Chapter 308: Chapter 308: Complete Control of Dream Authority!

"Hm?"

Ren’s eyebrow twitched slightly.

So it really wasn’t a recording?

Inside his body, divine power began to surge.

However, just then, a voice sounded behind Ren: "God, do you really want to go to that world behind the rift? They seem full of hostility toward us... No, they should be hostile to all intelligent races."

So she wasn’t looking at me.

With this thought, Ren turned his head and saw a ghost-like figure pass right through his body, walking toward the great hall.

At some point, the person who’d just been speaking had disappeared.

"But they’re not all like that, are they?" Lady Dream’s voice rang out. "Most of that world consists of ordinary people controlled by them. The number is at least ten times, maybe even a hundred times the population of our continent. Don’t you think this is an opportunity?"

After confirming that what he was seeing now was just a recording, Ren’s expression relaxed a bit, but not completely.

What if there were some dangers hidden in this recording?

"The bigger the opportunity, the bigger the crisis. We can’t even be sure whether the other world can form faith power, whether it can give birth to deities. If it could, why weren’t there any native gods resisting those monsters called ’Hollows’?" the ghost-like figure continued.

Ren was actually curious about what kind of being this ghost-like guy was, to be able to talk to Lady Dream like this.

Was he one of the deity’s confidants, like Betty or Book?

Or did he have some special quality?

At the same time, he paid close attention to the information about the other world they were discussing.

The population of their world had actually always fluctuated like a heartbeat monitor, up and down. There hadn’t been much major change in the past few thousand years.

Ten times or even a hundred times the population made Ren’s eyes light up.

For deities, if all these people could have faith, the boost would be enormous.

You could only describe it as terrifying.

No wonder Lady Dream made such a choice.

Especially since the other world seemed to be under some kind of threat, which made this matter even more tempting.

The more desperate the area, the easier it was for people to have faith.

Hollows—he’d heard this term several times today.

He just didn’t know what kind of existence this was that could threaten an entire world.

Soon, the recording gave an answer: "Is there a possibility that Hollows are the deities of their world? People’s fear—isn’t that also a type of faith-like energy? Are evil gods rare in this world? If it weren’t for the followers of us normal deities, our world would probably be filled with all kinds of suffering and despair too."

Hollows, suspected to be a type of faith aggregate, liked to create fear and even fed on fear.

Ren thought of the deity of Foster Iron Mine that he’d just finished digesting not long ago.

It seemed like if that thing had been allowed to develop unchecked, it really would have caused a lot of trouble in the mortal realm.

"But according to our intelligence, these Hollows came from outside the planet."

"That’s our intelligence. If you were the supreme leader of such a world, facing monsters born from your citizens’ fearful faith, would you tell them? Fear keeps amplifying. Facing extraterrestrial beings, they have a fighting chance. Facing evil gods that feed on their fear, they’ll only become more afraid."

Lady Dream’s viewpoint was very simple. The reason there were still so many mortals over there was because those Hollows needed enough food.

The food needed these people to release it.

The ghost-like figure flickered with light, unable to say anything for a moment.

It seemed like this possibility was indeed more likely.

A few minutes later, suddenly, the scene began to shake.

Under Ren’s confused gaze, everything disappeared, leaving only an empty room and... that ghost-like being from before.

"Esteemed God of Technology, I wonder if the recording just now answered all your questions?"

The ghost-like being bowed slightly toward Ren with very standard etiquette.

The kind that usually only appeared when foreign diplomats visited another country’s monarch.

"I can feel the aura of dreams on you. Are you the dream weaver those people below mentioned?"

Ren looked at this semi-transparent guy before him with some curiosity, not hiding the curiosity on his face at all.

"I am the teacher of the dream weavers, and also the source of all dream weavers." The ghost-like figure said with a chuckle. "After waiting three thousand years, finally, a deity has come here wanting to uncover all the answers."

"Really? Too bad I don’t think you can give me all the answers. I even doubt whether you really have the answers I want."

"I can only do my best to complete the orders the goddess left behind. Whether I can succeed, to what extent I can do it—I don’t care." The ghost-like dream weaver’s tone was very flat, almost the same as when facing the deity earlier.

This made Ren take a couple more looks.

"What do I need to give?" Ren asked.

"Take control of this place."

"Hm? Aren’t you curious whether your goddess will return? What if your goddess comes back and finds the family fortune’s already been handed over to me? Wouldn’t that be awkward for you?"

Ren’s words didn’t cause any emotional fluctuation in the other party. Perhaps beings like dream weavers who controlled dreams simply didn’t have emotional fluctuations.

After hearing Ren’s words, the other party said very calmly: "When you master the dream authority, you will be my only master."

"Even if she returns, it can’t affect what we’re doing now."

As the ghost dream weaver spoke, he pulled out a fist-sized orb from somewhere: "Absorb this, and you’ll become the only Goddess of Dreams in this world."

"Maybe you really should rest."

If he hadn’t encountered any enemies, if he’d encountered enemies and defeated them, Ren wouldn’t have hesitated at all. But now, every intelligent being was doing one thing—making him absorb the Goddess of Dreams’ authority as quickly as possible. This made him a bit conflicted.

But the conflict didn’t last long because Ren could clearly feel that this sphere indeed contained endless Spirit Realm authority.

Compared to it, the part he controlled was way too weak.

Since the authority was correct, absorbing it naturally wouldn’t cause problems. He’d never heard of anyone being able to use authority to poison other deities this way.

With this thought, Ren directly beckoned with his hand, drawing the sphere-shaped Spirit Realm authority into his grasp.

He didn’t need any extra movements. The authorities from the same source naturally began to merge with each other.