But that person was someone Lu Ming could never have imagined!
"You are! Queen Sumeru!?" Lu Ming was completely shocked as he watched a white-robed, white-haired young man with his eyes closed slowly walk into the study.
"As expected, you recognized me." The young man stepped forward slightly, walked in front of Lu Ming, and smiled, "Mego used my soul to nurture His vessel. And now, I've come to this side to stop Him! Adan poses little threat to you; the only world He's interested in is my world. You have too many gods here, and He, being formless, has no way to contend with your main god. But Mego is different! He's a cunning and greedy ancient god; once He sees your world, He'll definitely want to possess it! So, Earl Lu Ming, are you willing to cooperate with me?"
"Why should I believe you, and how do I know you can be trusted, Queen of Pummel?" Lu Ming looked coldly at the boy, his face full of distrust.
The boy chuckled and said, "It seems you don't have many choices. The turmoil caused by this alien god, the Moon Goddess, goes far beyond simply putting those who received the blood of the Old Gods to sleep. Soon they'll begin sleepwalking and start slaughtering normal people! So if you don't want the (Hunter's) organization's reputation to plummet, you'll have no choice but to join forces with me..."
Before the boy could finish speaking, Lu Ming said, "I refuse!"
"What?!" Upon hearing this, the boy was startled and instinctively grabbed Lu Ming's clothes, angrily asking, "Why?!"
"Because you concealed the fact that while you were alive, you wanted to give birth to Mego and use His power to rule your world. If it weren't for some unknown people who chose to oppose you, and the fact that you didn't have a third umbilical cord at the time, you wouldn't have been able to give birth to Mego at all. That's why Mego was born hundreds of years after you died, in the form of a soul!" He slapped away the boy's hand that was grabbing his clothes and asked coldly.
Then, looking directly at the boy who couldn't even open his eyes but could see like Lily, he said coldly, "Besides, thanks to your reminder, I've figured out why I can't enter the Old God's dream!"
Upon hearing this, the boy froze on the spot, only reacting after a long while. After standing there for a moment, he said to Lu Ming, Hemphis, and Winsland, "Alright! I admit I didn't explain myself clearly just now, and I did have a slight thought of using you. But now, I sincerely request your cooperation. My only request is to thwart Mei Gao's plan!"
"Fine! You said it yourself!" Upon hearing the boy's words, Lu Ming immediately produced a contract, revealing a somewhat cunning smile, and said, "If you sign this contract, we'll be allies! If you don't sign, it means you're not showing any sincerity!"
Sensing the slightly dangerous smile on Lu Ming's face, the boy subconsciously swallowed, then snatched the contract from Lu Ming's hand, signed his name, and said somewhat defiantly, "Sign it! Who's afraid of who?!"
Seeing that the boy had signed the contract, Lu Ming took the contract, used magic to write his name on it, and then smiled and said to the boy, "Now please tell us how to enter the dream!"
"What!? You..."
"Just kidding!"
"You bastard!!!!"
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After Queen Sumeru left with the servants of the Earl's mansion, Lu Ming looked at the umbilical cord with eyes on the coffee table, which Queen Sumeru, who was either reincarnated as a man or possessing the child, had placed on the table. He wondered what she was thinking.
Neither Helmphis nor Winsland dared to look at the umbilical cord, lest their SAn values plummet. To avoid succumbing to the suspicion and looking at the umbilical cord, Helmphis chose to distract himself.
So he asked Lu Ming, "What exactly is this 'Mei Gao'? Didn't you say before that he was...?"
"You're quite well-informed!" Lu Ming interrupted Hemphis's question, saying directly, "I don't know the specifics either, but I think that scholar Mego later was just a puppet controlled by the Old God Mego. Everything he did was just to ensure Mego's smooth birth. After all, many Old Gods lost their children after the death of the Old God Skol, so Mego would stop at nothing to ensure offspring and birth!"
After saying that, he put the umbilical cord with eyes all over it into his phone, stood up from the sofa, and walked outside.
"Where are you going?" Winslant asked instinctively upon seeing this.
