Chpter 249

Chpter 249

What her team was about to do, Astrid just hoped that they would prepare themselves properly. But given their experience, that was obviously a given.

She didnt know what Leena was going to do. However, knowing her battle-maid, and lifelong friend, Astrid knew she wouldnt sit idly while Astrid got stronger.

Then there was Calum. He was just a year above Astrid, but if he left the safety of the arche would die. He was too weak to survive the harsh wastes of the Dead Seas. Hopefully there was a method where he, and the others like him could grow stronger.Updated from n0velbIn.(c)o/m

I hope you all succeed, Astrid thought as she closed her eyes. This time, she didnt know how long she would be within the trials. The previous time lasted days. This time could be different. Astrid was prepared for such an event as she summoned the Eye-Queens book.

She seeped her mana into the blackened leather cover, through it, and into the pages.

The darkness of her shut eyes transformed. Her vision spun until she arrived in a new land. It was cold. Too damned cold. Astrid tugged at her collar in hopes of making her warmer. It didnt. Instead, she moved more of her Intelligence into Constitution. Only then did she manage to barely endure the biting cold.

She was standing on a flat platform high up in the sky. To her, it looked like a colossal being had sliced the top of the mountain off in one, smooth sword strike. The mountain dropped down, leading into a vast icy plain. She could see signs of ruins, and a river that snaked through them.

In the distance, both near and far, there were towering ice-peaks all around her. She lost count at over forty. There wasnt a monster in sight. It was just a desolate wasteland.

A stray wind caught Astrid. She trembled and winced and crouched down to the floor to make her body as small as possible.

Shit, its cold.

In fact, she had never felt a cold like it. Even after pumping points into Constitution, she could still feel it. It was like daggers piercing her flesh. One moment she felt it bite in her arm, then the tip of her nose, then her feet.

Astrid was certain that even if she placed all of her points into Constitution, she would still feel the cold. She squinted her eyes against the wind. A dark cloud was approaching. And with it, a storm.

Astrid was confident that if that storm caught her, she wouldnt make it out alive. The thought surprised her. She would never have thought a storm would instil fear. But there she was, shaking at the sight of angry weather.

I have to find shelter.

The Eye-Queen appeared. She made a grand appearance. Her colossal body literally broke out from a massive mountain top, sending rock flying in all directions like high velocity projectiles.

Two vast stages spawned to either side of Astrid. Each stage had over fifty rows of seats. In them, was an enthusiastic crowd of beast people. They all wore a different assortment of winter clothing. Some were colourful, like what the people of Rebirth wore at the end of year festival, and others were more of earthy tones. All of them wore scarves and hats and mittens to keep their extremities warm. Astrid wanted them.

Welcome, my other half, to the third trial! The Eye-Queen yelled enthusiastically into a microphone made of an animal's bone. Given the size of the thing, Astrid didnt want to imagine what kind of monster she had to defeat for that. The damned thing was the size of an 8000 metre mountain. The crowd erupted in cheers and applause. She continued, This one is going to be a doozy. Featuring the Chasm of Never-Ending Nightmares, the Maze of Forgotten Devil Gods, the Hideout of the Pyroclastic Mad Man, and thats not all

The Eye-Queen pointed her finger at Astrid, striking a silly posy. At the end of the road, afterno, if she survived all of that. She will have to face the oh so spooky Watcher of the Endless Eye. Oo, spooky, right?

The crowd erupted into a cacophony of cheers. Astrid cupped her ears.

And then a wave of mana washed over her. Something was attacking. But where? She couldnt see. It wasnt an attack. If it was, she would have realised the moment it was fired. No, it was a mental attack.

Astrid attempted to cancel it with her own expertise, but it was of no use. Her eyes widened. Whatever was using the mind attack on her was vastly ahead of her. It would kill her in a second. But she calmed. If the Eye-Queen had tasked her to enter this place, then it meant there was a way to win.

Her mind was taken over, and with it, she was brought to a familiar place. It was home. Images flashed one after the other. Her family was murdered one by one, Rebirth was destroyed. When the cycle was finished, it replayed. Over and over and over again.

For months

And then in a Psychokinetic storm, ravaged the images until they shattered into specs of glittering mana.

That was a real pain, Astrid thought as she glared at the floating, goblin-like creature in the distance. It looked at her, fear stricken behind those overly large eyes.

That wasnt nice, Astrid snarled, yanking the creature's eyes from its sockets. It didnt even get to scream in pain as its skull exploded into fragments of bone, and a shower of blood.

You defeated the King of the Chasm of Never-Ending Nightmares - Level 401



| Extra experience is granted for defeating an enemy many levels above!

You have Levelled up!

| Oculus Witch Level 283 -> Oculus Witch Level 294

| Voidmare Level 283 -> Voidmare Level 294

You have gained 90 stat points.

| You now have 2686 Intelligence.

You have earned a Title - Nightmare Ender: Wow, that was a long and gruelling few months. I never thought it would end! Luckily for me, you did it. You ended the nightmares!

| Added Stats: Intelligence +50, Wisdom +100

| If selected, Defense against mind controlling techniques is increased by 35%.

Now lets blast this god forsaken land into pieces and return back where I have control of my damned fingers.