Building My Empire in the Frozen Apocalypse (Riley Carter) novel Chapter 292

Chapter 292 Illusionary Hell

Chapter 292 Illusionary Hell

The warm, sticky feeling on her skin was sickeningly real.

Right after that, a multi-armed worm monster charged her.

It let out a sharp cry that sounded just like a wailing baby. Its countless limbs latched tightly onto Riley’s leg armor.

The brutal pulling force nearly knocked her off balance.

“Get off me!”

Riley roared and swung her axe backward, slicing the worm’s head clean off.

The fighting never stopped.

It was a one-sided slaughter.

Riley was like a tiny boat struggling to stay afloat in a raging black ocean.

She could hurt these monsters, but they spawned endlessly with no end in sight.

Every second, sharp claws scraped across her armor. Every second, foul blood splattered across her face.

“Huff… Huff…”

Ten minutes dragged by.

Riley’s lungs burned. Every breath felt like swallowing fire, and the metallic taste of blood coated her throat.

Her arms went numb. She swung her axes purely on muscle memory.

Instead of thinning out, the horde of monsters kept growing bigger.

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The corpses of the beasts she killed never vanished. They melted into black liquid and reformed into brand-new monsters.

On top of that, the surrounding scenery began to shift.

The charred black soil faded away, replaced by the sight of her own camp.

“What?!”

Riley cut down a monster and froze, staring in shock at her surroundings.

Her familiar main house lay in ruins.

The plants she’d carefully grown were twisted into writhing tentacles. Broken glass littered the yard.

Near the handmade fireplace she’d built, countless bodies lay motionless. They were the people she cared about, her teammates.

Their empty eye sockets stared straight at her, thick black blood dripping from their mouths nonstop.

More monsters swarmed toward her from every direction.

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Chapter 292 Illusionary Hell

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“No… This can’t be real…”

Riley had kept her sanity through every terrifying sight before now, but this broke something inside her.

She could face an army of monsters without fear.

But seeing her friends dead shattered her mental defenses.

“This is your inevitable ending.”

Baal’s malicious voice echoed through the air.

‘Your friends, your home… I will destroy everything.

‘Bow down to me. Accept my power. I will answer every question you have. You with rule this world.”

‘Shut up!!”

Riley let out a hoarse scream, her eyes turning bloodshot.

She flailed her axes wildly, slashing at anything that moved around her.

But just as she swung her axe at a long-tentacled monster, her body suddenly froze.

Something was wrong.

Deep down, despite her rage and terror, a strange feeling lingered.

Her emotions felt forced, like something was tugging at her mind/The whole world felt irrational, exactly like a weird dream.

The sudden scene changes, the endlessly respawning monsters-none of it made sense.

And her necklace had glowed earlier.

The Heart of Protection was only blue-tier, yet it had a fixed passive effect: Mind Stability. It heavily resisted illusions and mental

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‘Does that mean… none of this is real…”

The thought flashed through her mind. Still, she kept swinging her axes without hesitation.

One wrong move, and she would die.

The more she thought about it, the more flaws she spotted in the fake world.

She had fallen from an unimaginable height into shallow pool, yet she hadn’t felt a single ounce of pain.

Why hadn’t the demon god killed her on impact?

If Baal could crush her effortlessly, why waste time sending endless grotesque monsters to torment her?

Why mess with her mind using fake deaths of her friends?

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