Capítulo 729: Chapter 256: Ambush in the Dream Realm

When Anvis’ avatar located at the Starfire secret base fell into dormancy, in the Deep Dream World, the massive Floating City, dragging the desperately struggling Pomona, passed through a special dream rift and submerged into the Inversion Layer at the bottom of the Deep Dream World.

This rift possessed a special mechanism; once a being passed through, the rift’s teleportation orientation would randomly change—a tactic employed by Anvis to briefly delay his pursuers.

Upon reaching the Inversion Layer, the Floating City quickly moved to an odd miniature dream realm according to dream coordinates. Just as Pomona was about to break free, Anvis tossed him into a stream of chaotic dream currents.

The flow of time in these chaotic, deep dream currents differed from other areas; even if a Ninth Rank were to be accidentally swept up and escaped at top speed, several days might have already passed in the outside world.

The Dream World Anvis was looking for was not large, occupying only a few thousand square kilometers, but everything in it was inverted—the ground above and the sky below.

The gray-white ‘sun’ shone upon the upside-down land, illuminating rocks and trees, and all things assumed a peculiar black and white hue, resembling faded black and white photographs.

The ‘intruding’ Floating City and Anvis’ avatar could not escape these strange rules, their colors instantly turning black and white.

At the same time, that ubiquitous, eerie strength in the Deep Dream World that gradually assimilated and confused Professionals seemed to have abruptly vanished without a trace here, as if it were a kind of refuge, inadvertently making one want to lower their guard.

The Deep Dream World was actually somewhat like an ocean—the deeper one dives, the greater the ‘pressure’ in the environment becomes. The power of dreams erodes the existence of non-dream entities until they are fully assimilated, forever trapped in the dream realm.

This peculiar miniature dream was a battlefield prepared by Anvis for the possible Ninth Rank level enemies.

Although Pomona’s rebellion was somewhat unexpected, it didn’t exceed the scope of his plans.

Compared to the worst scenarios he had anticipated, such as the radiant Church Court secretly sending Saints into battle, or incarnations or even the actual bodies of ancient entities personally descending, a rebellious Pomona was not a big problem.

Shortly after arriving in this Dream World, the Floating City’s tower spirit ‘Pomiya’ suddenly transmitted a warning: the Dream World was sealed by an unknown force, unable to break free.

“Cease your struggle, Blasphemers!”

At the same time, the enemy’s figure also appeared before Anvis.

As Anvis expected, the first ones to chase him into this Dream World were two bizarrely shaped Ninth Rank Angel Envoys from the Songxing Secret Sect.

After entering the Deep Dream World, they shed their humanoid guises and fully unleashed their vast and strange true forms.

One was a huge Fireball, purely composed of dark and blazing flames, while the other was giant-like in form with twisted colossal tentacles for a head.

In Pomiya’s scanning analysis, these two Angel Envoys’ states of existence were very special; their Momentum fluctuated wildly, and there was a strange discordance between their spirit and body.

In other words, they were akin to projections relying on a host body.

This is probably why the Songxing Secret Sect was able to repeatedly bring forth previously unrecorded Ninth Ranks, as they were not originally from this world, only recently able to descend for some reason.

Does this have something to do with the descent of Ma’elim, or perhaps the Continent’s war outbreak, or the expansion of the Overlap Area?

And while Anvis was observing them, seeing no movement from the Floating City, the Angel Envoys’ huge twisted bodies suddenly became etherealized, swiftly charging towards the Floating City.

As they closed in, faint whispers began to resonate within Anvis’ mind, with endless, chaotic, and mad streams of divinity trying to wash over Anvis’ sanity, aiming to shatter it like an isolated island in a tsunami.

Yet the strength from the Ancient Secret Scripture steadily maintained Anvis’ mental state, a soft ink-green Radiance shimmering, absorbing all incoming supernatural informational contamination.

This was the Angel Envoys’ Talent Ability, their very existence was synonymous with being sources of information contamination that constantly assimilated everything around them.

