Chapter 309: Chapter 309: Having Too Much Fun

Mastering authority was real and tangible. When it came to mastering authority, no conspiracy or scheme could affect a deity.

Ren felt his own authority continuously strengthening, and couldn’t help but smile a little.

Just like when he’d taken down the God of War’s authority, the faith power the deity hadn’t managed to consume would also merge into his body along with the authority.

However, the God of War’s final crazy consumption was truly terrifying, so there wasn’t much faith power left over.

But the Goddess of Dreams was different.

She’d never appeared for three thousand years. Aside from the consumption needed to maintain the bell tower’s normal operation, all other faith power had been accumulated. How terrifying that was, you could imagine.

You had to know, the Goddess of Dreams was the deity with the most casual believers in this world.

No one could avoid dreaming.

As time passed, Ren’s understanding of the Goddess of Dreams’ authority grew deeper and deeper.

The core was naturally still the Spirit Realm.

[Spirit Realm]: Read target memories, weave real worlds!

After strengthening, his Spirit Realm could now construct infinite possible dreamscapes—sweet dreams, nightmares, prophetic dreams. It could confuse time and space logic to complete a series of even more special operations.

"Prophetic, huh... That’s really amazing!"

Ren himself didn’t actually have this kind of ability. Most deities didn’t have abilities involving the future.

But when all the dream authority was absorbed by him, the ability to let others receive certain prophecies naturally emerged.

This kind of ability was extremely special and very easy for gathering faith.

No one didn’t like predicting the future.

Besides the [Spirit Realm] authority, the Goddess of Dreams’ authority had many other amazing operations.

For example...

[Reality]: Can project dream world creations and rules into the real world. Power, range, and duration are determined by how much divine power or faith power is injected.

Anyone who’s dreamed knows that in dreams, anyone can become incredibly powerful, any monster can become nearly invincible. All kinds of reality-warping rules that would make Newton unable to keep his coffin lid down are countless.

Moreover, the Goddess of Dreams was the source of all dreams.

Being able to project everything from the dream world into the real world—how powerful that was couldn’t be put into words. You could even combine it with Spirit Realm to create infinite dreams, making people unable to distinguish between dreams and the real world, until finally, they’d end themselves.

[Sleep]: Can make people instantly fall asleep or suffer insomnia.

Instant sleep or insomnia—this was hard to judge. As long as you could be affected, you were fish on a chopping board, no threat at all.

He just didn’t know how much it could affect deity-level beings.

Also, if he wanted, could he directly make someone fall into eternal sleep?

Eternal sleep, dreams constructed by Spirit Realm... What kind of godly combo was this?

Besides these authorities, there were also some relatively special ones, but they didn’t seem very meaningful, like:

[Illusion]: In dreams, activate all of a target’s weaknesses, making them believe this is their truest self. After waking from one dream, their personality becomes completely twisted.

[Dream Walking]: Can enter others’ dreams, can wander through multiple people’s dreams, can achieve rapid movement by borrowing others’ dreams.

Ren actually couldn’t think of any particularly good usage scenarios. At most, he’d just treat it as a game and play around with it.

The sphere quickly merged completely with Ren.

Dozens of authorities of the Goddess of Dreams, large and small, were all swallowed and digested by him.

At this point, when Ren looked again at the ghost-like guy who’d been speaking, he no longer had that unreal feeling from before.

Turns out, these so-called dream weavers were actually dream creatures condensed using the [Reality] authority, and then the Goddess of Dreams, Lady Dream, had also granted them the [Enter Dream] authority, giving them the ability to pull sleeping people into dreams.

When dream authority was controlled by the Goddess of Dreams, people in the world no longer had the ability to dream. Dreams could only be granted by the Goddess of Dreams.

After long exploration, this was the method Lady Dream came up with.

Ren looked at this ghost-like dream weaver, thought for a moment, and nodded slightly. "Your team of dream weavers should maintain the status quo for now. Keep pulling people into dreams and collecting faith."

Building a super large-scale Spirit Realm world, similar to a virtual online game from his previous life, letting people enter a magical network space as if dreaming—this definitely needed to be done. But building it couldn’t be completed overnight.

Switching to dream entry directly now was obviously not appropriate. There was no way to connect at all.

"Yes."

The ghost-like dream weaver bowed slightly. "As the new God of Dreams, Lord of Tulips, your words are our purpose."

"I want to know, after Lady Dream left, did she really never come back?"

After a slight silence, Ren finally spoke.

"Yes, after entering the world on the other side of the portal, she never returned. The last message transmitted back was the source energy cultivation method."

"How much more do you know about that planet?"

After mastering the authority, Ren could clearly feel the other party wasn’t lying.

He really didn’t expect things would go this smoothly.

It seemed like Lady Dream had arranged early on for a new deity to receive her authority.

Everything he saw was cooperation.

"Everything we know was just shown in that projection... However, with the invasion of the Hollows—or what those guys below call Nightmares—we’ve come to understand a bit about these monsters condensed from faith power from another world."

Hollows almost never confronted people head-on, whether facing powerful or weak enemies.

They appeared and disappeared mysteriously.

They liked to suddenly pop out, bringing endless pressure to people, then chasing from behind until the other party was completely numb and could no longer produce any negative emotions, then killing them.

If a Hollow faced a group of life forms, they’d choose to cage these life forms, affecting them one by one, killing them one by one, making the other life forms afraid, wanting to escape but never able to escape...

"In short, they try as much as possible to activate negative emotions, then strengthen themselves by devouring negative emotions?"

After listening, Ren nodded slightly and summarized.

"Yes, and we’ve discovered that Hollows can be killed. Some ordinary Hollows don’t even need legendary magicians to kill them. We’ve also suspected that the ordinary people in the other world aren’t completely hopeless. There might be similar powers, just relatively rare..."

Listening to this information, Ren’s thoughts kept flying around. He’d already absorbed the Goddess of Dreams’ authority, so naturally, he needed to figure out how to solve the portal problem.

But now the information still didn’t seem comprehensive enough. If it was only like this, Lady Dream wouldn’t have been unable to return. She couldn’t possibly have been having too much fun to think of home, right?

Continue defending and accumulating strength?

Small forces for probing?