Chapter 573: Taking Action

In the dark night, on the devastated battlefield in the foggy outskirts of Mon Carlo, the lord of Mon Carlo, the former great pirate Edward, and the Black Dream Group's chase of moths and withered wings continued. Since Edward was fighting at home and had the advantage of intelligence, he had a considerable initiative in the entire battle and had the upper hand at this time.

“Cough… cough cough…”

Covering his chest, Ku Chi coughed up large mouthfuls of blood. His face was pale and his body was shaking uncontrollably. He had just been attacked by Edward's hidden spiritual power. Although Ku Chi used the tentacles of the pseudo-moth to clear the abnormal spiritual power in his body in time, his internal organs were still terribly damaged. His entire body was almost mixed into a paste. Not only his lungs and intestines were broken into pieces, but even his heart was damaged. If Ku Chi had not activated the Feast Seal hidden in his ring at the critical moment to greatly strengthen his physique in a short period of time to prolong his life, Ku Chi would be dead now.

However, facing this level of damage, even the Feast Seal, which represented the power of the first-level "Cup", would not last long. He had to act immediately, otherwise, when the effect of the Feast Seal weakened slightly or Edward launched a massive attack, he would be finished.

It was obvious that Edward was unwilling to let go of the great opportunity he had created. The moment Withered Wing was injured, he immediately launched another attack. With a wave of his hand, countless thick water arrows condensed in the space again and shot straight at Withered Wing at high speed. At the same time, he also held the water sword in his hand, and through the elemental feet, he sprayed high-pressure water downwards, ejecting his entire body like half a rocket, and rushed towards Withered Wing.

Under Edward's fierce attack, the many huge dream body tentacles that were guarding Withered Wings collapsed and broke one after another, disappearing into nothingness in the air. If Withered Wing had not sensed in advance that something was wrong with the situation and had retracted most of the dream body tentacles that were originally used for attack before Edward launched his hidden spiritual sneak attack, and used them for defense in front of himself, Edward's charge would have been able to kill through all of Withered Wings' defenses in one breath.

When Edward had almost defeated all the defensive spiritual tentacles and had already rushed in front of Withered Wing, Withered Wing finally completed his countermeasures. After he was about to use the talisman to hang on to his life, he immediately took out a small and exquisite carved silver hollow ball from his clothes. The hollow metal ball was inlaid with densely colored small gems. Looking into the ball from the hollow place, one could only see layers of nested and stacked spheres. It was impossible to tell how many layers were stacked inwards, and what was in the center.

The moment Ku Chi took out the hollow silver ball, a fragrant smoke began to emerge rapidly from the hollow part of the ball. The smoke quickly spread around Ku Chi, gradually enveloping his entire body. When Edward broke through all defenses and attacked in front of Ku Chi, what he saw was the world shrouded in misty smoke. Seeing this, Edward frowned slightly, and immediately accelerated his offensive and slashed the water sword in his hand towards the condensed smoke.

However, at this moment, an unexpected situation occurred. The moment Edward's water sword blade touched the smoke, it began to become psychedelic and blurry, and more transparent, with colorful light, as if in a dream, which was exactly the same as the tentacles of the dream body controlled by Withered Wings.

This smoke has some kind of corrosive effect!

After seeing this scene, Edward immediately had these amazing thoughts in his mind, and then he saw that his water sword blade that was materialized by the dream was out of his control and broke from his hand, and his spirituality attached to it was also dispelled. The strange smoke surrounding the withered wings began to spread suddenly to the surroundings, as if it wanted to swallow Edward who was right in front of him.

Seeing this scene, Edward retreated immediately. The powerful high-pressure water jets from his legs made him fly backwards at a very high speed, and he was not affected by the diffuse smoke and dust.

After once again distanced himself from Withered Wing, Edward stood in place again, observing the situation of the enemy in the distance very carefully. He saw that the smoke and dust spreading outwards did not last long and gradually dissipated in the space. After the smoke and dust dissipated, Withered Wing's figure appeared in front of Edward again, but this time Withered Wing had undergone a huge change.

A translucent body, a blurred face, flowing colors. After being surrounded by the smoke and dust, Ku Chi's entire body transformed into the form of a dream body. At this moment, he briefly got rid of the constraints of the flesh and turned into a semi-dream creature.

"It's actually... the transformation into a world..."

Looking at the changes in the Withered Wings in front of him, Edward couldn't help but mutter to himself. The Withered Wings, which had transformed into a dream body, did not stop there. He immediately began the next action.

"Moth... descend upon me..."