A swarm strategy was ineffective against them; not even a Ninth Rank could be immune to such indiscriminate information contamination but had to withstand it.

Facing the two approaching Angel Envoys, the Floating City also went ‘all out’, with the Magic Towers bursting white Purification beams, forcing them to change their trajectories to evade.

Hundreds of High Rank Alchemical Golems took flight from the Floating City, their formation vaguely composing a three-dimensional Array structure, entangling the two envoys, requiring them to divert their attention to respond.

For some unknown reason, Anvis had yet to activate the Noctilucent Moon System, as well as launch an attack exceeding the Ninth Rank.

The power level of these two Angel Envoys lay somewhere between that of a newly-inducted Ninth Rank and a veteran Ninth Rank; due to their innate Information Contamination passive, if they were to battle intelligent life, their troublesome nature would be on par with that of a veteran Ninth Rank.

However, against the Alchemical Golem group specifically arranged by Anvis, their strongest abilities were virtually non-existent. Additionally, with the discordance between will and vessel, they could at most exhibit the combat prowess of a newly-inducted Ninth Rank.

Despite this, the hundreds of golems quickly began to fall into a disadvantageous position.

To constrain Ninth Rank Angel Envoys with less than Ninth Rank power was nearly an impossible task.

But as the two Songxing Secret Sect Missionaries were briefly entangled, the variables Anvis had been waiting for finally transpired.

As the great battle raged on, an invisible fluctuation suddenly emanated from the ground above their heads, rapidly enveloping the entire battlefield.

The moment Anvis detected this wave sweeping past, he immediately commanded Pomona to activate the long-prepared spatial shockwave, forcefully breaking the Dream World’s seal, and without hesitation, abandoned the golem group blocking the envoys to flee.

In the instant of passing through the edge of the Dream Realm, Anvis suddenly sensed a strong pulling force and a powerful wave carrying monotone information.

“Don’t go, stay here…”

The next moment, the Magic Patterns on the surface of the Floating City emitted dazzling light, and the endless Magic Power from the pseudo-Eternal Core burst forth instantly, breaking free from the pull and leaving the world in an instant.

The two Songxing Secret Sect Missionaries also realized something was amiss, but it was too late.

Inside the Dream, the color of everything rapidly darkened, the ash-white sun in the sky turned into a pitch-black round sun, and under the shadow of this dark sunlight, the colors of all things were completely subsumed.

Viewed from beyond this world, the entire Dream World, originally akin to a grayish-white bubble, had now been soaked in pure blackness and was emitting a suffocating fluctuation.

According to the information Anvis obtained from the Land of Inheritance, the master of this bizarre Dream was a strange existence since the Dark Age.

It couldn’t move; thus, its Dream was everything it perceived. It did not observe the world through light, so its Dreams had no color.

To this day, the master of the Dream was nowhere to be found, but its Dream remains here nonetheless.

In normal times, as well as when this world was ‘awake’, it was harmless. But if a battle involving an ancient existence was to break out here, it would trigger the lingering will of the master of the Dream.

Ever since it had consciousness, ‘it’ had never seen its kind.

It didn’t realize at first that there was a problem until, at some point, an emotion called ‘loneliness’ suddenly arose within it.

So, it had a Dream. In that Dream, it saw many entities with different appearances, but all radiating vibrations similar to its own.

It felt happy and merged these entities into itself, subsequently falling into a deep slumber, until the next time ‘similar beings’ appeared, which would then awaken it again.

According to the records, when Darkness descends, all things remaining in the Dream will disappear completely.

After waiting briefly, confirming that the auras of the two envoys had scattered, Anvis crossed off the Songxing Secret Sect’s name from the enemy list and then went to the next battlefield he had prepared.

Even if they might merely be a type of projection, the consumption necessary to support such a projection’s descent would not be small; being able to resolve two at once is equally a heavy blow to the Songxing Secret Sect.