Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 159 Mission: 10-6 Desperate Pursuit
Just now, Asmodeus had used the Yama Blade to separate Nanna's power and consciousness. Nero's arrival in the city with the Yama Blade was a complete accident, something Asmodeus could neither control nor predict.

Therefore, besides the Yama Blade, there is certainly another way to seize Nana's power from Toyokawa Shoko——

And this method has not been used yet.

Now is the time.

The space around Asmodeus suddenly warped, Nero using the power of the Yama Blade to launch a sneak attack. Asmodeus reacted quickly, turning sideways to avoid the sharp, blade-like spatial turbulence, but still had half of his forearm torn off.

Its power seems a bit weak, which does not fit its character that possesses a large number of magical tools.

But in other words, this is even more weird.

At that moment, the magic power from it exploded in the bodies of Toyokawa Shoko and Wakaba Mu. Nero didn't have time to see what happened and attacked Asmodeus again.

Asmodeus covered the wound on his elbow and laughed coldly, "Now you know why I chose you to be Nanna's sacrifice, right?"

Behind Nero, Shoko Toyokawa bent over with her hands covering her head.

Wakaba Mu's face twisted.

Nero approached Asmodeus and brought the blade down on him. Asmodeus retreated with a massive wound on his body, continuing to verbally assault the two.

"You are both naive and weak. Your weaknesses are too obvious and can be easily exploited.

"If you are Ye Mu, you will be trapped between ruthlessness and greed forever." It said.

"Toyokawa Shoko, you will always yearn to become a human being and suffer forever." It cursed.

Asmodeus could see through people's minds and knew how to exploit their weaknesses, so his words easily penetrated the psychological defenses of the two people.

Its magic penetrated into the deepest part of the two people's hearts.

Then, after a silent wail, the figures of Wakaba Mutsu and Toyokawa Shoko slowly disappeared.

Asmodeus dodged Nero's pursuing blade like a ghost and disappeared into the air.

"Goodbye, descendants of Sparta." Asmodeus's mocking voice came from the void, "It is best that we never see each other again."

The voice slowly faded away, and Nero was the only one left in the ruins of the dream.

She turned her head and looked around. The blood moon had disappeared, and the dawn was shining from the east. Nero's intuition told her that when the sun rose, the dream would dissipate, and she would wake up in the real world.

In the very end, Asmodeus actually got Nanna's power and escaped unscathed?

But this was the reality. After breaking through Xiangmu's defenses and devouring them, Asmodeus, having gained everything he desired, vanished into the dream. Nero had no idea where he would go, nor how to find him. Everything was irreversible.

but--

"Who would accept this kind of ending?"

Nero gritted his teeth and tightened his grip on the Yama Sword in his hand.

Asmodeus definitely hadn't made it yet.

If it could obtain Nanna's power by directly devouring Xiangzi, it would not have gone to the trouble of trying to snatch the Yama Sword first.

It would not just leave like that and leave Nero there.

This practice must have had some kind of "aftereffects." That's why it fled Nero and chose to hide.

——But where is it hiding?

"A deeper dream?"

Nero whispered softly. A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed through her mind.

She seemed to know where Nanna was.

It would be a completely safe place where no one could find it.

That place is located deep in the dream, at the bottom of the nested dreams.

"Spiritual Prison..."

Alternatively, it can also be called "border prison" or "border of hell".

In the dream world, this concept should be called:

Nightmare Border

But even knowing this wouldn't change the current situation. The Nightmare Border is the deepest, most secretive, and most dangerous place in the Dream Realm. It's likely filled with dangerous monsters born from human memories, and if you're not careful, you'll be lost forever.

Moreover, Nero did not know how to get there.

But Nero still didn't intend to give up.

Because Asmodeus—must pay for what he did.

Recalling the different ways to reach the nightmare border in "Inception" and "Bloodborne", Nero turned the blade of the Yama Blade and pointed it at his chest.

Closed his eyes.

A cold pain pierced Nero's body. In a trance, Nero's consciousness separated from his body, and he separated from his shell with the Yama Blade.

Nero, still holding the Yama Blade, opened his eyes and saw his sleeping body lying in the middle of the ruins of the church.

The first step was successful.

Wanting to leave this dream world and enter the nightmare border, Nero's first thought was to use the Yama Blade to cut through the dream world. However, Nero had tried this method several times, and the only thing outside the cut dream world was Nanna's body in the real world.

If the dream world is a bunch of boxes put together, then Nero seems to be able to only cut open the box he is in and cannot stab the knife into the smaller box from the outside.

But that is only in the context of a physical body. For a spirit, is it possible that the ocean of the subconscious mind is the largest box, and the real world is the smallest box?
Nero didn't know what the outcome would be, but it was worth a try.

Holding her breath and concentrating her mind, Nero radiated her magical power, penetrating deep into the dream world, fixing the concept she wanted to "sever" with the Yama Blade.

A world string that keeps vibrating.

The blade slashed down.

Before Nero even opened her eyes, the faint pull of gravity from the front told her she was right. While asleep, as a spirit entering a dream, if Nero used the Yama Blade to tear the dream apart, she could enter the deepest part of the dream.

When Nero opened her eyes again, she was once again in the depths of the sea of ​​white flowers, and a crack behind her was slowly closing.

"I didn't expect you to chase me after all."

Asmodeus, who had uttered the solemn voice, was now in the center of the sea of ​​flowers, before Nero's very eyes. A shimmering, illusory blood moon hung high above him, and Asmodeus's appearance had completely changed.

The long tail behind it began to split, forming countless tentacle-like branches like Nana's; sharp ribs pierced its chest, making its upper body, which could originally be described as "beautiful", look extremely hideous; a pair of long ears behind its head also grew a lot of wriggling tentacles, which looked like the mouthparts of some abyss monster.

"Asmodeus."

Nero slowly bent her knees and lifted the hem of her skirt. Her eyes flashed red as she smiled and said:

"Please accept your invitation."

(End of this chapter)