Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

Chapter 1542: Surviving The Nightmare Cloud!

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Morpheus grew stronger the more Nightmareborn Cores he absorbed. Elayne thanked Katherine for gathering them for her, as she saw Morpheus Aura growing stronger.

It seemed that these were exceptionally good at boosting his power, helping him move the vessel much faster as well!

But above all, his entire being began to evolve, it was gaining more and more dream and nightmare power, about to transform into an even stronger being.

Unlike other normal magic weapons, Morpheus was also a spirit! And spirits could, naturally, grow stronger and evolve through the large accumulation of compatible energies.

As beings made of purely ethereal energies, absorbing energy alone seemed to be enough to help them grow and also satiate their hunger and heal their exhaustion, and of course, the possibility of evolving was there.

FLUOSH!

"I can feel it! My power is rising… I can almost… I might even evol-"

RUMBLE!

However, a tremor interrupted Morpheus and everyone else, as they glanced at the origin of that tremor, noticing that the clouds around them began to transform.

"Huh? What the hell was that?!" Rita wondered. "Wait, don't fucking tell me…!"

"That was a tremor…!" Lily said. "But where did it even come from?!"

"Huh? Over there!" Anna pointed into the distance. "T-The clouds…!"

As Anna and everyone else noticed, the giant Nightmare Clouds started to swirl and gather around the entire ship-shaped dream cloud, resembling an ocean vessel with a golden, heavenly appearance.

"They're moving alone on their own?" Mark wondered.

"T-This is weird!" Gabriel said.

"Aren't they just natural phenomena?!" Katherine wondered.

"I…" Elayne muttered, seeing the clouds rushed towards them.

The small golden ark was suddenly being wrapped by the endless darkness, as if the Nightmare Clouds themselves had suddenly become alive out of nowhere!

"They're beginning to cover the entire vessel!" Elena said. "Mom, we have to destroy them!"

"Y-Yeah!" Elayne nodded. "We have to-"

TRUUUM!

However, interrupting Elayne's words, something emerged from within the Nightmare Clouds, rapidly swirling and manifesting, gigantic in size, perhaps over fifty meters of height alone.

It was a giant, black hand with a crimson eye over its palm, glowing brightly and letting out a demonic, nightmarish aura.

"A-A hand?!" Lily asked.

BAAAM!

However, before everyone could respond, the hand slammed the barrier with immense force, letting out a powerful shockwave.

Crack, crack…!

And with a single blow, the barrier began to shatter, gaining several cracks across its entire surface, scaring Elayne and the rest even more.

"Wait a second, this giant thing is another Nightmareborn?!" Anna asked.

"Was it waiting to ambush us once we got through the Nightmare Cloud?" Monica wondered.

"That doesn't matter right now!" Gardenia said. "Elayne! The barrier's durability is decreasing way too damn fast! Kill that thing, hurry!"

"Y-Yes!" Elayne nodded, as she unleashed her Draconification Ability, rapidly encompassing herself with draconic scales, while holding Irene in her axe form.

At the same time, a spinning, colorful crown made of crystals appeared above her head, granting her powerful Elemental Magic Attacks.

"STOP!"

With a furious and god-like roar, Elayne let out some of her true strength, as a giant storm of golden lightning, freezing ice spikes, and blazing fireballs bombarded the giant hand.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

"GRYYAAAAHH!"

The monstrous hand roared in agony, its fingers walking over the barrier as they tried to run away from Elayne's magic, which was covering it with large holes, burning wounds, freezing wounds, and more.

"Where do you think you're going?!"

She quickly gave chase, infusing her own Mana into the Barrier and manipulating its shape, just like Brisingra would have done, giant spikes emerged from the barrier, piercing the monster's body.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

The monster was quickly impaled, bleeding Nightmare Miasma everywhere, as it groaned in agony. Elayne was merciless, emerging out of the barrier and slicing its entire body with her axe at full power.

"Irene, let's go all out!"

"Gotcha, Elayne!"

Their Souls and Auras condensed and combined temporarily, as Elayne activated Irene's [Divine Spiritual Elemental Fusion] Ability, transforming her once more into her holy axe form.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

The giant monster roared, screaming as its entire body was covered by giant slashing wounds, several of its fingers were sliced apart, exploding into black soot.

"GRYSHAAAGGHH…!"

Still resisting death, the giant Nightmareborn's crimson eye shone brightly, firing a massive crimson beam at point blank towards Elayne.

TRUUUMMM!!!

"Elayne!"

Mark was about to go out and help her, but suddenly…

FLAAASH!

A blinding rainbow light emerged from her body, as Elayne held her shield tightly, intercepting the beam with it and then, manifesting its powers even further.

"{Divine Yggdragon's Eyes Of Magic Repulsion}!"

The shield transformed, letting out a rainbow aura that shapeshifted into the giant maws of a massive Yggdragon, releasing a giant beam against the monster.

BOOOMMM!!!

The beam pierced through it, rapidly disintegrating it and then piercing a hole through the Nightmare Clouds, everyone was able to see through it, the floating island made of beautiful forests, where the Dreams of the majority of the Fae, Fairies, and Spirits of Avalon condensed was right there.

"Morpheus! We're almost there! Let's keep moving!"

As Elayne said, Morpheus, with a lot of new strength, agreed, quickly beginning to move the vessel-shaped dream cloud towards the hole that Elayne had opened.

RUMBLE!

However, to their surprise, whatever was in here wouldn't let them escape so easily, the Nightmare Clouds rapidly gathered, fusing into several more hands, the same Elayne had destroyed.

"Wait, there's more?!"

Elayne was suddenly surrounded by these gigantic black hands made of Nightmare Clouds, with red eyes over their palms, sometimes over their entire bodies.

Instead of one, there were now over eight of them, and she noticed the clouds rapidly shapeshifting, two or three more were on the way already.

"This is ridiculous, how are these things being made? It doesn't feel right to me!"

Rita complained to Morpheus, but it wasn't as if the scythe knew anything else.

"I-I really don't have any idea why this is happening… Unless.. unless we're being ambushed by intelligent beings, not just Nightmareborns, who are no smarter than beasts…!"

"By people then? Wait… that can't be true! Nobody lives in here right?"

As Rita looked into the clouds approaching, she noticed something by just a glimpse.

It was a split second before it hid behind the clouds.

"W-Wha…?!"

It was the silhouette of a human, wearing a black robe.

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