He immediately tucked his tail between his legs, secretly raising his vigilance.
First of all, it was certain that he was dreaming... Secondly, since he was injured and retired from the Guild ten years ago, he hadn't dreamed at all. Today, just as the thought of making a comeback crossed his mind, he was confusedly pulled into this strange dream space. With Old Kohler's understanding of Nen and supernatural events, when things go wrong, there must be a demon at work!
"Your Excellency, what do you want?"
Old Kohler observed Roy calmly, while occasionally casting a peripheral glance to keep his distance from the humanoid snake monster nearby... Vanessa coiled her snake tail, propping up her body, which only further accentuated the lush and fullness of the two fruits on her chest. Just like Old Kohler, she calmly sized up him and Roy, secretly raising her guard. "Woof woof..." Hearing Old Kohler ask in dog language... Mist obscured Roy's face, making his features indistinct. Beside his ears, due to the appearance of Old Kohler and Vanessa, system prompt sounds emerged...
[Hint: [Monster Encyclopedia] has been unfolded...]
[1. Kobold: D-Class Intelligent Species Magical Beast. (Note: Intelligent Species: A general term for humanoid magical beasts, phantom beasts, or rare beasts that possess intelligence not inferior to humans.)]
[Rating: D]
[Manifested Aura: D (5415/10000)]
[Potential Aura: C- (5470/100000)]
[Current Status: Old and frail, accumulated internal injuries from over the years. Strength compared to peak condition is less than one in ten.]
[2. Siren Naga: D-Class Intelligent Species "Rare Beast".]
[Rating: C→D]
[Manifested Aura: D (1415/10000)]
[Potential Aura: C (84211/100000)]
[Current Status: Sick body. Due to accumulating too much "pollution" in the body without timely expulsion, she has suffered severe natural erosion. One foot is almost on the edge of losing control...]
'So, this is "one old" and "one disabled"?'
Roy's eyes flickered as he fell into thought. Although the [Generalized Dream Gate] possessed a generalized randomness, it also had to follow the Law of Equivalent Exchange. The dream targets selected were limited by his own strength, so their status generally wouldn't be too high.
"Your Excellency?" Old Kohler frowned and looked over when he didn't receive a reply for a long time.
Vanessa's tail flicked slightly, feeling uneasy.
Roy swept a glance at the two of them expressionlessly. With a thought, he called out Taiyi.
From the vast white mist, another person walked out.
His face was gentle, with a smile at the corners of his mouth. As soon as he arrived in front of Roy, he immediately lowered his head, prostrated on the ground, and said devoutly, "My Lord, you have finally awakened."
As Taiyi spoke, perhaps because his emotions were too agitated, he accidentally released his [Ren]!
Immediately after, a loud boom was heard!
The majestic aura intertwined with [Scorching True Intent] erupted in an instant. Under Roy's absolute domination of his Self-Dream, it was amplified, instantly igniting this white dream space and turning it into a scorching hell!
"Woof woof... What a strong [Ren]!"
"What did he call that person... My Lord?"
Old Kohler was shaken to the core, jumping three feet high. While releasing [Ten] to protect his body and dodge the burning fire, he shouted at Roy at the top of his lungs, "Your Excellency, no offense intended! I don't know why I appeared here either!"
"It is not unintentional. We might have met [God] due to some special reasons!" Vanessa Siren similarly conjured [Ten] to protect her body. Unlike Old Kohler, her [Ten] carried a glistening wave-like sheen, resisting the fire like water; she was much more relaxed compared to Old Kohler.
The girl suddenly remembered visiting the Tide Church with her parents when she was young. She recalled the sentence she had seen under the tall and majestic statue of the [Great Siren]—'Behind all the unknown, there is [God] watching...'
With a thought, she imitated Taiyi, curling her tail, lowering her body, and prostrating on the ground. She said respectfully, "Vanessa Siren of the City of Purification pays respects to the Great Existence."
Suddenly, the fire burning toward the girl changed direction and swept right past her...
"Woof?" Old Kohler opened his dog mouth, stunned for a moment. He followed suit, quickly lying down and imitating Vanessa to prostrate on the ground. Facing Roy, he chanted the name of the "Great One" and reported his own name.
At that moment, two prompt sounds surfaced in Roy's mind...
[Hint: Detected "Potential Believer" Vanessa Siren... Kohler Spencer... Urgent development needed...]
[Note: "Urgent development needed". No miracles seen, doubts about God exist. The host can increase the loyalty of "Potential Believers" through "Bestowal"...]
'Bestowal?'
'To harvest, one must first give?'
