Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

Mere passion is meaningless.

Defeating the Night Demon is an almost impossible task.

Zhou Baiyu quickly reined in his radiance. He decided to stay at Xinkui's house for the coming days, letting Xinkui have his own place.

Beautiful dreams can awaken a person's inner desire for beauty.

Xinkui was immensely grateful, but still said to Zhou Baiyu,

"Hide your light well, Jiang Xianwu, and don't entertain any dangerous thoughts. Defeating the Night Demon is an almost impossible task."

Zhou Baiyu nodded. Currently, it indeed seemed impossible to defeat the Night Demon.

There was still much work to be done.

Informed by Xinkui's words, and the memories he acquired from Night Demon Nai Zhi, Zhou Baiyu made the following judgments—

"I need allies, and the information we have at the moment is too scant."

"I have to defeat the eternal night. I must awaken. To awaken, I need enough people to shine."

"But here is where it gets really complicated and difficult since these people will start hoping for the future as soon as they're persuaded by me, and once they hope, they will shine."

"And once they shine, they will be tormented by nightmares that night, losing hope... and their light."

"I cannot convince everyone at the same time. It's very likely that I convince person A today and person B tomorrow, but by the time I convince B, A might already be devoured by the nightmares again because of their light, needing fresh persuasion. And while I try to awaken A, B might find themselves in peril."

"Everyone's situation is different. And these people have already failed once..."

They went through a brutal suppression once, being robbed of their light by the eternal night. It was with great difficulty that they became fervid and bright, but in the sea of night, they dared not shine again because of the ravages of nightmares...

Would such a group of people still trust others?

"At the end of it all, this is a dream concocted by the eternal night... The situation is far worse than I imagined, and it's not something that can be changed overnight."

"How to persuade these people to shine again, how to get them to shine all at once, that's just one part of the problem."

"There's a second part of the problem that's also very hard to solve. Once I wake up, even if I turn back the night, can I guarantee—with one hundred percent certainty—that I, a different walker at the second stage, can defeat the eternal night?"

"Although the update emphasized that the Night Demon will be weaker during the day, it is still a demon... and my profession isn't one designed for battle."

"If I fail again, then all those who believed in me will probably lose all hope and become shadow kind."

Zhou Baiyu sat on the bed, his brows furrowed.

He found the situation nearly insurmountable.

"The first part of the problem, how do I awaken these people and how do I do it simultaneously."

"The second part of the problem, how can I ensure that once I'm awake, I can definitely defeat the weakened eternal night?"

"And there's a third part of the problem. This is also the most difficult part."

"Why would Nai Zhi listen to Jin Yi?"

"So many people shining together is not something that can happen overnight, yet the Night Demon, eternal night, waits until the end to harvest them."

"It wasn't until the very end that he tormented Jin Yi into complete despair, turning him into shadow kind."

"The eternal night must have been aware of Jin Yi's or rather everyone's thoughts all along."

"But to squeeze out more light, along with absolute control over the situation, the eternal night has been toying with humanity all this time."

"Simply put, it feeds on people's false hope, stemming from Jin Yi's desire for freedom, from everyone's desire to escape the Land of No Light, stimulating these people to shine and then nourish the 'Gods Treasure'."

"This is the scenario currently most likely, I presume."

"I need to rally teammates, but in convincing a teammate, I might trigger them to shine... and once someone shines, they will be exposed, and their exposure will draw the eternal night's attention."

To awaken hope in each person, to create a dazzling light, yet not let the Night Demon become aware.

The eternal night is simply too powerful. Even a glimpse, and it might deduce humanity's entire plan.

Once the eternal night learns the full plan, it becomes the oriole behind the praying mantis.

This is the third difficult point; the eternal night must not find out.

Otherwise, it's quite possible that the eternal night might choose to eradicate oneself directly in reality.

After all, the real me—still lying in the Advanced World dreaming, helpless against the eternal night.

It's that at this moment, I'm too insignificant for the eternal night to even take notice.

The three major challenges make Zhou Baiyu's path incredibly difficult.

For the first time, he felt that he might never return. Because each obstacle he has to overcome to defeat the eternal night is immensely difficult.

This might be the toughest campaign he has ever faced.

...

...

No matter how difficult, there's always an entry point. Mutators can endow an object with incredible attributes; this in itself is a breakthrough point.

Just like in twilight of the gods, every deity worries about the presence of someone who could cause variables, so each faction must kill it immediately.

After considering many strategies, Zhou Baiyu realized...

Unless he could face the Night Demon, eternal night, in direct combat with raw strength, it's basically impossible to defeat the Night Demon by conventional means.

So, the only option is to gamble.

Thus, he shifted his focus back to the mutation, for the first time realizing that perhaps only a Mutator could break the current stalemate.

In the following days, Zhou Baiyu decided to address the difficulties encountered in each phase, one by one.