Chapter 983: Finishing Touches

Facing the attack of Ludwig, the male version of Jenna, and the female version of Anthony, Zarathustra had no surprise.

The body inside his black suit suddenly disintegrated, and along with his face, it retracted into a gloomy vortex.

If one looked closely at this vortex, there would be a feeling of dense, transparent worms squirming crazily, and they seemed to be able to crawl into the observer's brain and body, devouring thoughts and nerves.

Inside the sleeves and trouser legs of the black suit, slippery tentacles covered with evil patterns extended one after another.

Zarathustra also revealed his mythical creature form!

And unlike his historical void image, his clothing was real, not part of the historical projection, and didn't turn into a mythical creature, still covering the surface of the worm vortex.

This made him look even more terrifying.

When Zarathustra revealed his mythical creature form, whether it was the male version of Jenna or the female version of Anthony, they both appeared to stutter simultaneously.

Their hair grew thick and long rapidly, their skin no longer had a moist feeling, and one of them had patches of gray-white dragon scales protruding on his face.

Silently, their bodies collapsed simultaneously, turning into squirming flesh, covered in thick, slippery, evil black hair. The tips of these hairs were still struggling to open black-and-white eyes or spit out tongues like snakes, while the other disintegrated into one lizard after another covered in gray-white dragon scales.

They lost control.

Although Zarathustra's mythical creature form was suppressed to the Sequence 7 level, as deep mirror images, their mental states were originally unstable, and their emotions were biased toward the extreme, so they naturally couldn't help but head toward the end of losing control.

And accompanied by such development, Ludwig's movements slowed down a bit, and his spirit was also enduring the indiscriminate "Mania" impact of the female version of Anthony.

Just when he couldn't resist the "Charm" of the male version of Jenna and wanted to turn his body to eat that pile of flesh, the two deep mirror images that lost control began to fade, become transparent, and soon disappeared without a trace.

They were originally illusory.

Ludwig had no choice but to open his mouth wide, letting the corners of his mouth split to the back of his head.

Then, he jumped toward Zarathustra's mythical creature form wearing a black suit and bit the extended evil tentacles in one gulp.

He wanted to use this to "deprive" Zarathustra of his "Paper Figurine Substitute" ability.

Crack!

Ludwig bit down, but only bit a paper figurine.

Zarathustra, who had turned into a mythical creature, floated in mid-air, and the gloomy vortex composed of countless worms in his face seemed to have several gemstones of different colors light up simultaneously.

Around Ludwig, who was still biting the paper figurine, one illusory door after another appeared.

These illusory doors had different forms; some were double-opening, some were one-way, some vaguely revealed a crack, some were covered with mysterious patterns... They were dense and numerous, completely wrapping Ludwig inside.

Following the waving of Zarathustra's slippery tentacles, one of the illusory doors opened suddenly, welcoming Ludwig, who was thrown toward him.

Ludwig's figure disappeared into the deep darkness behind the door.

"Banishment"!

This was the "Apprentice" ability Zarathustra used borrowing a certain sealed item. It could throw the target into the corresponding space-time turbulence, and it would take five seconds to return. Of course, the prerequisite for complete return is that the person or object thrown into the space-time turbulence can withstand the impact of the space-time turbulence.

And this, combined with the "Miracle Invoker's" influence on fate, could banish Ludwig for a full ten seconds.

In just two or three seconds, Zarathustra had solved the third batch of enemies permanently or temporarily.

He said in Dragon language again:

"My wish is:

"No one will interfere with me anymore."

As soon as the words fell, Zarathustra realized his wish.

Influenced by this ability being suppressed to Sequence 7, his wish realization had a clear boundary—it was only valid for the next thirty seconds, and the effect on enemies possessing divinity was relatively poor. The stronger the divinity, the more likely it was to break through the restrictions and interfere with him.

At this very moment, Jenna, who was hiding in a tunnel, suddenly found that she couldn't "travel" to the corresponding area behind the mirror anymore.

Zarathustra maintained his mythical creature form, fell from mid-air, and drifted toward the glass mirror leading to the hotpot restaurant private room.

Boom, boom!

He heard a slight explosion and saw an illusory curtain being pushed up somewhere in the area behind the mirror, but it wasn't completely pushed open.

Inside the "Mystic Realm."

When Lu Mi threw the "Sword of Courage" and used the "Hum-Ha Technique," Zarathustra's historical projection swapped positions with his marionette.

The marionette sprayed by the two white lights only swayed for a moment.

His spirit had essentially died.

Boom, boom!

The "Sword of Courage" hit the weakness of the "Mystic Realm," creating a terrifying explosion, but failed to penetrate out.

In such chaos, Lu Mi's figure disappeared, "flashing" behind Zarathustra's historical void image.

