This necromancer is going to seduce the beautiful girls who are already dead.

Thud, thud...

Most of his body exploded into rapidly evaporating black mud, leaving only a mangled head. That head, too, vanished quickly. He turned his head one last time, looking at Donna and Lillian outside the door, opening his mouth as if to say something, but no sound came out.

Bang.

The final explosion completely took away the "Lord of Delusion," and his presence vanished entirely from the dream world.

Donna and Lillian remained frozen outside the door, their minds, corrupted by the Lord of Delusion, completely paralyzed by what had just happened. Flora turned around at the opportune moment, and relying on her understanding of the Abyss, spread her hands and mimicked his voice: "Alright, ladies of the assassin class, the Lord of Delusion has been defeated by me. You two are no longer bound by so-called desires."

……

Inside the room, a sudden change occurred in front of everyone who was still wary of Donna and Lillian.

Donna and Lillian, whose hands were being held by Flora, suddenly began to emit black gas, just like when Bothers lifted the curse. Before this black gas could find a place to settle, it was crushed and eradicated by the omnipresent power of the Lord of Bullying in Helheim.

The two, whose bodies had been corrupted by the power of the Lord of Delusion for over forty years, also began to tremble violently.

"Wow!"

Both of them opened their mouths at the same time and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Spitting out blood is usually a worrying thing, but seeing that the blood coming out of their mouths was bright red, Sofia and Edvina's eyes lit up with hope.

If they were puppets controlled by the Lord of Delusion, then it would be impossible for them to vomit blood when their bodies had turned into black mud. This would only be possible if the Lord of Delusion's power was expelled and their bodies returned to normal.

So, Flora and Abyss succeeded!

Flora opened her eyes as well. Following Abyss's instructions, she ended the dream and awoke after confirming that Donna and Lillian believed the Lord of Delusions was truly dead.

"Abyss!" The first thing she did upon waking was to check on the safety of the Abyss behind her.

Turning around, she saw Abyss's smiling face—he had woken up too.

But... why does he look so dazed right now?

Chapter 208 Donna and Lillian Awaken

“Abyss?” Flora tentatively waved her hand in front of the Abyss’s eyes.

Abis was clearly responding to the external stimuli. He blinked and said to Flora in a somewhat sluggish voice, "Don't worry... I'm fine... It's just a side effect of dying in my dream... that's all."

He smiled sluggishly, looking rather silly, but kind of cute.

"What method did you use?" Flora was very puzzled. Ignoring Donna and Lillian who were waking up next to her, she directly helped the dazed Abyss to a chair in the room.

Abyss sat down, slowly glancing at the girls around him, and then said unhurriedly, "Don't worry about me... I died once in a dream... but before that... during the explosion... I split my soul in half... so I only have half a soul... and it was injured."

"Is that even possible?" Flora blinked.

She knew the Abyss had the ability to separate her soul, but she never imagined that the Abyss would use this method to prevent her from suffering the full harm of dying in a dream.

This is perhaps a judgment made by the Abyss based on its rich experience. If too few souls are left behind, the remaining souls will be too weak and affect the performance in the dream. If too many are left behind, the damage will be great, and it is possible to fall into a deep sleep.

By feigning death and struggling, Abyss gradually transferred his soul away in just the right proportion, making everything just right.

The side effect Abyss is experiencing now is that half of his soul has been impacted, leaving him somewhat dazed.

"Have ABCs become idiots now?" Leona asked Abyss curiously. "Abyss, can you moo like a cow for me?"

"How does a cow... moo?" Abyss asked Leona, looking confused.

"Huh? You didn't forget that? How stupid!" Leona looked at Abyss with schadenfreude. "Then let me remind you, moo—"

"Not bad...it sounds quite right." Abyss gave a belated but satisfied smile and nodded.

"Hiss... Huh?" Leona was stunned for a moment before realizing that she seemed to have been tricked again, and she angrily bit Abyss's hand.

Abyss's reaction speed is currently affected; his intelligence remains intact. This reassured everyone. There's plenty of time in Helheim, and with Carol's help, his recovery shouldn't be a problem.

This allowed the Abyss's retinue to focus their attention on Donna and Lillian, who were slowly regaining consciousness.

