Wizard's Journey

Chapter 518 The Lord of Fear (Part 8)

Squeak...

Two deep ravines, each over a hundred meters long, appeared beneath the feet of the Heartless King.

In an instant, countless nightmare worms perished at the feet of the Heartless King.

Crouching low, supporting himself on one arm, the Heartless King panted, his eyes fixed intently on the giant ape that resembled a mountain.

"you……"

Just as the Heartless King was about to say something, the ferocious giant ape, whose appearance was far different from the terrifying creatures of the typical nightmare world, kicked its feet repeatedly, and after a series of footprints cracked open in the ground with a "boom, boom," its wild, rough, long-haired fists came crashing down.

boom!

Like a hand-to-hand combat between two wild beasts, the Heartless King was sent flying hundreds of meters before crashing to the ground with a loud "boom," creating a large crater.

At this moment, Green's nightmare world giant ape form had completely overwhelmed the Heartless King with its power, leaving him utterly powerless to retaliate.

"King of Gemini! King of Dreams! King of the Moon!"

The Heartless King, who had just landed, had only managed to shout to the three demon king attendants in the distance when he was punched in the chest by a giant ape that was charging towards him with a "boom boom" of its feet. The ape punch went straight through the hole in the center of his chest.

call out!

The Heartless King opened his mouth, and his scarlet tongue, swift as lightning, pierced the giant ape's left eye.

"Hmph, haven't you always wanted to know the secret to my ability to quickly absorb the power of fright?"

With one hand piercing through the empty chest of the Heartless King, Green raised his thick arm high above his head, while his other hand casually grasped the scarlet tongue that had blinded the left eye and ripped it off.

The mangled flesh of the left eye transformed into tendrils. In the terror of the Heartless King, the huge eyeball pierced through its tongue twisted and grew hands and feet, struggling to crawl toward the giant ape's empty left eye socket.

Such a bizarre situation even filled the Heartless King with a sense of dread!

The giant ape, now fully recovered, gave a brutal laugh, and with a loud "bang," its other fist slammed into the fist of the Heartless King, who was about to retaliate.

As their fists met, a "crack" was heard, and the King of Heartlessness's arm twisted unnaturally.

"what……"

The Heartless King twisted its body, like a prey driven to its final madness before death. Its tail wrapped tightly around the giant ape's neck, while its other hand was held down by the giant ape's two hands, slowly breaking off and bending backward.

"The secret to my ability to gather the power of fright so quickly lies in prey like you, hehehehe..."

With a "crack," Green completely broke the Heartless King's other arm as well!

However, Green didn't seem to have any intention of defeating his opponent. Instead, he revealed his secret of quickly gathering the power of fright to his opponent.

The Heartless King's pupils contracted, and he said in a trembling voice, "You mean the Hunter..."

Bang!Bang!Bang!

The three impacts occurred almost simultaneously.

With a loud "boom," Green was punched in the chest by a demon king's servant that was over forty meters tall. The immense power from the punch sent Green flying backward instantly.

Transforming into a giant ape, Green's explosive strength and defensive capabilities increased exponentially, but his agility decreased significantly. With a "thud," he fell flat on his back and awkwardly got up again.

The barrage of attacks that Green had anticipated did not materialize.

Ok?

This is……

Green was astonished to find that the Dream King with its three blood-red eyes was facing away from him, confronting a giant ape over thirty meters tall, and had no intention of attacking him at all. What was going on?

As for the Demon King's servant who had just sent him flying with a single punch...

This was an ugly monkey that was over forty meters tall, even taller than Green at this moment. In fact, this so-called height of over forty meters was only the height of its hunched and bent body!

On its unusually broad shoulders sat a Fallen being seven or eight meters tall. Green noticed that the tails of the two Fallen beings, one large and one small, were connected.

Is this the Twin Kings that the Heartless King summoned?

Without a doubt, this was a Demon King's servant who was several times more powerful than Green at this moment.

With a deafening "boom," the punch unleashed a massive burst of crimson moonlight shattering into countless fragments. The King of the Shaking Moon glared angrily at the King of Dreams, roaring, "The Great Nightmare Mist Fear Demon is on its way! You, a mere minion of the Nightmare Mud Fear Demon, if you don't wish to incur the wrath of the Great Nightmare Mist Fear Demon, get out of my way right now!"

These crimson moonlight seemed to have some deeper attack effect; the red hair in some parts of the Dream King withered at a visible speed.

However, the King of Dreams did not retreat.

"Compared to the wrath of the Nightmare Mist Dreadlord, I am even more surprised by the will personally issued by the Great Nightmare Mud Dreadlord. Protect this wizard from being obtained by the Nightmare Mud Dreadlord and the Staff of Judgment, so that he may be forever trapped in the nightmare world and become a true Fallen One."

The King of Dreams stared wide-eyed, his three blood-red eyes bulging.