His left hand had already been raised, and the silver bracelet worn on his wrist shone with silvery-white and black light.

"Ring-in-the-Person"!

Lu Mi used "Ring-in-the-Person" again, using "Ring-in-the-Person" on the position of Zarathustra's historical void image!

Of course, such an attempt also made him face the other party's mythical creature form directly, and his thinking and joints were filled with glue, and his mental state showed signs of slight confusion.

That is to say, he relied on his own divinity, and the other party's mythical creature form was also suppressed to the Sequence 7 level; otherwise, even if he didn't lose control on the spot, he would be in a state where his spirit was swept by a hurricane, making it difficult to continue subsequent actions.

Zarathustra's historical void image was about to continue swapping himself and the marionette, but suddenly found the attempt failed.

He remained in place.

Seizing this opportunity, Lu Mi, whose eyes were silver-black, pushed his right palm forward violently.

All his remaining spirituality surged toward the river of fate of Zarathustra's historical projection.

"Push Fate"!

He wanted to push the fate of Zarathustra's historical projection to gallop toward the tributary he had envisioned!

Influenced by the status of Zarathustra's historical projection itself, the probability of him doing this successfully was actually not high, but as a historical projection, there were natural defects, problems, and weaknesses in terms of fate, and that was the limitation of maintenance time.

If Lu Mi wanted to push fate and let Zarathustra's historical projection fall into a desperate situation and be killed by his subsequent attacks, he could only see if Mr. "Fool" would provide protection. But if he chose the tributary of fate where "the historical projection is terminated early due to an accident," there was still no small hope of achieving the goal!

In an instant, Lu Mi's spirituality was completely drained, forcing him to release the portion he had pre-accumulated to support himself.

His body leaned back involuntarily, and on his bright face, blood flowed from his eyes, nose, and corners of his mouth, while his long black hair seemed to have its own vitality, floating upward and thickening slightly.

This was the backlash of staring directly at the fate of a mythical creature.

Not only was one of his eyes blinded directly, but his whole person was like a marionette, briefly unable to think or move.

Almost simultaneously, Zarathustra's historical void image became semi-transparent, and water-like ripples appeared on his body.

It was as if some accident made the spirituality of Zarathustra's true self maintaining the historical projection unable to penetrate the "Mystic Realm" and extend inside anymore.

In just the blink of an eye, Zarathustra's historical void image faded into nothingness, completely dissipating.

Without His existence, Lu Mi finally eased up.

His blue eye covered in blood mist saw the black curtain covering this area collapsing rapidly, and saw that the male marionette, because it lost the manipulation of Zarathustra's historical void image and was isolated from Zarathustra's true self by the "Mystic Realm," stayed in place, motionless.

Lu Mi took advantage of the "Mystic Realm" not yet completely collapsing, took out a mirror, reflected the marionette, and gave it a curse with "Destruction Fire."

That male marionette immediately erupted with black flames suppressing madness and destruction from the inside out, and his body began to melt like steel.

Lu Mi didn't look at him again, and after the "Mystic Realm" collapsed further, he used the "Mirror Travel" ability to return to the area behind the mirror.

Zarathustra had just approached the glass mirror when he felt movement behind him.

This worm vortex wearing a black suit and extending evil tentacles turned around violently, seeing Lu Mi, who had one eye covered in blood and one eye losing focus, flowing with blood.

Although Lu Mi didn't stare at this complete mythical creature, he only looked at the black leather shoes from which something was vaguely crawling out, but he still fell into a stutter of thinking and slight confusion of spirit.

His tendency toward madness became more serious.

At this time, he had already used formless spider silk to retrieve the "Sword of Courage," holding this iron-black straight sword burning with crimson flames in both hands, about to slash at Zarathustra from the air.

After going through hardships and using several batches of attacks, he and his teammates finally killed Zarathustra's marionettes and historical void image, and could challenge His true self!

Inside the gloomy vortex forming Zarathustra's head, every worm made an old voice.

The words they said gathered together

Looking at this scene, Jenna was actually quite apprehensive in her heart.

She discovered a problem that had not been anticipated before:

Lu Mian exited the dream in a female state, leaving behind Lu Mianna, while the identity woven by Lady "Justice" was Li Ming, who was a male.

Normally, after an outsider is kicked out of the dream, the image they leave behind maintains daily life according to the woven identity and memories that do not involve the supernatural, just like "Luo Fu," but the current Lu Mianna and Li Ming identity are clearly different, even the gender is different.

This would lead to a contradiction between Lu Mianna's self-perception and the reality of the identity!

Does this count as actively creating a dream loophole? Jenna saw that Lu Mianna had already improved rapidly and asked cautiously:

"Can you still, turn back into a male?"

(End of chapter)