"Alright, then please take my consciousness into Saroye's dream—the bigger one of the two."
"Then pick a position and lie down. I'm taking you into the dream now." After saying that, Mian Yin brought Li Xuan's consciousness with her into Saroye's dream.
Saroye had gone to bed early today—at least, early by her usual standards. In reality, it was already two in the morning when she fell asleep. Her undying body could not eliminate fatigue, but it did prevent her from dying suddenly no matter how much she stayed up, so pulling all-nighters was common for her.
Contrary to Li Xuan's expectations, Saroye's investigation had actually made considerable progress. By performing Felia's resonance magic on a small scale, she had successfully discovered that the ambush at the concert had not been launched by the audience, but by monsters possessing audience members. She had also inferred from the sudden appearance of tens of thousands of monsters and Felia's disappearance that Li Xuan possessed spatial teleportation abilities.
That was precisely why, when requesting reinforcements from the Church, she had repeatedly stressed that they had to send a Grade A magical girl capable of using spatial magic.
It was easy to imagine that once those reinforcements arrived, they would pose a tangible threat to Li Xuan. Even if he hid in the safe haven of the Delusive Badlands, he might not be able to rest easy.
However, Li Xuan had not given her the chance to carry out that plan.
Amid a flutter of black butterflies, Li Xuan entered Saroye's dream.
This was his first time entering someone else's dream. Unlike what he had imagined, dreams were an exceedingly empty world. Most of the time, there was nothing at all as far as the eye could see.
Occasionally, simple objects drifted past them: