◈ Episode 515 Middle Floor (3)
“Everybody back off!”
An irritating voice unlike the usual quiet and calm Julia.
At the end of her gaze, she saw a black mass.
Woo woo woo.
It looked like black smoke floating around.
However, if you look closely, you can see that the composition of his body is not smoke, but innumerable black powder.
Jigsaw Jigsaw!
When Julia shoots out a bolt of lightning, a black mass trembles vigorously after being hit by it.
However, rather than being in pain, they all seemed a bit puzzled by the unexpected attack.
Julia frowned at the sight.
‘The most difficult guy in the middle class… … .’
That black cloud-like guy was a ‘nightmare subject’ that only inhabited the middle layer.
Normally, it is in the form of black smoke, but the moment it comes in contact with a person, it transforms into a very dangerous being.
like right now
“Haaaaagh!”
A nightmare subject approached one of the students who hadn’t noticed beforehand.
The nightmare subject stared at the student at a certain distance, and soon began to change.
The black smoke twisted around, and eventually turned into a person with bizarre body proportions.
Hee hee hee.
The limbs and face are also elongated.
There were only black holes in the pupils visible through the black, loose hair, and three rows of sharp teeth protruded from the open mouth, like a shark’s teeth.
A monster that can be found in any urban ghost story.
This is why nightmare subjects are so dangerous.
The moment they come in contact with a person, they turn into the existence that person fears most unconsciously.
Hee hee!
The nightmare subject crawled on all fours and pounced on the student who gave it this form.
The sight of him approaching like a c*ckroach with a grotesque laugh made me feel like I was having a real nightmare.
“Aww! Go away!”
Facing the nightmare, the student cried out in tears.
Julia wanted to help, but things weren’t going well.
There are three nightmare subjects that she is currently tied to.
The moment you step out to help the other side, the situation becomes more serious.
At that time, there was someone who took the place of Julia.
It was Selina who had fallen out with the students.
“Back off!”
Selina used the power of the spirits.
Along with the strong wind, the nightmare subject’s body was blown away from the side.
The nightmare subject that had been hit and bounced immediately fixed its posture and stared at Selina.
The student managed to escape, but Selina’s expression was not very good.
‘The power is too weak!’
With her skill, it was possible to cut with wind.
But now that wasn’t enough.
The power doesn’t go in properly. It was as if I had been submerged in water with a heavy piece of iron attached to my body.
For Selina, an elementalist, Dreamland was the worst environment.
Hee hee.
The bizarre woman caught the next target as Selina.
The woman rushed close to the floor, opening her mouth wide and trying to bite Selina’s neck.
It looked like a jaguar hunting its prey in the dark.
“oh!”
Selina’s reaction was delayed for a moment.
An attack that could normally be blocked by summoning the Earth Spirit.
Due to the uniqueness of the mid-level environment of Dreamland, it was not possible to respond.
The sharp teeth reached right in front of Selina’s eyes.
At that moment, pitch-black darkness swallowed the grotesque woman’s head.
What a profit!
The grotesque woman stirred her limbs in bewilderment.
However, the darkness clinging to his face did not let go.
The woman’s limbs, which continued to struggle, drooped.
After a while, when the darkness receded, the woman’s head was gone.
Only a cross section of the severed neck was visible, as if it had been neatly swallowed by something.
Soon, the woman’s corpse turned into black powder and scattered.
The nightmare subject is dead.
Selina’s eyes widened as she realized who had helped her.
“Esmeralda!”
Unlike other spirits that did not show up, Esmeralda, the black sphere, appeared right away when Selina was in danger.
“thank you. I live thanks to you.”
Esmeralda trembled in Selina’s palm.
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He seemed delighted with Selina’s praise.
But Selina couldn’t be relieved.
There were still more nightmare subjects left here.
Now Julia is trying hard to block it, but it didn’t look like it could last long.
“Esmeralda. Lend me your strength.”
With the power of Esmeralda, who defeated the nightmare subject a while ago, she should be able to subdue the rest without difficulty.
But Esmeralda suddenly disappeared.
Selina couldn’t ask why.
Because before that, someone came down from the sky.
“There are a lot of people.”
And along with a familiar voice, I felt a wave of intense magic power in the air.
Then, a number of ice spears fell from the sky and pierced the bodies of the three nightmare subjects confronting Julia.
The nightmare subjects that were unexpectedly attacked were scattered like a mirage and disappeared.
“Miss Rudger!”
The students who recognized Rudger cheered with open faces.
He appeared like a reliever at the most dangerous moment, so everyone had no choice but to react the same.
But Rudger didn’t respond.
He turned his gaze to the still lingering nightmare subject.
I don’t know anything else, but I was thinking of getting rid of the most annoying ones first.
Nightmare subjects trembled like black smoke at Ludger’s appearance.
Those who were fine even after being hit by Julia’s magic were shrinking.
Julia opened her eyes wide at the sight.
‘Could it be that the nightmare subject is afraid?’
The number of remaining nightmare subjects is five.
As if they had made up their minds, they scattered in all directions.
“Are you trying to run away?”
Floating in the air, Ludger pointed his index finger at the first fleeing nightmare subject.
A beam of light shot from the fingertips pierced the subject of the nightmare.
Julia held her breath.
‘Even in the middle layer, they use this level of magic? Does that make sense?’
I was also surprised when Rudger used magic on the upper floor.
But the middle class was different from the upper class. If the upper layer is a space where consciousness is stronger, from the middle layer, it is a place where almost half of the unconscious is maintained.
The fact that a person who first entered such a place could use magic so naturally.
It was no different from performing a magic spell while sleeping.
