208: Chapter 207 The Dream Queen
The next day, Lin Fan closed the shop and hung up a "Temporarily Closed" sign.
He then walked into the backyard and took the Materials out of his Spatial Ring one by one.
The flower of repose's silver-white petals glowed faintly under the light, and the golden specks in its pistils rotated slowly.
One empress butterfly chrysalis, grayish-white and oval-shaped, its surface covered in fine golden patterns.
One dream-slumber grass, its leaves long and thin like needles with silver-gray edges and pale purple veins; the entire plant emitted a faint fluorescence.
There were also other miscellaneous auxiliary Materials.
Lin Fan then summoned Tongtong and stroked its wings.
“It’s time for you to evolve.”
Tongtong fluttered its wings, hovering above the flower of repose, the tips of its wings touching the golden specks in the center of the petals.
The specks of light in the pistils were absorbed by the wingtips, flowing along the wing veins into the butterfly's body.
The petals of the flower of repose withered at a visible speed, turning from silver-white to grayish-white before finally turning to powder.
One after another, Tongtong paused over the flowers of repose in sequence; the patterns on its wings turned silver-white after it finished absorbing the last flower.
Lin Fan then pushed the empress butterfly chrysalis over.
Tongtong slowly landed on top of the chrysalis shell, its six legs gripping the edges.
The golden patterns on the surface of the chrysalis shell began to glow—not a passive light, but actively channeling something into Tongtong's body.
Lin Fan plucked the leaves of the dream-slumber grass and placed them one by one around the chrysalis shell.
The pale purple light in the leaf veins stretched into fine filaments in the air, wrapping around the chrysalis shell strand by strand, connecting the shell and Tongtong together.
It formed a giant cocoon.
Lin Fan then dripped the auxiliary Materials, such as Qingling Flower Dew, onto the cocoon in order.
The cocoon lay quietly on the ground.
It was a giant silver-white cocoon, nearly a meter long.
The surface of the cocoon was covered in fine patterns, resembling tree roots or blood vessels.
Lin Fan took a step back, cleaned up the material residue on the table, and pulled up a chair to sit nearby.
The evolution had begun; the rest was beyond his interference.
The wait lasted until evening.
A low hum suddenly emanated from inside the cocoon, the sound produced when spiritual power vibrates at high speed in a narrow space, like someone striking the inside of a massive bronze bell.
Immediately after, cracks began to appear on the cocoon.
Silver-white light gushed from the cracks. Lin Fan narrowed his eyes, and the golden crystal in his left eye lit up automatically, filtering out the glare so he could see what was inside the fissures.
A hand reached out from a crack.
Five fingers, distinct joints, slender fingertips, and pale pink nails; the skin on the back of the hand was so fair it was nearly transparent, revealing the faint blue veins beneath.
That hand gripped the edge of the cocoon and pulled slightly, widening the crack further.
Then came a second hand.
Both hands gripped the sides of the cocoon at once, prying the crack open to either side.
The cocoon split in two with a crisp cracking sound, and silver-white light poured out from the split shell, condensing into a ball of light above the table.
The light dispersed.
A figure stepped out from the light.
Six slender, silver-white scale-covered legs touched the ground.
The scales spread upward from the tips of the feet, covering the calves, thighs, waist, and abdomen, gradually thinning above the waist as the color transitioned from silver-white to skin tone.
The waist was that of a human—slender and well-curved.
The abdomen was flat; there were no exaggerated abs, but the lines of the muscles beneath the skin were visible.
She was much taller than Lin Fan, standing well over two meters.
The most impressive part was her face; it was the kind of beauty that one could not look away from.
Her eyes were long and narrow, the corners turned up slightly; her pupils were no longer silver-white, having changed to a deep purple after the evolution, like two purple gems.
The bridge of her nose was high, and her lips were thin yet full, a natural pale pink, with a soft curve to the cupid's bow of the upper lip.
Her chin was pointed, and her jawline was sharp.
Long silver-white hair hung down to her waist, and two slender antennae extended from either side of her forehead.
They curved back from her temples, the pale gold tips flickering slowly like two small lamps.
Behind her was a pair of massive silver-white butterfly wings.
The butterfly wings unfurled from her shoulder blades; the wing surfaces were translucent, and silver-white veins extended from the base to the tips like a precise map.
When the wings were fully spread, the wingspan exceeded five meters; tiny specks of light drifted slowly from the wing surfaces, turning into minuscule spots of light that dissolved into the air upon hitting the ground.
She stood before Lin Fan, her six leg-tips touching the floor, her upper body upright, her long silver-white hair hanging to her waist, and the pale gold tips of her antennae flickering slowly.
Lin Fan's face was reflected in her deep purple pupils.
Lin Fan's left eye lit up, and the information from the panel unfolded in his vision.
[Race]: Empress of Sleeping Dreams
[Rank]: Level 49
[Aptitude]: king spirit superior (Limit: ???)
[Attribute]: Dream
[Status]: Healthy, just completed evolution
[Armorization Part]: Eyes
[Armor Skill]:
Eye of Phantom Dream: New ability. Her gaze carries the Breath of the Soothing Butterfly, which can calm the mind and increase resistance to mental attacks and illusions; a direct gaze can briefly pacify frenzied enemies.
Slumbering Illusion Feather Melody: Releases dreamlike light feathers and slumbering butterfly sounds; enemies within range become drowsy, suffer from confused friend-or-foe identification and blurred perception, and slowly fall into a light sleep.
Silent Sleep Soul Weaving: Locks onto a target and weaves a gentle yet inescapable slumbering nightmare; using internal fatigue as a catalyst, it forces the target into a deep sleep, stripping them of their ability to act.
Eternal Sleep Butterfly Domain: Deploys a 50-meter slumber Domain, performing a mental check on enemies; those who fail are dragged into a deep sleep. The user can teleport within the Domain.
Butterfly Breath Dream-Return: The user enters a half-dreaming, half-awake state of repose, gaining immunity to crowd control and slowly recovering Mental Energy, while surrounding enemies are forced into a stupor, unable to use powerful skills.
Era of Eternal Silence: Domain upgrade. Reality and dreams merge, and the user transforms into a repose butterfly shadow, becoming immune to physical attacks while simultaneously casting all enemies into multiple layers of slumbering illusions until they reach total repose.
[Evaluation]: An ultimate control-type Armor Spirit centered on sleep, repose, and dreams. Lacks direct violent damage but possesses triple dominance: full-field crowd control, single-target instant-kill lethargy, and absolute Domain suppression.