Naturally, that was during the chaotic 3rd Era. The Dream God remained low-key afterwards.
He was considered relatively gentle among the New Gods, at least on the surface. He treated Feinan’s powerhouses very well and made friends with many of them, even recruiting a few to his side.
This was something Marvin could confirm from Ambella’s approach.
Ambella didn’t initially act against Marvin. On the contrary, she had extended an olive branch to him.
But in Marvin’s eyes, that olive branch was a kind of a threat.
From what he knew, the ambitions of the Dream God were greater than those of any other New God. He would rather believe in Grant, the God of Dawn and Protection who had killed his own friend, than believe in the Dream God, who was second only to the God of Deception when it came to tricking people.
…
‘An interplanar pursuit, that Ambella is truly decisive.’
Marvin couldn’t help but hold that woman in high regard.
It seemed that becoming the Dream God’s first Divine Servant wasn’t a fluke, since she was able to make such resolute decisions.
The recruiting failed, so she had to make sure he died.
Sending two veteran Dream Guardians to handle a Legend who had just advanced already showed that she thought highly of his abilities.
Perhaps those two Dream Guardians felt that she was making a big fuss over nothing?
After all, most of the Dream Guardians were tested in battles against Devils, Demons, and other lifeforms.
An ordinary Legend powerhouse was simply not worth their attention.
If they couldn’t deal with Marvin with that kind of force, then they could only send Ambella or the Dream God’s avatar!
Of course, it was too much for Marvin.
…
Although he had discovered his enemies, Marvin was still in a very difficult situation.
On the bright side, the use of force was not allowed within Holy Light City.
But there were still unwritten laws in the cover of the dark.
As long as no one was found, and even if found, if no one accused them, even murder and arson were fine.
This was the common rule in all places of the Crimson Wasteland.
Marvin knew this well. These two Dream Guardians were waiting for dusk.
The Crimson Wasteland had both daytime and nighttime. It was just that the degree of darkness at night wasn’t too obvious.
‘The Dream Shrine is a very powerful force in Holy Light City. When I was chatting with Griffin, he told me that the Dream Shrine might be the first place he would visit.’
‘If I’m stuck here with them, the only one who will suffer will be me.’
‘These two chasing me with no back-up shows their overconfidence. They most likely came to Holy Light City to borrow the intelligence-gathering of the Dream Shrine and not to get troops. This is fortunate.’
Marvin calmly finished his bread and suddenly disappeared, rushing outside the city.
…
“He found us. That kid is quite vigilant.”
Swift smiled as he watched Marvin’s wild escape, the ridicule apparent in his eyes. “This hunt is becoming interesting.”
“Don’t be careless.” Wayn remained calm as he stood to the side. “Someone held in high esteem by Ambella must have some abilities.”
A strange expression flickered in Swift’s eyes as he muttered dismissively, “Oh? I’ll ask what abilities he has after killing him.”
He then disappeared.
Wayn shook his head helplessly and silently followed.
…
Marvin was very quick. He was leaving afterimages in Holy Light City’s alleys as he fled.
Relying on his Godly Dexterity, he could get rid of most enemies.
But these two Dream Guardians were clearly not included among those.
Marvin could only choose to leave the city.
The city was the home ground of the Dream Shrine, so it would be better to start a fight in the wilderness.
He was extremely fast as he dashed out of Holy Light City like a blur.
Because of the two Dream Guardians chasing, Marvin could only choose the closest city gate and ended up in the northern wilderness after leaving Holy Light City.
An endless series of snowy mountains could be seen in the distance.
Marvin sped up, continuing to rush north. If he couldn’t throw them off, he would have to fight for his life on a mountain.
On the way, he tried tricking them with his Shadow Doppelganger and Paper Clone, but just as he expected, these two Dream Guardians weren’t just common soldiers.
They had experience and were able to lock onto Marvin’s main body.
It was hard for him.
He felt quite threatened by the power of the two Dream Guardians!
After leaving Holy Light City, they unhesitantly revealed their strength!
This was the confidence of a hunter.
After Marvin felt it, even if he was upset, he couldn’t help but admit that these two men were really fierce.
They had the strength of Level 5 Legends, or more!
In short, their strength could be considered to be at the top of Feinan.
Only an expert like O’Brien might be able to contend with them.
Even Ivan only would have a 50% chance of success against these two.
One versus one, Marvin was confident he could kill them by using his treasures and the powerful properties of his Legend class, but facing the two of them together was something totally different.
‘Troublesome Ambella.’
The face of the Dream God’s servant appeared in his mind as he silently thought.
If he managed to escape this time, he would definitely chase her down after returning to Feinan.
Thinking about this, he had already covered a long distance, the snow mountain was apparently already in front of him.
The only good news was that the speed of the two Guardians was only on par with Marvin’s.
