This scene left Huohua dumbfounded: "Mama mia, be careful your sword doesn't pierce through your belly and hit me!"

The intense pain caused his body to start mutating, at the same time, gravity and other geographical advantages began to favor him.

With the Shadow paving the way, finding the pattern, along with the mutation and Earth Marsh Trapped Beast...

Wen Xishu gritted his teeth and charged into the corridor.

His speed and reaction were incredibly fast.

Like a bolt of lightning, he twisted and turned, quickly passing through the corridor.

After the corridor, Wen Xishu collapsed to the ground.

He was ultimately not made of iron, his self-healing ability was weak, the full-speed run just now caused his wounds to split open.

Wen Xishu had to admit, this was the toughest challenge he had experienced so far.

But it was likely that the Land of Dust originally created by Charlie shouldn't have been this difficult.

It was probably caused by daring to try level four.

Once you select daring to try level four, you receive a death exemption, but correspondingly, increases the chance of death.

Many things in the level were seemingly set to claim lives.

However, Wen Xishu remained optimistic.

He even wondered if, back at Rokkasho, he had thrown daring to try level four...

It would certainly be exciting.

Actually, Wen Xishu felt it wasn't a loss, as long as the rewards kept up, he could stab himself two more times.

If the reward was some god-level reward, he could even keep the knife inserted.

Back to the point. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

After passing the second corridor...

Wen Xishu arrived at a new scene within Dream Academy.

After danger, there was a safe zone where you could obtain key items or information.

What unfolded before Wen Xishu was yet another, seemingly tower-like dull-colored scene.

Two doors.

A massive door appeared before Wen Xishu and Huohua.

This door was originally locked, but now the chains were open.

Heavy dust covered the door. Huohua exclaimed upon seeing it:

"Wow, the door of this gymnasium is really... massive."

Indeed, this was the door of a gymnasium. Undoubtedly, many stories had taken place in this gym.

Wen Xishu did not immediately push open the door.

Because he sensed a... strange aura, a smell of ash.

That was the smell of a mortuary.

On the heavy door, dust could not cover the two imprinted letters. A, Y.

Undoubtedly, this was the abbreviation for Anya.

"It seems like it's boss battle time."

In many games, they like using this design, a heavy door blocking your path, once you push open the door, you can see the boss.

Often, beside the door, there is a bonfire that lets you resurrect directly in front of the door after death.

However, in front of the gymnasium's door, there was no bonfire.

Wen Xishu pushed open the door, and what greeted him was not a typical sports field.

This was once a stadium, but now it had changed, turned into a massive mortuary made of twisted mirrors. A platform covered with a white cloth rested in the center.

The air was filled with bone-chilling cold and a sorrowful whimper; the ultimate boss of Dream Academy...

And indeed, one of the ultimate bosses in the Land of Dust, finally appeared.

The Mourning Shadow, Anya.

Unlike other monsters in Dream Academy, Anya is not a mere phantom.

Above the spirit platform, Anya was a maiden form composed of shattered mirror fragments, black thorns, and pale dust.

Her face was made of rotating mirror shards, reflecting Charlie's fearful face, Anya's deathly visage, and Wen Xishu himself.

Her body was entangled in thorns, oozing black, viscous liquid.

"Charlie, why don't you embrace me?"

The last missing piece of Charlie's dark life puzzle, and likely one of the few friends like Huohua in Charlie's life...

At this moment appearing in the form of a monster.

Wen Xishu couldn't understand why, through reading the letter, he roughly knew Anya was dead...

But why was Anya, unlike Huohua, turned into a monster?

As Wen Xishu pondered this confusion, the unfinished letter he held started to emit a glowing light.

It was the light that dispels dust.