Roy thought of giving porridge to the poor, treating the sick, and giving eggs to the elderly... He gradually realized... To obtain the Nen of others through [Faith] for his own use, he also needed to "give". And the more he "gave", the greater the "harvest" would be.
"Taiyi, do not be presumptuous..."
A faint voice rang out like a great bell in this boundless dream world.
The fire extinguished, and the heat receded... Vanessa and Old Kohler lay prostrate on the ground, sighing in relief involuntarily. Taking a stealthy peek... their bodies shook again!
Roy laughed self-deprecatingly, "I simply took a nap. Upon waking, the world has changed, and things are different..."
He was like someone who had weathered the storms of the world, seen all its splendor and filth, lamenting the passage of time. The former Divine Realm had turned into a patch of white mist. He slowly raised his right hand and said softly, "Return."
"Rumble!"
The white dreamscape shook violently. As the boy's voice fell...
Wind came, clouds rose, and a bright great sun ascended to the sky. Following closely behind, World Trees that seemed to have no top rose from the ground one after another, acting as pillars to support a church... Majestic, tall, recklessly emitting the aura of ancient times, making one dazzled and mesmerized. It was as if it should have been this way, eternally so. It had only been submerged for a time; upon reappearing in the world, it would surely shock the world!
"Woof!" Old Kohler had lived for so many years but had never seen such a scene. His dog head was raised almost to the sky, and he was completely dumbstruck!
Beside him, Vanessa tried her best to maintain her devout expression without breaking. Looking up at the temple constructed from the interweaving of hundreds of World Trees reappearing in the world, she compared it to the Tide Church built by the Great Siren in the past. Undoubtedly... this majestic temple with a great sun hanging over its top was beyond superior!
'The temple is divine power. The more majestic it is, the more powerful...' Vanessa suddenly remembered the group of Toad Men she sent away last night, bragging to her about how great the [God of the Swamp] their Toad Clan believed in was, and how the temple He built personally covered nearly ten thousand miles of the swamp... Feeling like an ant, she looked up...
At the top of the temple, whose height was unknown, under the red sun overflowing with sunlight, a throne drifted down. The boy, whose face could not be seen clearly, took a step and flew down to take his seat... She and the dumbstruck dog-headed man beside her felt smoke rising from their feet, lifting them straight into the clouds. Looking up again... she saw a gentle smile...
"You are blessed." Taiyi stood below the throne, looking down at the snake and the dog kneeling on the cloud. He said warmly, "The Lord says, since it is fate, He grants you each a bestowal. Why do you not bow and thank Him?"
Vanessa and Old Kohler, prostrate on the ground, each cast a peripheral glance out of the corners of their eyes, looked at each other, and quickly knocked their heads on the ground. "Thank you, Lord, for the bestowal!"
While their two hearts were fluctuating uncertainly... their minds opened up, and Roy easily captured their inner thoughts through [En]. Surprisingly, it was all for supporting their families!
Old Kohler was old and frail. He hoped to restore his peak condition and return to the Guild to earn some milk money for his unborn child... Vanessa ran a bathhouse and made a living by dispelling "filth" for customers. She hoped to obtain something called "Music Orbs" to dispel the "grime" accumulated in her body, so she could continue serving customers and prevent the bathhouse from being downgraded...
Roy cast a focused look at Vanessa. The so-called "Music Orbs" were actually "Anchor Objects". They were "Melody Crystals" formed by her deep-rooted love for the Great Siren, relying on her intense love for a bard who liked to compose music, to break free from natural erosion...
These "Melody Crystals" could be a good song. As long as it could move that Great Siren, one could retrieve the reason gradually lost to natural erosion through "Love Anchoring"...
'Sure enough, the Dark Continent is full of wonders, truly eye-opening!'
Roy sighed, and in an instant, he had an idea... First, imitate Muzan and feed his believers divine blood to help them rapidly improve their strength... Second, manifest some famous piano pieces from his previous life from his cognitive world and gift them to Vanessa to help her dispel the "filth" accumulated in her body...
Having made a decision in his heart, before killing Muzan, Roy temporarily bestowed a scroll of "Water Breathing" to Old Kohler. Then, through "Nen" attached to imagination, he manifested the piano pieces composed by famous pianists like Chopin, Beethoven, and Liszt from his cognition. He packaged them into two balls of light and pointed them separately at Old Kohler and Vanessa...
The balls of light flew over and instantly drilled into the center of their eyebrows...
Subsequently, before the two could recover, Roy felt that his dream domain was faintly beginning to collapse due to the intense consumption of "Nen". With a wave of his large hand, he severed the two streaks of misty fog connecting Vanessa and Old Kohler...
