Dream Travel

Chapter 493 Rushing In

Having dealt with the troublesome demons from the outside, those demons still have other plans, which can only be put to use in the hellish realms.

Without external support, and with the White Curtain's backing, how competitive can those demons remain?

Serafis had planned her actions meticulously, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the demons, making it difficult for them to be wary of her.

Of course, Seraphis didn't know what other demons might be plotting, but he knew he had found a great collaborator.

After leaving the desert city of Ashra, Bai Mu immediately headed to the Hellish Realm.

Upon arriving here, he discovered that security was much tighter, and that there were also some special units operating here.

It was exactly the condensed ghost he had seen in a strange dream world.

The active condensed ghosts have not lost their sense of self; they wear specialized equipment and can even communicate with friendly forces.

This place is at war, with demonic forces occupying a portion of the outskirts of Hellish Dream.

Faced with this situation, Bai Mu's attitude was to directly bombard them with heavy firepower. He would bombard them with heavy firepower and these forces related to demons would behave themselves!
"A rudimentary defense protocol, strange ghosts, and even a rare expert among humans—it's possible that a powerful Dream Erosion weapon is hidden here."

Luxembla stared at the Allied lines of defense, recounting his discoveries.

The White Curtain is up to no good this time, so it cannot have direct contact with the coalition forces arranged by the United Nations.

Contacting those demonic forces was no longer feasible; he needed to find an opportunity to infiltrate the hellish realm.

"The key question is, can you just let me in?"

“That’s a bit difficult,” Luxembra said without hesitation. “Do you know why the Dreamers want to hinder human technological development? Technology will affect the application of magic.”

The paths of technology and magic are different. Individual flight requires a high level of technology but not much magic. However, some things that technology can do require a high level of magic.

Just like magic spells such as invisibility and transformation, without technological power, countering them requires an individual's perception, insight, and corresponding counter-magic.

With advancements in technology, invisibility? Thermal imaging, X-ray scanning, and other methods can be used to counter invisibility magic.

As for shapeshifting magic, genetic testing can detect many types of shapeshifting spells.

If the technology in reality remains at a medieval level, then the dreamers can take full advantage of their knowledge and manipulate the locals at will.

"How about from underground?"

"Then you might as well wait until they start fighting, and then sneak in during the chaos."

Lexenberg snorted: "We can create some chaos first, escalate their conflict, and then we'll have a chance to get in."

A demon is a demon. If you ask it to think of a way, it will only do things that harm others without benefiting itself.

The White Curtain did not adopt Lexenberg's suggestion, but instead prepared to enter in another way.

"Force your way in? You might as well use my method!" Lexenberg was speechless at White Curtain's plan.

"As long as I'm fast enough, they won't be able to stop me. Remember to add a special effect for me later."

Bai Mu stretched his body; he had already scouted the area.

There is a buffer zone between the human alliance and the demonic forces.

The battles between the two sides took place in the buffer zone, which was the main area of ​​combat and did not have much special protection. Bai Mu could simply force his way in from there.

Let Lexenberg use demonic magic to cover his tracks, then he can use his speed to rush straight into the Hellish Realm.

"How do you plan to get out?" Luxembla asked White Curtain. Getting in was easy, but getting out?

Just break through as before. Don't you know illusion magic? It's time for your illusion magic to come in handy.

"You can't even compare to a succubus, can you?"

Lexenberg's expression twisted. He was no match for Lexenberg's skill in illusion. One was a transformation illusion, and the other was a deception illusion. It was a fundamental difference.

At Bai Mu's request, Bai Mu quickly disguised himself, unleashed his demonic energy, and the lightning released from the weapon box enhanced him, allowing Bai Mu to unleash his burst of speed to the limit.

boom--

In the buffer zone, some local demons lying in ambush looked in surprise at the source of the sound: "What's going on? Have we been exposed?"

They've been lying in ambush here for two days, all to create a false impression and lure the coalition forces into a trap during their next operation.

"Something high-speed is rapidly approaching us..." a local demon with detection capabilities exclaimed in surprise, "It doesn't look like a missile, ah, it's coming!"

A swift bolt of lightning flashed past the demon's ambush site, moving so fast that they couldn't even see what the dark thing was.

Once the actual action was taken, the black shadow had already disappeared.

The ambushing demons were discovered by the humans, and artillery fire rained down on their hiding place.

The demons, whose ambush failed, could only passively resist and flee, lest they be completely annihilated by this round of artillery fire.

Of course, they also had firearms, and after fleeing, they launched a fierce counterattack.

The human alliance assumed the explosion was caused by the demons, who, without time to explain, engaged the human alliance in battle.

Bai Mu rushed into the hellish realm, where the dream-eroded environment made him feel somewhat uncomfortable. Moreover, the situation inside was chaotic.

There's fighting both outside and inside.

Serafis has already provided White Curtain with information about the Hellish Realm. The Dream Erosion there is still beyond the capacity of those who come from otherworldly realms to withstand, but for people in the real world, such Dream Erosion is already within their tolerance range.

Local demons have an advantage here, as they can both absorb the damage from the Dream Erosion and benefit from the enhancements provided by the hellish environment.

Humans suffer various negative effects in the hellish environment, but they have deployed a large number of condensed ghosts to fight in the hellish realm.

Condensed Phantoms can ignore the harsh environment of Hell, and they also have additional resistance to Dream Erosion damage.
This unique technological ghost can regenerate continuously as long as its core is not destroyed and it has sufficient backup energy support, making the Dream Erosion damage irrelevant.

When Bai Mu entered, he stumbled upon a small-scale battle.

That was a battle between demons, probably from several different factions of demons.

Considering the scale of this alien land, the battles fought by these demons were practically like village brawls.

However, their battle was extremely fierce, a life-or-death struggle with arms and legs flying everywhere.

