I! Cleaner!

Blood was pouring.

Director Aquarius, who took the initiative to cut off his left hand, took a step back with a pale face, but his palm did not fall off, but was perfectly stuck in the groove on the huge door.

Sure enough, even if the Xing Palace has been blocked, my authority cannot be completely replaced before the new director appears.

After looking at his left hand stuck in the door, Director Aquarius couldn't help but show a touch of relief in his eyes. Then he didn't rush to treat the wound, but chanted softly:

"Aquarius, flood, beautiful boy, wine boy, eagle, knowledge, golden grapevine..."

One by one, the meaningless secret words were uttered, and the corresponding beautiful patterns appeared on the huge door with a dark color, and the palm stuck in the door was getting deeper and deeper, and one-third of the dark door slowly lit up, showing a golden color like the sun.

There are two more times.

After looking at the golden Aquarius pattern on the gate with nostalgia, Director Aquarius took out another brand new left hand, connected it to his bloody wrist, and pressed it against the huge door in front of him again.

"Sagittarius, Midnight, Undead, Master, Poison Arrow, Sacrifice, Centaur Longbow..."

As Aquarius recited the second set of secret words, the corresponding golden pattern appeared again, lighting up another third of the door. The door, which originally gave people a feeling of being more dead than frozen soil, seemed to suddenly come alive, and even faintly longed for the arrival of the last palm.

"Pisces, love, reflection in the water, mother and child, rope, jealousy, golden belt..."

The third slightly old left hand was accepted by the gate in the chanting of the secret words, and the last third of the door was lit up, and then it flashed like the sun for a moment, and finally disappeared completely.

After the huge door disappeared, what appeared in front of Director Aquarius was a huge room with a golden lamp hanging overhead, which was almost half-lit and half-dark, and a large area of ​​dense black ants.

About billions of tiny four-legged ants were going in and out of the eleven huge ant nests spread out flat according to an extremely strange rule. Those under the light were more active, and those in the dark were quieter.

In one of the ant nests in the dark, a golden ant with its left front leg missing suddenly raised its head, looked at Director Aquarius at the door, and gently waved its antennae on top of its head.

Is this ant me?

After looking at the golden ant that raised its head, Director Aquarius picked up his left hand that had fallen on the ground and put it back on his wrist, and the golden four-legged ant actually grew a left "hand" again, and then nodded slightly to him.

The country is like a nest, and people are like ants... Although this thing is only anomaly No. 004, it is probably much more dangerous than the Watch Palace.

After shaking his head slightly, looking at the dense ant colony on the ground, Director Aquarius did not step into the room, but stood at the door and waved to the golden ant representing him, signaling it to come to him, and then looked up at a higher place.

A small female ant, also golden in color, was stepping on an invisible ladder, struggling to move its two hind legs, constantly moving towards a higher place, and below it was a golden ant looking up at the "starry sky", as if waiting for something.

The palace has already begun to rise... This should be Andrew's plan. He really likes to make such unpresentable plans.

Subconsciously squinting his eyes, after looking at the ant looking up at the starry sky, Director Aquarius snorted, and then blew a breath at him from a distance.

The golden ant that was looking up at the starry sky seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly its body was shining with golden light, trying to fight against the danger from an unknown source.

But no matter how extraordinary it was, it was still just an ant. It resisted for less than a few seconds before it was blown away by Director Aquarius in one breath, and it didn't know where it fell.

However, even though it was just a breath, Director Aquarius at the door couldn't help but feel his knees go weak, and he almost knelt down. His face, which was already pale due to blood loss, became three points whiter than paper.

This consumption is really... It's probably the same feeling as a head-on battle with the shooter.

It seems that compared to directly damaging the target, the correct use of [Eleven Ant Nests] is to use the "symbolic" meaning of these ants in conjunction with other abnormal objects that are not normally effective.

After holding onto the door frame and taking two deep breaths, Director Aquarius at the door finally recovered a little, then leaned over and pinched his own golden ant, then took out the golden knife, raised his hand and slashed at Director Taurus who was ascending the palace, but...

"Woof!"

Accompanied by a babyish dog bark, a mirrored crown with a familiar shape was thrown out from the side of the golden knife, not only blocking the knife in time, but also flashing slightly in front of Director Aquarius.

Then, the empty room full of ants disappeared, replaced by a dark world that was countless times more empty. The front, back, left, right, and top of the head were all dark and pitch-black. Only in the nightmare flowing in the black river under his feet was there a wisp of ominous light.

What is this? !

"This is a good dream."

After successfully dragging Director Aquarius into his dream with a sneak attack using the [Mirror Dog], Lyon, surrounded by gray mist, stepped into the nightmare created by the crown and slowly stood in front of Director Aquarius, who looked surprised.

"But for you, it may not be the same."

Is he... completely united with the Nightmare King?

Looking at Lyon standing in the endless darkness with his feet on the long river of nightmares, Director Aquarius couldn't help but ponder for a moment, then smiled and said:

"So you chose to give up being a human and embrace nightmares. No wonder Thrush lost so quickly... But is this really a good thing? After becoming the Lord of Nightmares, you will also become a member expelled from the Watchtower Palace. It may be difficult to return to this world."

You don't need to worry about this.

Of course, he would not explain to Aquarius that his "transformation" was only temporary and would become ineffective once the Soul-Fallen Black Abyss retreated. Leon, who had triggered the "evil charm" BUFF in the dark, said with an evil face:

"Aquarius, the support of the Cleanup Bureau will arrive soon, and your plan has completely failed!"

"Mr. Leon, lying is not a good habit."

Aquarius Director smiled when he heard this, then raised his hand and gently pinched it, and directly destroyed the rough and immature nightmare in front of him, and returned to the sixth floor of the Virgin Branch.

Then, without waiting for Leon to move, he directly activated [Time Gap], accelerated his movements by unknown times, and slashed at the golden ant that was climbing the palace.