"You (Hunter) Headquarters! Since Adan doesn't intend to participate in the game that started because of the Moon Goddess's descent, then all we need to do now is stop Mego and the Moon Goddess! In that case, instead of waiting to be killed, we might as well give Mego and the Moon Goddess a surprise!" Lu Ming said without turning his head as he walked out step by step.
In his view, whether it was Mago or the Moon Goddess descending to earth here, it was a very dangerous matter and had to be stopped!
Moreover, given the Moon Goddess's tendency to wipe out a whole bunch of lesser gods at the drop of a hat, who knows what kind of trouble might arise later.
Therefore, a bold idea emerged in Lu Ming's heart, which was like a demonic dragon: to use the Moon Goddess and Meg to link the flame!
While the effectiveness of this approach is unknown, it should at least delay the so-called Deep Sea Age. Of course, the Deep Sea Age will never actually reach Puru. Because there is no original furnace here; the so-called "fire-lighting" is merely adding fuel to the fire for another world!
Upon hearing this, Hemphis and Winsland immediately followed Lu Ming and together they traveled to the (Hunter's) headquarters via the teleportation magic station.
Compared to my last visit, this place has changed dramatically. The headquarters alone is several times larger than before. Not to mention those rooms whose purpose I have no idea what they are for.
All of this felt somewhat unfamiliar to Lu Ming. However, he felt no dissatisfaction; at least the current (Hunter) organization was still the neutral organization he had established back then, dedicated to serving the country and its people. Although the current (Hunter) organization no longer only protects the Kingdom of Miracaiser.
Upon seeing Lu Ming, the former hunter leader, return, several veteran hunters immediately rushed over, bowed to him, and led him to the office of the three leaders: Carmel, Archbishop Enplow, and High Priest Tumihasna Ace Kasyatas, who had only been there for six months.
As soon as they entered, Lu Ming and his two companions heard the three current leaders of the hunters arguing about whether they should help Adan, the unseen god.
However, Carmel did not participate in the debate because she was not a clergy member and had no need to get involved in these arguments about deities.
The point of contention between Archbishop Enplo and High Priest Kasyatas was none other than whether to help Adan, the Hunter, and the nation they protected could obtain sufficient benefits, and whether Adan would cause trouble for Pru like other ancient foreign gods.
Just then, Lu Ming walked over to them and said with a smile, "It seems that the invisible god has also come looking for you."
"Judging from what you've said, He has been to your side as well. Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to headquarters." Archbishop Enplow glanced at Lu Ming and Hemphis and Winsland who had come with him, frowned, and then asked, "So, what do you think of this Old God?"
“Completely unbelievable.” With his hands in his pockets, Lu Ming pondered for a moment before giving his answer.
Yes, just as Lu Ming distrusted the Sumerian Queen who had inexplicably become a boy, he also distrusted Adan, the invisible god. An old god, or rather, an outsider god, was an extremely dangerous existence for Puru. Although the native gods like the God of Light and the Shadow Dragon King prevented these outsiders from acting arrogantly, they still needed to be controlled. Like the four young gods—Roya, Kaiya, Rhea, and Fuya—their existence in Puru's divine realm required cooperation with other deities; otherwise, they could not...
Suddenly, Yadan's voice rang out again.
“I completely understand that you don’t trust me. But I have already reached an agreement with several of your main gods, including the God of Light, the Shadow Dragon King, and the Goddess of Nature. They have agreed to let me build my own church! If you don’t believe me, you can ask the Seraphim and Shadow Dragon who act as messengers for the gods here.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Ming subconsciously glanced at Camilles and the other two, and asked, "When did you start keeping Seraphim and Shadow Dragons as pets?"
"That's not domestication! It's just to better carry out the will of the gods!" Archbishop Enplow and High Priest Kasyatas exclaimed upon hearing Lu Ming's question, trying to change Lu Ming's somewhat strange idea.
Unfortunately, Lu Ming ignored them both, saying indifferently, "They're all locked up here, and you still say they're not being kept in captivity." This caused the two high-ranking clergy members to feel a pang of heartache. They then turned to Adan, the unseen god whose purpose was unknown, and asked, "So, what is your duty? What are your powers?"
