Chapter 856: Nightmare Dream
Feeling the power to control everything, the Dusan witch was satisfied to withdraw her attention, she loved this feeling now, in the nightmare dream, she was the omnipotent god, everything was under her control, all the souls in this dream, all her toys, had to be under her control, trembling under her powerless.
And in order to gain more and more power, more souls must be needed, especially the souls of those Lythermans.
His sisters regarded the defeat of the Tucan army as a more important matter than dealing with themselves.
The more time they spend in Lake Asen, the better, the more souls she harvests in Moshtier, and the stronger the power of the Shadow Nightmare Tree, the more conducive to the development of her follow-up plans.
Sooner or later, she will make them regret the decision they made today, but not now.
The eyes on the Shadow Nightmare Tree closed again, representing that Witch Dusan was once again focused on the events of the Nightmare Dream.
What is more embarrassing now is that she had overestimated her ability to dream with nightmares, ingesting too many Lesserman souls at one time, and eating it up, a little indigestion.
The Lythmans in the Nightmare Dream are huddling together to fight against the erosion of the Nightmare Dream Dream.
Dreams are different from reality, it's not as simple as rushing over to kill them, but you need to peel off their personal dreams and find them before you have a chance to devour them, which is more cumbersome.
The Witch of Dusan is racking her brains for a more convenient way to harvest souls.
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"Interesting." Gavin looked around.
It was far from what he had guessed that there were all kinds of deformed monsters everywhere.
He was still in the city of Moshtier, just a shabby, old and dilapidated version, with crumbling ruins everywhere, and others in tatters and crumbling.
He stared at it, and another image appeared in his mind, which was the city of Mausthir that he had just seen, and contrasted it with the scene before him.
After all, many houses are intact in reality, and here they are in two completely different states, and he even felt the gaze in those dilapidated houses, as if they were not empty, but existent.
Wrong.
The idea is not right.
I am now in a dream, whether it is a dream or a nightmare eroded by the dark power, it is essentially the same, it is all based on the consciousness of the soul.
Therefore, everything here is not a material embodiment, but a soul embodiment.
The reason for the appearance of the city of Moshtier is that the dream is mainly constructed by the inhabitants of the city.
These inhabitants are different from the inhabitants of Dragonoak Dreamland, who knew what they were up against from the start, so they could shape the world with their own minds.
And after the citizens of Moshtier City were dragged into a nightmare, they instinctively thought that they were still in the city, and when they encountered danger, they instinctively ran to their homes - using their homes as the safest place, the last refuge, this is the instinct of most intelligent beings.
That is to say, those houses that appear in a state of ruin, those whose owners have not been dragged into nightmares, because there is no soul consciousness to construct them, are ruins.
And those houses that exist mean that there are at least one or more people who are owned here, and the soul consciousness has entered the nightmare dream.
I am an outsider, and I still came in through the back door, so naturally I don't have a house of my own.
The back door that Gavin walked through was naturally related to the totem dream.
The mother-child relationship between the natural balancer, the totemic dream, and the nightmare dream is clearly there, and no matter how their nature changes, this will not change, and there must be a constant connection between the two parties.
Sending a person into another dream with the help of another dream power, if it is done in advance, even if it is done, it will inevitably alarm the owner of the other dream.
Gavin and the others bet on the Dusan witches, and they haven't had time to close the back door gap.
Sure enough.
The Dark Witch who only groped by herself has only mastered the most preliminary use of the Nightmare Dream, let alone weaving the Nightmare Dream, even this world has not been completely occupied.
After all, she forcibly snatched her soul through nightmares, not the normal construction of win-win cooperation like other normal dreams.
Gavin was just about to knock on the door of a house to confirm his suspicions, and by the way, to get in touch with the souls of the Lyssermans, a ghost crying wolf howled from the other side of the street, followed by a billowing black fog, in which there seemed to be countless terrible monsters, constantly pounding and banging on the doors of those houses.
Many of the houses looked crumbling and dilapidated, but the monsters kept rushing in the black fog, and they still refused to fall, including those doors that seemed to be able to be kicked open by adults with a little force, giving people a sense of indestructibility.
Gavin said thoughtfully, it seems that these houses also represent the defense line of those who are trapped in nightmares, as long as they don't take the initiative to come out, their soul consciousness will be safe for a while, and they will not be swallowed by monsters that represent nightmares.
"Child, open the door, hurry up and open the door, you look outside, I'm not a monster, I'm a mother, I'm a mother!"
"Ah...... Hurry up and open the door, the monster is chasing me, hurry up, if you don't open the door again, my mother will die......"
"Don't, don't, open the door quickly, open the door quickly......"
