Chapter: Chapter 319
“She’s gone. It seems she was indeed shocked.” Watching Bai Ling, who had a look of ‘Am I dreaming?’, disappear into white dots before her eyes, Laeticia shook her head helplessly.
Bai Ling woke up for the same reason as Qira, both were scared awake. And the reason for being scared was naturally what Laeticia had just said.
Perhaps because the real Laeticia would never be so frank, when Laeticia personally said “I like you” without joking, Bai Ling was startled awake.
This left Laeticia speechless.
Never mind, she would settle the score with that guy later. She still had to deal with Zimo.
She couldn’t just leave this girl here. If she woke up the moment Laeticia left and reconnected the threads on the ground, all her work would be in vain.
Therefore, with killing intent in her eyes, Laeticia walked to Zimo, who had fainted on the ground, and slowly raised her hand.
Let’s end all future troubles here.
Several golden spears radiating a scorching aura appeared behind Laeticia as she moved. As long as she moved a finger, these spears would pierce Zimo’s vital points, completely eliminating the girl.
Soft-hearted? Laeticia would never be soft-hearted.
The moment the light spears condensed, Laeticia pointed her finger at Zimo. The light spears immediately flew towards their targets. In the blink of an eye, they would kill the girl.
Unless something unexpected happened.
The light spears piercing towards the girl stopped. They were blocked by an invisible yet terrifying force.
A seven-colored brilliant light descended from the heavens, scattering onto Zimo, coating her with a seven-colored halo.
Then, she opened her seven-colored eyes.
Glancing at the light spears frozen not far in front of her, she waved her hand with disdain, and the light spears were wiped away as if they were pencil drawings on paper.
“Tsk.” Laeticia clicked her tongue, immediately retreating a hundred meters. While retreating, she did not forget to pick up the pile of threads on the ground, lest “Zimo” reconnect the thin threads later.
“I didn’t expect you to be able to do this. I admit, I miscalculated.” In the seven-colored brilliance, the divinity replaced Zimo and appeared before Laeticia. She stared at the bundle of thin threads in Laeticia’s hand, her brows furrowed with deep confusion. “But I really don’t understand how you cut these threads.”
Those threads were the materialization of her abilities. Even other gods whose specialties were unrelated could not affect these threads, yet Laeticia had cut them from her body so quickly.
The divinity realized something was wrong when the power transmitted through the dream suddenly disappeared. At first, she thought the dream had been destroyed by Laeticia in some way, but when she sensed the dream, she found that it still existed. Although it was somewhat damaged, the impact was not significant.
So why wasn’t she receiving energy anymore?
It was simple. If the energy source had no problems, then the energy transmission pipeline must have had problems.
The divinity and Zimo were now almost one with each other. The energy transmitted to Zimo was equivalent to transmitting it to the divinity. And Zimo in the dream was almost indestructible. As long as the dream was not completely destroyed, Zimo would not die for any reason.
Even if Laeticia chopped Zimo into pieces, Zimo could revive on the spot in the next moment with her nearly infinite energy reserves.
This was supposed to be a foolproof plan. Unless the entire dream was destroyed, Zimo was immortal. As long as Zimo was immortal, the divinity could continuously extract energy from the dream.
And to completely destroy the dream, it was not that the divinity looked down on Laeticia and Bai Ling. Truly, even if they were given a week, they might not be able to destroy this world.
While destroying it, the divinity would definitely notice something unusual. She only needed to spare some effort to cause trouble for Laeticia and the others, stall for time, and ensure the dream could last until she broke free.
This was simple. She could enhance her subordinates with energy and then have them stall for time.
But Laeticia chose another path, a path that seemed impossible to the divinity.
She cut off the energy transmission channel.
“I just snipped it like this.” Laeticia demonstrated again how she cut the threads. The bundle of threads in her hand also became a little shorter because of this snip.
The divinity’s brows knit even tighter. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand how Laeticia did it. On the contrary, she was very familiar with this method, extremely familiar.
Because this was how she dealt with these threads.
In other words, Laeticia used her method to cut these threads, and this method belonged exclusively to the God of Dreams.
What on earth was going on? The divinity truly couldn’t understand what was happening to Laeticia. She only knew that she had to hurry and snatch back those threads, otherwise, she could only forcefully perform the ritual with the energy she had accumulated, and the success rate… was very low.
The moment of fusion between the dream world and the real world was imminent, and she had to perform the ritual at that time.
She couldn’t delay any longer. She wanted a quick victory.
Thinking of this, the divinity stopped talking nonsense. She reached out towards Laeticia from a distance, intending to kill Laeticia right here.
Laeticia was also very aware of the divinity’s plan. When she saw the divinity extend her hand, she had already started to move rapidly, wanting to dodge attacks that might come from anywhere.
But the divinity’s attack was not conventional. Laeticia had only flown a few meters when she realized the air around her had become as hard as steel, making her unable to move. Not only that, but she also felt a strong sense of suffocation, as if the air around her was no longer air.
“I am the God of Dreams. Everything in the dream is controlled by me, decided by me.” The divinity teleported in front of Laeticia, looking at her with cold eyes. “In dreams, no one can defeat me.”
In her opinion, she had already rendered Laeticia powerless to resist with one move. Now she only needed to kill Laeticia and snatch those energy threads from her hands.
She had no intention of continuing to show off. The divinity didn’t want to end up like the villains in some stories who showed off until they got themselves killed.
