The End

"Imu, it seems you should take back your previous assessment of me!" Roy's lips curled up slightly.

"Hmm?" Imu frowned. This guy's mental fortitude was just too good. He didn't even flinch when he heard such explosive news.

"If I hadn't acted a little worse before, how would you have followed the script I wrote step by step? Now, it's finally all over." Roy no longer hid his dejected state and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why is your aura like this... Could it be that you were lying to me all along? Impossible, absolutely impossible, your overwhelming power before couldn't possibly be faked!"

"Nine parts true and one part false. Everything I said before was true, except for the last sentence which I slightly modified."

"I do use 90% of my strength to operate the Dream Domain, and normally I can only use 10% of my strength. However, the maximum time I can use 20% of my strength is not five minutes, but thirty seconds."

Imu almost coughed up blood upon hearing this. After all that, it turns out you're only a real man for thirty seconds.

In his previous state, maintaining that state for five minutes was indeed an impossible challenge, but thirty seconds was not impossible for him.

"If the time exceeds thirty seconds, the Dream Domain will collapse. Although I can unleash my full power to kill you, the price will be too high. If it really comes to that, I might choose to negotiate with you."

"Nightmare, what exactly do you mean by all this?" Imu's expression was unfriendly, with a hint of anger at being mocked.

"As I said before, this scheme was never set up for you. I've painstakingly planned this for so long, how could I possibly let you seize the victory at the last moment!"

"You knew about the World Child all along? No way, how could a native who has never set foot in the stars know about the World Child..." Imu seemed a little crazy, then suddenly "Ohm" and said, "I know, you deliberately tricked me, didn't you? All that you said before, even revealing your intentions, was to disturb my mind and make me give up the power of the World Child while I was hesitating."

"Nightmare, I've seen through your scheme! Hahaha, once I've absorbed and digested that power, I'll seal you away too, and then... become an omnipotent god!"

Roy's lips twitched. Had this guy been so badly hurt that he'd gone insane?

"In Dream Online, each death tears a part of the soul, but the part of the soul that is replaced after leveling up is not their own original source, but the will of the Dream Domain, in other words, my will."

Imu broke out in a cold sweat and asked incredulously, "Are you saying that what I sealed inside me isn't some so-called World Child at all?"

"Before you sealed him, he was indeed, but now... the World Will that descended upon him has been completely assimilated by me, so what you have sealed in his body now is actually my will."

"The Dream Domain has taken root within you. Now, your power... belongs to me!"

As Roy finished speaking, Imu's body convulsed, feeling his power draining away. "Damn it, my power, my abilities, come back to me!"

"It's no use, you've already lost. Just become nourishment for the Dream Domain to grow stronger!" Roy breathed a slight sigh of relief. This guy was really too troublesome. Compared to Imu, Kaido's immortality was almost a joke.

Thankfully, it's finally all over now!

"Yes, I have indeed failed! However, Nightmare, I was not defeated by you, but by time!"

"The passage of time has indeed made me stronger, but it has also made me less and less like my former self. If I could go back eight hundred years... I definitely wouldn't be the one who lost!"

Despite the series of unexpected blows, Imu quickly emerged from the shadows, regaining his original spirit and composure, and laughed freely, "You want my power, don't you? Well, if you want it, you can have it all. In another world, I will rise again, and even if it takes hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years, I will definitely come back to take my revenge on you, hahahaha!"

As Imu finished speaking, he actually stripped away all the Devil Fruit Ability and the Dream Domain Will rooted in his body, which meant that his eight hundred years of planning had failed in an instant, and all of it had benefited Roy. His aura plummeted to rock bottom.

Even Roy didn't expect Imu's move. For a demigod who once possessed the power to destroy the world, losing power was even more unacceptable than death. It's the same reason why those big shots who have tasted the sweetness of power would rather die or even be doomed than give up the power in their hands. Power... can be addictive!

The fact that he could make such a decision in such a short time made even Roy have to look at him with more respect. He truly deserves to be called a figure who destroyed an era eight hundred years ago. Once he regains his ruthless nature, even if he loses the strength to stand at the top of the world, his danger level will not decrease in the slightest!

Just as Imu stripped away all his power, the barrier of the world was completely torn apart, and terrifying spatial turbulence swept in. It was Imu, at the last moment of stripping away his own power, pried open a way for himself to escape to another dimension by leveraging the power that was about to no longer belong to him.

"I never expected you to be so resolute!" Roy took a deep breath and re-examined the man who had destroyed an era.

You have to understand that with their strength, traversing the starry sky with their physical bodies is not a big problem, but crossing dimensions is a matter of life and death... no, to be precise, it is a matter of life and death. Even a spatial rift of a few micrometers can instantly cut a body of Kaido's caliber in half, let alone this surging spacetime turbulence. Even if Roy himself stepped into it, he would most likely be trapped in eternal oblivion.

Imu stood in the center of the spacetime turbulence, trying his best to stabilize his center of gravity. His eyes, which seemed to be constantly shifting with the cycle of reincarnation, were fixed on Roy, as if he wanted to remember him for all eternity. "People like us should die a glorious death. Falling into spacetime and going down with the world might not be a bad ending!"

"However, Nightmare, I will never die like this. How could I be willing to die before defeating you? Just you wait, even after endless years, I will return to this world to exact my revenge!"

Without further hesitation, Imu leaped into the turbulent flow of time and space, and the cracks in the world gradually collapsed and shrank until they disappeared completely.