Chapter 352 : Chapter 352

Chapter 352: The Truth?

As the invisible domain enveloped the entire battlefield, all the real-world consciousnesses were pulled into the dream.

For the Nightmare Demons, their former home turf had now become their cage.

They had no choice but to flee, because they were facing the elites of the transcendent academies, who had been aggrieved and suppressed until now!

The knuckles of the barbarians from the beast academies cracked.

The same was true for the other students.

They had been waiting for this moment for far too long.

Their eyes were on the only focal point here, and it was that witch who had given them this opportunity.

Gratitude?

Admiration?

Worship?

Perhaps all of them, but more was the fear of her means that were beyond their comprehension.

They couldn't figure out how there could be such a big gap between students of the same first-year class.

Was the educational gap between the academies really that big?

"Nightmare Demon... argh! I've had enough of you! Take my fist!"

As the people from the beast academies were the first to be unable to hold back and rushed towards the Nightmare Demon closest to him, until that punch made intimate contact with the Nightmare Demon's cheek, and then the brute force knocked her over... only then did everyone confirm that this was not fake!

"Kill! Kill all these Nightmare Demons!"

As someone in the crowd shouted this, everyone began to vent their pent up frustration on these Nightmare Demons.

In the midst of the chaos, I withdrew from the center of the battlefield.

This kind of battle didn't even need my intervention.

If I had already done so much, and they still had such a numerical steamroll, and still let a few Nightmare Demons escape, then I could only say that they deserved the word "useless."

"Thanks. Your Destiny is really useful," I walked back to the extraordinary item formed by that Seed of Destiny.

At this moment, this first City Lord seemed a little weary, although I still couldn't see his facial features.

"I should be the one thanking you... after this... please hand me over to the new City Lord of Ninglan New City..."

"Are you planning to continue to protect Ninglan New City?"

"Yes..."

"Do you have any requirements for the new City Lord? Although I don't want to discourage you, the previous Ninglan Qiuyu was the last male heir of your Ninglan line. All that's left is Ninglan Qiuyue, a girl."

"I know... I know a lot of information about Ninglan New City. I even know why there is only one male next generation, Ninglan Qiuyu. Please return me to Ninglan Qiuyue."

"Then she would be the first female City Lord of Ninglan New City."

"So what?"

"That's true. It also has nothing to do with me."

***

At this moment, in the few sentences of conversation I had with the first City Lord, the battle on the side of the transcendent academies was already nearing its end.

I had said before that I believed in the strength of these people, and the facts proved it.

It was an undoubted steamroll.

Now, the Nightmare Demons were truly reunited as sisters, and would die on the same day of the same month of the same year.

I looked at the summoning channel that was gradually shrinking due to the exhaustion of energy.

The flesh and blood energy that had been sacrificed from more than half of the residential area of the underground city had ended up in such a situation.

And I also truly felt the cruelty of the progression of the script.

For the ordinary people who didn't know the truth, even becoming cannon fodder was an honor.

How ironic was this sentence.

Did their deaths have any meaning?

What did they get in return?

A gamble for these Children of Destiny to get the truth.

Even now, none of them felt sad for these victims. Including... me.

"Don't! Don't kill me! It was my promise! It was me! I can give you the truth!"

"You! You traitor!"

"You guy! Why don't you go and die! You were the one who summoned us all over to die with you!"

"What a joke! If I hadn't summoned you over, you would still be scratching your head trying to find a way to enter the main world! What right do you have to scold me!"

As some of these Nightmare Demons were captured, and others were beaten into dream bubbles by those who didn't know their own strength, this battle that was like a farce to me was also over.

When this Nightmare Demon let out a cry for mercy, many people also finally reacted to what they had been fighting for in this battle.

It was naturally for the questions and answers that this Nightmare Demon had thrown out before, or rather... the truth.

So all the Nightmare Demons who had prevented this Nightmare Demon from speaking were slapped in the face.

It was extremely humiliating.

And some Nightmare Demons seemed to have foreseen their own end.

They knew that they couldn't turn the tables, and couldn't stand all this, so they chose to commit suicide directly.

But none of this mattered.

"Hehe... I admit we lost. I said that even if we won in the end, I would also tell the truth. Because sometimes the truth is more cruel than you expected..."

