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"He got super buff out of nowhere?!" Rita cried. "Holy shit!"
"Rita, focus, he''sing!" yne said, as she summoned a barrier seconds before Lace''s huge fists were tond on her!
"[Nightmare Fists]!"
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Lace''s fists distorted yne''s Spiritual Barrier and her Wooden Shields were broken apart into pieces in an instant! Lace who seemed to small ended being quite mighty on the physical department!
"RAAAAAH!!!" The jester raised both of his hands into the sky and clenched them together, aiming to crush yne with a hammer. "DIE, YOU GAME CHEATERRR!"
BAAAAAAMMM…!
"UNGH?!"
However, Lace quickly realized his two powerful fists didn''t reach yne, but hit Mark instead, who had moved so fast in front of her that it seemed as if he had teleported there.
"Oi, you''re going straight for her?" Mark said, clearly pissed off. "As long as I am here, you won''t be touching yne! RAAAAHHH!!!"
With a ferocious roar, Mark transformed his Magic Knife into a huge zing sword, unleashing a barrage of Quadruple shes with each swing of his sword, overwhelming Lace and setting him aze on dragon mes!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLAAASH!
"Arrgh…! It burns so much!" Lace screamed, seeing his entire body set aze, he timidly stepped back, trying to turn off the fire.
"You''re not running away!" Lily roared, as she hit the ground with her pickaxe and several rock pirs emerged one after another, hitting Lace from left, right, behind, front, and below!
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRAAASSSH!
"Uuuaaarrgghh…!"
Lace was already covered on blood as he was thrown into the skies, only for yne to smile, leaping high up and charging her huge shovel with mighty Spiritual Energy.
"[Great Spiritual Explosion]!"
The Spiritual Energy and Mana channeled into her Shovel Weapon overflowed, making the shovel glow with the brightness of divinity itself! The impact generated a huge explosion that threw the Jester into the ground once more!
BOOOOOMMM…!
"Gryyaaarrgghh…!"
CRAAASH!
His body hit the floor, generating a huge crater below. The toy monsters ncing the scene were left speechless, their cheers stopping as they nced the scene in utter hopelessness…
"U-Uurgh… H-Howe you''re so strong?!" Lace vomited blood. "Grargh…! I-I am the God of Dreams! I should be the strongest… in this dream world!"
"You''ve thought wrong then!" Rita roared, her gun shooting several Light-imbued bullets at him. "[Holy Bullet Barrage]!"
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
"[Nightmare Walls]!"
Lace quickly stood back up and floated in midair, generating walls made of ck, nightmarish energy that swallowed the bullets and then fired them back at Rita!
"Wrong? ME?! Preposterous! I am the Ruler of Nightmares!" Lace screamed. "[Nightmare Repulsion]!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"S-Shit! He can shoot me back?!" Rita panicked, jumping around while evading the gun shoots sent back at her with twice the speed and strength. Thanks to Lily''s boulder shields, she was able to block several bullets at once.
"[Dream Mirage]! [Nightmare Clones]!" The bleeding Lace screamed, as he suddenly divided his body into several clones!
Mark and yne''s attacks ended hitting false mirages which exploded into dream and nightmare elemental magic explosions, causing some damage into their armor.<novelsnext></novelsnext>
BOOM! BOOM! BOOOM!
"Dammit, all fake!" Said yne. "My Spiritual Gaze can''t properly detect which one is real… Is this because Lace is also made of dream?"
"Must be!" Mark said, as he defended yne from Lace''s clones, swinging his zing sword against them and making them explode one after another.
"Kekekekek! You thought fighting me would be so easy?! I am the God of Dream-"
"[Super Bullet Time]!"
Rita''s eyes glowed bright red, as her gun overflowed with Mana she imbued into it to activate the Skill of the same name. Time around her became much slower as she quickly started shooting all Lace clones she found!
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG…!
"H-Huh?! Argh!"
Lace ended taking several shoots on his body as he started bleeding even more, realizing that in just a couple of seconds all his clones disappeared by Rita''s super-fast bullet barrage!
"I-Impossible!" Lace screamed, vomiting blood.
"It''s more than possible, jerk!" Lily roared angrily. "[Cave Drake King''s Earthquake]!"
Lily hit the ground with her huge pickaxe, as she unleashed the might of the Cave Drake King imbued into her weapon after its upgrade using the dragon''s Scale Pieces and Bone Pieces!
RUMBLE! TRUUUUUMMM…!
The entire ground started trembling as Lace was hit by an enormous quantity of Earth Attribute Energy erupting from the ground beneath!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOOMM…!
"Aaarrgghhh…!"
The jester screamed in agony once more, his body continuing to gain more and more wounds. His mask started shattering, continuously gaining more cracks!
"N-No…! My mask is breaking?!" Lace screamed looking at the scene in utter disbelief as he saw his own mask beginning to crumble. "No, no, no! YOU BASTARDS!!!"
Filled with utter and maddening rage, his entire body erupted with Nightmare Magic power, beginning to cover his surroundings with a powerful, shadow domain.
"[Nightmare Domain]! Be absorbed by your own nightmares!!!"
FLUOOOOSH!
Gigantic red eyes and countless tentacles emerged from within the Nightmare Domain, trying to wrap themselves around everyone! The jumped and flew into the skies, but the tentacles still managed to touch them.
"[Heavenly Light sh]!"
However, before everyone were to be engulfed by the nightmares, a huge sh of purifying light emerged from yne''s entire body, which quickly dissipated the dark nightmares, and made everyone wake up!
"W-WHAT?!" Lace vomited blood in shock once more, his mask barely keeping itself stuck into his face. "Y-Youuuu! [Nightmare Beasts]! [Dream Explosive Bombs]!"
The Jester screamed in anger, summoning a dozen of beasts made out of nightmares, and materializing, pink-colored bombs out of his hands,unching them at yne and her group!
"GROOOARRR!"
The Nightmare Beasts were as strong as C Rank Monsters! Nheless, Mark and yne quickly charged into the frontlines and began ying the beasts with Mark''s Quadruple sh and Red Dragon Queen''s Fire while yne unleashed her Great Spiritual Explosion while spreading her Nature Domain to gain more advantage on this dreamyndscape.
However, the bombs wereunched strategically as they were ying the Nightmare Beasts. Laceughed as the bombs reached them and exploded!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"Gryahahaha! Have your dreams consumed by my bombs!"
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