Chapter 400: I'm Selling Myself
Chapter 400: I'm Selling Myself
"So you... you're actually pretty good..."
Facing Lyon, who had not only successfully escaped the dream by fighting 'three' against 'one' but also managed to bring Snow Maiden out with him, Scorpion Chief couldn't help but offer a dry compliment. Feeling a bit embarrassed about being trapped by a nightmare, he quickly added with a shifty look in his eyes:
"Well... I'm almost done here too. It's just that these six nightmares are avoiding direct confrontation with me.
Their mission seems to be to hold me back, so they've been running around in the six layers of dreams. Occasionally, when I catch and eliminate one, the other five nightmares will join forces to revive it...
Anyway, wait outside for a while. I'm having a hard time moving through the nightmares, and I'm not as fast as them. I'll think of a way to corner them all together."
So, your problem is that you can defeat them, but you can't catch up to those nightmares, right?
After hearing Scorpion Chief's words, Lyon paused for a moment, then turned to look at Snow Maiden behind him.
Although Snow Maiden was currently in a damaged state, not only had she lost her core ability to conceal her memories, but even her power to summon blizzards had weakened. However, she was still a nightmare messenger granted power by the Nightmare King, possessing the ability to move freely within nightmares.
So, if she could open a passage...
"Give up!"
Seeing through Lyon's plan at a glance, Snow Maiden, lying on the ground, raised her slender neck and glared at him with cold, resentful eyes.
"Despicable human! Don't forget what you've done to me! I will never help you!"
"..."
Hmm... I didn't do anything excessive, did I? It was you who started the trouble, and now it's like I'm forcefully taking a girl against her will.
Facing Snow Maiden's deep resentment and Scorpion Chief's increasingly strange gaze, Lyon felt his reputation was being tarnished and couldn't help but argue:
"It's not like that... I didn't destroy your nightmare core. I only pulled you out of the dream; I didn't do anything else, did I?"
"What do you want to do to me now?"
Recalling the painful experience of being dragged out of her dream, and her nightmare, which had been thoroughly polluted by the strange melody and was as good as ruined, Snow Maiden couldn't help but feel a surge of sorrow.
...
Nightmares, as the masters of nightmares, unlike humans, do not create new dreams every night. Most nightmares open up only one dream, the one in which they were born. They are born in it, grow in it, and in the future, they will also perish in it.
For a nightmare, the importance of this symbiotic dream is comparable to a harbor for a ship, a hometown for a traveler, and has an unparalleled significance. The connection between the two is even closer than that between a plant's root system and the earth.
For a nightmare, being forcibly pulled out of its symbiotic nightmare is like being woken up from sleep, stripped naked, and thrown onto the street.
This damn human not only dragged her out of her nightmare but also thoroughly polluted her symbiotic dream, which was like not only stripping her naked and throwing her onto the street but also enthusiastically taking a pen and drawing a row of wiggling little turtles on her body! It was the ultimate humiliation for a nightmare!
"Give up!"
Looking at the hateful human who had destroyed everything she held dear and indirectly caused her to be 'exiled from the nightmare realm,' Snow Maiden's eyes were red with anger as she stiffened her neck and swore:
"Even if I'm sunburned to death tomorrow morning, or even if I'm killed right now, I will never help you!"
"..."
Alright then...
Seeing Snow Maiden's gaze, which seemed to want to devour him, that he gave up on trying to persuade her. Instead, he reached for his cufflink and took out a black snake skin scroll, a devil skin scroll with a sinister pattern, and a sharp dagger.
Ding! Lyon Lane uses the Unfair Snake Contract to initiate a transaction.
Transaction Item: Devil Skin Scroll
Transaction Target: The Snow Maiden before him.
Transaction Content: Herself.
"Umm..."
Lyon makes a cut on his arm with a small knife, enduring the pain, and then presses the wound against the Unfair Snake Contract, causing a large amount of dark red blood to be forcibly drawn out and quickly absorbed into the snake skin scroll.
What... What is he doing?
Sensing that something seems amiss, the Snow Maiden on the ground is startled, about to question him, but she feels a sudden weight on her chest, and the devil skin scroll Lyon had taken out is now placed there.
"???"
Realizing that she has mysteriously lost control of herself, the Snow Maiden is shocked to see the scroll, glowing with an eerie red light, connecting to Lyon after consuming a large amount of blood.
"What... What have you done to me?"
"Nothing."
Lyon wraps the Infected Blood Belt around his arm, healing the wound he inflicted, and despite his still somewhat pale complexion, he cuts the climbing rope securing the sleeping bag with his knife and gives an order.
"Get up, it's time to work."
"?!?"
As Lyon speaks, the Snow Maiden, terrified, finds that despite her mental resistance, her body honestly reacts, and she promptly emerges from the sleeping bag.
Following Lyon's instructions, she discreetly connects to the Nightmare Realm sustained by six other Nightmares and begins searching for the location of the trapped Scorpion Chief.
No! No! No!!!
...
Damn, there's even such an abnormality?
The Scorpion Chief is shocked, witnessing the Snow Maiden's obvious resistance, yet she complies with Lyon's demands, searching within the Nightmare Realm.
Even though the Snow Maiden seems to be severely injured and has left her Nightmare Realm, appearing weaker than an average person, her "dignity" and "weight" remain unchanged, still that of a First-Class Cleaner.
Lyon, a Third-Class Purifier, merely expends some blood to forcibly suppress the Snow Maiden's will, a First-Class Cleaner, despite her weakened state... Is this Snake Skin Scroll a bit too "extreme"?
After scrutinizing the scroll in Lyon's hand, the Scorpion Chief can't help but voice his bewilderment, taking advantage of the moment the Snow Maiden opens the Nightmare Realm.
Lyon shakes his head after hearing the question, his expression slightly complex as he replies,
"It's not as supermodel as you think... I mean, this item has significant limitations, not as absurd as you imagine, and it's quite fair.
Nightmare Realm entities lack souls; they are amalgamations of memories and fantasies, closer to 'objects' than 'souls' in our human definition, hence the possibility of direct exchange.
The reason for my control over her is not just blood but also the Devil Skin Scroll on her chest.
That item is called the Devil Skin Scroll, a Lyon Value of 42 points, higher than the Snow Maiden herself, and my price was not insignificant."
(End of Chapter)
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