Looking at the colorful glow gradually illuminating in the divinity’s hand, Laeticia felt a bad premonition. If she was hit by this move, she would surely die here.
Moreover, this move seemed to have the ability to affect the real world.
If she died from this move, even if she didn’t die in reality, she would probably be seriously injured. This was completely unacceptable to Laeticia.
Of course, the most crucial thing was that the energy threads she had painstakingly cut off would be taken back by the divinity. Wouldn’t that mean her trip to the dream realm was only to save her sister and Bai Ling?
Well, it didn’t seem like a loss…
No, no, she couldn’t think like that. She had to think of a way.
But what should she do in this situation? She couldn’t even move. The divinity was right; she was fighting on home turf in the dream, and it was difficult for her to win.
Suffocation was bearable. Laeticia’s ability to hold her breath was decent, but the divinity’s ability to control everything in the dream was too much like cheating. The air around her, as hard as steel, completely deprived her of the possibility of dodging or kiting.
So, was all that was left was to confront it head-on?
But to confront it head-on, she still needed to cast spells. Even though Laeticia’s proficiency in defensive magic was enough for her to cast spells silently and without movement, the strength of spells cast this way was inferior to normal casting. And right now, the strength of the shield was the most important.
If she was defeated because the hardness was just a little bit lacking, it would be too frustrating.
So, was there a way to forcibly increase her shield’s strength?
Yes, there was, but it was a bit mana-consuming. As long as Laeticia cast another shield before the current one was shattered, it would work. This was not difficult for Laeticia. She could cast decent shields with double-digit strength without even moving her fingers.
This seemed to be the only way left.
Thinking this, Laeticia immediately began to construct a shield in front of herself.
When the first shield appeared, Laeticia’s expression worsened significantly. To condense this shield, her magic consumption was abnormally high. The magic consumed by this shield was enough for her to cast three shields normally.
Was this also one of the divinity’s tricks?
“Futile struggle. Do you think you are really consuming that so-called magic power here?” The divinity sneered and forcefully pressed the colorful light sphere in her hand towards Laeticia.
The light sphere collided with a dark blue shield, causing it to ripple. After a few seconds of stalemate, the light sphere broke through Laeticia’s first layer of defense.
But there was more than one layer of defense in front of Laeticia. While the divinity was charging up, Laeticia had almost drained all the magic power in her body, constructing solid magic barriers in front of herself.
“How will I know if I don’t try?” Dizziness spread through her mind. Laeticia’s voice carried some weakness. She didn’t know how long these shields could hold or if she could find a way to escape before the shields were broken.
Yes, she had never expected these shields to keep her safe. Passive defense was always inferior to active offense.
Moreover, compared to the divinity’s nearly endless energy reserves, her reserves were like a drop in the ocean.
Wait, the source of this divinity’s power seems to be…
Laeticia rolled her eyes and looked at the energy threads she was holding. Since the divinity could absorb this energy, could she too?
With this energy, could she also gain nearly invincible endurance?
It didn’t matter if there was no possibility. Anyway, this was the only path left now!
Thinking this, Laeticia made up her mind. She would absorb the energy from these threads.
But how should she absorb it?
Laeticia didn’t know how the divinity absorbed energy from these threads. She couldn’t just connect the threads to the back of her head like Zimo. She couldn’t even move right now… Huh?
While Laeticia was still troubled, she suddenly felt an extremely terrifying energy surge into her body. This energy not only replenished all her previous consumption but also had more than half left, rampaging within her body, making her body feel a little overwhelmed.
What on earth was happening?
She lowered her head and looked at her hand holding the threads. Laeticia was surprised to find that the threads had somehow wrapped around her wrist, and the sudden surge of energy was flowing into her body from the threads.
What was the principle behind this? Didn’t these threads have any safety measures? Could anyone use them?
Forget it, let’s not worry about that. At least for her now, this was a pure positive gain!
The terrifying energy surging within her body made Laeticia feel that she might be able to break through the divinity’s blockade directly.
Thinking so, she slowly raised her hand. Although it was very slow, she did raise her hand.
“What?!” The divinity’s pupils contracted. Why did Laeticia instantly return to her peak… No, her current state was not right!
Colorful patterns appeared on Laeticia’s body, and even her long black hair was tinged with a faint colorful hue. This state was abnormal!
Moreover, from Laeticia, the divinity felt a familiar aura.
Why did this girl now make her feel like she was also a divinity?
“I think… I know what to do now.” Laeticia was also somewhat bewildered at this moment. Just now, a large amount of knowledge suddenly appeared in her mind. Most of it was not very useful for the current situation, but some of it was like sending charcoal in the cold for her.
That was the method of controlling dreams!
She clenched her outstretched hand tightly, and Laeticia immediately felt her body lighten. She had successfully escaped. She readjusted the dream environment, which had been distorted by the divinity, back to its original state.
There was no time to be happy. Laeticia immediately launched her strongest attack at the colorful light sphere released by the divinity.
Whoosh! A black beam of light with a diameter of nearly ten meters erupted from the magic array in Laeticia’s hand. This beam of light even startled the caster, Laeticia, herself.
Was this thing really her magic?
The beam of light collided with the light sphere. After a few seconds of stalemate, a large explosion announced the result of this confrontation: a draw.
But this result was practically great news for Laeticia, because it proved that she had truly gained the strength to confront the divinity head-on.
