Chapter 230: Anomaly and Return
Hearing these words, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.
This meant the murderer would no longer be a threat, at least in the short term.
At the same time, everyone felt incredibly fortunate inwardly.
They had all witnessed Freddy's terror in the dream world; the latter suppressed them almost completely one-sidedly.
If Father William hadn't been here, the few of them might have been forever lost in the dream.
"How should we deal with this guy?" Betty looked at William.
Henry immediately drew his longsword: "Right now it can't move; this is a rare opportunity, of course, we take the chance to hack it."
But Wilton reached out to stop him.
"Do people from the Lord Knights all like to steal credit so much?"
He looked around.
"This monster was trapped by the Church, and naturally, it should be purified by the Church; we won't trouble you."
Wilton's tone revealed an indisputable air.
Winona rolled her eyes, turned her head, and secretly made a "Vomiting" expression.
Gail stood aside and didn't say much; William had already helped her find Mark, and besides, she didn't have the sure confidence to kill Freddy herself.
Henry narrowed his eyes, staring intently at Wilton.
Just now he indeed had other thoughts.
He originally came under orders this time wanting to make the Lord Knights' philosophy recognized by more people.
But he didn't expect to stumble and even have his life saved by a priest.
If this became known to the outside world, the "Knights'" reputation would instead become a stepping stone for the Church.
Therefore, he wanted to seize this last chance to make up for it.
Stopped by Wilton at this moment, Henry couldn't forcefully make a move.
After all, that Father William nominally belonged to the Church. Before completely leaving this place, clashing with the other party was truly unwise.
So Henry snorted coldly and walked aside.
It was still Lombane who stepped out to ease the situation.
"Everyone, this place is full of danger; we still have to help each other."
He laughed with his low voice.
"Trapping Freddy, finding Mr. Mark, these are all Father William's credits; let's listen to his ideas first."
"Ye... yes."
Seeing the atmosphere wasn't quite right, Pence gathered his courage and stepped out.
"Solving this terrifying monster, and taking those trapped people in the town, we can safely return."
Perhaps the words "Safely Return" hit everyone's true thoughts; the people present didn't continue arguing.
Especially Wilton.
At this time he had already seen that only William could truly solve the problem here.
Therefore, Wilton had long stopped forcing action according to his intentions, just verbally fighting for the status of "Spokesperson."
Anyway, after going out, he was still a priest of noble status from the Church of Rome.
And William was just a clergy member from a local parish.
Everything he did would eventually become the Church's "Merciful Good Deeds."
William shook his head secretly.
These guys all have their own motives, even putting interests before their lives.
Better finish the commission as soon as possible and stay away from them. Thinking of this, he spoke: "We are currently in a dream world; physical means likely won't truly kill Freddy."
William took out a few holy artifacts.
"I plan to use a magic array to purify him."
Wilton nodded: "Correct, the Lord's power can shine on any corner of the world, even in a dream. Father William, I agree with your idea."
The corner of William's mouth twitched.
"Your opinion doesn't seem to matter..." he thought inwardly.
The few people aside also found it a bit hard to listen to.
Betty lowered her head and turned around; even Lombane smiled awkwardly.
But Wilton didn't feel any shame at all; instead, he put on an "All for the Church" look.
Subsequently, William placed the holy artifacts around Freddy and took out the Exorcism Bible.
Just as he was about to recite, he suddenly raised an eyebrow.
Immediately after, William instantly stepped backward, his gaze staring intently not far away.
Everyone aside stared at him with puzzled expressions.
At this time, the space near Freddy suddenly flashed.
Betty keenly noticed this.
Before she could investigate, a crack suddenly tore open there.
Crack... Crack...
Like a mirror shattering, the spatial rift grew larger and larger.
At the same time, a large amount of pitch-black smoke like ink surged out from inside.
William observed with [Holy Eye] and found those were not evil auras.
But rather possessed an even more mysterious and terrifying power.
