Chapter 12: The Lord of Nightmare Also Wanted to be Popular
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Everything beca calm.
Qiu Ren and the Lord of Nightmare, Tapir, sat opposite each other once more.
Before Qiu Ren started talking, Tapir suddenly stuck its hand inside its chest. After groping briefly for a while, it pulled sothing out.
At first, Qiu Ren thought it was the heart of the Lord of Nightmare. Looking more carefully, he found that it was a light blue Dream Seed.
“This is your… remuneration.” Tapir’s voice carried a bit of exhaustion.
Judging from how this Dream Seed was taken out, it should be sothing important. Tapir tore part of it off for Qiu Ren as his reward.
“A Dream Seed.”
Qiu Ren took the Dream Seed full of light blue luster.
When he put it in his hands, its temperature still hadn’t co down. Qiu Ren could feel that there was a powerful energy in this Dream Seed.
Looking at the seed from the outside to the inside, he could even see so traces of relics of civilization.
This was a Dream Seed of at least Level B with a genre of science fiction!
It was, in fact, not difficult to evaluate the quality of a Dream Seed. The most intuitive way of doing it was to judge from the size of space it could carry.
Every person’s first awakened Dream Dungeon Dinsion had only ten square ters of space, which was really small.
It was so small that it was impossible to make a movie, let alone creating a ga. Unless it was a skipping simulator or sothing.
In order to expand it, a person must either use Creation Points or buy Dream Seeds to develop new spaces.
In terms of area, Level E Dream Seeds, the lowest level, could reach three hundred to a thousand square ters. The higher the level of the Dream Seed, the more the expansion would be.
A Level C Dream Seed could support a dream construction of the size of an entire city.
The one in Qiu Ren’s hands could even contain a dream construction of the size of the province he was in. It should be at least Level B.
“Mr. Qiu Ren… I hope you can… beco powerful as soon as possible.”
Tapir gave Qiu Ren a present. At the sa ti, it also had high expectations for him.
“Powerful?”
Qiu Ren didn’t think it was a word for describing a Dream Maker or for comnting on a movie director or ga creator.
“The world of Dream Makers isn’t… peaceful, Mr. Qiu Ren.” Tapir patiently told Qiu Ren about the dark side of this world.
“You an the invasion of Dream Dungeons?” Qiu Ren had also learned about this.
Dream Dungeons could invade each other!
This was originally not sothing a poor student like Qiu Ren would encounter.
It often happened on those Dream Dungeon Movies in the cinema and Dream Dungeon Gas with public comrcial operations.
This kind of invasion was sotis a malicious business competition and sotis a military conflict between countries.
Qiu Ren didn’t know the exact way of invasion, though.
When soone’s Dream Dungeons were destroyed by the intruders, that person would die of a ntal breakdown.
This was the reason why the country put so many resources into training Dream Makers. They even included the course of Dream Maker as one of the electives for the college entrance examination.
In this world, Dream Dungeons made up of movies and gas represented power. Without any exaggeration, it was another level of competition between countries.
So, all countries would spend a considerable amount of money and resources to get Dream Seeds from all sorts of channels. They would then film Dream Dungeon Movies and create gas. This was the sa as a military competition.
It was a real war between cultures.
“I seem to have no reason to be targeted by those potential enemies.” Qiu Ren fiddled with the Dream Seed in his hands and said, “But I don’t like the feeling of having no power to protect myself.”
“The battle royale ga you built… still belongs to you, and only you, Mr. Qiu Ren.” Tapir gave the reason why Qiu Ren would likely be targeted by the potential threats. “So, if you die of a ntal breakdown because of the dream, I’ll be… very frustrated.”
When I die, will the battle royale ga also be gone?
Qiu Ren wasn’t worried that soone in reality would assassinate him.
After all, Dream Dungeons could be inherited.
When most Dream Makers died, they would pass the Dream Dungeons they built down to their next generation, or they would turn them back to Dream Seeds with so unique techniques.
