Chapter 351 : Chapter 351

Chapter 351: I Will Only Help You This Once, and Only This Once

As the ritual in the underground city was completed, the blood-red brilliance gradually dimmed.

The dark red atmosphere, coupled with the pitch-black underground city, the damaged buildings, and the lingering smell of blood, painted a tragic picture here.

The little bit of brilliance from the Illumination Spell shot towards the sky and then slowly fell, only illuminating a little bit of light for them.

And the Nightmare Demons were not affected by this environment.

After all, in the abyss, an environment more harsh than this was their daily routine.

Entering the darkness for them was simply like coming home.

The Nightmare Demons, they relied on the talent they had mastered to travel between the dream and reality.

They didn't even need to join forces to suppress these people and make them retreat step by step.

In the darkness, only the holy light mastered by the Holy Angel Academy illuminated an area.

They spread their wings of holy light, and the united Holy Angel students were only enough to make the Nightmare Demons a little wary when facing them.

The spellcasters were releasing spells, looking for the right opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the Nightmare Demons, but at this moment, the effect was minimal.

The students from the beast academies directly chose to beastify, facing the Nightmare Demon's attacks with their most powerful state.

They casually drew their handy weapons from the ruins of this building, using local materials, or they had found weapons before and directly started to fight the Nightmare Demons.

When the suppression of numbers was enough, even the Nightmare Demons would sometimes be hit by a blow that was enough to cause a comminuted fracture in an ordinary person.

But this was not enough.

The reason why the Nightmare Demons had made everyone fear them before was because they had the means to kill them completely, to absorb a person's soul-substance.

A light injury would lead to a blurred consciousness and an uncontrollable body.

A heavy injury would lead to a coma and a faded body.

Those Nightmare Demons were feeling the pleasure of slaughtering those main world students, their expressions crazed, as if they wanted to release all the grievances and oppression they had suffered in the abyss here.

Some Nightmare Demons would even deliberately kill the other party, and then absorb the other party's soul-substance when they were at their weakest after reviving.

This even made it impossible for the other party to resist.

"Yang Yuehan... big sister! I'm begging you, please help! I can't hold on here!"

Until someone finally couldn't take it anymore and let out a helpless cry, many people only then discovered under the dim light that the person they had asked for help before was indifferent at this moment, just as they had been indifferent when those Nightmare Demons had first besieged the other party.

"Isn't this the answer you were looking for? You want the truth, but you can't even stand the suffering you need to go through. Why didn't you refuse in the first place?"

After retorting them, I did not respond any more.

After the conversation with the first City Lord before, I had finally entered the battlefield again.

Although he said he would provide me with assistance, his so-called assistance was Destiny.

It would only come at the last moment, and would not give me a pie from the sky directly.

The domainization derivation of the Nightmare Spell also needed me to figure it out myself.

But up to now, my understanding of this concept was still only on the name.

Although it seemed that what I needed to do was just to turn a single-target spell into a group-target or area-of-effect spell, the difficulty was not small at all.

Even now, I had no experience or inspiration in this area at all, and had a feeling of not knowing where to start.

But it didn't matter.

Many spells actually had a great deal of correlation.

For example, the Fire Rain Domain spellbook I had.

It was time for it to make an appearance.

When the Fire Rain Domain spellbook came out, I found that I seemed to have been thinking in circles.

If I directly used the Fire Rain Domain spell, I could also make these Nightmare Demons only dare to hide in the dream and not come to reality.

But the Fire Rain Domain was a spellbook.

My Magic Power Source had not yet recovered.

It had only recovered a little now, which was not enough to support the use of this super-consumption spellbook.

So... I was not going to use the spellbook anymore!

Fire Rain Domain spellbook, become the theoretical experimental subject for my derivative Nightmare Spell!

Of course, all the destructive research was in the dream.

I wasn't so rich as to use a super-consumption spellbook as a disposable item in reality.

When I took out a spellbook in my hand in front of everyone again, one of the Nightmare Demons in the group subconsciously shivered.

Because she still clearly remembered how terrifying the things that had happened after I had made this action not long ago.

Death and rebirth!

Directly from a spellcaster to a physical arts master.

She could even stand in the sacrificial ritual without any damage.

The power of the ritual couldn't even plunder her flesh and blood.

If this happened again... she simply dared not to think!

The other party was a madman, a madman that even her teammates, the people on their side, could not understand.

No one knew what the other party would do next.

This Nightmare Demon even felt that the other party would even kill her own allies when she got ruthless.