Intuition told him he absolutely couldn't get close there.
The others also had heavy faces, completely bewildered by this sudden change.
Therefore, everyone unanimously looked at William.
At this time, another change occurred.
They saw several slender black arthropod limbs suddenly stretch out from the black fog, with sharp ends and stiff hairs growing at the joints, like the legs of a spider.
These things tightly hooked onto Freddy's body, dragging him towards the spatial rift.
At the same time, the boiler room also experienced violent tremors.
Metal pipes ruptured, and scarlet blood flowed out from inside.
Subsequently, the ruptures opened wider and wider, and fresh blood gushed out like a water column, surging towards Freddy.
William raised his eyebrows.
He noticed that the fresh blood seemed to be dragging Freddy too, preventing the latter from being pulled into the shattered space.
But obviously, the power of the arthropod black claws was superior.
The fresh blood on the ground also gradually turned pitch black.
The situation quickly became completely one-sided.
Just like that, Freddy was pulled into the black fog little by little.
And after he disappeared, the space there also recovered again.
Clang!
Only a sharp-bladed glove dropped to the ground.
"What... exactly was that thing." Henry was covered in a cold sweat.
The black claws just now gave people an extremely strong sense of oppression; he didn't dare to move recklessly at all.
William narrowed his eyes.
He remembered the previous Ram Demon commission; a similar thing happened at that time too.
But thinking carefully, there were still some differences.
At that time, the Ram Demon was just about to reveal some major secret, and then a pentagram magic array appeared behind it.
This was Satan's classic symbol.
But this time there was no sign at all.
"Is that guy... dead?" Gail asked a very important question.
William immediately observed the boiler room from another perspective.
Sure enough, Freddy's existence was no longer here.
Not even in the two dream layers above.
However, he quickly discovered another thing.
Due to the disappearance of the Dream Creator, this constructed dream world also showed signs of collapsing.
Whether considering the time or preventing the anomaly just now from happening again, they had to leave here quickly.
William immediately spoke up: "Let's leave here first."
"But the boiler room doesn't seem to have an exit." Winona had a solemn expression.
Since coming in here she had been looking for a possible exit, but this place was like a maze, seeming to have no boundaries. "This is a dream world; naturally we cannot leave through ordinary methods."
William snapped his fingers as he spoke, and then nine beds appeared in the passage.
"This is..."
Everyone looked puzzled.
"Only by falling asleep can we return to the upper layer of the dream."
William jumped onto a bed as he spoke, then covered himself with the quilt.
Everyone had strange expressions.
They looked around.
Cracks had already appeared on the ceiling, and quite a few pebbles fell down.
Metal pipes let out whistling sounds, and a large amount of steaming white vapor sprayed outward.
Plus the massive amount of fresh blood on the ground.
Being in such a dangerous environment...
Who could fall asleep!
The few could even accept the matter of "Having to sleep to escape"; after all, this was in a dream.
"Ahem... Father William, is there any other way."
Lombane voiced the dilemma of the few.
"Sleep is originally a relaxing thing. In such an environment..."
William had originally covered his head with the quilt; hearing this he popped his head out again.
"Then I suggest you think of a way as soon as possible, otherwise your consciousness might be trapped here forever."
After saying that, he closed his eyes again.
Actually, William couldn't fall asleep in this environment either, but at this moment he felt a heavy sleepiness.
He guessed this was the "Awakening Potion" taking effect. When consciousness awoke in reality, the dream self would fall asleep.
But Lombane, who had also applied the potion, remained awake.
Regarding this, William guessed that the other party's dosage wasn't as much as his.
But no matter what, at least he wouldn't be trapped here.
"Snore..."
Just as he let out a snore, William was shaken awake again.
He opened his eyes and only saw two beautiful faces.
"Fa... Father William, can you wait to sleep!" Betty looked embarrassed.
"We need your help." Gail's expression was also a bit unnatural.
William forcefully propped himself up: "You two, you wouldn't be asking me to coax you to sleep, right..."
