"'Glutton's Feast' is a mutation of 'Glutton's Revelry'. There's no fundamental difference between the two. It's more like a quantitative change, so the distribution of exploration rates should be the same.
"Since the distribution of exploration rates is the same, we can consider both the Glutton's Feast and the Glutton's Revelry as examples. Based on this premise, we can ignore the Glutton's Feast and look at the Glutton's Revelry alone.
"It's a combination of 'Helen's Dream' and 'Bila's Sweet Dream'. If you compare it to 'Revelry and Feast', you'll see that it's not a quantitative change, but a qualitative one.
"Since 'Helen's Dream' and 'Bila's Sweet Dream' constituted the current qualitative change, then my first conjecture is that in order to reach 100% exploration rate, 'Helen's Dream' and 'Bila's Sweet Dream' should also reach a perfect 100%."
Laplace nodded in agreement. Angor was still confused.
Angor, on the other hand, was puzzled. He understood Gleipnir's reasoning, but he still felt that there was something wrong with his logic. Maybe Glepnir added astrology to skip some of the deductions, which was why there was something wrong with the logic.
Still, Angor agreed with Glepnir's final conclusion.
In order to achieve a 100% exploration rate, perhaps Helen's Dream and Bila's Sweet Dream would have to reach the same level.
"But we're in a special dream called 'Glutton's Feast'. How do we make 'Helen's Dream' and 'Bila's Sweet Dream' reach 100% exploration rates in this dream? They're clearly different dreams. "
Gleipnir said, "Although their names suggest that they belong to different special dreamscapes, the locations of these three dreamscapes are all here, where we are standing now."
Angor seemed to understand something. "In other words, there are three special dreams in this place. What you need to do is to achieve 100% exploration rates for all three of them. "
Glepnir nodded, then shook his head.
"You're right about one thing. This place has indeed given birth to three unique dreamscapes. But 'Helen's Dream' and 'Bila's Sweet Dream' are prerequisites for 'Glutton's Revelry'. They're not parallel. "
"So you're saying we only need to make 'Helen's Dream' and 'Bila's Sweet Dream' reach 100%?"
Gleipnir said, "… Barely."
Sort of? What does that mean? Is it because you don't want to argue with me anymore?
Gleipnir continued, "I'll cut to the chase. I'll get straight to my conclusion."
Gleipnir said, "I think that as long as we can find the answers to these two questions, we might be able to reach 100% exploration."
"First question, in Helen's Dream, what point are we missing that caused the exploration rate to stagnate at 99%?"
"The second question is about the carnival or feast of the Gluttons. The main body of the feast is actually the Gluttons. Who's the Glutton? Bila, without a doubt. So why did Bila become a Glutton? That's the answer to the second question we're looking for. "
"That's what the astrolabe says?" Laplace asked.
Glepnir nodded. "Yes. That's what the astrolabe says. These two questions are the reason why we haven't reached 100% yet. "
Laplace pondered for a moment. "… I think I know the answer."
"… Huh?"
Angor was either confused or confused since Glepnir's explanation. He always felt that he and Glepnir's way of thinking didn't match at all. It was like the logic of two different species … although they were indeed two different species.
But he always believed that he and Laplace were on the same wavelength. At the very least, there was nothing wrong with his conversation with Laplace. It was normal, and there were no logical faults.
But now, he realized that he was wrong.
Not only did Laplace understand Glepnir's words, but she also told him that she already knew the answer.
In the Dream Crystal, Laplace and Glepnir couldn't communicate telepathically. So how did she know the answer?
There was only one possibility. She understood Glepnir's words and immediately figured out the key to the answer.
Angor was also listening to Glepnir's explanation, but he had no idea what was going on. So, I'm the clown?
Angor felt a little sad at first, but he quickly adjusted his mind. I didn't go through this quest myself, so it's normal that I don't know the details. Maybe they're the key … Yeah, that's it.
"So, what's the answer?" Angor cleared his mind and focused on the present.
Laplace didn't say anything. Instead, she answered with her actions.
Laplace stretched his muscles and slowly walked up to the Meat Mountain Demon King, Bila.
Bila's eyelids were twitching, as if she was about to wake up.
However, Laplace didn't pay attention to that. Instead, she gently plucked a thin piece of molted scale from her hair.
She held the scale between her thumb and forefinger. The sharp edge of the scale shone with a silver light. Her movements gave Angor the illusion that Laplace was holding a scalpel instead of a scale.
In the next second, the "scalpel" made a small cut on Bila's fat belly.
Her belly was immediately cut open.
