"A little mouse has broken in..."
Black Abyss of Despair spoke with great interest. From Linna, he sensed a despair as sweet and rich as fine wine.
"What a brave yet foolish act. I can barely resist transforming her completely right now!"
"His Lordship hasn't spoken yet, so you'd better not put on that attitude just yet—don't you agree?"
Lilith gave a cold laugh, then threw an unmistakably flirtatious glance toward the black Dragon.
"..."
However, Anvis paid no attention to the friction between his subordinates. Instead, he focused on the veteran trial-taker who had intruded—the Dream Eater, Linna.
He saw something interesting. In his eyes, Linna's mental space currently took the form of a "seed." As he watched it for an extended period, that seed rapidly began to sprout and grow.
Anvis could clearly sense that it was the manifestation of the most fundamental thing within all intelligent life: desire.
The desire for power, authority, beauty... The desires of intelligent beings were innate. As long as one lived, one would have desires, just as shadows appeared wherever there was light.
And as the new Nightmare Spirit King, he could manipulate the desires within people's hearts, causing them to grow and spread beyond control.
As time passed, the seed that was Linna had grown into a Lush Sapling. Vigorous power of desire flowed within it, transforming into strange leaves one after another.
Upon those desire leaves, Anvis saw many different Linnas: one who had broken through to the ninth rank, one who had taken control of the Inheritance Land, and one who had taken Marquis Vent as her subordinate and become an Imperial Marquis herself...
Amid those wonderful scenes, Linna's self-awareness began to weaken as well, gradually sinking into endless beautiful desires. The nature of the dream power surrounding her