Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

When Li Yelai, who was stationed outside the 'point' and guarding the fortress, learned of this news...

It's already the second day.

The previous fierce battle had left him somewhat exhausted. He didn't emerge from the rest room until noon.

Then, he received this terrible news from Little Mad King.

"Last night?" Li Yelai's heart skipped a beat. He was still a little sleepy, but he woke up instantly.

"Well, judging by the timeline, it was roughly the same time we stormed into the fortress that they were attacked as well," Little Mad King explained. "And it wasn't until three hours later that we truly confirmed and organized the attack information."

"When we won," Li Yelai paused for a moment, "was it because I mobilized troops?"

"Judging from Nightmare's abilities, even if the forces weren't mobilized, the outcome of being breached wouldn't change." Little Mad King paused. "The number of survivors might be a bit higher. You're not an iron man, teammates. Even if you're a champion, you can't be perfect in everything. Besides, attacking 'points' is essential."

“I didn’t disturb your rest,” the Little Mad King said calmly. “It’s because even you can’t reverse what has already happened. It will only make it harder for you to fall asleep.”

"I know, our strategy is sound. Wei Jie is dead too?" Li Yelai sighed. He had a good impression of that prodigy. The two had even discussed riding techniques and other related issues. He hadn't expected this...
In fact, given the circumstances, all the psionicists had a chance to escape.

The nightmare affected almost all civilians and soldiers, while psionicists, especially high-ranking psionicists, had a certain degree of resistance to it.

They wanted to leave, and the demons couldn't stop them.

But they could not stand idly by as those terrifying demons slaughtered the soldiers and civilians who had lost all ability to resist and were now in a deep slumber.

So, they took the initiative to confront the demon, wanting to save more people.

Until he could no longer resist the drowsiness, he was slain by the terror demon in his sleep.
"The legions and powerful individuals who went to provide support were also affected. Non-psychic beings would fall into slumber once they approached those shelters. The legions came to a standstill."

"Therefore, not many people could be rescued. In that situation, only psionicists using the Whispering Path and the Divine Path were able to take some of the people away."

These two paths of psychics are most effective at transporting people.

The Talking Path can use its abilities to temporarily awaken the people, or directly hypnotize and control their bodies, making them move while they are asleep.

The Divine Path, on the other hand, uses unique spiritual energy threads to control a large number of individuals, and even other elements, to move a large number of sleeping people.

These are all psionic properties.

It is precisely because of this that some survivors were able to escape.

Otherwise, with everyone asleep and the army unable to be activated, the psionicists would have no choice but to inefficiently relocate the population.

Even if Li Ye came, he wouldn't be able to take many people with him.
In that kind of environment, many abilities become difficult to utilize.

Unless there is only one entrance, and Li Yelai can block that entrance so that the terror demon cannot advance an inch.

But this is also unrealistic. With most of the fighting force asleep, the shelter has too many defensive vulnerabilities.

Not to mention, the power of nightmares is constantly eroding it.
It is said that Wei Jie and several other sixth-level powerhouses ignited the Azure Flame at the last moment, causing their combat power to surge. Yet, they were still dragged into the dream.
"Damn nightmare!" Li Yelai gritted his teeth. "What exactly is that thing?"

"Based on database sharing and screening, it has been determined that it is an extraordinary being from a special terrain called 'Nightmare City.' It is known as the Nightmare King," said the Little Mad King.

"King?" Li Yelai frowned. "A monarch? Are monarch-level beings already appearing? No, a Terror Demon cannot become a monarch, so this is a Supreme-level Terror Demon?"

“No, ‘King’ is just a title, not a real monarch,” said the Little Mad King. “But in dreams, it is almost omnipotent. And the more units it drags into the dream, the stronger it becomes. Therefore, it is called the Nightmare King.”

“There was a family that joined forces with a giant city to attack the ‘Nightmare City.’ Among them, several people were swallowed by the calamity mist,” Little Mad King replied. “They felt extremely guilty, believing that if it weren’t for them, those shelters wouldn’t have been destroyed.”

"That's not their fault, it's all the fault of the Disaster Fog and the Forbidden Zone!" Li Yelai said after thinking for a moment. "However, since they attacked Nightmare City, they should know how to deal with the Nightmare King, right?"

“Indeed, but it would be difficult to complete in the fog of disaster.” Cheese, who was standing to the side, put down the documents in his hand and sighed, “The strength of the Nightmare King is related to the strength and number of creatures dragged into the dream.”

