Chapter 662: Heavenly Voice Obedience
Herwinia tilted her head slightly, momentarily unable to understand Edwin’s meaning.
What does “seen something more terrifying than the Lord of Nightmares” mean, where did this notion come from?
Earlier, these Nightmare Apostles had suddenly sprung up to ambush her, glaring fiercely right in front of her, and Herwinia had no idea what they were doing, directly cutting them down effortlessly. Afterwards, Edwin had turned into this current state, looking as if he’d seen a ghost.
“What do you mean?” Herwinia asked, “Why not speak clearly, who are these fellows? You said just now… Nightmare Servants?”
Edwin grudgingly rose from the blood stains; he was merely a Dream Scholar and not physically strong, so he looked as if he might faint at any moment.
“Yes, Nightmare Followers,” Edwin said in a low voice. “They are rooted within the nightmares of the Lord of Nightmares, transforming their entire bodies into part of the Lord’s nightmares, thus they are called Nightmare Followers. They are also the most formidable among the Nightmare Apostles.”
“But I felt none of their power.”
Herwinia frowned slightly; to her, these few had less combat strength than the casually selected Silver Sound Players from the Holy Sound.
“That’s precisely the issue,” Edwin said. “Our Nightmare Apostles’ strength doesn’t manifest in reality; it thrives in dreams, or spiritual power. In the realm of dreams, we are the most powerful, and how to use our mental power to attack people in the real world is our practical combat method. There are two ways: the first is what you encountered initially, we use dream fragments to pull you into our dream realm… but this method isn’t very effective, particularly against someone like you who is excessively powerful in reality, nine times out of ten you’ll kill us before the dream fragments open.”
“It’s this method right now,” Edwin looked down at the scattered corpses at their feet, his eyelids twitching. “We bring the power from the dream realm into reality, and in this aspect, Nightmare Followers are the leaders. As I mentioned earlier, they are the embodiment of nightmares, of the Lord of Nightmares’ nightmares.” ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ nοvelfire.net
Herwinia understood something: “So, when they were watching me earlier, they were already attacking me?”
“Yes,” Edwin said. “This is the most direct form of attack.”
“Under normal circumstances, what would my reaction be?” Herwinia asked, “Why did you say I’ve seen something more terrifying than the Lord of Nightmares?”
“Because the essence of a Nightmare Servant’s attack is to crush your spirit with an unparalleled terror,” Edwin explained. “For example, everyone has something they fear the most—some fear darkness, others fear venomous snakes. Suddenly, something a thousand times more terrifying than your worst fear appears before you; it’s unimaginable, incomprehensible, unnameable, just the purest horror—darker than darkness, more venomous than snakes. The moment you face this, your mind collapses, consigned to eternal nightmare.”
“Yet nothing happened to me.”
“That’s why I asked what you’ve seen!” Edwin exclaimed. “You don’t fear darkness because you have light in your hand; you don’t fear snakes because you have a raptor beside you that can devour them! You cannot be crushed by the unnameable aspect of the Lord of Nightmares because to you, His power isn’t unnameable; you can imagine it, understand it, so it can’t become your nightmare. Understand?!”
With Edwin putting it this way, Herwinia naturally understood.
It meant that only she has a perception beyond the Lord of Nightmares, so she wouldn’t fear His nightmares.
And where does this understanding come from?
She has coexisted as one with Visas’s soul for months, and still carries a bone belonging to Him, hence her knowledge surpasses the Lord of Nightmares?
Having already seen something most terrifying, she wouldn’t fear something at this level anymore?
Herwinia hadn’t imagined that her coexistence with Bai Wei could have such an effect.
Yet while knowing this, she certainly wouldn’t disclose the reason to Edwin, so facing Edwin’s shocked yet expectant gaze, she only slightly nodded, not responding further.
But that was enough for Edwin to grasp her meaning.
“I suddenly feel the secrets within you aren’t much less than those I’ve got,” Edwin sighed. “If possible, I’d really like to properly study you.”
Herwinia replied indifferently, “You wouldn’t want to.”
Edwin wanted to say more, but seeing the piles of corpse remains at his feet, sensibly closed his mouth.
“So, are these people you attracted?” Herwinia asked, “Can they truly move so quickly? You barely took out that piece of knowledge a day ago.”
“It means they are still searching for me across the world, and what I presented is not complete knowledge, just a partial piece of information.”
Edwin pressed his fingertips to his temple twice and then slowly pulled outward, causing a pale blue ripple to follow his fingers, separating from his head.