Don't Let Me Down, Beast (43)

Crack—The sturdy alloy doors of the monitoring room were cleaved apart, along with the Nightmare Spawn guarding them.

This was simply a nightmare.

Director Honagar thought so. He had never imagined that a Second Energy Level Patrol Knight could defeat a Third Energy Level nightmare entity—even if that nightmare entity possessed only a Soul Light Body and could only draw upon the surrounding spacetime's spiritual energy within the subspace... it was still one of their greatest achievements, second only to the Core Project.

One had to understand: how many souls had been consumed, and how long had they explored the deadly depths of the Void Realm, to condense such a "nightmare from the instincts of all living beings"?

Director Honagar could not calculate it himself. In any case, ever since he and Director Proshil had taken over the project, the flesh and souls of nearly a thousand people had been consumed for it, along with countless incomparably precious spiritual energy resources. Only then had they barely managed to stabilize the nightmare entity's form.

To restore its true original body would require an unknown cost... pessimistically speaking, it might even be impossible.

But it had to be said that its power was indeed beyond imagination—"that one" had attacked the pocket realm held by the Spirit Cognition Institute at the very beginning of the mutation, only to be driven back by Director Proshil and the nightmare entity together.

Indeed, Director Proshil had died in that battle, and the Spirit Cognition Institute had lost its only Third Energy Level powerhouse within the Central Laboratory. But the nightmare entity had also healed its injuries by absorbing Director Proshil's soul, becoming even stronger and even mastering some combat techniques.

Director Honagar had believed that with the nightmare entity guarding the place, even if that one