"They discovered this when they attacked Nightmare City. It's easy to solve. After all, Nightmare City is located deep in the wilderness, far from the big cities, and the creatures inside are not dense. It's mostly some merchants or scavengers who have stumbled upon it, or some extraordinary creatures."

"The Nightmare King strives to maintain their vitality, accumulating his power within the dream world."

"As for the families and officials of the great city who go to conquer it, they only need to reduce the number of dreamers."

"By eliminating or awakening those who enter the dream, the Nightmare King's power can be weakened, thus allowing for its sealing or destruction."

“But we are now trapped within the fog of disaster, with nowhere to retreat. Every shelter is densely populated.” Cheese sighed and shook his head. His alluring peach blossom eyes gazed at the bustling construction site outside the fortress.

"We can't go that far."

The 'point' is extremely important, as it connects the two layers of space.

Therefore, the human side needs to build fortifications here and stockpile troops and people.

Today, there are more than 50,000 workers here repairing the defenses and fortifications.

But if the Nightmare King were to directly attack this place...

It's hard to say about Li Yelai and the others. These civilians, workers, and soldiers will all become dream visitors.

This makes the Nightmare King even stronger, thus dragging more powerful beings into the dream world.

This type of enemy is best suited for small, elite units to decapitate it. On the main battlefield, the more friendly soldiers and civilians there are, the stronger it becomes.

However, humanity is currently in a passive defensive posture, and once war breaks out, the soldiers will inevitably be dragged into the dream world.

"Wouldn't the front line on the east side be in great danger?" Li Yelai asked.

On the eastern front, they faced an endless orcish army. With the Nightmare King's influence added, the advancing legions would be instantly annihilated. The orcs would then launch their attack.
"There's no need to worry for now," said Little Mad King. "The City Lord of Mountain City has led tens of thousands of Mimic Heavenly Soldiers to the eastern front, along with the Meridian Array. As it stands, Nightmare's abilities cannot affect the Mimic Heavenly Soldiers or the Machine Souls."

"This can be seen from the silver mech. If it hadn't been unaffected, we might have lost a dominant force last night."

Last night, it was the silver mech that pulled the severely injured human overlord out of the battlefield, who had been dragged into a dream.

"That's good news," Li Yelai mused. "Non-intelligent beings are unaffected. As for me, I possess the core of the Machine God, which can awaken machine souls loyal to humanity, coupled with the mimicry of celestial soldiers."

"That's right. So, there are three ways to deal with the Nightmare King."

"The Nightmare King's abilities are mental, making it extremely powerful within dreams. However, it is not invincible. Perhaps a psychic specializing in mental attacks could contend with it within dreams. By targeting its area of ​​expertise, it can be defeated!"

"This method is very risky. Psionicists, for the sake of their margin for error in combat, won't learn too many mental abilities," Cheese added. "Psionicists like me, who follow the Whispering Path, do have many mental abilities, making them stronger than those of other paths. But it's not exactly a mental specialization. Besides, that's the Nightmare King's strongest domain." Little Mad King nodded. "Then, there's the second method, relying on the Heavenly Soldier Furnace. By continuously accumulating simulated Heavenly Soldiers, they remain unaffected. Even if soldiers and civilians are dragged into the dream, the Heavenly Soldiers can protect them."

Of course, if we can find the intelligent AI "Forging General" and build more mechs, we can also achieve corresponding results.

"Having ensured the safety of civilians and soldiers, we can then go all out and forcefully kill the Nightmare King."

"Similarly, the Nightmare King has been strengthened. He may drag the attackers into the dream as well."

"The last resort, before it gains a large number of dreamers: behead it!" Little Mad King looked at Li Yelai: "Teammate, perhaps only you can do this."

Li Yelai nodded. His inevitable formidable enemy, after acquiring the Space Jump Scimitar, had become a true decapitation weapon. Unfortunately, he lacked divinity, limiting his jump distance. Even with all his spiritual energy poured into a jump, he could only leap about a kilometer.

And we must ensure that the demon is the strongest within range.

"At least, it's more proactive than the previous two methods, instead of being passively attacked," Li Yelai said. "Once the Nightmare appears, I will go and decapitate it. Before that, we need enough mimicry celestial soldiers. Where is the Celestial Soldier Furnace now?"

"The city lord of the mountain city plans to leave the Heavenly Soldiers Furnace in the fortress outside our current location. This way, we can deploy the mimicry of heavenly soldiers at any time."

