You promised to wreak havoc on the dungeon, but instead you've got Dragon Slime!

"what?"

"Just now... I lost control."

Ron frowned.

"Speak clearly."

Claudia pursed her lips, then held out a hand.

A strange curse mark appeared on the back of her hand.

It feels like a burning flame moving beneath the skin.

"I think I'm... possessed."

Ron sat up straight instantly.

"Who did it?"

"do not know."

She gritted her teeth.

"During those six hours when you were just slacking off, I went to check some data at the Sand Abyss Bone Hill, but suddenly my mind went blank."

"I saw a strange shadow."

"Neither a monster nor a player."

"It... is like some kind of 'consciousness,' sticky and gooey, like something mixed in with the system."

"It said it wanted to see what qualifications you, the designer, had to be the master of the copy."

"Then it crawled into my brain."

As soon as Ron finished listening, an alarm popped up on the system interface.

[Ding—Abnormal mental host residue detected]

[Target: Claudia]

[Possession Source: Unknown - Fragment of Consciousness - Remnant of the Bone-Eating Overlord]

Ron's face immediately darkened.

"As expected, it was that old dog Bakus's divine corruption."

He immediately brought up the "Sand Abyss Divinity Intervention Tracking Module" on the console.

Sure enough, a dark purple crack remained above the area where the explosion had occurred, as if someone had made a small cut between reality and the virtual world.

Claudia gritted her teeth and spoke.

"I can still control myself."

"But that thing just now wanted me to kill you."

"I almost couldn't hold it in."

Ron glanced at her.

"And then you blew up a corner of my dungeon?"

"...It was the test area that was bombed; there was no one there."

“I remember you loved going there to sneak in some slime hot pot.”

"you shut up."

[Ding—Quest triggered: Expel the Mental Fragment]

[Objective: To assist Claudia in purifying her contemplative pollution]

[Quest Reward: Anti-Divinity Isolation Rune x1 + Dungeon Purification Permission (Area of ​​Effect)]

Ron opened the purification module and found that it was a newly granted permission by the system.

The function allows the copy manager to perform consciousness healing on the "copy binder".

But the prerequisite is that you must enter the sea of ​​consciousness of the goal.

In other words... it jumped into Claudia's mind.

Ron didn't even think about it.

"Okay, I'll go in and take a look."

Claudia was startled.

"Aren't you afraid of being counter-eroded?"

"afraid."

"Then you are still going?"

“I’m afraid you’ll be pulled away by other consciousnesses and become some kind of deity’s accessory.”

"...Can you please not speak so rudely?"

"No."

……

[Ding—Entering the target consciousness space]

[Coordinates: Claudia's Sea of ​​Consciousness]

The system "pulled" Ron into a hazy, empty space.

The sea of ​​consciousness is not as dreamlike as one might imagine.

Instead, it resembles a garbage dump.

Floating everywhere are fragments of Claudia's memories.

Things like being caught stealing candy as a child, being punished with writing a hundred times for breaking the training room window, and her hair getting all messed up from failing a spell...

The most outrageous thing is that she also secretly wrote a fantasy script about "Ron beating up the judges".

Ron was completely speechless after reading it.

"You woman, you're seriously ill."

At this moment, a purple shadow appeared deep within his sea of ​​consciousness.

That's not a complete monster form.

It's like a rotten mass of consciousness, like code decaying in data.

It opened its mouth like a crack.

"Master of the instance..."

"I think you're nothing special."

"You think you can defend these two instances?"

"You are nothing more than a replacement chosen by the system after the previous host died."

You are not worthy.

Ron smiled.

"Instead of wasting your breath, I'll just send you on your way."

He raised his hand.

[Ding—Mental Countermeasure Mode Activated]

[The Laws of Consciousness are being synchronized]

[You have acquired the following privileges in Claudia's Mind: Flame Guidance + Authority Recognition]

The next second, a ring of red flames suddenly lit up the entire sea of ​​consciousness.

Like a beating heart, waves of flames surged across the entire purple shadow.

Ron produced a flaming scepter.

That was the ritual artifact he first saw when Claudia joined the company.

He turned his hand and poured the flames into the scepter.

"roll."

The purple shadow still tried to struggle.

The system prompt will sound directly:

[Ding—Mental pollution successfully removed]

The source of the contamination has been determined to be fragments from an otherworldly invasion.

[The system will gain anti-analysis rights after the kill]

Should we perform the purification immediately?

Ron did not hesitate.

"implement."

A click sounded.

Like data being shattered, the purple image broke into fragments with a crash.

……

Upon realizing he was overseas, Claudia jolted violently.

She sat up from the ground, her throat suddenly dry.

Then she saw Ron standing in front of her.

Chapter 135

"You're back?"