Chapter 16 Shadow Disease and No one really sees you as a hero, right? (2-in-1)

Author: Sister's Bride

Chapter 16 Shadow Disease and No one really sees you as a hero, right? (2-in-1)

Qiu Yuan found that he seemed to have underestimated the fighting power of these two dragon ladies.

No matter what, they are still the dragon ladies who have been fighting for several years in the dragon god's nightmare.

And Qiuyuan arranged for them to set foot in the world of Elden's Ring for the first time... the Gale Tunnel in the Galeed region.

Gale's Tunnel is a dungeon in the early and middle stages of the Elden Ring of Law world, and the monsters that inhabit it are mostly miners and knight overseers of the Red Lion Legion.

Occasionally, there will be one or two corrupt believers, almost humanoid centipede-like monsters guarding the place.

In short, the difficulty of this dungeon is not high in the entire world of Elden's Circle, so these two dragon ladies who were new to the dungeon easily took care of the monsters inside.

After a thrilling fight all the way, Lingyin and Wanshuang easily arrived in front of the BOSS Lava Earth Dragon guarding the Gale Tunnel.

The Lava Earth Dragon is a huge creature that crawls on the ground. It looks more like a giant salamander covered in dragon scales than a dragon.

Although it does not have the ability to fly, the Lava Earth Dragon is a human being who mutated due to too much power from the Devouring Dragon in the background story.

After it mutated into a dragon, it held a giant dragon-scale sword in its sharp claws. As it crawled, the lava spit out from its mouth could flow into a river on the ground.

Based on the above, lava earth dragon is a big test for newcomers, especially in a small environment like underground tunnels.

When Ling Yin and Wan Shuang met the new killer No. 3, they fell into a hard fight as expected.

Then it was no surprise that the two battle-hardened dragon ladies were baptized by the thorny magma pool of the lava earth dragon, and they both died for the first time in the world of Elden's Ring of Magic.

"Pfft..."

After Suzune's claws were beaten to pulp by the Lava Earth Dragon, she was resurrected in the blink of an eye at the Marika Keystone at the door of the Lava Earth Dragon's BOSS room, which was the resurrection point.

Wan Shuang didn't last long either...he was resurrected next to Suzune under a burst of faint golden light.

What surprised Qiu Yuan was that it seemed that this was not the first time that these two dragon ladies had died in the nightmare space, or that they had already adapted to it.

Suzune acted as if nothing had happened. After simply doing some stretching exercises, she planned to fight the Lava Earth Dragon for the second round.

"Lingyin! Isn't it enough to die once? Are you really not afraid that your shadow will be completely trapped in this nightmare?"

Wan Shuang took the first step and grabbed Suzune's wrist, stopping her from continuing the 1V1 battle with the Lava Earth Dragon.

This time, before Ling Yin could answer, Melina's figure appeared from the side. At the same time, she held the crystal of happiness in her hand and showed Qiu Yuan's question in front of Wan Shuang, the rich dragon lady.

'Shadow is completely trapped in a nightmare? What does that mean?'

Qiu Yuan's question made Wan Shuang a little stunned. Wan Shuang almost said, "You, the King of Elden, are too unprofessional to be an evil god. Don't you even know this?"

But since Qiu Yuan can ask such a novice question, it means...the King of Elden seems to really not know some of the post-death mechanisms in the nightmare space.

"If we die in Lord Dragon God's nightmare, we can be resurrected through Lord Dragon God's protection. This can be regarded as a small charity from Lord Dragon God, and it seems that the same is true in this nightmare space."

"But this comes at a price, that is, every time we are resurrected, some of our shadows will be left in the nightmare space."

Wan Shuang explained to Qiu Yuan some of the operating mechanisms of death in the nightmare space in order to let Ling Yin rest for a while and not be in such a hurry to die.

‘Is there any problem with this?’ Qiu Yuan asked.

"'Shadow' is just a name for us. To be more precise, it is 'the negative part of us', such as our daily negative emotions and self, fear, fear, pain, hatred, and inferiority complex, etc.

Wait, these are all 'shadows' that will be captured by nightmares."

Wanshuang read a lot of research works on nightmares while she was in prison in the Dragon God Cult, so she has a deeper understanding of nightmares than a dazed young man like Suzune.

"The more times we die in the nightmare space, the greater the proportion of 'shadows' we will leave in the nightmare space, until one day..."

Wan Shuang paused for a moment when she said this, glanced at Ling Yin beside her and whispered the terrible consequences.

"The shadow will replace our body."

But after Wan Shuang finished talking about this terrible consequence.

Not only Qiuyuan remained silent throughout the whole process to show that she didn't understand, but Suzune also had a puzzled expression on her face, asking, "What did you say?"

This made Wan Shuang feel a little headache and after stroking his forehead, he decided to use a simpler and easier-to-understand way to explain to these two 'illiterates' the consequences of dying too many times in the nightmare space.

