There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

[Nightmare LV10-LV11]

Congratulations to the player for acquiring the skill: [Dream Weaver]

Strength +3, Agility +2, Constitution +2, Spirit +3

[Dream World: The Psychic Princess and the Ash Forest Create a Parallel World]

[A large amount of Dream Coins were invested...]

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Chapter 556: You Promised Me

In an endless, deep world of darkness, a woman with long black hair slowly opened her eyes.

"Someone has used system privileges?" The unknown being referred to by the cabin as the god of misfortune and calamity had a thoughtful expression on his exquisite face.

"Huh, it's already blue?" The God of Misfortune and Doom seemed to have discovered something and said with a slight surprise.

"Looks like I slept for a bit too long..."

"Was it blue around this time? I don't really remember it..." The God of Ominousness and Misfortune slowly licked his lips, his gaze seeming to see many other beings through the endless darkness.

"Hehe, I'd better keep the use of my privileges well covered, or something bad will happen." The God of Ominousness and Misfortune chuckled softly, casually concealing the fluctuations of the dream game.

"Has anyone already noticed?" The God of Misfortune frowned subconsciously, then slowly relaxed his brow.

"So it's her..." The God of Ominousness and Misfortune revealed a playful smile. A girl with long, light red hair and two devil horns on her head gradually appeared in his sight. Her body was surrounded by divine power, which was slowly pushing her to the surface of Mirror Lake City.

"I can't let you bully people with your strength." Two round, black-stockinged thighs crossed, and a wicked smile appeared on the face of the god of misfortune and doom. He then fired a curse at the girl.

Meanwhile, in the real world...

With the help of divine power, the red-haired girl floated above the lake in Mirror Lake City, blocking the view of the modern world and ordinary people.

"Hoo..." The girl opened her arms, took a deep breath, and said, "This is..." Before she could finish speaking, a dark curse shot out from the abyss and struck the girl hard on the back.

"Ouch, that hurts!"

The girl suddenly felt a pain in her back. Just as she was about to curse the despicable guy for attacking her without any sense of martial ethics when she first arrived, she felt a loss of strength throughout her body, and her divine power was instantly sealed away.

"No, no way..."

The girl finally realized where this familiar feeling came from. Her divine power gradually dissipated, and her strength gradually returned to the level of an ordinary person.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh, help! People are going to die!!"

"You damned ominous bastard, I'll make you pay for this even if it kills me!"

"Hehehe, at this level, no one will die." Hearing the girl's scream, the God of Ominousness and Misfortune covered his mouth and said with a smile.

The girl, now devoid of all divine power, naturally could not hear the words of the god of misfortune and doom, and her body plummeted rapidly towards the lake below.

Just when the girl thought she was doomed and about to return to the embrace of the divine kingdom, the divine power within her body suddenly recovered for a moment. She knew that this was definitely not because her body had temporarily suppressed the curse, but because the god of misfortune and doom had slightly relaxed his power.

Her goal, of course, was to avoid smashing to pieces on the water. While she certainly didn't want to, she just felt...

"How humiliating..."

Although she was furious, the girl still immediately activated her shield and plunged into the water with a splash.

.......

[Dream Weaver: A person possessing a transcendental sequence of nightmares, capable of manipulating the dreams of a sleeping target by consuming mental and spiritual energy, or forcibly putting an enemy into a state of unconsciousness after a mental assessment.]

"What... what's going on?" Lu Qing asked, looking at the words displayed in the diary with some confusion.

She seemed to have seen that string of gibberish before; it usually represented some particularly powerful being, such as a god, or that being in the darkness who often paid attention to the others.

If that's the case, then why would the other party help her? Is it just because she's a little annoyed by Knight Myron's memories?

What's with this "generating parallel worlds" nonsense? Have parallel worlds from the dream world even appeared?

Lu Qing felt her mind was a little confused and couldn't react for a while. It wasn't until she was in a daze for a long time that she began to use her dream-weaver abilities to modify the memories of Knight Myron that she was seeing.

Since the diary says that a new parallel world has been created, does that mean that everything she manipulates here will become a reality in the parallel world?

Lu Qing was really looking forward to it, even though she herself couldn't see that so-called parallel world.

She didn't make many changes to her memories, because Lu Qing realized that she was controlling a dream rather than memories.

She can send thoughts to other characters in her dreams, but she cannot control their behavior at will. In addition, she can create other items at will, but this requires her own mental energy.

Thinking of this, Lu Qing sent the message "[The other party may be Verena]" to Knight Myron.

After sending this thought, Lu Qing stopped the pause on the Knight Myron's memory world and quietly observed.

Knight Myron, who had already raised his weapon, suddenly paused. After hesitating for a moment, he quietly approached the cultist.

The other party was indeed a woman, wearing a light purple magic robe. The robe was imbued with magic that concealed her presence and reduced her perceptibility. In addition, there was a huge wound on her abdomen, cut open by a sharp blade.

