The Path to Godhood Begins from the Otherworld

The so-called nightmare cluster consciousness is essentially a command center led by a certain nightmare clan, with several or even dozens of coordinators under its jurisdiction. These coordinators are responsible for integrating the different nightmare individual consciousness execution groups under their jurisdiction.

Although the command of the nightmares has been quite streamlined, the demon world adheres to the law of the jungle. After the nightmares defected to Nomad, although they got what they wanted and exterminated their natural enemy, the dream-eating tapirs, this also led to the disappearance of the biggest external threat to their tribe.

In today's demon world, the Dream Demon Clan no longer has any real natural enemies in the dream realm, and with the support of Nomad, the Dream Demon Clan has a sufficiently safe backing.

It can be said that the survival pressure of the Dream Demon Clan in the Demon World has been reduced to the lowest point, which allows the Dream Demon Clan to rapidly multiply and expand.

The expansion of the tribe led to the birth of many new nightmare clans.

These emerging nightmare clans are eager to achieve great things, rather than lying down in the demon world like the old nightmare clans.

Most of the nightmares that emerged in the derived world following Nomad’s invasion were from this type of emerging clans.

In order to prevent the further expansion of the nightmare group and the loss of control, the Nomad organization chose to divide the nightmares into the new and old factions and provoke competition between the two factions.

Nomad had the nightmares form a balanced model with the old school as the core center of the collective consciousness, and the coordinator positions under them were divided in half.

This greatly satisfied the ambition of the new generation of the Dream Demon Clan to achieve great things, and also changed the Dream Demon Clan's original system of old leading new.

The original composition of the nightmare cluster consciousness excluded the new nightmare clans from the coordinator group, and members of the new nightmare clans, even clan leaders, could only be assigned to the execution group.

However, due to the interference from Nomad, the coordinator of the Dream Demon Clan no longer existed, and the tradition of the new generation of Dream Demon Clan members no longer existed.

In the short term, Normadra has consolidated the power of the new-school Incubus clan and weakened the influence of the old-school Incubus clan on the tribe.

If we analyze it in the long run, we will find that Nomad's move is laying a minefield for the new and old clan forces of the Nightmare.

What's even more sinister is that Nomad's move is beneficial to the new-style Dream Demon clans, because the coordinator's openness has caused the new-style Dream Demon clans to become dissatisfied with the Dream Demon tradition.

The ancient ruling system built by the old-school Nightmare Clan was also shaken as this command system collapsed.

However, the old-school Dream Demon Clan cannot use this as a reason to blame Nomad. After all, the Dream Demon Clan took the initiative to join Nomad. To put it nicely, they have a cooperative relationship with Nomad. To put it bluntly, the Dream Demon Clan took the initiative to be Nomad's dogs.

It can be said that although the old-school nightmare clan forces knew that Nomad's change in the command system would lead to problems with command and coordination in future dream invasions, the extinction of the dream-eating tapir clan still gave the old-school nightmare clan forces a sense of luck.

Therefore, when a mysterious man who mastered the dream-eating technique suddenly appeared in Luo, this new type of nightmare cluster consciousness command system quickly exposed the problem of poor internal coordination.

Chapter 61: Soul Piercing

Luo Shu naturally quickly noticed that the web woven by the dreamweaving technique had changed.

Simply put, it began to shrink.

However, the speed and rhythm of contraction are quite disordered.

This feeling made Luo Shu realize that the Dream Demon Clan might have been stressed out by his surprise attack.

Luo Shu's consciousness began to observe through the dream-eating bubble that these white spider webs continued to converge towards the depths of Jinghe Sakura's personal dream, and soon cleared out the huge diving channel.

Is he planning to clench his fists and break through Jinghe Sakura's fragile defense in one fell swoop?

Luo Shu quickly understood the intention of the Dream Demon Clan.

As long as the Dream Demon Clan can break the dream-eating bubble outside of Jinghe Sakura's consciousness before their own consciousness merges with Jinghe Sakura's, then the Dream Demon Clan can achieve their ultimate goal of making Luo Shu hesitate.

Luo Shu didn't expect that the Dream Demon Clan would choose this head-on confrontation method to break the deadlock.

That's a bit interesting.

Luo Shu exclaimed in his heart.

He had to admit that the Dream Demon Clan's seemingly reckless and desperate fist-clenching really hit his soft spot.

It’s a pity that the Dream Demon Clan’s impatience at this time actually exposed a piece of information.

That is, the Dream Demon Clan has been unable to break the dream-eating bubble they have woven since they discovered that Igawa Sakura's consciousness had returned to the depths of their personal dreams.

This made Luo Shu realize that the invading force that the Dream Demon Clan had deployed into Jinghe Sakura's personal dream was far weaker than he had expected.

Therefore, the Dream Demon Clan's practice of clenching their fists and accumulating strength at this time is essentially a bluff.

Luo Shu, who reacted suddenly, felt bored.

He originally thought that the Dream Demon Clan could come up with some more amazing countermeasures. After all, he had almost fallen victim to Boyman before, and he was somewhat afraid of the Dream Demon Clan's methods.

