Ten days later.
With a poof, the Nightmare Phantoms in the Confinement Magic Seal turned into black smoke and dissipated. Grimm's plan to capture experimental specimens had failed once again.
He was slightly disappointed that his plan to capture experimental specimens for the past few days had failed.
Grimm did not show the disappointment that he should have. He still maintained the calmness and calmness of a Magus. After standing on the spot and thinking for a while, his eyes suddenly blinked, as if he had discovered something.
A layer of fine black powder had appeared on the floor within the Sealing Magic Seal. It was like dust and was inconspicuous.
After dabbing it lightly with his hand and wiping it with force, Grimm confirmed that this was indeed the black powder that appeared after the Nightmare Phantoms dissipated, and not the so-called natural dust.
"Hmm?! Looks like I've finally discovered something! "
In his joy, Grimm squatted down.
Tearing off a blank piece of paper, Grimm used the paper to collect all the black powder on the floor that was filled with the smell of decay. He placed it in a transparent glass test tube as a specimen and waited for the next step of observation.
There was only a thin layer of black dust in the test tube. It was insignificant and there was very little of it.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock …
After a few hourglasses, the sound of the wall clock gradually began to weaken. A new day was about to pass in the Nightmare World.
However, Grimm sighed. There was no progress in the research of the powder in the test tube for the time being.
The only thing he could be sure of was that this seemed to have something to do with some Horrifying Creatures in the Nightmare World. Guessing without any evidence, Grimm felt that the black smoke seemed to be the metabolic dandruff of the Horrifying Creatures!
After collecting all the black dust, Grimm turned to look at the World Aperture that was gradually healing on the wooden bed in the room.
"Ha …"
The sound of a yawn could be heard, as if it was the blissful voice of a woman who was about to wake up after a good night's sleep.
"Hehe, sister, you've been in good spirits these few days. Don't you have that nightmare anymore?"
The little girl beside her giggled, and the sound of two girls laughing could be faintly heard.
"Hmm, maybe I've really let it go. After all, it's already happened. We don't need too many emotions in the long road of Magi in the future, only loneliness to accompany us. I advise you to stay away from that guy, there are no good men … "
The short-lived sound gradually stopped as the world aperture healed. The Nightmare World once again returned to silence. The whole world began to change from the dilapidated, depressing, and ominous night to the illusory and distorted day.
Hmm?
Grimm seemed to have heard something from the conversation between the two girls in the Sorcerer World.
Perhaps it was Grimm's own imagination. Generally speaking, when a woman talked about a heartless man, there would definitely be a beautiful memory followed by a tragedy, from which love turned into hate.
Grimm, who had experienced a period of sincere love before, was unfamiliar with the delicate feelings between men and women due to his dull childhood experiences. However, he could understand the sincerity of love in the heart.
Perhaps the reason for the Nightmare Phantoms in this room was due to the humans of the Sorcerer World?
The ugly red-haired monkey was the true form of the Nightmare World, or perhaps it was the cover of the black ash, and the baby under the Awakening Ray was the scene from the Sorceress-Apprentice's nightmare?
"Squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak …"
As the black sun of the Nightmare World rose, the black ash that Grimm had not been able to study for the whole night actually began to vibrate violently inside the glass test tube.
It seemed to be constantly being purified by some mysterious law of the Nightmare World and disappearing.
In shock, Grimm hurriedly kept the remaining black ash in the glass test tube into the Dimensional Gap.
"Is this the reason why I feel so safe during the day in the Nightmare World?"
Other than the time when Grimm had just fallen into the Nightmare World and was attacked by the horrifying creature that had targeted him once, Grimm had stayed in this small house for more than ten days to study the knowledge of Nightmare Phantoms and Ice Element Sorcery. Now that he had a preliminary understanding of the structure of the Nightmare World, he attempted to advance to a Level 2 Sorcerer in the Nightmare World.
These days were very peaceful, and there was no danger.
"It seems that there is no way to study the Nightmare Phantoms during the day in the Nightmare World."
Taking out the Ice Element Sorcery Magic Book, Grimm suddenly thought of something. Was there any connection between Sam's strange immortal body and the Nightmare World!?
