Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes-Chapter 588 - 106: Nightmare Hunter

Unaware of Black Abyss’s reaction, the elf that had grown from the dark green giant tree was just tranquilly watching Anvis.

"I can see that you have come one step closer to awakening."

Apparently, due to Anvis’s prolonged lack of response, Despair Desius spoke again.

"...What do you mean, Desius?"

The indifferent voice emanated from Anvis’s pitch-dark face, the tone as devoid of emotion as that of Dark Tidis himself.

"This entire Inheritance Land has long gone insane, having devoured too many ancient taboos and indescribable entities over the protracted ages. Everything is beyond redemption. Whether they be Trialists or Nightmare Spirits, all have absolutely plunged into insanity!

But they don’t see it, they are just numbed by their deep slumbers and the deepest illusion dreams, lulling themselves with false beauty. Whereas I have unexpectedly awakened and can no longer fall back to sleep."

The dark green eyes stared intently at Anvis, Desius’s complexion suddenly tinged with a maniacal delight, causing the dark green branches to start trembling.

"Now, I am delighted to see that you too are moving a step closer toward awakening!"

"You..."

Listening to Desius’s words, Anvis fell silent for a moment, finding it utterly absurd, yet suddenly he remembered a detail.

When he first entered Inheritance Land, the weird nameless curse attached to him transformed under the rules of Inheritance Land into a chocolate cake adorned with lurid, crimson strawberries.

But, has its essence really changed?

If this line of thought is continued, what about that room filled with cakes and pastries in the Candy House...?

"Now is not the time for internal conflict, Desius! If you can’t control your assimilation desire, I will join Tidis to eliminate you ahead of schedule!"

At this moment, Black Abyss suddenly spoke up, disrupting Anvis’s drifting thoughts.

After being interrupted in his contemplation, Anvis also noticed that suddenly there was a peculiar quality similar to that found in Desius, appearing within his own body.

Frowning inwardly, Anvis temporarily shelved the thought, uncertain whether his own changes were due to Desius’s covert assimilation or, as Desius claimed, he himself was one step closer to ’awakening’.

"Don’t mind him, Tidis, he’s been excessively influenced by his own trait. We should now focus on eroding this world. It’s not wise to have internal conflicts at times when those Trialists might pose a threat to us."

After chiding Desius, Despair’s Black Abyss shook his head and also felt speechless about the increasingly ’sluggish’ emotional reactions from Tidis.

If it weren’t for the threat posed by those Trialists, he wouldn’t bother about Tidis’s life or death, and might even join Desius to divide up his Strength and Authority Fragments.

"I will wait for you until you awaken from this insane Dream."

Ignoring Black Abyss’s words, Desius took one last look at Anvis, then pulled his roots out from the ground and vanished away like a bubble.

"How delightful, the mad guy left on his own. I reckon our compatibility is somewhat better."

Looking at the large pit left behind where Desius had stood, Black Abyss casually whistled, his gaze turning back to Anvis.

"There really aren’t any sane people planning to act alone at this time, are there? Surely not, right?"

"..."

Anvis glanced at Black Abyss, figuring this guy must have seen plenty of players.

Even without Black Abyss’s sarcasm, he wasn’t planning to leave just yet.

After all, in this place, there’s more than just one of the Four Nightmares on their own.

.........

"Disappeared? Has Desius already left this world? But there were no fluctuations indicating an opening of a world passage."

In the Imperial Palace of Incredible Country, Anvis, who had reverted to his white rabbit form, stared at the image on the sand table, feeling somewhat puzzled.

In the display on the sand table, except for Lilith of Lust who had already left this world in front of Anvis, the area representing the Madness of Desius had also disappeared.

At this moment, within the entire Dream World, only the massive black area formed by the gathering of Despair’s Black Abyss and Dark Tidis, two great Nightmare Spirits, remained.

As the foremost of the Four Nightmares revered by Lilith, Despair’s Black Abyss indeed possessed impressive strength.

After Anvis employed the power of the White Rabbit Pocket Watch, Black Abyss managed to persist under his command for a full fifteen minutes, during which it even unleashed its trump cards more than once.

If Dark Tidis was not his avatar, Black Abyss might have actually succeeded in escaping this world.

But there are no ifs. After the authority power was neutralized by the resetting effect of the White Rabbit Pocket Watch, Black Abyss was successfully subdued by him and was implanted with the Twisted Seed.

That he could still unleash such fierce resistance under his command, Anvis was willing to call him the strongest of the Four Nightmares.

After restraining the isolated Despair’s Black Abyss, Anvis left Tidis and Black Abyss together, pretending as if nothing had happened, while also using this to deter the trialists.

Many trialists soon discovered the location of the two great Nightmare Spirits, but after a slight probing resulted in heavy losses, they abandoned the idea of further targeting them and instead began to hunt other weaker stray Nightmare Spirits.

After gaining control over Black Abyss, Anvis released the consciousness of Dark Tidis from the mirror, and in coordination with Despair’s Black Abyss, planted the Twisted Seed in Tidis as well, instructing them to maintain their normal state for the time being.

After concluding the hunt for Black Abyss, Anvis reverted back to his white rabbit form and returned to the Incredible Country, planning to see where Madness Desius had gone, but discovered that the latter had disappeared, and even Fiona’s authority could not detect him.

Puzzled, Anvis consulted Black Abyss and Tidis, but both of the Four Nightmares were unclear about where Desius was; even when Black Abyss tried messaging him again, there was no response.

In response, Anvis instructed the two ’persons’ to try locating Desius, but also to temporarily stop considering him, and instead to focus on arranging within the world while his own Dream Authority had not yet been completely invaded by the Inheritance Land, waiting for the arrival of the King of Nightmare Spirits.

Under Anvis’ non-intervention, time in the Dream World passed very quickly.

Seven days later, Lilith of Lust, who had recovered most of her strength, returned and brought news of the imminent complete awakening of the King of Nightmare Spirits.

Moreover, during these seven days, Anvis came to understand one crucial piece of information.

As he had previously speculated, the identities within the Dream World were not something that could be arbitrarily replaced.

The reason Fiona became the Queen of the Incredible Country was precisely because the original "Fiona’s Dreamland" was inherently with the girl.

In the world of dreams, this book signifies the highest managerial authority. The devouring and assimilation by the Inheritance Land could not possibly bypass the manager who controls the origin of the Dream World.

Thus, Fiona was automatically drawn into this world, and under the instinctual operation of the Dream World, became the core entity of the world’s rules.

Although he had gifted this world to the girl, he remained the creator of this world. Thus, he became the White Rabbit, the unique existence guiding the development and resetting of the world timeline.

But in the process of creating this Dream World, he did not create blatantly villain-like entities.

Therefore, the Nightmare Spirits, in the world of Fiona’s Dreamland, actually had no identities.

This allowed them to be unrestrained by the rules of the Dream World, but also meant that as soon as they invaded, they would be detected by the world rules, and subsequently face the entire world’s instinctual rejection.

This kind of rejection, even if the world is completely devoured and assimilated by the Inheritance Land, would still remain unchanged.

Therefore, he could fully utilize this rejection to arrange a special ’welcome ceremony’ for the King of Nightmare Spirits.