I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

Chapter 107 The Limits Below the Extraordinary (3K)

Shi An was very satisfied with all three spoils of war.

After the nightmare was conquered, Shi An didn't stay long before he sensed a sign of his return—he was surprised to find that he could interrupt this sign.

However, he still let the pull of reality pull him along.

The next moment, "Whoosh!"

Shi An returned to reality.

Old Lu was still waiting not far away. He sat on a small stool, constantly pressing his phone, until his base was destroyed. Finally, he couldn't help but curse out loud.

"That damn marksman isn't attacking towers or jungling, I'm going to screw them! [beep beep beep]"

But when Shi An saw Haki Lu's 0-9 record, he simply uttered one word: "Terrible."

Lu Fan suddenly looked up. "Son, you're finally back. Seeing that you're safe and sound, I'm relieved."

Shi An angrily rubbed Hagi Lu's head, but he was still quite warm inside.

He said, "It's just a nightmare. Do you think I can avoid its sharp edge? I'll just crush it and be done with it."

"Keep bragging!" Hagi Lu raised a finger.

After returning to her rented apartment, Shi An once again plunged into a sea of ​​nightmares.

This time, he returned to the safe zone of loyalty as the store manager.

The first thing I did was take a closer look at the spoils I had just acquired.

One set of architectural drawings.

A template for a cursed dream item.

"This is a template for rare-grade cursed items. Theoretically, as long as I have enough faith points, I can mass-produce rare-grade cursed items!"

Rare-grade cursed items are treasures that many experts in the Refinement stage dream of.

Often, when a powerful cultivator is stuck at a certain level, it's simply because they can't find a suitable and powerful artifact.

And architectural drawings —

"This is a duplicate alchemy workshop blueprint."

If it weren't for the "can be synthesized" prompt, Shi An would never have chosen such a blueprint; he would have been better off choosing three membership cards.

But now, "Buildings can actually be combined? What happens after they're combined? The safe zone really has too many hidden features."

Shi An arrived at the workshop and took out the blueprints.

In an instant, the fragmented text reassembled before him, forming a prompt.

"Prompt: Do you want to combine the required building materials and create two Wizard's Alchemy Workshops?"

"Hint: Combining two identical or similar buildings will upgrade the building's rank."

What else is there to say!

A thick white mist enveloped the workshop area.

This time, the construction and maintenance took a short time, and soon a brand new workshop area appeared before Shi An's eyes.

This workshop is brand new. Although it doesn't have much high-tech feel yet, it's a significant improvement over the previous shabby style.

"Hint: The Wizard's Alchemy Workshop has been upgraded to a Fine Alchemy Workshop (Rare)."

Shi An: "————So, buildings also have ranks? The reason the ranks weren't displayed before was because they were all ordinary."

The rare-tier alchemy workshop no longer has the previous side effect of "probability of failure".

The "mutation" effect has been retained, and it also has a new effect: materials are returned during crafting.

In short, the production costs of various workshops in the safe zone have been greatly reduced, and the manufacturing speed has been significantly increased.

It seems there's also a hint about the upper limit of mutations.

not bad.

At the Shian Ascension Workshop, Employee Number Three, "Fallen Spring Spirit," had already reported for duty. The moment he finished choosing his loot, the Spring Spirit manifested in an uninhabited employee dormitory.

At this moment, Xiao Xue and Ming Yi are welcoming the newcomers.

One of them was formed from blood mist. Sometimes its body would explode and turn into blood mist, and sometimes the blood mist would condense into a round, chubby external body, shaking its head.

One of them was a crimson wedding dress. It had no hands at the cuffs, as if its arms had been cut off, leaving only empty sleeves. It also had no head. The red veil and embroidered shoes were like two ornaments strung together on the wedding dress with a dead thread, swaying back and forth as the dress fluttered.

The last one, formed from condensed water, took on a concrete shape, with a clearly discernible female silhouette. At first glance, it seemed to be the most normal of the three life forms, however—

The water was murky black, with wisps of terrifying black smoke rising from it.

In this scene alone, the Fallen Spring Spirit appears more terrifying than Little Blood and the Underworld Robe.

The Fallen Spring Spirit had already learned the general situation and future tasks from Little Blood and Undergarment.

Shi An walked over and said, "From now on, Blood Handprint and Fallen Spring Spirit will be in charge of security matters in the safe zone. Of course, there are usually not many people causing trouble in our safe zone. If someone does cause trouble, we can just kick them out with our authority."

Your daily tasks are simply to patrol, and report anything that happens to me.

Little Blood: "Oh ho~ (No problem~!)"

The Fallen Spring Spirit, holding the hem of her flowing skirt, bowed slightly.

Shi An pondered that he should give the Fallen Spring Spirit a nickname, so as to treat everyone equally. Besides, the four characters "Fallen Spring Spirit" were too long and troublesome to pronounce.

"From now on, I'll call you Koizumi."

The Fallen Spring Spirit shook its head.

No, no, it's not good enough.

"Then let's call her Xiaoling?"

The Fallen Spring Spirit looked at him with disdain: This human seems to have no idea how to name things.

It uses water flow to condense two characters.