"Um... let me think... it seems to be something like sound. The Shadow Dragon King said that because this power is weak, I'll be in charge of it, and nothing will go wrong."
Hearing Yadan's answer, Lu Ming felt terrible.
Seeing Lu Ming's incredulous expression, Ya Dan knew that Shadow Dragon King was wrong.
Sound is one of the ten strongest powers, surpassing even the five powers of wind, fire, water, thunder, and earth. Theoretically, anything capable of transmitting sound vibrations is enough to destroy the world! Therefore, sound, or rather, the power of vibration, is terrifying!
"I think I got a good deal!"
"Is this too much?!" After making a slight complaint, Lu Ming asked Yadan, "We can help you clone your offspring, and we can help you build churches, but what can we get from you? We already have gods protecting us, gods making our lives stable, what can you give us?"
"this!"
With a soft "smack," an umbilical cord covered in eyes was flung by Adan onto Hemphis's face, who was standing next to Lu Ming, causing him to scream, "Ahhhhh!! My SAn points!!!"
"With just the umbilical cord that human gave you, which belongs to Mego, you are not yet capable of dealing with Mego and the Moon Spirit. But this can help you. Now you just need to go into the dream and find the Moon Spirit's umbilical cord, or find the umbilical cord that Mego has prepared again."
Reaching out, Lu Ming removed the third umbilical cord from Helmphis's face. He then sighed and said, "The first umbilical cord represents the brain, thought; the second represents the heart, life. And this third umbilical cord represents..."
"Breath!"
"Alright!" Hearing that Adan had said what he wanted to say, and seeing that He had even taken out the third umbilical cord, Lu Ming couldn't say anything more. He could only agree to help Adan clone the divine child in order to avoid Skor's curse.
As for Archbishop Empro and High Priest Kasyatas, they no longer objected to the matter because their respective gods had given their consent.
Chapter Twenty-Five - Dream
Lying in a special isolation room at the (Hunter) headquarters, Lu Ming and two other hunters, who had already met with their families, received blood drawn from the two third umbilical cords and were injected into their bodies with the help of the white-clad hunters, waiting to sink into the dream that Lu Ming called the Endless Nightmare.
As the umbilical blood was injected, Lu Ming and the other two quickly began to hallucinate, such as seeing sharp claws reaching out to invite them to join their beastmen, and a group of messengers who were like undead.
But soon they fell into a deep sleep, and the hunters sealed the isolation room in another dimension, relying only on two special magic circles to generate air for them to breathe, and displaying the scene inside the isolation room on a special device at the (hunter) headquarters so that the hunters could observe them and then teleport them back after their mission was completed.
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When Lu Ming opened his eyes, a dazzling starry sky came into view, which made him think of some wonderful things.
But a sudden gust of cold wind startled him awake.
Suddenly sitting up amidst a sea of flowers, Lu Ming saw the magnificent royal cities of Anor Londo, Lothric, and Dolangreg in the distance, as well as Yharnam...
"Is this... the edge of nightmares?" Getting up from the ground, Lu Ming looked around at the empty sea of flowers, devoid of any monsters. He was slightly puzzled. At least, this place didn't seem like a nightmare teeming with monsters.
Just as Lu Ming was wondering why he didn't recognize the place he was in, the sound of a woman singing suddenly came from the far end of the sea of flowers, which reminded Lu Ming of some interesting things that happened when he watched his friends play Bloodborne.
"A multi-eyed monster? Ha!" Lu Ming casually drew his Irithyll straight sword from his waist and headed straight for the source of the song, arriving at a steep mountain path that led downwards.
On this mountain path, there was a monster with the body of a woman but the head of a large fleshy lump covered with eyes, who was strolling along the path and singing a song.
But for some reason, the thing instinctively ran away as soon as it saw Lu Ming. This startled Lu Ming.
"What does this mean?" Standing at the entrance to the mountain road, Lu Ming watched the thing run further and further away, and couldn't help but wonder why it was running away.
Just then, Lu Ming heard the voice of a woman he knew very well behind him.
