Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 186: Desolate Realm
"Oh, my fear? I also want to see what I am afraid of!"

Karon exerted force on his hind legs and stood up lightly, looking down at the huge cocoon in the depths of the fog with some anticipation.

The huge spiritual body shows the physical changes of Caron while he was sleeping. His body proportions were growing and evolving towards the most perfect state, not only in appearance, but also in the adaptation of power output.

This made his neck a little slimmer than before. In order to brew more explosive dragon fire and make the impact flow of dragon fire more violent, his throat organs produced an extra layer of protective tissue, specifically to protect the red dragon's frequently used throat.

Charon knew about this nightmare power that was originally born in the dreams of living beings. These nightmares have the ability to pass through the connection channel between the spiritual realm of living beings and the spiritual river, and travel between the dreams of living beings.

These nightmares feed on the dream fragments of living beings as food and source of power. The dreams of these living beings also exude their spirituality, which can be absorbed by the nightmares.

Some particularly powerful nightmares even have the ability to invade the spiritual realm of living beings through dreams after absorbing enough spiritual growth.

But every living being, in its own spiritual realm, is equivalent to a passive creator, and the spiritual realm presided over by the subconscious of the living being will spontaneously fight back against these invading nightmares.

However, these nightmares have a unique ability that allows them to attract the spirits of living beings and transform themselves into the most terrifying enemies in the hearts of the invading creatures.

In the spiritual realm, a nightmare that turns into an enemy that a living being fears will have the ability to combine the subconscious imagination of the living being and create the person that the living being fears.

These nightmares rely on this ability to make living beings defeat themselves and thus invade their spiritual light.

It absorbs the spiritual power of living beings, and finally even the dove takes over the magpie's nest, and is able to walk in the material world with the real body of the living being whose spiritual power has been absorbed.

However, this strange monster has no reproductive ability. If it wants to have offspring, it must differentiate itself and split its own power and spirituality. Therefore, almost no Nightmare will make such a choice, making this race particularly rare.

"You ignorant red dragon, you will never truly understand the power of the great nightmare clan."

The fog was rolling, and illusory whispers were echoing throughout the space like ghostly sounds. The spiritual light twisted and changed in the rolling fog, gradually taking shape.

step, step,
A figure stepped out from the mist. It was a strange guy with a human-like appearance. He was quite tall among ordinary people. He wore brown pants, red clothes, and an ugly bone-like mask that revealed a pair of eyes and a mouth.

The strange weapon in the man's hand vibrated and hummed continuously, like a rolling chainsaw.

"Hahaha, die, red dragon, I will bring you the end of fear," the human body transformed from the nightmare spirit raised the buzzing chainsaw in his hand and showed a cold smile.

Snapped,
Charon stretched out the five dragon claws on his right limb and slapped Nightmare in the face, knocking Nightmare's mask off and making Nightmare spin in circles like a rolling top.

"I can give you another chance. Your ability is quite interesting," Caron looked down at Nightmare, who had a look of disbelief on his face, and said with interest, revealing his long fangs.

"Something's wrong, something's wrong, why are you afraid of such a weak creature? You are a dragon, you are a red dragon."

Nightmare roared as he stopped, but his body involuntarily took two steps back. He could not feel that the monster transformed by his spiritual power and the fear in Karon's heart had any extraordinary strange power. It was just a slightly weird human being.

"I feed on your fear and become your nightmare of fear," the nightmare roared loudly, and its twisted figure gradually changed into another horrifying image.

This was also a human being, also wearing a strange white hockey mask, but he was much taller, at about two meters and two meters tall, and was wearing black farm clothes.

A pair of numb and bloodthirsty eyes revealed a desire to destroy life, and the blood-stained machete in his hand possessed a strange power that could not be lost or damaged.

"I am immortal, hahaha," feeling the strange power coming from his body, Nightmare laughed wildly, and the machete in his hand fell with a whistling sound.

Clang,
Karon stretched out a dragon claw and gently blocked the machete's chop. Then he pinched Nightmare's head with his left dragon claw and with a little force, the head exploded like a watermelon smashed by a sledgehammer.

"Oh, Jason, it's been a long time,"

Caron cleaned the illusory blood on his palm with a smile, and sighed as he looked at the body in front of him that was still twitching.

The nightmare's body suddenly disappeared with an angry scream, and the next moment it reappeared from the fog. He turned into a man wearing a black top hat and a red and green striped sweater.

The face and body burned by the flames were particularly ugly, with scars left everywhere. He was skinny and bony, and on his right hand was a sharp metal claw.

"Oh, my God," Caron screamed with a look of horror on his face.

