They don't want me to try anymore.

The sky was dark and gloomy, with rolling dark clouds and thunder and lightning in most areas. Only in one corner of the sky was there a colorful cloud that stood out from the rest of the sky.

The situation was so bizarre that the group stopped fighting and split into two groups, each on guard.

At that moment, a melancholy male voice rebuked from within the colorful clouds on the horizon:

"Neptune! I've never bothered you before, why do you insist on killing me?"

From the depths of the ocean, a profound reply echoed from the waves: "You are close to me."

"?"

"The final day is approaching, and we will all face the trials of fate. Even if I spare you today, you will only become their meal. So... you might as well give yourself to me!"

Upon hearing the above conversation, both Hunter and Alice's expressions changed. The latter murmured in Richard's ear, "Neptune is one of the past names of the sea god."

Poseidon, like Order and Night, is one of the seven renowned gods.

Richard suddenly realized.

No wonder I heard the term "final day" again.

So both of them in the conversation are god-level beings? Then this dream... is also a god's dream?

Soon, everything before his eyes proved his guess.

A dozen or so huge and ferocious sea monsters burst out of the waves and roared at the colorful cloud. The dark clouds in the sky gathered together with the thunder and storm, constantly compressing the space of the colorful cloud.

"...If you want to devour me, you'll have to pay the price!"

As the melancholy male voice spoke these words, the colorful clouds surged, and hundreds of pure white horses with spiral horns rushed out from within, charging towards the sea monster and the dark clouds.

Individually, the Pegasus is no match for sea monsters and storms, but whenever they are torn apart, a door will appear out of thin air next to their corpses, and the corpses will disintegrate into countless small particles that squeeze through the door.

After a few seconds, the door opens again, and the newly formed griffins, pegasi, and some kind of giant butterfly from the small particles rush out to fight the enemy once more.

Seeing how much the other party enjoyed opening and closing doors, Richard roughly guessed that the two gods were the sea god and the dream god.

This fight was so intense, it changed the very fabric of the world; it was truly spectacular.

However, how can the war of the gods be so easily observed by bystanders?

Soon, the two forces with vastly different styles collided and clashed fiercely, creating a huge magical fluctuation. This not only caused Richard, Alice, and other mages to tremble in their internal organs, but also indirectly created a gale that made Hunter almost unsteady on his feet.

Not only that, some small sea monsters have also emerged from the waters near the island.

Some of them look a lot like Chris, only bigger and more robust, much like the monsters in Richard's childhood nightmare, Deep Rising.

Others are sharks with legs, very much in the style of Junji Ito.

But regardless of which type, as soon as they emerged from the water, they showed great hostility towards the people on the island, roaring and lunging at them.

Oh my god, the seafood is biting!

Richard immediately summoned dragonflies, grabbed one for each of Alice and Veronica, and flew into the sky to take refuge.

You're kidding me, I can fly!

As for Hunter and Ned...

The two men found themselves facing a serious problem.

They really can't fly.

Hunter couldn't fly to begin with, while Ned could fly but his magic was almost depleted in the battle just now, and he's now out of mana.

With things having come to this point and all his trump cards gone, Hunter made a prayer gesture, then snorted coldly and charged directly into the sea monster horde, swinging his fists.

Ned's already pale face was now as red as salt, terrified. He turned to Richard and cried out, "Richard, Your Highness Richard! Please, show some mercy!"

Richard raised his eyebrows slightly:

"Have you ever shown kindness to Langley and her father?"

Who are they?

"A father and daughter who are fishermen."

Ned opened his mouth, his eyes glazed over—he had completely forgotten the two people he had thrown into the sea as bait.

He was sweating profusely as he said, "Your Highness, no matter what, they are just poor people..."

“They are my subjects. You, on the other hand, are merely a second-rate foreign courtier, aren’t you?”

Richard pulled the dragonfly into the air and then stopped replying.

"Your Highness! Your Highness, I beg you... Ah! Targaryen! I curse you! I curse you all! The Empire will surely wipe out your family!"

With desperate screams, Ned was torn to pieces by the shark's sharp teeth.

A second later, Hunter was engulfed in holy flames and perished along with several sea monsters.

Richard pursed his lips and maneuvered the dragonfly to avoid the storm, trying to get away from the battlefield.

Or more accurately, leave this dream.

This place is too dangerous; it's not suitable to stay here for long.

Based on experience, there should be a door leading out in any dream.

However, after flying for a minute, all they could see were rolling waves. They didn't see a single door, but they did see a lot of strange seafood... no, sea monsters, though.

As a former citizen of a nation obsessed with food, Richard occasionally finds himself subconsciously wondering whether these things are actually edible...

cough cough.

Getting back to the point, the three of them now realized that the god's dream was indeed something extraordinary—like a fart from a deity.

The area is simply too large.

I don't know where the exit door is hidden.

Thanks to his newly acquired trait, "Master of Escape Rooms," Richard wasn't worried about getting lost and not finding the exit—his wizard's intuition told him that as long as he spent time searching, he would definitely find something.

However, the description of the feature didn't specify how long it would take, so he had no idea.

Moreover, figuring out how to eliminate the sea monsters along the way is also a problem...

"Junior, I have an idea about the sea monster."

Alice pulled a still-warm seashell necklace from an indescribable canyon hidden in her clothes, explaining, "This was a gift from the Archbishop of the Church of the Sea God in Vatican City..."

It turns out that, unlike Connaught, where order is paramount, in Vanderbilt, the faith in the sea god and the goddess of order is basically evenly matched.

Therefore, as a princess, Alice was regarded as an important target by the Church of the Sea God from a young age. She was not only taught a lot about the Sea God, but also collected quite a few small gifts from the church.

After a brief discussion, Richard and Veronica covered Alice as she held up the seashell necklace and approached the sea monsters.

The necklace emitted a soft light.

"Roar——"

Wherever the light shone, the sea monsters indeed retreated and did not launch an attack.

“They’ve taken me for a follower of Neptune.” Alice breathed a sigh of relief. “That makes things much easier for us.”

It's so much easier now.

This made it possible for them to carefully search for the door...

"No! My country..."

A sudden groan interrupted Richard's thoughts.

The three of them turned around and saw that the colorful clouds in the distance, which had shrunk considerably, had completely shattered into pieces at this moment. All the unicorns, griffins, and butterflies turned to ashes after a series of mournful cries.

Below the colorful clouds, the seawater surged wildly in a small area, defying all logic, until it formed a tsunami the size of a mountain peak, engulfing everything.

The world was completely overrun by the storm.

The God of Dreams...is dead?

The moment Richard realized this, everything changed again.

Change, change...

Has it returned to its original form?

The colorful clouds returned, the sea monsters retreated back to the seabed, and the waves calmed down a bit.

Then the words echoed in the air:

"Neptune! I've never bothered you before, why do you insist on killing me?"

Ok……

In that instant, Richard seemed to hear someone say in his ear, "Dormammu, I'm here to negotiate!"

Richard confirmed it after seeing the two gods fight each other again.

This dream world will not end or disappear; it is cyclical!

The dream god is reliving the scene before his death again and again, which in a sense means that he can never reach the reality of death!

The nightmares never end; it's a bit like hell.

Well, it seems they'll have to find the door themselves to leave...

Because this world was too large and chaotic, the three did not act recklessly. Instead, they determined a temporary east-west direction based on the positions of the two gods, dividing the sea into several areas to search little by little, so as not to get lost.