novelonline Chapter 3566 Nightmares and Dreams
Chapter 3566 Nightmares and Dreams
Chapter 3566 Nightmares and Dreams
However, after resolving the room issue and defeating the evil entity, the room outside the door should no longer be another room, as Shad could even hear very obvious fighting sounds coming from the corridor.
As he arrived at the door with his sword and opened it, with a loud bang, Miss Noire flew from the right side of the doorway to the left side, where she was caught mid-air by the quick-thinking Shad.
She looked quite unwell; even with Shad's support, she could barely stand. The kerosene lamp in her hand was nearly broken, with only a faint flame flickering in the center.
Shad looked in the direction from which the red-haired vampire girl had flown, and in the thick, impenetrable darkness stood Miss Cohens.
The huntress's eyes were closed, and her posture was quite awkward, as if something enormous was controlling her limbs from the darkness behind her. The environment around her rippled like a phantom, and Shad instinctively felt a sense of unreality.
She reminded him softly:
For outsiders, the boundary between dreams and reality is becoming blurred.
Miss Noire, supported by Shad, also reminded him in a hoarse voice:
"As long as you get close to it, you will enter a dream-like environment, and the abilities it displays in the dream are terrifying."
The doctor also said not to fight the Dream Eater Demon Nagul in dreams, but fighting in the space between dreams and reality, the doctor didn't say that you definitely can't win.
"Are you OK?"
While observing the "Demon Coens" at this moment, Shad asked Miss Novare:
"My flesh and blood are very nutritious. Would you like to drink some of my blood to recover first?"
"Absolutely not! I'd rather die than drink my friend's blood. Let me rest here for a bit; as a high-level vampire, I have a strong regenerative ability."
Miss Noirey deliberately pulled away from Shad and sat down against the wall. The flickering light of the kerosene lamp cast an indistinct shadow on her face. She fixed the candle Shad was holding to the floor; it wouldn't be convenient to carry it during battle.
Although he knew that fighting on the enemy's home turf was disadvantageous to him, Shad still charged at Miss Cohens with his sword in order to save his companion.
The narrow corridor offered no opportunity for dodging. The two clashed head-on, with Shad's sword meeting the black longsword in the hunter's hand, which resembled the "Dawn of the Fall." The immense force from the swords nearly caused Shad's longsword to fly out of his grasp.
In reality, even a demon would hardly be able to suppress Shad with such power, but in dreams anything is possible. Shad roughly understood how Miss Noire was knocked away.
The light of dawn burst forth, attempting to suppress and dispel the darkness behind the huntress, but the viscous darkness behind her, a symbol of "nightmare," easily swallowed the light of the longsword.
Shad felt a sharp pain in his wrist after the two swords clashed and quickly retreated, but darkness had already spread to his feet. The shadows bound Shad's feet like shackles, and "Demon Coens," wielding his swords with both hands, slammed the blades down on Shad's head like a sledgehammer.
Shad raised his sword to parry, and with a clanging sound, the bones in his arms made a rather ominous noise. But he had managed to block the sword, and at the same time, the [Great Sin Chains] shot out from his sleeve, taking the opportunity to bind the blonde huntress's arms:
"Got you—Moonlight Greatsword!"
Instead of attaching the Moonlight Greatsword to [Dawn], a slender silver sword appeared above Shad's head, and then attempted to pierce through the darkness behind Miss Cohens with a single strike.
But with a clang, the demon's hands broke free of the chains, and after slashing down the flying sword, it immediately blocked [Dawn of the Breaking Dawn]. Then, the thick darkness behind it spread more and more densely towards Shad, and Shad could even hear the faint whispers from his most terrifying nightmare.
"Are you kidding me? It actually managed to break free of the chains with nine Great Sin Runes?"
She smiled gently:
After all, this isn't entirely reality.
Her voice not only answered his questions, but her gentle whispers, like the tinkling of wind chimes under the eaves on a midsummer night, also helped Shad dispel the influence of the whispers from his nightmares.
But the candle flame behind him continued to dim due to the nightmare's influence on reality, and the situation was developing in an increasingly unfavorable direction for Shad.
"Thank goodness I didn't bring Xiaomia. Mystic Lock - Matchstick Girl!"
He didn't want to use the complete fairytale puzzle lock, but rather hoped to see the silver moon within it appear in his dream. As a result, the darkness above seemed to melt away, creating a large hole, and gentle silver moonlight shone down, illuminating Shad.
This was an interweaving of dream and reality; for now, there was no need to worry about whether the external light source would attract something even more terrifying to the hotel. Bathed in moonlight, Shad suddenly felt the sensation of being bound by shackles lessen, and taking this opportunity, he thrust his left palm forward sharply:
"Thunder Wave!"
