Angel listened, feeling increasingly bewildered: "Its main body is a Temporal Body too? Then, where’s its True Body?"
Laplace: "I don’t know. This is just my guess. Whether it’s true or not still needs further assessment. Even if the main body isn’t a Temporal Body, the Memory Garden can quickly collect all scattered memories and suppress the spider creature."
At this point, Laplace suddenly asked, "You mentioned before that when you use the Dream Conch to pull items into the Crystal Origin of Dreams, it doesn’t affect the corresponding items in reality, right?"
Angel nodded, "That’s correct."
Laplace: "Then dealing with the spider creature is simpler. Put all the Temporal Bodies inside, including suppressing this spider creature as well, and the problem should be resolved."
Angel: "Can the Forest of Memories suppress all the spider creatures, including this main body?"
Laplace nodded, "Yes, because its main body’s abilities also come from memories."
After hearing Laplace’s words, Angel softly murmured, "What a coincidence..."
Laplace: "What do you mean?"
Angel shook his head without explaining, only saying a disjointed sentence: "...With darkness, there’s a lamp; with rain, there’s an umbrella; with a leaking roof, there’s a board."
Laplace quietly looked at Angel, "I’ll remember this line. Next time, Luigi will use it as material for a poem."
Angel: "..."
Laplace: "By the way, can the Forest of Memories be sent in here?"
Angel nodded, "It can."
In the Wilderness of Dreams, there’s already a Witchcraft Garden, although it’s just Rhein’s miniature garden, it shows that the Dream Conch can draw in artifacts like Witchcraft Gardens into dreams.
Since the Forest of Memories is also considered a Witchcraft Garden, it should be within the Dream Conch’s range.
"If you agree to send the Forest of Memories in, once you leave, directly touch the bottle containing the shed scales, while inwardly calling out to Glaipnir, she will naturally hear and respond to you."
Angel was silent for a moment before saying, "I understand."
After speaking, Angel looked up at the six spider creatures constantly weaving nets in the sky, letting out a slight sigh in his heart.
To him, spiders weaving nets is not just a prelude to hunting, but also a proof of staking territory and establishing dominance...
And this seems to coincide with the current situation.
Angel shook his head, turned around, and disappeared into the Crystal Origin of Dreams.
...
Back in the reflective space, Angel fell into a moment of contemplation.
Sorting out the events briefly, everything turns out to be very coincidental.
The Dream Realm sent a magic monster army, clearly taking it easy. Though numerous, they’re all within Laplace’s solvable range.
At that time, Angel actually had a thought in his mind, perhaps his speculation was correct, the Dream Realm and Mirror World are in a gamble of wills.
The Mirror World doesn’t want the Dream Realm’s tendrils to reach its territory, so it drove the Dream Realm out; while the Dream Realm kept a hand back, letting the Sweet Dream be born in front of Laplace, always maintaining a tenuous connection between Dream Realm and Mirror World.
However, this tenuous connection alone isn’t enough.
The will of the Dream Realm is waiting, waiting for variables to arrive.
And there appeared Angel. His Crystal Origin of Dreams happens to be in the gap between Dream Realm and Mirror World, possessing some traits from both sides, equivalent to saying, once this forms, it will become the middle ground between Dream Realm and Mirror World.
In other places, the will of the Dream Realm might not want such a gap world to exist, but in Mirror World, it welcomes such a buffer zone to persistently entangle the Mirror World, preventing a complete disconnection.
Thus, usually, the will of the Dream Realm might send massive magic monsters as Eliminators, but this time, it symbolically sent some shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
In other words, the Dream Realm indirectly agreed to the existence of the Crystal Origin of Dreams.
The above was Angel’s previous speculation, and precisely because of such speculation, he dared to boldly create the Crystal Origin of Dreams.
The development progressed much like he imagined, but what Angel did not anticipate was, since the Dream Realm is gambling with the Mirror World, the Dream Realm acting as a chess player, why wouldn’t the Mirror World be another chess player?
The Dream Realm tentatively dropped a piece, which Angel took.
While at this time, the Mirror World becomes unwilling, thus it also placed a piece, this piece is no longer "illusory" but "real".
Which is now the Eliminator—the spider creature.
The spider creature is said to be an Eliminator, yet its strength isn’t enough to immediately destroy the Crystal Origin of Dreams; to say it’s not an Eliminator, its ability is extremely bizarre, letting it be, will ultimately lead to the fragmentation of the Crystal Origin of Dreams.
Its strength happens to be stuck at a very subtle point.
And Laplace’s shed scales not only can’t solve it, but also makes it proliferate.
Angel looking at this felt desperate.
But just then, Laplace discovered their weakness; the Forest of Memories can restrain the spider creature.
And the Forest of Memories belongs to Laplace, but it also belongs to the will of Mirror World.
Everyone thought they were beaten and should retreat, only for a turn of events to appear; the turn of events just happens to be usable by Laplace and also belongs to the will of Mirror World.
Is this still called coincidence?
Angel believes this is the Mirror World’s chess move.
And in such a chess move, what is sought: the Forest of Memories enters the Crystal Origin of Dreams.
But what does the Mirror World gain from doing so?
Angel can only think of one thing, just like those net-weaving spiders, perhaps what it wants is...
To stake territory and build a nest.