Chapter 2396 - 504: Nightmare Evolution! Nothing Escapes Perception, Nothing Can Hide!
Chapter 2396: Chapter 504: Nightmare Evolution! Nothing Escapes Perception, Nothing Can Hide!
Just with the Water of Erasure, Gandalf Pharmacy’s sales reached an astounding 10 billion in a single day!
After deducting materials, promotions, labor, and other miscellaneous expenses, the net profit was 7 billion!
Of course, not all of this money went into Levi’s pocket.
Triss still needed a share of the profits, and there were costs for maintaining the pharmacy’s operations and research and development.
No matter what, before the market for this medicine becomes saturated, Levi’s wealth will rapidly expand.
Levi wasn’t particularly happy; his happiest moment was when he killed the dark wizard and earned a few hundred Aether Stones. To him, Aether Stones were just cold, emotionless numbers. He hadn’t felt the need for money in ages.
Triss received a substantial bonus, advancing further down the road to wealth. Soon, it would be time for the century-old Blood Battle Auction, which would require substantial spending.
Elena sighed:
"Knowledge is Aether Stone!"
Aside from cultivation, she spent all her time with Triss, greedily absorbing... Triss’s pharmaceutical knowledge.
In addition.
Victor and the Holy Infant each received a bottle of Water of Erasure, just in case.
They had both advanced via the 15 Sixth Ring Witch Marks, and already had a strong foundation.
However, with the enhancement of oddities and the improvement of acquired talents, 22 marks didn’t seem so far off. They weren’t in a hurry and decided to see the refining extent of the divine-level sequential artifacts.
If possible, Levi naturally wished for all three avatars to firmly achieve legendary status. With three legendary covers, he would undoubtedly be the most formidable legendary wizard, second only to Sauron in history.
King of Body Refining, King of Weapon Refinement and Ice and Fire, King of Secret Sword and Array!
Thinking about it was exhilarating.
...
Time flies.
Two years later.
Nora, 808.
At the cost of an island, Levi’s Nightmare Traveler breathing technique evolved.
This time, the dark tribulation turned out to be a mirage again, damn it.
Luckily, this mirage wasn’t much, just a large illusion.
Inside, there were many powerful monsters, including one at the Level 8 Mid Stage, which Levi annihilated with the Secret Word of Destruction.
A thousand miles away.
The Thousand Illusion Knight and some knights with perception breathing techniques were observing the commander undergoing tribulation, learning from the experience.
The Thousand Illusion Knight was now at Level 6 Peak Cultivation and faced an evolutionary choice.
Her "phantom beast" wasn’t actually a nightmare creature. But among nightmare creatures, perceptive bloodlines were the easiest to find. So her future direction, like Levi, was to evolve toward the nightmare path.
Suddenly, a formless wave swept across, and the Thousand Illusion Knight fainted.
When she awoke, she found herself in a strange space.
There was no time, no space, no Sun, Moon, or Stars, just endless darkness and twinkling light points.
Those light points were countless golden, dragon eyes, billions covering the cosmos.
"Where is this?"
Not only her, but all the knights suddenly realized they were in a strange world.
"What’s happening? I feel conscious but can’t move, like sleep paralysis."
"It seems I can’t sense the passage of time anymore, nothing matters now."
"I’m not able to perceive anything."
"Quite the opposite; I feel like I can perceive everything, and it’s driving me insane."
"Living feels so meaningless now."
Outside the strange realm.
Levi stood with hands behind his back, holding a black sphere in his palm, akin to a supernova explosion, like a black hole, indescribable.
He gently dispersed the black sphere.
The surroundings were devoid of the Thousand Illusion Knight and the others long ago.
In the Black Dragon Territory.
The Thousand Illusion Knight opened her eyes, but before she could react, everything went black again, and she fainted once more.
When she awoke again, she and the other knights were already beside Levi, feeling perpetually dazed.
"Commander... what just happened?"
Levi smiled and said:
"Don’t worry; I just sent your true forms into the Nightmare World."
The Thousand Illusion Knight patted her chest, relieved.
"You scared me. I felt like I entered a void, unsure if it was an illusion; my perception was in chaos, and nothing mattered as dragon eyes were everywhere."
Levi said:
"That is my domain."
The Thousand Illusion Knight was shocked.
"Domain... I’m miles away, and the range of this domain is so vast?"
Levi replied:
"Theoretically, there’s no spatial limit to this domain. Anyone I perceive, whose strength is lesser than mine, could be drawn into it. You and the knights should collect some rewards as compensation for being part of my experiment."
The knights were elated.
"Thank you, Commander!"
Back at the Emperor’s Palace.
Levi opened the proficiency panel.
The new perception breathing technique, he didn’t change its name, still calling it the "Nightmare Dragon."
Talking with the Daydreamer before, he mentioned the name was special.
Levi felt the same.
Levi——————
Breathing Technique: Twenty-stage (1/20 million), Special Effect: Nightmare Dragon Body·Mythical (Level 8 Early Stage), Bloodline Dharma Idol: Nightmare Fog; Blood Source Armor: Nightmare Dragon Armor; Exclusive Weapon: The Nightmare Helmet (Level 8); Bloodline Divine Patterns: 15/66; Bloodline Secret Word: No Hidden (all-perceiving, no hiding).
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This evolution of the Nightmare Dragon granted Levi the most extreme perception ability, with danger perception greatly enhanced again.
Additionally, he could simultaneously project over 200,000 Nightmare Avatars into the Nightmare World. There wouldn’t be a "server" issue where others would disconnect once legendary wizards logged in. Previously, it could only accommodate 30,000, a truly epic enhancement.
Levi could even throw the true forms of life forms from the Prime Material plane into the Nightmare World to fend for themselves. However, the prerequisite was that the being must be affected by Levi’s woven nightmare. If too powerful, they were naturally immune.
The diameter of the Nightmare Domain reached 80 kilometers, needless to say.
Finally, the "Unhidden Secret." It’s composed of the "Secret Word of Sensing" and "Fear True Word."
From Levi’s recent experiments, the secret word demonstrated incredible effects.
On one hand, the secret word significantly expanded Levi’s active perception range, making his perception ability far surpass the ordinary level of an eighth-circle wizard.
On the other hand.
Once employed, it could form a domain of conceptual perception, disregarding space and distance.
Anyone who perceives Levi’s existence would be perceived by Levi in turn.
Be it seeing, hearing, or smelling through traditional senses, or any method that can be termed "perception," including spiritual perception, etc.
When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes back into you. When you perceive Levi, Levi perceives you too.