Fallen Chronicles

Chapter 198 Chapter 198: Taking the Initiative

Although the maid assured Eileen that she was fine after the strange incident by the fountain the previous night, just experiencing a minor malfunction and undergoing routine maintenance, Eileen, still feeling uneasy, ran early in the morning to knock on Renji's door to discuss the matter.

Renji took the matter seriously. After opening the maid's panel and finding no abnormalities, and with Suthia also being around, he took the nun to check on 86.

With Thia's nod, indicating that everything seemed normal with the maid from her perspective as well, Renji finally felt relieved after the double assurance.

Eileen also felt completely at ease. Despite often bickering with the maid, 86 was the closest person to her around Renji. Even at the risk of "disturbing something important" and being unwelcome, she wanted to eliminate any hidden dangers for 86.

Thinking of this, Eileen finally had some free time and sneakily glanced at Suthia, who was beside Renji. As a person from the Holy Kingdom, this was her first time seeing the Goddess in person.

It was apparent that the Goddess didn't want to cause a stir, so she didn't wear the robe depicted in church statues, which exuded an aura of purity and sanctity with its radiant light. Instead, she wore the most common black and white nun's habit.

Even so, the Goddess in simple clothes was still stunningly beautiful, drawing the eyes irresistibly. Eileen had to admit, even as a woman, she was somewhat mesmerized.

The Goddess's fair and delicate skin seemed almost fragile to the touch, and her tender face hidden under the nun's hat was endearing. Her pure and flawless appearance made one think of all the world's beauty, inspiring hope and strength, and evoking an infinite yearning.

It's not that the Goddess needed gorgeous clothes; rather, it's the gorgeous clothes that needed the Goddess to be worthy of them.

However, when Eileen remembered the previous night's "card game," she felt as if something inside her broke. She wished she could forget the maid's "professional commentary" and return all these beautiful thoughts to the Goddess!

On the other side, sensing Eileen's covert glances, Suthia also looked over and gave Eileen a sweet smile.

This caught the girl, who was still fiercely criticizing the "card game" scene in her mind off guard. She hurriedly averted her gaze, too embarrassed to look at the Goddess again.

Renji also noticed Suthia's little gesture.

Once, he naively worried that the nun, being the weakest in terms of strength among "them" and with such a pure and simple character, would be easily bullied. But now, especially after last night, Renji only hoped that Thia would bully others less, especially not to deceive the na?ve dragoness who was below her in 'rank'! All that talk about wanting only daughters, not sons...

Renji, of course, would also love daughters, but not too many. What if they grew up and met someone like him!? Just the thought made Renji's fists clench.

Furthermore, the reason Nova wasn't around, still exhausted in bed and sound asleep, was actually more attributable to Suthia teasing her than to himself.

Thinking this, Renji glared at the nun again.

Suthia blinked innocently, mouthing to Renji "It's part of the treatment."

After all, if the weakened Nova wanted to recover quickly, she needed to rest. Knowing Nova's personality, she definitely wouldn't just lie in bed obediently, so Thia had to resort to this method to force Nova to rest.

'Fine….'

Renji couldn't argue with that; after all, Thia was the expert in healing.

In summary, after getting through the previous night successfully, although the process was entirely wrong, the outcome was as expected.

Suthia's arrival sped up Nova's recovery. In about a month, she should be back at her peak, and with a bit more effort from Renji, working together with the nun, they could probably clear her contamination in a month too.

It was the perfect time to use this one-month recovery period to finalize the general direction of Dragon Nation's policies and guidelines. After that, it would be a matter of internal digestion within the Dragon Nation.

Having resolved the Dragon Nation's conflicts and holding the cards of the complete form of Nova and Thia, Renji's original plan was to directly seek Lena, who had been helping him in secret. But now, Renji hesitated.

Honestly, he was a bit unclear about Lena's attitude towards him.

On one hand, Lena kindly helped by sending the video to the nun. If not for the early warning from the "dream" last night would have been a "bloodbath."

On the other hand, although the succubus never appeared during the trip to the Dragon Nation, her presence was felt everywhere.

Thinking about this gave Renji a headache as he rubbed his temples.

That's why "special ability" characters are the most troublesome. If it's like the nun who wanted to imprison him, or the empress who would just come and snatch him away, even Zero's desire to cyberize him is at least clear in its purpose. But Renji really can't see through Lena's thoughts.

What's more irritating is that Lena has been avoiding showing up, even seemingly deliberately hiding from him. This makes it extremely difficult for Renji to gather any information about her.

'Wait a minute…'

A lightbulb moment strikes Renji. He realizes that with the new "Dream Terminal" tool at his disposal, he can now take the initiative.

As the lord of Sin City and a master of intelligence, Lena is indeed elusive in reality. But if he enters the "Dream," he might be able to capture Lena's shadow through someone's dream.

With this in mind, Renji quickly takes action. After transforming 86 into the terminal using the Miasma Touch, he steps back into the "Dream."

This time, the character he finds in the "Dream" is no longer Suthia but Caroline, dispatched from Sin City, who claimed to be Lena's "personal secretary."

Entering the dream within a dream of a "Dream" character isn't something that can be done casually.

The "dream within a dream" must be related to the "original dream," and a "keyword" must be found to serve as an anchor point.

Like Suthia's dream before, which was an extension of the "original dream" Renji used a keyword anchor, enabling him to replicate and restore it.

So, in the paused dream world, Renji, now in the city hall's top-

floor office, faces the golden single ponytail succubus, who seems to have changed from a secretary to something akin to a female mayor, and begins to ponder how to enter Caroline's dream.

From Suthia's dream, Renji learned that the crystal ball was not from Sin City but from the Sealed City. It's obvious that Caroline, as Lena's confidant and currently acting as half-mayor of the Sealed City, must have been involved!

This is the connection Renji was looking for between Caroline's "branch dream" and the "original dream."

Next, Renji attempts to enter Caroline's dream within a dream using the "magical crystal ball footage" as the "keyword."

With a flash of white light and a blurring vision, consciousness delves deeper, indicating Renji's success in smoothly entering Caroline's first-person dream experience.

However,

When his vision finally clears,

Renji suddenly realizes that Caroline's dream seems quite different from what he had imagined.