Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes

Chapter 579 - Capítulo 579: 97: Strength Recovery

Capítulo 579: Chapter 97: Strength Recovery

Although Anvis had already transformed into a Nightmare Spirit form, he did not immediately attack the large group of Nightmare Spirits.

He was observing, observing their behavioral patterns.

Nightmare Spirits are roughly divided into two types, one being those who voluntarily chose to embark on the path of Nightmare Spirits, thus transforming into them, and the other being entities formed from the dark forces of the Inheritance Land.

What Anvis was looking for were precisely those pure negative energy conglomerates.

The actual number of Professionals who truly follow the Nightmare Spirit path is not large, accounting for over seventy percent of the Nightmare Spirits group are those negative dream entities.

These negative energy entities are easy to distinguish from the Trialists; their behavior is entirely instinct-driven, as if carved from the same mold.

They are also the best nourishment for newly transformed Nightmare Spirits in the early stages because they lack intelligence and act on instinct, allowing Professionals with complex spells to trap them easily.

Soon, Anvis locked onto his target.

Instead of attacking the large group of Nightmare Spirits directly, he cautiously picked off a few isolated, newly spawned Nightmare Spirits.

After switching to the Nightmare Spirit state, Anvis could clearly feel the suppression from the rules of the Inheritance Land on him lighten somewhat.

If he previously looked like an ordinary Level Ten rabbit, now he was at least Level Forty.

With his stealthy attacks, these newly born Nightmare Spirits, merely at Level Twenty or Thirty, dissipated one by one, their strength and Authority Fragments absorbed almost completely by Anvis under the influence of the rules.

As these Dream Authority Fragments entered his body, the suppression on Anvis further lightened, and his own strength was more unleashed, no longer relying solely on Secret Techniques to utilize his power.

“As expected of a Nightmare Spirit that grows stronger by devouring its kind, this rate of power increase and the thrill are indeed irresistible.”

With the restoration of his strength, Anvis began to hunt the Nightmare Spirits more swiftly.

A large number of Rule Fragments and the essence of the Nightmare Spirits’ strength entered his body, causing his momentum to climb steadily. Even the nearby mindless Nightmare Spirits began to instinctively avoid him.

However, as he continued to devour, Anvis gradually realized the biggest problem with the path of the Nightmare Spirits.

Reliant on this method of growth by devouring their own kind, Nightmare Spirits indeed grow their power and authority much faster than Trialists in the early stages.

But as their strength reaches a certain limit, High Rank Nightmare Spirits devouring Low Rank ones almost gain no further increase in their authority. To advance further, one must devour other High Rank kin or eliminate sufficiently High Level Trialists.

And the crux of the problem lies in the Dream Authority.

Both Trialists and Nightmare Spirits ultimately aim to increase the completeness of their own authority in the Inheritance Land to one hundred percent, obtaining the final inheritance and control over the entire Inheritance Land.

But the increase in authority completeness requires the collection of all Authority Fragments.

And these fragments are divided into a total of one hundred pieces: the first fifty are white fragments, fifty-one to eighty are Blue Fragments, eighty-one to ninety-five are Purple Fragments, and the last from ninety-five to one hundred are Golden Fragments.

The higher the number of the fragment, the greater the difficulty in obtaining it, and though these fragments can be obtained repeatedly, only the first acquisition is valid.

And the ordinary Low Rank Nightmare Spirits carry white Authority Fragments over ninety percent of the time, with a rare appearance of a being carrying a Blue Fragment.

To obtain higher-level fragments, one must either undertake tasks to invade other worlds or devour powerful Trialists.

However, as they each wield massive Dream World authority, they are essentially impervious to one another. And there are even fewer High Level Trialists, whose own strength is no weaker than other Nightmare Spirits, creating a deadlock.

At this level, it is the Trialists who can continue to steadily enhance their strength by completing highly difficult trials to obtain rarer fragments.

Therefore, these two paths simply represent a choice between delayed gratification and immediate difficulty or the reverse.

After devouring a massive amount of Nightmare Spirits, Anvis finally ceased.

At this time, a faint black aura lingered around him, and Professionals with sufficient Perception could sense the potent forces of death and despair within it.

This was a peculiar phenomenon formed by the accumulation of negative forces that had not yet been completely absorbed.

Anvis’s own aura of Strength had also recovered to a Seventh Rank Level under such extensive devouring.

Devouring a large number of Nightmare Spirits in a short period of time would bring significant mental impact to Professionals. Anvis dared to do so solely by relying on his own strength to forcefully immunize himself from this effect.

After surveying his surroundings and noticing that only Low Rank Nightmare Spirits remained, Anvis left without hesitation and began to search for the whereabouts of more powerful Nightmare Spirits.

Continuing to hunt these Low Rank Nightmare Spirits held little significance now. He needed higher Level Authority Fragments to further enhance his own Strength.

Meanwhile, upon acquiring more than fifty percent of the Authority Fragments, Anvis also noticed that the exclusive abilities of his Nightmare Spirit form seemed to have gained an upgrade.

“Lead me to the nearest High Rank Nightmare Spirit.”

As Anvis’s thought materialized, a floor mirror with a golden frame appeared before him.

In the polished mirror, a rabbit dressed in a crisp suit smiled at him, and then the image in the mirror transformed into a valley.

In the center of the valley, in front of a huge banyan tree with a human face, stood the figure of a Nightmare Spirit, seemingly doing something to the tree.

It looked like a middle-aged human male, clad in dark Magic Rune Knight Armor and holding a Great Sword, exuding a sinister and unsettling aura.

Anvis assessed that the other party was most likely a former Trialist who had transformed into a Nightmare Spirit.

These Nightmare Spirits, having once been Professionals, would act in their own interests, often exhibiting a high degree of independent behavior.

Most importantly, due to the influence of their past habits, those former Trialists who walked the path of the Nightmare Spirits typically retained their human form after transformation, only with added Nightmare Spirit features.

Judging from the style of its Armor, the other party should have been a Professional from the Silver Moon Kingdom of the Yiter Kingdom Federation. The several transparent cavities on his chest suggested that he likely perished in a battle.

The Nightmare Spirit was oblivious to Anvis’s observation until a mirror suddenly materialized out of the void, and Anvis stepped out from it.

“Who are you?!”

The manner of Anvis’s appearance put the Nightmare Spirit on high alert.

“Stop immediately! Otherwise, I will launch an Attack at once!”

Closely watching the strange Nightmare Spirit in the guise of a rabbit dressed for formal occasions, the Knight Nightmare Spirit raised its huge Black Sword, taking a vigilant defensive stance.

The relations between Nightmare Spirits are not amicable; any being that approaches you could be harboring malicious intent, wishing to devour you.

Especially those whose appearance is completely non-human, you can never be sure of what bizarre abilities they might possess.

“Don’t be nervous, strange Nightmare Spirit. Tell me, where are the Four Nightmares now?”

Looking at the Knight Nightmare Spirit before him, Anvis revealed a smile.

A future enemy?

Regrettably, he now had to strike first.