Chapter 123 : Chapter 123

Chapter 123. Fleeing

The Radiant Dreamscape of the Spirit Realm is composed of many dreams, forming a spherical shape, with small points representing the dreams scattered throughout the sphere.

At the center of the sphere is a magnificent palace.

The entire palace lacks a roof, and even its walls are sparse, mostly consisting of pillars made from milky white stone arranged neatly within the palace complex.

Each pillar bears its own unique design—some depict soldiers in battle, others show a giant troll performing a ritual to a deity...

In the middle of the palace complex is a small clearing, covered with what looks like a carpet made of feathers, where a silver-gray dragon is lying.

It coils its body and remains motionless, seemingly lost in a deep slumber. Its claws are small, and there are no signs of battle on its body.

This dragon is Felicity, the Lord of the Radiant Dreamscape, whose favorite pastime is to dream here.

But today, it might not be able to indulge in its hobby as it usually does.

A black, angular diamond-shaped stone suddenly fell from the air, directly striking Felicity on the head. However, it didn’t wake the dragon; it remained completely still.

The stone rolled to the ground, then stood upright, emitting a sharp sound.

“Felicity, wake up!!”

The sound waves it emitted were so powerful that even the nearby pillars trembled slightly.

“Hm?!!” Felicity slowly woke up, its dragon pupils half-closed as if still savoring the pleasant dream it had just had.

It glanced around, then lowered its head, finally noticing the black diamond-shaped stone standing on the ground.

“It’s you? What do you want?”

Felicity recognized the stone as a tool it used to contact a god in the Astral Realm. It remembered that this entity, technically also a dragon, had helped it with two dreams before and was relatively well-known.

It vaguely recalled the name, something like "Backwards Head Dragon God," which was quite a strange title. It seemed to represent the boundary and space between humans and dragons...

The black diamond-shaped stone didn’t immediately make a sound, but instead, it wobbled twice before emitting a voice with a hint of a smile.

“I need to manually restart Dream Realm number two under my jurisdiction.”

Felicity was somewhat surprised by this and raised its dragon claw to scratch its head, continuing, “Manual restart? Didn’t I remember... you rejected my suggestion last time?”

“Last time, you said the restart would cost too much. While it could kill that undead dragon, it wasn’t worth it.”

“I also remember you said it’d be more cost-effective to wait until it leaves the dream and then send someone to hunt it down, and that it’d be better to let the Spirit Realm restart automatically.”

“Why? Changed your mind? Did that dragon desecrate your statue?!”

The voice inside the diamond-shaped stone responded with a chuckle, this time with a noticeably stronger tone of amusement.

“It’s not that dragon. The dragon’s body is probably no longer intact now…”

“It’s one of us… though, I’m not talking about dragons.”

“It just happened to get an opportunity, one that only a few of us can find.”

“This opportunity will cause me some loss, but I’m not a petty dragon…”

“If my colleague is willing to communicate with me and guarantee compensation later, I wouldn’t mind letting him seize this rare opportunity.”

There was a pause before the voice returned, now a bit gloomier.

“As you’ve seen, I’m here. My colleague wasn’t satisfied with the offer I gave him.”

“So I came to you to make sure my colleague learns: never underestimate a dragon.”

“I remember the Radiant Dreamscape takes three days to record a new point…”

“I’ve provided the materials for the manual restart, now go ahead and do it.”

Felicity’s dragon tail swished, and after hearing this story, as a fellow dragon, it empathized and said, “Right, make sure he learns not to underestimate a dragon…”

Felicity also knew that it had just become involved in a struggle between two beings from the Astral Realm, but it didn’t mind.

If it had just become the Lord of the Spirit Realm, it might have been scared and hidden away in the dream upon hearing about this.

Though it admitted that the gods of the Astral Realm weren’t to be taken lightly, their power far surpassed that of the Spirit Realm’s Lords. In a real fight, they could easily defeat it.

However, it now understood that these gods, with the barrier of the Spirit Realm in place, could not affect a Spirit Realm Lord like it.

No matter what divine power they wielded, they could not leave a single wound on it, for it ruled a vast region of the Spirit Realm—effectively a small part of the entire realm.

Felicity activated the authority of the Spirit Realm Lord, and many light spots appeared before it.

“Can I deduct the payment for this from the spirit crystals I received from your dream realm ten years ago?”

“Sure, that’s reasonable.”

Spirit Crystals were a high-level resource produced in various areas of the Spirit Realm, and the revenue was sent to the local Lords.

Using the Spirit Realm’s authority consumed some of these Spirit Crystals. Aside from that, these crystals had other uses…

Felicity didn’t waste time and directly tapped one of the light spots with its claw, beginning to manipulate the Spirit Crystals.

“Hmm?!!”

Felicity lowered its head and looked at the diamond-shaped stone on the ground, asking, “Why are you asking me to restart the Spirit Realm trial? How does our Lord’s authority affect the Spirit Realm?”

The diamond-shaped stone explained, “It seems they’re a bit slow, but it should be coming soon. Wait for a bit, no need to rush.”

At this moment, the dragon god inside the diamond-shaped stone fell into thought. This wasn’t going as expected.

It clearly felt the power of the Lord of Radiance descending into the Spirit Realm. It should have been able to obliterate that dragon the moment it came out of the dream, but now it was taking too long.

Hadn’t it poured all its power into the human? Wasn’t that human supposed to be its chosen emissary? Then what was it using the remaining power for...?

“The Spirit Realm trial is finished, you can proceed now.”

Felicity sensed the changes in the domain and spoke, then continued using its dragon claw to click the light spot.

But what happened next was something neither of them expected. The light spot exploded with intense light before vanishing completely.

Felicity raised its dragon claw and jabbed at the air several times before confirming that the light spot had disappeared, which meant...

“My dream!!!”

Felicity leapt up from the ground, letting out an angry roar.

The disappearance of the light spot meant that the dream had broken free from its control.

The diamond-shaped stone stood silently, as if deep in thought.

It hadn’t expected that the other party would have predicted this. After gaining control of the dream, they had taken it and fled.

Divine power had many uses, and using it for attack was just the most basic application—it could do this as well.

But wasn’t it worried that the human still undergoing the trial might fail?

After all, just moving the dream away had cost more than half of its divine power, and once that power was converted into energy usable by mortals, there was hardly any left.

A sigh came from the stone, and the truth was clear—this was all because of you.

Felicity, seeing the diamond-shaped stone still standing, lashed out in frustration, its dragon tail slamming into the pillar, leaving only small pieces of black shards behind.