He sent the two back to their respective worlds through the [Generalized Dream Gate].
"Creak..." The Dream Gate closed.
Dark Continent, Northern Frontier.
Kobold Tribe Settlement, Howling Moon Wolf King's Territory, Bone-Shatter City, Rivergu Town, Huang Village...
Late at night, Old Kohler hugged his pregnant wife and woke up from his sleep with a start. He felt his back was sticky; unknown to him, he had broken out in a cold sweat.
Beside him, his wife was sleeping deeply. Further to the side was his three-year-old son...
Old Kohler widened his pair of dog eyes, staring blankly at the roof beam, savoring everything he had just experienced in the dream. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "What a bizarre dream..."
People... Snake people... God... Servant of God... Temple... Bestowal... Numerous images played ceaselessly like a film reel in his small dog brain... Old Kohler never thought he would have such a realistic dream. It was so real that...
The ball of light bestowed by the [God] in the dream still lingered in his consciousness. It felt real, yet brought a hazy sense of illusion!
Old Kohler let out a breath after a long while. He got out of bed lightly, tucked the corners of the blanket for his wife and son, and then left the bedroom. He went to the basement and took the morningstar that had been gathering dust for nearly ten years in his hand...
Turning around, he went to the courtyard. Facing the bright moon, he uncovered the ball of light. A piece of information instantly flooded into his head...
Its name was "Water Breathing!"
"Water Breathing, First Form, Water Surface Slash... Second Form, Water Wheel... Third Form, Flowing Dance..."
Old Kohler moved the morningstar in his hand, dancing along with the information... His pair of dog eyes went from suspicion to shock, and then to excitement. Accompanying the final move, "Tenth Form, Constant Flux..."
As the dance ended, he clumsily leaned on the morningstar, panting. His emotions surged like a tidal wave as he suddenly realized... this was a very useful Breathing Style. It could instantly explode with power to increase his immediate combat capability, giving the opponent an unexpected head-on blow!
'So... the bestowal is real, and the dream is also real... Then...'
Old Kohler thought of that Lord sitting high on the throne with the great sun on his back... His knees went soft, and he prostrated on the ground again, devoutly knocking his head on the ground. "Thank you for your bestowal!"
Suddenly, a gust of wind rose, picking up a trace of spiritual light and a bond, drifting far away into the night sky...
Tens of thousands of miles away from the Howling Moon Wolf King's territory, in the Kingdom of Hot Springs, Valentia, West Suburbs, Water Orchid Workshop, 7th Street, Bathhouse No. 54-09.
On a charming large bed where a white snake tail and a green snake tail were entangled...
Vanessa, unsurprisingly, had her face covered in saliva by her younger sister, Lola.
She woke from the dream and slowly opened her eyes. Those vertical golden pupils reflected the ceiling, lost in a trance for a very, very long time...
Then, she pulled a tissue from the head of the bed to wipe her face. Uncoiling her snake tail, she slid down along the window frame and came to the window, carefully savoring the dream she just had... The girl gazed at the night sky, allowing the moonlight to fall on her body, draping her in a layer of lunar gauze. With a complex mood of apprehension, anticipation, and fear of disappointment, she uncovered that ball of light in her mind—the ball of light bestowed upon her by the God in the dream. Just then...
She heard a melodious piano sound explode in her mind. It went all the way down, piercing through her soul along with her consciousness and hitting her heart, making her entire body go stiff. Returning to her senses...
She felt all her fatigue and "filth" vanish. She immediately felt clear and relaxed, as if reborn!
"What a beautiful tune, what a passionate tune, what a soothing tune..."
Song after song unfolded... These were "fresh scores" Vanessa had never heard before. She couldn't evaluate how they compared to the songs that bard had specially composed for Lord Siren back then, but at least...
A look of devotion appeared on the girl's face. Lifting a corner of her nightgown, she bowed slightly. "Thank you for the Lord's beast..."
Her thoughts flew into the high heavens along with the moonlight...
In just a moment, Roy, who had just exited the dream and could no longer maintain the [Generalized Dream Gate], heard the grandfather clock in the corner chime. Opening his eyes again, he immediately received a system prompt...
[Hint: Faith Power +1... From "Potential Believer" Kohler Spencer... Please hold an investiture ceremony for him as soon as possible to make him a regular member...]
[Hint: Faith Power +1... From "Potential Believer" Vanessa Siren... Please hold an investiture ceremony for her as soon as possible to make her a regular member...]
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