Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 282 Imaginary Dreams and Imaginary Dragons

Chapter 281

Rosen approached the spatial vortex that led to and from the Spirit Realm and carefully sensed its changes.

Sure enough, the spatial vortex was subtly growing stronger, and the spiritual realm behind it was clearly also growing rapidly.

Rosen unfolded the World Domain, then compressed it into a strip, and manipulated it to thrust into the spatial vortex. Due to the World Authority's control over time and space, the World Domain quickly forced its way through the spatial vortex and into the Spirit Realm.

Through the realm of the world, he discovered that this spiritual realm was constantly being reset.

Each time the Spirit Realm resets, the entire Spirit Realm will grow.

If we reset it a few more times, this spiritual realm can grow from sequence 6 to sequence 5.

Resetting a spiritual realm consumes spiritual energy. How much spiritual energy is needed to perform such a crazy spiritual realm reset?

Rosen used the Hunter's Eye to lock onto the Spirit Realm, and then, with the miraculous ability of the Eye of the Void, created a mini wormhole within the world domain that had spread into the Spirit Realm. Finally, he used this mini wormhole to cast the Mirror of History.

Originally, the Historical Mirror could only be used at close range, but with the Hunter God's Eye, it can be used at a long distance.

He still hasn't perfectly combined and applied the two skills. When he becomes proficient in both skills and can perfectly combine them, he won't need to spy through the mini wormhole anymore. He can then spy on what the Hunter's Eye sees from afar.

The mirror of history can see the historical information of all things, including the historical information of this spiritual realm.

【Imaginary Dreamland: Spiritual Realm】

[Level: Sequence 1]

[Synopsis: A colossal dragon, failing to ascend to godhood, once perished here, nearly transforming into a divine kingdom. After countless years of slumber, it has become a spiritual realm, where the dragon is gradually awakening and rapidly regaining its former power...]

"A fantastical dragon, a dragon that has already gone extinct?"

Rosen recalled the fantastical dragons recorded in the history of the dragon race.

This is a dragon that can live in dreams, but it lacks the ability to dream and create dreams itself. Therefore, it can only reside in the dreams of other extraordinary beings. In order to prevent the dream from waking up, the Imaginary Dragon will force the extraordinary being into an eternal slumber.

Because all the extraordinary beings inhabited by the Imaginary Dragon suffer a fate worse than death, the Imaginary Dragon is naturally unwelcome.

Long ago, a colossal dragon at the peak of its divine power attempted to ambush a true god of the dragon race in order to ascend to true godhood. It tried to permanently reside in the true god's dream, but was instead killed by the enraged true god who slaughtered the entire colossal dragon race.

The reason this spirit realm can be reset so quickly is because the entire spirit realm is a dream that is so real it's terrifying.

Since it's a dream, the cost of resetting the spiritual realm won't be very high.

It appears to be Sequence 9, but that's only because the Imaginary Dragon is gradually reviving in the dream world. The revival process is also gaining stronger control over the Imaginary Dream World. Once it is fully revived, it will form the Spirit Realm of Sequence 1.

This is a good opportunity; Rosen could easily take the initiative and weaken the Dreamscape.

Otherwise, if the Imaginary Dragon were to be fully resurrected in the dream world, defeating it wouldn't be too difficult. However, killing it and taking complete control of the spirit realm would be almost impossible, because the Imaginary Dragon can even challenge opponents of higher levels in the dream world.

Rosen also possesses several kinds of powers related to dreams.

Rosen instantly shared Little Dragon Girl's Primal Dream talent. Primal Dream can generate a Mind Dream, allowing the remaining spirit of a life after death to continue living in the Primal Dream. At this moment, the Primal Dream has spread along the world domain to the Imagination Dream.

Upon contact between the two dream worlds, the original dream of Sequence 3 was instantly and utterly defeated.

Seeing that the primordial dream was about to be devoured by the fantasy dream, Rosen integrated the Cloud Dream Cave into the primordial dream. Under the protection of the world domain, the Cloud Dream Law permeated the Cloud Dream Cave and merged with the primordial dream to resist the encroachment of the fantasy dream.

Following the world's domain, Rosen instantly disappeared from the spatial vortex and reappeared in the primordial dream.

Although the Primal Dream has now resisted the encroachment of the Illusory Dream, it cannot stop the Illusory Dragon from continuing to revive. Only by turning the tables and allowing the Primal Dream to devour the Illusory Dream can this spiritual realm be destroyed to the maximum extent, thus weakening the dream power that the Illusory Dragon can control after its revival.

Rosen was still observing the fantasy dream when he saw giant dragons appearing outside the original dream world.

These dragons are all dream monsters that the Imaginary Dragons once imagined and manifested in their dreams.