"They should be on their way now. The Frost Overlord has gone to escort them."

Meanwhile, in the ruins of the third floor.

A group was moving quickly forward, and several psionicists were carrying a huge furnace.

That was none other than the Heavenly Soldiers' Furnace.

"Change people!" One of the psionicists carrying the furnace felt the weight in his hands and the faintly hot purple flames emanating from the furnace, and had to speak up: "It's too heavy, and that purple flame is affecting us, it won't last long."

“After all, it’s the legacy of the ancient Heavenly Court. Its power is inherently dangerous.” Another psionicist laughed, “I just don’t know how the champion managed to bring such a huge thing in.”

“The champion has a spatial folding device, much larger than our spatial bracelet.” Dragon Hunter smiled and stepped forward to take the furnace: “Let’s keep going. Get this furnace to the champion as soon as possible.”

After Li Yelai left the third floor, the demons naturally discovered the existence of the Heavenly Soldier Furnace.

They launched repeated fierce attacks on the branch where it was located.

From the perspective of the Horde, the Insect Lord and the Orcs are the Horde's machine for massing troops.

The Heavenly Soldiers' Furnace, on the other hand, is a weapon developed by humanity to massacre enemy troops. And it is even more difficult to deal with.

Each celestial soldier is a psionic unit, the weakest of which has at least three awakenings. Furthermore, upon death, they have no flesh and blood, but simply transform into golden peas.

The Demon of Terror finally managed to defeat the Mimicry Soldier. In the end, besides being covered in wounds, it couldn't eat anything.

Humans, on the other hand, recycle their corpses to create even more mimicry soldiers. This is even worse than the Zerg swarm!

This was deeply resented by the Demons, but they were unable to overcome the massive number of mimicry soldiers.

Especially after the death of the Insect Lord and the loss of control of the swarm, and the death of the Rakshasa King, who was in charge of transporting troops.

This made it even harder for them to break through the shelter's defenses. They could only watch helplessly as the number of human-made mimicry soldiers increased.

Did they not want to stop them? No, they couldn't stop them at all.

The orc army is on the first and second levels, and the insect swarm is useless.

They could only hope that the orc spores scattered across the third floor would grow into orcs, allowing them to launch another attack.

The 'point' locked humanity in place, and also isolated the demons. Especially after the Rakshasa's death.
So much so that when the team passed through the ruins...

The leader-level horde demons, who had received orders to stop them, looked at the nearly five thousand mimicking celestial soldiers and the large force composed of human combatants.

They were extremely troubled.

However, just as the horde were hesitating, a leader-level horde suddenly looked into the distance.

A figure slowly approached through the mist.

In that instant, the heavily armored, leader-level terror demon wielding a horse-slaying sword narrowed its eyes.

He sensed a bloody smell—no, it wasn't a smell. It was a palpable killing intent.

It felt as if I were standing amidst a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, the stench of blood uncontrollably filling my nostrils.

The leader-level terror demon became alert. Was it human? No, it seemed to be a terror demon? But why?
Then, he saw the newcomer raise his hand, brush it across his cheek, and in the next moment, use his hand as a knife to step forward and slash!
Then, his head fell, his eyes filled with astonishment.

'Damn, he got chopped to death with a hand chop?'

The newcomer, however, spoke calmly: "Too weak, how boring."

He picked up the leader of the monstrous demons' swords and walked towards the human troops in the distance, his pace quickening as if a thousand soldiers were following behind him.

In a split second, he drew his sword and rose into the air! A violent power roared across the heavens and earth!

The mimicry-like celestial soldiers guarding the outermost perimeter immediately sensed the danger.

Almost instantly, all the mimicry celestial soldiers teleported and transformed into a military formation.

Long spears stood like a forest, and great bows fired in unison!
But it was at that moment that the human warriors...

A figure was spotted, forcefully carving his way into the army formation.

And that figure was so valiant, so familiar.
"Pfft!" Dragon Hunter struggled to open his eyes, only to see corpses and pools of blood scattered all over the ground.

His comrade-in-arms, who had just been joking with him, was now lifeless.

He struggled to lift his eyes, only to see the Frosty Overlord, kneeling on one knee, leaning on his sword, coughing up blood.

And that figure he knew so well, and that handsome face.
That's a crown. No!
"It really is"

Dragon Hunter gave a bitter laugh, swallowed the blood in his mouth, and struggled to get up.

"The Emperor has fallen!" (End of Chapter)