Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

Zhou Baiyu was simply too insignificant.

But at this moment, he was still lucid.

The Night Sea must be the eternal abode of night demons, right?

If he wanted to defeat the Eternal Night in his dreams, it meant he had to delve deep into the Night Sea... to defeat the countless deep-sea behemoths there.

That was simply impossible.

He fell into despair.

Such despair rapidly drained the light from Zhou Baiyu.

Gradually, he no longer shone.

The monsters of the Night Sea seemed quite content with this change.

But they didn't notice—

The light on Zhou Baiyu's body hadn't disappeared, but was wrapped in a layer of black mist.

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...

Zhou Baiyu woke up. His eyes were bloodshot, and he looked somewhat fierce.

Time had passed, he felt as if he had lived through several long years...

In those years, everything he saw and remembered, everything had evolved in the most painful direction.

But it also felt very brief.

Zhou Baiyu realized all of it was an illusion, but the horror was that he couldn't distinguish these illusions.

Once shone upon by the gaze from the Night Sea, he felt as if he had truly experienced one distorted future after another.

That was just one monster in the Night Sea. Who knows if there were other creatures with different powers hidden in that sea?

"In the realm of night demons, there naturally are many night demons... Apart from the few dispatched by the Eternal Night to investigate other matters, most night demons probably became those creatures in the Night Sea."

"What exactly does the Eternal Night want to do? Why trap everyone in dreams?"

"Eh—"

As Zhou Baiyu pondered these questions, he suddenly discovered that the light on his body—had not dimmed.

Having abruptly awakened from the dream, he thought his light should have been devoured by those sea creatures.

Because of the distorted illusions, he was utterly hopeless. But upon waking, he found—his body still shone.

The light hadn't dimmed, and seemed just as bright as before he fell asleep.

"I always feel that this light is key to defeating the night demons... but the problem is, the light attracts the monsters and puts me in a position of alienation."

While Zhou Baiyu was troubled by this light, a puff of black smoke suddenly emerged from his body.

The smoke enveloped the light.

Before long, Zhou Baiyu's surroundings became completely dim.

He suddenly remembered.

In the dream within a dream, facing those enormous creatures in the Night Sea, he had light on him.

But that light was obscured, which is why those monsters left him alone.

When a person's hope is completely destroyed, he can no longer ignite hope.

Even when facing a person who shines, they only feel fear.

But if a person always maintains hope in their heart, they can never be defeated.

Because a spark hidden under darkness always has the aspiration to set a prairie fire.

Even though Zhou Baiyu was tormented by nightmares, suffering immensely, he seemed to quickly shake off the effects of the dream after waking up.

"It seems to be Brother Duan's necklace... The effect of the necklace is to provide some help consistently in dreams."

"And now I am in a dream. This means my light didn't disappear, but was hidden by something provided by the necklace."

This was good news. Currently, it seemed that the night demons were only sensitive to light, and once they sensed its presence, they tried to torture the source.

But this also meant—light was something they feared.

"Calm down, Zhou Baiyu, organize your thoughts carefully."

"There are two paths before me now—one is to figure out how to wake up. Use the props in reality, and fight the night demons in reality."

"Intuitively, this is the correct solution."

"The other is to defeat the night demons in the dream. But if that were feasible, Brother Duan wouldn't have cooperated with the night demons, but would have chosen to kill them directly. Night demons are invincible in dreams."

"So the answer lies in the first option, my current top priority—wake up."

"But I've suffered such immense pain in the dream within a dream, I still can't wake up, clearly, both physical and mental stimulations are unable to escape the night demons' dreams."

"And from known clues—once able to shine, it will be detected by dream monsters in the Night Sea, and then they will devour the light."

"Once someone can shine, these people will suffer torment and destruction to the extent that they fear being implicated by seeing others shine."

"This also explains one point—in the Land of No Light, light is definitely a very important thing."

"So is there a possibility—that light is the key to my awakening?"

Just being able to wake up, he can turn the wristwatch, just being able to turn the wristwatch—

The true form of the Eternal Night will be exposed under the light source, and the invincible night demon in the dream will show its weakest form.

"From 2:30 onwards, the version update announcement has been telling me that night demons weaken during the day... so this should be my only chance."

"Figure out the significance of light, figure out how to leave here, figure out what exactly the Eternal Night needs people to do in the dream."

Zhou Baiyu's thought process was clear, and he soon set his own tasks.

And to figure all this out, he needed to find someone in the know.

"I need to find Yun Duo, and those missing guild members of Future Gate. Now that I have merged into the darkness, maybe I can get clues from them."

Once he had a direction, a goal, Zhou Baiyu was infused with motivation.

His light became increasingly bright.

But due to the presence of the black mist, the light always lay dormant, as if waiting for a chance to illuminate the world.