Dream Travel

Chapter 524 The Stolen Illusion
A series of unsettling creaking sounds rang out. Kuroko didn't say much, focusing solely on slaughtering the resurrected corpses.

Although these corpses possessed abnormal regenerative abilities, the burning of hellfire rendered these extraordinary regenerative powers meaningless.

"We can't wait any longer," Ludrick ordered. His orders were to persuade White Curtain first, and if that failed, then eliminate White Curtain. The organization had already prepared something to counter the weapon crates.

Although Bai Mu's mental strength exceeded expectations, the stronger the phantoms, the better, as high-strength phantoms can become a sharp weapon against Bai Mu.

"What are you?" Inside the base, Duff saw a man holding a 'tombstone' and looked puzzled.

His doubt immediately turned into cruelty: "Forget it, who you are doesn't matter!"

Duff, with the ferocity of an Awakened One, swung his fist at the man, but his sure-fire punch was blocked by the tombstone weapon in the man's hand.

He looked stunned: "What did you do? How could my body... Livru, run!!"

In the instant his body lost control, Duff roared.

Then, with a struggling expression, he showed his hands to Liv, and the cylinders he released from his fists pierced through Liv's body.

Livlu, who was fighting other monsters, was stunned. Then her stunned expression turned into a ferocious one as tiny tentacles filled the large hole that had been pierced through her body.

Her body was immune to vertical attacks. Duff's attack did injure her, but the unique nature of her phantom body meant she wasn't greatly affected.

Just as Livru's body recovered, Duff rushed forward like a madman, launching a desperate attack on Livru.

Livlu retreated, feeling rather troubled, after all, the other party was her man, although he was a bit dim-witted, he was otherwise quite good.

Now that she's been controlled by the enemy in a special way, she feels somewhat constrained.

However, she was also a decisive Awakened One. After failing to restore Duff to normal, she immediately said, "You should leave now."

"Ah—!" Livlu was greeted by a frantic scream.

Livlu's tentacles pierced Duff's body, but she quickly sensed something was wrong.

A strange influence spread through Duff's body, and her body began to stiffen.

When you look again at the man holding the 'tombstone', the tombstone in his hand is emitting an unusual light.

"Damn it... I'm not getting a vacation this time... right?"

"Hmm? What happened?" In another location, Luciela looked slightly puzzled, as the fighting in other areas was subsiding.

The awakened ones caused quite a commotion after they broke into the base. There were many defensive facilities here, and their actions to destroy those defenses were full of destructiveness.

They could hear each other's commotion from a great distance, but now the noise from their battle was rapidly decreasing.

Without any hesitation, Luciela turned and ran...

She enjoys violence and killing, but as the first awakened being captured by the White Curtain, she has access to more information.

Compared to other awakened beings, she now has more 'vacations' because she has eaten flesh from Bai Mu.

With more holidays, you can learn about other things, such as Dream Erosion items and their uniqueness, which Lucy Ella has experienced.

How could an organization not have something like this? Now that something strange has happened, this is the first thing Luciela thought of.

If the other Awakened Ones had died in battle without making a move, she certainly wouldn't have run away because of it, but it seems that the other Awakened Ones didn't die in battle.

This is something that people are very concerned about.

As she was leaving, the sound of speeding vehicles quickly approached.

It was Octavia. The moment she appeared, Luciela attacked first. Octavia, with her eyes wild and lifeless, changed her arms, and spikes intercepted Luciela.

The spikes were devoured by the sharp teeth that opened on Lucyella's body as soon as they touched her.

“Betrayal… no, what is it?” Luciela sensed something was wrong, and her body began to lose control.

Octavia's body is infected with a special kind of infection, and when she devours the body of her opponent, she is directly affected by this infection.

"hateful--"

"Hmm?" Outside the base, Bai Mu looked at his weapon case with some confusion, feeling that his mental energy was being consumed abnormally.

Those awakened beings seemed to be engaged in some kind of intense battle.

But Leone and her team have dealt with most of the ray mutants outside, so the battle inside the base should be over by now, right?

He glanced in a certain direction and said to Leone and the others, "Be careful, there might be something unusual inside the base."

