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The boundary of these dreams is a place of complete chaos, where common sense and rationality do not exist, and only here can one glimpse the ancient gods' rambling scenes in their sleep.

And in the center of the dream is a city that looks like reality.

In fact, these cities are not imitated by the superiors themselves, but the product of the combination of the dreams of the dreamers.

This is a bit like treating a person as a computing unit, which can provide even greater computing power after integration.

A large number of dreamers contributed the existence in their memories to form the details of the dream, making the dream more realistic.

When there are only one or two people, maybe only the streets where the dreamers often live in this dream city are clear, but when there are more and more dreamers, even the advertising posters on the streets can be compared with reality. The world corresponds.

Because the more people there are, the more details will be added.

But this is not a good thing. Aside from the fact that such a realistic dream will make people lose the ability to recognize reality, there is another point that this dream does not belong to humans after all.

Doctor Beak, or rather the arm in Doctor Beak's belly, is the bottom layer of the entire dream.

It's like a huge stage, and the dreamers are the actors on it... No, it can't even be said to be actors, but the scenery on the stage.

As the dreaming time passes and the number of people dreaming increases, the dreamland will expand until finally everyone is dragged into the dreamland.

Then, when the consciousness of the superior is awakened, dreams will exist instead of reality.

Even if it's just an heir of the superior, even if it's just an arm of the heir.

For superior beings, they have different views on the words death and death than humans.

As far as Zixu is concerned, the more people there are, the greater his pressure will be.

Because, the people who can enter the dreamland now, without exception, are the existences who have been injected with the blood of the descendants of the ancient gods.

Therefore, after falling into a dream, they will immediately lose their minds and completely transform into beasts.

They will instinctively attack people who make this dream exist uneasy, just like people who enjoy a beautiful dream are unwilling to wake up.

As a hunter, Zixu was naturally their target.

Because the hunter's goal is very clear, they only want to hunt those high gods.

In other words, on the stage, they are not actors, but demolishers with axes and hammers, smashing the entire stage to pieces.

Therefore, every being in the dream will stop him, including those who enter the dream, and also the only actor in this dream.

Doctor Beak held his chest, Ludwig's rifle fell aside, and the threaded cane that could be turned into a whip could not be deformed due to structural failure, and could only remain in the form of a long sword.

He has some difficulty understanding this situation. This dreamland should be his home field. All the beings around him regard the man in front of him as their enemy, but why can't this man fall?

Why was he still standing after so many battles and so many blows?

Even though he was out of breath and staggering, even though the armor on his body had been torn, and the blood and flesh foam had washed the shirt inside into a hard board, he could still step forward and keep walking towards him.

"Who are you?" Dr. Bird's Beak asked.

"No one." Zixu shook his knife and shook off the blood on the sea of ​​corpses: "Just an ordinary hunter."

Dr. Birdbill sneered and had no comment on this question.

He released his palm, revealing his chest covered with knife marks.

The wound has healed, the pain is still there, but there is a new feeling.

Itchy, very itchy, as if the skin has grown backwards, the fine hair has grown into the flesh, and is following the body

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The movements constantly tickled the organs.

Zixu, standing in front of Dr. Birdbill, saw it clearly, so he made that helpless curse.

——Why do you still have the second stage?

Metallic black hair is growing from the chest of Dr. Bird's Beak, and began to spread to Doctor's Beak's limbs.

On the strange facial bones, two antlers like antlers are slowly forming, making the doctor look even more terrifying.

Zixu gasped. He had thought about interrupting the other party in the process, or at least severely injuring him.

But his physical energy had been completely exhausted in the previous battle, and his body could not support his thoughts.

Therefore, he can only take the opportunity to recover his physical strength during this period of time, so that he can persist in this battle.

"Power is coming up." Doctor Bird's Beak looked at his arm. He could feel something about to burst out of his body.

A new force entered the dream, making the dream more solid and making the arm of the descendant of the ancient god a little more active.

And the changes in my body came from this.

"Is that so, to liberate nature and embrace oneself?"

Doctor Niaozui murmured, then he looked at Zixu, and just nodded slightly: "Yes, it should be so."

boom--!

Doctor Bird's Beak's body exploded into a bloody mist, but Zixu only felt a sense of oppression coming towards his face.

Then, a strange cry that was close to the howl of a wolf came from the blood mist. The ferocious air waves blew away the blood, and a figure continued to expand and take shape.

It was a huge, skinny monster, and its body was covered with tough black hairs, but these hairs did not wrap the monster's head, making the white skull look even more frightening.

In fact, if a person who has lived in the northern border of Ursus all year round stood here, he would also scream Wendigo at this monster.

Creatures from nightmare legends spread fear in this dream at this moment.

There is another characteristic of this Wendigo-like monster, that is, its left arm is abnormally thick, while its right arm seems to be completely shrunken and eroded, still maintaining the size of an ordinary person's arm.

"Sure enough, a priest monster." Zi Xu seemed to be very familiar with this monster, and just sighed: "Fortunately you still have your head, otherwise based on your previous performance, I would have thought you were the confused Bishop Lawrence. "

He turned the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, forcing the last bit of energy out of his body, and used his combat skills against this behemoth.

The strong blood energy and the knife light from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood rushed towards this monster, like waves rushing towards the coast, about to engulf the monster in front of it.

Then, these waves seemed to hit the dark rocks, only splashing a few waves and disappearing for a hundred years.

The invincible mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood slashed at the monster's body. The blade collided with the dark, thick hair, and a large amount of dazzling fire broke out.

But, that's all.

Cutting off a few hairs and cutting a small part of the skin, such injuries are nothing to the priest monster that is now as big as a truck.

