Chapter 92: Refining the Nightmare, Awakening (4)
“Hmph. The dreamscape is vast. What is one Mingzhou City worth? I hold the whole world of dreams in my grasp. Soon, reinforcements from every state and town of the Great Dream Dynasty will arrive without end. Once Mingzhou City falls, you and Mo Yuxi will be my prisoners. As long as I do not let you wake, you will remain in this world forever. I will slowly grind you to death!”
As he spoke, the Great Dream Emperor and the hundred thousand soldiers all stood motionless like puppets, exactly as Yan Chuan had said: every one of them was under the Nightmare’s control.
“You control the world? Endless reinforcements?” Yan Chuan gave a faint smile.
“Report!”
“Your Majesty, the Great Qin Kingdom from the east has launched an all-out invasion. Sixteen cities of our Yong Prefecture have already fallen!”
“Great Qin? Where did Great Qin come from?” The Nightmare’s expression darkened.
“Report!”
“The Great Zhao has invaded with its full strength. Twelve cities have been lost!”
“Report!”
“The Great Wei has invaded with its full strength. Fourteen cities have fallen!”
“Report!”
……
One defeat after another came in. On the command platform, the Great Dream Emperor’s face changed again and again.
Even the Nightmare was utterly stunned.
“Impossible. Eight kingdoms invading at the same time? And now, of all times?” the Nightmare said in disbelief.
He suddenly looked up and saw Yan Chuan’s cold smile.
“You? You created eight kingdoms again? This, this is impossible!” the Nightmare cried out.
“In a dream, of course I can have whatever I want. Hahaha!” Yan Chuan laughed.
The Nightmare stared at him with growing alarm.
“How much do you actually know about my Nightmare race?” he asked uneasily.
“How much do I know? Just as you said, if no one in the outside world wakes me, and you refuse to let me wake, then even if I die in the dream, I still will not awaken. I will only sink into a deeper level of dreaming. Likewise, in the real world, if I do not wake up, then you can forget about leaving my dream! Even if you want me to wake now, I will not agree!” Yan Chuan said, glaring.
“How do you know that?” the Nightmare said in disbelief.
“I also know that in order to enter my dream, you fused your power with my dreamscape, which means you fused it with the Great Dream Dynasty itself. The more cities the Great Dream Dynasty loses, the more power you lose too! Your Nightmare race creates nightmares for others? Today, I shall give you one as well!” Yan Chuan said with a smile.
“No. The secret of my Nightmare race cannot possibly be known by you. Impossible!” the Nightmare shrieked.
“Report! The Great Qin army has not paused for even a moment, and has seized two more cities of our dynasty!”
“Report!”
……
One city after another was lost, and the Nightmare’s power grew weaker and weaker.
“Take the city! Assault it by force!” the Nightmare roared madly.
“Attack the city!” the Great Dream Emperor cried out in a puppet-like command.
“Roar!”
The hundred thousand troops surged toward Mingzhou City in a killing tide.
“Hold the gates! Loose arrows from the battlements!” Yan Chuan ordered.
“Yes!” countless soldiers on the walls answered in a thunderous shout.
Yan Chuan glanced once more at the enraged Nightmare in the distance, then smiled faintly.
“Why is this happening? I am the greatest of the Nightmare race. I am the Nightmare. In a dream, I should be the one in control. Why is this happening?” the Nightmare muttered to himself.
Inside the city, the Yan residence.
“Aah!”
Mo Yuxi’s anguished cries rang out again and again.
“Second Madam, once more, just once more. It is almost here!”
“Aah!” “Mm!” “Aah!”
Mo Yuxi cried out in pain.
“Second Madam, one more push. I can already see the head. It is coming. The child is about to be born!”