"Ah...... You're not my mom...... Ahhhh......h You're a monster, don't come in, don't come in, get out of my house, ahhh......h
"Help me, help me, hurry up and save me, the monster has come to my house, please, Aunt Asha, help me......"
"Don't open the door, don't open the door for her, she's been devoured by monsters, she's a monster in disguise now, don't open the door, don't go out, staying in your own house now, waiting for the witches to come and rescue us is the only way."
"Don't be deceived!"
The reason why nightmares are called nightmares is because everything here is full of changes like dreams.
Those nightmare monsters do not simply force their way through the door, they even use various deceptive methods to pretend to be the owner's relatives, friends, or even neighbors, in order to trick them into opening the door on their own initiative.
And their deceptive methods have become more and more sophisticated and realistic as the soul consciousness of the Lesserman people has been devoured more and more.
Because in the process of devouring, they read each other's soul memories together, not only the sound and movements are 100% imitated, but even the memories are the same, when they tell the secrets between them, only they know, many people will believe it.
In particular, naïve and ignorant children are the most likely to fall prey to this scam.
And the images and memories of these new victims soon became new tools for deception.
Gavin didn't think about it, he ran towards the place away from the black fog, and didn't try to knock on the doors of the Lessermans again, this kind of scam was obviously not the first time it had been played, and those who survived had accumulated experience and refused to be easily fooled again.
If he knocks on the door now, he will only be disguised as a monster, and no one will respond to him.
And in this case, taking them together is obviously a burden, it is better to wait until what he needs to do, almost do, and then go back and rescue these souls trapped by nightmares.
As long as they don't leave their houses, there is no way for the Dusan witch to help them for the time being.
Navigating the ruined streets, Gavin soon found the most lively part of the Nightmare Nightmare, the Southwall War Zone.
There is a replica of the real battlefield, and the battle scene is not inferior to reality, but it is no longer a duel between the two sides, but a three-way melee.
In addition to the Lesserman Berserkers and the Tucan Golden Horde, there are also a large number of monsters that crawl out of a nightmare.
The lower body of a spider with a human upper body but eight legs is not a arachnid drow, as their upper body is a Lythman.
A centaur with a human upper body, a horse with a lower body, and a Tucan with an upper body.
There are also half-human, half-bird, and some with eyes or arms.
The only thing they have in common is that these monsters are all shrouded in black mist, like shadow spirits more than humans.
The Lesserman Berserkers and the Toucan Golden Horde soldiers, who fought to the death in real life, arrived here to fight side by side against those nightmare monsters.
Because they saw with their own eyes that after their companions were killed, the twisted and deformed monsters emerged from their companions' bodies, just like their own version of their nightmares.
Obviously, these Lytherman berserkers and Tucan Golden Horde soldiers were already dead, and their souls became the spoils of the nightmarish dream, but to make them a part of this dream, they had to be killed again to release their nightmare.
The main focus of the Dussan witch is here, and she has not yet had time to do anything to the Lessermans who are cowering in her own home, once she completely frees her hands, she is afraid that those soul shelters will not be able to protect them forever.
Gavin also just watched from the sidelines for a while, and after determining the situation here, he quietly retreated, moving in the direction away from this place.
All the way to the northernmost point, not only were there no dilapidated Lysserman houses, but there was no shadow of even the ruins, only a thick white mist.
Going further inside, you will go out of the envelope of nightmares and dreams, and enter the aetheric plane.
Normally, those full dreams, such as the Dragon Oak Dream or the Totem Dream, are the first to build an enclosed space that isolates themselves from the Aether Plane.
At first, it may just be a distinct mist, but as the dream grows, the protective layer of this enclosed space will become more and more perfect, until a new rainbow curtain is formed, and a half-plane will be born in the etheric plane.
The Dussan Witch Nightmare Nightmare had obviously not had time to defend herself, and she was too anxious to attack this time, resulting in a lot of loopholes.
At least in the eyes of Gavin, a dream professional, it is.
Previously, even if he didn't use the back door, he could have felt through the aetheric plane.
Gavin took another ten steps in the aether plane, and after making sure that the aether fog had completely enveloped him, he turned his head to see that the nightmare version of the city of Mausttier had disappeared, replaced by a cloud of shadows and black fog that seemed to be alive, squirming and trying to engulf everything around them, and the two sides were constantly moving away.
The most unique thing about the Aetheric Plane is that it is not fixed like the Material Plane, everything here is in constant motion.
Because it is a filler, it will constantly change position as the planes squeeze against each other.
So, many of the laws of the material plane are useless here.
