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Chapter 70 - 70 70 Exploiting a Bug in a Dream

?Chapter 70: Chapter 70: Exploiting a Bug in a Dream Chapter 70: Chapter 70: Exploiting a Bug in a Dream Night dreams, Gloomy Dreamland descended.

Consciousness gradually became clear, and Russell appeared again. He looked at his true body still lying in bed and, despite having seen it many times, still found it amazing.

At this moment, he was like his Primordial Spirit had left his body, but this Primordial Spirit was quite funny, with thin arms and short legs, a complete cartoonish figure.

Just then, Russell suddenly “eh?” made a sound.

He found that beside him, a butterfly had appeared without him noticing, its wings flapping like broadswords.

“Sword Butterfly?”

Without a doubt, it was the Sword Butterfly Amber Bug he had contracted during the day, which had followed him into the Gloomy Dreamland.

It had truly entered, like Russell and the Little Dream Dragon, able to move freely.

Unlike other Spirit Insects that could only bloom with Magic Light in the Gloomy Dreamland, they did not belong to the Gloomy Dreamland.

The Sword Butterfly could not speak, it simply landed gently on Russell’s shoulder.

“But come to think of it, it’s not strange, you can transform into a mark, like the mark accompanying the flight of the Little Dream Dragon, of course, you should be able to enter the Gloomy Dreamland,” Russell muttered to himself.

The next moment, the Little Dream Dragon appeared: “Ga!”

“Here comes Ice Cream,” Russell beckoned, “come see the new companion, it’s getting livelier in the Gloomy Dreamland, huh.”

“Ga.” The Little Dream Dragon flew over, flapping its short wings, and then glanced disdainfully at the Sword Butterfly on Russell’s shoulder.

The Sword Butterfly took flight, circling around the Little Dream Dragon cheerfully.

The Little Dream Dragon, however, turned its head and glared fiercely at the Sword Butterfly, even attempting to blow it away, but the Sword Butterfly simply wouldn’t leave.

It enjoyed flying around the Little Dream Dragon.

Russell climbed onto the Little Dream Dragon’s back, laughing as he said, “It seems you two have already met, okay, stop being cross with each other.”

He understood that the “M” shaped mark in his palm was the real-world incarnation of the Little Dream Dragon. Once they left Gloomy Dreamland, the Little Dream Dragon would exist in the form of an “M” shaped mark, and even then, the Little Dream Dragon would still be conscious.

So when the Sword Butterfly also turned into a mark and came close to the “M” shaped mark, the Little Dream Dragon naturally noticed it.

“Ga!” The Little Dream Dragon rolled its eyes, no longer paying attention to the Sword Butterfly.

Carrying Russell, it began to patrol its territory, although there wasn’t much in the territory worth patrolling. The manor and the surrounding area had already been thoroughly explored by the duo on many nights, with no new Magic Light blooming.

“Another boring night, Ice Cream,” sighed Russell, “we can’t keep sleeping in the manor anymore.”

The Little Dream Dragon heartily agreed: “Ga!”

Then, the duo slowly flew to the boundary of the Gloomy Dreamland, just above the surface of the Glowing River. The Little Dream Dragon typically crashed into the boundary and then, using the rebound to change direction, flew toward other areas.

This time, however, something miraculous happened; the Little Dream Dragon didn’t collide with the boundary but instead passed through it.

“Ga?”

“Hm?”

Both of them were stunned; this was something that had never happened before.

Only the Sword Butterfly, still clueless, continued its joyful dance around the Little Dream Dragon in every direction.

“Don’t just stand there, Ice Cream. Quick, let’s keep flying forward!” Russell quickly calmed himself. The Gloomy Dreamland was already magical, so another miraculous event wasn’t too surprising. The key was to seize the opportunity and expand the search area.

“Ga!” The Little Dream Dragon understood Russell’s intention.

Flapping its wings, it flew quickly toward the far bank of the Glowing River. However, as they flew, Russell noticed something odd.

The Gloomy Dreamland remained the same, still centered around the manor, and the boundary didn’t expand with the distance the Little Dream Dragon flew.