The huntress, who had swung her sword at Shad again, staggered backward, but the black longsword in her hand still unleashed a black aura. Shad parried again, and as the silver moonlight clashed with the darkness, he was about to unleash moonfire with his left hand.
But the moonlight overhead suddenly vanished, blurring the line between nightmare and reality. The demon even interfered with the power of Shad's Lock.
"Moonlight rays!"
The magic was still unleashed by Shad, but the pure silver ray was extinguished by darkness halfway through its flight, something that would never happen in the real world.
The only way Shad could possibly defeat his opponent now was to seize the opportunity before the nightmare completely consumed him and plunge the black dagger into the huntress's chest, but that seemed impossible.
Darkness, an abyss-like darkness, had blurred the walls on both sides of the corridor. If Shad hadn't possessed the ability to glow, he wasn't even sure if he would have been completely lost in this moment.
"Demon Koens" ceased its attack, its figure completely merging with the darkness brought by this nightmare. The Demon Hunter's Seal on Shad's hand burned intensely, as if the demon itself had already come to his side.
"Light Spell!"
He risked summoning moonlight at full power to dispel the darkness, but the increasingly terrifying nightmare seemed to devour even the light. The light spell only illuminated a two-meter radius around Shad, but it allowed him to see Miss Cohens with her eyes closed, who had somehow appeared before him.
It appeared almost face-to-face with Shad, the silver moonlight causing black smoke to billow from its body and making its skin appear even paler. But the demon did not retreat; instead, its tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and its completely black pupils met Shad's eyes directly.
At that moment, all the fear hidden deep in the heart of the stranger erupted. The nightmare, which had rarely occurred since he came into this world, dragged him into a deeper darkness of consciousness almost instantly.
The light emanating from his body rapidly faded, and the boundary between reality and dream was completely shattered at that moment. The nightmare truly descended; darkness devoured Shad's body and soul, as if he had fallen into an endless sea of darkness. But at the same moment, a soft, mournful cry came from a distant direction.
A golden light, representing the element of miracles, pierced the darkness, and the blessing "Childhood Dream"—a blessing bestowed upon Shad by the ancient god [Giver of Dreams], who had met him in the "Sea of No Light"—was displayed at this moment. When he was trapped in a dream, the power of beauty and innocence would help him overcome difficulties.
The purest and most beautiful memories in the outsider's mind transformed into the purest and most beautiful life he knew. The pure white unicorn was born from the light of the Miracle Element. The unicorn, which looked just like Ellie, passed over Shad and then suddenly used its horn to stab the "Demon Coens" hidden in the darkness deep in the nightmare.
The unicorn, as if a beam of light, passed straight through her body and struck the ancient evil spirit standing in the shadow behind her.
The power of the nightmare demon clashed with that of the Old God who bestowed dreams upon children. Although Shad only possessed blessings, he was very fortunate to be in the early days of the Fifth Age. The Old God who once fished in the "Sea of No Light" had not yet left, while the dream-devouring demon Nagul was not at his peak.
The pure white light almost tore the black figure apart, and as the dreamlike unicorn's form shattered, the nightmare that had just begun also crumbled.
After the dizziness subsided, Shad suddenly opened his eyes in the corridor on the 25th floor. Although the candles behind him still illuminated the dark corridor, this darkness was clearly no longer related to the nightmare.
Feeling his back was soaked with sweat, he was incredibly grateful for the blessing of the god who had given him the beautiful dream. But even though the nightmare was shattered, he still felt somewhat listless.
Not far ahead, Miss Cohens, spitting out a mouthful of black blood, remained in her demon form. The power of the Old Gods severely injured the demon and tore apart the dream, but did not directly eliminate the demon—after all, it was merely a blessing, not a divine intervention.
Her face grew even paler, and she turned to flee into the darkness deeper into the corridor, just as she had done before, but Shad had already caught up with her despite his headache.
The chains of sin wrapped around her ankles, causing her to fall to the ground. Shad, in a very unseemly manner, pounced on her, and the black dagger was plunged heavily into Miss Cohen's chest.
"False immortality!"
The dagger pierced her heart, and a piercing scream that shook Shad's soul rang out from the hunter's mouth.
A black figure suddenly sprang out from her shadow, and as it appeared, the dream that had just ended seemed to return. The black figure tried to pounce on Shad, but the fallen huntress reached for the pouch at her back. The small metal box used to store relics popped open, and she pressed the [Demon Hunter's Seal], which she had found at the hunter's remains, towards the shadow.