"Turbid~Mio~"

"Zero~ has the meaning of flowing water~ suits~ me~"

The Fallen Spring Spirit, oh no, Mio, is actually a cultured ghost!

How does it know these things?

Xiao Xue: I always feel like a barbarian compared to others.

That is indeed the case.

Upon learning that his job required him to interact with humans, Zhuo Ling immediately used his "Elemental Form" ability to recreate his body.

A few seconds later, a girl dressed in a black gothic dress appeared in front of the two ghosts and one person.

There were undeniable gray-black streaks on the girl's neck, a symbol of "filth." Upon closer inspection, Shi An could also see traces of water flowing across Xiaoling's body.

It is not a person after all, but a human-shaped shell simulated by the flow of water.

However, the "basic elemental form" already has such a strong ability to create forms. If Shi An were to upgrade Zhuo Ling, it would be close to the point of being indistinguishable from the real thing.

Shi An glanced at his current belief value.

When the Level 3 Safe Zone first opened, the Faith Value was only 880 points.

But in the past two days, he not only conquered one major nightmare, but the Dreamers in the safe zone have also conquered more than ten nightmares.

He benefited greatly.

The number of Dreamers residing within the safe zone is increasing, and they are continuously generating Faith Points. While the individual amounts are small, the sheer volume adds up to a considerable sum.

"Faith value: 1920 points."

He needs to retain some, but he can at least allocate about a thousand points of Faith Power to improve his employees.

With the increasing number of Dreamers in the safe zone, although Xiao Xue and Zhuo Ling have the authority to kick people, strength is still fundamental, so let's upgrade them again.

"Transform your belief into strength, and accompany others in a more valuable way."

However, from Shi An's current perspective, Zhuo Miao and Ming Yi's initial, un-upgraded state was still stronger than Xi Xue and Xuan Jian, who were now at the Refinement stage.

Xi Xue, Xuan Jian, and the others were all geniuses who had conquered Nightmare multiple times and had even studied at the training ground.

They are now considered to be in a class of unparalleled powerhouses within the "First Refinement Realm".

Below them, the strongest are the senior first-level cultivators.

Below that are the ordinary refining stage and the newly advanced refining stage.

Even Xiao Xue—who hasn't awakened his third skill—is far stronger in his original state than an ordinary Refinement Realm cultivator.

Equally superior to ordinary, common, and bizarre occurrences.

Shi An guessed that this was because once the strange creature possessed intelligence, it could unleash its power to the fullest extent.

Shi An spent 100 faith points to upgrade the remaining skill of the Underworld Robe, "Red Sleeves," to LV2.

Afterwards, I spent another 300 faith points to upgrade all three of Zhuo Ling's skills to level two.

Inside the training room.

The human form created by Zhuo Ling using "Elemental Form" was so realistic that there wasn't a single flaw. It even found a set of Dreamers' clothes to wear and a cursed object to use as a weapon, making it even more lifelike.

In fact, normally speaking, it has a bizarre origin. No matter how realistic its form is, the eerie coldness and ominousness that belong to it cannot be erased.

The bizarre will always be bizarre, and will remain bizarre for a lifetime!

However, the employees who emerged from the safe zone did not possess any eerie or sinister aura. Just like the bloody handprint, apart from its eerie appearance, it had nothing in common with the eerie.

Other dreamers would think that the bloody handprint was a strange object controlled by the shopkeeper, or a special prop creation.

"But the strongest aspect of elemental form is that it can make Mio immune to many kinds of damage. It can ignore bullets and sword cuts in reality. Only spells with strong incantations can truly hurt it, and even then, they can only hurt it."

"Their bizarre vitality is just too strong."

The third skill, "Fallen Domination," cannot be tested at this time, but the first skill, "Summoning the Tide," shows that Zhuo Ling summoned a large amount of black tide out of thin air, with overwhelming power. The small training room was simply not enough for it to perform.

If we compare the turbid water with the eerie black crow that had awakened wisdom before—

Shi An felt that Zhuo Ling was stronger.

With just its two abilities, Summoning Tides and Elemental Form, Turbido is enough to rival the Black Crow BOSS, not to mention it has three more skills.

After promoting the two employees, Shi An saw the bloody handprint and the dry eyes.

"Don't worry, you're the main character."

The three skills of the Blood Handprint are:

[Bloody Hand Mark LV3, Blood-Hidden Body LV2, Blood Demon Avatar LV1.]

"Notice: The Blood Hand Brand cannot be upgraded further."

He spent 500 points of Faith Power to upgrade his other two skills to LV3.

All in!

Although the amount of faith power consumed was only a few times greater, the commotion when the blood handprint was upgraded seemed to be ten or even dozens of times greater.

The key seems to be the sprint from LV2 to LV3!

Xiao Xue's entire body exploded, turning into a cloud of blood mist.

The blood mist continued to expand and spread, crashing through the entire training room like a tidal wave.

Shi An and the two ghosts were both forced into a corner.

The underworld clothes transformed into a large robe and were placed on him.

Zhuoling erected a wall of water.

The howling of the blood mist lasted for a full ten minutes.

"Hint: Your employee's bloody handprint has been upgraded to perfect status."