Hearing this, the two ladies immediately denied it.
"Of course not!"
"How is that possible!"
They shook their heads repeatedly.
"You knock us out!" Betty pointed at herself, "This should work too."
William raised an eyebrow; this was indeed a way.
So he immediately got up and reached out his hand.
"Wait... wait, don't hit the face." Betty hurriedly turned around, revealing her fair neck.
Gail also swept up her hair.
Looking at the two beautiful and alluring backs, William's hands chopped down fiercely.
After two muffled thuds.
Betty and Gail fell into William's arms together.
His hands grabbed the back of the two ladies' necks respectively, then tossed them onto the nearest two beds.
"Fa... ther, please also..." Mark braced himself and walked over.
William glanced at the other party.
At this kind of moment he didn't say much, just nodded.
Then William looked aside; the remaining five people were still trying hard to fall asleep.
"Oh Lord, please grant me beautiful sleep, right upon this bed."
Wilton knelt piously on the bed.
"Although it is extremely cheap, unworthy of your noble reward..."
The corner of William's mouth twitched: "Even escaping for your life you can be so picky..."
On the other side.
"Witch Winona, don't you know how to make 'Sleeping Potions'."
"Things made here are originally fake, how could they have any effect!"
"Knight Pence, I order you to hammer the back of my neck fiercely!"
"Knight... Henry, your neck is too hard, I can't hit it... How about you still look for Father William..."
"Impossible! A Lord Knight will absolutely never ask the Church for help!"
"Haven't we already been saved several times..."
"Knight Pence, what did you say!"
William covered his face; it was already this time and these guys were still wasting time.
At this time, more than half of the boiler room had collapsed, and he himself was getting sleepier and sleepier.
So William stopped waiting.
Taking advantage of the last moment his consciousness existed, he dashed to the side of the others one by one.
Only hearing "Bang bang bang bang bang!" five consecutive muffled thuds, everyone present fell unconscious.
"Finally can get a good sleep." William covered himself with the quilt contentedly.
Second Layer of the Dream, Springwood Town.
William woke up with a start.
At this time he was in the square, and the others around were also waking up one by one.
Almost the instant he opened his eyes, William felt the sleepiness in his brain.
"Can only stay awake for a short while." He immediately took action.
Relying on his control over the dream space, William summoned all the town residents, that is, the trapped people of Germantown Friends School, to the square.
Subsequently, hundreds of beds appeared here.
All the trapped people were forcefully pressed onto the beds.
"You guys be proactive too; time is running out." William looked aside.
The elites of various forces heard this and also lay on the beds.
In the next moment, many palms surfaced in the air, hovering behind everyone's necks.
"Prepare... to sleep."
As soon as his voice fell, muffled thuds rang out one after another in the square.
First Layer of the Dream, The School.
Because this place was already very close to the real world, everyone's bodies sent a connection to their consciousness.
This time without William's "Help," everyone fell into a deep sleep respectively.
Reality, Germantown Friends School.
A father broke through the cordon and stepped into the "Sleep" range.
"Lucy! My daughter, where are you." He shouted anxiously.
But the onlookers in the distance found that this person didn't fall into a deep sleep.
Immediately after, another "Adventurer" rushed out.
More and more parents entered the school, and Sheriff Roberto couldn't stop them.
Previously because he went to handle an urgent matter, he happened to avoid that expansion of the power range.
"Sigh... this time I'm definitely going to 'retire early'." He closed his eyes.
But before long, a police officer came to report.
"Sheriff! Those trapped people have woken up!"
"What!" Roberto looked surprised, then hurriedly ran out of the camp tent.
As soon as he came out, he heard cheers coming from inside the school.
He picked up binoculars to look and saw people hugging each other tightly, celebrating their rebirth after the disaster.
"They... did it!" Roberto murmured.
Inside the building opposite the school.
William opened his eyes suddenly.