‘What a monster he is.’
It will look great to other students as well.
To Julia, who knew the situation better than anyone else, Rudger looked like a monster.
In the meantime, the nightmare subject that was trying to escape changed its behavior.
Even if he ran away, he chose to fight rather than die from Ludger.
So the remaining four rushed at the students from all sides.
The students who were not paying attention were given distance, and the nightmare subject was given a nightmare from them.
Subjects that change their appearance in an instant.
One of them burrowed into the ground and disappeared inside.
Right after that, the ground abruptly rose, and a gigantic silhouette protruded along with a cloud of dust.
Whoa!
A monster resembling a giant earthworm thrust its mouth at Ludger, who was floating in the air.
It was a sand worm, a creature resembling a giant earthworm that lived in the desert.
Sandworm swallowed Ludger’s body as it was.
The students screamed. The fact that Rudgar was eaten made them even more desperate.
However, there were a few people who were not taken aback.
They were Selina, Line, Julia, and Erendir.
Rudgar Chelsea was only attacking like that?
Their eyes were saying the same thing at the same time.
As if to prove that trust, the head of the sandworm that swallowed Ludger exploded as if it had been hit by a bomb.
Flesh fragments scattered in all directions turned into black smoke and scattered.
Ludger was still floating in the air, looking down at everything with bluish eyes.
Even though he was swallowed by a sand worm, he was fine without any flaws.
“Um, are you okay?”
“how… … .”
That overwhelming figure rekindled the embers of hope that had gone out.
The number of remaining subjects is three.
When Ludger’s eyes met, the subject that had absorbed the nightmare shuddered.
Let’s go!
A grotesque man with springs on the soles of his feet jumped at Rudger.
“S, it’s Spring-Heeled Jack!”
exclaimed a male student who had discovered that his worst nightmare had materialized.
Rudger held out his palm to Spring-Heeled Jack, who had come close to him.
Mana was condensed in front of the hand and sprayed with strong flames.
Spring-Heeled Jack rose with great speed and fell even faster. Even with the fire burning.
The number of remaining subjects is two.
One of them absorbed the nightmare and his form swelled greatly.
Not one this time.
As if he had absorbed at least 3 nightmares, his appearance became a grotesque mixture of several monsters.
One couldn’t deal with Ludger, so the number was increased.
“The act of absorbing multiple nightmares to deal with me is imaginary.”
Even against a monster with a hideous face that could not be seen in real life, Ludger’s eyes were not disturbed.
“It’s still not enough.”
Wow!
The nightmare subject, or what should be called the nightmare amalgamation now, revealed it to Ludger.
Its body was floated by wings with flaps of skin spread out like those of a bat.
Rudger stared at him quietly.
No matter how carefully I looked at it, there was no corner to scare a guy like that.
that’s what it is
“Compared to the nightmare of Durmand Kingdom, it’s insignificant after all.”
A self-talk that no one will hear.
Those were the words that Rudger himself was assuring himself of.
Nightmare subjects absorb the fears and nightmares of others and take their form.
That’s why most of the shapes had a corner that was far from reality.
However, in Rudger’s eyes, that kind of thing didn’t even fit into the axis of a nightmare.
How can you call something so crudely mixed up as a nightmare?
A real nightmare.
Under the crimson rising moon, it looks down on all things with its gigantic size.
And Rudger.
He was a hunter who single-handedly defeated nightmares.
Purple current discharged around Rudgar.
The nightmare subject tried to deflect it by flapping its wings, but Ludger’s magic acted faster.
A stream of lightning that shoots at the speed of a second.
The lightning was not enough to penetrate the body of the subject, and it was destroyed by a strong current from the inside.
A dazzling light flashed, and the nightmare subject turned to ashes and scattered without leaving a scream.
Now there is only one thing left.
The remaining ones were still in the form of black smoke as if they hadn’t absorbed the nightmare yet.
He looked embarrassed by what his own people had done.
For the nightmare subject, Ludger’s existence was a nightmare itself.
However, the survival instinct seems to be the same, so the gnome searched for the nightmare that best suited him among the people around him.
The subject who set the target eventually rushed towards a student.
“omg! Princess!”
“Avoid!”
The target of the nightmare subject was the 3rd princess Erendir.
Erendir, who was with Linen, saw the subject of the nightmare and stepped back.
Erendir’s eyes captured the image of the subject of the nightmare.
Originally, you had to be in close contact to absorb the nightmare, but this guy was different.
Even though their eyes only met, their appearances began to change.
‘Special object!’
Julia was stunned.
He was the leader of the group leading this nightmare subject.
I never thought that a guy that even dream walkers would find hard to find would be found in a place like this.
‘If it’s a special object, it will change into a much stronger form than other subjects.’
Julia was nervous.
I don’t know what form he’ll change into, but even if he’s a rood, he’ll have a hard time dealing with it.
It was the same for Rudger and the other students watching the situation.
The special object guy slowly began to take shape.
Unlike the other subjects who changed bizarrely or grew in size, the guy contracted more.
The figure embodied in that way was a beautiful woman in a black dress.
Erendir widened his eyes.
The people who watched the subject’s appearance around them also opened their mouths.
The head subject who absorbed the nightmare stood majestically as if revealing his newly intoxicated figure.
In the form of Princess Eileen.
“… … .”
“… … .”
“… … .”
The bewildered gazes of the people turned to Erendir.
Erendir broke out in a cold sweat and averted his gaze.
She was just as embarrassed and embarrassed now.
“… … ?”
Only the nightmare subjects seemed to be unable to understand the sudden change of people’s reactions.
