Chapter 79: Chapter 36: Nightmare II
During the time Su Ziyu had been away, the situation in the Dream Forest seemed to have worsened again.
Before he left, the gigantic mud golem couldn’t move, but now it was already able to move on its own. Moreover, its face had increasingly resembled the Great Elf, and upon closer inspection, it somewhat resembled Jack, whom Su Ziyu had previously killed, with a disturbing and rigid sinister smile on its face.
It held the black mud-formed apple in its hands, slowly lifting its foot and walking towards them.
"Evil Spirit!"
The White Queen’s figure hovered in mid-air, a slight glow emanating from her snow-white court gown. She turned her head and glanced at Skadi, her lips curling slightly as she spoke, "Can you handle this big guy?"
The Valkyrie tightened her grip on the spear in her hand and did not speak, but instead gestured for Su Ziyu to dismount from the horse.
Damn!
This is over twenty meters high; are you really planning for me to jump down?
Before Su Ziyu could decide, he suddenly felt his body soaring into the air—the Valkyrie had nonchalantly tossed him down with one hand, scaring him into quickly using telekinesis to support his body, intending to reduce the impact of his fall.
Huh?
Not painful at all?
After landing, Su Ziyu only felt a slight jolt, comfortably, because he hadn’t activated the ability of Telekinesis Flight, so the descent speed hadn’t really slowed much, yet his physical fitness seemed able to withstand such a fall.
He hadn’t really tried it before.
After all, no one would jump off buildings for fun, but now it seemed that for a typical four to five-story height, Su Ziyu had no problem at all.
The tall Pegasus let out a whinny.
The Valkyrie in front of him squeezed her spear and charged at the massive mud golem, the golden spear transforming into a lightning bolt and being hurled out, instantly creating a hole in the mud golem’s head.
Skadi raised her hand, and the spear that had been cast out flew back into her hand.
The White Queen looked at Su Ziyu, who appeared a bit tense on the ground, a playful expression on her face: "Don’t worry, young one."
"Back then, she was the leader of the Valkyries."
"This kind of monster is nothing to her, at most just a waste of a little time."
Boom.
The mud golem, towering two to three hundred meters high, was not affected at all. The hole in its head was gradually filled with fresh mud, and then it held the apple made of black mud in one hand, raised the other hand, and struck towards the Valkyrie.
A massive dent appeared on the ground instantly.
But this kind of slow attack couldn’t catch up with the Pegasus. Skadi rode the Pegasus in a circle around it, suddenly striking again and stabbing at the mud golem’s eyes.
"Luckily I went out to find help."
Su Ziyu looked at the distant battle shaking the earth and mountains, murmuring: "If this monster hit me once, I’d probably turn into minced meat, right?"
The difference is too big.
Neither the mud golem nor the scarecrow was something Su Ziyu could handle now, and even the Winter Witch had a very hard time dealing with them.
"Huh? Here comes another one!"
"No!"
"More than one!" The White Queen’s gaze pierced through the mist, murmuring.
The neighing of a steed reached their ears.
In the darkness, a unicorn ablaze with fierce flames appeared before them, but atop it wasn’t the Summer Witch they’d seen before, but rather another person cloaked in gray.
"You’re finally back!"
With the appearance of this Nightmare Knight, the exhausted voice of the Winter Witch also sounded from afar: "Be careful! The Spirit Bodies of the sisters have been corrupted by It!"
The eerie and piercing howls came from afar.
The figure of the scarecrow gradually emerged from the mist, its body covered in countless sunflower blossoms, with twisted, grotesque smiles of Great Elf faces at the centers of the flowers. Its movement was relatively slow, but even separated by over a thousand meters, Su Ziyu felt a prickling pain in his spirit when he saw it, and the corners of his lips involuntarily curled upward into a slight smirk.
凸(艹皿艹)!
How to fight this ghastly thing?
Due to the previous experience, Su Ziyu timely realized this and turned his head, using his hand to force the weird smile back down.
Don’t gaze upon it.
The scarecrow must not be looked at directly.
"Don’t look at it!" Noticing the same eerie smile on the White Queen’s face, Su Ziyu promptly shouted.
The White Queen reacted swiftly.
She instantly realized she was being influenced, forcibly shifting her gaze away, and a Flame Spear materialized in her palm, which she threw at the scarecrow from a distance.
"What a formidable earth-bound spirit."
"Have those Great Elf souls all been consumed by it?" The White Queen pinched her own face in a place Su Ziyu couldn’t see.
Boom.
One of the mud golem’s arms was severed by Skadi; it seemed infuriated by the Valkyrie’s attack and suddenly flung the Black Apple over.
A swath of black mud splashed down like liquid.
The Pegasus agilely turned to dodge it, while in the not-far-off pit on the ground, the black mud from the apple gradually converged, followed by the onset of a maniacal whispering: "Fake! Everything is fake!"
"How long will you continue to deceive us with false beauty?"
"Everything here is just a joke!"
"Only I have seen the real world! Only I know the world outside has turned into Hell!"
"All the gods are dead."
"Why are you still struggling? Why don’t you give up?"
"That foolish hope!"
"That false beauty!"
"Why aren’t you laughing? Keep laughing!"
The familiar, insane murmuring made Su Ziyu shiver all over. He turned his head to look afar, soon spotting the figure of Jack appearing in the black mud.
His body was gradually forming from the black mud, his expression filled with unrestrained madness!
"How much longer will you continue to deceive us with this ridiculous fairytale?"
"I’ve seen the outside world."
"I’ve seen those creatures outside. They are the true beings capable of surviving in this Hell!"
"Break apart!"
"Destroy!"
"This ludicrous Dream Realm should have ended long ago!"
Black mud continuously flowed from the frenzied Jack, with the aura of despair permeating the Dream Forest, causing changes to the land polluted by the black mud and making shadow-like figures appear.
Su Ziyu didn’t know what those were either.
But from the black mud, he felt the deepest, darkest anger, hatred, and despair!
It seemed to be the evil of the world!
In this world that had experienced the twilight of gods, it kept growing, fueled by hatred as its power and despair as its nourishment.
Boom.
A golden lightning streaked across the sky, marking the spot where the Valkyrie Skadi remained in the sky. She gazed coldly at Jack, formed from the black mud, and stated sternly: "Black Elf."
"You have no idea how much sacrifice was made to create this world!"
"The bones of my sisters still rest at the Well of Destiny."
"In the collapsed Golden Palace, in the shattered Hall of Heroes, on the broken Rainbow Bridge, in the Frost Giant’s glacier, in the Fire Giant’s lava, in the Sea of Death of the Netherworld..."
The Valkyrie’s expression grew increasingly resolute, her voice booming louder and louder, eventually resonating like thunder as she roared: "To collect the powers of water, wind, and fire and recreate a world, the heroes of the Ashen Era charged forward one after another, falling in that nightmare-real world you speak of, that terrifying Hell!..."
Boom!
The Valkyrie’s figure descended together with the golden lightning, gripping the Thunderbolt Spear tightly in her hand, she roared:
"What right do you have to destroy this world!!!"
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