Episode 548: The truth in dreams (1)
“What on earth is this?”
Dreamwalkers were unable to keep up with the sudden situation.
That’s Clara Cowen, Julia Plumheart, and Zandman.
It was all the same.
Not only did Franz suddenly appear, but he also injured Nirva, who seemed to be unable to fall.
In addition, unidentified reinforcements wearing masks on their faces also joined in.
Although he was caught off guard, he pinned Nirva to the ground in an instant and cut off his head.
That skill never belonged to ordinary people.
Only Sedina recognized the masked people.
‘Seniors!’
I barely held back my voice from bursting out in joy.
I had guessed it since Hans and Sheridan came, but all the other members of Owens had also come to Dreamland.
“It looks like we arrived at the best moment.”
Alex looked around at the surrounding scenery through the mask.
Perhaps because of the fight with Nirva, the Dreamwalkers were in disarray.
The surrounding area is also a complete mess.
If it had been a little later, it would have been irreversible.
“You can win this, right?”
Alex’s eyes soon focused on Nirva.
With his head and arms missing and his torso pinned to the harpoon, he looked like a corpse.
But he didn’t die, he was alive.
“These days, greetings are harsh. I don’t know why every guy I meet wants to cut my head off. Do you really want hair that much?”
Nirva’s voice was heard.
Even though his head had been severed, his voice seemed to echo in my head.
Sand flew out of the air and stuck to Nirva’s neck.
The severed head was regenerated, and Alex’s left arm, which had been cut off, was also fine.
Nirva held the harpoon that pierced his body with his left hand.
Passs.
The harpoon turned into sand and was easily disassembled.
The gaping hole in the solar plexus was filled and clothing covered it.
The only thing that could not be regenerated was his right arm, which had been cut off by Franz.
Nirva returned to his neat appearance again, but his expression was not very good.
If only the Dreamwalkers had been there, the powerful people along with Franz arrived one after another out of nowhere.
‘Besides, it looks like that annoying president lady is planning to join the war.’
Moreover, Seorn’s teachers, who had been buying time due to the sandstorm from afar, were also reorganizing their battle lines and coming this way.
Nirva sighed softly.
“okay. “This too will be an ordeal.”
After quietly chanting.
His eyes changed.
It was a kind of will that rose above the wrinkled and distorted face.
A determination as if one had pledged to do something.
“Something is coming!”
“We have to stop it!”
It was the moment when everyone rushed to stop Nirva at the same time.
Kugugoogung!
A large earthquake struck the entire depths of Dreamland.
The attention of the people who were about to attack Nirva was focused on the epicenter.
This wasn’t Nirva’s doing.
“What is that again?”
A huge obelisk rising in the distance.
I could see something black and huge stuck underneath, moving in a haze.
What is that? shadow? Or darkness?
The way it moved and fidgeted looked like the tar that a factory discharges along with wastewater.
What was previously invisible suddenly became visible.
That meant that the unidentified being had become so large that it could be seen.
Right now I’m stuck under that huge pile and shaking my body slightly, but what happens if it happens properly?
With just a slight movement, the entire Dreamland shook.
It wouldn’t be surprising if the world turned upside down the moment it woke up properly.
Everyone had the same thought at the same time, and that slight fear constrained their actions.
The only one there who could do his job was Nirva.
“Oooh! Goddess!”
Nirva was purely happy.
The fact that an earthquake occurred at this moment and gave him this opportunity seemed like the mercy of a goddess.
“Please wait just a moment! “After I get rid of all these bugs, I will make a sacrifice for you!”
Nirva praised the goddess with a face full of joy.
When he closed his left hand, the desert moved.
Phew!
Huge pillars of sand rose up everywhere.
The sand shook and swayed roughly like the sea in a typhoon.
“Everyone be careful!”
“Don’t get caught up!”
Nirva slowly raised his clenched fist.
Hehehehe.
The rough shaking sand began to rise into the sky.
All the dream sand spread around Nirva responded to his will.
The desert that had swallowed up the surrounding area appeared in the sky.
The desert swallowed everything within its reach.
Franz, Clara Cowen, Sedina, Julia, Owens, Seorn’s teachers who came from afar to support them, and Hans and Seridan who were watching the situation with Ludger.
Quaching!
There was a crack in the sky deep in Dreamland.
It cracked like glass, and the fragments fell to the ground one by one.
The expression “the sky is falling” happened exactly as it was said.
What you see beyond the shattered sky is pitch black darkness.
In the darkness, black shadows fell.
It was people.
People left on the middle floor waiting for rescue.
Nirva used his remaining strength to collapse the boundary between the deep and middle layers and let people fall into the gap.
The desert took these people and swallowed them up.
Kugugoogung.
The desert that devoured people voraciously began to slowly take shape, forming a huge wall from the outside.
“Welcome.”
The dream sand that absorbed everything formed a huge sphere.
A huge sand sphere comparable in size to the obelisk in which the Goddess of Dreams was sealed rose in the deep void.
“Inside an infinite prison that never ends.”
* * *
Knock. Knock.
Julia awoke to the sensation of water droplets tickling her face.
The first thing he saw was Sedina’s face looking down at him with concern.
“Sedina?”
“Julia! “You’ve come to your senses!”
“huh. Rather, where is this place?”
Julia raised her upper body with Sedina’s support and looked around.
Julia’s eyes widened.
No matter how she looked at the scenery she saw, it was a strange place.
It was like seeing a three-dimensional prison.
There were stairs everywhere, and they clung to the walls and ceiling.
The same goes for doors, railings, and handles.
Everything seemed to be haphazardly put together in a space that was scattered like puzzle pieces mixed together top, bottom, left, and right.
If Ludger had seen this scene while awake, he would have been reminded of an artist’s work.