“I am the God you mentioned, hahahaha!” The ghost incarnated as a nightmare laughed arrogantly, “Finally I found your weakness, you pathetic guy. I just like your soul.”

The body of the nightmare instantly disappeared into the surrounding space. Given by the spiritual power, it now possessed multiple abilities such as invisibility, teleportation, and size change. Its forms were even more bizarre and powerful than before.

The body of Nightmare quietly appeared behind Karon, and the sharp iron claws of his right hand reached towards the red dragon's belly, but burning flames suddenly appeared and descended around Karon like a hellfire.

The spiritual fire leaped and transformed from a burning flame into a strange fire elf with long arms and legs, which hugged the entire body of Nightmare.

The nightmare was unable to break free from the spiritual flame and was burned to ashes by the flames bursting out from the fire spirit.

"Damn it, damn it, these weak, pig-like dogs, how can they make you feel afraid?" An angry voice roared in Caron's ears. Nightmare's repeated failures made him feel incomparable anger and incomprehensible emotions.

"Haha, the past is the past, and the present is the present. Life is always changing," Caron responded nonchalantly.

Nightmare now understands that the red dragon in front of it is playing tricks on it, but Nightmare cannot rashly invest all its strength. Most of its strength is still maintaining and nurturing its real body, and it is still absorbing and digesting the remnants of the Supreme Titan.

It can only guide the fear that is spontaneously born from Kalon's spirituality and transform into enemies, just to reduce Kalon's spiritual realm's rejection and resistance to outsiders.

Nightmare could only use his abilities tirelessly, absorbing Karon's increasingly diminishing aura of fear, trying to delay Karon's time.

It had no idea that Charon had mastered the ability to actively enter the spiritual realm, unlike some lucky people who accidentally stepped into the spiritual realm for some reason and would immediately disappear from the spiritual world when the designated time arrived.

And Kallon was also actively consuming the spiritual power of this nightmare, and both sides had their own unspeakable thoughts.

The nightmare tirelessly changes into various forms: a female undead with long hair crawling out of a strange square box, a horrible female corpse born from the bottom of the water, a zombie crawling out of a grave, and so on.

When Nightmare died at the hands of Caron countless times, Nightmare finally woke up.

"You are a master of the mind. You are actually a high-ranking mind caster. This is impossible. You are a dragon. How can you be a high-ranking being in this field?"

"This kind of thing is as absurd as a red dragon becoming a holy knight!" Nightmare's voice was filled with incomprehensible anger.

After Nightmare understood the truth, he did not become a fear to Caron. Instead, Caron became the fear to Nightmare.

The spiritual realm of every psychic spellcaster, even if it is controlled by the caster's subconscious mind, is extremely dangerous to these nightmares.

Because spellcasters who actively master this ability are equivalent to the best nourishment for creatures like nightmares, but they are also their biggest nemesis. Once the spiritual realm of these mind casters reacts, they can deal a fatal blow to these nightmares.

"Look, it's another boring and ridiculous prejudice."

Karon sneered and for the first time took the initiative to step towards the rolling fog. Deep in the fog, the big cocoon was shaking violently, and countless spiritual forces were trying to disconnect the entire channel.

The nightmare is trying to escape from the battlefield in this spiritual realm.

But Karon's power firmly connected the spiritual realms of both parties. He discovered the weakness of this nightmare. He wanted to get rid of this nightmare here and there, without giving it a chance to breathe.

The other party has devoured all the spiritual flesh and blood of the Supreme Titan, and the body that was born will definitely not be weak. He cannot give the other party this opportunity.

Letting a bloodthirsty tiger return to the mountains is something that hunters absolutely cannot choose.

Moreover, the scattered spirit can devour real flesh and blood and transform into a real body. This ability is not something that Nightmare can possess.

The value of this nightmare is such that Caron should keep it in the laboratory as a precious sample for research.

The nightmare sensed the danger, and its cocoon shook violently. A huge spiritual force surged out from the fog, stirring up the thick fog.

It squeezed out all its strength to forcibly guide Kalon's spiritual breath, transforming into the most terrifying enemy and destroying Kalon's spiritual body.

Its spirit twisted and changed in the boiling mist, changing from the image of the young blue dragon Akzi to the image of the blue dragon Carlit sleeping in the dragon's nest.

It then changed from the image of the blue dragon Carlit to the image of the ogre tyrant Morgo, but these images were difficult to truly take shape and quickly collapsed.

In the past years, the characters and enemies that Charon encountered kept changing and jumping, including the human noble Will Clarence, the great wizard of the Sanctuary Lapers, the former emperor of the Carthage Empire, Charal Caesar, and so on.

