"Why is the water rising so fast? Is the bridge about to collapse too?"
Thrown off balance, Gao Ming grabbed the Shrine to keep from falling. In the brief moment he lost focus, the river had already flooded the bridge deck. Water rushed and splashed in his ears, its sound coming from every direction.
Fog filled the air, severely limiting visibility. Gao Ming could only vaguely make out a massive black snake crawling from the river onto the Bridge Corridor. Its scales scraped against the wooden boards, and its enormous, half-hidden body radiated a terrifying pressure.
"You're just a snake. Why call yourself the Water Dragon King? You look horrifying, yet you still demand that the town choose beauties to sacrifice to you every year. They say snakes are lustful by nature. They really weren't wrong."
Gao Ming's voice wasn't loud; only he should have been able to hear it. But after he finished speaking, the giant snake's eyes turned completely black. Its Killing Intent became almost tangible as it opened its bloody maw, driving fangs as long as forearms straight toward his head.
"Dream Release!"
The nightmare submerged deep within his heart erupted outward from Gao Ming, like a flower of flesh and blood blooming on the Bridge Corridor. An aura even more sinister and bizarre than Dreamfold Town's Deep Nightmare descended.
The tear in his heart chamber widened. Indescribable pain filled Gao Ming's eyes, and boundless despair seeped through his skin, warping the dream around him.
Gao Ming was still inside Dreamfold Town's Deep Nightmare, but now the space within two meters of him was filled with his own nightmare.
Even when ordinary Testers released their nightmares, those nightmares could rarely reach the level of a Deep Nightmare and had no impact on Folded Dream Town. Yet Gao