"It melted?"
Alice curiously tugged a strand of the Hair Aberrant's hair toward the Golden Key. The Hair Aberrant shuddered in terror, and the strand burst apart.
The Golden Key vanished at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Meanwhile, a worried Xu Ye immediately took out his mirror and examined the spirit inside.
Li Yunyao was draped over Xu Ye's shoulder, her gaze vacant and her expression unsmiling.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed the collapse of the Dreamscape had not affected her.
The moment the key dissolved completely, the sound of shattering glass rang out again and again beside Xu Ye's ears.
Crack, crack, crack!
His vision gradually blurred, and he saw the world breaking apart. It was as though someone had drawn back a curtain, everything going from hazy to gradually clear.
It was a peculiar sensation, like waking from deep sleep.
His mind gradually grew alert, his thoughts becoming clearer, as though the world he saw now was the real one.
A moment later, Xu Ye looked around.
Nothing had changed, yet everything seemed different.
For instance, the misaligned patterns on the floor now lined up.
For instance, a piece of an ordinary person's skin pressed against Xu Ye's arm suddenly shattered and vanished without a trace.
Yet the other skins, those of Zhang Qing and the Aberrants, did not disappear.
The Bandit Lord considered for a moment, then said, "This Dreamscape wasn't merely a Dreamscape. It also incorporated the Illusion Overlord's Illusion Technique. The instant the Holy Grail vanished, the illusion turned certain real things into false ones, but that seems to apply only to the deaths of ordinary people."
"If they were killed by Awakened, Uncanny, or Aberrants, those deaths can't be turned into something false."
"After all, the scope is simply