Finally, even the image of the young red dragon Caedilos appeared, and then kept changing, and finally turned into an extremely powerful five-headed dragon, the five-colored dragon queen Tiamat.

"Hahaha, is this the fear hidden deep in your heart? Red Dragon, welcome the judgment of death," Nightmare felt his body gradually taking shape, and his true confidence swelled again.

Unparalleled power, the majestic aura of a mountain descending, the irresistible majesty of God, at this moment, descended upon the entire spiritual space. "Die, die, you disgusting red dragon, your soul will become my treasured toy, your body will become my doll, I will let you live and see all this, hahahaha,"

The laughing nightmare transformed into Tiamat, impatiently stretched out its huge claws as big as a mountain and slapped down on Charon's body.

"Is this my deepest fear?" Caron frowned, somewhat unable to understand, but the next moment, his mouth opened, revealing his fangs, and a wild laugh came out of his throat.

The body of the five-colored dragon queen Tiamat, which was condensed by the spirit of nightmare, quietly collapsed at the moment when it finally condensed into shape. This was not due to the influence of other forces, but to the fear in Charon's heart, and had nothing to do with Tiamat.

In other words, Kalon was not really afraid of the Dragon God, he was just in awe of a stronger power.

But the nightmare's consciousness came back to its senses from its previous complacency, and its spirituality scattered again, returning to its twisted and amorphous form.

"Who are you? What on earth are you? Don't come over here, you monster, a monster covered in red scales."

The constantly changing and twisting body suddenly disappeared in the fog the next moment. Even the cocoon that was nurturing the nightmare's real body disappeared without a trace. This nightmare actually ran away on its own.

"Haha, my fear is my weakness." As a high-level being in the spiritual realm, Caron has long understood his own inner truth.

"But I was weak and I was killed by myself on that day. I killed myself on the day I saw my own fate."

Karon muttered to himself, then he suddenly raised his head and looked at the fog that was gathering around him and becoming increasingly thicker and deeper, already covering the familiar royal castle so that it was impossible to see through.

Dong dong dong,
Heavy footsteps sounded in the dark and hazy castle. They were the footsteps of a huge red dragon.

"Where exactly are you hiding? Let me guess," Karon stepped into the spiritual mist, with strange overlapping dragon language sounds coming from his throat.

"Oh, hide, hide quickly, don't let me find you so quickly, it will be bad if I find you," Caron whispered devilishly and threateningly, like a demon walking through the spiritual fog.

His perception was spreading out as far as it could, trying to find the emotional fluctuations emitted by the nightmare's true form. In the spiritual realm, even the slightest emotional fluctuations could be easily detected by him.

The footsteps he deliberately amplified were also a means of intimidation, and along with Caron's overlapping whispers, they echoed throughout the quiet spiritual space.

"Not here, nor here," Charon patrolled in the fog, wanting to step into every corner. The threatening sound of dragon language accompanied his footsteps, making this red dragon seem particularly evil.

"You are such a good kid who knows how to play hide-and-seek. Oh, the great Nightmare King, you should be called the King of Hide-and-Seek! Hide quickly, I'll find you soon!"

Karon laughed loudly, and the dragon language voices overlapped and rose and fell. At this moment, a slight fluctuation finally appeared in the quiet space, carrying with it a strong emotion of extreme anger and helplessness.

"Oh, so you are here. I caught you, a worm that parasitizes on other people's spirits." Karon's head suddenly turned, and his spiritual eyes burst into a strong light, trying to penetrate the obstruction of the spiritual fog.

His gaze pierced through numerous obstacles and met the Eye of Nightmare deep in the fog. The eyes of the two monsters collided, and the spiritual connection was instantly connected.

"You are really forcing me, Red Dragon. I will use all my strength to exile you!" The nightmare in the cocoon opened his bright and dreamy eyes. The extremely surging spirituality condensed at this moment, turning into a repulsive force that enveloped Karon's body.

The next moment, Karon's body was swallowed by the tunnel that appeared in the spiritual space, and the nightmare aura wrapped in the cocoon of flesh and blood spirit also faded.

Nightmare let out a soft breath, then closed his eyes which were still in a illusory state, and fell into a deep sleep.

Karon once again experienced the feeling of passing through the plane portal for the first time. He was like a traveler traveling through time and space, watching the time and space in the spiritual world that were almost materialized constantly changing.

He could not be sure where he was, how big the space around him was, or how much time had passed. His conscious spiritual body could only passively feel everything.

This is the desolate tunnel in the spiritual world. There is no concept of time or space. It looks like a tunnel, but it is infinitely far, infinitely wide, infinitely broad, and infinitely deep.

