Although both of them now have the appearance of living creatures, this is actually just the external form given by Carl's consciousness.

The struggle between the two is essentially the mutual devouring and influence of the two consciousnesses.

The behavior of the Claw Dream Spirit attacking its own bones can be seen as a self-attack of his own consciousness.

This may involve some spiritual theories, which Carl does not understand, but this does not prevent him from using them.

Approaching the body of Claw Dream Spirit again, Carl slid and went straight to the opponent's abdomen.

A dozen eyes looked at Carl at the same time, but no claws attacked him.

"Sure enough, the fact that I was able to blow out this guy's eyes so easily before was because he deliberately let me go. Obtaining a large amount of the other person's memories in a short period of time will also have an impact on his personality. He should have intended to use this method to influence me from the beginning."

The thought flashed through his mind, and Carl raised the power armor arm armor in his hand.

"Bang! Bang!"

Lightning spurted out one after another, and eyes exploded on the spot.

The Claw Dream Spirit let out another miserable howl, then staggered and rolled to the side.

Countless points of light swarmed around Carl. They were the countless memories carried by the Claw Dream Spirit, which were enough to easily overwhelm the cognition of any ordinary person and allow him to be assimilated by the Nightmare Spirit.

But just when the Claw Dream Spirit was expecting Carl to be assimilated by the memories, these memories did not penetrate into Carl's body. Instead, they flowed into the arm armor and caused the power armor on Carl's body to grow rapidly.

"Impossible! How could you use my personality to create a mental defense! This is a skill that only a dream spirit can master! This part of my memory is not missing, where did you get it from?!"

Finally, this nightmare spirit who had been pretending to be an unintelligent monster spoke.

At the same time, the shell on his body began to quickly cover the eyes and arms, and then the entire spirit turned into a large blue-black crab.

Obviously, after Carl mastered some skills that made him wary, he adjusted his strategy and no longer tried to use his extra memories to interfere with Carl. Instead, he prepared to devour Carl with real swords and guns.

"Huh! You ask me and I have to answer?"

With a cold snort, Carl distanced himself and fired two more pulse cannons at the Claw Dream Spirit.

But the crab's defense became stronger all of a sudden after it had re-condensed its shell. After two attacks, there was no trace left on the opponent's surface.

"This won't work! We must find a way to mobilize the power of this dream. I remember when I first started..."

Different from the first and second dream worlds, the third dream world that Carl is in now cannot directly materialize what he imagines.

For quite a long time, Carl felt that this place was the embodiment of his own spiritual camp, the machines represented order, and the deformed flesh and blood represented chaos.

But now the situation has changed. The memory and personality of the Claw Dream Spirit have been reshaped into power armor by Carl, so Carl feels that this dream may still hide a power that he does not understand.

With a thought in his mind, Carl suddenly and temporarily released his control over his psychic energy.

This was something he would never do before, because in the third-level dream world, such behavior meant the dream was out of control.

Sure enough, as soon as he let go of control, the world around him suddenly changed.

The mechanical earth suddenly expanded, and the cloth-like clock faces took flight like birds.

Everything became bizarre.

"Are you crazy? Without psychic power, your dream world will become distorted and you will become a madman!"

In the distance, the voice of the Claw Dream Spirit sounded intermittently. Carl looked carefully and found that this guy was like a duckweed, unable to move on his own, and could only barely hang on to something to support himself.

Carl closed his eyes and thought, then suddenly he had an epiphany.

'I am the master of this dream. If I don't use psychic powers, this guy can't use them either. Without psychic powers, he is just a bunch of foreign memories and personality.

If his body can continue to infiltrate power into here, I will give up resistance without using psychic power, but he is now on my territory and must follow my rules! '

The more he thought about it, the more it made sense to Carl.

As his mood fluctuated, the rotating hour hands, dials and bizarre scenery began to expand and merge.

At a certain moment, Carl suddenly felt a strange power born in his body.

This power fits in perfectly with his life on Earth, but is also very close to the power of psychic energy.

The illusory shadow of a clock slowly emerged from behind him, and the sound of turning gears and roaring bells echoed throughout the dream.

The psychic power started to work again, and Carl, whose body had been distorted, turned back into a human form covered with power armor.

The surrounding land changes accordingly. Mechanical structures such as clocks, gears, and pointers pulsate like living things. The bizarre dreamland where machines and distorted flesh and blood coexist has been completely integrated.

And just in front of Carl, the previous claw dream spirit was gradually disintegrating.

