Chapter 191: Dream within a Dream

Chapter 191 Dream Within a Dream

September 16th, night.

The fourth layer of dreams.

Li Wei sat cross-legged upon the river of dreams, looking down upon the dream bubbles from above.

Searching for Tyr's dream.

During these days of diligently cultivating the Great Dream Wander Technique, Li Wei had not been idle.

Every now and then, he contacted Levidan to strengthen their bond.

Levidan wanted to build a good relationship with Tyr, to cling to Tyr's coattails.

Therefore, he was very concerned about the person Tyr was searching for.

Every day he was running around everywhere, asking about clues.

Li Wei pretended to bump into Levidan, and inadvertently leaked some clues.

For instance, a mysterious fire mage appeared outside Maple Leaf City some time ago.

Or for example, the location of the explosion crater left behind after the Rock Demon Beast died.

In this way, Levidan was also very concerned about Li Wei.

All day long he asked him for new news, hoping to find the murderer.

As for whether the murderer might be Li Wei, he had never thought about this matter.

As everyone knows, Li Wei had only just become a first-tier formal mage some time ago.

Perfectly clearing him of suspicion.

Borrowing Levidan's hand, Li Wei had him replace the calming incense in Tyr's room with a special sedative incense mixed with sleep-inducing ingredients.

On the surface it looked the same as calming incense, and similarly had the effect of calming the spirit.

However, after burning, it would make people fall asleep unknowingly.

Existing in a state between dream and non-dream.

Li Wei would have the opportunity to slip in through the gap.

Before this, the special sedative incense in Tyr's room had already burned through four sticks.

The room was filled with fragrance.

The Rheinster family was also generous, lighting calming incense around the clock in the room where Tyr resided.

For a Grand Mage, the effect of calming incense was extremely limited.

It was more like a decoration.

Better than nothing.

Anyway, they did not care about this bit of money.

This was also a symbol of status.

Li Wei waited while cultivating the Fireball Technique.

Deducing the second-tier Fireball Technique.

[Fireball Technique (Second Tier Minor Success)] 9213/10000

Seizing the time to improve strength.

After waiting for a long time, Li Wei finally saw Tyr's dream bubble.

Tyr's dream bubble was faintly visible, seemingly close yet far.

He was currently in a state between dream and non-dream.

He could wake up at any time.

Although the special sedative incense could make Tyr fall asleep unintentionally, it was hard to make him truly relax his guard completely and sink into the dream.

Li Wei cast the Great Dream Wander Technique, bringing Tyr's dream from the first layer of dreams to the fourth layer of dreams.

Each time passing through a layer of dreams, Tyr's dream bubble became a bit clearer and more solid.

Arriving at the fourth layer of dreams, Tyr's dream bubble was fully formed.

The dream bubble was fist-sized, floating before Li Wei.

Li Wei sat firmly, casting the Great Dream Wander Technique.

The new ability of the third-tier Great Dream Wander Technique—Spirit Roaming.

Spirit roaming the dreams.

Compared to personally entering the dream, the advantage of spirit roaming the dreams was being more concealed.

The cost was the inability to intervene in the dream.

Li Wei could only watch, unable to interfere.

Interfering in Tyr's dream had too high a danger coefficient, Li Wei just wanted to look at his dream, obtaining some key intelligence.

In the state of spirit roaming, Li Wei felt like using a God's eye view to watch the dream.

Tyr sensed something, and woke up.

He quickly saw through the first layer of dreams.

In the second layer of dreams, Tyr sat in the room and slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at the surrounding scenery, revealing a trace of confusion.

He had not dreamed for a very long time.

After becoming a Grand Mage, meditation had already replaced sleep.

Tyr closed his eyes, preparing to continue meditation cultivation.

Suddenly, he felt something was not quite right.

Li Wei's expression shifted, "As expected of a Grand Mage, perception so keen."

Before Tyr detected the flaws in the dream.

Li Wei actively tore open the second layer of dreams, letting Tyr fall into the third layer of dreams. In a blink, Tyr appeared near the great explosion crater where Milus and Weeks died.

Tyr stood by the crater edge in a daze, only coming back to his senses after a while.

He had received the signal of Milus's death, and followed the direction to find this place.

Tyr remembered, he was here to find Milus and Weeks.

Obviously, they were already dead.

Tyr wanted to find the murderer.

He had now substituted into the role in his memory.

The power of the dream made his memory return to the time of discovering the scene of Milus and Weeks' death.

Tyr noticed nothing amiss.

Levi also saw how Tyr locked onto the murderer's direction.

He found a rare-class Diviner, asking the Diviner to help find the killer.

"Ken, I trouble you."

Tyr said, looking at the Diviner.

Levi thus learned the Diviner was named Ken, a shaman from a barbarian tribe in the Northern Realm.

Only because Tyr knew Ken could he enlist his help.

Ken held the medium Tyr gave—items used by Milus and Vicks before their deaths.

He began the divination.

Moments later, Ken told Tyr the murderer was in the south.

Tyr pursued along the way, Ken aiding with divination three times.

Finally locking onto Maple Leaf City.

Tyr wanted Ken to directly divine the murderer's true identity.

Ken refused.

He could do it, but the price was too great.

Divination concerns fate; excessive interference invites fate's backlash.

Helping Tyr divine the murderer's direction three times already cost Ken dearly.

Helplessly, Tyr had to return Ken to the barbarian tribe.

He came to Maple Leaf City alone to find the killer.

Newly arrived, unfamiliar with people and place.

Even wanting to find the killer, he had no way to start.

He accidentally met someone from the Rhinest family; knowing Tyr's identity, they immediately treated him as an honored guest.

Devoting all efforts to help him find the killer.

Additionally, Tyr asked the Rhinest family to search for something.

That thing's importance surpassed even finding the murderer.

Tyr had been searching for many years.

Never achieving results.

Just when Levi was about to know what Tyr sought.

Tyr sensed something amiss.

The dream showed signs of change.

Levi acted decisively, severing the third dream layer, letting Tyr fall into the final dream layer.

Within the fourth dream layer, Tyr's memory shifted forward again.

Time arrived at two years prior.

A place deeply etched in Tyr's memory.

The dream's content was not random, all reflecting Tyr's deepest past.

The extreme sorrow of learning his disciple died.

The huge gap of failed breakthrough.

Two years ago, Tyr stood atop a cliff, a storm cloud gathering above his head.

This day was when he was most high-spirited.

Tyr was to break through tier four, becoming a tier five Archmage.

Levi witnessed Tyr go from high-spirited and ambitious to disappointed and sorrowfully haggard.

Something went wrong with Tyr's advancement ritual.

For some time after, he kept searching for the problem.

Levi finally knew what he was searching for.

Tyr spent great effort, finally finding the issue with the advancement ritual.

He still lacked a material capable of strengthening the soul.

The advancement ritual was perfect in all aspects, only his soul could not bear the awakening of tier five transcendental traits.

Levi subconsciously thought of Soul Crystal.

Was this not the treasure Tyr had been seeking?

Soul Crystals were not rare in the dream world.

In the real world, they were absolutely rare items.

Extremely scarce.

(End of Chapter)