He didn't know where he came from or where he was going, and even Caron's own body couldn't be sensed.

"It seems that this nightmare is not bragging. It really has the qualifications to be the king of nightmares," Karon looked at his dragon claws and smiled faintly.

This desolate spiritual tunnel was unconsciously absorbing all spiritual things, including Karon's spiritual body. Even Karon could not resist this naturally formed rule.

But Kalon's will integrates the solid spiritual body, which can greatly slow down this consumption. His spiritual integration is autonomously transformed into the supreme power representing his will, which is the authority of spiritual integration.

In this situation, he even began to actively fight against the huge and immeasurable spiritual desolate tunnels, hoping to find a trace from this confrontation that would allow him to find a way to leave here.

"This is just a small setback. If I can't get over it, it will just mean death," Caron whispered to himself, not letting the possibility of total demise contaminate his soul.

He began to walk in this vast and immeasurable space, actively exploring it.

Time cannot be measured in this space. Decades may pass in a blink of an eye, but decades in the outside world may just be a moment in this space.

……

The capital of the king, this busy city is now stockpiled with a large amount of supplies. As the largest transit station in the territory and the command center for troop mobilization, it appears unusually congested.

After the blue dragon Akzi led the dragon army to a shocking victory, all the subjects seemed particularly confident.

Therefore, even though the orcs risked everything and sent more warriors to the battlefield, they still could not cause any unrest in the territory.

Now the war between the two sides has entered a stalemate. Although the Orc Kingdom has more troops than the Dragon Territory, the circular defense system established by the Dragon Territory has caused the Orc army a lot of trouble.

The endlessly cut down and destroyed forests always stand in the way of the orc armies, and the orcs are just wasting their military equipment and supplies in vain.

Once the orcs split up their forces from the forest and attack, hoping to wipe out all connected defense lines at once, they will be noticed by the ubiquitous birds and beasts, and countless musketeers and warriors hiding underground will emerge in the forest.

Soldiers near each defensive fortress will also go out one after another to eliminate and drive away these orcs.

Therefore, the orcs could only rebuild their stronghold based on the Golden City on the coast and gradually advance their army.

An endless stream of fleets travel between the Orc Kingdom and the Gold Coast; this war has entered a phase of strength contest between the two sides.

Although the orcs have the entire kingdom as their backing, the dragon territory has an entire plane as its supply.

Moreover, the gradual advancement of the orcs has also promoted the development of the vast area in the western part of the dragon territory in another way.

Countless elven druids and war tree men drove out from the forests in the west to supplement the defense of the front-line positions, and the empty spaces left behind in these forests were the new lands opened up by the dragon territories.

Under such circumstances, the King's Capital gradually became the most advanced city in the dragon territory.

Tap, tap,
The small door of the courtyard was knocked gently, and the unique rhythmic signal made everyone in the courtyard relax.

A nimble figure flashed, leaped over the high wall, and landed on the ground lightly and silently, showing the person's outstanding control ability and flexible skills.

This handsome young man with black hair is named Bill. He is the master assassin of the once famous dragon-slaying adventure team of Scarlet Rose. He is also a rare holy-level assassin and a stealth master who is proficient in shadow technology.

At this moment, the handsome young man Bill still has a sunny smile on his face, and a small dimple appears on his left cheek, making him look particularly friendly.

It is precisely because of this affinity that this master assassin is particularly popular in the dragon territory and has charmed many women of different races.

Bill looked at the team that had gathered again in the yard, the magician captain, the shield warrior, the priest, the logistics manager and the druid.

"Why are you calling us this time, Captain? Hasn't our team been disbanded?" Bill shrugged, found an empty space to sit down, not caring about his image at all.

"Four bounties for the red dragon have already been issued, and the price has been raised with each one. It's enough to make us very rich, and even to buy a noble title and build a luxurious castle!"

The blond magician spoke up when he saw the team gathered again.

"Crazy? Hunting a dragon emperor. Although it seems that the red dragon's sleeping place is poorly guarded, countless people have been hanged at the foot of the mountain."

The tall warrior was the first to object.

But before anyone else could comment, the Sanctuary's assassin master, young Bill, suddenly blew a whistle with his fingers. Countless heavy footsteps came from the street, and the soldiers surrounded the place in an instant.

Young Bill shrugged and chuckled, "Excuse me, everyone. I am already the deputy director of the United Front Planning Department of the Dragon Territory. In view of your dangerous remarks, please come with me!"

Hiding in the team, the young female assassin Sally, also known as the Shadow Widow, suddenly jumped out and shouted, "We are one, we are one, don't do it, don't shoot, I am the intelligence captain of the intelligence department in the territory!"

(End of this chapter)