Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 731 - 684: Dream Summoning Bell

The matter of the Northern Territory Count being attacked in his dream has suddenly become a hot topic in Beloburg.

It is hard for people to imagine how one can be attacked in a dream. After all, if that could be done, wouldn't it mean that even sleeping isn't safe?

Although Perfikot has already announced that the Dream Thief has been caught, people still feel uneasy.

After all, sleep is when a person is most relaxed, also when they are least prepared.

Not everyone can face a Dream Thief and manage to retaliate like Perfikot, even resolving two Evil God believers within the dream.

So during this period, all of Beloburg is engulfed in a state of panic. The nobles and major merchants are worried they might be the next targets in a dream attack.

Even if the attacker doesn't mean to harm them, stealing some secret from their dreams is extremely dangerous.

Who doesn't have some little secret that could be life-threatening?

Now, even Perfikot was hit, who can guarantee that they won't be affected?

So this matter didn't become a topic for mocking Perfikot; instead, it became a collective concern for everyone.

Regarding this, Perfikot naturally has a solution.

She publicly disclosed some of the information she extracted from Kelin to all of Beloburg, with an emphasis on how to defend against dream invasion. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

For the Dream Sect, since they have the power to invade dreams, they must naturally have measures to prevent dream invasion.

However, some of these measures rely on the Dream Sect's unique abilities, and some even require special potions or tools, which are evidently not easy to implement.

But even so, for the nobles and major merchants of the Northern Territory, the information Perfikot disclosed has been a great help.

At least they don't have to worry about falling asleep at night and having someone invade their dreams and steal their inner secrets.

Even so, many are still uneasy; some have even sought help from Perfikot.

Perfikot originally did not want to deal with such trivial matters, considering the Dream Sect is a very niche sect, with limited combat power in reality, barely stronger than ordinary people.

This means the Dream Sect does not have much power, and its members are also pitifully few, mostly remaining in the old world.

But Perfikot herself didn't take these people seriously, yet couldn't withstand the nobles and major merchants of Beloburg worrying, and more importantly, they brought up national security concerns.

They talked about how if important officials were subject to dream invasion, it could lead to national secrets being leaked, or even significant officials being controlled...

Upon hearing this, Perfikot couldn't help but find ways to deal with it, as she also did not want anything truly catastrophic to occur.

Yet, the measures to counter Dream Thieves have already been published by Perfikot, asking her to conceive a more secure solution was somewhat challenging.

Fortunately, she who possesses 'omniscience' was not without options; by synthesizing information she had and acquiring some related special knowledge through 'omniscience,' Perfikot still found a solution.

The so-called dream invasion is inherently a type of spiritual magic, its core essence utilizing the power of the Goddess of Beauty's beautiful dream authority as a basis to enter someone's dream and bestow them with a beautiful dream.

To achieve this, the Dream Thief needs to undergo related rituals to obtain the dream power bestowed by the Goddess of Beauty.

To resolve this from the root, unless Perfikot kills the Goddess of Beauty, it's unsolvable.

Even if she could kill all members of the Dream Sect, the Goddess of Beauty could always raise a new Dream Sect anytime.

Since the root of the problem cannot be solved, it must be addressed from the endpoint.

Because dream invasion belongs to spiritual magic, as long as the spiritual resistance of the person being invaded is enhanced, they can naturally resist the dream invasion.

Most of the information Perfikot extracted from Kelin regarding how to defend against dream invasion involves how to enhance spiritual resistance.

But obviously, it's impossible for everyone to possess spiritual power resistant to dream invasion; this is neither realistic nor feasible.

Moreover, Perfikot considered another possibility: the Dream Thief influencing ordinary people's dreams on a large scale, creating chaos or other collective issues.

This is quite a headache for any ruler and very troublesome to resolve.

After all, you can control everything but can't control people's sleep and dreaming, can you?

You could control eating and defecation and even tax them, but how do you manage sleeping and dreaming? It's not feasible to legislate against dreaming while sleeping!

Thus, the issue must be resolved externally.

Fortunately, this is relatively easier to do: crafting a spiritual tool that can affect all city inhabitants, activating it at night, linking everyone's dreams together, creating a collective dream and assembling everyone's spiritual power for defense.

In this way, no matter how strong the Dream Thief is, they can hardly invade, because they aren't entering one person's dream but the dream of the entire city.

No matter how strong the Dream Thief is, their spiritual power absolutely cannot contend with the entire city.

Creating such a tool is simple for the omniscient Perfikot.

She used 'omniscience' to acquire the corresponding technology, then set out to construct bell towers in Beloburg and other cities and settlements in the Northern Territory.

Bell towers are very important facilities in this era, their function being to inform the whole city of the current time, affecting everyone's daily life.

Every major city in the Northern Territory naturally has bell towers, but these only have the ability to tell time, unable to fulfill Perfikot's requirements.

Of course, Perfikot wouldn't ignore the existing bell towers and insist on building new ones.

She would assign people to evaluate the original bell towers, determining whether they meet the requirements.

For those that qualify, Perfikot would only replace the bells, installing alchemical tools that can create collective dreams, namely the Dream-Calling Clock, an alchemical artifact whose chime can cause resonance among listeners, connecting dreams with identical frequencies at night, forming a collective dream, and defending against dream invasion.

As for bell towers that do not meet the requirements, they require initial modifications to meet the necessary standards.

And for those without bell towers, it's even simpler: just erect new ones.

But this can only solve the problem of dream invasion for residents settled in a specific region, achieving partial protection.