In the next second, a shrill scream, as eerie as a baby’s cry, erupted from the Beast King’s hollow almond-shaped body. It couldn’t be heard from outside, but it could be heard in the dream. The Seal of the Deep Sea emanated a shimmering light, enveloping me and Amelia. I felt the sonic blast strike the light shield formed by the Seal of the Deep Sea, creating ripples, but Amelia and I were unharmed.
I knew then that it was going to use illusions. The Seal of the Deep Sea was my insurance gifted by Samantha; it protected me from mental shocks in the Dream World, so I wouldn’t be affected by illusions. As the starlight erupted from the Beast King’s head, forming arcs that shot towards me chaotically, I calmly took out two scrolls and placed them on Amelia and myself. The Dream Awakening Scroll was also from Samantha. She gave it to me to save Doctor Amelia. Now I was using it on Amelia, making good use of it.
The surroundings shifted, and Amelia and I were back in Green Town. The General stood before us, holding a phantom green magic sword, looking at us with surprise. Jayad, Albrisque, and the Knight Captain were rushing towards us not far away. “What’s going on? Where is that Beast King?!” the General asked in shock. Compared to just moments ago, only the Beast King was missing.
“What did you see?” I countered. Judging from their positions, I had only entered the dream world for a very short time, with almost no changes. Combined with my previous dream experiences, the time flow in the Dream World and the reality world was not equal. “Uh, I saw the Beast King pounce in front of you, and then this doctor beside you erupted with an indescribable magical power, and then the Beast King disappeared,” the General answered quickly.
This meant that only the Beast King was gone. Amelia and I were still standing in our original positions, and the doctors around us were also fine. Amelia and I had only entered the dream with our consciousness. The Beast King’s entire body had been sent into the Dream World by Amelia’s child. And to others, it seemed like they couldn’t see anything. They only saw the General charging towards the medical motorcade with his magic sword, and anyone who didn’t know would think he wanted to kill the doctors.
“I’ve locked the Beast King in the Dream World. Just tell them the Beast King escaped!” I immediately coordinated the story with the General. We couldn’t let them suspect Amelia and me. “What’s wrong? What happened?!” At this time, others had also caught up. The General immediately turned around with a grave expression and said, “It escaped. That Beast King suddenly disappeared when it got here. I suspect it might have already entered the spirit world.”
I couldn’t help but admire the General’s wit and quick reaction. Regardless, the fact that the Beast King approached us and then disappeared was true. If others could also see the Beast King, it would be hard to explain. Now, the General first claimed that the Beast King might have escaped into the spirit world. Even if others could see the Beast King disappear, they couldn’t deny his statement. They might even be biased into thinking it was indeed possible.
“What? The Beast King escaped? But isn’t the Beast King still there?” a guard pointed to the Beast King’s remains and asked confusedly. Not only him, but most of the soldiers hadn’t realized what was happening. “Damn it! This is just an empty shell! It used the Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell technique to escape!” Alena angrily kicked the empty shell left by the Beast King. It was just a huge, hard shell.
But as the Commander of the Knights of the Mechanical Church, she showed no reaction to the death of her fellow Priest, and was still fiddling with the Beast King’s empty shell? Just as I was wondering, I heard a soldier beside me exclaim. High Priest Hannah, whose body was torn in half, actually sat up. It was then that I realized that the cross-section of her body was all mechanical pipelines, and what spurted out was condensed liquid and machine oil. The soldiers were so scared that they all retreated. Someone even shouted, “She, she’s not human!”
No, she was still human. On closer inspection, most of Hannah’s body was mechanical, with only a small part still being flesh and blood. But she was originally a human, at least an organic creature. Her brain was still a human brain, and her central nervous system was the same as others, only connected to human pipelines at the end. Her skeleton still had a large part of a human skeleton, but it was all fitted with metal protection.
“This is just a step in evolution,” Hannah said calmly, as if losing half her body wasn’t a big deal. The surrounding metal wreckage and scattered parts continuously disintegrated and, under the traction of machine god power, visible like golden lightning, began to recombine, eventually forming new machines that returned to Hannah’s body. “Although it’s only a temporary body, this is enough.” As Hannah muttered to herself, her broken right foot reattached, and she stood up.
However, her body was now half metal and half human skin, which looked very terrifying. Hannah noticed the strange and fearful looks from the people around her and then reacted, “Ah, sorry, I didn’t have time to repair the skin.” With that, the skin on her intact half began to grow towards the other half, quickly covering the exposed mechanical body. Artificial bionic skin, a very useful technology for doctors.
Soon, her body was completely restored, at least appearing as a person without any damage. However, unlike her terrifying half-mechanical appearance just now, she was now too alluring. Hannah’s black lace priest dress had been torn to shreds by the Beast King’s attack just now. Now, only a small part remained, basically covering nothing. Even her thigh-high socks were only on her left foot. Hannah’s body after the repair was beautiful. Her chest was at least a D, shapely and perky. Her hips were also perfect, looking smooth and elastic, not to mention her two slender white legs.
Her skin was as tender as a baby’s, clean and without a single blemish. That made sense; artificial bionic skin, freshly made, would naturally be flawless. The soldiers stared, their eyes glued. Even though they knew the skin was fake and there was a purely mechanical body underneath, they couldn’t help but stare, unable to look away. They had been terrified just moments ago.
“What are you all looking at?” Hannah asked others inexplicably. The General said with a dark expression, “Miss Hannah, please change your clothes at least.” Although he and the Mechanical Church were not of the same faction, they were now allies. If Hannah was embarrassed, he would be too. “Ah~ this body is a perfect body bestowed by the Machine God. There’s no need to hide it. You people are still indulging in the pleasures of flesh and blood. How superficial,” Hannah said proudly. However, she still went to change.
