Chapter 1410: Calamity Strikes (23)
As expected of a Higher Being with home-field advantage. Once it decided to stop hiding its intentions, its moves were spot-on.
Veil had only just been pulled in, yet she had already been infected without even noticing.
Though my eyesight wasn't great, at this close range, I could see everything perfectly.
The flush on Veil's face, like that of someone who'd had too much to drink, was made up of tiny red dots, all exactly the same shape. They even flitted around each other like insects—or perhaps they were insects.
Worms that lodged themselves in flesh and blood by some special means.
Fu Qian didn't think this was any deep-seated contamination capable of breaching the barrier between dream and reality. It was even less severe than the Boiling Blood Syndrome he'd encountered before.
But this change was enough to show Yarakir's resolve to make use of this dream, worthless as it was.
It couldn't hurt to try, and besides, this was only the beginning.
Fortunately, the Return Edict he'd obtained from the Nightmare Corridor—the root cause of all these changes—had finally revealed its use.
The Return Edict couldn't dispel the contamination on him. It didn't seem to work on contamination affecting others, either.
What it dispelled, it seemed, was the special guests' connection to the dream.
Put simply, with no one to hold it back, Yarakir could drag the true bodies of other figures in the dream inside at will.
The Return Edict, on the other hand, seemed capable of reversing that process and sending anyone in the middle of syncing back.
A clear example was that the flush on Veil's face didn't fade while the Return Edict remained active. Instead, the movement grew more violent.
Like a startled swarm of bees, the red dots