After flying out, it was more like lighting a lamp, illuminating a meter or two in the pitch darkness with themselves at the center. Beyond a meter or two, nothing could be seen but impenetrable darkness.

But when I looked back, I could clearly see the original Gloomy Dreamland, that small world sketched out by dim lines.

“Did we fly out of the Gloomy Dreamland?” Russell observed carefully and suddenly realized that the bright area around him and the Little Dream Dragon seemed to be constantly shaking.

And this shaking rhythm was actually following the Sword Butterfly’s dance.

In other words, the light source was generated with the Sword Butterfly at the center, illuminating the world outside the Gloomy Dreamland for the dragon and himself.

“Hiss!”

“Zun Doodle Jia Doodle!”

This discovery was too incredible, a mere Amber Worm could actually change the structure of the Gloomy Dreamland.

But after repeated observation, Russell found this to be the truth.

“Sword Butterfly, fly further away,” Russell began to experiment, wanting to verify some conditions, he started giving commands to the Sword Butterfly—Even in the Gloomy Dreamland, there was still a mental connection between him and the Sword Butterfly, allowing simple communication.

Under Russell’s guidance, the Sword Butterfly finally reluctantly left the Little Dream Dragon and flew forward.

As it flew away, the light gradually left the dragon and human, but just as the edge of the light was about to leave the Little Dream Dragon, the Sword Butterfly seemed to hit a barrier and could no longer move even a bit further forward.

“Hm!”

Russell had understood.

The Sword Butterfly carried the ability to light up the surrounding two-meter radius, or rather, to sketch out a small spherical Gloomy Dreamland with itself at the center.

But this ability was not inherent to it; it was more like a borrowed ability from the Little Dream Dragon, unable to stray more than two meters away from the Little Dream Dragon, otherwise, this ability would cease to work.

“It shares a wonder with the Great Dragon’s power. The Great Dragon’s Dragonflame constantly radiates but can only create an Oasis around a volcano. To reach further places, Bipedal Flying Dragons are needed to reconcentrate the diminishing Dragonflame, then form a warm place like the Glowing Valley.”

Essentially, if the Great Dragon was a signal transmitter, constantly emitting signals outward,
Then the Bipedal Flying Dragon was a repeater, re-amplifying the diminished signals, helping the Great Dragon’s signals to reach even further places.

Now, both the Little Dream Dragon and the Sword Butterfly had constructed a similar signal system.

“Only, it seems that Ice Cream and the Sword Butterfly can exploit a bug to keep flying further away without being restricted by the spatial limitation of the Gloomy Dreamland,” he rode the Little Dream Dragon, letting the Sword Butterfly lead the way, flying continuously until they reached the base of Curved Blade Mountain.

With the two-meter radius of spherical Gloomy Dreamland, they could determine that the steep, uphill terrain ahead was Curved Blade Mountain.

“Amazing!”

“E mei zi ying!”

Russell couldn’t help but marvel; the addition of the Sword Butterfly had allowed him to explore new ways of developing the Gloomy Dreamland, so he wouldn’t have to camp in the wilderness and could explore the entire estate’s territory.

Of course, no matter how smoothly this bug was exploited, how far they could fly ultimately depended on the Little Dream Dragon’s stamina.

They had barely reached the vicinity of Curved Blade Mountain when the Little Dream Dragon showed signs of listlessness. “Ga…”

“Tired? Are you tired already?”

“Ga…”

“Alright then, see you tomorrow night, Ice Cream.” Waving his hand, Russell jumped off the Little Dream Dragon’s back and watched it burst out of the two and a half meter radius of the spherical Gloomy Dreamland.

Then, everything went dark.

Consciousness fell into chaos, and when he woke up again, it was the next morning, with the sunlight streaming through the gap in the curtains just warming the blanket.

Sitting up.

Russell carefully recalled everything that happened in the Gloomy Dreamland last night, then raised his left hand, connecting with it by thought.

Directly over the palm of his left hand, an “M” shaped mark appeared, surrounded by a sesame seed-sized Sword Butterfly Mark rotating around it.

“This bug was really well exploited!”