After Melina used the Crystal of Happiness to create a ‘battle memory from the King of Elden’s campaign’.
There is not much left of the happiness crystal stock she brought out this time, and it can only last for five or six hours when she is active outside.
Fortunately, the 'King of Elden's Battle Memory' is equivalent to 'knowledge' that can be digested and remembered by the mimics after eating it.
You only need to feed them, and there will be no need to consume happiness crystals to maintain them later.
This shows the terrible learning ability of the Mimicry race, or is it the ability to imitate?
Then King Elden's nightmare space 'server' is also provided by nightmares, and also does not require additional happiness crystals to maintain it at this stage.
But Melina must use the last five or six hours she has left to find out from this rich dragon lady... how to obtain the meat of the original body.
"How to obtain the meat of the original body? Hmm... It seems that Suzune is right. You are indeed the alien gods who have just visited here."
After Wan Shuang decided to throw herself into the arms of King Elden, she took the initiative to bring Melina and Lingyin to the mini-plane where she lived.
This mini-plane is located high in the sky above the church town of Dragon God Cult.
It looks like a floating island roughly the size of four basketball courts.
On the island stands a slightly eerie wooden manor that looks like a witch's house.
Next to the manor, there is a Nightmare Door of the same model as the Dragon God Sect. It seems to be Wan Shuang's own private Nightmare Door.
"But these days, there are probably only ignorant foreign gods who won't collude with those guys in the Mimic Empire."
Wan Shuang sighed and waved a wooden table to place in front of Melina and Lingyin.
"I shouldn't say no, it's more accurate to say disdain." Qiu Yuan slightly corrected the rich woman and dragon lady's statement.
"Are you disdainful? Then I hope that the King of Elden can maintain such pride when faced with the temptation of profit in the future."
Although Wan Shuang's words sounded very frivolous.
But she really hoped that a conscientious god like the King of Elden would not be affected by the trend of other religions in the Mimic Empire that crazily exploited their believers for profit.
Then because of the late frost, she was in a hurry and wanted to go to the Galloping Junction. Without saying too much nonsense, she began to educate her pontiff, Melina, on the process of obtaining the original body's meat.
The rich dragon lady first spread out a huge map and placed it on the table.
This map has a projection function. When the map is spread out, a nebula-like projection instantly appears.
"This thing is called the Nightmare Star Map. You can simply understand that this is the territory of the Nightmare Empire..."
Wan Shuang said, waving his tail after standing up, sliding the tip of his tail over the nebula projection, and fixed the huge nebula at a location called the 'Dragon God Sect Star Area'.
"The...territory of the Nightmare Empire?"
Melina didn't understand how the original body's meat was obtained and why it was involved in the Nightmare Empire.
"In our Mimic Empire, native individuals are a very precious resource. They are so precious that they cannot be purchased with genetic points alone. Whether it is native meat such as pigs, cows, and sheep, or the most precious native humans,
The former is a strategic resource controlled by major companies, while the latter is a continuing foundation jointly controlled by the empire and major companies."
After Wan Shuang briefly explained the preciousness of ‘native individuals’ in the Mimic Empire, Wan Shuang then turned to Melina’s popular science method of ‘capturing wild native individuals’.
“Rather than spending big bucks to buy such strategic resources from big companies, the most cost-effective and safest way is to ‘catch’ them yourself.”
"So where to catch..." Melina asked.
If I could catch her, I would have done it myself, but looking across the entire realm of the Mimic Empire, I really couldn't find a single creature that wasn't a Mimic.
"Because the entire Mimic Empire is not suitable for weak primitive creatures, such as pigs, cattle, sheep, and ordinary humans, we can only purchase goods from territories covered by nightmares."
Wan Shuang also felt that the mimicry curse of her race was really terrible.
Due to its strong transmissibility and diffusion, the original creatures that can still move within the Mimic Empire are basically like Melina, or creatures with extremely powerful supernatural powers such as the Dragon God.
Strictly speaking, Melina is a soul construct, so she is not afraid of the mimicry curse.
But ordinary pigs, cattle, sheep, and humans can't even take a breath of the air here.
Therefore, the major companies in the Mimic Empire have spent great efforts to create a ‘sterile’ living environment for the native individuals of their companies.
"The realm of nightmares?"
Melina's eyes fell on the nightmare star map that Wan Shuang took out.
"This is also the reason why the Dragon God Cult and the major churches of the Mimetic Empire use various methods to force believers to conquer the nightmare space."
At this time, Night Frost also revealed the reasons why major churches... force believers to do daily tasks.
He is not a well-intentioned "experience" believer, but he really forces the believer to do hard work for him, and then makes profits from it.
"As shown in the picture, the territory controlled by nightmares is like a giant nebula. The periphery of the nebula is a nightmare space with incomplete plane laws. It cannot be regarded as a real plane world."
