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5 years later:
“Ah! This feeling…”
Grimm, who was in the middle of cultivating ‘Dissimilation Force Field’ produced by the evolved Gadflies, suddenly yelled out in surprise and with a ‘shraa’, Grimm’s clothes turned into powder in an instant.
With Grimm as the center point, the surrounding space seemed to have collapsed on itself. Dark gray rippling waves spread through the area, swirling around in the air.
At the same time, countless red strands of hair appeared out of thin air and mysteriously surrounded him.
These hairs seemed to be alive as they tried to dig their way into Grimm’s body but to no avail due to the protection Grimm’s transparent Sorcerer’s Barrier provided. From afar, Grimm looked like a hairy, moldy egg.
‘This is…’
For the past five years, Grimm had hand-picked a few thousand Elite Gadflies out of the tens of thousands of these green evolved Gadflies based on the “survival of the fittest” concept. Because their aura integrated with Grimm’s, parts of these Elite Gadflies were penetrated by the red hairs. They shrieked loudly before vanishing into thin air, as if being warped into another unknown world.
These red hairs were like claws from hell, dragging whichever object touched by the curse into the realms of the Nightmare Deadlands.
“Caw? Damn it, I’ve also been affected by the Underbed Evil Shadow curse!”
Myna yelled as he turned into a child’s cartoon cut-out character, trying to escape the pull of the Unknown World. Layers of red hair piled towards his body, similarly trying to pierce into it.
“Ha!”
Grimm yelled out as he manipulated the Force of Nature in a desperate attempt to resist the pull of the Unknown World. Strings of elemental energy gathered, shining brightly as it held up the surrounding space that was nearing the brink of collapse.
“Didn’t she say that I won’t get tossed into the Nightmare World as long as I don’t go near the End of the World or sleep on a bed?”
Grimm collected the remaining evolved Gadflies that were untouched by the red hairs from the test bench while resisting with all his might, the spatial collapse around him, as well as the dense swarm of red hairs that were trying to pierce his own body.
The eyes underneath the Mask of Truth darted around constantly.
The grotesque bruises that covered Grimm’s skin had seemingly sprung into life, floating around non-stop on his body and some were even starting to form odd shapes, turning the already bad situation even more horrifying.
These imprinted bruises looked like individual lifeforms that Grimm could not grasp yet.
Some imprinted bruises had a slower reaction, shifting shapes by rotating around slowly, or expanded and contracted like a beating heart. Some imprinted bruises were more active. Like small wall geckos, they squirmed around Grimm’s body. One eye-catching bruise, the red baby palm imprint one had partly left Grimm’s body and floated mid-air like a piece of paper.
Grimm’s senses dulled as his body grew numb. He tried looking away from the horror show unfolding right in front of his eyes.
‘These things, are by no means evil spirits. They are merely rare, peculiar unknown beings from this endless world.’
Perhaps, the Tomb Segja’s judgement was right. The projection of the Nightmare World was still not strong enough to drag Grimm into the Unknown World yet. After a desperate struggle, the ominous red hairs that flocked Grimm had gradually lessened, and the degree of spatial collapse had reduced.
“Yaaa!”
Myna screeched as he escaped into the Dimensional Gap in a flash. Grimm sighed in relief as the momentum of the Spatial Collapse ground to a halt. Lifting his head, a three-meter-long red crack had opened up slowly before his eyes.
“Ah…”
Grimm was drenched in cold sweat. His face had gone extremely pale and couldn’t lift a single finger at this point. All he could do was stare in fear at the thing above his head.
Within the red crack appeared two gigantic, neat rows of what seemed like a human’s ivory-white teeth. As if able to sense Grimm’s fear, the crack bent into a menacing arc as a scarlet tongue stuck out from it.
From his head till his toes, the scarlet tongue licked Grimm as if tasting a delicious morsel of food. ‘Drip, drip, drip’ sounded as Grimm’s body soaked up the putrid-smelling red liquid. The only part dry of the liquid was his face under the Mask of Truth.
“Little sorcerer, you can’t run from me…”
A gloomy but hoarse voice said as it gradually faded away. And thus everything around Grimm had once again returned to normal.
Grimm stood frozen on the spot, like a child that had been scared still. Only after a moment did Grimm become self-aware of his state. He gritted his teeth as he allowed his Resilient Will to gradually keep his emotions under control. With a loud call, “Little Myna!”
“Here.”
A cartoonish cut-out of a plump Myna appeared on Grimm’s shoulder. He looked left and right, observing his surroundings for a while before asking, “Are we still in the Pyrodust World?”
Gritting his teeth, humiliated by the degree of fear he had felt just now, Grimm’s eyes were now filled with savagery and hatred.
“What do you think?” Grimm asked coldly.
Grimm had lost his sorcerer’s robe as it turned into dust in the Spatial Collapse the moment the Shadow of a Nightmare was triggered. Now naked, Grimm ignored the imprinted bruises on his skin that turned an even darker shade. Instead, he started collecting the putrid-smelling red liquid that drenched his body, into a test bottle.
“Caw caw, Young Master, seems like you’ve become a target by the guys in the Nightmare World. They really want a bite of you huh?”
Myna said to Grimm, half smiling as if he changed his mood upon seeing things had calmed down.
Grimm’s expression grew even more bitter. Ignoring the gag-inducing stench, he carefully collected the remaining traces of red ‘spit’ as he exclaimed madly in a hoarse voice, “One day when I have gained enough power, I’m gonna go to the Nightmare World. I don’t care what price I have to pay, I’m going to go to the End of the World and turn these bastards into specimens on my test bench!”
Myna was caught by Grimm’s statement for a moment, before sticking his tongue out and muttered to himself, “It’s those guys that have you as their target and yet, here you are creating a grudge with them.”
Even after Grimm’s phase of madness, he still retained his rationality. He jumped into the lake to wash up quickly before changing into another set of sorcerer’s robes. After storing all his experimental equipment, he said hurriedly, “Let’s go! To the Void Fortress!” It’s almost time the World’s Aperture Transmission Front between the Void Fortress and the Sorcerer World is completed.
Thus, a man and a bird, left the Camphoragate Underground Lake cave lab hurriedly.
***
One month later.
Six Demon-Hunter Sorcerers were in hot pursuit of an Enigmatic Amonro. These sorcerers were guaranteed to show no mercy to these Amonros that plotted to resurrect their former glory, and threaten the sorcerer’s existence in this world.
However, despite the eradication process by the coalition of Demon-Hunter Sorcerers and Lava Giants, this Enigmatic Amonro continued fighting under the Enigmatic Prophet King without further supplies by the lower-tier Amonros. One cannot deny that this Amonro was a resilient one indeed.
This Amonro must have been a level-two creature and a high-level Enigmatic Noble back when it still had the support of the Enigmatic Energy.
As for now, the world had turned into the Pyrodust World. Even the Enigmatic Prophet King could only barely maintain the powers of a Level 4 creature in the Enigmatic Perishing Lands.
Even so, the Enigmatic Pershing Land was now under complete occupation by the Demon-Hunter Sorcerers!