novelraw Chapter 582: 100: Matryoshka Dolls
Chapter 582: 100: Matryoshka Dolls
Chapter 582: Chapter 100: Matryoshka Dolls
Finally, when the Holy Light Domain was suppressed once more, Tidis suddenly activated his own ability.
In the dense darkness, countless dim and cold pale starlights suddenly lit up. Amidst those numerous dark stars, a monotonous and chaotic note abruptly echoed.
As this strange sound spread, Anvis suddenly felt a chill throughout his body, an uncontrollable chaos of whispers rising from the depths of his heart. His magic power’s flow staggered and the protective shield that had always been maintained instantly shattered.
At the same moment, a long-brewing attack, like a pitch-dark arrow made of concentrated dark power, violently pierced through the disintegrating Holy Light Domain, heading straight for Anvis!
But at the critical moment, Anvis’s gaze suddenly cleared. A thin, pale-white shield abruptly emerged from his body, and the dark ‘arrow’ crashed against the shield’s surface, instantly shattering into a cloud of dark power.
“What?!”
The sudden turn of events caught Tidis off guard.
Even without Rule Power, his move should have dazed his peers for a few seconds. Just what kind of existence was this unknown Nightmare Spirit.
What Tidis wasn’t aware of was that, due to the presence of the Ancient Secret Scripture, Anvis’s resistance to such abnormal things was astonishingly high.
However, he quickly regained his composure, having anticipated the possibility of the ambush failing.
As one of the Four Nightmares, the tricks up his sleeve were not limited to this alone.
Behind Anvis, the inconspicuous black mist that formed from the shattered dark arrow, seizing the moment Anvis was unguarded, suddenly condensed into an arrow again and instantly shot towards the mirror behind Anvis.
Seemingly caught unawares by this development, Anvis acted a moment too late to interfere. The agile arrow dodged his obstruction and instantly entered the mirror surface!
At the same time, Tidis’s ‘body’ in the distance, suddenly, soundlessly, turned into a wisp of shadow, melting into the surrounding darkness. Only a smile formed by a swirl of black mist remained in place, as if mocking him in silence.
Gazing at this scene, Anvis’s ‘expression was grave as water’. The Holy Light Domain around him, as if affected by his irritation, suddenly expanded, purifying all of the sourceless dark power remaining in the hall.
After a moment, the last trace of dark power bearing Tidis’s signature dissipated, and the palace interior was restored to calm.
“Damn it! The plan failed!”
After a moment of silence, Anvis murmured to himself in a low voice.
Inside the great hall, everything remained as tranquil as usual.
After a moment, Anvis carefully checked the interior of the great hall once more. Once he confirmed that there were indeed no traces of Tidis’s presence, his expression relaxed again.
The other party was too eager to flee this world and had not left any backups here.
In that case, he could rest easy—
Dissipating the one-time Ninth Rank Holy Light Domain generously supported by Bishop Yanile, Anvis thoughtfully altered the image in the mirror, and with that, subtle changes occurred within the reflection.
Unfortunately, now this is the exit connecting to the Dream World.
Stepping out of the mirror, Anvis finally truly entered the Dark Palace belonging to Tidis.
Outside the mirror, Tidis’s own unconscious body stood quietly on the throne, still holding the posture of wielding the power of dark rules.
Walking up to him, Anvis waved his hand and a huge mirror emerged in front of Tidis, reflecting the images of both men within it.
The next moment, the reflection of Anvis in the mirror gave a slight smile to his real body outside the mirror and then suddenly moved, slowly merging with Tidis in the mirror into one.
A sense of connection akin to having a clone arose beside him. Under Anvis’s control, ‘Tidis’ waved his hand, dissipating the Rule Power in his grasp.
He exercised Tidis’s body, deepening the fusion of mind and flesh. Anvis perceived the collection of the Authority Fragments within this body and discovered that the first ninety pieces were already assembled, with one of the last five golden fragments as well.
The Four Nightmares are extremely difficult to kill, having countless lifesaving fallbacks, so Anvis didn’t plan to directly eliminate Tidis but rather to take control of his body.
A clone at the level of the Four Nightmares was sufficient for him to make his arrangements among the Nightmare Spirits.
Tidis’s consciousness was trapped by him in the Mirror World, and the reason Anvis could do this was due to multiple factors.
Firstly, his own raw strength was not inferior to Tidis’s, who could only manipulate the power of the rules through the incomplete Authority of the Inheritance Land.
Once stripped of the power augmentation from the Inheritance Land, Tidis was in fact just an Eighth Rank Peak powerful Dream Creature.
Secondly, Anvis not only utilized his Nightmare Spirit Talent Ability, but also the power brought by the Class Magic of the Old Secret Realm, [Mirror Realm Travel].
The mirrors in the Dream World can also lead to the world within the mirror, but it is the Mirror World within the Dream, as opposed to the real world.
This might sound a bit convoluted, but in reality, it’s a rather bug-like ability.
Since the Dream World has countless layers, so does the Mirror World within the mirrors.
When Anvis can freely control the mirrors that make up each layer of that world, any enemy he drags into a mirror, if they don’t forcibly break the barrier between the two realms with the power of rules, will only get lost in the endless maze-like Mirror World.
All these abilities combined form Anvis’s ultimate Nightmare Spirit Talent Ability, [Mirror Man].
.….….
After leaving his ‘clone’ at the Nightmare Spirit camp, Anvis quietly escaped the area controlled by the Nightmare Spirits, reverted to his Trialist identity, and returned to the Fairy Tale City.
Along the way, he took another look at the time on his pocket watch. The flow of time was now normal and didn’t revert back to one minute before twelve o’clock, as it had done before.
After arriving in this world, the nature of the pocket watch seemed to have become somewhat special. The most noticeable change was that it could not appear in the world within the mirror.
Pondering the possible hidden messages in this phenomenon, Anvis walked into the royal palace.
At this time, Queen Fiona and many guests gathered in the royal palace were playing the Secret Magic Card game.
Due to the large number of guests, a multiplayer game mode was being used, with players divided into several groups fighting each other, with the last remaining group being the winner.
In a corner of the venue, Anvis also spotted several players.
“Mr. White Rabbit, where have you just been? Come over here!”
Seeing Anvis reappear, Fiona, who was playing cards, seemed very happy.
“Meow~ [You’re back?]”
In the embrace of the young girl, Kate also turned its head and meowed at him, but Anvis was oddly able to understand its meaning.
Although Anvis had gone to deal with the Nightmare Spirits and had even obtained a Four Nightmares clone, not much time had actually passed.