Chapter 173: The True Nightmare

The succubus shopkeeper handed over the manipulation permit for Aqua's dream, and Broly took over the subsequent dream manipulation.

"Who else? All of you come out, I want to fight a thousand high-level monsters!"

Aqua, currently experiencing a satisfying female-protagonist power fantasy, naturally didn't want to end this dream easily; she stood atop a pile of dream monster corpses and shouted loudly toward the distant white mist.

The monsters just now had all spawned from the edge of the white mist; at this point Aqua had actually already realized she was dreaming.

And she intended to make that frog-in-a-well succubus pay; Aqua didn't know that the one who had taken over the dream was her own disciple, a genuine reverse disciple.

Broly had already observed the succubus shopkeeper's entire process of manipulating his own master's dream earlier, and now that he was manipulating his own master's dream himself, he already had his own ideas.

One could see the mist at the edge of Aqua's dream begin to recede, and a plain of green grass emerged all around.

"Ribbit~"

A giant frog let out a mating call, but showed no intention of attacking.

"Heh, high-level monsters won't work, so you switched back to low-level monsters?"

Seeing this situation, Aqua sneered coldly.

Perhaps in reality she would fear giant frogs, but this was her dream.

Her dream, her rules, and in the dream she was an invincible existence.

"Come then, hateful succubus, hateful giant frog, let you witness the goddess's true power."

Aqua raised her hand and began to chant.

"Water vapor of my world, by the name of the Water Goddess I command you, gather above my head~"

Aqua had descended to the mortal realm, and her capabilities as a goddess were somewhat restricted.

However, the restrictions only applied in reality; in the dream there were none.

Aqua, clearly aware she was dreaming, directly displayed her full strength as the Water Goddess.

In merely a moment, the dream's sky crackled with lightning and thunder.

The convergence of water vapor directly influenced the environment.

"Giant frog, face the god's anger, the god's dignity, the god's power, Divine Lightning Strike~"

A blue lightning bolt piercing heaven and earth fell from the sky, in no way inferior to the power of natural lightning in reality, striking directly onto the giant frog's body.

Amidst the lightning, Aqua was like a Thunder Valkyrie, even though she was the Water Goddess.

"Ribbit~"

However, the giant frog wasn't killed by the falling lightning; an energy protective barrier propped up on its body, forcibly tanking the lightning strike.

"How is that possible?"

Aqua's eyes widened in disbelief that her move unleashed with full power couldn't even deal with a mere frog.

But this was only natural, because this was a dream; a giant frog in reality might not withstand her move just now, but here it became possible.

Broly simply bestowed his own energy barrier technique onto the dream construct he had created, letting the giant frog easily block Aqua's strongest strike.

"Ribbit~"

And as long as sufficient stats were added to the giant frog, even just a frog could become extremely terrifying in the dream.

One saw the giant frog, from far away, lightly jump once and cross a distance of over a hundred meters, arriving before Aqua.

"No, this is my dream, how could I possibly lose to a mere frog in my own dream?"

A somewhat panicked Aqua steeled herself and used the Divine Wind Fist at maximum power again, but the result was no different from reality.

The water vapor lost control and gradually dissipated, the dream plains' sky cleared up, and on this clearing plains Aqua had already lost control of her own expression, wailing as she was chased by a giant frog.

"Save me, I don't want to be eaten by a giant frog!" The Thunder Valkyrie was no more, Aqua had returned to her original state.

And for her, this was truly a nightmare.

"Haha, serves you right for being arrogant!"

Darkness, watching Aqua's dream footage from outside, couldn't help but swing her fist once.

Wiz didn't want to admit it, but watching Aqua eat defeat in the dream, she still felt a small happiness in her heart.

Both of their happiness values went up.

However, although Darkness and Wiz's happiness values rose, after all Aqua's happiness value dropped.

Broly didn't go too far either; after controlling the giant frog to chase his own master for a while, he made a shiny appearance in the dream and kicked the giant frog flying with one kick, saving his own master.

"Broly, wuwuwu, still have to rely on you~"

Aqua hugged the boy's waist, bawling her eyes out in the dream; Wiz's magic even used a close-up to carefully record this scene.

"Aqua Master, it's okay now, you can have a good dream."

Broly stroked Aqua's head, and just like she sometimes gave him a knee pillow, he also provided his own knee pillow for her.

Master and disciple in the dream sat under a big tree, a gentle breeze blowing; Aqua pillowed on the boy's thigh and fell asleep.

In the outside world, Aqua's breathing also became calm, having entered a deep sleep state.

"Broly, you still spoil Aqua too much."

Darkness said with some dissatisfaction.

"She's my master and also my wife; if I don't spoil her, who else can spoil her?"

"Then I'm your wife too."

"I can spoil you too."

"I want to sleep pillowed on your thigh like Aqua."

"Okay."

Broly nodded; this was nothing big.

Wiz: "..."

【Does this count as jealousy over rivalry?】

"Wiz, do you want to sleep with my thigh as a pillow too?"

Broly suddenly asked.

"Ah, I'll pass."

Wiz is still quite mature; she finds it somewhat unbearable to act spoiled toward a child younger than herself.

"If there's nothing else for me, I'll leave first."

The succubus shopkeeper said from the side; this kind of situation, clearly intimate yet producing no lust energy, was truly somewhat unbearable for her.

If she continued staying, she feared she would urge the boy to go all out with the women here in this room on this night.

And the risk was that she might be killed by a certain awakened High Priest using a powerful purification jutsu.

The dream was absurd, yet also traceable; the succubus shopkeeper is a discerning demon, and likewise associated it with the massive goddess breath that suddenly appeared over Axel before, now also acknowledging Aqua's self-proclaimed goddess identity, becoming the second clear-sighted person in Axel.

Oh no, one is a lich, one is a succubus, neither counts as human; on the human side, conversely, no one believes Aqua's self-assumed goddess identity.

Even Axis Cult believers, when Aqua states her Water Goddess identity, look at her with a rather peculiar gaze, as if acknowledging Aqua, yet also seemingly not acknowledging her goddess identity.

(Chapter End)