The Nightmare Essence dropped to zero.
Xu Lang had gotten the answer he wanted, but he still felt strangely empty. He sent instructions through dreams to the Nightmare Apostles, telling them to step up the scares.
Of the seven Nightmare Apostles, all but the Rainy Night Swordsman, who had been caught in a trap set by the Dormitory Building, had their own "territory."
Li Shuwen and Wu Huihui oversaw the Mad King Building, splitting its residents evenly between them.
Fusheng Xi oversaw the staff dormitories and Earth. The staff and Earthlings were relatively poor targets, but there were so many of them that he asked the Sword Saint to help.
The Sword Saint had no fixed territory. His dream entity spent most of its time helping Fusheng Xi and occasionally carried out specific tasks for Xu Lang.
The Evil Dragon oversaw the Evil King Building. He had already emerged victorious from the building war and inherited a trove of valuable things. As a Nightmare Apostle, he was also unmatched in combat. With no one able to rein him in, he could scare whoever he pleased.
Zhang Bing, the last of them, naturally oversaw the Shadow Prison Building. Unlike the Evil Dragon, he kept a low profile, concealing his identity while he frightened people. That was what made Nightmare Apostles so terrifying: unless they chose to reveal themselves, no one else would have any idea what was happening.
At first, the Shadow Prison Building players thought something unclean had entered the Dormitory Building. They tried every way they could to ward off the nightmares, and their efforts did hamper Zhang Bing's work somewhat.
But after he learned the little trick of "memory erasure" from the Sword Saint and the others, he grew downright twisted!
Every night, he became a terrifying nightmare