That deformed and terrifying monstrosity hung high above the forest, occupying the sky. Countless writhing tentacles supported its glowing "shell," and the "sunlight" that penetrated the entire forest emanated from this nightmarish invader.

How long had it been suspended in this dream? Was it there from the beginning? Why had no one noticed the strangeness in the sunlight? And with what dreadful purpose did it survey this forest, a mixture and blend of multiple dream layers?

Heidi tilted her head back, irresistibly drawn to the small sun supported by those hideous limbs, gazing at the pale giant eyes guarded by the tentacles.

Instantly, she felt her mind connect with a vaster and more distant entity. Through those pale, skyward-gazing eyes, something entered her mind directly. She heard a rumbling explosion deep within her spirit, sensing an age-old will observing this dream and its uninvited guests through that sun in the sky.

A thousand voices murmured or screamed in her head. She heard one among them, a voice that wormed its way into her consciousness like a whispered dream, hiding in the deepest recesses of their memory... "Before our sunlight is extinguished..." In the whispering that penetrated her mind, Heidi involuntarily felt a sense of conversion.

But in the next second, a sudden heat came from her chest. Heidi startled awake in the heat, as if ten thousand thunderclaps had exploded in her ears. She felt the connection between herself and those voices shatter instantly, her heart pounding like a drum, her ears ringing with a noise like static.

Heidi's mind surged violently. A sense of relief, like a survivor, rose from the bottom of her heart several seconds later. As soon as she woke up, she struggled to move her gaze away from the sky, and subconsciously grabbed the amethyst pendant on her chest.

The pendant still radiated heat, but it didn't burn her. Shaken, she turned her head and looked at "Miss Witch" standing beside her. Lucrezia was expressionlessly reaching out to her. At the witch's fingertips, three colored gems floated in the air, slowly rotating. The light from the gems flickered, weaving a dreamy and deadly beautiful light.

Heidi instantly felt a palpitation. "I'm awake, I'm awake..." she shouted quickly, afraid that the witch would really attack. "I'm not corrupted."

Lucrezia nodded, her eyes sweeping over the crystal pendant on Heidi's chest. The three colored gems flew back to the small decorations in her hair. Then she thought for a moment, seeming to feel it necessary to explain, "I didn't want to kill you!"

Um..." Heidi didn't expect her to say that, and her face twitched. "I thought you were going to attack just now."

"That would only be a violent shock. If you only suffered shallow mental contamination, this shock would awaken the fear of death in your subconscious, and then force the uncorrupted part of your mind to leave this dream. At most, you will lose some memories afterwards,"

Lucrezia explained, this is the dream escape technique invented by Master Talan. Er, "Sudden Death Method!"

Heidi stared. "Didn't you say that this Sudden Death Method is unreliable?"

"It's unreliable when used on Talan. Er himself." Lucrezia glanced at the great scholar who was still maintaining the mental sculpture state not far away.

"He's already about to die suddenly even without dreaming!"

"Then I..."

"You have a good physique!"

Heidi was speechless for a moment. After an awkward silence of several seconds, she raised her finger to the sky with lingering fear. In the process, she didn't dare to look up at that strange and terrifying thing again. "Ms. Lucrezia, that thing..."

"It seems that that is the real invader,"

Lucrezia said casually, her hand brushing through the air in front of her. A hollow, circular mirror surrounded by beautiful patterns and with a court style appeared out of thin air in front of her. With the reflection of this magic mirror, she cautiously observed the scene in the sky. "The veil in this dream is to block the prying eyes of this thing," she paused, with a thoughtful expression on her face!

"It looks a lot like the work of those Black Sun worshipping cultists. That thing in the sky looks exactly like the Sun Spawn they follow..."

"Sun Spawn..." Heidi was shocked. As a Pland person, as a witness to the Black Sun incident, she knew the horror behind this term better than anyone else. But then, she felt even greater confusion.

"But the 'invader' I saw in the dream at first was clearly an Annihilation Cultist..."

"Annihilation Cultists?" Lucrezia frowned. "Then... this situation is even worse!"

Heidi opened her mouth, wanting to ask the "Sea Witch" what she meant, but the next second, a slight rustling sound suddenly came from nearby, silencing her!

