This was Anvis's plan. The effects caused by the Inheritance Land's devouring were mutual. The process of merging the two worlds was not as simple as a beast hunting prey, where one consumed the other; it was a process of mutual interference and fusion.
Once the Inheritance Land's devouring progress exceeded seventy percent, the Magic Array he had set up beforehand was no longer connected solely to this world's rules.
The Magic Array's effect was also simple: it "highlighted" every Foreign Object invading the world.
Previously, the Nightmare Spirits' invasion had been like the human body contracting a cold virus, with the world's rules acting as an immune system that instinctively operated and slowly eliminated the virus.
But now, the Nightmare Spirits were like arrows driven directly into the body. The entire body was exerting every effort to pull them out at once—especially the Nightmare Spirit King, that massive crossbow bolt.
Caught completely off guard by this Sudden Change, Marquis Beihim suffered badly. Even though he urgently mobilized part of his true body's Rule Power to defend himself, his aura visibly weakened by a large margin.
The other Nightmare Spirits were likewise heavily suppressed at this moment. However, because they were not as powerful, the world's rejection of them was far weaker, and the attacks they suffered were nowhere near as terrifying as those endured by the Nightmare Spirit King.
Far beyond the city, the Four Nightmares, the strongest beings aside from the Nightmare Spirit King, were also subjected to immense pressure from the rules. Their auras all declined to varying degrees.
Witnessing this sudden upheaval, the Trial-takers within the city who had originally planned to flee exchanged looks.
Though they did not know how the administrator of this dream had accomplished it, the situation was now clear: all the