Dream Travel

Is that all for Chapter 271?

"Next, you need to lie down in this box and take a nap. Do it one at a time."

"I'll go first!" Yuri drank the alchemical potion in one gulp. Her decisive action made Bai Mu feel somewhat ashamed, but this was also an opportunity.

"I'll make sure you're all okay."

"Hey, you're a really nice person." Yuri laughed as she lay down in the weapon case in the white curtain. Before the case closed, she asked, "How long until I can see Commander Qian?"

"Immediately." The white curtain closed the weapon case.

When the box is fully opened, it's big enough to fit them all inside. And putting people inside is to ensure the spiritual fragments... no, these aren't even spiritual fragments anymore, they're spiritual bodies.

With the power of the Light and Shadow Demon, the process went very smoothly. After the white curtain opened the box, Yuri appeared to be asleep inside.

Chito watched Yuri with concern and noticed that she had stopped breathing.

"Ah—!" Qianhu's mentality was momentarily shattered.

"It didn't fail." Bai Mu waved his hand, and Yuri's figure appeared.

It's just summoned through the illusion of the weapon case.

"What's wrong with you?" Yuri looked at the tearful Chito with a grin, then poked her own body. "Am I dead? This feels so strange."

"..." Qianhu, who was in tears, was caught in an indescribable dilemma.

She didn't know which Yuri she should hug at that moment.

"Don't waste time, your bodies can only survive for half an hour."

"I'll do it right away." After hesitating for a moment, Chito hugged Yuri tightly and drank the alchemical potion in one gulp.

Then, imitating Yuri, she lay down in the weapon box of the White Curtain. The second operation took even less time. After finishing, the White Curtain began stuffing her own things into the weapon box.

He is leaving.

As for heading straight back to the camp? There's no need for that at all. It would be too much trouble for him to take two people back. It would be better to make a normal escape and then take the Dream Terminal to Night Owl Company.

"You all go back first, see you later." The white curtain dispelled Yuri's illusion.

"There's nothing wrong with their bodies," Beatrice said. "It's just a matter of whether you can get them out of there safely."

"Hmm... Speaking of which, a body without a soul, wouldn't you consider it 'ingredients'?" Bai Mu asked abruptly.

Beatrice couldn't help but roll her eyes: "You're even planning to taste it to see if it's salty?"

“We can’t do it by eating them.” Bai Mu shook his head, dispelled the illusion of Atreus, and then carried Qianhu and Yuri on his back.

After taking a short breath, he began to concentrate on getting away.

There were no surveillance cameras in the area where he was, and no one was paying attention to him. As for those mushroom people...

"I'm leaving, you can stop your observations now!" the failed escape curtain shouted into the air. After a minute, he continued his escape attempt.

This time, he felt the hazy sensation brought by the source of the strange dream, and after strengthening his need to break free, this hazy sensation was torn apart.

The next instant, Bai Mu returned to his bedroom, where the Dream Terminal was still safely stored.

Bai Mu immediately threw the two people he was carrying onto the bed.

Clearly, without a soul, even if their bodies are temporarily kept alive, they will not become a 'source of interference' for the dreamwalkers to escape from the dream.

Moreover, the strange dream mist surrounding Bai Mu this time was quite thick. He took a deep breath and tried to absorb the mist.

However, even with all his might, he couldn't absorb even one-fifth of the mist. The amount of mist this time was too great, and his body was stretched to its limit.

After he reached his absorption limit, the remaining mist began to condense.

The remaining fog eventually condensed into a camera, a white screen that looked familiar, a storage disk with a small screen, and a mushroom the size of a palm.

Finally, there are the remaining pure white Dream Erosion Crystals formed from the condensed mist, nine pieces in total.

“…These things.” Bai Mu looked at the things formed by the condensed mist and couldn’t help but rub his forehead.

He had only absorbed less than one-fifth of the mist when he felt his body was full, and the remaining mist had only condensed into this little bit.
This meant he needed to organize his thoughts properly for a while.

He was very familiar with the camera and the memory disk; he had seen this before, and the original was still hanging on Qianhu's body. Another memory disk was tucked in his box.

Dream-etched crystals need no further explanation; they are very common.

Even if the camera and storage disk formed from the mist are Dream Erosion artifacts, it's still just too... disappointing.

He had come into contact with many weapons and equipment along the way, and a large amount of mist condensed into a new weapon, so he accepted the White Curtain.

But none of these things seem like they could be used as weapons.

As for that giant mushroom, Bai Mu looked at it and saw that it didn't have eyes or a mouth. Its color was the same as those mushroom people, but other than that, it didn't have much in common.

"...Fine, I'm not losing out anyway." He put the mushroom in his pocket and put away the Dream Erosion Crystal.