But now he found that even after the Dream Demon Clan joined the Nomad Organization and exterminated their natural enemy, the Dream-Eating Tapir Clan, from the Demon Realm, they still had not completed the cracking of the Dream-Eating Spell, and he couldn't help feeling disappointed.

A race that has lost its natural enemies has not become stronger because of the disappearance of their natural enemies. Instead, after eliminating their natural enemies, they are still helpless against their previous methods. This shows that the potential of the Dream Demon Clan in the Demon World where Nomad is located is quite average.

Luo Shu had thought that the Dream Demon Clan in the demon world where Nomad was, was the same clan as Merlin in the Type-Moon world, and that they possessed powers similar to clairvoyance or futuristic fantasy. But now it seemed that the Dream Demon Clan in the demon world did not seem to possess these two mysterious skills.

From this point of view, the mystery of the world of Demon Realm is far lower than that of Type-Moon World.

Or maybe it was because the Dream Demon Clan defected to Nomad, and behind Nomad stood Edwin Black, which led him to overestimate the overall strength of this race.

Luo Shu fell into deep thought, but he soon felt that it was meaningless to think about these things now, so he didn't plan to waste any more time.

It just so happened that he hadn't officially fought the enemy in his dreams yet.

"I'll use you as a chance to test the Yotsuba family's wide-area mind interference magic."

Luo Shu muttered to himself, and quickly launched the advanced version of the "supercomputing field" modified from the magic calculation field of the magic world in the deep channel of Jinghe Yinghua's personal dream.

After changing the energy consumed by magic from thoughts to ether, he actually realized that this kind of magic calculation field in the magic world can greatly amplify the effect of mental magic.

However, during the process of Luo Shu conquering the Yotsuba family in the Demonic World, due to the cooperation of the world consciousness of the Demonic World, after he developed the "supercomputing field", he never found an opportunity to use this technology.

During the previous conquest of Shirakawa Miwa, he discovered that any interference with the heroine's common sense through unconventional means such as mental suggestion could not plunder the origin of the world. He then understood that after the "supercomputing field" was unfolded, there would be limitations to the mental magic he could cast.

Simply put, the effects of mental magic such as hypnosis, mental suggestion, and common sense tampering cannot be used in the process of conquering the heroine in the other world.

However, at this time, the Dream Demon Clan had already invaded the depths of Jinghe Sakura's personal dream, causing Jinghe Sakura to lose control of her personal dream. And because of the existence of the dream-eating bubble, although Jinghe Sakura's consciousness had returned to the depths of her personal dream, it remained disconnected from her personal dream.

To put it simply, Luo Shu is now unfolding the "supercomputing field" in Jinghe Yinghua's personal dream and releasing mental magic. Although its effect will radiate and affect the stability of Jinghe Yinghua's personal dream, it will not directly affect Jinghe Yinghua's consciousness.

Those who will be affected by Luo Shu's spiritual magic can only be invaders of Jinghe Sakura's personal dream, that is, the dream demon clan, which are foreign consciousnesses that have invaded Jinghe Sakura's personal dream.

It can be said that the dream-eating bubble that Luo Shu set for Jinghe Sakura's consciousness actually allowed Luo Shu to not worry about accidentally hurting friendly forces when casting mental magic.

Because, before the dream-eating bubble was destroyed, Jinghe Sakura's consciousness was equivalent to being marked as a friendly by Luo Shu.

Luo Shu only needs to expand the "supercomputing field" and set the target of the mental magic to exclude the dream-eating bubble, and he can complete the selection of all the dream demon consciousness bodies that invade Jinghe Sakura's personal dream.

After all, Luo Shu's wide-area mental magic cannot accurately select the target within the range.

The spiritual magic he mastered was inspired by the light-transmitting and penetrating effect of the aggregation magic "Meteor Shower" mastered by Yotsuba Shenye.

To put it simply, the mental magic he developed has the ability to penetrate the mind.

Luo Shu temporarily named it "Soul Piercing".

As the name suggests, the essence of this etheric magic is the soul, that is, the consciousness composed of spiritual energy, etc. It is a special attack magic developed for the soul of the target.

Coincidentally, as a half-energy and half-physical race, the Dream Demon Clan will automatically switch to the form of consciousness composed of spiritual energy when they are active in the dream world. Although the dream sympathy allows the Dream Demon Clan to aggregate independent individual consciousnesses to form an overwhelming mental power advantage over individual consciousnesses in the dream world, the only way for aggregated consciousnesses to gather and disperse makes the Dream Demon Clan give up the advantage of human waves in group combat.

Simply put, at this time Luo Shu didn't have to worry about not being able to find the target of his "Soul Piercing" spell.

Because, when the Dream Demon Clan gathered their strength and clenched their fists, their attention was completely shifted to the final offensive of breaking through the dream-eating bubble of Igawa Sakura's consciousness.

Moreover, the way the Dream Demon Clan withdrew the free Dream Demon individual consciousness bodies to the periphery for guarding and keeping watch directly resulted in Luo Shu's process of developing the "supercomputing field" being completely uninterrupted.

Therefore, the defeat of the Dream Demon Clan was doomed.