Just like when Bloodborne players faced the boss of Bloodborne for the first time, the priest monster brought back to Zixu the shock that belonged to the old thief Miyazaki.

Its size has increased several times, but its speed is even faster than Doctor Bird's Beak in human form.

Almost in a blink of an eye, the priest monster's attack had already arrived in front of Zixu.

The deformed arm blasted towards Zixu like a battering ram, and Zixu's reaction could only barely raise his left arm, trying to use the battle sign as a block.

There was a roar like a heavy hammer destroying a city, and the priest monster stepped back several steps and let out a shrill howl.

There were a lot of wounds on its arms, as if it had suffered an invisible blow.

But Zixu's situation was even worse.

His body flew back like a cannonball, and the remains of the battle sign were splashing everywhere in the air, completely turning into a pile of garbage.

The continuous battles have exhausted the durability of the battle token, and the fierce blow of the cleric monster directly shattered the critical value of the battle token, but even at this last moment, the battle token still gave its own counterattack .

It's just that the attack of the clergyman's monster is too powerful, and after the battle card's durability collapsed, it still caused damage to Zixu.

Among the disintegrated remains of the battle sign, Zixu's left arm was also flying and deformed.

With just one blow, Zixu's left arm was torn off!

In the end, Zixu's body hit all the way backwards, smashed through the bottom floor of a building, and smashed into a roadside vehicle. The body continued to move backwards by the width of a street before it came to a stop.

There was no sound, and there was no sound of Zixu standing up again in the smoke.

The priest monster recovered from Zixu's counterattack. It shook its arm, looked at the mess in front of it, and let out a silent scream.

It took a few steps forward and used its arm to hit Zixu's severed limb that fell on the ground, crushing it into a piece of flesh.

This is an action that declares victory. There is no doubt that this time the man should finally fall.

he has failed

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, and what follows is just a transition from failure to death.

The priest monster continued to move forward, raising its hand to expand the hole that Zixu had cut through the stairs, allowing its huge body to pass through the building and into the street where Zixu lay down.

It wanted to make the man, like his arm, turn into a puddle of flesh on the ground.

So, it approached the wreckage of the vehicle and began to imagine what kind of wailing the man would make in those final moments.

Then, its reverie was interrupted by a flash of fire.

"You seem to be smug." Zixu's voice came from the wreckage of the car: "But this second stage thing makes everyone different."

The flames rose, and heat waves blew the ashes outward.

The car shell was melted into molten iron and fell to the ground with a squeaking sound.

A man who had lost an arm walked out of the wreckage of the car. He stood on the ground covered in fire, as if he was a king carrying flames walking on this land.

King Xin took hold of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, and engraved his own flames on it.

Until this moment, this weapon was truly his own.

"Don't think you won."

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Chapter 139 Let's become one!

Flames, blazing flames, they did not know when they appeared in this dreamland, completely driving away the dim and bloody dusk.

The priest monster looked at the man in front of him, and a kind of fear arose in his heart like an instinct.

This kind of fear includes the fear of fire. Creatures have an instinctive fear of fire, and this fear is also reflected in dreams.

But this is not the only factor, or it is just the beastly fear of the priest monster.

Doctor Beak's few bits of humanity still remained in the monster's body. Although it was very little, so little that even a bit of so-called rationality no longer existed, but when he saw this man standing up from the flames, that feeling of The unknown doubt is still the animal nature passed down to him.

The fear of facing the unknown also turned into the firewood that ignited this fear.

Because it cannot understand the existence in front of it, just like humans can never understand the chaos at the edge of dreams.

More importantly, as the basis of the dream, that is, the broken arm of the ancient god's son, is now integrated with the priest monster.

That is to say, even after gathering Dr. Bird's Beak, the dream master and so many dreamers, none of them could understand the existence of this flame.

As for Zixu, he was happy to see this scene happen.

Only when the prey is in fear can the hunter kill them faster and easier, and he also needs to kill them quickly.

The state I am in now, if it were placed in the Dark Souls game, would have a dedicated name - the remaining fire state.

There are many things in this state, which involve the most fundamental content in the world view of the Dark Souls game, such as the existence of the first fire, the soul, and the salary king.

So to put everything in simple terms, Zixu has now opened the second stage. All attributes such as blood volume, attack power, and physical recovery ability have increased, and the character title has also been temporarily upgraded from Ashes/Undead to Salary King.

But the difference from the game is that in the game, as long as the player enters the embers state, as long as the player's operation is good enough to survive, then his embers can be maintained forever.

In the real world, the residual fire state has a time limit, just like the firewood in a campfire will eventually burn out. After the firewood in Zixu's body burns out, he will naturally exit this state.

However, this state can also be maintained, and the way to maintain it is what Zixu calls superhuman strength - as long as you can kill enemies at the elite level and above, then the opponent's soul can be turned into firewood to replenish the energy. The consumption of Zixu's previous deficit.

All in all, there is a saying: the more transcendent, the stronger a person becomes.

"It's fair to exchange one hand for another."

The flames bursting out from the body blew Zixu's broken hair. He held up the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood and pointed at the priest monster: "But now, the ending has been decided."

As soon as the words fell, Zixu's figure turned into a ball of fire, like a meteor flying on the ground, shining with dazzling light, and rushed straight towards the priest monster.

Facing Zixu's offensive, the ferocity of the priest monster was forced out, directly overpowering the fear.

It waved its deformed arm, and hit Zixu again as if repeating the same trick.

But this time, Zixu, who was still in a state of lingering fire, not only returned to the peak of energy and spirit, but also experienced an extraordinary improvement in physical fitness.

The attack that was difficult to react to before was easily captured by Zixu at this moment, and he still had the energy to think about how he should face this attack.