Angor thought that once the "hole" was cut open, the fat and greasy intestines inside would definitely slide out.
However, the real situation was completely different from what he had imagined. No fat flowed out. Instead, a large number of green vines drilled out of the hole.
Bila was still unconscious, but the vines seemed to have their own consciousness. They bared their fangs and brandished their claws, trying to attack Laplace.
However, these seemingly incomparably fierce whips were easily neutralized by Laplace in the end.
Silver flashes of light left a large number of vines on the ground. Some of the vines were cut off by the scale and fell to the ground like broken earthworms. But Laplace simply stomped on them.
Green liquid exploded and splashed all over the ground.
Laplace stomped on the ground and kicked away the withered vines. Then, he continued his operation on Bila's "belly".
The second time he cut open Bila's belly, Angor thought that organs should be coming out.
But no. There were still a lot of vines. However, the vines seemed to know that Laplace was not easy to deal with, so they did not try to get close to him. Instead, they bloomed a large number of colorful flowers.
These bright red flowers were the Big Mary Roses. They looked as if they were full of human blood.
As the Big Mary Roses bloomed, Bila's "mountain" of flesh shrank. It seemed that all the nutrients for the roses came from Bila.
The Big Mary Roses did two things after they bloomed.
First, a large amount of red powder was released from the stamen of the roses. The powder formed a bright red mist in the air.
Not to mention whether the powder was poisonous or not, even if it wasn't, inhaling such large particles into one's lungs would definitely not feel good.
This was the Big Mary Roses' first tactic, which was to use the powder to deal with Laplace.
However, the powder could not get close to Laplace at all.
This was because the scales had a defensive barrier. Anything without Laplace's permission could not get close at all. They could only slide past him.
The red mist had no effect on Glepnir, who was far away. She was wearing the second Celestial Transformation Plate. The defensive barrier of the scales also protected her from external attacks.
Since the mist was ineffective, the Big Mary Roses immediately did the second thing, which was to turn the petals into sharp blades and scatter them in all directions.
Judging from the strength of the petals, they were about the same as Wind Blades. They were between rank 2 and rank 3 cantrips. If the number of petals was large enough, it could even reach the level of a top rank 3 cantrip.
This was effective against normal people and some apprentices. However, it was still ineffective against Laplace and Glepnir.
The scales were a supernatural structure that could even kill an official wizard. How could it not defend against these cantrips?
Large amounts of petals scattered, but Laplace did it. He walked through the flowers without a single leaf touching him.
Silver light flashed again. The vines of the Big Mary Roses were defeated again and turned into liquid under Laplace's feet.
Without hesitation, Laplace continued to cut open Bila's stomach.
As the third layer of the peritoneum was removed, Bila's body quickly shrank from a "meat mountain" to an ordinary "meat mountain".
The reason was …
Six Skull Roses came out of her stomach.
They looked exactly the same as the ones on the crystal objects he saw outside. However, these heads didn't belong to Helen or Bila. Instead, they belonged to someone else.
Three men and three women.
Two of the men and two of the women had their eyes wide open. They looked ferocious and terrifying. The other man and woman had their eyes closed. They looked much calmer than the other heads.
"They look like …" Gu Angor looked at the skulls as well.
"The people in this manor," Laplace said.
Before Laplace could finish, one of the men in the Skull Roses suddenly roared and controlled the surrounding vines to attack Laplace.
Laplace easily cut down the vines around him. Before he could continue controlling the remaining vines, Laplace stabbed the man's forehead with a scale.
With a puff of red smoke, the first Skull Rose was completely destroyed.
At the same time, Laplace and Gleipnir seemed to have noticed something. They paused for a second and looked at each other.
"What's wrong?" Angor noticed their strange behavior.
"Ninety-two." Laplace spoke in a small voice.
Angor was surprised. It was 91% before, and now it was 92%? Was it because he killed the Skull Rose?!
Glepnir spoke up as well. "I received a notification too. According to it …"
"Executing the special character 'The Butler Who Wasn't Evil Enough' …"
[Special character 'Ungenerous Butler' executed …]
[It's not wrong to be ungenerous. What's wrong is not being generous enough. — Former Butler of Fan Clan. ]
[Special Dream 'Glutton's Feast', 92% explored.]
The dead Skull Rose was the current butler of this manor. Angor had seen his portrait before. The dungeon prompt also proved this point. This was indeed a butler, but his name seemed to have been replaced by a nickname.
It became: The butler was not black-hearted enough.
Did that mean that although the butler was black-hearted, he wasn't that black-hearted?
Also, there was another sentence in the system: "It's not wrong to be ungenerous. What's wrong is not being generous enough." — Former Butler of Fan Clan.
