Chapter 157 The Price of a Dream

"Originally a blessing with good intentions will inevitably attract malicious gazes. This is not uncommon in the dream world." Iris' expression was calm.

"That's not the fault of the blessed person, but the fault of the source of the evil." Anti said casually and walked forward.

"Yes, objectively speaking, it may be true, but I have seen too many such situations. In this chaotic and cruel world, only accidents and sadness are 'natural'." Iris said indifferently.

"I can't believe you're a pessimist, Miss Iris." Anti said without turning back.

"Probably, aren't you, Mr. Passerby?" Iris responded and then asked in return.

"I am a true optimist." Anti raised his hand and shook it.

Iris was a little confused.

She couldn't see why Anti was optimistic at all.

Seeing Anti walking away, she could only quickly move forward to catch up.

……

After taking half of Ellenz's head back to take a look at the wasteland of her hometown, Dinina did not accept others' invitation to stay and embarked on the journey alone.

She had witnessed the power of wild beasts, and her long-standing knowledge of them made her hope to gain power beyond that of humans.

To this end, she put aside all taboos and began to contact the beasts that were regarded as taboos and opposing enemies, trying to borrow their power.

Ellenz's head quickly rotted, and without the blessing of miracles, his body was ultimately just rotten meat.

Only the eyes of the night still remain alive.

The cycle of searching for wild beasts, questioning wild beasts, clashing with malicious wild beasts, killing them or escaping by luck repeats over and over again.

After who knows how many years, Dinina found an unexpected place where humans and beasts lived together.

This is a scene beyond ordinary people's imagination, and this settlement was given a name by local residents - "Gulanslova".

There is no doubt that this is the predecessor of the Gulan Sacrificial Tower.

The people and beasts here welcomed Dinina and gave her the help she wanted.

After knowing Dinina's intention, the first thing they wanted to do was to persuade Dinina to give up the idea of ​​seeking revenge on the hunter.

Because it was a monster that was born from a wild beast but only resembled the wild beast in appearance.

The strength of the beast alone could not truly defeat it.

Moreover, as a wandering god, the hunter has also continued his hunting over the years, and his strength has been improving day by day. It is still too difficult for humans to compete with such monsters.

But these obviously couldn't persuade Dinina who had made up her mind.

In desperation, the residents of Old Slovakia taught Tinina the miracle of the beast.

At Dinina's further request, she underwent a surgery to transplant night eyes.

This would aid her in her quest for revenge, and since the Stalker hunts Night Eyes, perhaps she could use it to attract him as well.

After staying in Gran Slova for several years to train herself, Dinina heard the news that a certain country was destroyed by hunters.

So she couldn't hold back anymore and started chasing the stalker.

For the rest of her long life, she was always chasing after that madly hunting beast.

However, contrary to her expectations, the beast seemed to have no interest in her single eye. Perhaps it was because she was obsessed with tracking the beast's tracks and was not well-known, so she did not attract the other party's attention.

In that chaotic environment, even if one wanted to know in advance where Night Eyes was so as to wait for it, the inconvenient communication made it impossible to do so.

She is more like a stray dog ​​chasing an endless target than a hunter.

The body is controlled by every clue, whether true or false, and moves like a puppet. The unrestrained use of the beast miracle causes the body's abnormality to deepen uncontrollably, but the ultimate goal is far away.

At this time, she finally received support from Gran Slovakia again.

They got the news about the next Night Eyes owner. The news from Granslova was quite credible, but there was another piece of news along with it.

The owner of the Night Eyes cooperated with another group of wild beasts, trying to use themselves as bait in an attempt to completely eliminate the shadow of the Hunter that had been hanging over the heads of generations of owners of the Night Eyes.

As for wild beasts, when hunters cannot find the Night Eyes, their secondary targets are often other wild beasts.

This is a time of solidarity.

She set off quickly after hearing the news, but on the other side, the hunter's tracks had been confirmed and he was about to reach the decisive battle place set for him by humans and beasts.

She doesn't have much time.

……

"Has she arrived?" Iris looked at her hurriedly running figure.

"No." Anti replied calmly.

Dinina had only seen the hunter once in her life, and that desperate first time was the last time, which also brought her deeper despair in her life.

She spent the rest of her life pursuing revenge, but until the very end when her body could no longer sustain her, she narrowly missed her pursuer.

She had no way to vent her madness and her pain could not be healed.

Just as Anti and Iris were thinking this, the dream suddenly changed drastically.

As Dinina ran wildly, her body gradually twisted, her flesh and bones mutated, her left eye began to turn into a vertical pupil, and her body hair began to grow.

From running on two feet to using all four limbs.

At this moment, her speed in the dream had reached an impossible extreme.

All the scenery was forgotten, and what finally appeared before her eyes was the tragic battlefield.

The shouts of humans and beasts lingered all around, and the dark blue beast became more sturdy and majestic than earlier. The thirty-four eyes on the sword flickered, peering around.

Anti and Iris were also pulled in here by the change of scene.

"She caught up?" Anti asked doubtfully.

"It seems so. She failed to catch up in real history, but she caught up in the dream. Now I can feel the focus of the dream on her. Now she is the master of the dream!" Iris said seriously.

"...Should we let her dream come true?" Anti asked Iris with his head slightly raised.

"Unfortunately, no." Iris sighed, "Didn't you see how her state in the dream changed when her strong obsession changed the dream?"

Dinina's current appearance is even more serious than the beast transformation in reality outside.

"Miracles come with a price, but often the reward is not worth the price. She was deceived by the dream and is paying a real price to satisfy the false dream reward."

"If she were to realize her long-cherished wish here, she would completely sink into a dream, and everything in the outside world would go out of control."

Anti had already raised his weapon: "Are you forced to stay awake even in your dreams?"

Iris also took out two swords from her back: "That's right, in the mixed dream world, even dreams are cruel, Mr. Passerby."

After saying that, the two of them rushed directly towards Dinina.

However, at this moment, somewhere on the dream battlefield, the crisp sound of crystallization rang out again.

(End of this chapter)