At this very moment, the entire Outer City District was shrouded in complete darkness, so thick that one couldn’t see their own hand before their eyes.
It was as if they had fallen into a bottomless abyss, permeated by a chilling and eerie atmosphere.
Yet such darkness had no effect on Ye Lian.
Her eyes were sharp, capable of seeing clearly in the dark.
The surroundings remained exactly as before—same number of people, same positions.
Seeing that no one was missing, Ye Lian felt a bit relieved.
Immediately, she noticed a strange sluggishness in the space around her.
It was as if time itself here had been deliberately slowed down.
“So that’s it. Not only is the flow of time distorted inside the Dreamworld, but the external world’s time flow is affected as well.
The Dream Abyss Master really is a terrifying ability.”
Feeling the changes within her body, she realized her health and energy had been partially drained.
“The longer you stay in the Dreamworld, the greater the damage your real body suffers… This is bad. Others don’t have my level of resistance.”
Ye Lian tilted her head toward Mulin and Bai Xue and saw their pale faces and colorless lips, their energy steadily fading.
The situation was extremely dire; if this continued, everyone would be killed by the Dreamworld!
Fully aware of the severity, Ye Lian clenched the Destroyer tightly and looked toward the massive figure in the distance.
At that moment, “New grudges and old grudges, I’ll settle them all at once!”
Recalling how she was toyed with in the Dreamworld, her anger surged from deep within.
The King of Terror seemed to still be in a deep slumber, utterly motionless.
With a sudden movement, Ye Lian, unaffected by the spatial distortion, dashed at high speed toward the distant King of Terror.
She weaved across the rooftops, charging the Destroyer as she moved.
The crimson runes on the gun glowed vividly, casting a faintly eerie light on her.
The King of Terror remained motionless, its eight massive tentacles crushing the surrounding houses and resting on the ground.
Its countless eyeballs were also dormant, all shining a deep black.
Ye Lian ignored the tentacles and charged straight toward the King of Terror’s core.
That towering, mountain-like body was covered in countless eyeballs, all shining black—a sight that sent chills down one’s spine!
“This distance should be enough.”
With time pressing, she chose to shoot from several dozen meters away.
This distance would undoubtedly reduce the attack’s power somewhat.
But her basic strength far exceeded what it was when fighting the giant, so that slight loss of power was insignificant.
Once steady, Ye Lian raised her hand, pointing the gun ahead.
“Charge complete. Now you can enjoy a personalized awakening service.”
She pulled the trigger—click.
Immediately, a large blood-red sphere appeared at the gun’s muzzle.
With a whoosh, it transformed into a pillar of destructive crimson light and shot forth!
The King of Terror still did not react.
It remained completely still until its body was pierced clean through by the crimson pillar, leaving a terrifying hole.
Blood gushed forth!
The next moment, the black veil over the Outer City District rapidly dissipated, and space returned to normal.
“Glug glug glug!” The King of Terror suddenly awakened, its countless eyeballs turning from black to blood red.
The giant mouth below let out a piercing, eerie shriek.
A powerful force blew the rubble of buildings on the ground outward like cannonballs.
Its eight tentacles wildly thrashed, smashing the ground to shreds.
Three unlucky players were directly crushed into blood mist.
“What just happened to me?” Mulin awoke from the Dreamworld, looking ahead blankly.
She vaguely remembered living in a world where spiritual energy was resurrecting.
It was a superpower era, an Era of Evil Spirits.
And she was an Evil Spirit Hunter.
“No, that was the Dreamworld. Now this is reality.”
Feeling the tremors beneath her feet, she turned toward the King of Terror and murmured to herself.
Bai Xue also came to her senses.
Her dream had been equally extraordinary.
Within the Dreamworld, Bai Xue had become the Princess of the Undead, leading her clan in a counterattack against humanity.
Even now, she still carried a subtle lingering feeling, as if she had truly lived through it.
This was the terrifying aspect of the Dream Abyss Master’s power.
It could trap people in the Dreamworld so deeply they could no longer distinguish reality.
Boyang and the others woke almost simultaneously, still dazed.
“White Knight, where is the White Knight!?” Mulin snapped back to reality, frantically scanning the area.
The earlier bizarre changes had made her worry about Ye Lian.
Now that she couldn’t see her, an indescribable fear rapidly overwhelmed her.
“The master is there!” Bai Xue pointed toward a small white dot in the distance.
Her eyesight wasn’t sharp enough to make out the full figure of the white dot, only her intuition told her it was her master.
Mulin looked over, and half of her panic immediately faded.
Even though it was just a white dot, she was certain it was the White Knight.
Because no one else besides her could evoke such a strong feeling.
“The White Knight saved us!”
Mulin said with some excitement.
She could feel that her own condition was very poor.
The others were in a similar state.
‘If the White Knight hadn’t intervened to break everyone’s Dreamworld trance, they would have all perished in no time!’
At the thought of such a possibility, Dancing Elephant and the others were both grateful and inwardly horrified.
In their impression, they had only blacked out before falling completely into the Dreamworld.
Trying to awaken on their own strength was clearly a fool’s hope.
This ability was even more terrifying than a Dreamworld invasion!
The King of Terror was simply monstrous!
“Anyone with potions, take them immediately, or it will be dangerous,” Mulin warned.
Hearing this, everyone snapped out of their stupor and hurried to check their status panels, only then realizing their health and corruption levels were dangerously low.
The Dream Abyss Master’s ability not only drained their health but also increased their corruption.
Mulin quickly replenished herself and without a word dashed toward Ye Lian.
Seeing this, Bai Xue hesitated briefly, then followed.
“Hurry up too!” Dancing Elephant urged.
He knew very well that only near the White Knight was a relatively safe zone.
“Glug glug glug!” The King of Terror continued its unsettling shrieks.
Ye Lian’s strike had clearly hurt it badly.
At the very least, it was in severe pain.
“This situation is far worse than usual.”
Standing on the rooftop, Ye Lian observed the King of Terror’s body.
The horrifying hole was visibly healing at a rate clear to the naked eye.
Moreover, its energy hadn’t diminished much.
“It seems a quick victory is impossible.”
Clenching the Destroyer pistol, she pressed her lips together.
Her divine armor was stained with crimson light.
No—that was the light emitted from the eyeballs on the King of Terror’s body.
Countless eyes locked onto her.
A tentacle suddenly swung through the air, aiming to crush her alive!
Ye Lian’s vision darkened in an instant.
Facing the falling tentacle, she remained calm.
She simply raised her gun with one hand and pulled the trigger toward the sky.
Just like before, a massive pillar of crimson light shot upward, piercing the tentacle.
Then, a terrifying wind force burst forth, instantly slicing the tentacle in two, scattering flesh and blood everywhere!
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