Chapter 1287: Chapter 14: The Abyss of Worms and the Shadow Nation

Aiwass did not plan to take Arsene to Morgan’s Wonder House.

Even if Isabel did not mind, he himself did.

—-To be honest, the “wonderful little gadgets” inside were all gifts from Lady Morgan, filled with the flavor of the Path of Love. At least half of them, Aiwass hadn’t even used.

If outsiders were to enter there, wouldn’t they assume the great His Holiness was a pervert!

Therefore, Aiwass would never bring anyone there.

Aiwass planned to take Arsene into the Dream Realm through true knowledge and skill.

This level of knowledge certainly wasn’t something he learned from Avalon. Rather, it was part of the essential knowledge inheritance of Advanced Divine Art.

In the classroom, the teacher was still reading from the textbook, and the other students were all busy with their own tasks. Yet, the act of Aiwass getting up to pull Arsene away still made others slightly surprised. Even Mia, being the Dreamland’s owner, raised her head to glance at them but soon immersed herself again in the beauty of the “young Arsene” beside her.

Since the Dreamland’s owner did not care, others naturally wouldn’t care either.

When Aiwass and Arsene walked out of the classroom into the outside, Arsene suddenly felt an impulse, instinctively turning back.

—-In that instant, Arsene felt a chill.

He clearly saw that everyone in the classroom behind him, including the teacher, Mia and “young Arsene”, all turned their heads uniformly, looking at him with expressionless faces.

“Let’s go, don’t worry about it.”

Aiwass pulled Arsene and casually said: “That’s the Dreamland owner’s subconscious vigilance and resistance towards dream entrants. It’s like the secretion that occurs when sensing foreign objects in a wound…”

“…Oh, sorry.”

Arsene interrupted softly: “I only have a primary school education, can’t understand.”

Aiwass remained silent for a while before continuing, “In short, if Mia were a Transcendent, she could instinctively resist and attack us at this moment. After all, this is her Dreamland, we could easily be injured or even killed by her imagination…that is, if we don’t want to cause her permanent mental scars.

“There are many ways to enter the Dream Realm from Dreamland, and both the methods you mentioned are correct. But their common and key point lies in ‘staying away from the known boundaries of dreams’.

“For a Dream Master who constructs Dreamland by the sea, it’s impossible for him to imagine what’s beyond the sea. Therefore, it’s something ‘non-existent’.

“But here’s the problem — if there’s a sea here, then when you travel along the sea, would you suddenly fall into the Void?”

“…Probably not.”

Arsene gradually understood: “Because ‘a ship sails on the sea,’ and the sea is continuous. Unless the person thinks there’s ‘the world’s end’ at the ocean’s limit, otherwise the ship can’t sail into the Void.”

“Exactly,” Aiwass nodded approvingly, “Similarly. If there’s a cliff here, it means that the side near your feet is rock, right? Theoretically, the rock must extend high enough to form an unfathomable cliff. When you’re standing on the mountain, the reason you can’t see the cliff’s bottom and view it as an abyss, is because you’re too far away…so if you’re falling, aren’t you getting closer to it?

“But during this process, the cliff’s mountain formation is continuous — much like the sea. Because the Dream Master hasn’t fallen off the cliff, this part hasn’t ‘spawned’ — or been imagined and constructed by him. Yet, it’s reasonable and inevitable in its constitution…”

“I understand now.”

Upon hearing this, Arsene fully comprehended: “Seek the weak points of the dream!”

“The weak points in the scene.”

Aiwass supplemented: “Not logic or events — but the place that should exist in the opponent’s cognition, yet temporarily doesn’t exist because he’s away from it.”

“…Which means,” Arsene slightly frowned, “If one falls from the dream, they enter the Dream Realm? But according to my experience…if I fall from the dream, I suddenly wake up, right?”

“Waking up in the dream — that’s proof of brushing past the gate of the Dream Realm.”

Aiwass spoke meaningfully.

Principally speaking, those who suddenly wake up because of dream content are actually only a step away from entering the Dream Realm. For example, those falling off cliffs…they actually ‘crash due to insufficient rendering speed’. Much like when video memory crashes and causes a game to exit —

Their brain, during the fall, tries to swiftly weave out ‘what’s below the cliff’ according to the falling speed, but due to sudden high resource usage, it leads to high blood pressure. Ultimately unable to complete the rendering, it results in ‘dream crash’.

This principle is the same as those without experience or knowledge waking up from erotic dreams or dreaming of being murdered. Because ‘the rendering module is missing, lacking key components’…people can’t dream about what they don’t know or can’t imagine.

But if during this process one doesn’t attempt to ‘analyze’ or ‘create’, and instead abandons thinking…for example, closing one’s eyes when jumping off the cliff.

—-As long as the dream doesn’t crash at this point, when consciousness returns again, the dreamer will fall into that boundless darkness and reach the ‘Worm Abyss’ of the Dream Realm.

This place doesn’t belong to any Celestial Marshal, any Angel Envoy, any Pillar Gods. If anything, it has more or less ties to the ‘Void’.

All over here are worms ranging from two or three centimeters to seven or eight hundred meters long. These worms can devour dreams made by mortals in the Material Realm, used to reinforce the foundation of the Dream Realm. They can also eat the Phantom Demon’s corpses thrown off cliffs, thus converting them into nourishment, and once more transforming them into the Dream Realm’s Strength through their excrement.

This is the Dream Realm’s ‘recycle bin’, an extremely dangerous place.

If accidentally devoured by the worms, the highest possibility in reality is losing one’s soul. Even in the best scenario, the soul suffers trauma — if bitten or bumped, waking up due to pain would be fortunate. If completely swallowed, one can never return to the Material Realm.

Next meeting would be at the defense.

Those unable to fly freely in dreams, if wishing to leave here, must climb the cliff.

On top of the Worm Abyss, there are densely-packed protruding blades.

These blades are snow-white like moonlight, they are actually sharp and cold ‘moonlight salt’. Once the worms touch this special salt, they’ll instantly dehydrate and die, thus they are locked in this cage, continuously devouring dreams yet going nowhere.

Once worms breed too extensively, resulting in worms stacking up and rushing out, it’s called ‘worm disaster’.

According to Elves’ records, such disasters have occurred a total of three times so far. Although not world-ending disasters, they are extremely terrifying — to make an analogy, it’s like the toilet explodes. And in a very aggressive manner…for example, the toilet transforms into a warm fountain.

Once exposed to them, there’s a risk of being ‘decomposed’. Even trees, grass, desert, sea of the Dream Realm…they eat anything they come across, once swallowed by their mouths, everything can be ‘deleted’ and restored to the Void. No special abilities aside from that, even a handful of moonlight salt can kill them.

Aiwass definitely doesn’t want to go to such a dangerous and filthy place. In the Worm Canyon, aside from worms, there are only worm defenses!

These defenses get slowly devoured and absorbed by the Dream Realm to supplement missing parts, but it does not prevent it from having the “rotten stench” that terrified the Elf scholar.

—-His destination is the Shadow Nation. At least he still knows someone there, and it won’t be too abnormal.

The method to enter the Shadow Nation is quite simple.

That is to find “places without light, and move through the crevices of folded shadows and shadows”. A common approach is a dimly lit forest…

But even within a school, such a place can sometimes be found.