Moreover, the demons in this alien realm are quite different from those seen in the White Curtain last time.

Some demons seemed to have regained their original selves and understanding, while others were completely transformed into otherworldly demons. As for these thoroughly transformed otherworldly demons, Bai Mu had little to say, even knowing that the original otherworldly demons were all victims of humanity.

But he didn't have a good solution to this problem. Taking the alien demons out? That would cost them their lives.

At least now they can live in a completely new form of life.

After watching briefly, Bai Mu joined the battle and quickly ended what was a painful fight for another group of demons.

Those demons found the battle painful because they knew that the demons they were fighting were their former allies.

However, those friendly forces had fallen, and they were unable to free them from their fate. They were confined to this environment and forced to fight one battle after another.

"Who is it?" A demon from the human faction tried to find someone to help, but the person helping was using ranged attacks, and they couldn't find any trace of them.

"Whoever it is, let's get out of here." The other demon gasped for breath, ignoring his severed arm.

It's difficult for demons to truly die in the hellish realms, which are like an endless cycle of bloody battlefields.

The dead alien demons will be resurrected, but after many die, their original selves will be gradually erased.

If they can be reawakened before being completely erased, that would be fine. But if they can't be reawakened and continue to sink into depravity, then they'll be no different from normal otherworldly demons.

Once they have completely fallen, it means there is no way to recover. At least so far, they have not been able to awaken any of the fallen demons.

On the contrary, the number of these demons who have rediscovered themselves is decreasing.

They too will die in battle, and after death, they will be affected by the environment of this foreign land. Each time they are resurrected, their sense of self diminishes considerably.

Even if it can be reawakened, the difficulty of being awakened increases rapidly with repeated attempts.

The demons who were completely assimilated by the alien realm mostly joined the areas controlled by the demons of the alien dream.

The small number of alien demons who were assimilated were defeated and subdued. Even so, given the chance, these demons would still try to escape and join the forces of other legitimate demons.

The alien demons are no different from real demons. They do not agree with demons who have restored human self-awareness, and they look down on their ideology.

The alien demons, with their standard demonic mindset, joined the forces of other alien demons and grew stronger.

Even within this hellish realm, signs of a new demonic force have already emerged.

Those demonic forces were not created by the Otherworldly Demons, but rather developed on their own by the Otherworldly Demons.

However, these demonic forces often don't last long, and are eliminated just a few days after they appear.

The departing humans and demons were heavy-hearted; they desperately wanted to change the landscape of Hellish Realms, but their fighting strength was limited.

Even with the help of humans from the outside world, it is still very difficult to fight against those demonic forces in the hellish realm.

Moreover, as time went on, the situation became increasingly unfavorable for humanity.

The demons discovered something new: as the number of creatures dying in the Hellish Realm increased, the Hellish Realm was slowly expanding!
If the Allied Forces hadn't taken comprehensive precautions to prevent the demonic forces from sending disaster victims and refugees from various places, those demonic minions would have already dumped a large number of innocent people into the alien realm.

The local demons couldn't possibly commit their own forces to this; if they did, it would expand the Hellish Realm, but the consequence would be that they would lack sufficient power outside.

The Allied Forces will be able to completely control the Hellish Realm, and then those demons won't be able to squeeze a single real human inside.

"It's so chaotic here." The White Curtain, operating in the shadows, didn't immediately go to Serafis's territory, but instead went to check out the situation in various places first.

We gained a comprehensive understanding of the current state of the foreign land.

Humanity seems to be doing quite well here, with many awakened demons on the human side.

This part of the demons accounts for slightly more than half.

The wars in other lands mainly revolve around the struggle for resources, many of which are repeatedly used.

After all, it's an environment filled with dream erosion, and it's a hellish environment. Ordinary items from the outside world that are brought in are easily affected by the dream erosion.

The environment of Hell itself also affects those things; to make some weapons work, you still need to use local resources.

In addition, Bai Mu also carefully sensed the intensity of the dream erosion in the alien realm, which was at least a quarter weaker than when they first came into contact with it.

“Hmph, the problem here isn’t as serious as Serafis said; there must be another reason!” Lexenberg, however, discovered something else.

“Look over there.” Bai Mu looked in the direction Luxenbula was pointing, where some refugees were being held.

The refugees' bodies have been assimilated by the dreams of this foreign land; they have been imprisoned here for some time.

Some demons are preparing some kind of 'ritual'. The demonic script is incomprehensible to the white screen, but Lexenbra can understand it.

"what is that?"

"A ritual that forcibly transforms a demon worm by directly tearing apart the target's soul to create a demon worm, but not many demons use this method in Hell."

Luxembra explained what the demons were planning to do.

Hell is not short of demons, so the demons in Hell will not waste human souls like this.

Torn apart human souls and forcibly transformed into demonic worms?

It would be more efficient to extract that soul into soul currency and then hire some demons to do the work.

The demon worms that were transformed in that way are inferior products compared to the genuine hell worms.

Even if it grows up, it will be a rather inferior lesser demon rather than a normal demon.

Of course, things are not absolute; the chaotic nature of demons also gives them more possibilities.

Occasionally, some demon worms that are forcibly transformed can grow into standard demons.

But as he explained, hiring demons with soul currency is far more efficient than manipulating human souls in this way.

This is a method specifically designed to torment cannon fodder; using it in Hell would be a huge waste.

It works fine if you use it in a different place.

Some demons that invade the human world will capture humans and then use evil demonic rituals to transform their flesh and souls into demonic worms.

This allows for the rapid development of a large number of cannon fodder combat forces, which can then capture new humans, creating a virtuous cycle.

But demons who do this are punished very quickly. How could they possibly live long when they are so rampant on humanity's home turf?

(End of this chapter)