Daily News: Insect Girls' Heavy Dependence

Dizziness, blurred vision, swollen head, and loss of consciousness.

This is the first feeling everyone has when connected to the Dream Worm.

Then, everything went black. Everyone in the secret room collapsed to the ground.

Meanwhile, Yekaterin and Rhine were picked up by Richard, who was still somewhat lucid in his dream-like state.

His two hands transformed into two cradles... preventing them from falling onto the blood-soaked floor.

Until an unknown amount of time passed, that bizarre and fantastical feeling disappeared.

In everyone's mind, nothing happened. They did not experience the feeling of entering Richard's dream.

Even Yekaterin had never seen the neon world called Earth.

Time passed second by second, but there was still no movement.

It was as if time itself had frozen at that moment, perceptible to everyone present.

It felt like a day and a night had passed.

Although the noblemen could endure the life-or-death situation, the feeling of hunger was truly unbearable.

But to survive, I'll just have to endure it...

Physically, another day has passed!

Inside the secret chamber, a noble young master could no longer endure the oppression and hunger!

He looked rather weak, as if he hadn't eaten for two days and two nights.

I'm quite impressed with my own willpower; I haven't fainted yet.

He broke free from the clouds' grasp and kicked open the door to the secret chamber:

"Damn it, I'm not hiding anymore! Even if I die, I'll die like a nobleman!"

However, what he saw before him stunned him.

Where is Night Tide Fortress now? Weren't there many corpses in the passageway? How come they've all been cleared away? How much time has passed? Why haven't I heard from them for so long? Why haven't the guards come looking for me?

He wasn't the only one with these questions.

Other aristocratic youths, unable to endure the oppressive atmosphere for so long, also broke free from the shackles of the Dream Insect's tentacles and looked at the scene in the corridor.

A young nobleman spoke up: "Cassantha, has the assassin left? Have Yekaterin and her boyfriend left too?"

Kassan Isa stared blankly at everything before her, remaining silent for a long time. She simply couldn't believe that Yekaterin would abandon her.

But the reality before her told her that, apart from those people in the secret chamber, there were probably no other living people left in Night Tide Fortress.

But what about the body in the corridor? Who cleaned it up?

Without much hesitation, the group immediately sprang into action.

It awakened all those still suffering from hunger. It severed the cloud tentacles that were wrapped around them.

They wanted to go to the banquet hall and try their luck to see if there was any leftover food.

At this moment, the banquet hall was spotless, as if it had just been cleaned, and even the walls covered with cobwebs were smooth.

Cassandra ran out of the banquet hall in disbelief and came to an open space.

Just two days ago, it was snowing heavily, and the ground was covered in gray snow.

But now everything has completely changed; not a single snowflake has been seen. Even some of the greenery inside the fortress has begun to bloom and sprout?

This doesn't look like the scene of the gray snow season; this is clearly the recovery season!

Others also noticed something amiss.

"Have you noticed? Night Tide Fortress seems brand new now. Many of the claw marks from the insect beasts are gone?"

Cassandra immediately realized what was happening and led everyone into the hall of Night Tide Keep.

Looking at what I had previously overlooked, I saw a flag with a storm pattern hanging in the hall...

The above is written in ancient, obscure script used by the former kingdom, but Cassandra had learned it.

She came to a groundbreaking conclusion:

"This isn't Nightsurge Fortress at all! The number on the flag indicates it's the 13th frontline fortress of the August family!"

"Huh?" Everyone was incredibly surprised, but they trusted Cassandra's judgment.

Kassan Isa suppressed her shock.

This leads to yet another, most unlikely conclusion:

"We were... pulled back 500 years by that strange tentacle?"

"Holy crap! Isn't this just like the time-travel plot in a chivalric romance novel?" a young nobleman muttered to himself, seemingly a little excited.

"How could this happen?" A noblewoman clearly couldn't accept this reality.

Because she was reminded of something even more terrifying: the Great Wall hadn't been built 500 years ago.

Her family was only granted noble status 300 years ago. If she can't go back, she will lose everything in the current timeline!

There was no time to think about the issue of time.

Cassandra ran to the walls of Fort Thirteen and gazed into the distance…

Beyond the castle stretched vast, dense jungles. Keep in mind, they had come via a makeshift road cleared by Leonardo's men!

In Cassandra's mind, their time travel was an undeniable fact!

That strange tentacle actually has this ability? I thought time travel was some kind of portal or something...

However, before they could react and fully accept this reality...

Suddenly, a group of dirty-looking soldiers appeared out of nowhere, knocked several people down without saying a word, pinned them to the ground, and attacked them with swords and knives.

"Damn it! Get your filthy hands off me! Do you know who I am? My father will chop off your head!" a young man shouted angrily.

"Shut up, you little thief!" The soldier, whose hands were covered in calluses, punched him and knocked out one of his teeth.

The young man was stunned for a long time upon seeing the white molar on the ground, not realizing that it was his own.

"Damn it! Let us go! We are nobles! You filthy pigs!" another youth shouted.

But he didn't fare any better. He was punched hard in the stomach, the real pain instantly bringing tears to his eyes, and he was carried away by two soldiers.

"Hey! Listen to me! We are time travelers, tell me, what year is it now!" a noblewoman commanded.

"Shut up!" Two loud slaps landed on her, showing no mercy. The noble lady was stunned.

"Let me go! Don't touch me! I can walk by myself!" Cassandra was equally disgusted by the group of filthy soldiers pressing down on her.

However, the soldier showed no mercy just because she was a girl. As if afraid she would resist, he punched her in the stomach, almost knocking her stomach out.

These noble young men and women were thus escorted and dragged by a group of soldiers to the dungeon of Fortress Thirteen.

On the castle tower, three people stood quietly, their attire completely different from that of the soldiers on the tower.

But the surrounding soldiers ignored them, as if they were invisible.

Rhine asked curiously, "Where is this place?"

Richard stopped Yekaterin, who was about to attack the surrounding soldiers because Cassan Isa had been beaten.

"This is the dream world I constructed, different from that constructed by the third-tier dream insects. The dream world constructed by the fourth-tier dream insects will be absolutely real in terms of sensory perception."