Now, Sophia and Edvina are watching them nervously. Donna and Lillian are somewhat different from Bothers; Bothers has not been controlled by the Lord of Delusion for long, while Donna and Lillian have been controlled for forty years.

The unclean divine power had been residing in their bodies for a long time. Although their bodies had been restored to flesh and blood, they still needed time to recover.

Blood was flowing continuously from the corners of their mouths, indicating that their internal organs had also suffered severe damage.

"I'll do it." Flora stood between Donna and Lillian and began casting a divine spell directly on them.

Helheim had long since established a strategic partnership with the Nine Gods, and Flora's efficiency in using divine magic here was quite high. Two bright lights shone from between her outstretched hands, and Donna and Lillian's somewhat disordered breathing became calm.

They were still vomiting blood, but Flora's divine magic was making their blood vomiting better and better. Their skin, which had turned somewhat bluish due to lack of blood, was now becoming more rosy.

The purifying power inherent in the divine magic greatly benefited Donna and Lillian. After being treated by Flora for a period of time, their bodies finally began to move consciously again.

Edvina had been holding Sophia's hand the whole time, and now, seeing Donna and Lillian about to wake up, she gripped it even tighter. Although she was eighty years old, she still unconsciously retained the habits she had developed when she was with Sophia.

Donna and Lillian's closed eyes began to tremble slightly, and their fingers would occasionally twitch; perhaps their consciousness had returned to them.

“Donna, Lillian,” Sophia called softly to her two close friends.

At Sophia's soft call, the two dark elf girls, who had been keeping their eyes closed, opened them simultaneously.

Their eyes appeared somewhat red; their bodies had suffered considerable damage when the Lord of Delusion's divine power was expelled from the realm.

“Sophia…” Donna said in a hoarse voice.

“Edvina!” Lillian called out as well.

"That's wonderful...you two have both recovered!" Sofia was overjoyed.

Edvina trembled with excitement at the sight before her. She let out a long breath, as if expelling all the gloom that had accumulated over the past forty years.

"Where...where are we?" Donna looked around anxiously.

The two of them sat on two iron beds that were clearly designed for restraint. In front of them were Sofia and Edvina, and behind them stood several other people they didn't recognize.

A seemingly silly boy was sitting in a chair, surrounded by several girls who seemed to be the center of attention, clearly indicating that he was in a leadership position.

A beautiful blonde human girl stood beside them. Before they fully regained consciousness, they had vaguely felt their bodies being healed by divine magic, so they could confirm that it was this girl in front of them who had just helped them with divine magic.

But why would a girl be able to use divine magic?

Then, they noticed an elven girl next to the boy in the chair—a girl they recognized; she was Agnes, the renowned druid sage in the elven kingdoms!

In this situation, both young female assassins were quite puzzled. What on earth could have led to such a mismatched group?

"Donna, Lillian, you two were bewitched by the Lord of Delusion and became His puppets. Do you remember those things?" Edvina asked.

Donna and Lillian were both stunned. Edvina's question had brought back a flood of memories, making them recall the more than forty years they had spent as puppets of the evil god!

"Ah..." Lillian clutched her head.

Donna frowned deeply: "Forty-five years... I... I've been controlled for forty-five years..."

“But you are safe now.” Sofia took their hands. “You are free.”

Chapter 209 Other Missions of the Genius Assassins

Now that the two had recovered, they naturally couldn't continue chatting in the room that had originally been used to confine them. Rebecca instructed two skeleton servants to help the still somewhat weak girls to the reception room of the Eternal Night Palace.

“We’ve been living in a daze under the control of the Lord of Delusion, and those times were truly shameful,” Donna said with a sigh as she sat at the table. “Lillian and I lost all our freedom, our hearts filled with intense obsessions, and we were powerless to resist.”

“Back then, we didn’t even know we were being controlled. If we hadn’t regained our freedom, we probably still wouldn’t know that the Lord of Delusion was manipulating us,” Lillian nodded in agreement.

The Lord of Delusion corrupts people's minds quite thoroughly; those controlled are unaware that they have been controlled. After all, the Lord of Delusion merely amplifies certain obsessions they already possess.

"Fortunately, you've both recovered now. Is there anything else that's bothering you?" Edvina asked, looking at her two close friends.