Spreading out his hands, Ku Chi murmured in a distant voice, and then his body began to undergo drastic changes.

The withered wings that were originally standing on the ground began to rise into the air, and the illusory wings behind it suddenly began to grow rapidly. The tentacles extending from the spiritual coat also began to dance wildly and grow rapidly. The dream body's spiritual coat began to deform, growing rapidly forward and backward.

Seeing this scene, Edward's face darkened, and then he waved his hand, allowing the water mist in a large range to condense into water arrows, stabbing towards Withered Wings. In a moment, it was overwhelming, and tens of thousands of thick water arrows shot towards Withered Wings from all directions, shattering the rapidly growing dream body outside Withered Wings' body. However, the speed of the scattering was not as fast as the growth speed of Withered Wings' dream body outer coat.

Finally, after rapid growth, the withered wings of the dreamland body gradually took shape, forming a huge fantasy creature flying in the sky above Moncarlo. It was a huge translucent strange flying insect. On its huge and broken wings, there were countless colors flowing, vortex-like mysterious patterns. On its long and bloated abdomen, there were densely attached countless glowing tiny cocoons. On the middle segments where the insect limbs should have grown, there were countless wriggling tentacles. There were no mouthparts or eyes on the insect head, only a smooth piece, with only two tentacles extending out.

This is the powerful half-dream creature, the Pseudo-moth, bred from the scales of Pan-moth, the god worshipped by the Black Dream Hunters. The members of the Black Dream Hunters obtain extraordinary abilities from the Pseudo-moth through symbiosis with it. One Pseudo-moth can symbiotically coexist with countless Black Dream members, and the Black Dream Hunter member who is the symbiotic subject has the ability to control the behavior of the Pseudo-moth.

A fully developed pseudo-moth has the power of the Red Adult stage. The main member of the Black Dream that coexists with the mature pseudo-moth is the Red Adult of the Black Dream. Withered Wings is such an existence. Now he has completely summoned his symbiote from the dream world to the real world and made it appear above Mon Carlo.

"Is this... the symbiotic dream moth of Black Dream?"

Edward couldn't help whispering as he looked at the giant psychedelic moth that was about thirty meters long and suspended in the sky. At this time, the withered wing at the center of the pseudo-moth also began to use the power of the symbiont to heal itself. Although the withered wing did not have the ability to heal this level of physical injury, he could use the power of extraordinary props to temporarily transform himself into a dream body, and then the pseudo-moth that was symbiotic with him would heal him. The pseudo-moth's self-healing ability could be transmitted to him, allowing his injuries to recover quickly. After the injury was fully recovered, the withered wing also controlled the pseudo-moth to make new movements.

“——”

With a slight flap of its wings, the huge pseudo-moth suspended in the sky burst into an invisible wave in all directions. This wave, with the pseudo-moth as the center, quickly swept across the entire Mon Carlo. All of a sudden, hundreds of thousands of people on Mon Carlo who were still surprised by the fog felt unprecedented sleepiness in an instant, and they fell to the ground and fell asleep. For a moment, there was no one awake on the entire main island of Mon Carlo except Ku Chi and Edward.

This was a hypnotic wave, a powerful hypnotic wave released by a complete pseudo-moth. Previously, the wave released by Withered Wing himself had a range of only two or three miles, and it had no effect on Edward who was mentally anchored. But this time, the hypnotic wave released by the pseudo-moth covered the entire island of Mon Carlo, making everyone fall asleep instantly, and even Edward's mental anchor was temporarily shaken, making his mind a little unclear for a moment.

“Hmm…”

Affected by the pseudo-moth's hypnotic waves, Edward was disturbed by the sudden sleepiness and his body swayed slightly. He even covered his temples. Seeing this, Withered Wing, who was in the pseudo-moth's body, activated the pseudo-moth's ability again.

"The nightmare of the heart is an illusion..."

Along with the murmur of the withered wings, four shadows suddenly appeared out of thin air beside the confused Edward. The four shadows quickly squirmed and deformed, and after a moment they formed four dark dream bodies!

The four dream entities, each with their own form, were a fat, stern-looking Inquisitor holding a holy book, a sailor covered in blood, a female pirate wearing a snake-patterned robe, braided with snakes, and holding a scaly sword, and Edward himself, who was so old that he had to use a cane and had lost all his teeth.

"Everyone in this village is suspected of having ties with the cult! They should all be burned at the stake!" The fat inquisitor held the holy book in his arms, reading the verdict while burning a translucent flame towards Edward.

"Captain...save us! Save us! Please don't leave us here!" The blood-covered sailor cried and slashed at Edward with his scimitar.