The ten steps that had previously come out of the nightmare dream were infinitely close and infinitely far, and so was Gavin's distance from Philancinie.
All he needed to do now was to use the power of the road to establish a bond with Philancini and open a path for her to get here.
As Gavin's mind condensed, the divine power of the road surged wildly, and the aetheric mist in front of him was forcibly torn open a tunnel, and at the other end of the tunnel, there was a delicate magic hut, a dreamlike figure, waving and smiling at him.
With each blink of his eyes, the magic hut and its beautiful woman flashed in and out to zoom in once.
It's like a horror movie with monsters approaching.
And what Gavin felt from it was not fear, but excitement.
And not only because the other party was the target of his trip, Philancini and her magic hut.
And because he had found a new use of the Divine Power of the Path.
Ever since the discovery of hidden dwarven mines and production lines beneath the Colossus.
Gavin has been thinking about building a railroad, after all, on land, low-cost large-scale transportation, this new means of transportation.
However, given the poor wilderness environment, the cost of maintaining the railway in Pheren is likely to be much higher than the cost of construction.
They only paved those railroad tracks with their front feet, and their back feet will be picked up by all kinds of intelligent creatures (including but not limited to those monsters), and other existences aside, those goblins are definitely capable of doing this kind of thing, and it is repeatedly forbidden to do that, unless Gavin has the ability to make sure that there are no goblins or anything like that in the place where the railroad passes.
It's not a reasonable guess, but this kind of thing has already begun to appear on the luber road he paved.
Not only did the monsters start to destroy the roads, but even some villages and towns artificially cut off their roads, because they thought that the roads were too smooth and hindered their financial routes, so that many merchants went directly to the roads, and did not resupply and stay in their villages and towns at all.
In this world, not everyone has a far-sighted vision, they always stay in place, or even look backwards, unconsciously, dragging down development, and even becoming a stumbling block to development.
In a modern society where education is relatively widespread, it is normal for all kinds of development to be smooth sailing, and there will be all kinds of discordant voices, not to mention a world full of monsters and mixed forces.
Gavin's main task of setting up a road guard team based on the road god statue is to deal with these related issues, and even use swords to clear obstacles when necessary, and in this regard, the big goblin warlords of Bloodgap City have achieved a kind of extreme - the extreme of violence.
If any section of the Conqueror's Road on the Giant's Plain is destroyed, the wise tribes within a radius of ten kilometers will be punished, confiscated from all their property, or slaughtered outright.
After the wisdom tribes of the three regions in a row became a thing of the past, the wisdom tribes around the Conqueror's Road on the Giant Plains not only did not have the courage to move this road, but even became their guardians, if anyone did something on this road, it would be the mortal enemy of their entire tribe, they could not be destroyed, and they would also lead the big goblins of Blood Gorge City to destroy.
But this method, that is, it can be used in the Giant Plains, where monster forces are the main body, but there is no way to use it in those towns where humans, elves, dwarves and halflings are the main ones.
Because to do so would be to provoke the wrath of the people.
All in all, in reality, in the short period of time, there are many more difficulties than imagined.
And the multiverse has its own uniqueness, and Gavin has long had the idea of building an Aether Railroad or a Shadow Railway, especially the former.
The preparation is to start from the spiritual plasticity of the Aether plane, and as the dream continues to unfold, the feasibility of this plan continues to soar.
Because dreams are the result of the aetheric plane being reshaped by spiritual minds.
Build a dream railway in the dream world, and then add the road divine power to pull it, and with the magic in reality, a complete Aether railway plan is formed, and the rest is a matter of perfect implementation.
"Your growth rate is as amazing as ever, in just two months, your use of the divine power of the path has been raised to a whole new level, and it can really pave the way for my magic hut in the ether." Philansieni said with a smile.
In the space where Gavin's mind diverged, she and her magic hut were already close at hand.
"Teacher, you are not bad, you have begun to grasp the essence of dreams, it seems that you have not only successfully built your dreams, but also begun to enter the belief of dream goblins." Gavin couldn't help but look at the other party.
The dreamlike feeling in her body is even stronger than when we first met.
It's just that unlike before, the fog that wraps around her body is no longer the shackles that imprison her, but a unique cloak on her body, which perfectly blends with the breath of the Aether Plane as her mind changes.
The resentful aura at the beginning is long gone, and there is a bright and upward feeling.
"It's thanks to you that you've opened a whole new door for me, and in this respect, you're my teacher." Philancini said from the bottom of her heart.
The change Gavin brought to her was far greater than the impact she had on Gavin.
He was the one who led her into the realm of dreams, and it was he who helped her reshape her cage with the goblins. (End of chapter)