「Night of September 16th.」

The fourth layer of the dream.

Li Wei sat cross-legged above the River of Dreams, gazing down at the Dream Bubbles below.

He was searching for Tyr’s dream.

While diligently cultivating the Great Dream Traveling Skill these past few days, Li Wei had not been idle.

He contacted Leviedan every so often to build rapport.

Leviedan wanted to get on good terms with Tyr and latch onto his coattails.

Therefore, he was very invested in the person Tyr was looking for.

He spent every day rushing about, asking for clues.

Li Wei would pretend to run into Leviedan and "accidentally" leak a few clues.

For example, that a mysterious Fire Element Mage had appeared outside Maple City some time ago.

Or the location of the explosion crater left behind by the dead Rock Demon Beast.

As a result, Leviedan also paid a great deal of attention to Li Wei.

He was constantly pestering him for new information, hoping to find the killer.

As for whether the killer could be Li Wei, that thought had never even crossed his mind.

It was common knowledge that Li Wei had only just recently become a Tier One Official Mage.

This perfectly cleared him of all suspicion.

Using Leviedan, Li Wei had him replace the Calming Incense in Tyr’s room with a specially made hypnotic incense mixed with a sleep-inducing agent.

On the surface, it looked identical to Calming Incense and also had a calming and soothing effect.

However, once burned, it would cause a person to fall asleep without realizing it.

Putting them in a state between dreaming and waking.

This would give Li Wei the opportunity to strike when he was vulnerable.

Before this, four sticks of the special hypnotic incense had already been burned in Tyr’s room.

The room was filled with its fragrance.

The Reinstein Clan was certainly generous, keeping Calming Incense burning around the clock in the room where Tyr was staying.

For a Grand Mage, the effects of Calming Incense were extremely limited.

It was more of a decoration.

Better than nothing, one supposed.

Besides, they didn’t care about the small expense.

It was also a symbol of status.

While he waited, Li Wei cultivated his Fireball Technique.

He was working on deducing the Tier Two Fireball Technique.

[Fireball Technique (Tier Two Small Success)] 9213/10000

He seized every moment to increase his strength.

After a long wait, Li Wei finally saw Tyr’s Dream Bubble.

Tyr’s Dream Bubble flickered in and out of existence, faint and distant.

He was in that state between dreaming and waking.

He could wake up at any moment.

Although the special hypnotic incense could make Tyr fall asleep unwittingly, it was difficult to make him truly lower his guard and sink completely into a dream.

Li Wei cast the Great Dream Traveling Skill, pulling Tyr’s dream from the first layer of the dream to the fourth.

With each layer of the dream they passed through, Tyr’s Dream Bubble became clearer and more solid.

Upon reaching the fourth layer of the dream, Tyr’s Dream Bubble had fully formed.

The Dream Bubble was the size of a fist, floating before Li Wei.

Li Wei settled himself and cast the Great Dream Traveling Skill.

This was a new ability from the Tier Three Great Dream Traveling Technique—Divine Travel.

A Divine Travel into the dream.

Compared to personally entering a dream, the advantage of Divine Travel was that it was much stealthier.

The price was the inability to interfere with the dream.

Li Wei could only watch, unable to intervene.

The risk of intervening in Tyr’s dream was too great; Li Wei only wanted to observe his dream and gather some key intelligence.

In the state of Divine Travel, Li Wei felt like he was watching the dream from a god’s-eye view.

Tyr sensed something and became lucid.

He quickly saw through the first layer of the dream.

In the second layer of the dream, Tyr sat in his room and slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at his surroundings, a trace of confusion on his face.

He hadn’t had a dream in a very long time.

After becoming a Grand Mage, meditation had replaced sleep.

Tyr closed his eyes, preparing to resume his meditative cultivation.

Suddenly, he felt that something was amiss.

Li Wei’s expression flickered. ’As expected of a Grand Mage. His perception is so sharp.’

Before Tyr could pinpoint the flaw in the dream,

Li Wei proactively tore open the second layer, causing Tyr to fall into the third layer of the dream.

In the blink of an eye, Tyr appeared near the massive explosion crater where Mirus and Wicks had died.

Tyr stood at the edge of the crater in a daze, only coming to his senses after a long moment.

He had received the signal of Mirus’s death and followed the direction to find this place.

Tyr remembered now; he had come looking for Mirus and Wicks.

Evidently, they were already dead.

Tyr wanted to find the murderer.

He had now assumed the role from his memories.

The power of the dream had sent his memory back to the moment he discovered the scene of Mirus and Wicks’s deaths.

Tyr noticed nothing unusual.

Li Wei also saw how Tyr had locked onto the killer’s direction.

He had sought out a Professional of a rare class—a Divination Master—and asked for his help in finding the murderer.

"Ken, I’ll have to trouble you."

Tyr said, looking at the Divination Master.

From this, Li Wei learned that the Divination Master was named Ken, and he was a Wizard from a Barbarian Tribe in the Northern Territory.

Tyr was acquainted with Ken, which was how he was able to ask for his help.

Ken took the medium Tyr gave him—items that Mirus and Wicks had used in life.

He began the divination.

A moment later, Ken told Tyr that the killer was to the south.

Tyr pursued the trail, with Ken performing the divination three times to help.

They finally locked onto Maple City.

Tyr wanted Ken to directly divine the killer’s true identity.

Ken refused.

He could do it, but the price was too high.

Divination was related to fate; interfering too much with fate would result in a backlash from it.

Helping Tyr divine the killer’s direction three times had already cost Ken a considerable price.

Helpless, Tyr had no choice but to send Ken back to the Barbarian Tribe.

He came to Maple City alone to search for the murderer.

He had just arrived and knew no one in this unfamiliar place.

Even if he wanted to find the killer, he didn’t know where to start.

He happened to meet someone from the Reinstein Clan, and once they learned of Tyr’s identity, they immediately treated him as a guest of honor.

They did everything in their power to help him find the murderer.

In addition, Tyr also had the Reinstein Clan search for something else.

The importance of that item was even greater than finding the killer.

Tyr had been searching for it for many years.

He had never found it.

Just as Li Wei was about to find out what it was that Tyr was looking for,

Tyr sensed that something was wrong.

The dream began to destabilize.

Li Wei acted decisively, severing the third layer of the dream and letting Tyr fall into the final layer.

Inside the fourth layer of the dream, Tyr’s memory jumped back again.

The time was two years ago.

A place deeply etched in Tyr’s memory.

The content of the dream was not random; it all reflected the deepest moments of Tyr’s past.

The extreme sorrow of learning of his apprentices’ deaths.

The immense disappointment of his failed breakthrough.

Two years ago, Tyr stood at the top of a cliff, a storm cloud gathering and forming above his head.

That day had been his moment of greatest triumph and ambition.

Tyr was about to break through Tier Four and become a Tier Five Great Mage.

Li Wei witnessed Tyr go from being spirited and full of ambition to being downcast, disappointed, and heartbroken.

Something had gone wrong with Tyr’s advancement ritual.

For a long time after that, he had been searching for the source of the problem.

Li Wei finally knew what he was searching for.

Tyr had expended a great deal of effort and finally found the problem with his advancement ritual.

He was missing a material that could strengthen the soul.

The advancement ritual was perfect in every other aspect; it was simply that his soul could not withstand the Tier Five Extraordinary Trait Awakening.

Li Wei subconsciously thought of the Soul Crystal.

’Isn’t this the treasure Tyr has been searching for all along?’

Soul Crystals were not rare in the Dream World.

But in the real world, they were definitely a rare item.

Extremely scarce.