Miss Witch’s Devotion Has Gone… Twisted

”Beware of the Dream?”

Loren was momentarily stunned, but quickly guessed why. Loren basically never dreamed, so for Flossie to warn him to beware of the dream, there was only one reason: the God of Dreams.

Moreover, Loren did indeed have a conflict with the God of Dreams. Previously, Loren had directly dragged the God of Pleasure into the God of Dreams’ territory, turning His Dream Trees into Watermelon Trees.

Loren just didn’t know why it was Flossie who came to tell him, or how she knew.

Loren thought about the time Cassian pulled him into a dream. Besides reporting on his work progress, that time had also served as a reminder that the God of Dreams might take action against him.

”Could it be that Flossie really is a believer of the God of Pleasure...”

Loren considered one possibility. Combined with Flossie’s previous behavior, it wasn’t impossible.

If that were truly the case, then everything made more sense. Cassian was afraid that continued direct communication with Loren would risk corruption, so He used His own believer to communicate with Loren instead.

But based on Cassian’s personality, something this fun—He would probably risk corruption to come find Loren personally. Last time He came to see Loren, He took a huge risk and didn’t even do anything particularly meaningful.

”He couldn’t possibly just be trying to bring me and Flossie closer together, right...”Given Cassian’s nature, that wasn’t impossible either. After all, that also fell within the domain of pleasure—helping His believer find true love or something...

And Flossie was risking exposure of her identity as an Outer God believer to warn Loren...

Actually, Loren wasn’t all that afraid of the God of Dreams. The Perpetual Observer’s rank was too high, high enough to shatter the God of Dreams’ dreamscape at any moment. What Loren was worried about were the Dreamwalkers under the God of Dreams. Their methods were each more bizarre than the last.

However, Divine Envoys rarely left their god’s territory. That’s why so many people in the God of Vows and Wind’s territory fled to other countries to escape the pursuit of the Wind Messengers.

If the Dreamwalkers really came, it wouldn’t be Loren’s problem anymore; it would be a matter between the Bountiful Church and the Dreamwalkers. Although, by then, the Bountiful Church would likely choose compensation and apology, even though Loren would be the victim.

The Bountiful Church had always been cowardly towards external forces, but if Loren pushed them, they might actually do something proper.

The God of Dreams had no church under Him. His territory operated in an extremely twisted manner.

There, people’s consciousnesses were forever immersed in beautiful dreams, while their physical bodies in reality were completely controlled by the God of Dreams. They lived, reproduced, and formed a distorted civilization with clockwork regularity, people utterly unlike people.

The God of Dreams’ believers needed no spiritual life. Society operated with maximum efficiency and rejected tourists from other places.

Whether it was matters concerning the God of Dreams or abyssal creatures, Loren had no intention of letting them disturb Luna’s birthday. This birthday was not only Luna’s coming-of-age ceremony but also her first birthday since meeting Loren.

Both Luna and Loren cared deeply about this.

Everyone was busy until evening, which was also time for dinner.

With the other maids absent, Mirrorheart would be quite tired cooking so much alone, so Loren decided to eat out. It was also evening, so Loren could take Lilith out with him.

”Let’s ask Luna before eating. Not sure if she’d rather stay with her parents or come with us.”

Loren felt asking was pointless; Luna would definitely choose to go with him. But he still had to ask as a formality.

...

Everyone was on their way to Luna’s house when Loren saw Church staff members dealing with the Prismatic Void-Gnawing Beasts.

With Loren’s warning, they acted quickly. Loren had shown them more than once with facts what would happen if they didn’t listen to him.

They were also very efficient. They caught the person selling the Prismatic Void-Gnawing Beasts, beat them up, confiscated the illegal proceeds while forcing them to reveal the source of the beasts.

Finally, they tracked down the people who had purchased them, clubbed the Prismatic Void-Gnawing Beasts to death, stuffed them into garbage bags, and prepared for centralized disposal.

”That’s really quite a lot...”

Loren glanced at a passing Scarecrow. The garbage bag in his hand was already stuffed full of Prismatic Void-Gnawing Beasts. This many couldn’t possibly all have been brought out from the Eternal Dark Abyss; they must have gone through more than one round of reproduction.

In fact, some people, after purchasing them, discovered their reproductive ability and were breeding them privately.

One day was enough for this thing to give birth to several litters.

The offspring of the Prismatic Void-Gnawing Beast would mature into adults within seconds of being born, ready to start the next reproductive cycle. This was exponential growth, so once they escaped into the wild, it would be a devastating blow.

”Movila, keep an eye out as well. That colorful fur is quite conspicuous in the wild.”

Having been transmigrated for so long, Loren had always subconsciously protected nature. It wasn’t that he was some environmentalist; everything he did was because of one Anomaly.

Anomaly 0-006, Child of Nature. When nature was damaged to a certain extent, the Child of Nature would appear. At that time, it would destroy this world once and let life begin developing anew.

The speed of life’s development would increase dramatically then, but one thing was certain: the world at that time would have nothing to do with the present one. Whether intelligent races could even emerge was a question.

Not even the Orthodox Gods could escape the destruction of the Child of Nature. Even Loren could do nothing about the Child of Nature; he could only try his best to prevent nature from being damaged.

Thinking of this, Loren suddenly paused. With this world’s technological level, it was very difficult to damage nature to the extent that would trigger the Child of Nature’s descent. Even in Loren’s many playthroughs of the game, he had never once seen the Child of Nature.

So why did Loren know about the Child of Nature, and in such detail?

”Forget it, it’s not important.”

For these things he couldn’t figure out, as long as they were beneficial and harmless to him, Loren simply attributed them to the Observer, treating it all as cheats given to him by the Perpetual Observer.

”We’re here.”

The inn at Luna’s house was very lively today. Ever since Luna became Loren’s student, the place had been packed full every day. There were even many Nobles who paid a hefty price to book a room just to have a chance to get acquainted with Loren through this place.

Even so, Luna’s parents still kept rooms reserved for Loren and his group. After learning that Loren’s household had gained new members, they even cleared out an extra room to ensure everyone in Loren’s family could stay.

Loren, holding Lilith, entered Luna’s room. Both Luna and Jessica were there, and it was Jessica who opened the door.

”Wow, so this is the Lilith Luna talked about? She really is adorable, no wonder she said she wanted a daughter like this too.”

”Jessica, I didn’t...”

Luna tried to say something but saw Jessica’s meaningful look.

After an afternoon of discussion, Jessica had finally arrived at the most effective method: Luna should shut up and let her do the talking.