Even though the Imaginary Dragon has not yet been resurrected, these dream monsters, sensing the invasion of the Primal Dream and realizing that the Imaginary Dream cannot directly devour the Primal Dream, still follow their instincts to attack the Primal Dream.

Once the original dream is torn apart, the difficulty for the imaginary dream to devour the original dream naturally decreases.

Since the Spirit Realm has only recovered to Sequence 6, the Dream Monsters are also only Sequence 6.

All the dream monsters that had just entered the primordial dream were instantly killed by a holy arrow. The one who made the move was a Sequence 3 angel who emerged from the Void Book. There were a full thousand Sequence 3 angels who easily shot down all the dream monsters that had entered.

The dream power left behind by these dream monsters after their deaths all became nourishment for the original dream world.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and the Sequence 6 Dreamscape was finally promoted to Sequence 5.

Compared to the normal advancement speed, it is more than ten times slower. Creating dream monsters consumes the essence of the fantasy dream. The essence grows slowly, which not only greatly reduces the speed of advancement in the spirit realm, but also delays the resurrection of the fantasy dragon.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the Dreamland has now advanced to Sequence 3.

However, even the highest-ranking Sequence 3 Dream Monster was easily defeated by thousands of Sequence 3 Angels.

On the thirtieth day after Rosen arrived in the Spirit Realm, the Dream Realm finally advanced to Sequence 2.

The endless stream of Sequence 2 dream monsters, capable of unleashing dragon language magic within the dream world, gradually overwhelmed the dream monsters. At this point, the angel that Rosen materialized from the painting could no longer suppress them, forcing him to materialize thousands of Sequence 3 Abyss Shadow Demons.

The next step in advancing to Sequence 1 in the Dreamscape will allow the Dream Dragon to be fully resurrected within the dream.

Five months passed quickly, and Rosen had already hunted down tens of thousands of Sequence 2 dream monsters that had entered the Primal Dream Realm. These dream monsters left nothing behind except the power of dreams after they died. If it weren't for his desire to capture the Imaginary Dragon alive, he would have violently destroyed the entire Spirit Realm.

On this day, angels and shadow demons from the abyss are joining forces to annihilate the dream monsters.

Suddenly, all the dream monsters began to retreat in an orderly fashion.

The Dreamscape has begun its final reset, delaying the advancement of the Spirit Realm from Sequence 2 to Sequence 1 by several months.

Because the Imaginary Dragon has been resurrected, the dream monsters manifested through imagination are no longer mindless charging around. Instead, under the command of the Imaginary Dragon, they have rallied from a disorganized state into a cohesive force, and all the dream monsters have even begun to fight each other outside the original dream world.

Of the original thousands of dream monsters, only ten survived, but without exception, they all grew to Sequence 1.

Moreover, they were all intelligent dragons, and without exception, they all possessed powerful arcane skills.

Clearly, this has exceeded the limits of what the angels and the Shadow Fiend can handle.

Rosen put down his paintbrush and then took out the miraculous treasure, the Dragon Binding Rope.

Any dragon will be restrained by the Dragon Binding Rope, even if these are just imaginary dragons manifested in dreams, and even if a Sequence 1 dragon is two major levels higher than a Sequence 3 Dragon Binding Rope, it will still be absolutely restrained by the Dragon Binding Rope.

The moment all the intelligent dragons stormed into the primordial dream, Rosen swung out the Dragon-Binding Rope in his hand.

The intelligent dragon that charged at the forefront had its head bound by the Dragon-Binding Rope, and was instantly suppressed, its power sealed, and it lost all ability to resist.

The Dragon-Binding Rope changed direction nine times in the air, binding the ten intelligent dragons together and causing them to fall to the ground.

Deep within the realm of fantasy, the imaginary dragon, witnessing this scene through its dream, was utterly terrified.

Through the eyes of the intelligent dragon, he could sense the terrifying power of the rope on the dragon race. This instinct, like a mouse seeing a cat, made him instinctively want to escape from the dream.

However, the imaginary dragon cannot leave at all; the imaginary dream realm, now transformed into a spiritual realm, can only be entered but not exited.

The imaginary dragon, now calmer, began to consider how it could survive.
That rope restrains the dragon race, so wouldn't it be better if he just didn't touch that rope? The Imaginary Dragon immediately mobilized the essence of the Imaginary Dream, and once again materialized two Sequence 1 dream monsters, one of which was a Sequence 1 Holy Light Dragon, and the other was a Sequence 1 Six-Armed Serpent Demon. The two dream monsters simultaneously stormed into the Primal Dream.

The Holy Light Dragon was instantly captured by the Dragon Binding Rope, but the Six-Armed Serpent Demon charged around unaffected.