"Did you hear something?" Heidi asked quickly, with a hint of tension.

"It seems that the protector of that monster in the sky has arrived," Lucrezia said calmly, "When we discover it, it will feel fear, and then try to eliminate any intelligent beings who see it."

"The Black Sun's spawn are like that."

The strange rustling sound suddenly disappeared, but a huge sense of vigilance and crisis surged in like a tide the moment the sound disappeared. The next second, Heidi saw a shadow in the corner of her eye. In the nearby trees, in a corner that had looked normal just a moment before, an amorphous darkness writhed, surged, and divided into sinister bodies like spears and blades, rushing towards her and Lucrezia. Heidi didn't have time to think, her body had already fallen to the side, while raising the Zhongjin to push across the air in front of her, a remnant image staying where she fell.

The next second, the remnant image was ruthlessly penetrated by the attacker. The black shadow suddenly retreated, and the penetrated "figure" still stopped on the ground. The figure shook twice, its blurry outline quickly becoming clear, turning into another "Heidi"!

At the same time, a sharp popping sound suddenly came from Lucrezia's direction. A shadow crawling on the ground, like an insidious snake, spread to the feet of the "Sea Witch," and suddenly turned into thorns, spikes, blades, and tentacles. These fluctuating and terrifying things attacked Lucrezia from all directions.

In the blink of an eye, they swallowed her figure. However, in the shadows, Lucrezia's body suddenly transformed. She suddenly became a paper-thin "image," and then her body turned in the air, "floating" out of those intersecting deadly moves.

Then, her figure was reshaped on the open space next to her, and she somehow had a baton in her hand, like the one used by a musician to conduct an orchestra on stage. She raised the short baton and gently tapped it in the air, on the condensed black tentacle, and gently ordered.

"Little tune." The tentacle made a slight popping sound, and then the popping sounds rang out one after another, like a piece of music. In the continuous bursts, the tentacle disintegrated into countless illusory and colorful notes, scattered and disappeared into space.

All the "shadows" connected to that black tentacle made continuous popping sounds. The terrifying curse turned them into countless notes, fluttering colorfully in the air, this scene was as beautiful as a dream and as eerie as it was frightening.

Lucrezia elegantly flicked the baton and turned to look at Heidi, who had differentiated into a third personality clone, a hint of surprise in her eyes.

"Your amulet is good. Judging from your skills, have you also trained in the real world?"

"I have to have some means to protect myself. After all, those in our profession not only have to deal with mental patients, but also with their mentally ill people..."

"My father often taught me that girls must learn to protect themselves." Heidi gasped and said with a hint of pride.

Then she looked at Lucrezia with a bit more amazement and awe. "Your power... is indeed as powerful as the rumors say."

"Because my father also taught me something similar!"

Lucrezia smiled slightly, then turned around, her eyes calmly watching the figures that were constantly emerging from the air. The destruction of a few tentacles and a few shadows did not mean that things were over. For the followers of the Black Sun, their hateful limbs could always withstand greater consumption. The true bodies of the attackers appeared.

Those were several tall figures, wearing black trench coats of unknown material. Underneath, countless horrifying deformed flesh seemed to be hiding, constantly writhing and undulating, making a sticky and disgusting sound. Their faces were hidden in the shadows of wide-brimmed hats, and no tangible facial features could be seen. One could only feel the infinite emptiness and cold malice towards all living beings.

"They are the lesser spawn of the Sun, Heidi recognized the identities of these quasi-human beings in an instant. She and her personality clones both looked alert, and couldn't help but frown. "But I've never heard of these guys having the ability to enter dreams..."

Lucrezia noticed another situation. "They don't have umbrellas!" The Sea Witch frowned slightly.

As an explorer who had traveled in the border areas for many years and often dealt with various dangerous and strange forces, she was no stranger to the various followers of the Black Sun, and had fought with them several times.

These remnants of the Sun Spawn appearing in the dream did not hold the iconic bizarre black umbrellas. They stood in the light, frankly bathing in the "sunlight" that pierced the forest, as if they were exiles embracing their homeland.