Mauritz Cornelis Escher.
Because the work he drew called [Relativity] was very similar to the current sand prison.
Julia smoothed the floor with her hands.
The feel of the floor was surprisingly smooth.
Everything was made of sand, but it was almost like marble.
“I guess we’re stuck here.”
“What about other people who are trapped?”
“I don’t know. “I just came to my senses.”
“ah.”
Julia finally remembered the memories she had before she lost consciousness.
Before the sand swallowed her up, Julia hugged Sedina with all her might.
Perhaps it was thanks to him that he was not scattered even after falling into this infinite prison.
“Where did you get the water instead?”
“Oh, you mean water? this.”
Sedina smiled and showed the tree root she was holding in her hand.
“Kurunga root is a plant that stores a lot of moisture. “I squeezed out the water with this.”
“That plant…”
“I made it.”
Julia seemed quite surprised by such confident words.
Because it was said that Sedina knows how to use imagination properly in Dreamland.
In fact, if she had seen that she had summoned the World Tree when fighting Nirva, Julia would probably have blushed in surprise.
“Now is not the time. “We have to move quickly.”
The fact that they fell here means that other people were swept up in this prison as well.
In that case, I had to join my seniors as quickly as possible and come up with a plan to escape from here.
“Because you never know when that devil will do something.”
“But it’ll still be okay.”
Julia asked curiously at Sedina’s calmer reaction than expected.
“why?”
“The devil trapped us here, but we are alive and not dead. “I think it’s probably because it’s the best the devil can do.”
“That’s what I heard.”
After hearing Sedina’s opinion, Julia unconsciously nodded and agreed.
If people could be trapped in this strange labyrinth, it would have been easier to kill them.
But Nirva didn’t do that.
To be precise, it would be correct to say that it was not possible to do so.
“The wounds Nirva received at that time must have been the final blow.”
Sedina recalled the dagger that Franz had stabbed.
Julia thought the same thing.
At the same time, her face became complicated as she remembered Franz.
“Why on earth did that person come here?”
Sedina did not know that he was talking about Franz.
There was no answer that Sedina could give.
Franz is a direct subordinate of the Zero Order, and unlike the First Order, he moves independently.
His identity, what he does, and what his purpose is were kept secret even within the Black Dawn.
The only thing we can know from this incident is that he has a strong desire for revenge against Nirva.
It was said that he was actually prepared to do it.
‘I think the seniors will be okay with it.’
The Owens barely met each other, but parted ways before even saying hello.
Sedina was worried about them.
* * *
“I’m going to turn away.”
Alex raised his head.
What you can see is a strange place where stairs and walls and doors are mixed together.
I couldn’t tell if I should call that the ceiling or if it was the ceiling where I was standing.
It’s not just about the shape.
In fact, Bella Luna was standing on the overturned stairs above his head.
“It’s a strange space.”
Pantos, standing horizontally against one wall, said with his arms crossed.
The person who answered those words was Violetta, who was sitting on the ceiling stairs.
“The space is a mess. No matter where you go, it seems like it’s all there. No matter how you look at it, this is probably a trap to trap us.”
“I think the reason they locked it up instead of killing it is probably to buy time!”
Arpa expressed his opinion in admiration at the sight, which completely ignored perspective and sense of space.
Is this what it feels like to see something that can only be seen in a picture in real life?
Curiosity imbued with innocence revealed deep interest in the mystery in front of us rather than despair about the present.
“It’s not like this. “Shouldn’t we hurry and stop the sealed goddess before she awakens?”
Contrary to Arpa, Bella Luna trembled due to extreme anxiety.
There was no one who denied that statement.
“It looks like that guy named Franz got separated. “I guess I’ll have to find a way to escape instead of just staying here.”
Alex asked with a laugh.
“So how do we join?”
First of all, I wondered what to do with this twisted space.
* * *
Hans rubbed his forehead with a gloomy look.
I thought I had barely escaped to safety, but I ended up falling straight into Wuhan Prison.
‘If I had known this would happen, I would have run farther.’
In fact, even if I ran away, I know that I cannot escape from Nirva. Even though I knew, I couldn’t help it.
The human mind is prone to small regrets.
What made Hans even more desperate was a reason other than the fact that he was trapped in this distorted space.
Burr.
Hans looked down at his right hand.
My fingertips were trembling slightly.
I felt a sensation that was beyond my will, and the shape of my hand began to change little by little.
The fingers become longer and the nails at the fingertips become sharp like blades.
Black hairs sprouted on the backs of my hands and then subsided again.
“Stop. stop!”
Hans gritted his teeth and tightened his hands.
My hand, which had been convulsing, managed to return to its original state.
“….”
But Hans could not be relieved.
Because this was just a temporary thing.
Hans’ eyes turned to Ludger, who was lying dead next to him.
He is not the prince of Sleeping Beauty. When you see him with his eyes closed, you can’t help but wonder that even in this situation, he doesn’t break down.
But such comfortable appreciation would be a luxury now.
‘If things go on like this…’
At some point, the suppressed monster of Jebodang may come out.
I’m worried even if Ludger is fine, but if he loses his temper in a defenseless state like he is now.
‘At that time… I killed a precious person with my own hands again.’
Hans slowly got up from his seat.
Even though he is unconscious, Sheridan is also with him and will take good care of the sleeping Ludger.
“I guess I’m done here.”
I couldn’t hear it, but I wanted to say hello at least like this.
“Thank you so much, brother.”
Hans left those words and walked somewhere at a slow pace.
Where are those steps heading?
Even Hans himself doesn’t know that.
There is only one thought that comes to mind obsessively before the beast’s wildness devours his brain.
The goal was to get as far away from Ludger as possible.