Only through invasion could a Dream Dungeon be completely destroyed.
Qiu Ren’s senior, the builder of the death tower, must have given the ownership of the death tower to the Lord of Nightmare, Tapir, before he died.
“So, I’ll still get remunerations in the future?” Qiu Ren asked the part he was most concerned about.
“Of course, but according to the rules, this is the best reward I can give you right now… If more humans are willing to participate in your battle royale ga, I’ll recover a bit faster. And now, I need to give ti for those humans outside to rest before starting the next round.”
There was also so uncontrollable exhaustion in the voice of the Lord of Nightmare.
It seed that pulling out a Level C and Level B Dream Seed from its body brought so kind of harm to itself.
But Tapir was still willing to offer Qiu Ren this reward. There seed to be so rules—rules that every Lord of Nightmare must follow.
This was also one of the principles of nightmare purification. Although Tapir also went into the Nightmare Dungeon to absorb human’s emotional power to heal itself, the harm it suffered after giving the winning humans rewards was even larger.
And yet, this was another reason why the purification progress of the Level S Nightmare Dungeon was so slow.
The Nightmare Dungeon of eating chicken increased Tapir’s food intake, but Tapir must offer more rewards in return.
Qiu Ren rembered a book that analyzed nightmare purification. It ntioned that the most crucial thing for purifying a Level S Nightmare Seed was the balance between intake and output.
Purifying the Level S Nightmare Seed was just a secondary goal. The main purpose was to get those Dream Seeds with a lower level produced by the Level S Nightmare Seed.
This was also the primary source of Dream Seeds.
The premise was to control the risk of that Level S Nightmare Seed running wild.
The dungeon of eating chicken had already increased Tapir’s productivity, but Qiu Ren believed there was still a lot of room for improvent.
“You’re underestimating the addiction of the battle royale ga. More and more people will get hooked from now on. I’m not just talking about the death row prisoners in Fengdu Prison, either. Those staff mbers in the prison or people from the outside may also volunteer to participate in the ga and beco the new parachuting recruits of the isolated island.”
Qiu Ren said as he reminded the Lord of Nightmare, “The rules of the battle royale ga can be easily reproduced. I guess there will soon be soone who will create a peaceful edition to fight for popularity with us.”
Qiu Ren could now treat the Lord of Nightmare… as the operator of the battle royale ga.
However, the cost of death in the version operated by this Lord of Nightmare was too high. Not ntioning the realistic pain when being shot by a bullet, a person’s body and mind would be severely injured in reality after being killed in the ga.
Even though the reward for eating the chicken at the end could be used to buy a house, the first two bloody costs would probably make a lot of people hesitate.
Then, if soone created a more peaceful edition, it would likely gain quite high popularity.
“I’ve already told you, Mr. Qiu Ren.” The Lord of Nightmare, Tapir, interlaced its fingers. Its voice beca extrely low, as if it was suppressing sothing. “The battle royale ga belongs to you, and you only. I won’t allow any similar Dream Dungeon or… Nightmare Dungeon to appear!”
Are you a cop?
Things like rules were difficult to protect.
But the Lord of Nightmare didn’t seem to think so. Tapir looked like it would blow the dog head of anyone who dared to make a similar Dream Dungeon.
It was the owner of a Level S Nightmare, after all. Qiu Ren believed that the Lord of Nightmare was capable of keeping his word.
So, the people in this world could only experience the excitent of eating chicken in this dangerous nightmare. Countless people would be willing to risk their lives to eat this delicious roasted chicken.
“Finally, I hope the battle royale ga will truly beco popular… as you said, Mr. Qiu Ren.”
Tapir also adjusted its tone a bit. Qiu Ren could hear a hint of loneliness in its words. It sounded like a pathetic woman who had been in her boudoir for too long.
It looked like the Lord of Nightmare also wanted to be popular.