When the countless dense mental spikes released by "Soul Piercing" came like a rainstorm, the consciousness bodies of the nightmare cluster discovered that the expanded consciousness bodies made them lose the advantage of flexible movement of individual consciousness bodies.

Then, through the dream-eating bubble, Jinghe Sakura was able to see the originally aggressive, sticky, and disgusting ball of white thread being infected by countless raindrops emitting a dark glow, and then being torn apart bit by bit, and finally turned into ashes all over the sky...

Chapter 62: Annihilation of the Nightmare

Luo Shu himself actually didn't expect that soul piercing would have such a significant ability to cause wide-area damage to conscious beings.

However, these white threads are nightmares?

He originally thought that these white silk threads, which were woven like spider webs to block the depths of Jinghe Sakura's personal dreams, were the products of the nightmare's magic, but he did not expect that these white silk threads were actually the consciousness of the nightmares.

What surprised him even more was that the dream-eating bubbles that the nightmares so-called clenched their fists and attacked Jinghe Sakura with all their might actually rolled down and rolled into a ball of white silk.

There's something wrong with this thing.

Luo Shu raised his eyebrows slightly, sensing the huge spiritual fluctuations emitted by the sticky white silk ball.

Is this the shell?

Luo Shu widened his eyes.

Sure enough, when Luo Shu arrived at the "ground" deep in Jinghe Sakura's personal dream, the white silk ball that was affected by the black raindrops released by the "Soul Piercing" did indeed rise up something similar to black mist.

However, as if sensing the approach of the object that had harmed it, the white silk ball suddenly exploded.

Jinghe Yinghua's consciousness was shocked. She didn't expect that the white silk ball, which seemed to be corroded by sulfuric acid, would undergo such a sudden change.

She originally thought that the white ball of silk was a living thing. After all, the white ball of silk rolled towards her just now, causing her to feel extremely oppressive.

When she saw the black raindrops corroding the white silk ball and black mist rising from the surface, she thought the white silk ball was dead.

However, when Jinghe Sakura's consciousness "saw" that this ball of white silk that seemed to be dead was exploding and blooming, a spider-like body actually appeared inside the disgusting creation, and she couldn't help but feel a slight sense of horror and trembling.

Luo Shu had never expected that the nightmare's collective consciousness would choose the image of a spider.

No wonder the Dream Demon Clan’s innate skill is called “Dream Weaving”.

It turns out that the succubus clan in the demon world is not the same race as the succubus of Merlin in the Type-Moon world.

At this moment, Luo Shu suddenly understood why the Dream Demon Clan targeted the Dream-Eating Tapir Clan.

It turned out that the dream demons in the demon world were actually a race of monsters, not the kind of humanoid fantasy race similar to succubus that he had imagined.

But, isn't this too ugly?

You should know that the collective consciousness reflects the essence of the soul.

Only the soul will not change its image easily.

So, the true form of the monsters from this dream demon clan is actually similar to a spider?

No wonder I like to live in the gap between reality and dreams.

Just as Luo Shu was daydreaming, this huge spider consciousness rushed towards him.

Luo Shu had to refocus his attention.

The field of supercomputing has expanded.

The black rainstorm created by the second "Soul Piercing" poured down again.

The spider consciousness didn't expect that Luo Shu could summon such a terrifying black rain targeting the consciousness again so quickly.

Suddenly, a shrill wail resounded throughout the deep space of Jinghe Sakura's personal dream.

This made Jinghe Sakura's consciousness feel a very terrifying pressure.

Luo Shu discovered that Jinghe Yinghua's consciousness was like a candle in the wind and could go out at any time. He then realized that the Nightmare Spider's consciousness was not emitting such a shrill wail because of the damage caused by the soul piercing.

On the contrary, the reason why the Nightmare Spider consciousness let out a shrill wail was to launch a surprise attack on Igawa Sakura.

"Damn it."

At this time, Luo Shu was a little confused about whether his "Soul Piercing" had caused any damage to the Nightmare Spider's consciousness.

However, he was very clear that if he did not stop the wailing as soon as possible, Jinghe Sakura's consciousness might collapse first.

However, the dream-eating bubble could not withstand the sonic attack created by spiritual energy.

What Luo Shu didn't know was that the many individual nightmare consciousnesses inside the nightmare spider monster had actually suffered heavy losses.

That tragic wailing was undoubtedly proof of the severe damage suffered.

However, the core of the consciousness of this huge nightmare spider, the patriarch of the old-school nightmare clan, still noticed that the black rain outside suddenly weakened.

This made the nightmare demon aware of something unusual.

However, Luo Shu obviously did not give the nightmare enough time to react.

The soul piercing is indeed very lethal, but it will cause the collective consciousness of the nightmare spider to let out a terrifying wail.

Range attacks are not enough to quickly destroy this huge nightmare spider monster.

Therefore, he decisively gave up on using soul piercing to create black rain and switched his attack mode to condensing the long sword.

Then, he swung his sword decisively.

"Clang..."

The soul-piercing long knife hit the shell of the nightmare spider's consciousness, making a sound like the collision of metal, drowning out the previous tragic wails.