With the explanation of the night frost, the projection of the star map suddenly focused on the core of the nebula.
"Only the central part is the real world controlled by nightmares. If we want to reach this real world, we need a large number of believers to fight in the peripheral nightmare space and reduce the influence of the peripheral nightmare space...
Arriving at the heart of the nightmare realm."
After Wan Shuang finished explaining, she glanced at the reactions of Suzune and Melina.
Suzune had a look of "Abba, Abba, Abba" on her face, while Melina looked at the star map with a thoughtful look on her face.
Qiu Yuan understood it completely, so he just used Qiu Yuan's own understanding to explain it.
All the plane worlds ruled by nightmares...are surrounded by a bunch of 'nightmare spaces'.
These nightmare spaces are like city walls one after another, or mist, protecting their original world.
Mimics want to invade these original worlds. Only by breaking through these nightmare spaces bit by bit, destroying the city walls and crossing the fog can they reach the real world ruled by nightmares.
‘Don’t you think things taken out of the nightmare space can be used directly?’ Qiu Yuan asked a more critical question.
Because Qiu Yuan noticed Suzune, she was holding the famous sword Yueying up and down... This action made Qiu Yuan feel very bad just by reading the description.
"I said that the nightmare space is a world plane with incomplete laws, so many things in the nightmare space must be 'repaired' with our ability to mimic if we want to use them in reality."
"For example, Suzune... she is injecting magic power into the famous sword Yueying. The word "cultivation" is more appropriate... In short, it requires a large amount of gene points to achieve the original effect in the world of the magic ring."
Wan Shuang paused for a while and took out a red fruit, which was a food called Roa Fruit in Elden's Circle.
"My Lord Pope, I think you should have eaten this fruit in the body plane of the Elden Ring..."
"Now you can try to extract it from the nightmare space projected by the world of Elden's Ring."
Melina was not polite and took a bite of the Roja fruit handed over by Wan Shuang...she instantly realized the difference.
"It has no taste. Not only does it have no taste, it also has a different texture."
The Roja fruit in Melina's impression was a sweet fruit, but this one had no taste at all.
"Because this is the 'Roa Fruit' copied by Nightmare. It looks like a fruit on the surface, but in fact it is no different from plastic. As long as the corresponding effect is projected, Nightmare has no interest in imitating the taste."
Wan Shuang's statement... Qiu Yuan still has a better explanation, that is, this Loa fruit is just a game model.
Even if the modeled food tastes like it, it will never taste like it.
"So what we have to do for my king now is to break through the fog of nightmare and reach the world where the core of my king is?" Melina asked.
"First of all, I need to locate the body or shadow of the King of Elden...in which nightmare core plane is it located?"
As Wan Shuang spoke, she placed the 'Memory of King Elden's Conquest' that Melina gave her on the Nightmare Star Chart and began to search it.
It's a pity that this rich dragon lady failed to search for the true form of King Elden in the nightmare realm.
It's weird that she can find it... Melina knows very well that Qiu Yuan's true body is currently in the territory of the Mimic Empire.
But it was impossible for Melina to tell these two dragon girls this information.
Just as Melina was thinking about this, Wan Shuang's next words gave this wooden lady a rare look of panic on her face.
"Is the body not there? Where is the shadow...ah, I found it! The shadow of King Elden is indeed trapped in the realm of nightmare..." Wan Shuang said.
"What did you say?!"
Melina's voice, which had always been cold and emotionless, now sounded a little different... so anxious that Melina almost opened her other eye and gave the rich dragon lady her destined death.
"Teach...don't the Pope know?"
Wan Shuang was really frightened by the coercion emanating from Melina for a moment.
But she was still more curious that Melina, who was the personal witch of the King of Elden, did not know that the King of Elden she served was deeply troubled by nightmares.
"what do you know?"
Melina asked coldly, let alone Melina, even Qiu Yuan himself didn't know when he was related to the nightmare.
But Wan Shuang's next answer left Melina and Qiu Yuan stunned.
"It is the great King of Elden. His shadow is currently trapped in a nightmare plane called Earth." Wan Shuang said.
Earth? Isn’t that my king’s hometown? When was my king’s hometown devoured by nightmares?
The most important thing is, isn’t my king’s true body in the territory of the Mimic Empire? Why is there still a shadow left on the earth?
"Lord Pope?" Wan Shuang looked at Melina's heart-broken look and called out tentatively.
"You guys should explore on your own first...I need to weigh it for a while." Melina replied.
Melina needs to go back and tell Ciri and others about this, and discuss it together to decide whether to make the earth devoured by nightmares a target for exploration and purchase.
Just like that, Melina's figure disappeared in front of the two dragon girls, Wan Shuang and Ling Yin, which also announced the end of Melina's first outing exploration.