Dreamlike Bridge to Heaven
Fang Yan's expression remained unchanged. Although his side of a hundred men had been defeated by the enemy, it was something they had expected. By now, how could they not understand that they were already expendable pawns?
He jumped into a house and quickly reached the second floor. Turning around and looking at the stairs in front of him, he remembered what happened back then. When he was desperate and had nowhere else to turn, he also walked down the stairs into the Nightmare Space.
There was no time for sentimentality. Fang Yan pressed his finger against the spider mark on his chest, activated his title ability, and used the stairs to open Infinite Staircase to head towards the Nightmare Space. However, the price he paid was that this mission was now null and void.
"Contractor No. 3799, your access has been frozen, and you are unable to enter the Infinite Staircase..."
"Just as expected..." Fang Yan wasn't surprised at all. This was exactly what he had anticipated. The reason why all the top contractors were sent out for this mission was simply to maintain the purity of the Nightmare Space. Apart from that, all the other contractors were sent to other worlds. The Nightmare Space was now completely empty.
Perhaps the Nightmare Space had saved his life, but it was a mutually beneficial arrangement. Now that he's found another home, no one should criticize him.
A Bronze Fruit appeared in his hand. He clenched his fist and extinguished the Bronze Fruit, turning it into a large amount of bronze powder. The Infinite Staircase that had been closed to him reopened, and Fang Yan entered it without hesitation.
In the dark side of the world, unseen forces clash. The Shadow Lord, who controls most of the dark side, unleashes the power of shadows and battles against the dark dimensions of Tsathoggua and Atlach.
Gresta came to this world not simply to subdue the dark side of the Heavenmark Continent. Although this world is not simple and its origin is quite rich, it is not indispensable compared to most of the dark sides he currently controls. The main reason for coming here is to strike at his rivals.
The so-called Nightmare Space, those contractors inside, are called contractors to put it nicely, but if you strip away the disguise, they are nothing more than long-term laborers. They follow Atlach's orders to complete various tasks in other worlds, conquering those worlds bit by bit.
In reality, this was merely a paving act. Although Atlach was called the Spider God, His most proficient work was weaving webs. He was constantly weaving a huge web to build a bridge across the great rift between the conscious human world and the Dreamlands.
Many people believe that once Atlach Nakya finishes weaving the net, the bridge will be completed, and once the bridge is completed, the end of the world will come. In fact, that's pretty much the case. The name of this bridge is Nightmare Space.
The contractors it selects are all from the main world. With the help of Tsathoggua's power, people from the main world are extracted and transformed into contractors. Once the Nightmare Space they construct is fully woven, it can build a dreamlike bridge directly to the main world.
The Heavenmark Continent is the final base point of this bridge, but Lu Li Time Ring Avatar is already in the main world, is in a leading position. Shouldn't he suppress those who lag behind?
Moreover, Lu Li believed that besides himself, other beings would also intervene. From the very beginning of the battle, it was clear that Atlach was struggling and that most of his power was being tied up by other beings.
Otherwise, even Gresta, which connects to the dark sides of many worlds, would find it difficult to fight against them all working together.
"Hastur! How dare you!" With a final shriek, Atlach's power completely retreated from the dark side, clearly prioritizing protecting the Nightmare Space over defeating Gresta.
"You've joined forces?" Tsathoggua croaked, his amorphous body spinning as he unleashed an even greater dark power, vying with Gresta for control of the dark side. He didn't seem particularly distressed about the impending defeat.
"No, I just know that once I make a move, something else will definitely target you..." Gresta waved his Starry Arm, reaching into the dark side and burying his power within.
"Iger had too much of an advantage back then, so everyone targeted him, and now he's completely powerless. You're in a similar situation." Gresta's massive planet spun, and a giant eye opened its dark surface. "Although you lost to Iger in the struggle for the main world, you clearly gained some advantages that we weren't aware of."
From that enormous eye, one can see the seemingly endless Shadow Kingdom, and even more so, the infinite worlds within it. With the dark side of each world as a node, a world- Destruction spell can be unleashed.
It was as if endless Shadow Power began to gather, transforming into a pillar of energy that reached the heavens and the earth, rushing from outside the world toward the dark side of the Heavenmark Continent. Originally, the positive and negative sides of the world should have been in balance.
Even if there is a slight imbalance, it can be quickly repaired, but now the world is being wreaked havoc by the Shadow Legion on the positive side and replenished with energy by Gresta on the negative side, causing the world to become unbalanced.
The dark side of the world, like a living thing, began to writhe and slowly transformed into dark monsters. Various shadow monsters were generated from the dark side and then launched a counterattack against the front. If no one interfered, then the humans on the front would work together to defeat the shadow monsters of the dark side, gain power from them, and once again restore balance to the world.
Unfortunately, the existence of the Shadow Legion rendered humanity utterly powerless against the invasion of the Dark Monsters. Moreover, with Gresta's help, these Dark Monsters grew at an unprecedented rate. If it weren't for Tsathoggua's presence, constantly absorbing the Dark Monsters through the Dark Dimension, everything would have been over.
Meanwhile, in the spiderweb-like space, Fang Yan knelt on the ground, surrounded by handsome space staff members. However, some of their bodies had cracks, and some pitch-black tentacles extended from the cracks, eventually breaking through their bodies—these were the Formless Spawn.
However, the next moment a tentacle slapped down, and all these Formless Spawn turned into dark power and disappeared. Fang Yan looked along the tentacle and found that it was just one that had been generated from beneath the yellow robe of that being. He quickly turned away, as it was not something he could look at directly.
A gigantic humanoid figure, clad in a yellow robe from which dozens of tentacles sprouted, stood with outstretched arms in this so-called Nightmare Space. Its very existence was a threat to this world.
In the sky, there was a giant black octopus. This black octopus waved its tentacles, using the hooks on them to tear apart the structure of the Nightmare Space. Its wrinkled body was completely unconcerned about the Judgment Thunder in the Nightmare Space, which could kill any contractor. That was the distant Reveler, another Avatar of Hastur.
Atlach's shriek appeared in the Nightmare Space, lunging towards the King in Yellow standing in the center. The King in Yellow was not afraid, but instead spoke softly.
"The dreamlike, heaven-reaching bridge is best left as a dream..."