I would go and correspond with the contents of those runes in the Memory Bookshelf one by one to see if I could piece together the mystery of the Resurrection Spell.

At least I should understand the principle behind it, right?

But this was not urgent for now.

And the intelligence I obtained from that Nightmare Demon, every bit of it was a gain for me.

Those Nightmare Demons were actually plotting for Ninglan New City's Destiny.

But thinking about it, it seemed quite reasonable.

After all, Ninglan New City could be established on this piece of ruin.

Even the Academy Head called it a miracle.

Plus, this place seemed to belong to the main world's scope, so it wasn't strange that it had the main world's Destiny.

Thinking about it this way, maybe the original Ninglan City Lord was really a Child of Destiny.

Born of fate, rising in response to calamity.

No one interfered with the Destiny or even the script here.

The Destiny was the original Destiny, a miracle converged from the hope of these lives to save themselves.

If those Nightmare Demons really succeeded, then this Ninglan New City would be in trouble.

Although I didn't quite know what would happen to Ninglan New City if its Destiny was taken away, but it would probably be a common occurrence for things to not go well year after year.

Sigh... I forgot to ask before killing that Nightmare Demon, even if it was just to satisfy my curiosity.

Recently, I've been spoiled by Teacher Ji Niang and the Academy Head.

I subconsciously want to know about things I don't know.

This matter could be considered to have come to an end.

I opened the laboratory door, but suddenly found that the security level of the extraordinary research base here seemed to have been raised a lot.

"Let me ask, what's the situation? Why do you have so many guards here?"

"Scholar Little Han!"

This person in charge of security duty became serious as soon as he saw me.

"Miss Ninglan Qiuyue previously reminded us that there might be a Nightmare Demon invasion in the underground city, and the security measures in the base need to be strengthened."

"I see," I nodded.

It seemed Ninglan Qiuyue was very cautious, so cautious that it was beyond my expectations.

Even though I knew this kind of action had no protective meaning, I at least wouldn't say it out loud.

After all, giving everyone psychological comfort was the meaning of their perseverance here at this moment.

After encouraging them a little, I came to a place where there was no one.

In the next moment, my body became illusory here, and then my entire figure completely disappeared here.

At the same time.

In the hotel room.

I, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened my eyes.

My dazed and lifeless pupils gradually focused and became lively.

"Little Han, you're back?"

"Huh? Big Sis Bai! You're really by my side all the time."

I suddenly sat up, looked at Big Sis Bai at the side, and wanted to give her a hug.

But after pouncing into empty air, it also brought a light laugh from Big Sis Bai.

"Don't forget you're in reality."

"Then this is fine."

In the next moment, I entered the dream again.

My consciousness turned into a dream body and threw itself at Big Sis Bai.

"Hmm? Little Han, don't mess around... huh?"

Bai Yu also smiled and pushed me away at this moment.

For such an intimate and playful act from Little Han, Bai Yu found that she didn't resist it.

But just as she was thinking this, she found that the real Little Han had not fallen asleep at this moment.

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

"Barely... but it's still very uncomfortable to be in two places at once. And... it seems it can only be used in this special situation where the dream invades reality. This feeling is like... sleeping and dreaming on one side, and being awake on the other. It's a bit tiring to maintain."

At this moment, my dream self and my real self spoke at the same time.