"King of Elden, do you usually sleep?"

Wan Shuang even bowed decently while speaking.

Although this action felt a bit like teasing Qiu Yuan, Qiu Yuan didn't mind and answered, "I still have normal sleep."

"That's easy to explain."

Wan Shuang initially thought that the King of Elden, who could create such a grand nightmare, was still a terrifying evil god no matter what.

But after some exchanges, Qiu Yuan seemed a little too approachable?

But she couldn't let her guard down. At least from the previous conversation, Wan Shuang was indeed beguiled by the words of the King of Elden.

"Although we have inherited Lord Dragon God's extraordinary power, we still need sleep. According to the recognized twenty-four-hour clock, we need to ensure at least eight hours of sleep every day."

When Wan Shuang said this, she glanced at Ling Yin worriedly.

It is said that eight hours of sleep must be maintained. It's a question of whether Lingyin, a silly girl who usually works so much overtime, gets enough five hours of sleep.

Judging from the awkward smile on Suzune's face as she held her cheek, she definitely didn't have that much time to sleep every day.

This creates a big problem.

"On the one hand, sleeping for such a long time is to rest, and on the other hand, it is to ensure that our 'shadow' in nightmares will not invade our bodies in reality."

"Won't it corrode your body in reality?"

When Qiu Yuan heard it, he felt like, 'Oops! I feel like I'm going to grow a brain'.

The night cream finally explained it in the simplest way...

"Every time we die in the nightmare space, based on the twenty-four hours a day, part of us is controlled by the shadow in the nightmare space."

"Like the time I was killed in battle just now, I was swallowed by my own shadow for almost twenty minutes. Considering the cost of the previous deaths..."

"Four of my twenty-four hours a day have been occupied by the shadow of the nightmare space."

"So I only need to ensure that I sleep four hours a day. If I use sleep to consume these four hours, nothing will happen. Therefore, my shadow disease is relatively mild." Wan Shuang said.

It was easier for Qiu Yuan to understand after hearing this explanation from the rich woman and dragon lady.

To put it simply, every time you die in the nightmare space, part of your spirit and soul will be trapped in the nightmare space.

The part trapped in the nightmare space is calculated based on time. If this rich dragon lady dies once, she will be trapped in the nightmare for an additional twenty minutes.

‘What if the shadow is trapped in the nightmare space for more than eight hours?’ Qiu Yuan asked a question that he could probably guess the answer to.

"In reality, you will be controlled by nightmares. Once your shadow is occupied 24 hours a day, it is equivalent to becoming a minion of the nightmare... becoming a puppet of the nightmare. This is more terrifying than death.

The ending.”

After Wan Shuang finished educating this foreign evil god about the horrors of the nightmare space, she grabbed Suzune's wrist again and glanced at her palm and said.

"So Suzune, I remember that your shadow has been trapped in the nightmare space for more than five and a half hours, and you died again... Sure enough, it became six hours."

Night Frost, she said, holding up Suzune's soft light blue hair with her hands...

There is a reason why the hair color of these dragon ladies all gradually changes from silver to other colors.

The most direct symptom of shadow disease is fading.

This fading symptom starts with the hair and then spreads to the skin color.

The final stage of shadow disease is more severe than albinism, and it is as if there is a layer of white paint on the body and no other color can be found on the body.

Now it is difficult to see the original color of Suzune's hair. This is proof that the shadow disease has entered six hours.

"But I still want to try to see what rewards I can get after killing that earth dragon."

Suzune held her hair with both hands and asked Wan Shuang not to touch it again.

What other rewards can there be?

That earth dragon is probably just a small lord in this nightmare space. It may not even be considered a lord, but can only be regarded as an elite monster...

What kind of reward can you get for killing an elite monster? Isn’t it a hundred gene points at most?

The reason why Wan Shuang is so stubborn is because she knows too much and has been deceived too much.

During the past few years of being tortured by the Dragon God Cult’s prison experience, Wan Shuang also spent time inquiring about other well-known churches in the Mimic Empire...

As a result, the situation I learned was similar to that of Dragon God Church, and some were even worse than Dragon God Church!

The blessing rewards from the church gods are all obtained by drawing krypton gold from the wishing well ten times in a row. The rewards for exploring the nightmare space are pitifully small, and the exploration content is boring to the point of torture.

At first I thought the cause was the nightmare itself.

It is the number one enemy of the Mimic Empire. Exploring the nightmare space itself is like fighting on the enemy's battlefield. Naturally, the experience cannot be described in terms of interesting, exciting, and surprising.

Therefore, the reward given by the nightmare space cannot be blamed on the church and the gods.

But during the previous communication with Qiu Yuan, Qiu Yuan's words instantly awakened Wan Shuang.

That is... 'The gods and nightmares have joined forces to make money from your pockets.'
To be continued...