After calming down, this Nightmare Demon no longer resisted, but her tone was a little mocking, as if she was not the one who had lost this battle.

At this moment, even I subconsciously turned my head, as if I were also curious about what truth she would say.

And at this moment, the first City Lord also dissipated at this moment.

It seemed that without the maintenance of that flesh and blood energy, it was like a toy that had lost its battery and stopped.

But it was caught by me and carefully put away.

I don't know what an extraordinary item is, but under the feedback of my Spirit Vision, I understood that the power to control the Destiny was not the ability of this first City Lord, but that he had done it with the help of this extraordinary item.

When I came into contact with it again, I seemed to feel the illusion that I could also use its ability.

But to use it... it seemed that a corresponding price needed to be paid.

I could even control this extraordinary item and have all the Destiny on me stripped away.

This feeling was something I had not felt when I first came into contact with this white crystal.

It seemed that the real user of this extraordinary item at that time should be this first City Lord.

And now, he seemed to have been forced offline, so I could use it.

When I realized that there was a first City Lord in this extraordinary item, I also felt his soul-substance in it, but it was just a trace, far less than a normal person.

And why would this trace of soul-substance appear in here?

It seemed to be because this trace of soul-substance was entangled with this Seed of Destiny.

The Destiny inside wrapped around this trace of soul-substance, allowing it to continue for a thousand years.

This was really amazing.

In that case... theoretically, if the soul-substance was replenished, this first City Lord of Ninglan could even be resurrected!

"Don't interrupt us! What on earth was the situation with the Sleeping Curse you mentioned before!"

"How would I know what Sleeping Curse you got in your main world? That was just the instinctive behavior of the Nightmares. You should be glad that they were just a group of dream creatures without self-awareness. Otherwise, they would be more troublesome enemies than us Nightmare Demons."

"Then why did you come here, and why are you targeting us so much!"

At this moment, another person at the side questioned this Nightmare Demon.

Her tone was very bad.

From the redness of her eye sockets, it could be roughly seen that her friend seemed to have met with a disaster here.

"Oh, I almost forgot. You fools from the main world don't know what Destiny is, right?"

"Destiny?"

Just as everyone was curious about this concept, the Nightmare Demon ignored these people and continued to speak.

"We came here for the Destiny of your main world! The Destiny of Ninglan New City! Someone from your main world put the Destiny into the body of the Nightmares, and then released the Nightmares here. This is actually a game of competing to kill the Nightmares! An existence like the Nightmare itself is impossible to carry Destiny. So you have all been arranged... do you know why?"

"Because... because among those gathered here, most of you are... the Children of Destiny of the main world!"

"Oh no, you are the candidate Children of Destiny! You are not the real Children of Destiny yet! Because... there is only one real Child of Destiny!"

As she said this, the Nightmare Demon's voice was almost a roar.

She wanted everyone to hear.

As teenagers of modern society, how could they not understand the settings of so-called Destiny and the Child of Destiny?

Those popular novels on the internet, the protagonist being the Child of Destiny, these concepts were already familiar to them.

But now they were told that they were the Children of Destiny!

How could this not surprise them?

When the Nightmare Demon said that there was only one real Child of Destiny, many people's gazes subconsciously turned to me at this moment.

Because in their eyes, if there had to be one real Child of Destiny among the people present, then the most suitable person seemed to be only one...

"What are you all looking at me for," at this moment, I crossed my arms, my tone seeming calm, because I knew myself quite well, without a single bit of fear.

"And you... your name is... Yang Yuehan, right! You, as the most special one among all these people... you must be the Child of Destiny! I might as well tell you, there will only be one Child of Destiny in the end! All of you will become the stepping stone for that last one! Using the glory of your entire life to build the ladder for them to ascend to the highest throne!"

After the Nightmare Demon finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

No one wanted to be someone else's stepping stone.

But from all that had happened since the Dream State Exchange Competition until now, it seemed that only one person fit this character setting.

The other party had crushed everyone with an absolute posture, standing at a peak that they could not climb.

"Can I understand this as you trying to sow discord?"

A smile pulled at the corner of my mouth, but in the eyes of those looking at me, it was full of disdain and ridicule.

There was no basis for sowing discord here.

Even if everyone here joined forces, they couldn't even touch the corner of the other party's clothes.