“It certainly will. When the harm brought by death in the nightmare is reduced to an acceptable range, more people will be willing to co in and take the wreath of laurel for eating chicken,” said Qiu Ren.
Tapir nodded gently again. It also realized it was ti to send Qiu Ren away.
“Mr. Qiu Ren, it’s ti for you to wake up,” said Tapir.
“Wait. Do you have Creation Points as an option in your rewards?” Qiu Ren asked quickly.
Creation Points were also important for building a Dream Dungeon. If Qiu Ren really wanted to create a story with this Level B Dream Seed, the number of Creation Points he needed would be at least a hundred thousand.
If Qiu Ren rembered it correctly, the exchange rate of Creation Points was 1:120 right now. He had to spend a hundred twenty yuan to buy one Creation Point.
Qiu Ren didn’t have so much money!
“I’m sorry. I can’t give you that.” Tapir shook its head to show that there was nothing it could do.
There was no way the Lord of Nightmare could give Qiu Ren another Dream Seed so he could exchange it for money.
Alright… It seed that Qiu Ren had to think of a way to get Creation Points himself.
“If the battle royale ga truly becos popular in the future, as Mr. Qiu Ren said, I’ll offer you more remuneration. But I think it’s a wild wish. It’s really… difficult to make humans fall in love with death and pain. However, the nightmare you created indeed has this… potential. I’m willing to believe you.”
What Tapir said had a feeling of loneliness. It adjusted its tone and continued, “Lastly… I hope you can use that Dream Seed to create a… popular story.”
Popularity. The audience’s recognition was a powerful and essential indicator for a Dream Dungeon. It would be like the box office in the movie industry and sales in the gaming industry.
Popularity was called “populace recognition” in Dream Dungeons.
Qiu Ren could create a character that could easily destroy a skyscraper with the Level B Science Fiction Dream Seed in his hands.
But it was useless if he was the only person who thought the character was invincible and could level a building with one hand.
The audience also had to recognize and like it.
Not only one audience, either. The more people who recognized and loved the character, the stronger the power of the character would be when he invaded other people’s Dream Dungeons or when the characters from other Dream Dungeons intruded.
Qiu Ren indeed wanted to go back and think about what kind of dungeon he should create with this Level B Science Fiction Dream Seed.
However, he was also seriously considering the possibility of operating the dungeon of the “battle royale ga” in the long term!
If it was operated by a Nightmare Dungeon, which absorbed human blood, flesh, and energy, gave people a feeling of fear and disgust, made them want to escape, let them experience negative emotions like despair and pain after entering, was locked up deep inside a prison, and could only rely on sacrificing human’s lives for purification in the end…
Then, the speed of obtaining Dream Seeds would be too slow.
Fengdu Prison could turn the battle royale ga into a battlefield that everyone yearned for.
In order to beco the only survivor on the island, the only kind, participants would use everything they had in their arsenal. They would kill the opponents with all the cruel, cunning, and rciless ways they could think of, then step on everyone’s dead bodies and get the final victory. In the end, that person would win the delicious chicken countless people were so desperate to get and return to the real world full of honor.
Qiu Ren believed that the battle royale ga had this potential. No matter how severe the side effects of death were inside, countless warriors who didn’t care about their lives… would definitely swarm the ga, as long as there were great rewards.
However, if Qiu Ren wanted to operate it, Fengdu Prison must first agree to open this Level S Nightmare Seed to the public.
Was that possible? Qiu Ren had heard that the degree of danger of Nightmare Seeds was also divided into different levels. Level S represented the strength of the Nightmare Seed in most situations, but the more powerful the Nightmare Seed, the more dangerous it was.
Tapir was detained in a prison for death row prisoners. It fed on the death row prisoners, so it was definitely at the most dangerous level.
If it lost control, it would be a disaster. People within a hundred miles of the area would have to evacuate.
Nobody knew if Fengdu Prison would conduct another assessnt of danger level once again.
But before that, Qiu Ren had to consider if he could leave Fengdu Prison after waking up.
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