The main point of this sentence was not the sentence itself, but the person who said it.
Former Butler of Fan Clan.
If Angor remembered correctly, the main character of Helen's Dream, or Helen, was called Villaff Van Halen.
Fan Clan was the family of Helen's parents, a minor noble family.
However, something happened to the family later. Helen was taken care of by the former butler of Fan Clan, who was now the owner of this manor.
From all the details, Angor could tell that the owner of this manor was not a good person. His dream was to inherit the title of nobility.
So, it was understandable why he said something like "It's not wrong to be ungenerous. What's wrong is not being generous enough." Because this man was the epitome of unkindness.
As Angor pondered, Laplace also killed the second Skull Rose.
This Skull Rose belonged to the current owner of this manor, who was also the former butler of Fan Clan.
His ability was to spit out sharp poisonous blades from his smiling mouth.
He was a real killer.
After killing the rose, Laplace and Glepnir received new notifications again.
[Special character 'Deceiving Careerist' executed …]
[Special character 'Deceiving Careerist' executed …]
[What's wrong with having ambition for the glory of future generations? — Former Head Maid of Fan Clan. ]
[Special Dream 'Glutton's Feast', 93% explored.]
Putting aside the other information for now, in terms of exploration, it had increased by one point!
There were still four Skull Roses left. Did this mean that if he killed all of them, the exploration progress would reach 97%?!
Although there was still a gap between 97 and 100, it was still smaller than the previous 91.
With this in mind, Laplace killed the third Skull Rose without hesitation.
This Skull Rose was the former Head Maid of Fan Clan who said "what's wrong with having ambition for the glory of future generations?". She was also the current owner of this manor, Bila's mother.
It was worth mentioning that Bila's mother's ability was Fire Breath.
With her death, a new notification appeared:
[Special character 'Arsonist the Hypocrite' executed …]
[Special character 'Arsonist the Hypocrite' executed …]
[Arson is easy. But how do we stop him from running away? Maybe we can poison him first! — Former Head Maid of Fan Clan. ]
[Special Dream 'Glutton's Feast', 94% explored.]
After seeing these notifications, everyone roughly understood the past story of this manor, the story of the former Fan Clan.
Previously, Laplace found a book in the owner's study. The picture in the book described the sad end of an originally beautiful noble family.
The reason for the collapse of this noble family was a fire.
The fire killed the head of the Fan Clan and his wife, leaving behind a pitiful child, Helen. Helen was taken in by a butler who seemed loyal but was actually full of ambition. After that, Helen experienced all kinds of hardships and was even driven to live in a cramped and dirty attic.
Helen was angry at her situation, but with her strength, she couldn't resist the butler of the past, who was now her "stepfather".
She could only create illusions in her dreams to kill the people who abused her over and over again.
This was the general story of Helen's Dream.
However, what Helen probably didn't know was that the person who set the fire back then was her stepmother, the former Head Maid of Fan Clan.
And this information was leaked after Helen's Dream and Bila's sweet dream was combined and seen by everyone.
It had to be said that this was a sad story.
Even if they killed these Cactus Roses here, killed the former butler and the former Head Maid of Fan Clan, all of this happened in the dream. The situation in reality was still unknown.
However, this wasn't important for the time being. Maybe this dream was decades ago, or even centuries ago. There was no need to think too much about it.
For Laplace now, the most important thing was the exploration level.
Now there were only three Cactus Roses left. Among these three, Laplace temporarily shifted his attention away from the two with their eyes closed.
Instead, he focused on a woman.
Previously, Laplace saw an unfamiliar woman on the door of the Rose Garden. As for who that woman was, he had never found an answer.
Now, this woman finally appeared in front of them in the form of a Cactus Rose!
Laplace didn't hesitate and directly attacked her.
Although the woman also resisted, using a poisonous fog to resist, in the face of Laplace's destructive power, her resistance was insignificant.
With her death, the last piece of the puzzle in the background story of Helen's Dream was put together.
[Special character 'Jealous Poisonous Woman' is being executed …]
[Special character 'Jealous Poisonous Woman' has been executed]
[Treat me as a sister? But you are rich, and I am just a lowly cook. You are beautiful, and even if you get married, you will still be the object of admiration of countless people. But I am ordinary and ugly. How can we be compared in the same breath? The so-called sisterhood you speak of is an insult to me! Insult! I want you to die! Only when you die and I live can my jealousy be balanced! — — The former Head Maid of Fan Clan. ]
[Current special dream 'Glutton's Feast', exploration level is 95%]
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