Chapter 938: line with translation of chapter title

NO. 61: data value

Dream.

Especially when mixed into someone else's shared dream, it's usually not that free and easy, unless you're in that line of work.

Like Ling, Chazuo, and some of Chaldea's servants, they might possibly seize the initiative even on someone else's turf.

Of course, it's just a "maybe".

Having never experienced it, one wouldn't be that confident about it; anyway, Aomo, who isn't in this line of work, never expected that just thinking he's invincible in a dream would actually trigger the Hyper Mother Iron Chicken mode.

But at least he can find some trace in the dream.

After all, although this world is a dream, it is also ultimately a biomimetic dream of the electronic monsters of the electronic world (each monster reveals a circuit-board-style cross-section when cut, showing its essence).

Biomimetic dream is a fitting term, because the world's creator, while striving to make the world as real as possible—real enough to deceive those who fall into it as if it were genuine, almost as if trying to give the world life—ultimately runs within a data framework.

Dreams in the electronic world cannot directly access higher-dimensional laws; they remain based on a rule within a screen.

Although for anyone living in this world, including Sai Luo who has broken into it, the world feels as real as reality.

But for Niji Kalis, all that's needed is to release a data-reading probe—more precisely, to release the internal network detection concerning Gilbalis—and instantly grasp the essence of this so-called 'dream'.

The Judgment Dragon forged by the utmost wisdom of Kuxia Star can not only easily see through and acquire the structural data of this biomimetic world, but also swiftly seize a portion of the opponent's operating privileges.

The dream closest to reality can release the darkness deep in the subconscious.

That 'half-section' of Leblondo, which is being played with by the demon god Zero in the endless abyss, is projected onto the present and embedded by Aomo Lindun in a monster husk capable of unleashing its potential and bearing its power.

But this also creates a problem.

That is, with the values greatly strengthened and the blue gauge liberated, but without a corresponding optimization of the operating system, controlling it solely by Aomo would be quite burdensome.

A more intuitive analogy is: the original single skill expanded into a large skill tree (just as a simple typhoon summon becomes a complex system with adjustable gears, wind direction, and pressure difference), while the horsepower is also greatly increased (the greatly boosted output of the machine body and auxiliary power system tests fine control, making it easy to overrev and go too far).

But what if one person can't control it well, and we add a 'driver's seat'?

The control method of monster controllers has always emphasized a VR game: you don't need to jump around yourself; the monster just moves as it pleases.

And a monster controller who has merged with the monster seed becomes an AR game.

Actions like running, jumping, attacking are roughly synchronized, just like Aomo's own operation mode for his fused monster, but with the advantage of being able to intervene temporarily.

Intervening abruptly while someone else is in control is as rude and arbitrary as barging into someone else's room.

Right now, this arbitrariness is exactly what is needed.

"A Peng, you control the movement system first! I'll activate the various abilities."

"Eh eh eh?!"

He was completely unfamiliar with this body, which is far stronger than the Falling Flowers and Flowing Water monster, and just the power that filled his whole body after synchronization made him apprehensive, realizing he had almost lost himself; Ma Zhongpeng never expected the other side to suddenly throw over the 'main control stick', and for a moment he dared not operate or move.

Thus the stationary Niji Kalis, first slowly descending in midair, summoned a rainstorm, producing thunder, calling forth a hurricane, and awakening the earth's veins.

He even started singing.

"Uh… Is this music also started by Aomo-san?"

Ma Zhongpeng, whose monster eugenics thought has not undergone the baptism of the Electric Light Machine King, still startles at the on-board sound.

"Yeah, not bad! This taste."

"..."

"This is a lesson you must learn, Peng-kun~"

"How did the address suddenly become so formal?"

"Whether controlling monsters or piloting a super robot, presence is very important, presence..."

"You just ignored my complaints and kept going! And where exactly is your presence showing, Aomo-san?"

"Didn't I just play the music? I even considered using lightning to sketch an instant title, but since I'm not proficient I forgot it; if the debut's sense of oppression is strong enough, it would be like this——"

The moment the words fell, Ma Zhongpeng felt control shift again to the other side, and with an almost dragging force of his own frantic sprint, he was thrown into a panic amidst the whirlwind and lightning.

"Eh eh eh——! Lindun-san!!"

The monster user Ma Zhongpeng, for the first time fused with a monster, experienced such high speed for the first time, and for the first time was led by someone else's rhythm—he fiercely punched and sent flying the two-stage Gakura.

"... Looking at the opponent being blown away defenselessly in an instant collision, A Peng instinctively glanced at his own clenched fist, not knowing when he had clenched it."

Did the Biting Words and Chewing Characters monster, which the Falling Flowers and Flowing Water monster couldn't budge even a bit with a running start and collision, just get easily knocked away?

It felt like hitting a cardboard box……

"You should feel honored, A Peng."

At that moment, Aomo-san's voice made him turn his head…… Naturally, he only saw the charging Gult from behind, and then the sudden rise of the thick, long tail—its tip blade sliced across his chest, leaving a gruesome notch as he fell backward.

"The chance to drive an armored vehicle on the highway for the first time doesn't come often—make sure to feel the thrill of this reckless charge!"

Although saying that, Niji Kalis's half-face remained grimly active, turning into an afterimage in an instant to rush before the ultimate Sai Luo, his right hand, clawed like a bracer, filled with dense gun ports, firing in unison as he swung his fist.

Baliss Meteor·Finger God Cannon Derived—Cannon Fist!

"But the one sent flying by the tank truck is…… Sai Luo-san…… right……"

"Such an open-and-above-board chance to create him doesn't come often either."

"...... Do you two have any grudge in private?"

Ma Zhongpeng felt a bit embarrassed, then heard the other side shout again:

"Cheer up! Jump!"

Boom!

Bend the knees, leap high.

The mechanical heat dissipation holes extending downward all over his body swayed with iridescent black flames, exploding from that moment like a shell to soar a hundred meters high, dodging the purple light wheel swung by the Gult knight, yet meeting the resurgent Gakura.

"Swing fist! Gather water!"

Bang!

Instinctively following those words, he threw out a right punch, then quickly a left punch, and then a series of consecutive strikes; with each punch, a water ball fell like a shell, so that Gakura could only block seven punches before being blown away again.

Not bad! You've grasped the essence, A Peng!

Death can awaken the inhabitants of the dream realm, and also allow me to further erode this dream space; all of Hei Qian's arrangements revolve around the dreamers of this world, as long as we keep zero-distance interaction with them.

Don't be polite; you can fully express any opinions you have about these people in daily life! Even if you kill them, you must save them!

So next——activate Punishment Mode!

In the midst of the heavy resonant sound of the mechanism, the metal sections on Nijikalis's body with complex LED patterns deform and extend, and streams of firepower symbols emanate from Jirbalis's Destruction Mode.

And this isn't over yet.

In the next second after countless gun barrels deploy, there is also an uplifting reading voice voiced by Ailisuzhi, echoing through the wilderness via the onboard speaker:

"LockOnDarkZeperionBeam!"

Thus, these gun barrels and their extensions combined into a heavy sniper cannon constructed from the entity's full-body metal framework, fixed like a turret all around, with its main body mounted on Nijikalis's right shoulder.

And from the sight extending along the barrel, which is covered in the dark patterns of Hei'an Tereguta's body, the constantly adjusting locking system continually captures Sai Luo, who switches to a radiant posture and flies back.

Moreover, at that same moment——

——the front tips of the dual horns extending from Nijikalis's dragon head suddenly reveal iridescent colors that swirl together in a spiral upon them.

Let them see our monster tamer's way of solving problems!

Yes!