She wore a mask, obscuring her face. Knight Myron slowly reached out to remove the mask from her face.

Suddenly, Lu Qing realized that the Guiji Cult member was not actually asleep at all, but had just been pretending not to notice Knight Myron. After Knight Myron reached out his hand, her breathing became rapid, and her pale knuckles clenched tightly together.

Knight Myron removed his mask, revealing Velena with her eyes tightly closed and a single tear slowly falling from the corner of her eye.

“You shouldn’t have done that,” Verena said, collapsing to the ground in pain.

"......"

After a moment of silence, Knight Myron slowly spoke, "You promised me..."

"What?" Verena looked up at Knight Myron, somewhat bewildered.

“Your answer.” Knight Myron knelt on the ground and gently lifted Velena’s left hand with both hands.

“…” Verena was a little stunned, and she couldn’t help but become a little nervous.

After a long while, she suddenly hugged Knight Myron and whispered in his ear, "Idiot."

"..."

After a moment of silence, Verena slowly began, "Then, what I said that day when you were drunk...?"

"Actually, it's all true."

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Chapter 557: Soaring into the Sky

"Click..."

The dream world slowly shattered, and Lu Qing returned to the real world.

【Guardian Mask】

Those who wield the shield will advance without hesitation; I will uphold my creed for life, until death do us part.

Development progress: 50%

The Guardian's Shield skill effect has been enhanced!

With a thought, Lu Qing summoned the Guardian's Shield. She felt the light on the shield become more solid. She wasn't sure how much the effect had improved, but she figured it shouldn't be too bad.

Taking out the Guardian Mask, Lu Qing noticed that the silver-white cloud patterns on the mask had increased, almost taking up half of the mask. The most eye-catching of these was the half-line cloud pattern below the left eye that resembled a tear stain.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Qing put the mask on her face and used her spiritual power to activate the power within the mask.

A heavy force suddenly pressed down on her. Lu Qing slowly raised her left hand and found that her left hand had turned into a silver-white armor.

She was still in a first-person perspective and wouldn't see her own position, but her size had increased significantly, and she was now wearing a heavy, silver-white suit of armor.

Lu Qing slowly clenched her right fist and punched the smooth rock wall beside her, which had been eroded by strong winds for many years.

"boom!!"

She effortlessly punched a large crater in the rock wall without feeling any pain in her fist.

"It feels completely different from using the Insect Hunter Mask," Lu Qing said softly, looking at her hands encased in silver-white armor.

When the Insect Hunter Mask is used, the perspective changes to third person, and the power within the mask is not used for self-defense; it is a mask that can only be used for continuous attack after use.

The Guardian Mask, as its name suggests, is a mask with extremely strong defensive capabilities. However, this strong defensive capability comes at the cost of reduced agility. The heavy feeling that is constantly pressing down on you provides more than just a sense of security.

With a thought, a huge silver-white metal shield appeared in Lu Qing's left hand, while in her right hand she held a sharp silver-white longsword.

"call......"

After letting out a long breath, Lu Qing withdrew the power of the Guardian Mask.

Surprisingly, the Guardian Mask consumed much less mental energy than when she used the Insect Hunter Mask before. She didn't know if it was because she was used to it or because the load consumed when using the mask would decrease as the development level of the mask increased.

Of course, it could also be because her mental attributes have improved during this period.

“Ling, pour the rest of your soul into the Insect Hunter Mask,” Lu Qing said, hanging the Guardian Mask next to the Insect Hunter Mask.

"Understood." The light on Ling's body flickered as she sent the remaining 234 points of soul energy into the Insect Hunter Mask.

[Insect Hunter Mask]

Development progress: 44%

"Alright, let's move on." Lu Qing nodded in satisfaction and put away the Insect Hunter Mask.

She and Ling continued deeper into Storm Valley, and soon came to a towering cliff. Lu Qing wanted to use her spiritual power to climb up from the bottom of the cliff, but Ling stopped her.

“Oh, crawling up is not only slow, but it also consumes a lot of spiritual energy. We can use another method to get up,” Ling said after stopping Lu Qing.

"Ling, do you mean using Maeveline's feathers?" Lu Qing asked, realizing something after hearing Ling's words.

“Hmm.” Ling swayed up and down, saying, “If we use that feather, we can release the wind element here for a short time, and then we can fly up with the airflow.”

"How about we climb up there..." Lu Qing took out the [White Eagle Feather], looking at the feather in her hand with some hesitation.

Flying into the sky with a feather—although she knew it was entirely possible, she still felt a sense of unease. This unease didn't stem from distrust of the prop, but from within herself.

Because she had never used this thing before, who knows if she might make a mistake and fly in the wrong direction, or fall from the sky.

"Don't worry, if you fall, Ling'er will catch you!" Ling said, her body shimmering with light.

"Then let's give it a try."

Lu Qing picked up a feather that was almost as tall as herself and vigorously flapped it in front of her. A powerful gust of air flew out, and a strong upward wind suddenly erupted from the ground in front of Lu Qing.