Surging Holy Power, the tight connection between consciousness and body, and... the glass bottle in his hand.
He quickly confirmed he had returned to reality.
"Finally... back."
William just breathed a sigh of relief but felt a hard object beside his thigh.
He picked it up to look, and then his eyes turned cold.
He saw in his hand a leather glove embedded with five sharp blades, exactly Freddy's exclusive weapon.
William immediately arranged an isolation magic array around, and repeatedly investigated it with Holy Power.
Finally, he found that this glove did not have any evil power.
Seeing Lombane not far away about to wake up, William could only temporarily seal and put away the glove, waiting to study it carefully after returning.
"Ugh."
Lombane clutched his head.
"What a... long nightmare."
One day later.
The incident regarding Germantown School had been reported all over the United States.
Among the 333 trapped people this time, 320 survivors were finally rescued.
And the nine heroes who participated in the rescue were also praised by the North American people.
However, their identities were kept confidential.
The Lord Knights, the Witch Association, and Light of Humanity, these organizations all publicly protested.
The several parties stated that the deeds of these heroes should be made known to everyone.
But considering the subsequent investigation, the police still maintained their original decision.
And those heroes, most of them had already left on the day the rescue ended.
At this time, on the way back to their organization.
"Hey! I told you those guys couldn't possibly unite! How can they start fighting as soon as they come out!" Winona said after downing a whole glass of wine.
Lombane sat by the plane window, looking deep in thought.
Hearing the witch's words, he shook his head slightly.
"Even so, we still have to do our best. The descent of terror is not the business of one organization; it concerns all humans in North America."
"There are still many people in the world like Father William."
"That guy, indeed quite impressive. The Church is really quite lucky."
Winona's head was already a bit dizzy.
"Lombane, do you think he would be willing to become a wizard?"
Inside a luxury hotel.
Gail sat on the sofa, staring blankly at a holy artifact in her hand.
"Gail, someone from the organization is here to hear a detailed report on this incident; get ready."
Mark walked over from the living room and said.
"Oh, okay!" Gail hurriedly put away the holy artifact.
Seeing this, Mark's face was a bit unnatural, but he didn't say anything.
Gail took the materials she had prepared and followed Mark out of the suite.
"Will we meet again..." she thought inwardly.
Inside a forest.
"Pence! Endurance is an essential quality for a knight, speed up!" Henry ran through the woods.
"Wait... wait!"
Pence panted heavily: "Didn't we just finish a commission! Can we rest for a while!"
"No!" Henry's tone was indisputable.
"To become a powerful knight, you must keep training at all times!"
Pence muttered: "Actually, it's because you didn't contribute this time, so you feel psychologically unbalanced, right."
"Knight Pence! What did you say!"
"Coming!"
Germantown Friends School, Main Entrance.
William played with a holy artifact in boredom.
Betty aside secretly poked him, then shook her head.
Seeing this, William could only helplessly stand up straight.
After the commission ended, the other organizations had long left.
William originally thought he could also "Get off work," but was forcefully kept behind by Wilton.
As for the reason...
"The demon this time was very dangerous, able to make people hallucinate through dreams. Once you die in there, your body in reality will also disappear."
Wilton wore a luxurious and decent black robe, recounting this incident with a serious face.
And more than twenty microphones were placed in front of him. The reporters below earnestly recorded the details concerning the commission.
"...Fortunately, with the Lord's protection, the Church successfully rescued the trapped people."
"Of course, we also rescued our companions in the exorcism circle respectively; they came from the Lord Knights, the Witch Association..."
Wilton naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity for publicity.
This time the Church gained all the limelight in the commission, winning the recognition of the vast North American public.
Of course, William's credit was also hidden within the "Church."
He didn't care about this; these false reputations would only bring trouble.
Besides, upon receiving the commission, William realized this was a "Political Task."
In case some evil forces wanted revenge, the Church could bear it all.
However, as the person who truly solved the incident, William still received rewards from inside the Church.
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