The Shadow's base is impervious to mental scanning; it possesses a unique form of protection.

The Observer Imperial Arm was also ineffective, so only the Awakened Ones who went in to fight knew what happened inside.

"Why don't you just dispel the summoning of one Awakened One first?"

Mine glanced at the white curtain and fired, killing the monster that rushed out of the base.

“Good idea, but I can’t undo it.” Bai Mu tapped his weapon case. He didn’t know what methods the enemy was using, but that didn’t affect his next move.

This was the first time Bai Mu had encountered such a situation. Demons are skilled at domination, and Bai Mu had tried to get the demons to attack his phantoms, but the demons' methods of domination had little effect on the phantoms.

Although the core of the phantom can be affected by methods such as mental attacks, the phantom's mental resistance comes from the white curtain.

In other words, methods like mental attacks, unless they are physical, are essentially a way of fighting against the mental power of the White Curtain.

The higher the White Curtain's mental strength, the less effective external mental attacks will be against the illusion.

So, did the phantom encounter some kind of unique mental attack, or something else?
"Fight in!"

Inside the Shadow Organization's base, built on a hollowed-out mountainside, it appears larger than even the Demon Castle.

Bai Mu almost got lost after entering, but fortunately the enemy didn't intend to let him get lost either.

There were many monsters on the road, but they were all cannon fodder, meant to wear them down. However, against Leone who had used the Blood Demon Potion, attrition warfare was useless.

Those armed personnel do pose a threat; in a confined area, the lethality of firearms is still very strong.

However, in a confined space, firearms also have their drawbacks; Leone and her companions are too fast.

Many armed men were killed by them before they could even fire.

Boom! A powerful surge of heat filled the tunnel with the explosion as an armed man detonated his explosives before being killed.

The woman with the red eyes retreated behind the white curtain at an extremely fast speed. She had some burns on her body, and the burn marks were healing rapidly as the Blood Demon Potion took effect.

A fierce rage flashed in her black eyes, and her weapon burst into flames. When she encountered enemies again, she no longer engaged in close combat, but instead swung the flames out.

A series of explosions rang out from the passageway.

The bombs detonated by the armed personnel inside the base were mostly thermally explosive, so too many explosions wouldn't affect the base. However, the areas where they detonated were difficult to traverse.

The intense heat melted the passageway, turning what was once a passable route into a dead end.

"It seems like they're trying to trap us here to die? And these people... even death squads don't fight this hard." Bai Mu shook his head as he spoke; these people were in a terrible state too.

Dominated by some kind of parasite, they can only fight desperately against their will.

He's here to help these people find peace; as for the monsters that appear from time to time, those are easier to deal with.

After discovering that normal energy expenditure was insufficient to deal with Akame and the others, those monsters rarely appeared anymore.

Click-click-click—the sound of machinery operating rang out.

A huge hole suddenly appeared in the ground, and Bai Mu and the others fell through it into a reinforced experimental field.

The announcement came over the loudspeaker: "Should I admire your courage, or should I worry about your confidence?"

Ludrick looked at the white screen that had already entered the circle and took the initiative to communicate with it. Things were going smoothly so far, but this smoothness was largely due to the cooperation of the white screen...

This made Ludrick very uneasy.

"Alright, use whatever methods you have."

Bai Mu slammed the weapon case onto the ground, the solid ground vibrating violently, and a few arcs of electricity flickered along the weapon case.

Ludrick noticed this detail. Although the craftsmen had always refused to provide information about the White Curtain, the Shadow Organization had paid close attention to it.

They were familiar with the equipment used by the White Curtain.

Many of Bai Mu's achievements in reality are due to that gun. The weapon box and Ling Shu are interconnected, so it's normal for this box to be able to generate electricity.

However, compared to the power of electricity, the weapon box's greatest strength lies in its ability to summon phantoms; there may be other powerful fragments of spirit within this box.

However, the organization was also prepared.

"Then do as you wish."

Ludrick said with a smile that he did not deny the strength of the White Curtain, but what made the White Curtain even stronger was the virtuous cycle of the weapon boxes.

The special feature of this box allows him to collect more spirit fragments to deal with stronger targets.

