Chapter 60 The Uniqueness of the Hidden Error

"What are you looking for?"

Seeing Selena looking around and peering into the distance as they strolled, Hermione asked.

"Ah?" Selena asked in surprise, "Is it that obvious?"

Hermione gazed into Selena's slightly evasive eyes and smiled, "Quite obvious."

Selena fell silent for a moment, then lowered her voice, "I want to find the people from our tribe who were specially recruited into this Giant King's Court during last year's Dawn Festival. Among them, there's someone named Theo... He is my brother."

Humans brought into the King's Court...

Hermione gave Selena a subtle, assessing look. The girl was delicately featured, with deep, bright eyes beneath long eyelashes. If she were to dress up a bit in a civilized era, she would be the quintessential dark-haired, straight-haired beauty.

In Hermione's impression, Selena's brother was also a slender, gentle young man.

Unlike the Demonic Wolves and other races, the Giants seemed to share a similar aesthetic to humans...

"I'll help you look," Hermione sighed.

Selena was unsure how Hermione intended to search, but she saw Hermione close her eyes and lean against a nearby stone pillar as she spoke.

Selena took the initiative to stand guard by Hermione's side.

Diving into the collective unconscious ocean of the Giant King's Court, an orange-red twilight glow enveloped the entire "sea." The entire body of water seemed frozen, filling Hermione with an involuntary sense of decay and decline.

If her level were lower, and her power weaker... would her spirit grow frail under the influence of this "twilight"?

Hermione frowned as she sensed it, finding that the impact on her own consciousness was not severe, but abilities like "Spiritual Plague" could not be evoked within this sea of consciousness, and even deeply influencing those individual subconscious islands became much more difficult.

Was this the authority of the "Giant King"? Hermione guessed.

Giants and dragons had fought fiercely for many years, so it was completely normal for the "Giant King" to make preparations within the collective unconscious sea. Had Hermione not acquired the abilities of a "Dream Weaver" and possessed a high sequence level bolstered by the "Blasphemy Slate," she would not have been able to take a single step in this ocean of consciousness.

Even so, it was extremely difficult for Hermione to find any sediment or imprints related to humans within this dusky, yellowish "ocean."

Hermione attempted to search through the spiritual imprints of "giants eating humans," guessing that Selena's relative had most likely been devoured by some giant.

One spiritual avatar after another stepped out of Hermione's main body, each probing the giant phantom figures stained with the orange-red of twilight, searching for the memory fragments precipitated within them.

During this process, Hermione witnessed the despair and agony of one swallowed human after another being consumed alive.

Narrowing her eyes slightly, Hermione wore a grim expression as she tried to erase these giant phantoms, only to discover that, weakened by the power of twilight, she was completely unable to shake them.

Although she suspected that Theo had also fallen into a giant's belly, there were simply far too many similar subconscious memories here, making it impossible for Hermione to find any clues regarding Theo...

Sighing softly, Hermione looked at the countless mental islands of the giants and was just about to leave when those wandering spiritual avatars suddenly detected a bizarre phenomenon within this sea of consciousness—

They discovered identical mental islands.

And not just one.

Mental islands were symbols of the mental worlds of individual giants.

It was impossible in this world for completely identical mental islands to exist.

Even as living beings grew and changed, the corresponding mental islands would shift accordingly.

What surprised Hermione even more was that, under the deliberate search of her spiritual avatars, she found that several mental islands were slowly transforming to take on the exact same appearance.

Even a high-sequence "Spiritual Plague" could not accomplish such a feat... Could it be that Dragon King, the "Disaster Dragon," was invading the mental worlds of the giants?

Yet Hermione sensed no lingering power of any mental domain.

Furthermore, the twilight enveloping the entire ocean withered any capacity of the mental domain here. This was a method specifically devised by the "Giant King" against dragons.

Therefore, it was more likely an external influence... Some change had occurred in the giants in the outside world, causing these mental islands to change in tandem!

At this thought, Hermione cautiously floated outside one of the islands that had been assimilated into the identical shape. Pondering for a moment, she instructed a spiritual avatar to climb toward that island.

Although the climbing process was much more arduous, the spiritual avatar managed to ascend the mental island relatively smoothly.

However, this spiritual avatar was unable to probe any subconscious information of the corresponding giant—there was Extraordinary power higher than her level interfering.

No matter how many attempts she made, the result was the same.

After a brief hesitation, Hermione refrained from letting her main body ascend those bizarrely altered mental islands.

The ones meeting with misfortune were all giants; whether it was a boon or a curse, she had no need to risk herself to figure out the situation.

The changes in these mental islands would inevitably affect the corresponding giants in the real world.

Perhaps she could more safely find clues from the real world.

What she needed to consider was avoiding getting caught up in this mutation.

With this in mind, Hermione recalled all her spiritual avatars.

Just at that moment, those mutated islands faintly resonated with her will, as if her own spiritual traces had been left behind within those mental islands.

Hermione stopped in astonishment.

But immediately afterward, she thought of that spiritual avatar swallowed whole by the "Error" uniqueness.

The "Error" Uniqueness?!

Hermione immediately linked to the dream space, attempting to connect with the "Error" uniqueness.

She sensed the aura belonging to "Error," right here in this Giant King's Court!

However, why would "Error" be here?

Where were the ancient gods who had been chasing Him?

Hermione tried to call out to this aura. There was still no response, but compared to the previous ambiguity, it had become much clearer.

"He... is maturing?"

Hermione actively perceived the mysterious connection between herself and the "Error" uniqueness, noticing that this bond was covertly receding.

"Error" was digesting the spiritual avatar she had separated!

The loss of a single spiritual avatar did not have a severe impact, but what surprised Hermione was that the independent consciousness of "Error" seemed to be growing continuously through this digestion process.

Yet, the receding mysterious connection carried a thick sense of attachment.

Surely... this thing isn't planning to cling to me, is it?

She suddenly thought of a question: she had previously been able to passively witness the scenes encountered by the "Error" uniqueness, so could the "Error" uniqueness conversely see what was happening on her end?

The appearance of the "Error" uniqueness in the Giant King's Court surely had nothing to do with her...

Amidst her swirling thoughts, Hermione carefully pondered every detail since entering the subconscious ocean, recalling her spiritual avatars' experience of being interfered with after climbing the mental islands.

Upon reflection, rather than being interfered with, it felt more like... being concealed!