His flesh and blood turned into spots of light, and his bones were barely holding on.

Raising his hand, Carl fired another pulse cannon.

In an instant, the power armor began to grow wildly.

At the beginning, they were still multiplying wildly, as if they had become a fusion of machines and flesh and blood like the surrounding scenery.

But when they proliferated to a certain extent, they began to change into Carl's Optimus Prime mecha.

Carl felt as if he and the mecha had become one.

He is not just a driver sitting inside the mecha and responsible for providing energy and operations, but has become the core and thinking center of the entire mecha.

He could even feel the touch of the mecha, as if it had become a part of his body.

It is said that sword immortals can achieve the unity of man and sword, and Carl feels that he is similar to the sword immortals and seems to have reached the state of unity between man and machine.

The shadow of the clock behind him had now turned golden and was as tall as his current body of Optimus Prime.

If the special effect of the metal strap rotating around is added, Carl even feels that he can go to the Kamen Rider studio to make a cameo appearance as Oma Zi-O.

At this moment, Carl felt his spiritual energy begin to extend out in all directions.

He saw Hope, Midris and everything around them again, and could even see Nia and Shadow flying anxiously towards him in the distance.

However, because the speed of time in the dream world is different from that in the outside world, their movements seem to be slowed down hundreds of times.

Carl closed his eyes and tried to wake up, but suddenly he lost consciousness and was shrouded in darkness.

…

I don’t know how much time had passed before Karl woke up slowly.

He was expecting his girlfriends to rush over to him, ask him about his well-being, and make promises that they had firmly refused before.

But when he was about to move, he found himself trapped on the mast of a bronze and wooden warship, guarded by Hope, Midris, Nia and Shadow.

"What's going on with you? Murdering your husband?"

Blinking, Carl felt his healed body and was a little confused for a moment.

Just then, he saw Nia walking towards him with a serious face.

"You must now prove that you are Carl! We have already contacted Iris. She said that the psychic's suicide was to use his own life to release the nightmare spirit into reality to possess the enemy. We cannot be sure whether you are Carl or the nightmare spirit, or... Carl who has been contaminated by the nightmare spirit."

Hearing Nia's analysis, Karl felt relieved but also a little aggrieved.

I was relieved because Nia and the others did not panic and were able to try to control the situation.

What made him feel aggrieved was that he really couldn't prove what the other party said. After all, no matter how he explained, he couldn't clear himself of suspicion.

It would be better to return to Stormreach and have Elise check it out.

Thinking of Storm Bay, Carl's face suddenly froze.

Perhaps it was this keyword that triggered the nightmare spirit's memory, and a series of memories were now emerging in his mind.

This included part of the plan of the Ruiyi Drow spies in Storm Bay, the information that betrayed the steward of the Linland family, and... and their real goal!

“Swish!”

Carl used his psychic power to break free from the taut rope. He covered his forehead and said to Mitris who tried to subdue him: "We'll talk about it after we confirm the authenticity of my personality. Now I say this and you remember it!"

Seeing that he didn't seem to want to escape, Nia nodded, then called the dwarf over and asked him to record Carl's words.

The dwarves of the Sivis family are all excellent clerks and transcribers. Although Carl speaks quite fast, this dwarf has the help of another dragon-patterned magical instrument, the transcribing pen, so he can remember quickly and accurately.

When the dwarf, who had a high status in the Sivis family, heard Carl say, "Ruiyi Draco's real target is the Giant King's ruins that are suspected to have been opened, the Eternal Furnace on the other side of the Eye of the Storm on Lonely Mountain," he was stunned.

"Wait a minute! What did you just say? The Eternal Forge? There is an Eternal Forge in Xen'drik?!"

Because he was too surprised, the dwarf even forgot to control the dragon-patterned magic weapon, causing the feather pen to fall directly on the notebook, leaving a deep ink mark.

"You know the Eternal Forge? What is that? It sounds like an energy core."

Even Carl, the machinist of Arkanix, had never heard of the so-called Eternal Furnace, and the nightmare spirit only had this term in its memory without any more specific description.

Carl found it hard to believe that this cowardly dwarf in front of him actually knew such a thing.

Seeing that Carl seemed unconvinced, the dwarf took a deep breath and then began to introduce.

"The Eternal Furnace is an incredible thing. Why do you think Khorvaire's technology has developed so quickly? It is said that the ancestors of mankind made their fortune on the continent of Khorvaire by finding the remains of an Eternal Furnace."

(End of this chapter)