If one or two mental fragments can't be defeated, then a group will do the trick; the snowballing effect is much faster than individual growth.

As for how strong Bai Mu himself is, it can only be said that becoming stronger takes time. Even if Bai Mu frequently comes into contact with Yi Meng, how long can that time last?

Furthermore, since the contacts that Bai Mu made with Yi Meng were all traceable, the organization had been closely monitoring Bai Mu and had a rough estimate of the duration of Bai Mu's activities in Yi Meng.

There will be some deviation in the timing, but the overall deviation will not be too much.

Less than a year of deviation is within acceptable limits.

A crisp switch-on sound came from the broadcast, and the white screen showed the 'missing' Awakened Beings, all of whom appeared to be in normal external condition.

However, the internal state was affected.

"What is this? Their souls are here with me, yet the phantoms I summoned are being controlled? I can't break free... What do you all think?"

The white curtain asked the demon enchanted on the weapon case.

“I don’t understand it,” Luxembra said bluntly. “It’s probably just some strange dream-eroded item.”

Dream-eroded items always have special effects, so it's normal for them to produce things that are beyond our control.

"According to intelligence, they should have been watching you for a long time, so it's normal for them to prepare something specifically targeting you. However, they seem to have some misunderstanding about your strength?"

Laazos shared his thoughts.

Are those phantoms in the white curtain really that powerful?
After the weapon case's Dream Erosion effect is enhanced, the phantoms can receive the enhancement from the White Veil itself. As long as the phantoms are strong enough, the summoned phantoms can receive additional enhancements, which is indeed very powerful.

The white curtain, which could significantly increase the intensity of the phantom, is even more powerful.

The enemy was only focused on the illusions, neglecting the strength of the white curtain... No, they did not neglect the strength of the white curtain.

They were probably thinking of using the phantoms summoned by the white curtain to deal with the white curtain.

These phantoms cannot be canceled by the White Curtain. While they exist, they also hinder the White Curtain. Once they become enemies, it's as if the White Curtain is fighting itself.

If his own strength is limited, in order to deal with these phantoms, he will most likely have to summon other phantoms, and then it will be a vicious cycle.

Although Rayazos had only been inside the box for a short time, he was well aware of the White Curtain's strength. The White Curtain might have relied on this box in the past, but that was no longer the case.

Or, to put it another way, if this organization were only this bad, White Curtain could have taken it out of the way from the very beginning.

There's no need to arrange so many illusions; just launch a meteorite outside the mountain.

However, doing so would make it difficult to collect souls. As for the strength of this organization, Rajazos didn't think it was too powerful.

He managed to wipe out a small country, so how many resources could this organization possibly have? They even used outdated intelligence to deal with White Curtain.

"Let it be a misunderstanding, go ahead." The white curtain summoned Yumisaac.

This demon is skilled at creating clones, and its attack method is a unique 'slicing'. Let him test the waters of the enemy.

"Oh, so it's a demon... a primordial demon?" Looking at the demon summoned by the white curtain, Ludrick immediately sat up straight.

In the organization's blueprint, if the Banshee Queen is successfully trained, they will indeed take action against the original demons in the future.

Once you obtain the spiritual fragments of the original demon, you can gain knowledge of the original demon, and then fight more original demons, forming a virtuous cycle.

They hadn't yet verified whether the Banshee Queen could achieve that level, but the White Curtain had now done it for them.

This was a pleasant surprise, but Ludrick also began to be wary of it.

The original demons originated from the Otherworld, a world with a more complete power system.

If this primordial demon is not weak, it may possess many unique demonic spells.

"A swift and decisive victory." Ludrick gave the order without turning on the radio.

Within this sealed-off area that has been turned into a gladiatorial arena, the dominated Awakened Phantoms made their move against the White Curtain.

Some of the phantoms rushed straight towards the white curtain, while the rest rushed towards Yumisaac's phantom.

Yumisaac did not underestimate these phantoms. He was also an observer enchanted by the weapon box. The White Curtain sent him out to test what was going on.

He is good at creating clones. If he encounters an emergency, he can escape by simply cutting himself off, making him very suitable for stepping on landmines.

(End of this chapter)