Stelle and Robin's continuous cycle of dying and resurrecting was just the beginning.
The Dreammaster could feel that while he was attacking Stelle and Robin, a pure killing intent locked onto him.
He subconsciously looked up in the direction of the killing intent, only to see Pei Guang walking out from a crack in a nearby wall.
"I was running through the plot over here; how did someone start the boss fight?"
After setting up the policy in the dreamscape, Pei Guang had prepared to continue his actions. However, while he was acting, he felt the power of Order.
The power of Order itself didn't matter much: what really made Pei Guang come out early was Stelle's death records.
That's right, Pei Guang saw the prompts regarding his teammate in the system log.
[Teammate: Stelle, has died]
[Teammate: Stelle, has resurrected]
The repetitive messages scrolled rapidly on the screen, so fast that Pei Guang was dumbfounded.
What did this mean? If he hadn't set it so that one could die and resurrect in the dreamscape, Stelle would have really been killed?
Thinking of this, Pei Guang felt terrible.
Continue pushing quests to wake more people up and gain recognition from more people to control Penacony?
If his companions were not in danger, Pei Guang would certainly continue. But when his companion was in danger, he wouldn't care about any outsiders.
Pei Guang returned to reality immediately without any hesitation.
However, what he didn't know was that when he returned to reality, a portion of the people he had dragged in to be Helldivers did not choose to wake up.
People have many dreams, but a large portion of them hold a dream of being a hero.
Becoming a Helldiver, bringing freedom, democracy, happiness, and hope to the universe… that sounds so cool!
And now there was an opportunity for them to save more people. For those with dreams in this regard, this was simply a golden opportunity sent from heaven.
The influence Pei Guang brought, coupled with the secret help of the Memokeeper, allowed this group of people to inherit Pei Guang's ideology and reel in more people within the dreamscape.
Now, among these Helldivers, a phenomenon of person-to-person transmission had vaguely appeared. Pei Guang didn't need to dupe them at all; these people who had already been duped by him began to spontaneously dupe others.
Pei Guang had made a good start for ten percent of the life in Penacony. Even if only one-tenth or one-hundredth of these people continued with the same idea, it would have a huge impact on Penacony.
Pei Guang had lost interest in paying attention to these people's actions; he just wanted to see if Stelle was injured and help clean up her mess.
The moment he walked out of the dreamscape, he noticed the Dreammaster holding a conductor's baton, his head glowing with a strange light.
Pei Guang directly ignored the Dreammaster and turned to look at the dying-and-coming-back-to-life duo.
"What's your status?"
Seeing Pei Guang appear, Stelle, who had died once again, directly chose her resurrection point beside Pei Guang.
Stelle: "Status is very bad. This big guy is controlling us with the power of Order. We can only resist his control through constant death and resurrection."
With the policy added by Pei Guang, Stelle and Robin wouldn't be forcefully controlled by the Dreammaster, but doing so had a drawback: because all their energy was focused on dying and resurrecting, there was absolutely no opportunity to counterattack.
Pei Guang carefully observed the surrounding situation.
The Dreammaster concentrated almost all his power on them, and this power made Pei Guang feel some discomfort in his body as well.
But while uncomfortable, Pei Guang also immediately thought of how to fight.
Without excessive words, he immediately took out a manhole cover.
The Dreammaster understood Pei Guang, this special existence, very well. It was because Pei Guang suddenly went crazy that the original plan executor, Sunday, was taken away from this star system, leaving him to rely only on himself to complete the former plan.
He had heard of Pei Guang's bizarre abilities and even witnessed some personally. He originally thought he would pull out something powerful to fight him, but when he saw Pei Guang take out a manhole cover, he was completely dumbfounded.
… A manhole cover?
Leaving aside his current power, given his identity as the Dreammaster, if one wanted to fight him, shouldn't they use something proper? At the very least, turning into a trash can would be okay; after all, trash cans have an Emanator of Preservation.
Turning into a trash can would mean Pei Guang temporarily possessed the power of an Emanator of Preservation.
But what was with taking out a manhole cover? Look down on him that much?!
Although he couldn't forcefully brainwash these few people, the Dreammaster still wanted to let Pei Guang witness his prowess.
The power of Order instantly concentrated on Pei Guang. Feeling the erosion from the power of Order, Pei Guang unhurriedly raised the manhole cover.
"This is the Destruction Manhole Cover!"
Pei Guang shouted loudly.
The sheer volume made even the Dreammaster pause for a moment.
However, while he was dazed, a bizarre scene occurred.
The originally ordinary-looking manhole cover erupted with red flames at this moment, and accompanying the red flames was... the power of Destruction!
Dreammaster: "???"
At this moment, the Dreammaster had question marks all over his head.
Even though he had seen many weird things, when he saw a manhole cover possessing the power of Destruction appear, even his consciousness experienced a brief shutdown.
Manhole cover? Power of Destruction?
He could somewhat understand the trash can being an Emanator of Preservation before: after all, with trash cans hopping around all over the world in reality, he had never seen such a thing.
But since they were hopping around, theoretically becoming an Emanator of Preservation wasn't an impossible event.
But here came the problem: what was the meaning of this Destruction Manhole Cover? If Destruction has a manhole cover, can he pull out other manhole covers too?
Just as the Dreammaster couldn't help but complain internally, the power of Order originally attacking Pei Guang was destroyed by pure power of Destruction at this moment.
Pei Guang used the manhole cover to block the attack from Order.
Watching Pei Guang block Order's attack so easily, Stelle was dumbfounded: "Wait? It can be played like this too?"
Pei Guang: "How many times have I said it? Everything collected on the map is useful! We just collected this manhole cover a few hours ago, and you forgot already?
Also! In just these few minutes, how many times did you die? Even if you can resurrect, this frequency of death isn't right! You died so many times, and you haven't even touched the boss's ass once?"
Pei Guang's scolding froze the expression on the originally happy Stelle's face.
She recalled carefully: it seemed that after getting the information that one wouldn't die in the dream and confirming she wouldn't die, her first thought was to resist the control of Order through death.
This couldn't be entirely blamed on Stelle. After all, getting a buff one second and encountering a strong enemy the next, she chose this method almost subconsciously.
At the same time, Stelle had really forgotten about the manhole cover; she only realized there were other choices when she saw Pei Guang take out the manhole cover.
Stelle didn't know how to explain.
She could only purse her lips and smile embarrassedly: "Hehe~"
"Hehe your big head! Since you've already aggroed the boss, let's just start the fight."