Having discovered that the Dragon Binding Rope could only restrain dragons, the Imaginary Dragons no longer imagined and materialized the various dragons they were most familiar with, but instead imagined and materialized the Sequence 1 Abyss Soul Hunters. After these Abyss Soul Hunters entered the Primal Dreamland, they quickly engaged in battle with the angels and Abyss Shadow Demons under Rosen's command.

Abyss Soul Hunters continued to fall in battle, becoming nourishment for the primordial dream world.

Angels and shadow demons from the abyss also began to die one after another, but fortunately, these were all drawn and could be reborn in the painting.

Rosen could no longer stand idly by and drew Dragon God's Wrath to begin shooting down the dream monsters.

Even the eleven giant dragons that had been enslaved by the Dragon Binding Rope had now actively merged into the Primal Dream, transforming from dream monsters of the Fantasy Dream into dream monsters of the Primal Dream, and finally managed to block the increasing onslaught of the Abyss Soul Hunters.

The imaginary dragon was unable to break through after a long siege, and even the dream power dissipated after the death of the dream monster was absorbed by the enemy's dream.

He immediately changed his attack strategy again. All the dream monsters stopped entering the original dream and attacked the original dream remotely from outside the original dream. Even if the bullets fired from the original dream killed the dream monsters, the dream power would be easily recovered by the fantasy dream.

"The Primal Dreamland has been defending for half a year; it's time to take the initiative and attack."

Rosen sensed the changes in the primordial dream and summoned Little Dragon Girl from the Ancient God Realm.

After he shared Xiaolongnu's abilities, the two immediately joined forces to unleash the Dream Entanglement skill, a derivative of the original dream.

This is a derivative skill of the original dream invading and devouring other dreams. After Dream Entanglement is activated, the surface of the original dream is equivalent to two more entangled abyssal maws, which begin to frantically devour the fantasy dream and plunder the dream's origin.

With a change of heart, the Imaginary Dragon unleashed eighteen Sequence 1 six-armed serpent demons, who were already launching a ranged attack on the two abyssal maws.

However, immediately afterward, the Dragon Binding Rope controlled eleven dragon-like dream monsters to break out of the giant maw of the Primal Dream Guardian Abyss.

Six months ago, even if the dream entanglement was activated, the original dream could not bite through the fantasy dream.

But now, the Imaginary Dragon senses its increasingly weakened imaginary dreamscape and can no longer sit still.

The Imaginary Dragon closed its eyes and began to concentrate. In that instant, the dream monsters that were attacking the Primal Dream vanished. All the dream power that could be mobilized converged on the Imaginary Dragon, and then materialized into a black spear in front of it.

This is the Dragon Soul Spear, a miraculous treasure that can be considered the nemesis of dragons.

After it appeared in the world, it was quickly seized and sealed away by the Dragon God of the Dragon Clan.

The Dragon Soul Spear fell into the hands of an Abyss Soul Hunter Demon who manifested his imagination. He charged into the Primal Dreamland with the Dragon Soul Spear and instantly killed the Holy Light Dragon blocking his way with a single shot. Only five of the remaining Wisdom Dragons escaped back into the Primal Dreamland.

The Abyss Soul Hunter and Dragon Soul Spear vanished instantly, and soon twenty-two Sequence 1 Abyss Nightmas appeared.

This abyssal demon, which specializes in manipulating dreams and resembles a black unicorn, emits a black nightmare beam from its forehead horn, constantly disintegrating the original dream and merging the scattered dream power that destroyed the original dream into the fantasy dream.

At that moment, the divinity that had long enveloped the entire primordial dream began to cast a dimensional seal.

In the blink of an eye, the original dream transformed into a painting floating in a dreamlike realm.

Nightmare of the Abyss can dismantle a dream, but it cannot dismantle a dream that has become a painting, because once it becomes a painting, the power of the dream is no longer the core. Dimension and painting are the core of this painting, and this painting begins to unilaterally devour the fantasy dream.

No matter how many times the imaginary dragon changed the dream monsters that materialized from the imagination, it could not destroy the original dream that had become a painting.

Because Lawson goes a step further, through the art of dimensions, transforming the original dream into a painting, further reducing the dimensions from a two-dimensional plane, gradually turning it into a line, and finally into a point. This high degree of dimensional compression brings about super strong defensive capabilities.

At this moment, Rosen had already escaped the original dream and entered the mysterious study.

He infused the Nightmare Authority with Nen, and then materialized it into Nen Bullets. The Nen Bullets generated in this way had a stronger destructive power on the dream. He stood in front of the window and continuously destroyed the imaginary dream around the original dream, shattering the dream into scattered dream power.

