Ethan watched the two Archmages bickering as they left, and for a moment, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
However, he had heard that the Eye of Nightmare was only active for two hours, so he was naturally anxious to send it into the Fusion Tempering Furnace and fuse it into his ultimate weapon, the Demon Blade.
After countless fusions, the Demon Blade in Ethan's hands could practically be called a superweapon.
Not only could it freely change its size, but all kinds of attack power had also been stacked infinitely.
It had long since far surpassed the level of one plus one equaling two.
BANG!
After Ethan closed the villa's front door, he immediately threw out the capsule containing the Fusion Tempering Furnace.
The Fusion Tempering Furnace once again appeared instantly in the villa's living room.
Then, Ethan walked into the Fusion Tempering Furnace and placed the Demon Blade and the Eye of Nightmare on the balance scale.
Just as Ethan put the Eye of Nightmare onto the weighing pan, he noticed that the Eye of Nightmare seemed to have gained an expression of disbelief.
It was as if… the Eye of Nightmare was a living thing with an independent consciousness.
Ethan was very glad that he hadn't recklessly fused this thing into his body. Sure enough, this thing had a consciousness of its own.
Who knew what problems would appear after letting it enter his body?
[Demon Blade + Eye of Nightmare]
[Required materials: 10,000 Spirit Stones + 100 Dream Crystals]
"???"
'What the hell is these Dream Crystals?'
Ten thousand Spirit Stones were one thing. Ethan could still grit his teeth and come up with that much.
But he was completely dumbfounded by the other material required by the Fusion Tempering Furnace, because he had genuinely never even heard of this thing, so how could he possibly produce it?
"Haah~"
However, just as Ethan was thinking about how to get the fusion materials, he felt a wave of drowsiness come over him.
Ethan didn't think much of it. He simply assumed that he had used up too much mental energy in the dream, which was why he was getting sleepy.
But the next second… he suddenly felt as if the whole world were spinning, and then he fell straight onto the floor of the Fusion Tempering Furnace.
After Ethan collapsed, the Eye of Nightmare, which had been placed on the weighing pan, strangely revealed a trace of delight. It then bounced directly out of the weighing pan and hurriedly moved toward Ethan.
Finally, it even jumped off the weighing pan and landed directly on Ethan.
And… with Ethan's sudden collapse, the anomaly inside the Fusion Tempering Furnace was not limited to the Eye of Nightmare.
There was also the Fusion Tempering Furnace itself. A strange human face appeared in the middle of the balance scale inside the Fusion Tempering Furnace. The human face then looked at Ethan lying on the floor and revealed a strange smile.
Immediately afterward…
Rumble!
The door of the Fusion Tempering Furnace closed directly.
Countless electrical currents began to appear on the balance scale, and the temperature inside the Fusion Tempering Furnace began to rise.
———
"What is this?"
Ethan woke up once again in a place he had no idea where.
However, this time, when he opened his eyes, what he saw was neither the room in the manor villa nor his childhood home, but a vast grassland.
And standing in the middle of the grassland were several giants more than ten meters tall.
These giants had their bodies exposed, and they looked very much like a certain classic type of giant. There was a saying, how did it go again…
'That day, people remembered the fear of being ruled by giants!'
Right, those kinds of giants.
Anyway, they were ugly-looking, enormous, and seemed to be pretty good at fighting, too.
"You brat, you kept us waiting for a long time!"
One of the giants, apparently the leader, spoke. His face had no skin, exposing the shapes of his muscles and blood vessels. He looked as strange as a skinned person.
Ethan also quickly came to his senses from his daze and said, "This… is another dream?"
Perhaps because he had already experienced a nightmare, Ethan was now somewhat immune to this kind of ordinary dream.
"Hehehe, you actually realized it so quickly. Looks like your mental strength is pretty good," The Skinned Giant let out a cold laugh, "No wonder it took us so long to invade your dream! Not bad. If we eat you, we'll probably get quite a lot of Dream Crystals in one go!"
"Eat me?"
Ethan laughed and tried to take out his Demon Blade.
But when he reached for his fingers, he finally realized that neither his Storage Ring nor his weapons could be brought into the dream world.
He rummaged through his pockets for a long time, only to discover a sticky eyeball.
"Damn!"
"How did I bring this thing in again!"
["Kid, want to cooperate with me?",] The Eye of Nightmare directly communicated with Ethan inside his mind, ["These dream giants aren't easy to deal with. As long as you cooperate with me, I guarantee I'll easily take care of them for you. How about it?"]