Across countless worlds: Yearning to become a giant of light.

Chapter 126 The Kirieloids' Ultimate Weapon?
I don't know if it's just Daigo's imagination.

After entering the dream realm, the professor from Miskatonic University kept staring at him, and even now, as everyone was on high alert and exploring the way out of the maze, he would still glance at him from time to time.

If he hadn't been so well-mannered, a hot-tempered guy would probably have turned around and punched the other person by now, and then said: "What are you looking at!"

Daigo then began to ponder why he had attracted the other's attention. Thinking about the Spark Prism in his arms, the attitude of the master of the Dreamland and some mythical creatures (such as the Deer-Headed Man) towards him, he was worried that his identity (Tiga) had been discovered by the other party.

But I'm just a little worried.

After all, Daigo in this world is not fighting alone. With Camilla and Chen Lin as his comrades, he doesn't feel too much pressure. For example, when Camilla made official contact with the GUTS team, Daigo from the original work would have been extremely flustered.

Just as Daigo was thinking about how to explain himself if he was discovered, the team encountered an indescribable monster that flew out of a mirror just after turning a corner.

roar----!!!
"There are monsters!"

Shinjo immediately raised his Victory Hyper rifle and fired. Horii, who was a beat slower, and Daigo, who had come to his senses, also fired. Only the professor from the University of Michigan stood at the back, looking a little embarrassed. "Why don't you Victory Team give me a gun too?"

Then the monster that had shown a ferocious (terrified) expression when it saw Daigo was riddled with bullets, then crashed to the ground and lay motionless.

"Phew...that scared me! Everyone be careful! There might be an even more terrifying trap ahead."

Xincheng breathed a slight sigh of relief and spoke to the others without turning his head.

They bypassed the monster's 'corpse' and continued exploring deeper into the maze.

University of Michigan professor: ...

Although the Victory Hyper Gun, an energy weapon, is considered a god-tier artifact in tabletop RPGs, capable of instantly killing most monsters, the reason why mythical creatures are mythical creatures is not always because of their strength, but because their life forms far exceed human comprehension.

Although he appears to be dead, in the eyes of the professor from the University of Michigan, who has knowledge of the occult, he is actually quite lively. It's just that the professor's act of faking death by stopping his heartbeat and breathing is making him feel a bit uneasy.

This is comparable to DIO not listening to his own heartbeat by touching the ground, while Jotaro still tries to stop his own heartbeat; it's truly absurd.

The subsequent encounters were mostly the same. Most monsters were either caught off guard and attacked first by the team, or they would suddenly change their expression after launching an attack and then be shot dead by the team. A small number of them pretended to be blind and walked past the team members.

Such a sight made Horii sigh, marveling at the biodiversity in this space. If humans hadn't completely neglected to study this space, he might have researched these 'amazing creatures' in his spare time.

However, upon hearing Horii's exclamation, the University of Michigan professor seemed hesitant to speak.

Actually, the monster horde that just passed by the team used mental power to perceive the outside world. The more intelligent the creature's brain, the more they like to eat it. Logically speaking, upon seeing a scientist like Horii, they would have bared their terrifying mandibles full of sharp teeth and pounced on him without hesitation, grabbing his brain and sucking on it.

But the monsters did not do that.

It's obvious they pretended to be blind and walked by, not because Shinjo and the others were brainless idiots, but because...

"Daigo, member of the GUTS team, who exactly are you?"

The professor from the University of Michigan looked at Daigo's back at the front of the group, his gaze growing increasingly profound.

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Meanwhile, with Daigo's team drawing attention from the front, Chen Lin was on a global alert mission, while Nyaruko and Camilla successfully infiltrated the core area of ​​the Dreamland.

This area is like a collection of countless human perceptions, filled with roads and buildings of various civilization styles. Looking up, you can see countless human dreams floating in the sky, some shimmering with the light of beautiful dreams, then some glowing with a gray light, and some even red...

But what is most striking is the area that, like a dark curtain, erodes large swathes of the dreamscape, turning them into murky black spheres.

"Oh my god!!! I found it!" Nyaruko was overjoyed and took out her phone to take a picture of the scene and send it to Chen Lin, but then she looked puzzled.

"...Strange, where is the mastermind?"

Just as Nyaruko was curiously exploring forward, a group of humanoid life forms that had transformed from illusion to reality suddenly surged out of the surrounding void!
Those are... the fire demon warriors of the Kirieloids!

"Noisy!"

Camilla immediately tore off the scarf around her neck, which transformed into a long energy whip, lashing out all the materialized fire demon warriors.

"How come you also have this power... Oh right, she is also the inheritor of the power of the giant god, I almost forgot."

Nyarko was startled when she saw the light whip in Camilla's hand.

But then he remembered that Camilla was indeed a 'giant', but he had always been in contact with Camilla in human form, so he didn't realize it for a moment.

Camilla easily dealt with these Kirieloids who hadn't grown to gigantic size. She didn't even need to use the Spark Prism to transform; she could wipe out these life-sized Balrog warriors who looked like guards simply by using her human form.

"Thirty million years ago you were insects crawling in the shadows, and you are still insects today, thirty million years later, Kirielod."

Camilla, who had wiped out the guards, revealed a disdainful smile.

However, this would also alert the enemy, and their attention would soon shift away from Daigo. They needed to find the enemy in the Dark Dream as soon as possible.

However, after walking for a short while, Camilla noticed a cold and pale light at the very center of that dark curtain.

There was light in the darkness!
Is it possible that human dreams are resisting the darkness?
No! Even the light of the 'inheritors of the giants' power from thirty million years ago was not so illusory!
What exactly is that thing...?

Just as Camilla narrowed her eyes, trying to see what that pale light in the darkness was, a beam of light suddenly shot out from it!
"not good!"

Camilla's light whip spun and condensed into an energy shield, trying to block the sudden attack from the pale light, but she was still blasted away by the light!

After flipping several times in mid-air, it finally regained its balance and landed safely.

So elegant!

"Camilla!"

Nyarko, who was standing nearby, was shocked to see this, but she was also blasted away by the pale light and landed in Yamcha's classic pose.

No, even in this situation, you're still making memes!

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Today's AI image

Bremerton's art style is reminiscent of Azur Lane: Slow Rush.

(Although the other one also exists, I prefer the slower pace.)
Zhu Yuan from Kitagawa Uimeng COS

(Please marry me, Miss Zhu Yuan!)

(End of this chapter)