"What was that, an auxiliary space?"
The Evil Crystal Stigma Wizard gazed at the vortex of nightmare rules gathering high in the sky. A dark-red, ominous, absurd light radiated a bone-chilling cold. Amid the rolling green mist, it gradually formed a mouth, a passage leading who knew where.
"That is an illusory passage, an illusory space between the Nightmare Bone Demon World and the Wizard World. However, it has already been affected by nightmare rules."
Green stood atop a glacier formed by the Ice Age Sealing Art, hundreds of meters high. The Face of Truth observed the rules within the passage with all its strength as he replied.
"Hundreds of Nightmare Gates—hundreds of sources of nightmare spread. Are we to destroy them one by one?"
The Evil Crystal Stigma Wizard asked gravely.
For a guardian wizard serving beneath a True Spirit, life was much like that of a world guardian: unchanging year after year, dry and tedious. Thus, if Green had answered that they truly needed to destroy every source of nightmare spread one by one, the Evil Crystal Stigma Wizard would have attempted it without the slightest hesitation.
However, that was clearly impossible.
"How could that be possible!"
Green snorted. "Who knows how many of these Bone Kings exist in the Nightmare Bone Demon World. Destroy one, and another will immediately take its place. There is no meaning in destroying them. Our target is the central source of nightmare spread. Heartless Hunter is the key to summoning the overlap with the Nightmare Bone Demon World. But before that, we should understand the rules of the Nightmare Bone Demon World as much as possible. When the time comes, besides Heartless Hunter and the special Weird Crystal Terminators, we may have to face even more terrifying things."
Having said that, Green