This could be seen from the fear that these outsiders inadvertently revealed towards her.

With the iconic cracking sound of the spellbook, the super-consumption spellbook that was so sought after by so many seniors in the Witch Academy shattered in the dream.

Countless rune rituals broke away from the spellbook at this moment and flashed in the air.

That series of things that were like gibberish were the runes that made up the spell.

Its complexity, at this moment, fully showed its intricacy to me.

But it didn't matter.

I had long expected this situation.

The Memory Bookshelf spellbook at this moment recorded all the rune information I saw in that instant in detail.

"Let's begin," I tilted my head and said.

Here, no one knew who I was talking to, but that first City Lord of Ninglan New City understood what this meant.

At this moment, the power of Destiny suddenly erupted.

A golden aura spread throughout the entire underground city.

The crisscrossing chains of Destiny tightly connected everyone here.

Everyone seemed to be divinely assisted at this time.

This was the guidance of Destiny on a person's decisions and judgments.

And all of this Destiny also pointed to one person, and that was me.

At this moment, to some extent, I was really tied to the same boat as them, although it was only temporary.

With the spellbook being violently dismantled by me, I also began to interpret the rune ritual.

After all, I needed to understand the theoretical basis for the derivation of the spell domain.

After all, even if there was inspiration for the derivation of a spell, without the corresponding basis, it was equivalent to having a wonderful short story in your mind, but not having the corresponding writing skills to express it.

My requirements were not high.

The derivation of the domainized spell was my ultimate goal.

Even the derivation of a group Nightmare Spell, I also needed it very much.

And all of this was very precious theoretical practical experience, something that was hard to come by.

After all, next time, if I still wanted to borrow the Destiny to complete my vision, it was probably impossible, and there probably wouldn't even be a next time.

With the dismantling of the spell, the easiest way to understand its principle and operating mechanism was to use it and see how each step of it operated.

When it was freed from the restriction of the spellbook, the Fire Rain Domain spell reappeared in the underground city in this form for the first time.

It's just that the spell was not supplied by magic power, but was driven by the fire elements scattered in the environment.

With the operation of the ritual, the temperature of the surrounding environment, with me at the center, began to rise.

This process was much slower than I had expected.

And because of the temperature difference between the surrounding area of the underground city and where I was, a rare strong wind was stirred up in the underground city.

Even the iconic fire clouds of the Fire Rain Domain spell did not rise.

But as the drops of fire elements condensed into pure raindrops of fire, dripped on the ground, and ignited a burst of scorching flames.

This strange phenomenon made many students think of my signature fire rain spell back then, especially those elves from the Aphrodite Academy.

After seeing this scene, they were even more reminded of some unpleasant memories.

It's just that this time, the power of the fire rain was much, much smaller than last time.

Although many people were complaining, Tan Han knew very well what this represented.

This was a spell cast with bare hands, without a spellbook!

And at this moment, those Nightmare Demons also felt a pain after being enveloped by the Fire Rain Domain.

But after a few tests, they found that this level was not yet enough to force them to not dare to come to reality.

But they couldn't deny that this had also brought them no small trouble.

And as time went by, and the fire elements gathered, the fire rain also became stronger.

All of this was like boiling a frog in warm water.

And luckily, they discovered it in time.

"No... how can the range of this spell be so large? Such a dense fire rain is impossible to dodge."

"Go and interrupt that guy's casting. We can't go on like this!"

When the Nightmare Demons had more things to worry about, their attention would decrease.

Once their attention decreased, they would make more mistakes.

And the consequence of their mistakes was being seriously injured.

No matter how much of an advantage they had, they had to admit that they were not at an advantage in numbers.

And the power of this fire rain was stuck at a level that made them very uncomfortable.

If they didn't open a protective spell, they would be injured and it would be very painful.

But if they opened a protective spell, it would be a waste of power.

And spells couldn't travel between the dream and reality.

Every time they traveled back and forth between the dream and reality, they needed to use a protective spell to resist.

Not to mention the consumption, just the mobility was greatly weakened.

So they once again had the idea of targeting me.

But even with this idea, they all tacitly agreed to just interrupt my casting, not to kill me, because they had subconsciously eliminated the option of killing me.

At this moment, I was focused on the exploration of the derivation of the spell domain, and did not pay attention to the planning of those Nightmare Demons.

After all, I had never wanted to rely on the Fire Rain Domain to suppress them, but to use the Fire Rain Domain spell to create something bigger.

