As a vast number of memory fragments from Meng Chao's previous life mixed with the Ancient Runes and flooded into the depths of the Ancient Dream Saintess's brain like water bursting through a collapsed dam.
At the bottom of the Ancient Dream Saintess's memory database, those childhood memories faintly shrouded in a blood-red glow, vivid to the point of unreality, also underwent astonishing changes.
In her original memories, after Great Horned Rat God's Advent, the "revelation" the childhood Ancient Dream Saintess saw contained only the Great Horned Legion's sweeping victory, after which countless ratfolk all lived happy and joyful lives—a fairy-tale ending.
But now, as that fairy-tale scene slowly unfolded in the Ancient Dream Saintess's childhood memories, other images, darker, crueler, and more real, descended from the heavens and smashed the "fairy tale" to pieces.
Two utterly different, completely opposing "futures" appeared before the Ancient Dream Saintess at once.
Leaving her consciousness, which had slipped into a childhood state, at a complete loss.
Meng Chao could clearly sense that the Ancient Dream Saintess's brain was trembling violently.
It was as though the incomparably cruel future Meng Chao had presented had terrified her, making every one of her brain cells quiver.
Her brain had originally been as calm as a windless, wave-free sea.
But now, stormy waves surged within it, and enormous whirlpools appeared one after another.
Brainwaves beyond their limits shot out from the depths of her brain like bolts of lightning baring fangs and brandishing claws.
Even the skeletal rat god statue in the depths of the dream—both sacred and benevolent, clearly little more than skin and bones yet seeming to hold up the entire sky and earth—began to shake violently.
Crisscrossing cracks appeared across the surface of its crystal-clear bones, as though symbolizing the faith the Ancient Dream