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Chapter 550 Devouring Fear
The eye of thought provided the first step of guidance.

The Scarlet Witch revealed the unpredictable part of what followed.

The final conclusion was that the missing Emma was now in the abyss.

...

Milo was puzzled: "This doesn't make sense. Isn't that place only accessible through spiritual means?"

During his previous entries into the abyss, his physical body remained in the world of consciousness.

From a spiritual perspective, if one cannot escape the abyss, then the conscious world ceases to exist, and the body that can never return is equivalent to not having a body at all. This is Milo's understanding of the abyss.

But the Scarlet Witch calmly retorted, "Don't try to explain the Abyss from any angle using the concept of 'laws.' The law of chaos is that there are no laws. You entered the Abyss as a spiritual being simply because the Abyss has evolved such a possibility. It doesn't mean that your true physical body cannot enter the Abyss."

"Like a dream world? One can enter as a soul, like a dreamer, or crawl in from the ghoul's lair in their physical form." Milo said thoughtfully.

What Milo couldn't understand was that he had already transferred the rift in the abyss to the Dream Realm, so why would Emma suddenly fall into the abyss?
Is this yet another conspiracy by the gods?
Or, as Rebecca suggests, is there someone who doesn't want Noschia's equation to be fully solved?

As Milo fell into deep thought, the Red Witch suddenly uttered a thought-provoking statement:
"If you were a traditional Shadow, this would be much easier."

What are the differences between Milo and the traditional Shadow?

However, he never wasted time trying to decipher the Red Witch's riddles; he never indulged in such a bad habit.

"Tell me, how can we get Emma back?"

“I can’t.” The Scarlet Witch slowly shook her head. With each slight twist of her neck, her newly healed skin and flesh emitted a strange, unsettling sound, but nothing as strange as her voice:
"No one has ever entered the abyss and come out alive. Have you forgotten? Even the Great Old Ones like the Windrunners needed to be reborn from their original humanity to escape. And what about mere humans..."

Perhaps the Scarlet Witch never even considered how to bring Emma back.

The reason for saying "If you were a traditional Shadow" is that traditional Shadows have severed ties with the "lower emotions" in their souls, would not care about the lives of ordinary people, and would not have the idea of ​​rescuing Emma, ​​which would save a lot of trouble.

In the Scarlet Witch's view, Milo's top priority is still to develop his own cult, preach in the lucid world and the dream world, and prepare for the upcoming war and apocalypse. In short, he is to prepare to plunder faith.

...

But knowing Milo's temperament well, the Scarlet Witch did not try to persuade him on this point, otherwise she might never see the next communion.

All she could do was clearly explain the unchangeable facts:

"The Abyss is an unknowable, constantly evolving, chaotic realm, possibly containing millions of worlds. You have no way of knowing which world she has fallen into, and even if you did, you have no way to enter..."

While the Scarlet Witch was still babbling on and on, a name suddenly popped into Milo's mind: "Tutis Crow".

"Wait a minute..." This was a miscalculation; the witch's intention was not to guide Milo down this path.

But before she could finish speaking, Milo interrupted her again.

"You wait a moment too..."

Milo suddenly snapped out of his reverie, his expression turning somber as he focused his attention on the street he was on.

Because at some point just now, he seemed to have "seen" something.

No, it wasn't what he saw; he was quite certain he had touched it.

Those were familiar things that had a special flavor to him.

...

Milo slowly squatted down and carefully examined the dirty marks on the street again.

He held up one finger to signal the Red Witch to be quiet.

As a result, the passersby around the street also fell silent. People who had been walking together and chatting happily suddenly stopped talking, buried their heads and hurried on their way with expressionless faces. For a moment, the whole street became quiet.

Milo, on the other hand, squatted there for quite a while.

Until he could clearly see the "thing" that had just "brushed" against him.

That was a hint of fear.

And it wasn't the fear of strangers, but rather the fear that came from Emma.

“In a certain abyss world, Emma appeared in this location, and she encountered something... so she was very scared…”

Milo opened his left palm.

A tangible black thread floated onto his palm. That was tangible fear, but it dissipated the moment it touched Milo's hand; after all, it did not belong to the conscious world.

Milo only grasped the general trajectory and outline of Emma's fear through his familiarity with her.

Watching Milo's series of unusual actions from the side, the Scarlet Witch remained silent, but her corrupt face beneath the hood showed a slight change in expression.

Milo quietly examined his empty palm, muttering to himself:
Something is chasing her.

The next second, he suddenly pulled out his revolver, turned around, and pointed it behind him.

……

...

now.

The two sides, armed and facing off, stand in their own separate worlds.

They have the same physique, clothing, and posture.

Even the rifling of the two revolvers was perfectly aligned.

Even so, they still couldn't make out each other's outlines.

The one in the abyss had no idea that the one opposite him was a Shadow-level Great Old One.

Meanwhile, Milo, in his lucid world, had no idea that the person standing opposite him was a zombie version of himself.

...

What brought Milo from both worlds into this momentary opposition was the fear that came from Emma, ​​or more accurately, Milo's familiarity with Emma's fear, which led to this situation.

But all of this happened in an instant.

A moment later, the intense pressure and tension dissipated.

……

Both Milo lowered their guns simultaneously.

In the clear-headed world, the passerby who happened to be pointed at by a gun turned away with a bewildered look on his face, muttering some curses that only he could hear.

In the abyss, this brief delay allowed the undead to completely lose sight of Emma's escape route.

It stood there blankly in the heavy rain for a moment before setting off in a certain direction.

...

The intense feeling I had just experienced has completely dissipated.

Milo could no longer feel that cold hostility.

He turned to the witch:
"How do you explain this?"

The Scarlet Witch seemed to have a moment of realization, and then she returned to her muttering, incoherent state:
"So it all started long ago, you fear devourer. Perhaps you weren't even aware of it yourself. From the moment you became a Spirit Visor, you began to gnaw and devour the fear in the hearts of everyone around you... without even needing to consciously control it? Brilliant... absolutely brilliant..."

“What do you mean? I have never devoured Emma’s fear…” Milo frowned.

"Then how did you manage to touch upon her fear in another world far away at the bottom of the abyss?" The Scarlet Witch's tone suddenly became sharp: "The source of that familiarity is that you have already savored its taste."

"Fine, fine, fine..." She began to let out a shrill laugh, half of which was the sound of her throat struggling to exhale.

"In this way, you will be invincible in times of turmoil and apocalypse... Good, good, good!"

"Everything makes sense now."

"Eating fear is your instinct, like breathing..."

No wonder Nanwei City is getting more and more chaotic...

"No wonder he advanced to Shadow rank so quickly..."

"No wonder there are more and more psychics around you!"

"This is the age of consuming fear!!"

(End of this chapter)