At this point, the original dream, which has collapsed into a dot, will seize the opportunity to compete with the imaginary dream for the power of the dream world.

Primal dreams only take in and don't come out, while imaginary dreams only go out and don't take in.

Conservative estimates suggest that it will only take a few years for the original dream world to surpass the fantasy dream world and begin to shift the balance of power.

The Imaginary Dragon soon realized this as well, but he had no solution to it.

The dream monster was powerless against the enemy, and it could not stop the endless stream of extraordinary bullets that seemed to come from nowhere. Its strongest form dared not appear in front of the enemy, and it could only watch helplessly as the dream world grew weaker and weaker.

Two years later, the original dream no longer needed to be reduced to points; it could be unfolded into a two-dimensional plane without fear of attacks from dream monsters.

Because the Abyss Nightmare that the Imaginary Dragon could conjure up at this time now only has three left.

The Imaginary Dragon no longer had the power of dreams to conjure more dream monsters. It could only watch as the imaginary dream was being devoured at an accelerated pace. The originally vast dream space began to shrink, leaving it less and less room to hide.

Another year has passed, and the imaginary dragon can no longer hide.

The imaginary dragon, which had no choice but to appear, was almost instantly bound by the Dragon-Binding Rope and lost its ability to resist.

Without the interference of the Imaginary Dragon, the Primal Dreamland completely devoured the entire Imaginary Dreamland in less than ten days.

The original dream, over the years, has been transformed by the laws of painting into a Sequence 1 spiritual painting.

However, the biggest gain was successfully capturing an imaginary dragon.

Unlike the dream monsters, which are all soulless puppets without divine origin, the imaginary dragon has a real dragon soul and dragon crystal, and a real divine origin, becoming the first dragon to be permanently enslaved by the Dragon-Binding Rope.

The true form of the imaginary dragon appears as a white, dragon-shaped mist.

At this moment, it shrank to the size of a fist and was desperately held in Rosen's hand for continuous study. The extinct dragon was reborn, and he clearly felt that the divine power of the dragon god he had mastered had become much stronger. Soon, he also figured out the power of the imaginary dragon.

If they were to fight head-on in reality, the imaginary dragon would be pitifully weak.

However, if the target falls into a deep sleep, giving the Imaginary Dragon the opportunity to infiltrate the target's dream, the Sequence 1 Imaginary Dragon is no less powerful than most Sequence 0 deities in the dream. This is probably what the Imaginary Dragon, at the peak of its divine power, dared to ambush the Dragon God back then.

If the Dragon God hadn't truly felt a fatal threat, he would have at most eliminated the ringleader, rather than exterminating the imaginary dragons.

The extinction of a dragon race weakens the race's fortune and diminishes the power of the dragon god's authority.

The Dragon God was probably worried about the birth of a new, peak-level Imaginary Dragon, which would threaten his own life. That's why he exterminated the Imaginary Dragons at any cost. If it weren't for the Dragon-Binding Rope severely restraining the dragon race, the Sequence 1 Imaginary Dragons would be almost invincible in the Sequence 1 Spirit Realm.

Rosen unfolded the primordial dreamscape painting in his sea of ​​consciousness, and the imaginary dragon immediately entered and began to modify the primordial dreamscape.

After testing, the Dream Dragon can summon the power of dreams to conjure up to 29 Sequence 1 dream monsters, or concentrate all the power of dreams on itself, allowing itself to gain divine power equivalent to Sequence 0 within the dream realm.

Unless it encounters a deity skilled in controlling and restraining dreams, the Imaginary Dragon fears no other deity in dreams.

This is not even the limit of the Imaginary Dragon. This is an Imaginary Dragon that failed to advance to Sequence 0. The reason for the failure was that the power of the dream was not strong enough. If the original dream continues to grow, the Imaginary Dragon has the potential to advance to Sequence 0.

Rosen attempted to feed the primordial dream world with the dreams of hundreds of billions of believers in the Ancient God Realm.

As expected, it failed. Ordinary extraordinary dreams can at most quickly replenish the dream power lost by the original dream, but they are not enough to allow the original dream to continue to grow in a short period of time. Only the dreams of true gods can allow the original dream and the imaginary dragon to take a further step.

Rosen certainly couldn't handle gods of other races; he had barely managed to defeat the heavily injured Qinon.

However, if the target is a dragon deity, the Dragon Binding Rope, combined with the Imaginary Dragon, may be successful.

However, it would be best to restore the Dragon Binding Rope to some extent. If the Sequence 3 Dragon Binding Rope could be repaired to Sequence 1, then dealing with dragon gods would be incredibly easy. However, to repair the Dragon Binding Rope, it is necessary to permanently enslave a large number of dragon souls.

(End of this chapter)