"Nightmares! It's nightmares!!"
"They're here again! Get ready!"
In the dream courtyard, the Communion's believers and Victoria turned their gazes toward a huge rift at the same time.
After working together for some time, the two sides had become adept at joining forces to hunt down Dream Creatures.
The webs Victoria had woven covered nearly half the courtyard.
Ever since Vanessa had encountered that strange nightmare, no more nightmares had invaded the courtyard. Only Dream Creatures had come.
"Vanessa, are you ready? We'll use our original plan... Vanessa?"
Victoria's spider silk was already attached to Vanessa, but she noticed that her knight seemed distracted.
"What's wrong, Vanessa?"
Victoria frowned and glanced at the rapidly expanding rift in the courtyard, a faint unease stirring within her.
Vanessa did not seem to be in very good shape.
Without Vanessa's help, killing a nightmare would probably be quite a challenge.
She had witnessed a nightmare's true strength before. In terms of raw power, nightmares were not too outrageous, but their speed was absurd.
And speed was precisely what Victoria was worst at.
Fortunately, her webs could make up for that weakness. As long as she moved along her webs, her speed would increase significantly, so killing a nightmare should still be possible.
But... would a nightmare obediently fight her on her webs?
Victoria felt uncertain.
Just as she was hesitating over whether to ask Vanessa to cooperate, the girl beside her suddenly spoke.
"I... have a strange feeling."
Victoria turned to look. Vanessa was clutching her head, her expression very strange. "It seems to be coming from my spirituality... it's telling me not to attack, to wait and see."
"Huh?"
Victoria found herself in a dilemma.
Spiritual intuition was worth trusting, but she had no room to hold back against a nightmare.
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