I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

Chapter 108 Membership Count: Thirty! (3K)

Inside Training Room No. 1, several areas were pitted and scarred, with visible traces of blood-red corrosion.

Little Blood had already returned to its adorable, goofy appearance. It scratched its head, trying to fool everyone.

"Prompt: Do you want to spend 1300 Dream Dust to repair the damaged training room?"

Repair, repair, repair!

"However, the training room is indeed becoming less and less useful."

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Shi An did not initially build the training room for the sake of any benefit from the building.

He simply wanted a place where he and his employees could test their strength. He just hadn't expected the training room's enhancements to be so powerful, quickly making it the most popular spot in the safe zone.

"The next batch of faith points I accumulate should be used to upgrade the training room."

Shi An pondered the "perfect state" that had just been suggested.

He gave it a try.

Indeed, all three of Blood Handprint's skills have now reached their maximum level and cannot be improved further.

Or rather, it's not possible to improve simply by using cheat codes.

It needs a trigger, or something else.

"The current power of the Blood Handprint is roughly equivalent to that of a peak Third Refinement Realm expert or a captain-level powerhouse, but—it is definitely far inferior to that of a Transcendent."

Shi An had never seen a peak expert of the Third Refinement Realm.

However, the fundamental improvement of the third refinement realm compared to the second and first refinement realms lies in having one or two more natal spell items.

Their own spell power limit has increased, and their spell power output has increased.

However, the difference in spell power between the third and first refinement realms is only a few times.

The strength of a captain-level expert does not lie in their three natal cursed artifacts, but in their years of skill cultivation, reaching the pinnacle of cursed arts.

Compared to them, Blood Handprint's skills and techniques are somewhat inferior, but Blood Handprint has been training in the training room for a long time. Its mastery of each skill can be described as the peak of proficiency, only one step away from reaching the pinnacle.

However, the value of the Blood Handprint is undoubtedly much higher than that of a third-level expert.

It has an overwhelming advantage in terms of numbers.

After all, this is a strange employee that Shi An has cultivated with 900 points of faith power, so it's reasonable for the value to be a little higher.

The previous two hundred points of faith power almost cleaved the nightmare in two.

"In terms of cultivation level, Blood Handprint is perhaps similar to the peak of the Third Refinement Realm; the next step is undoubtedly breaking through to the Transcendent Realm!"

"Transcendent, transcendent! All Dream Fallers—high-ranking Dream Fallers—strive to become transcendent."

Those who fall into nightmares are constantly being hunted by nightmares and must be careful not to fall below the line of death.

At the same time, those who fall into the dream realm suffer from the ravages of side effects when using cursed objects. Even for experts at the Refinement stage, who have already refined their natal cursed objects and can use them freely without side effects, the process of refining a second or third natal cursed object is still subject to erosion and influence.

The process by which a Dreamer becomes stronger involves constantly consuming their own life force.

Even for captain-level experts who have reached the peak of the Dream Fallen, they can indeed use cursed objects and spells at will, but the life force they previously consumed cannot be replenished.

Unless, they transform and ascend to become extraordinary beings.

"But how does one break through to the extraordinary level?"

Shi An had no idea.

"It seems that I should try to find a way to break through to the extraordinary in the next period of time."

"Well, there's no need to rush. It's said that even captain-level experts have been stuck at the peak of the Third Refinement Realm for a long time. To cross the threshold of the Transcendent Realm, they will definitely need to prepare a lot."

Over the next few days, the safe zone operated smoothly and in an orderly manner.

During this process, Shi An consumed 1000 points of Faith Power to upgrade the training ground to Training Ground (Normal LV2)

The training ground's buff effect remains unchanged, but the number of training rooms has increased from five to ten.

The area of ​​each individual training room has also been significantly expanded.

The dreamers revel.

They would have a better chance of using the ten training rooms.

Previously, Dreamers would rent a training room in groups of three or four, but now, with the training room expanded, they can even form groups of five or six or seven.

It's not that they're short of the usage fee; it's purely a group purchase, where multiple people can join together to get a usage slot faster.

"The training room has been expanded, but the manager hasn't raised prices! Manager, I'm so upset!"

Of course, Shi'an doesn't need to raise prices.

As the Dreamers' strength increases, they can conquer nightmares faster, and their rewards in the safe zone also increase accordingly.

After the dreamers make money, they are even more willing to spend it in the safe zone, which is a win-win situation.

For example, in the past few days, a trend has emerged within the safe zone:

"Rent a Dream-Dropping Pearl, then book a hotel room and sleep for over ten hours? What kind of operation is that?"

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When Jiang Peng returned to the safe zone after several days, he found that it had changed drastically.

He had just heard about the new trends in the safe zone from his colleagues.

I was confused at first, but I quickly understood.

"That's right. We Dreamers can't really fall asleep at all. When we rest, we're always half asleep and half awake, so we can only be alerted by the slightest noise."

Jiang Peng went through the same thing in his early years.

