Chapter 1622 - The End of the Dreamer (1/2)
The battle within the Lair of Nightmares had proceeded to the second phase before the ruckus it caused attracted the guards outside.
It was not that the guards were lax in their duties, rather, the collapse of the crystal pillars had totally annihilated all security and monitoring facilities. The demolition of the crystal pillars not only created a massive shock to the geological structure of the planet, but it also unleashed a mini-doomsday weapon in the form of an energy storm created by the crystals. The energy traveled along the crystal pillar and planet’s crust through various tunnels, spreading all across the land. At once, it immolated the energy network around Amantir’s equator rift as well as one-third of the planet’s southern continent. It directly impacted the corrupted ones that were monitoring the planet’s operations.
All of the corrupted ones had no idea where the catastrophic shock came from for a good twenty or so minutes. By the time they realized that the crystal pillar layer had collapsed, they did not sense any changes in the Lair of Nightmares as everything was in flux.
It was only when the dreamer slowly roused itself from the nightmare and started to actively resist that the guards discovered the assault on the lair.
By then, the barrier around the brain monster was down to the last few wavering screens.
Lily’s Doggoblast was extremely powerful, but it was could not be used continuously, and after the final two light beams, she had exhausted her reserve of divine power. The mega husky bore her fangs menacingly for a good while letting out a whimper. She then fell to the ground and started huffing and puffing heavily as she used her eyes to signal to Hao Ren that she could no longer fight for a while.
Hao Ren did not understand what the werehusky was trying to tell him with the eye signals but he had figured that Lily’s energy reserves had been depleted, and thus quickly ordered his automated cannon platforms to follow up with the attack. He took a glance at the brain monster that was writhing violently, as if it was about to fully awake from its slumber and yelled, “Hit it hard! That bloody thing can’t last much longer! Smash it!”
At the same time, a blurry black shadow darted silently along the rock pillars and crystal prisms like the wind, and the black shadow circled the entire lair before dashing towards Hao Ren, and any mutants along the way were eviscerated by the shadow, falling apart in bloody pieces.
The black shadow stopped before Hao Ren and only then did Rollie’s face appeared. The catgirl’s claws and face were stained with blood, but her eyes were unusually bright. She swiftly circled around Hao Ren as she rambled anxiously. “Big Boss Cat! Big Boss Cat! There are cracks over there! Monsters are coming in!”
“The guards outside are moving,” Hao Ren looked at Vivian, “They are trying to breakthrough the lair’s outer walls.”
“That brain monster won’t last long enough to welcome reinforcements,” Vivian said as she floated in the air, a pair of bat wings expanded behind her like a cape and beneath the wings were many skittering bat swarms, and the coils of electricity within the swarm made her look like a walking goddess of thunder, “I can feel… its fear. This creator of nightmares, it can actually feel fear.”
Hao Ren smiled as he held the rambling Godslayer in his hands, “Normal. Who won’t be afraid when they get nagged upon like this?”
Vivian almost fell from the sky when she heard that, “…I didn’t mean that.”
“Time to end this.” a thunderous roar came from the size, Y’zaks, in his infernal demon form was covered in terrifying heat as green fel runes floated around him. He looked at the black sword in Hao Ren’s grip and said grimly. “Let’s end this before that thing drives us nuts.”
“I think that’s rude. I’m just trying to advise you on how to be a good person, while I’m just a…”
This bugger would have been asked to shut up by Hao Ren normally when he was about three words in, but to counter the dark god’s murmurings, it finally had the chance to ramble on, and by the looks of it, it had lost all vestige of self-control.
But Hao Ren did not have the time to argue with a sword, as the battle against the brain monster had reached the final stage.
While the brain monster did not join in the fray personally from the get-go, the minions of nightmares and the mutants with the lair that it had summoned was as good as itself, so this was still a battle between Hao Ren, his crew and the brain.
The multi-layer barrier protecting the brain monster was down to the last two layers. The cells and tissues in charge of creating the barrier were overloaded by the relentless bombardment and were badly damaged. Tainted blood and pus flowed freely from the surface of the platform, and the entire area recoiled in a fit of spasm.
*Ba-tum, ba-tum*
Noises sounding like a heartbeat echoed across the lair, and it was getting slower and dimmer. It all pointed to one thing. The nightmarish monster was approaching the end of its life.
But it still needed one final blow.
Hao Ren grabbed on to the two shards of the universe as he calculated the rate which the barriers were reduced. He then took bold steps towards the platform.
The brain monster had also sensed that impending doom was approaching it, and the red glow on its skin shone more and more menacingly. Even the main body itself started convulsing violently as visible contortions started appearing on its hideous skin while countless semi-transparent shadows waved within the twisted air, as though trying to scare off the approaching Hao Ren. It was either that or it was attempting to beg for mercy.