As An Antique Shop Owner, It's Only Reasonable That I Know A Bit Of Magic - Chapter 47

Freddy slowly turned his head toward the source of the laughter and saw him.

The black-haired young man was standing right behind him, watching, a hint of mockery curling at the corners of his mouth.

In that moment, Freddy was stunned.

He seemed to forget that this young man before him was the formidable enemy he had been racking his brains to destroy. He even forgot that they were dangerously close, and he could be killed at any moment.

He couldn’t understand it. He couldn’t comprehend it.

“Why?!”

He was a demon blessed by three Dream Evil Gods, the ultimate evil spirit destined to become the nightmare of the entire world!
That was why he could manipulate dreams, why he was undying, indestructible.

So how could this person before him be superior?!
It shouldn’t be like this. I should be the winner!
I should be the one who wins!!

“You’re asking why I’m not dead, is that it?”

A chair materialized beneath Su Fan, who sat down, his posture so relaxed it seemed he wasn’t worried in the slightest about Freddy escaping or attacking.

With his dream control technique perfected and the power of Dream Weaving, Freddy’s abilities were mere child’s play.

Moreover, Freddy had expended the vast majority of his power earlier.

Now, he was nothing to worry about.

“You can pull the same trick, transforming into the same person to ambush me. Of course, I can use an illusion to fool you once more.”

Freddy knew Su Fan was referring to the incident at the hospital scene.

The black-haired youth had used illusion magic to create a vision of a successful brainwashing, leading Freddy to misjudge the situation.

But the difference between those two times was like night and day!

That time was just verbal brainwashing, without any direct contact. This time, he had directly attacked his opponent!

“I clearly pierced through your chest… I could feel your shattered ribs, your organs gradually ceasing activity, the temperature of your blood…”

“When did you get the illusion that I wasn’t using illusion magic?”

“Can you even tell the difference between reality and illusion?”

Su Fan’s words struck Freddy like a thunderbolt.

He looked down at his steel claws. There was no blood on them whatsoever.

The ground was empty too; there was no corpse.

An illusion so real it could pass for reality? Could it be that his opponent could completely deceive his senses and manipulate them at will?!
When did he become so terrifying? Had he been pretending to be weak all along, luring me in?

In his daze, flashes of his various clashes with Su Fan passed before Freddy’s eyes.

Then, he arrived at a despairing answer!

His opponent hadn’t been pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger.

This young man before him had actually grown to this extent step by step during their brief battle!

That was all!

“You certainly went to great pains to kill me, but everything ends here.”

“Are you ready to die?”

The former hadn’t moved a muscle, yet Freddy felt enveloped by an sharp, piercing chill.

It was as if countless sharp blades surrounded him, and moving even an inch would mean instant annihilation!

“Hehehe…”

Hearing this, Freddy suddenly began to laugh.

As his strange laughter echoed, two figures abruptly materialized in front of Su Fan.

One was fat, one was thin—the director and the psychologist, Elizabeth, who had never appeared before.

These two hadn’t escaped the fate of being dragged into the dream. Now, they were like marionettes, manipulated freely by Freddy, their eyes vacant, utterly consumed by despair and fear.

They didn’t even react upon seeing Su Fan.

Tormented by endless nightmares, the two could no longer distinguish reality from illusion.

They simply thought this scene was another fake conjured by Freddy to torment them.

But they didn’t know that the demon they saw as invincible had been driven to a point where his only hope was to use hostages to threaten his way out.

“You’re very powerful. You saw through the trap I designed for you, turned my plan against me, and even grew rapidly within the dream, overpowering me and seizing control.”

“But you can’t save them!”
Even realizing he was at the end of his rope, Freddy refused to give up, attempting one last struggle.

He would use these two hostages to divert Su Fan’s attention, then escape from here!

As long as he could escape, there was hope for him to return and seek revenge!
Anguish! Deliberate! Then show a flaw! Let me escape and survive!

The strangely laughing Freddy looked at Su Fan.

The latter did not frown in thought as he had anticipated.

Instead, he looked back at Freddy with a strange expression.

In that instant, a sharp sword cry erupted in the space.

Sword light flashed, crisscrossing, shredding Freddy’s body and carrying away his final confusion.

[Why didn’t this guy hesitate at all…]

[Shouldn’t he have been troubled by this? Even for a second…]

Watching Freddy completely vanish, Su Fan shook his head.

This guy must have been driven insane by the mental shock, trying to distract his mind with such a stupid method.

What did it matter to him if those two idiots lived or died?
Saving them earlier was merely to prevent them from becoming nourishment for Freddy, allowing him to grow too powerful to handle.

After all, he hadn’t been completely confident of victory back then.

Now that he could crush him effortlessly, why would he need to worry about that?
Did they really think he was some living Buddha?
Absurd.

[Congratulations, you have directly slain the Nightmare King, Freddy Krueger!]

[The demon blessed by three Dream Evil Gods, destined to plague the world, has now dissipated!]

[During this battle, you repeatedly used different supernatural arts within the dream, greatly increasing your proficiency with spell application!]

[Tong You (Passing the Netherworld) Proficiency: 100%]

[Yu Feng (Wind Control) Proficiency: 78%]

[Yan Dao (Nightmare Prayer) Proficiency: 10%]

[Jia Meng (Marry Dream) Proficiency: 8%]

[Continuous training has given you new insights into your cultivation!]

[Huangting Jing (Huangting Sutra): 100% → Yuqing Realm (Jade Purity Realm): 1%!]

[You have acquired a new supernatural ability—Zhao Lai (Summoning)!]

[You have acquired a new supernatural ability—Meng Tou (Budding Head)!]

The reward notifications appearing in his mind signified that Freddy, who was unkillable and indestructible in the original storyline, was truly dead, with no possibility of resurrection.

But what were these new supernatural abilities?
And what was this Yuqing Realm?
Before Su Fan could ponder this carefully, he heard a noisy commotion.

The noise was somewhat muffled, as if coming from far away.

The voices were pleasant but extremely anxious, even carrying a hint of sobs.

Listening carefully, he oughly understood what was happening.

Annie had woken up in the outside world, but seeing that Su Fan still showed no signs of waking, she had started to fear the worst.

She was now trying to force him awake, with Rachel’s help.

Sensing Annie’s genuine concern, Su Fan smiled wryly and simply exited the dream.
——
In the real world, Annie was pacing anxiously.

Direct touching, shaking, shouting—nothing had any effect.

“Annie, try this!”

Rachel hurried in from outside, carrying a bottle of ice water and a towel.

Without another word, Annie took the towel, soaked it in the ice water, and moved to apply it to Su Fan’s face.

But just then, Su Fan opened his eyes.

The sudden change froze Annie’s movement.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds before Annie finally reacted.

Her bright, beautiful face first broke into a smile, then showed a trace of embarrassment as she quickly put away the towel.