"I believe the prediction of the Great Nightmare Sludge Dreadlord is correct! Those former Dreadlords did not complete their rebirth; they merely became tools of the Stigmata Wizard of the Judgment Staff, a wizard far more evil and cunning than the Three-Ring True Spirit Wizard who created the Three-Colored Fairy Tale Rules...! The wizarding world is peacefully evolving into the Nightmare World; they not only intend to end the threat of wizarding nightmares, they even intend to create Nightmare Wizards!"

In the distance, Green slowly stood up, guarding against another attack from the Twin Kings.

But upon hearing these words from the King of Dreams, Green was horrified.

The rules of the Three-Colored Fairy Tale Elves were actually created by the Three-Ring True Spirit Wizard? Was my decades-long pursuit a mistake?

The purpose of that Archmage with the Staff of Judgment is to find a way to peacefully evolve the Nightmare World and create the so-called Nightmare Wizard!?

Green's first thought was of Solange.

Could this guy be a nightmare wizard?

Could it be that after mechanical wizards, dark wizards, elemental wizards, and body-refining wizards, a new wizard is about to be born in the wizarding world... a nightmare wizard?

Green was startled by his own bold guess.

Could it be that……

The way to leave the nightmare world is to be parasitized by a nightmare world fear demon king, and then transformed into a so-called nightmare wizard by the Judgment Staff Saint Mark Wizard.

And the Nightmare Wizard Rules are the true spirit offering of the Marksman Wizard of the Judgment Staff!?

No, this is just wishful thinking. I will never give up hope until I find the Staff of Judgment and the Stigmata Wizard. I will never allow a Dreadlord to reincarnate on me.

This is nothing short of a foolish gamble, placing one's fate on a coin.

"Hmph! Rather than the unfounded speculation of the Nightmare Sludge Fear Lord, I'm more inclined to believe the words of the Great Nightmare Mist Fear Lord. The Nightmare Sludge Fear Lord is nothing but a coward terrified of the wizarding world. It has abandoned its higher pursuit as an ancient nightmare world fear lord, willingly hiding in this small box for its entire life, awaiting the so-called fateful choice outside the nightmare world!"

With continuous booming sounds, the King of the Moon and the King of Dreams were locked in a fierce battle.

While battling the King of the Moon, the King of Dreams' three blood-red eyes occasionally glanced at the giant ape that Grimm had transformed into, roaring viciously, "Just a little bit more, just a little bit more and I could have proven, according to the wisdom of the Great Nightmare Mud Fear Demon King, that the Judgment Rules are real! It is creating the Nightmare Judgment of the Wizarding Continent by sacrificing the Nightmare Protection of the Dark Domain, according to the so-called Leverage Rules of the Wizards."

Green was shocked by the argument between the King of the Moon and the King of Dreams, which involved too much information about the struggle and entanglement between the Wizarding World and the Nightmare World.

It even seems that the open and covert struggles between the Wizarding Continent and the Dark Domain have been drawn in.

Meanwhile, the Twin Kings were roaring at the Heartless King, who had first fought with Grimm.

"You lowly thing, how dare you defy the will of the great Nightmare Mist Demon Lord for such a trivial matter of etiquette?"

Green also looked at the Heartless King, whose greedy eyes made him very uncomfortable.

Green did not kill his opponent because he was trying to survive the night without losing his power of fear, thus preserving his strength before revealing his hunter abilities to the opponent.

This would make the other demon king's servants hesitate, preventing the heartless king from "giving" Grimm the power of fright. Naturally, the heartless king would not "commit suicide" to lose some of the power of fright and then recover his fighting strength.

In this way, Green effectively eliminated one opponent.

Otherwise, if Green defeats his opponent and absorbs the amount of fright power that is insufficient to change the situation, the consequence will be an increase in the probability that his own fright power will dissipate before the night is over.

"Hehehe, Nightmare Hunter, your Nightmare Hunter power is truly wonderful! Now... you will enjoy the trading rules that only I possess in the Nightmare World."

Suddenly, in the Heartless King's hand appeared a new, beating heart of Linlin.

"I will use this heart that enters dreams, and all my power of terror, to replicate your Hunter's Nightmare power. From now on, you will be a victim of dual nightmare power, while I will have the hope of becoming the new Lord of Terror! Hehehehehehe..."

A balance gradually formed between Green and the Heartless King.

As the Heartless King spoke, the scales began to tip slowly in Green's favor. A hunter's ability, resembling a greedy maw, was being completely copied and filled into the Heartless King's empty chest.

An unprecedented pleasure permeated the air, and the Heartless King was so excited that he almost screamed.

"As for the Nightmare Mist Fear Demon King? For me, who has lost all power to frighten, he can only suppress and punish me, hahaha. But how many days can he suppress me? He will eventually leave this world and be reborn!"

On the other side of the scale, the giant ape, having received a tremendous shock, grew even larger with a "thud," and at the same time, a strange heart appeared faintly in its chest.

(End of this chapter)