As long as he becomes stronger, that's enough. Although the proportion of the Dream Mist he absorbed this time was not large, the primary reason was the sheer volume of mist. Therefore, his improvement this time was very significant, at least twice as strong as before. If his body could absorb more mist, he would have gained even more.

"Keep it up." Feeling the explosive power generated after clenching his fist, Bai Mu felt much better. The enhancement of the Mysterious Dream Mist was based on his current strength.

After this upgrade, the next upgrade will still be based on the current strength, and the upgraded power will become the new base value.

Therefore, this improvement is already very significant, reaching the limit of what it could achieve this time.

So if you think about it seriously, there's no need to complain about what the fog condenses into.

He has already achieved the most important promotion.

Without testing the camera and storage disk, White Curtain quickly summoned Beatrice: "Four minutes have passed, get to work."

"Okay." Beatrice looked at the two girls on the bed with slight surprise. The white curtain really did bring them out?

What unique talent does this Dream Walker possess? Although Chito and Yuri are in a state of temporary preservation of life, they are still considered living beings.

Based on this alone, the difficulty of bringing them out completely will increase significantly, so it is not surprising that a strong Dream Erosion erupted.

The White Curtain may not be killed by the Dream Erosion, but they will simply vanish into thin air, becoming extremely corrosive and dangerous Dream Erosions.

Even Beatrice couldn't help but wonder if the White Curtain could freely bring out the creatures from the alternate dream.

If people found out about his talent... Thinking of this, Beatrice felt melancholy instead.

Bai Mu is not just a troublemaker; his own talent is also a source of trouble.

By taking Chito and Yuri's bodies to the underground alchemy workshop, where there were enough materials, Atreus was able to easily maintain their physical condition.

Next came the return of their souls. Beatrice rubbed her hands together and took out a soul stone, which was extremely rare.

If it weren't for her research on the soul, she wouldn't have spent so much money trying to acquire one.

The method of creating Soul Stones is a secret; what is known so far is that certain demons are skilled at making them.

However, since those demons have come to the real world, they also need to trade with humans, so some soul stones have been leaked out.

After cutting the Soul Stone into two pieces, Beatrice made two small earrings.

She wasn't good at making large items, but she could make small items using alchemy, and she could make them very exquisitely.

She loves beauty.

The soul stones embedded in the earrings were not large, and the souls of Chito and Yuri were not powerful either; the weapon box mainly collected 'spiritual entities'.

As long as the soul stone can maintain the soul part that sustains their spiritual body, that's enough.

After setting two earrings into their earlobes, Beatrice casually sprinkled a bottle of healing alchemical potion on them to repair the minor damage caused by the earrings.

After completing these steps, she said to the white curtain, "We can proceed to the next step. Hand over the Light and Shadow Demons to me, and I will guide their spiritual bodies."

Bai Mu nodded and confirmed again, "Don't let anything go wrong."

“I don’t want to cause any problems myself,” Beatrice said seriously.

She could clearly see that she was not nearly as important as those two girls!
She clearly knew Bai Mu first...

"Then let's begin." The power of the Light and Shadow Demon enveloped the alchemy workshop, forming a domain that could absorb souls.

This is a basic skill that demons rely on. Demons are good at collecting souls, and any primal demon can do this.

As for the demons produced through the demon factory, although they are demons, they have far less demonic power compared to the original demons who came to this world through the dream world.

After all, these are mass-produced products from the Demon Factory. The demons who create these demons certainly wouldn't want these works to be too perfect.

The spiritual fragments of the Light and Shadow Demon originated from a true primordial demon, making it easy for them to create this soul-collecting domain.

The spiritual entities released by Bai Mu were controlled by the power of the Light and Shadow Demon and injected into their bodies. Then Bai Mu saw an additional layer of double images on their bodies.

“As expected…” Beatrice was not surprised by this scene, otherwise she would not have made earrings with soul stones in advance and put them on them.

That is preparation to avoid unexpected events.

If it were within their dream world, maintaining the body's survival and the soul's temporary departure from the body wouldn't cause too many subsequent problems.

All you have to do is put your soul back in time, but this is reality.

Even though the White Curtain brought their bodies back and avoided the effects of the Dream Erosion, it doesn't mean that the Dream Erosion has completely disappeared.

No matter how well the body is preserved, it is still affected by dream erosion, and this part of the dream erosion comes from the source of strange dreams.

After all, the Dream Source is the 'channel' that maintains the connection between reality and the Dream Source. Entering or leaving the Dream Source inevitably involves being influenced by it.

Such an effect is also a form of dream erosion.

The current situation is that the body affected by the dream has deviated from its original soul's compatibility.

(End of this chapter)