Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 136 Mission: 07-7 Hunter's Dream
"It's not good for the host to leave the invited guests alone!"

Nero instantly leaped backwards, ripping a hole with his Yama Blade and vanishing from the spot. Meanwhile, the roof of the building she was standing on was shattered by an invisible tentacle, instantly collapsing.

Nana, who came after hearing the news, looked around. However, apart from the cold night wind and the magical fluctuations coming from the space created by the Demon Emperor, the street was eerily quiet.

Nero didn't hide around and launch a sneak attack - she really left the place.

That's right, Nero wasn't prepared to confront Nanna head-on. She knew Nanna could appear anywhere in her dreams at will, and if Nero wanted to defeat her directly, he would have to rely on the Yama Blade.

If Nanna had not stopped and allowed the Yama Blade to hit her, Nero would not have been able to deliver the fatal blow.

So, if Nanna didn't stop and proactively set aside an area to keep both of them inside, then Nero wouldn't stop either. She would keep escaping, using the magic daggers she'd left behind as beacons to appear in every corner of the city, and then...

Another shrill scream sounded under the moon, and Nana's figure disappeared in an instant.

Then, she could use this newly formed "Dimensional Slash" to continuously stab Nana's real body outside of her dream.

When it saw Nero again, the wound he had torn in the "Dream World" had just burst open, and dark pus and blood continued to ooze out. Nanna also had a wound on her thigh, and the blood soaked through her black stockings.

Nero was trying to stab the Yama Blade into Nanna's body, and this was exactly what Nanna feared most now.

In ancient times, Nanna's body, slain by the Demon Emperor Mundus, fell into the depths of the Demon Realm. However, her power remained within the corpse, transforming into the prototype of a new "Dream World."

Originally, Nanna should have perfected the world through human dreams, accumulated strength, and awakened again.

However, a "certain entity" severed the passage connecting the human world and the demonic realm, preventing Nana from replenishing her strength and putting her resurrection on hold. Thousands of years later, a young woman, barely alive, fell into the underworld and was absorbed by her corpse, along with that special magical tool. Only then did the dream world begin to breathe new life into it.

Through that girl, the dream world gradually connected with the new city in reality, and its power gradually revived. The consciousness of the past "Nanna" also began to sprout in a corner of the girl's soul.

The girl quickly realized this and attempted to share the power of the dream world by dragging others into her dreams, slowing the awakening of Nanna's soul within her—but that was a story for another time. The key point was that even though Nanna's soul had awakened in the dream, her body in the real world was still a corpse.

If Nanna's soul completed its gestation in the dream world, it would be able to take this world and all its power with it to find a new body. But at this stage, the dream world that resided in the corpse was fragile.

Nanna knew the weapon in Nero's hand: it was a demonic blade wielded by the demon swordsman Sparda. If it pierced Nanna's body, Nero, through the power of the Yama Blade, could sever the entire dream world from the corpse. In that case, the rootless dream world would collapse, and the now unformed Nanna would vanish completely.

And who knows how many thousands of years it will take for the new dream world to appear!
Nanna wasn't worried about dying. Even if she died now, the next demon born from her dreams would still be "Nanna." But... who would be willing to give up the resurrection that was so close to them and wait for that illusory future?

Nanna once again mobilized her strength to forcibly repair the cut, and looked at Nero with cold eyes as he was about to escape again.

"You annoying fly!"

Amidst Nanna's angry roar, Nero, who was about to cross the dimension, saw her vision blur. The scenery that had just changed before her turned back to the abandoned factory. She was forcibly twisted back to her original spot.

Nana appeared, covered in blood, her face as hideous as a demon's. Behind her, a vague, illusory shadow twisted its skeletal body, its countless tentacle-like tails swaying in the moonlight.

"Your body doesn't look like it's without flesh. When will it grow back?"

Nero said teasingly, then waved the Yama Blade again and prepared to leave. She was ready. If Nanna could still twist her back this time, she would say, "I can play with you like this all day long."

"The joke ends now."

Nanna said angrily. Nero turned and went into the passage, but the moment he came out he felt dizzy.

When the dizziness subsided and Nero's feet touched the ground, she was surprised to find herself in an endless field full of small white flowers.

In this wilderness, the blood-red moon above her head seemed very close, larger than ever before, occupying almost one-third of the night sky.

Under the light of the blood moon, the field full of white flowers looks like a pale red ocean with waves rising in the wind.

Here, Nero completely lost contact with the beacon, which meant she had arrived in a new world, a completely new world with no spatial connection to the previous one.

"A dream within a dream?" Nero looked up at the moon, looking at the elegant figure descending from the sky with its back to the blood moon, and asked calmly.

This is not difficult to guess. The city under the blood moon is a "dream world", so the new world that Nana can bring people into is naturally a dream within a dream.

Nanna's dress fluttered, and the illusory tentacles behind her swayed in the wind. She slowly descended onto the plain and confirmed Nero's suspicions with a firm tone: "This way, you will have no way to escape."

Nero tightened his grip on the Yama Blade. "I think this applies to both sides."

Even if Nanna was the master of the dream world, Nero didn't think it could appear in different dreams at the same time. And since Nero was here, if Nanna wanted to leave, she would have to pay a price.

Now the only question for Nero was how to defeat it.

"How ridiculous." Nanna sneered, loosened her hand covering the wound, and grasped a blood-red scythe that emerged from the air: "Of course you are free to think so. But..."

It leaned down and took a stance, with the tip of its crescent-shaped sickle blade pointing directly at Nero's neck.

"You don't really think you have a chance of defeating me, do you?"

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(End of this chapter)