At first, I would often wake up startled from my dreams, but later I only had light sleep, occasionally opening my eyes to check my surroundings and see if I was still in my familiar bed.

He's gotten used to this kind of life now.

However, several of his colleagues, including his brother, died in a dream because they couldn't adapt to the rhythm of the dream in time—either they slept too soundly and accidentally died in a dream; or they couldn't sleep at all and their energy couldn't be restored, so they died in a dream.

He's used to it.

Including death.

Now, upon hearing about this "new trend," I am somewhat taken aback.

"Times have changed."

He gazed at the hotel in the distance and murmured, "I hope this change continues, I hope—"

On the other side, Long Niu, the well-prepared deputy captain of the sixth squad, also used a team-up item and fell into a dream together with a senior refining stage expert from the bureau.

"According to the assessment of several analysts in the bureau, the membership card can mostly only open channels in shallow areas."

Longniu also believes in this speculation.

But what if?

He still harbored a sliver of hope, and this time, he wanted to try his luck in the Dreamfall.

"Splash!"

Dragon Bull plunged into the depths of a nightmare, surrounded by gray mist and rows of dilapidated high-rise buildings.

It resembled a weathered, lifeless, apocalyptic city.

The eerie shadow in the gray fog is the only life in this place.

There are eerie shadows as tall as a normal person, shadows two or three meters tall, and even larger, terrifyingly huge shadows.

Even from a distance, it exudes a powerful sense of oppression.

But Longniu is no stranger to this kind of scene.

He first quickly surveyed his surroundings with his teammates to conceal his presence, then took a deep breath to activate his membership card.

One second, two seconds, three seconds, and a faint guiding line appeared!

"There's a chance!"

Long Niu was both excited and nervous.

Half an hour later, he finally found the safe zone.

The good news is that the dragon can enter. The bad news is that the teammates can't see the safe zone.

"This may be a deeper limitation."

Even so, members still possess great value.

"But then whether the captains can find the safe zone will depend entirely on luck."

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Shi An was aware that Long Niu had opened a passage to the deepest nightmares.

However, "the prerequisite for building the watchtower is to clear away the strange occurrences in the surrounding area?"

This is equivalent to conquering a nightmare.

However, the deeper nightmares are no longer fragmented, but rather resemble a vast, real world.

These eerie creatures roam the world, with some powerful ones occupying certain areas like bosses.

Using this passage, Shi An launched a magical flying eye.

He used his magical flying eye to explore this vast nightmare, and for the first time, he saw with his own eyes the more dangerous areas deep within the nightmare.

"This area is like an abandoned Baijiang City, and even the most ordinary monster here seems to be a bizarre being!"

"Many of these strange creatures seem to be unrestrained by rules; they wander aimlessly, tracking the presence of the living."

More advanced forms of the bizarre will be subject to some limitations, but even so—

Shi An saw a strange creature resembling a giant octopus perched atop a distant building.

It uses the building as a nest, seemingly in a state of slumber.

Shi An kept closing the distance to the sorcerer's flying eye.

Suddenly, an eye appeared on one of the giant octopus's tentacles.

The eerie eyes filled the entire field of vision of the sorcerer's flying eye.

The next moment, "Bang!"

Shi An lost all view of the outside world, and her heart was still pounding.

"Holy crap!"

"What level of anomaly is this? Extraordinary? Or a higher level of extraordinary?"

"So, the deeper layers of nightmares are truly this terrifying?"

Even for a second-stage Refinement Realm expert like Long Niu, surviving in the depths of the nightmare is extremely difficult!

There are too many dangers here!

Some dangers are also fatal to captain-level powerhouses.

Long Niu and his teammates carefully made their way through the ruins.

They are experienced.

Experience is the key to survival.

Of course, the danger level of deep nightmares varies.

Last time, Longniu used special methods to fall into a shallow nightmare, but this time he was thrown into a deeper one.

This is a reasonable backlash.

There is no immediate opportunity to build a watchtower, but the safe zone continues to expand.

"The Dreamer Returns" has become a member of the safe zone.

"Cheng Ping, the Dreamer," has become a member of the safe zone.

Shi An glanced at it.

The competition among Dreamers in the safe zone is incredibly fierce, and more and more skilled players are accumulating enough contribution points to apply for a membership.

Number of membership cards issued: 30!

Even excluding employees like Lina and Wu Qing, the safe zone now has a total of twenty-four members.

These are all strong individuals.

The vast majority of them have already entered the Refinement stage, and each possesses spells with considerable skill. A few are even among the top-tier combatants in the Refinement stage.

This force has already surpassed the combined combat power of the allied team during the last campaign against the Ancient Village Nightmare.

"Baijiang City is indeed in a dangerous situation, and our safe zone does not yet possess truly high-end combat capabilities, but—"

"If I cultivate three hundred or three thousand powerful members, how should I deal with the strange situation?"

Shi An still has dozens of membership cards in his hand.