Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?

"This dream is too long."

Uffie felt as if she had a long dream in a state of half-sleep and half-awake. Just before waking up, she heard the voice of some strange old man saying these words, and she deeply resonated with them.

The feeling of being half-asleep is really too uncomfortable, even more so than being torn limb from limb.

People whose bodies have been taken over by the Insect King generally fall into complete void or darkness, feeling nothing and never waking up again.

However, Uffie didn't know why, she did not fall into the void as "usual" under the era of the Insect King, as circumstances a thousand years ago might not necessarily apply to the modern day.

On the contrary, after her body was taken by the Insect King, she came to a place she absolutely did not want to see.

It was the place where she had seen strange things when Empathy with Fanen; Yarn and the invisible presence, Blood Moon and Moon Blood Princess, the small fishing village by the sea and some orphan, and her most hated Mansis Runner. These scenes mixed together in her dream, weaving into a chaotic patchwork monster.

Aside from the Mansis Runner, that is the Lord of Nightmare Miklash, everything else in her eyes was covered with thick mosaics, except for blurry outlines, almost nothing could be seen, the Kos Orphan looked almost like SCP096.

Even so, it's still hard for one's mind to take.

Can you imagine the moment you're in Yarn and the next step you're at the small fishing village and beside you there's some weird runner babbling endlessly to you? And your mental state is highly exhausted in half-sleep yet unable to sleep.

The scenes of Hell probably aren't much different!

Initially, Uffie was unable to live or die, but gradually she discovered that these scenes seemed to have no other harm besides being sickening.

She even felt, in a mysterious way, that these weird things keeping her mind messy were precisely what protected her spirit from the invasion of the Insect King.

Here, although she couldn't regain control of her body, she could remain unharmed.

At this thought, she even looked at the Mansis runner with a touch of tenderness in her eyes.

But as facts prove, she thought too well at that time.

These weird things, although they blocked further invasion by the Insect King, in reality this result seemed more like an accidental outcome, they didn't actively do these things.

Moreover, they were absolutely not as harmless and safe as Uffie herself thought.

Sometimes, just the existence of higher beings is enough to cause the creatures around to fall into a bizarre state, causing considerable pressure on their spirits.

Thus, before she could rejoice too long, Uffie felt her mind becoming more and more chaotic, as if a thousand blenders were rampantly stirring inside her brain, almost turning her brains into froth.

Her head ached to the point of splitting, nausea wouldn't stop, hallucinations appeared...

As various negative effects arose and were about to crush Uffie, a previously unseen towering figure appeared before her.

The figure wore unmistakable Yarn Hunter attire, just like what Fanen and the others wore, holding an ordinary saw meat blade and hunter firearms, back facing Uffie so she couldn't see his face.

But strangely, upon seeing the figure of this unknown hunter, all the pressures Uffie felt vanished into smoke.

Not only did the pressure disappear, but it seemed she even saw an illusion, yes, she felt she must use the word 'illusion' to describe what she just saw.

In short, she seemed to have seen the hunter slaughtering other weird things.

Gun countering Kos Orphan, exchanging Blood Moon Blood Princess, pinning the Lord of Nightmare to the ground for a fierce beating...

The things she didn't dare to imagine, the hunter accomplished them?

Due to the immense impact these images had on people, the moment she finished watching, Uffie's brain automatically forgot the specific content, only remembering the hunter's crazy slaughtering stance.

From the bottom of her heart, she felt that standing in front of her was what one could truly call a real hunter.

If calling others hunters was because their profession was hunting, the one standing in front of her was someone whose entire being was inscribed with the word "Hunter", someone born entirely for hunting!

"Who are you?"

However, before her inquiry received a response, relieved of the pressure source, her mental state finally had a moment of relaxation after the tension tightness, instantly plunging her into a deep sleep.

This sleep wasn't due to the Insect King's power falling into a void, but a biological function intended to alleviate pressure by engaging in normal sleep activity.

With the safety brought by the "Hunter", she even had a beautiful dream.

In the dream she defeated Gapar, snatched his sword, and threw her own spear backhanded, while Gapar practiced spear technique miserably.

Even making her laugh while asleep.

Then what happened next was quite familiar, she woke up, saw Leon and the others, and uttered a question like a scream.

"Where are my legs!?"

Leon and the others looked at the awakened Uffie, each with a surprised expression on their face, quickly casting Identification Magic, first to identify whether the person truly was human, in case it was another disguise by the Insect King?

Yet the feedback from Identification Magic proved that Uffie's body wasn't human, but her spirit and consciousness were completely hers.