Fighting is impossible, it will be impossible for this lifetime, if I really stay to fight him, then this lifetime might as well end here.
At the instant of locking eyes with the real Leon, Nightmare Leon, who was only 1/8 away from completely ascending to a god, immediately understood that there was only one way out: run now!
The source of Nightmare Leon’s birth, is the entire Dream Realm’s fear of "Destroyer Leon," which is created by the collective cognition and imagination of all Dream Realm creatures about "Destroyer Leon."
In other words, Nightmare Leon does not have the genuine Leon’s memories or abilities, but is merely a false image conjured up by the Dream Realm creatures.
This in itself is not much of an issue, since the vast majority of Nightmares are born from imagination. The Snow Maiden was born from the folk tales circulating in the Northern Kingdom; as long as enough people "know" of her existence and continue to have nightmares featuring her, being born from imagination won’t affect her becoming a nightmare messenger.
But the biggest issue is, unlike the completely imagined Snow Maiden, the "Destroyer Leon" nightmare has a prototype. When the real Destroyer Leon appears, the imagined "falsehood" will inevitably gravitate towards "truth."
In the eye contact with the real one, Nightmare Leon immediately noticed the change in himself, understanding that the more "intersection" with the real deal, the more "errors" in himself would be "corrected."
The most deadly thing is, it’s not even necessary to have real close contact, as a counterfeit of the real one, just "knowing" what the real Leon should be like, one’s existence and thoughts will start to uncontrollably gravitate towards it, or rather...
Will in another sense, be completely "devoured" by that real one!
Only a fool would stop!
Facing the shout coming from behind, Nightmare Leon, unwilling to lose his self, increased his speed instead of slowing down, desperately wanting to step out of the Demonic Soul Abyss with one leap and escape the Dream Realm, never to return.
However, at this moment, a massive indescribable fear, accompanied by the shouts from behind, suddenly seized his heart, instantly disrupting his control over his body, causing him to tumble and fall.
Phew... Luckily, the "Nightmare of Nightmares" still worked on him.
Watching the Nightmare Leon, whom he had just shouted at, suddenly fall headfirst in the distance, Leon, leading people in the chase, couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.
The fear effect of "Nightmare of Nightmares" only works on Dream Realm creatures below True God level, and though this fake has already crossed the difference between man and god, even getting the "special weapon" belonging to the Lord of Nightmares. For more chapters visit novel✦fire.net
It ultimately lacks the final 1/8, failing to acquire the complete "Nightmare" authority, belonging to one who has crossed but not entirely, the heel still lingering on the "human" side, still within the scope below the True God, hence can still be... Wow!
In Leon’s speechless gaze, distant Nightmare Leon spread the gray robe and actually "bounced" out a scene of himself filled with fear, then crawled up and continued his mad flight into the distance.
"That should be the effect of that gray robe."
At some unknown time, Dame Poop had grabbed the hand of the Pisces Director and came to stand behind Leon, gently reminding:
"The gray robe of the King of Nightmares can turn all unfavorable situations into nightmares and bounce them away... In other words, without overwhelming power or targeted abnormal objects, it is impossible to capture or control it."
Leon heard this, frowned, and then while chasing, asked:
"What should we do then?"
"We just need to keep up with him, don’t let him completely escape and that’s enough."
Dame Poop answered calmly:
"The cleaner from Pisces Branch mentioned they have an abnormal object called the ’Mental Roulette’ that can roughly monitor several non-material realms.
And there are nine cleaners from Pisces Branch participating in this assessment, the director of Pisces Branch, when not busy, will surely sneak to cheat and peek at the progress of her subordinates’ assessments.
If we can keep following, not letting this new Lord of Nightmares escape, she will surely notice the anomaly, and when she reports it to the headquarters, wait for reinforcement to arrive, this nightmare will have nowhere to escape."
Is this actually possible?
After glancing at Amin senior, Leon silently nodded his head, acknowledged the method she proposed, and quickly informed all cleaners to abandon ineffective offensive abnormal objects, shift focus to entanglement and consumption, and forced Nightmare Leon to continuously use the gray robe to remove abnormal states.
And after several attempts, Nightmare Leon, desperately fleeing ahead, also noticed the cleaners’ tactical shift, and from their effort to conserve energy, he vaguely guessed Leon and others might be waiting for "reinforcements," his expression suddenly became anxious.
"You’d better not push me!"
"If you keep chasing, don’t blame me for getting ruthless!"
Facing the warnings from Nightmare Leon, Leon, thoroughly versed in the Emma Bible, naturally would not heed such meaningless exchanges, and with him not responding, naturally, none of the cleaners spoke, all four hundred just kept their mouths shut and pursued ferociously like Leon.
Under this oppressive full-silence pursuit, with his "communication request" never getting a response, Nightmare Leon gritted his teeth, decisively abandoned the last bit of wishful thinking, and suddenly turned back.
Seeing Nightmare Leon seemingly want to jump the wall out of desperation, Abigail quickly sounded the warning, then prepared to purify the nightmare.
However, a situation that stunned all cleaners occurred, Nightmare Leon coming back didn’t attack the cleaners but instead suddenly enlarged tens of times, grabbed the trembling nightmare nearby, and began frantically stuffing it into his mouth.
Ah, this... Just proves, being a counterfeit of Leon, even the habit of liking to eat allies was retained?
"Bad! Stop him quickly!"
Having no time to care about the strange looks cleaners cast towards him, realizing Nightmare Leon’s actions, Leon immediately responded, knowing this might be akin to the Snow Maiden summoning snow, a unique ability of Nightmare Leon.
Though uncertain of the changes that will occur after consuming numerous nightmares, even a fool knows at this moment, the thing the enemy most wants to do, is definitely something one must stop immediately.
You only think you can stop me now? Too late!
Noticing the actions of Leon and others, Nightmare Leon in his gluttonous revelry sneered, then slightly lifted the hem of his gray robe.
In the shocked eyes of all, countless Black Gold Beetles swarmed out from beneath his gray robe, like a living two-color insect carpet, instantly spreading across the surface of the Nightmare River!