Dream Travel

Chapter 332 What can't be taken away can be given away.
“A laughable little spell.” Lexenberg’s voice rang out, interrupting the demonic spell the demon overseer was preparing in a flash of light.

"Fine, I won't ask anymore." Bai Mu swung his greatsword, which shimmered with a pale light, and pierced the chest of the demon overseer.

The demon's vitality allowed him to survive the attack without dying instantly, but he felt his own life force draining away.

The demonic soul residing within the greatsword greedily licked his power.

The dead demon overseer staggered to his feet and became a puppet controlled by the weapon box.

This demon overseer was the most powerful one Bai Mu had ever encountered, at least for now, so he left him with a complete corpse.

Anyway, the weapon case's doll slot is still empty.

“You can enchant this body and let me control it,” Luxembra suggested.

Bai Mu brandished the greatsword in his hand: "Then where is my weapon?"

"...You're already very skilled; you don't need enchantments like this."

Luxembra still doesn't really want to be used as an enchanted item by the White Veil.

"No." Bai Mu looked towards the other battlegrounds.

Those awakened ones, enhanced by his demonic energy, displayed even greater combat power, and the remaining demons are now considered quite formidable.

For these demons, Bai Mu rushed in to finish them off.

On one hand, it's to further enhance Luxembla, and on the other hand, it's to acquire new demon dolls.

Let's fill in those empty spaces first.

After the battle, the Awakened Ones present felt a sense of emptiness, as the external demonic energy that had pushed their demonic energy to its limit disappeared.

Bai Mu let out a slight breath. His demonic energy had been greatly depleted, but thanks to the pre-set feeling of fullness, his demonic energy recovered very quickly.

The demonic energy is normal, but the depletion of mental energy is the most obvious. Bai Mu is feeling exhausted after maintaining so many awakened beings at once.

However, this battle also allowed him to test his limits.

Summoning so many phantoms to fight won't have much of an impact on him within half an hour.

In a non-combat state, one or two hours is fine, but longer would affect combat ability due to a decline in mental state.

These awakened individuals are all considered major consumers.

Bai Mu unearthed the collected fragments of demonic spirit.

Although these fragments of spirit were formed from the shards and remnants of the demon's soul, they contained some useful information.

After feeding all the mental fragments to Luxembla, White Curtain asked, "Did you find anything?"

“…Ugh, can you please stop making me eat this garbage?” Luxembla complained, the flames on his greatsword flaring up.

"Stop talking nonsense."

"There's nothing of any use here. This is just a small mine that won't last long. These demons are probably working for the lords in the area."

"Even demons have to work?"

"?" After a moment of silence, Luxembla said, "Do you have some misunderstanding about demons? Demon lords can't just be supporting weaker demons for nothing, can they?"

"Alright, this is hellish enough. Get to work." Bai Mu waved to the awakened ones, signaling them to get to work.

The things those demons did were seen by Bai Mu on the way to the attack; they were hammering at the Hell Rock here.

The shattered hellrock contained some dark-colored hellrock, along with a small amount of hell metal.

The dark-colored hellrock was piled together by these demons, while hellmetal was placed in another pile.

Although the group of awakened beings were reluctant, they could not disobey the White Curtain's orders, so they began to display their physical advantages and smash the nearby stones.

Bai Mu could feel his mental energy being consumed at an accelerated rate, almost as fast as in the battle just now!
"stop!"

They immediately called a halt. The strength of these hellrock rocks was too high; even awakened beings needed considerable strength to destroy them, while they could easily crush ordinary stones.

Crushing hellrock requires considerable effort, and the demons also find mining hell metal difficult.

Bai Mu looked at the Awakened Ones, snapped his fingers, and canceled those Awakened Ones who were not suitable for large-scale mining.

"Go and gather all those hellrocks together," White Curtain said to Livru, who was left behind. Her body could transform into ribbons, making it incredibly easy for her to move things.

Then Bai Mu looked at Agatha, whose awakened form resembled a spider, and this part of her body could perform wide-range, high-speed attacks in a rotating manner.

Once the hellrock is gathered up, Agatha can crush it.

"Boring, let me go back first." After Lucy and Lafayette, who were left behind, broke their fusion of demonic energy synchronization, they immediately went to the White Curtain.

She had already foreseen what was to come.

"You'll be moving things later, so spend some time getting along with your sister first." Bai Mu waved his hand casually, and Luciela's expression immediately fell.

