Unlike Ash and the others who harbored a glimmer of hope, Weiser never expected the Nightmare to truly grant them the Nightmare Inheritance from the very beginning.

She had long discerned that the Nightmare, or rather the Nightmare Angel, was completely insincere.

Let's not forget, she was born into the Tribulation Fire Temple, a lawfully evil place. Although the Tribulation Fire Temple is involved in production and trade, it has never abandoned its ancestral skills of killing, arson, and robbery—it can be said that the followers of Tribulation Fire are a very contradictory religious group. They are cruel and heartless to outsiders, yet they uphold strict discipline among themselves, never indulging in lust or pleasure. Most of the resources they've plundered are prioritized for ordinary people who aren't mages. As for the mage followers, they usually cultivate the Weak Faction and need only a tiny amount of resources to survive. One might even say that the treatment mages receive in the Tribulation Fire Temple is lower than that of ordinary people.

Precisely because they do not profit from the robbery, the followers of Tribulation Fire harbor no doubt about their righteousness. They believe they're committing 'small evils to achieve great good,' killing and plundering not out of personal desire.

Perhaps it is this sense of 'moral sacrifice' for bearing sins that makes the faith of the followers of Tribulation Fire extraordinarily devout, enabling the Tribulation Fire Temple to support up to five Great Skills and become a frontline sect in the Senluo Wasteland.

But regardless of whether the Tribulation Fire Temple sees itself as just, one thing is undeniable: in terms of pillaging, they are a professional team.

Interestingly, the Tribulation Fire Temple does not merely engage in robbery; it also provides security for caravans, persuading them to trade with the Temple, only to later pretend to be other sects and raid these caravans. These caravans are also affiliated with various sects, which the Temple uses to incite conflict between different sects, further cementing its advantageous position…

Weiser became part of the 'Calamity Advisor' team when she was a Silver Mage, devising schemes and plots for the Tribulation Fire Temple. During that time, Weiser not only learned the art of deception and intrigue but also understood how the Tribulation Fire Temple dragged one sect after another into the Abyss.

One could say the Tribulation Fire Temple is an industrialized, systematic, and faith-driven group of Evil Mages.

Later, she became the Silver Lamp Holy Daughter and rebelled against the Four Pillars God Sect, honing her talents as an Evil Mage to perfection. If it weren't for the Mercury Wooden Horse's assassination attempt, she was confident she could've gradually undermined the Four Pillars God Sect from within.

This is where Ash, Sonia, and Diya pale in comparison—Weiser is a trained, practiced, and even successful Evil Mage!

When the Nightmare handed them empty promises while simultaneously binding them with Divergent Dreams, Weiser realized they were already halfway into Hell.

However, despite its simplicity, the Nightmare's tactic remains effective even after a thousand years—it only needs to take one hostage, and the others will have to comply!

Moreover, Weiser deeply suspected whether the Nightmare truly required a hostage to implement Divergent Dreams! Evil Mages never reveal all their cards at once, often feigning weakness, waiting for the victim to think they've found an opportunity to counterattack, only to reveal their hand and completely crush the victim's mental defense.

Thus, if they wanted to escape, the first step was to make the Nightmare wary, forcing it not only to abstain from harming them but even to protect them.

So Weiser aimed at the Dream Entry Concept.

The Dream Entry Concept is an irreplaceable part of the birth ritual of the Nightmare God Spirits. As long as they could control the Dream Entry Concept, the Nightmare, intent on creating the Nightmare God Spirits, would become a power they could exploit.

This is why Ash and the others worked so hard to create the Virtual Godhood, because only upon its completion would the Nightmare entrust them with the Dream Entry Concept.

Even if Weiser's misguided Miracle had no effect on the Concept, their kidnapping of the Dream Entry Concept could still threaten the Nightmare.

But this was just the first step.

Though the Nightmare Angel is an Evil Mage from thousands of years ago, its schemes remain perfectly effective to this day: The Nightmare Inheritance would only activate at the brink of the Dream Heaven's destruction. At that moment, the Dream Heaven would face internal strife and external threats. If the inheritors escaped the golden sanctuary under Nightmare's protection, they would inevitably be discovered by outside mages.

It cleverly leveraged the adverse situation to trap inheritors from thousands of years later in a dilemma: refuse God Creation, and the Nightmare would kill them; escape, and they'd be hunted by external mages.

Whether for greater benefits or simply to save their own skins, the inheritors are left with only one choice: to complete the Nightmare God Spirits and reunite the Dream Heaven, thus grasping a slim chance of survival!

Of course, this slim chance has never existed.

Weiser didn't know the Nightmare's true plan, nor did she believe the Ghost Prophet's intimidation, but she understood well that the Nightmare Angel had laid out this millennium-old plot not to benefit later generations!

If Ash and the others truly completed the Nightmare God Spirits, perhaps death would be their best possible ending.

Though they now seem to seize opportunities and break free from the Dream Heaven, in reality, they remain in grave danger.

Returning to reality from the Distant Realm requires at least thirty seconds, but the mages inside the Dream Heaven could charge out in just over ten seconds, and the mages outside wouldn't stand idly by—they only needed to strike Ash and the others from afar with Miracles to interrupt their return!

Even if they immediately discarded the Dream Entry Concept now, their God Creation experience remains a treasure coveted even by the Divine Lord.

In other words, although Ash and the others have escaped the cage of Dream Heaven, they have entered an even more dangerous prison.

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