"Look at yourself now, you look like a giant humanoid dragon. That thing will run away when it sees you!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Ming subconsciously glanced at his hands and saw that they were covered in scales and his fingernails were like those of a dragon, thus realizing what he looked like.
However, Lu Ming was not dissatisfied with this at all. Instead, he laughed and turned around to embrace a beautiful woman in a black robe.
"I didn't expect you to come with me!" Lu Ming said with a smile, greedily enjoying the woman's faint fragrance, which was no different from before.
The woman spat and said, "If it weren't for you, you bastard, injecting the umbilical cord blood from the third umbilical cord, making your dreams so unstable, do you think I would have come to this godforsaken place?"
"Sorry! Sorry!" Lu Ming smiled a little embarrassedly.
"Alright! Let's hurry up and deal with that alien god, Mego! The only thing keeping our home from the invasion of the Old God's Dream is the Moonlight Greatsword. We can't let Amelia worry for too long, or if she turns into a beast too, our home will be finished!" The black-robed woman holding the Peheim Magic Staff and the Dark Sword gave Lu Ming a slight hug before walking ahead to explore the entire Nightmare Frontier with him.
On their journey, they encountered many monsters, such as deep black mud, twisted ancient dragons, withered wandering spirits, as well as twisted giants and all sorts of octopus-like monsters.
Some of these things are manifestations of the subconscious of hunters trapped in nightmares and people who have received blood healing; others are twisted expressions of what Gwyndolin, Seath the White Dragon, and the maddened Black Dragon hate most in their hearts.
However, apart from the black mud and some ancient dragons that were so twisted that they couldn't stand up properly, there were no other monsters that could pose any threat to Lu Ming and his companion.
Moreover, even those black mud and twisted ancient dragons couldn't last ten minutes under Lu Ming's breath and miraculous attacks; they were dealt with by the two of them working together.
This resulted in them seizing quite a few strange items. These included scales of an immortal ancient dragon, bloodstone fragments, and an eyeball of some unknown origin. Besides these, they also picked up some other odd things.
Because Lu Ming and the woman in black robes had acted somewhat too aggressively along the way, no monster dared to attack them until they reached the very end of the Nightmare's Edge. Because provoking them meant certain death by being chopped to pieces!
So in the end, the monsters could only retreat far away, lest they be seen by these two who came to sweep through...
At the edge of the nightmare's edge lay the ruins of an unknown temple. In the very center of this place stood a lamp, a device used for teleportation within the nightmare. So Lu Ming and his companion walked toward the lamp without hesitation.
But at that moment, a monster suddenly descended from the sky, blocking Lu Ming and his companion's path.
“Amigodala. As expected, even a low-level god like you has come!” Looking at the enormous humanoid creature with six arms and a head that looked like a walnut with many holes, Lu Ming said with a sneer.
Perhaps understanding the meaning of Lu Ming's words, Amigodala unhesitatingly fired a beam of light from its head, sweeping it towards Lu Ming.
However, Lu Ming remained completely unfazed by Amigotala's beam attack. Compared to Eldridge, Amigotala was simply no match for him!
With just a few steps to the side, Lu Ming and the woman in black robes dodged Amigotala's beam attack. And! They even launched a counterattack!
Before Amigotara could finish his attack, Lu Ming and the woman in black robes raised their Aries Staff and Pihem Staff high and shouted in unison, "Crystallized Soul Gun!"
Instantly, two crystal soul spears pierced Amigodala's head, creating a huge opening.
Amigodala fell heavily to the ground, his head bleeding, his head hanging low.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lu Ming unleashed his divine speed without hesitation, rushing to Amigotara's side. He used Bloodlust Crescent and, without a word, plunged his magic sword into Amigotara's head, shouting, "Moonlight Torrent!!"
In an instant, a surge of azure magical energy erupted within Amigodala's head, blasting the massive skull into fragments!
In just two rounds, the master of Nightmare's Edge changed from Amigodala to Lu Ming, and Amigodala was completely killed by Lu Ming!
As the victor, Lu Ming took Amigodala's soul and one of his arms.
After putting the arm back into the phone, Lu Ming and the woman in black robes devoured Amigotala's soul.
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