As his eyes flickered, Grimm gradually put aside his random thoughts and began to focus on studying the Ice Element Sorcery Knowledge.
…
Another ten days later.
After dispersing the Nightmare Phantoms again, Grimm looked at the wall clock that was beginning to return to normal. He crouched on the ground and carefully used a piece of paper to collect the ash.
In the endless world in the eyes of Sorcerers, whether it was the Material World, the Spectral World, or the Void World, there was a fundamental principle, or perhaps the basic principle of Sorcerer knowledge, which was that nothing could be created out of nothing. Everything had to follow the conservation of energy and mass.
The black ash that was missing from the Nightmare Phantoms must mean that some aspect had been reduced.
What Grimm wanted to know was, if he continued to kill this Nightmare Phantoms over and over again, and then 'disguised seal' the black ash that it dropped in the Dimensional Gap, preventing it from being purified by the day in the Nightmare World and replenishing it, what would happen to this Nightmare Phantoms?
Would it die?
With this thought in mind, Grimm planned to conduct an experiment to better understand and observe the secrets of the Nightmare Phantoms.
He remembered that Master Peranos had once said that if he were to advance to a Stigmata Sorcerer and enter the Nightmare World, he should try to stay in this world for as long as possible.
Although he could not completely destroy the Nightmare World, as long as generation after generation of Sorcerers continued to weaken it, the limit of these Nightmare Creatures' parasitic control of mental strength could be infinitely reduced to zero.
In other words, after the Nightmare Phantoms were killed, although they could be reborn infinitely, they were indeed weakened. Even in the past twenty days, Grimm felt that the Nightmare Phantoms on the wall clock in this room had weakened a lot.
This so-called weakening did not refer to its own life, but its ability to forcibly parasitize and control others.
It seemed that the black ash represented its parasitic ability.
So, if one day this Nightmare Phantoms could no longer produce black ash after dispersing, what would happen to it that had lost its parasitic control ability?
…
Three months later.
As the night fell, the Nightmare World began to turn from distorted and illusory to dilapidated reality. The ticking of the pendulum on the wall clock in the room gradually became clearer.
Another hourglass of time passed.
Grimm, who had begun to get used to the rules of the Nightmare World, naturally closed the Sorcerer's Knowledge Book and looked at the World Aperture that gradually began to appear on the wooden bed. It was like a twisted whirlpool, with a narrow diameter of less than half a meter.
"Maybe there will be some results today."
Walking in front of the wall clock, Grimm waited quietly in the body of the Nightmare Phantoms.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock …
The clock's pendulum gradually lengthened with the ticking sound, and a stream of black liquid flowed down from the wall clock. This low-level Nightmare Phantom seemed to be a completely instinctual life without intelligence, or some kind of natural phenomenon in the Nightmare World. It did not fear death at all, nor did it show any fear towards Grimm.
However, at this time, its weakness was very obvious.
Facing Grimm who was still blocking it, this Nightmare Phantom was still attacking Grimm, but at this time, it was so weak that it could no longer have any effect on the Sorcerer's Barrier.
Even this ugly red-haired monkey's body actually emitted a trace of pure white gentle light, just like Grimm's Awakening Ray.
It seemed that this was caused by Grimm's continuous collection of black ash for more than three months, causing this Nightmare Phantom to be unable to block the thing in its body.
This thing was very likely the source of this Nightmare Phantom!
As Grimm smashed down with the Sabbatic Goat Staff, this time, this Nightmare Phantom actually let out a sorrowful howl and a shocking amount of black ash fell. It was not like before, when it turned into a large black smoke and flew into the wall clock, only leaving a small amount of black ash on the ground.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock!
The wall clock stopped pendulum!
"This is …"
In Grimm's eyes, a baby formed by pure white gentle light appeared. The true source of this Nightmare Phantom was actually this?
Or rather, the source of that Sorceress-Apprentice's nightmares was this baby?
"Sob sob sob …"
To Grimm's surprise, this baby with pure white gentle light suddenly opened its eyes and instinctively cried behind Grimm.
"Sob sob sob, child, my child! You monster, get away from my child! "
Grimm turned his head and looked at the Sorceress-Apprentice who had come in from the opposite direction of the World Aperture. She was holding a magic staff and pointing it at him with a panicked expression.
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