Over the past forty years, Donna and Lillian, whose bodies had been corrupted by the power of the Lord of Delusion and turned into black mud, remained unchanged, still as young as they were back then. Sophia, as a spirit, also showed no signs of aging. Of the four, only Edvina was no longer young. She had become the eldest sister in the group—a position that had previously belonged to Sophia.

"I'm fine. Apart from feeling very weak, I don't have any other discomfort," Donna replied.

Lillian nodded: "I'm the same as Donna."

"That's good." Edvina nodded. "The power of the Lord of Delusion is quite destructive. It's the best outcome that you're all safe and sound."

“You can stay in Helheim during this time,” Rebecca said. “You can recuperate here; there’s nowhere better for you to rest and recover.”

Before they arrived, Donna and Lillian already knew what kind of world they were in. Now, hearing Rebecca say this, they were both very grateful.

Already physically weak, they were reluctant to return to Hay-Tver, and they were also worried about encountering the Lord of Delusion again. The manipulation they had endured for over forty years had already caused them considerable psychological trauma.

"By the way... what kind of missions have you been on over these forty years?" Abyss asked belatedly. He was curious about Donna and Lillian's experiences over the past forty years.

Lillian said, "These past forty years of missions... In fact, for most of these forty years, we've just been wandering around aimlessly, without carrying out any missions. It seems that the Lord of Delusion only uses us as some kind of backup weapon."

“Is that so…” Abyss scratched his head. He had originally wanted to hear Donna and Lillian talk about who else they had attacked in the past forty years, but now it seemed that the Lord of Delusions was not very efficient in using his puppets.

“Our main task is actually to track you down and attack you when necessary,” Lillian continued to Abyss. “Sophia is with us too, but now Sophia’s soul has been freed.”

“Wait, Lillian, do you remember another mission we did more than a decade ago?” Donna suddenly said at this moment.

Lillian was momentarily stunned by Donna's words, then she remembered what had happened before. She nodded and looked at Abyss, saying, "If you'd like to know, we did indeed carry out another assassination mission before we were tasked with tracking and attacking you."

Abyss, his curiosity piqued again, looked at the two people opposite him with sleepy eyes: "I'd like to hear the details..."

“Yes, we were once assigned a mission by the Lord of Delusion to assassinate a necromancer,” Lillian said seriously. “However, that mission failed.”

"A necromancer?"

Everyone was somewhat surprised that Donna and Lillian had actually assassinated another necromancer. What kind of necromancer could it be that the Lord of Delusions would care about it and even send someone to assassinate him?

What intrigues everyone even more is: what kind of necromancer could escape unscathed, causing the assassination attempts of three of the continent's top assassins to fail?

“Yes, a necromancer. Let me recall his appearance…” Lillian racked her memory. “He… was quite old, with long white hair tied back. He always wore a black mage's robe. His skin was very pale, even paler than that of a typical necromancer. Oh, and one more thing, he seemed quite witty and unpretentious.”

“We received this mission from the Lord of Delusion and went together to assassinate him,” Donna continued, continuing Lillian’s recollection. “The three of us surrounded him. The assassination was not a difficult mission, but just as we launched our attack and were about to defeat him, a powerful force suddenly erupted from him. This force instantly stripped us of our mobility, leaving us lying on the ground, unable to move for several days.”

"Holy crap... so powerful?" Leona exclaimed in astonishment. She had originally thought that the Abyss was the ceiling of combat power in this world, but even the Abyss could only crush the evil god puppets time and time again and slowly figure out a way to defeat them. But this necromancer, as described by Donna and Lillian, seemed to be even more relaxed than the Abyss.

“Our mission failed because we lost our ability to move,” Donna said. “That power was strange. When it swept over us, we felt very sleepy and then collapsed, unable to move. If it weren’t for the disguise power of the Lord of Delusion, we might have been discovered by others.”

"Wow, that's incredible!" Rebecca exclaimed sincerely. "Such a powerful necromancer..."

“Abyss, do you know someone like that?” Flora looked at Abyss. “You’re a necromancer too, have you ever heard of such a legend?”

Abyss's expression was somewhat complicated.

He hesitated for a moment, then slowly said, "I do know someone like that..."