I wanted to let the Nightmare Demons also experience the taste of only being able to stay in the dream.

I wanted to grab the Nightmare Demons by the collar and tell them loudly, you are just a bunch of losers who bully the weak by relying on your talent.

If you take away your talent, you are a piece of trash that is not even as good as a maggot.

Traveling back and forth between reality and the dream was their talent.

They should have used it well, not relied on it.

This kind of unenterprising idea was what I wanted to criticize them for.

Even me, if my Spirit Vision talent was taken away, I would not be like those Nightmare Demons and become a useless piece of trash who knew nothing.

I would still go and explore the mystery of the spellbooks.

I would still seriously study Runology.

But I would take achieving the transcendent as my first goal, master the true five senses, and then go and explore the fields I had once set foot in.

"Oh? You're targeting me?"

Faced with those Nightmare Demons who were now targeting me, I was not afraid at all, and was even a little eager to try.

I raised my right hand, and the Nightmare Spell appeared.

It was just the right time to test the changes to the Nightmare Spell.

"Go to hell! Stop this damn spell for me!"

"Hmm, that might not be as you wish," with a wave of my hand, I didn't care about the other party's blow that was heading straight for my body.

Until her blow passed through my body without any obstruction, I made no other moves.

The Nightmare Demon's attack did not cause me any damage.

At this moment, she was finally stunned.

And the other Nightmare Demons who wanted to attack me were also stunned.

This blow didn't hit?

"She's in reality! Are you stupid from fighting!"

A Nightmare Demon who couldn't stand it shouted as if she was angry that her iron was not becoming steel, and then rushed towards me in a very action-oriented way.

But in the next moment, she also passed through my body like the Nightmare Demon before, without causing me a single bit of damage.

Instantly, a chill ran down the backs of both of them.

Only these two Nightmare Demons who had tried it knew what had happened in that instant.

They... were actually trapped in the dream!

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it! We are Nightmare Demons! The dream is our home turf! We are the rulers of the dream! How could I be trapped in the dream!"

As this Nightmare Demon roared like a madman, she immediately attracted the attention of all the people and Nightmare Demons.

Trapped in the dream... wasn't this the same as them, the students of the transcendent academies?

"What on earth did you do! What on earth did you do to me!"

The Nightmare Demon who had just experienced my Nightmare Spell for the second time rushed towards me like a madman.

But her every attack passed through my body in vain.

And I was just a calm bystander.

This contrast made everyone present silent.

This was not only a comparison between madness and ease, but also a comparison between their difficulty and my effortlessness.

"I once said that I don't like meaningless battles, because such battles have no value. Did you really think I did nothing just now and just cast a fire rain spell? Wouldn't you think I'm a bit too naive to think so?"

I said in a flat tone.

Then, facing this Nightmare Demon who was once again rushing towards me like a madman, I grabbed her by the crown of her head.

The sudden impact made her, who had originally thought this blow would still not hit, stunned.

But in the next moment, a focused Fireball spell pierced through her entire body from the crown of her head.

Then her entire Nightmare Demon began to burn, and in just an instant, she was turned into dust.

"Your talent is an ability that anyone who sees it will envy. But you have lived as a piece of trash that can only rely on your talent. Without your talent ability, you are just a bug that can't even take a Fireball spell."

I clapped my hands, as if the hand that had just touched the Nightmare Demon was dirty, the insult was extremely strong.

At this moment, the entire battlefield in this part of the underground city fell silent.

Even the fire rain gradually became smaller at this moment.

Only the burning buildings around and the scorching temperature remaining in the air proved what had happened here.

The Nightmare Demons liked to call us outsiders "bugs" the most.

And at this moment, I had returned this title to them completely, because at this moment, only they deserved this description.

"Thanks. This ability of yours is really useful."

On the silent battlefield, this sudden and out-of-context sentence of mine confused everyone.

But what followed was a chill down their spines.

There was actually an existence here that they couldn't perceive!

But only I knew that I was thanking that first City Lord.

Was this the feeling of being blessed by Destiny?

All of this happened as if it were a matter of course.

Was this the treatment of a protagonist?

But unfortunately, if I had to choose, I still wouldn't choose to be such a protagonist.

"Now is the time for you to find the answer with your own strength. I will only help you this once, and only this once."

As I finished this sentence, a crisp snap of my fingers echoed throughout the battlefield.

An invisible domain instantly expanded outwards.

Nightmare Domain, activated!