Beneath the Red Dragon

Chapter 376: Chapter 144: The First Nightmare (2)

Sharing a similarly tragic fate with the God of Justice is the God of Intrigue. This deity once sealed the Chaos Demon Dog Kozif, but after the vengeful Chaos Demon Dog was released, it relentlessly hunted the God of Intrigue, eventually biting off one of the god’s legs.

Thus, this Chaos Demon Dog was banished countless times by the gods and finally sealed in the Spiritual World.

Karon stood within his Spiritual Domain, crouching at the edge of the world, gazing into the distance. The bubbles attached to the River of Spirit appeared to be fixed onto the river, seemingly floating with the flow but never sinking.

Yet around these bubbles, smaller bubbles of various colors rose, these tiny bubbles continuously changing. Some were born and died in just an instant, while others existed longer.

Karon could even use the Eye of Spirit to see countless fantastical scenes within these tiny bubbles, which were the dreams of the bubble owners.

Although some of the creatures’ dreams appeared interesting, like some pink-colored dreams of romance and some black nightmares that piqued Karon’s interest, he did not step out of his domain to interact.

He did not yet possess the power to freely roam the Spiritual Domain.

The notorious Nightmare Giant Snake Dandel, born from the first nightmare of creatures, particularly loved devouring dreams just before they dissipated.

Moreover, this Nightmare Giant Snake had a particular fondness for terrifying and evil dreams, viewing many kings as sustenance, seeking to consume even the dreams of gods.

In the Spiritual World, countless such terrifying creatures existed, and Karon did not wish to encounter these monsters.

Some Spirit Realm monsters, powerful enough to instill fear even in gods, could temporarily breach the world’s rules, breaking the protective barrier over all creatures’ spirituality, and freely absorb the spirituality of all beings to grow.

Those creatures whose spiritual strength was not strong enough often died silently in their dreams at night, as these terrifying monsters broke free from their bonds in the Spiritual World.

”Obi... afterwards,” a loud noise came from the depths of the Spiritual World, clear even to Karon, who was on the outskirts.

Karon’s heightened spiritual perception could hear the terrifying echoes and roars reverberating across countless Spiritual Domains, remnants left in the Spiritual World by the monsters and some powerful beings residing there.

And this indistinct roar was clearly the resentful echo of a powerful being.

Additionally, some spiritual lights in the Spiritual World, like illusory canvases, projected their existence through some mysterious power.

Karon could see, not far away, an image flowing in the center of the River of Spirit, where countless spirals intertwined like tangled locks, sealing a bubble many times larger than Karon’s own Spiritual Domain, only occasionally revealing the projection of a stone tablet that Karon could see clearly.

The dense Light of Spirit danced on the stone tablet, forming ancient characters. Although unfamiliar with these ancient words, their meanings could be understood through spiritual contact.

But Karon didn’t need to risk spiritual contact because there were two types of script on this stone tablet, one being the innate Dragon Language of giant dragons.

Karon quickly scanned the content, realizing it was a projection of yet another sealed place.

”Fearsome Leviathan, birthing beasts and snakes,”

”With sharp teeth and merciless claws,”

”A body filled with venom, not blood,”

”The beasts of the continent and deep sea, bathing in the glory of divine power,”

”An unnameable terror, should you encounter Leviathan,”

”Its terrible body births great snakes and venomous dragons,”

”The wildest hurricane, earth-shaking fear,”

”And a fierce hatred even gods cannot comprehend.”

”The world wavered at the slightest stir from the primordial Leviathan.”

”And the gods and dragons consigned it to the silent Abyss, the slumber of spirit, to sleep forever.”

Having read the ancient Dragon Language inscription on the stone tablet, Karon suppressed his curiosity, refraining from active exploration, opting instead to observe the surroundings of his nest within the Spiritual Domain.

His recently grown heart and power, along with his strengthened spirituality, issued a fatal warning, alerting Karon to the presence of a deadly threat lurking nearby.

This threat hid within the Spiritual Domain, undetectable in the real world, and even Karon, before this, had no means of uncovering the hidden danger.

Even with the alchemical secret treasures created using the knowledge left by the Ancient Magic Empire’s Kings—to explore the domain of time using the spirituality of creatures as nourishment—those large clocks used for temporal experiments provided no entry into the Spiritual Domain.

The Ancient Magic Kings had once imprisoned a divine spirit for research. Through prolonged experimentation, they discovered that spiritual power made it easier to touch the invisible rules hidden deep within the world.

This is why many Faith Gods require a vast Power of Faith to maintain their grip on the rules behind their Divine Position; once this power, akin to the spiritual rules of beings, is depleted, even Faith Gods will fall into eternal silence above the Star Realm.

The unfortunate divine spirit imprisoned by the Ancient Magic Kings was none other than the ’whore goddess’—according to the Five-Colored Dragon God Tiamat—the Magic Goddess.

Karon once attempted to reach the Magic Net but failed because such a thing did not exist in this world.