They should also be at the Godly Dexterity level. Not having passed that bottleneck, they could only follow behind Marvin and were unable to close the distance.
‘Wouldn’t it be possible to use something to block them and then use the Migratory Bird Council’s tool to slip away back to Feinan?’
This would be quite regretful. He came to the Crimson Wasteland for a mission, and although he didn’t want to go back to Feinan so early, he wasn’t completely reckless. Although getting stronger was important, that was only if he stayed alive.
But as he thought of that, there was some movement on a dead tree on the snowy mountain ahead of him!
Marvin’s eyelids twitched. Out of the corner of his eyes, he noticed a shadow suddenly charging over!
He instinctively reacted at that instant.
Burst! Shadow Step!
“Woosh!”
A tearing sound echoed as a shallow hole appeared on Marvin’s waist!
Drops of blood flowed down.
Marvin’s face became serious.
He stood there, coldly watching the culprit behind the sneak attack.
The latter seemed stiff, but was in fact very clever.
It looked like a mantis. Its arms were just like blades and its skin could change color freely. It had a distinct imprint on its head showing that it was a servant!
It was a Blade Demon!
The two Dream Guardians behind Marvin also stopped.
Two south, one north, the Dream Guardians and the Demon blocked Marvin’s path.
“Interesting…” Marvin calmly said. “Since when do the Gods and Demons work together? The Dream Shrine’s latest recruit is a Blade Demon? Such big news.”
Swift derided, “You are about to die and you can still speak nonsense?”
“We are unrelated to that lowly Demon, but it seems that your ability to stir up trouble is exceptional. It’s been many years since I’ve seen a Human offend both God
s and the Abyss’ Demons at the same time. And you are actually still trying to get everything to go your way.”
The Blade Demon remained silent, only staring at Marvin.
Its arms were very sharp and could resist the Legendary curved daggers.
That guy was also a very frightening enemy!
Marvin wasn’t certain he would be able to beat it in a duel, let alone now that there were two Dream Guardians watching him.
He rolled his eyes as he quipped, “Since that’s the case, why don’t you settle the old grudge first?”
“I’m just a common Human, you can kill me anytime. With such a rare opportunity, don’t you want to discuss first?”
Swift sneered, “Scheming weakling.”
“You will definitely die today. Of course, that Demon will also die, rest assured.”
“Swish!”
Before Marvin could come up with his next words to keep provoking the Dream Guardians to fight with the Demon, the latter suddenly charged at Marvin like a gust of wind!
Its speed was unfathomable!
Even Marvin found parrying difficult.
“Klang!”
The Blade Demon slashed ruthlessly, and Marvin forcibly used Azure Leaf to block.
But a fierce pain shot through his wrist!
‘Fuck! So strong!’
Marvin hardened himself. Since things had reached this stage, he could only go all-out!
Chapter 518: Wilderness
Chapter 518: Wilderness
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With a tiger in front and wolves behind, Marvin could only stake it all.
He used [Ruler’s Wrath] and greatly increased his size to the limits.
But none of them expected that just before the fight broke out, a singing voice would suddenly echo north of Holy Light City.
The voice was ancient and desolate, the words very indistinct, but any listener could feel the sorrow!
Everyone was shocked when they heard the voice.
Because an imposing, grand temple appeared at the same time!
Far to the east, that temple was standing tall.
All the buildings visible in the endless plains disappeared, only leaving behind that temple standing there silently.
The red bricks covering the outside gave the temple a sinister, bloody feeling.
A lot of weeds surrounded the temple but didn’t cover it, as if they were escorting the temple.
Everyone felt cold.
It seemed like a mysterious force was silently overlooking them.
…
“Heavens… The rumors were real, the Wilderness Hall really appeared…”
Fear flashed across Wayn’s face.
As someone from the Gods’ side, he naturally knew a lot concerning the Wilderness God.
Even in the Dream God Realm, the Wilderness God was a name that made people’s expressions worsen when brought up.
It was said that in the distant past, he was a very frightening Evil God.
He was very strange and managed to escape Lance’s chase multiple times, tenaciously surviving in the Universe, eyeing every lifeform like a tiger watching its prey.
The Wilderness Hall was one of the most frightening areas of the Crimson Wasteland.
Even though it hadn’t appeared for a long time and was gradually forgotten, when it reappeared, it gave a kind of profound intimidation that couldn’t be averted.
Even that Blade Demon who ignored everything and was only focused on its killing order was also intimidated by that building.
It remained motionless, mumbling. Marvin couldn’t make sense of what it was saying.
Marvin looked at his interface. His body felt frozen and stiff, but the source was actually an unclear willpower check.
“Is it really the Wilderness Hall?”
He heard the two Dream Guardians begin to discuss.
That very aggressive Dream Guardian’s expression also changed.