She knew it would be like this.

Luciela's gaze fell on Octavia. She was suitable as a mount, but due to her size and awakened form, carrying large amounts of cargo was not her task. "What are you all standing around for? Get to work!" White Curtain urged Livlu to speed up.

The former Abyss Being couldn't help but show a hint of humiliation. The transformed ribbon tentacles quickly gathered the hellrock together and threw it at the lower body of Agatha's awakened form.

Agatha accepted the situation, since there was nothing she could do to resist it, and with the increased demonic energy of the White Curtain, she could also experience the power of the Abyss.

After accumulating enough hellrock, her spider-like lower body spun rapidly, pulverizing all the hellrock.

“Very good. Your body is agile. Collect all the hell metals, and you can also leave behind the more intact hell rocks.”

"Huff~" Livlu gritted her teeth and collected what White Curtain wanted from the pile of rubble.

Looking at the final mining results, Bai Mu asked Luxembla, "Is this considered a lot?"

Judging from the amount of hell metal collected, it should be around three or four tons, but there's even more of the dark hell rock.

“How much hell metal can you expect from a small mine?” Luxenbra glanced at the metal.

Metal is scarce in Hell to begin with. Although it is considered a 'regenerated' resource, it's quite remarkable that such a mine could yield this much Hell metal.

Only those large mining areas can produce more hell metal.

If enough hellfire metal could be produced here, there wouldn't be so few demons.

"What about Hellrock?" Bai Mu looked at the even taller pile of Hellrock.

“It’s all garbage!” Luxenbra said without hesitation. With this hell metal, who would want this hell rock?
"you sure?"

“…Alright, judging from the information you’ve received, these hellrock rocks do have some use.” Luxembla was silent for a moment before changing his tune.

At least the remaining dark hellrock, after being refined, can be used as fuel.

However, if he had to choose, he definitely wouldn't choose the stone; instead, he would use refined hellfire metal as fuel.

Hellrock possesses the properties of Hellmetal, making it a lower-tier alternative; whatever Hellrock can do, Hellmetal can also do.

"This should work, right?" Bai Mu took out a communicator and tried to contact a nearby supply station, but failed.

He first collected all the hell metal, which weighed several tons, but Luciela was still able to take it with her after she recovered to her awakened form.

As for those Hell Rocks, White Curtain moved to a different location, contacted a supply depot, and reported their location.

He was quite generous with things he couldn't take with him.

"Thank you. Your communicator number is 66642. You can use it as an identification card," the station manager, who was communicating with Bai Mu, reminded him.

"Once we confirm that there are no problems with the resource, you can redeem the resources you need using the identification card."

Although the military doesn't really welcome those who venture into hell alone, they would welcome capable loners like Bai Mu.

After all, lone wolves can't carry much, and they're quite capable. After taking down a group of demons, there will always be things they can't take with them.

At this point, they can contact nearby supply depots to clean up the area.

Solo travelers can thus gain a share of the resource exchange quota, while supply stations can safely reap resources from hell.

High-quality Netherrock should also be collected in large quantities, as it is the best fuel for Nether vehicles and will not spoil, so the more the better.

Not long after Bai Mu left, the nearest supply depot sent a convoy to the area.

Upon seeing those piles of hellrock, the team leader couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.

He glanced at the people who had followed him and realized he had brought too many.

When they came here, they had already considered the subsequent mining issues.

The white curtain actually made the scene so 'clean'.

Not only were large amounts of hellrock pulverized, but high-quality hellrock was also consolidated.

Although not much hell metal could be found on site, what could be found was piled up together.

However, this part of the hell metal is too fine and difficult to carry away.

Is this really something a lone traveler can do?
It looks like there's a professional team involved. There are even traces of what appears to be a large shredder at the scene.

After quickly examining the marks on the ground, the team leader ordered some people to be on guard of the surroundings, while the rest began to move the Hellrock.

As for the demon corpses on the ground, just cut off their horns and take them away. Don't worry about the corpses; they will soon return to the land of hell.

If any of the beasts from hell are lucky, they might even get a feast before then.

The convoy returned to the supply depot. After tallying the loot, the depot leader contacted the camp via radio to update the information corresponding to number 66642.

The camp will then synchronize the information to other supply stations.

Although resources are scarce in Hell, the troops that have entered Hell are doing their best to modernize the human forces.

Demons possess magic, and they also seek to amplify their advantages.

(End of this chapter)