"So what if it is! I know you won't fall into internal strife just because of a few words of mine. And you seem to be high and mighty. Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you are the protagonist of this world!"

"..."

"All of you need to run around for the sake of Destiny. Do you think it's a coincidence that you came here? You are just slaves of Destiny. You are gathered here... just because there is the Destiny that attracts you here. Those Nightmares, without us, those Nightmares would have been your enemies. You would have done anything for the sake of Destiny. Even if you don't know the concept of Destiny, you would have hunted those Nightmares for other reasons, indirectly obtaining Destiny, for example, to go back."

"The concept of controlling Destiny is the script. And you are just chess pieces acting according to the world script without knowing it! Puppets!"

"And the one who controls the world script is none other than your so-called senior management of the transcendent academies, those transcendent ones, the ones you call teachers, academy heads, and principals!"

"They hold your fate in their hands, turning the Destiny into threads, and manipulating you like puppets! Letting them play with you as they please!"

"And you bunch of fools know nothing!"

At this moment, every word the Nightmare Demon said was like a heavy hammer hitting their hearts.

They were... chess pieces, puppets?

Their actions were being controlled?

And the culprit of all this was actually the teachers and academy heads of the transcendent academies!

This was an extremely profound blow to them.

Even those who didn't believe it would have a seed of doubt planted in them.

And at this moment, Tan Han was also stunned as she listened to these truths.

Although she had long expected it, she had not expected it to be like this.

She seemed to recall the last conversation she had with Little Han.

When she asked how big this scam was, Little Han's answer was that it was unavoidable.

How fitting was this description at this moment.

This was a scam involving all the transcendent academies targeting them.

As long as they tried to step into the transcendent world, it was an unavoidable ending.

But Tan Han was very curious why, why it was her and these people.

Little Han definitely knew something, but she seemed unable to say it.

Either she had signed a confidentiality contract, or she had been warned and threatened, so she could only hint.

But... if this truth could not be known by the Child of Destiny themselves, then... why did Little Han know?

Could it be that she had seen through this truth herself?

But it was obvious that what Little Han knew was definitely not as simple as just seeing through it herself.

Then was Little Han also a Child of Destiny?

But Little Han's previous actions did not seem to be the actions of someone who knew they were a Child of Destiny.

For example, the act of distancing herself from her was the biggest flaw.

The other party's actions were undoubtedly hinting that she was the so-called Child of Destiny, and the other party had subconsciously chosen to stay away after learning about it.

And also... since all of this was a setup, a scam arranged by all the academies, then why did the transcendent academies just let the other party speak the truth?

Could it be because they couldn't stop it?

So Tan Han knew that she had to go and ask clearly.

Since the truth had now been revealed, then... would Little Han be frank with her?

But before that, she needed to ask this Nightmare Demon a question.

"Impossible! You're lying to us! How can there be such a thing as Destiny in this world! No one is a born protagonist!"

Just as Tan Han was about to speak, a female voice that sounded a little broken roared at this Nightmare Demon.

Her outburst instantly triggered the rebuttal of many people.

After all, in the face of an unknown and unacceptable truth, people often choose to escape, and even violently refute, trying to eliminate everything outside their cognition.

Perhaps this was also a cognitive correction of Destiny?

"That's right! You're a liar! You're just a prisoner! You're still being stubborn now. Go back to your abyss!"

"Kill her!"

The Nightmare Demons looked at these people who said they didn't believe, but each of them had become crazy and unreasonable because of her words.

Even their anger couldn't cover the fear in their hearts.

A mocking look appeared on the faces of these Nightmare Demons, and they even seemed to have forgotten their previous fear.

Yes, they couldn't go back alive, but they could reveal the truth and let all these people feel the pain brought by the truth!

"That's right, this world has never been fair. Some people are born to be protagonists, while some are just supporting roles! This is a fate you cannot resist!"

"You are just poultry raised in the main world, waiting to be harvested by those transcendent academies. You know nothing!"

"The truth they have hidden from you is far more than this! You can slowly guess!"

"You have defeated us, but how are you any better! We are just being used as a stepping stone for you. But even if we die, we will disgust you to death! You are not worthy to live in the beautiful lies woven by those people!"

"Face your bleak truth... that's what you should experience. I will make it so that you can't even laugh in your future daily life!"