Swift was looking at that building in the distance with a pale face, his eyes couldn’t help but show a hint of cowardice. “It’s said that every person who looks at the Wilderness Hall will be swallowed by it.”
“Fuck this, why is our luck so terrible?”
“What’s with that singing voice? Is it the Ancient God Language? Why can’t we understand?”
‘Even the Dream Guardians can’t understand?’ Marvin thought.
As aspiring Dream Servants, they were definitely proficient in the God Language, but the Ancient God Language was an even more profound language.
The Gods only called it the Ancient God Language to flaunt themselves. That language was said to be the common language of the most ancient lifeforms.
This included the first Demons, Devils, Evil Spirits, Gods…
Marvin suddenly felt that the language was a bit familiar.
‘That’s… when I met the Archdevil Head for the first time…’
‘That wasn’t a willpower check illusion? Could it be that it was real? Or it had a certain predictive nature?’
Marvin froze, recalling that scene when he discovered the Archdevil Head in the secret area.
Although he already understood that that head was an alchemy item made by his grandfather, it did hold some of the Archdevil’s secrets inside.
He remembered the scene, with countless humanoid yet inhuman lifeforms revolving around a bonfire while copulating. The pale little girl’s blood sacrifice, the huge axe cutting open her aide… and time ultimately swallowing everything with every lifeform turning into bones.
And when he saw all that, that language had been lingering around his ears.
He thought it was the Anzed Language at first, but he found out afterwards that the language was different from the Anzed Language.
The Anzed were the first Humans to tread on Feinan, so it was understandable that their language was similar to the Ancient God Language.
But why did that language carry such formidable Magic Power?
Marvin was almost certain that it was due to that language that everyone was frozen stiff.
He had already become a Ruler of the Night and all his Resistances were very high. The Dream Guardians also had frighteningly high Resistances, but they were still controlled by that voice too.
The four people from different planes all wanted to escape the singing voice.
But it was already too late.
In this horrifying atmosphere, they found out that they had shockingly lost control of their own bodies.
They all turned toward the east!
They used all their strength but couldn’t break free from whatever was moving their bodies. They were like puppets controlled by someone, walking step by step toward the abyss!
A thick fog suddenly rose up in the wilderness.
The singing voice became clearer.
Marvin already lost sight of Holy Light City and could see the shadows appearing in the distance. These people were like his group of four, their faces filled with fear.
They couldn’t even speak!
A mysterious force was controlling at least 30 Legends and making them walk slowly toward the east.
And the Wilderness Hall was like the open bloody mouth of an ancient giant creature, preparing to devour them.
Everything was peaceful.
All noises were blocked, and only the singing voice remained.
Marvin suppressed his own fear and started observing his surroundings.
But, strangely enough, they seemed too dull.
Apart from the “puppets” and the temple, there was nothing abnormal in the surroundings.
His perception was weakened to the extreme, making him feel like he was half-blind.
‘Damnit!’
He used all kinds of methods but was unable to remove this state.
This was really too frightening!
Wasn’t it said that the Wilderness God had already died?
Why would the Wilderness H
all appear once again?
Why would this nightmarish singing voice echo once again?
Marvin ground his teeth, but he suddenly realized what the voice was singing. This was the same song he heard when he went through the secret tunnel back when his territory had been invaded by Gnolls.
Due to the similarity to the Anzed Language, and his Noble class, he had understood the literal meaning of the song in the tunnel!
“One flower, two flowers, tonight the devil won’t return home.”
“Hating the rain falling, hating the thunder rumbling, I sit in the well, weeping.”
“Dressed in white for a celebration, dressed in black for a funeral, midnight bell has yet to stop ringing.”
“The deceased, has yet to die.”
…
The four sentences were repeated again and again.
The voice sometimes sounded like a male’s, sometimes like a female’s, and was extremely terrifying.
In this strange atmosphere, the Legend powerhouses were full of fright as they slowly advanced toward the Wilderness Hall!
No one knew what awaited them!
Chapter 519: Hunt
Chapter 519: Hunt
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
The sky was getting darker.
The people in the wilderness were looking at each other in dismay. No one knew how to get out of that frightening situation.
Marvin even saw many Shrines’ powerhouses, including those on the level of Divine Servants!
‘The Dream Shrine’s people?’
Marvin was a bit surprised.
It seemed that some people from the Dream Shrine had been carrying out a mission. It didn’t look like they were working together with the Dream Guardians that had been pursuing him.
Two familiar faces appeared in Marvin’s sight.
They were Paladin Griffin and the little girl he was carrying on his back.
He really did go and look for the Dream Shrine.
But why were they also here?
Marvin looked at the others, and the others also looked around at those nearby. These normally intimidating powerhouses looked very weak under the voice’s pressure.
Right now, time seemed to pass extremely slowly.
Marvin didn’t know how much time had passed before a gray storm rose up in the wilderness.
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