["What the hell is a Nightmare Giant?"]
Ethan asked back.
Luna didn't know where she had gotten the information from, but she actually knew about them, ["They're basically a group of dwarfs that can create dreams for their enemies. Their bodies are extremely small in reality, about the size of a three- or four-year-old child."]
["They have long arms and legs and look like monkeys."]
["Maybe because you tend to want what you lack, they usually turn themselves into killing giants in their dreams and specialize in killing people in dreams."]
["And the strangest thing is, if you're killed by a Nightmare Giant in a dream, you'll remain trapped in your dream forever and never be able to get out."]
["It's fine. My town has countless defense towers. I guarantee it won't be coming back,"] Ethan didn't take these Nightmare Giants seriously at all.
["Big Bro Ethan, if they were really that easy to deal with, I wouldn't need to worry about you,"] Luna sighed, ["I'll tell you the truth. When I was opening chests before, I got a damaged Monster Encyclopedia."]
["It mentioned how terrifying these Nightmare Giants are. If the dragon-type creatures we dealt with in the other zones were three stars, then these Nightmare Giants are four-and-a-half-star monsters. They're equivalent to B-rank monsters."]
["They might even reach B+ rank!"]
["If their actual bodies weren't so weak, they could probably become five-star terrifying monsters."]
["Because the most frightening thing about them is that as long as they can obtain something belonging to you, they can launch a remote dream attack against you. In other words, once you fall asleep, they'll be able to find a way to attack your dreams."]
["I see,"] Ethan nodded, ["All right, thanks for telling me! I'll find someone to ask if there's any way to deal with them."]
["Mm-hmm. Big Bro Ethan, you have to be careful. We're all counting on you now."]
["Don't worry!"]
After closing the magic book, Ethan immediately stood up from the hot spring.
Attendant Five had already gotten herself ready by then. Her face was still red as she held Ethan's clothes, standing to the side and preparing to dry him off and help him put on his dried clothes.
As Ethan walked toward the villa, he used mental communication to ask the Queen Bee to notify the two Archmages and have them come over.
By the time he returned to the villa's main hall, the two Archmages had indeed arrived.
"Little disciple, we heard from the Queen Bee that you were looking for us?"
Nostradamus immediately asked when he saw Ethan coming downstairs.
Ethan turned his head and asked Attendant Five to prepare some wine, water, and snacks for his masters. Then he nodded, "Yeah. I've run into a problem and wanted to ask you two for some advice."
"Oh? Tell us."
Genie Sylas raised an eyebrow curiously when he heard that Ethan actually needed his help.
After all, there was one thing that was good about this disciple of theirs, but also a problem: he was too independent.
He normally had no need for them at all.
So naturally, Genie Sylas became curious when he finally came to them for help.
"It's like this. I heard from a friend that my mortal enemy has teamed up with the Nightmare Giants and is planning to deal with me," Ethan didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "Then I heard that these monsters called Nightmare Giants can kill people in their dreams. Do you two masters know of any way to deal with this kind of monster?"
"Nightmare Giants?", Nostradamus was also slightly stunned, "When did these Abyss creatures come over?"
"Nightmare Giants are monsters from the Nightmare Lands?"
Ethan was also somewhat surprised.
He had thought the Nightmare Giants were native creatures of the Mist World. He hadn't expected them to be monsters from the Nightmare Lands. No wonder their attack method was so difficult to deal with.
"That's right. And they're monsters capable of both long-range and mental attacks," Genie Sylas also explained, "They're extremely troublesome."
"During the Border War several hundred years ago, the Abyss King once released an army of Nightmare Giants. While the mages and warriors of the Mist World were resting, they launched dream attacks against everyone."
"That sneak attack was truly devastating. I still remember that morning. Of the mages and warriors who got up, fewer than one in ten remained."
"And at first, the people who woke up didn't even realize what had happened."
"They thought they had merely had a nightmare."
"Until they discovered that their comrades, friends, and brothers had all mysteriously died in their dreams. There were no external injuries or anything unusual. It was as if they had simply fallen asleep and couldn't wake up."
"Later, everyone learned that most of them had been attacked by the Nightmare Giants while they were sleeping the night before."
"Because of their concealment and the danger posed by their long-range mental attacks, these Nightmare Giants were eventually listed as one of the Ten Most Terrifying Monsters of the Abyss."
"Disciple, if you've been targeted by these monsters, I'm afraid you'll have to be careful."
[T/N: New fanfic chat—"Genshin Impact: Retiring Early from the Fatui". A solid read, definitely give it a try. Have a great day~]