◈ Episode 530: Followers of the Dream (1)
Back in the original world, Ludger approached Hans, who was dazed nearby, and shook him to wake him up.
“Wake up. Sleepyhead.”
“Ugh! 100 million! Huh! What, what?! Maybe again?!”
Hans looked around, saw Ludger, and let out a sigh of relief.
“I’ll turn. I had a pleasant dream, and when I came to my senses, I saw my older brother’s face.”
“Is that a compliment or an insult?”
“I hope you think of it as a reminder of this cruel reality. It’s a face that’s so unrealistic that it actually blows my mind away.”
It’s a compliment, but why is it that I’m strangely not in a good mood?
Ludgar shook his head, waking Sedina and Sheridan nearby.
The two were quite amused as to what they had dreamed of, but when they saw Ludger’s face, they immediately realized the reality.
Sheridan groaned.
“The opportunity to make the world’s best explosives was right around the corner.”
“What were you trying to make… … .”
Hans shook his head.
“older brother. Are you okay now? Looking at it here, it seems that there is no danger other than falling into that hallucination.”
“That hallucination is the most dangerous.”
“You are fine.”
“I’m sure you haven’t forgotten who it was.”
“That, that… … Of course you trust your brother, don’t you?”
In fact, without Rudger, no one here would have been able to escape the fantasy.
No, can we dismiss that as a mere fantasy?
Since entering Dreamland, the scenery the world of dreams shows is, in a sense, no different from a new reality.
That is why no one feels a sense of heterogeneity and is possessed by it.
It wasn’t a delicately crafted fake flower, it was actually a seed that could become real.
“Anyway, as long as my older brother exists, this pure white world will no longer be a threat to us.”
As Hans said that, he unknowingly trembled.
This is because a building towered over the pure white world.
It was a building with a familiar appearance to Hans.
It was because the orphanage was written in large letters at the entrance of the shabby, scattered wooden building.
“Tongue, bro.”
Hans found Ludger without realizing it.
It was an instinctive struggle, hoping that Ludger would quickly break this hallucination he was seeing.
“older brother?”
“This… … .”
Hans looked back in the direction of Ludger.
Contrary to my worries, I saw Rudger’s figure.
So, are you waking up from the illusion again?
Looking straight ahead, Hans couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat.
The shabby orphanage building still existed.
Then, with a creak, the door opened.
why?
With my older brother like this, why can’t that illusion be erased?
More than that, didn’t my older brother see that too?
“Hans. If what I see now is correct, that must be an orphanage.”
“… … crazy like this Can you see it in your brother’s eyes? Then what about the others?”
At those words, Sheridan and Sedina also nodded.
The scenery he was seeing now was not limited to Hans.
The sight that everyone here is watching.
The moment Hans was shocked, other things began to appear in the pure white world.
Hard.
The ground began to shake greatly, and trees grew through the blue water.
A huge forest created in an instant.
The forest began to grow in size with great momentum.
Trees growing from the ground like waves.
Seeing the sight, Sedina shouted.
“Everyone, everyone has to step back!”
The party ran to avoid the tidal wave of trees that rushed in without saying who was first.
Sheridan shouted while shaking his white pigtails.
“Hey, what the hell is that! Why is the fantasy suddenly becoming reality!”
“Strictly speaking, this is also a dream!”
“That’s what it says! What is this! Wasn’t it just waking up from hallucinations?! lily?!”
“It’s my first time here too.”
Rudger glanced behind him as he ran.
Trees that grow with fearsome momentum.
Waves of living vines and branches were approaching as if to engulf them.
Those were probably the things that Sedina had seen through her hallucinations.
coogu palace.
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Buildings rose in front of the running party.
The gothic-style buildings radiated bleakness.
The soft fog around the building shed bluish moonlight.
Stone pillars and iron bars formed walls and sidewalk blocks, and the sound of growling beasts echoed between the buildings.
As if proving that it wasn’t just the sound, the red eyes shone eerily in the darkness in the gap.
“What is this!”
“It’s a report party!”
Hans replied to Sheridan, who shouted in surprise.
“Report? Wait, isn’t that where Hans first met you?”
“Right. Apparently, this time it reacted with my hallucinations.”
“Ah, I will turn!”
Kreureung! kong! kong!
The beasts, who had only been waiting for an opportunity, moved.
While in an ambush, black-furred wolves emerged from the shadows and attacked the party.
“Everyone, don’t stop and run!”
Ludger activated his magic through the maneuvering ceremony.
A blue curtain surrounded the party and threw all the black beasts out.
Waves of trees in the background.
Black beasts on either side.
“What more could come out of this?”
At Sheridan’s question, Hans made his flagship.
“If you say that right there… … !”
The two phenomena currently taking place were created by Hans and Sedina.
At this place, the phenomenon that was created through Seridan’s memories had not yet appeared.
“ah.”
Sheridan opened his mouth, as if he had belatedly realized that.
Piyung!
At the same time, a red flash was seen shooting up into the sky from afar.
It was like a signal flare used by the military, and it crossed the air, drawing a long smoke like a tail.
Not just one, but dozens.
“Wait, that can’t be… … .”
“Ah, messed up. It was a mortar made outside.”
Hans and Sedina stared at Sheridan with wide eyes.
Seridan stuck out his tongue and closed one eye.
“I forgot too!”
“Now is not the time to say such things!”
“Now is not the time to say such things!”
Hans and Sedina shouted in unison.
In the meantime, a red flash of light that drew a parabola in the air flew towards us.
The red star shining in the pure white sky shone like a castle and gradually grew larger.
“come! A mortar with such power that each shot can blast a radius of 15m like powder!”
“You don’t have to be so detailed!”
“If you can afford to tease everyone like that, run harder.”
Rudger, who was in the lead, reached out for the incoming mortar fire.
The hallucination created by Seridan was not something that could be stopped simply by using [Silence of Fire].
Even now, there are black beasts on both sides and waves of flooding from behind.
Ludgar created a blue thread by fine-tuning his mana.
Just like when checking the books in the library in the mysterious mansion, the strands of magic thread that came out came into contact with the falling red shells that stretched out like the spines of a sea urchin.
“Start synchronization.”
The mana flowed through the thread moved minutely and permeated the surface of the red shell.
Ludgar activated a new magic through the magic of the thread.
telekinesis magic.
The direction of the shells flying toward Rudger and the others was distorted.
As if the trajectory was bent when it touched an invisible curtain, the bullets scattered in all directions fell, targeting the black beast and the trees chasing from behind.
Kwagwagwang!
Red petals were in full bloom all around.
The scarlet flames tore through the gothic architecture and the black beasts, hotly sweeping the waves of floodwaters chasing them from behind.
The shock wave of the explosion exploded, but there was no direct impact thanks to the shield created by Ludger.
Sheridan laughed at the sight.
“It’s also my bomb!”
“What are you brazenly liking! Anyone can see that my older brother did everything!”
“I made that, so I have my share! Do you think the situation would have been settled as it is now if the power was weak?!”
At Sheridan’s angry attitude, Hans kept his mouth shut without realizing it.
Is that so?
Sedina muttered pitifully at the back of Hans’s head, who had been persuaded without her knowledge.
“What are you trying to understand?”
“omg! Stop without me noticing!”
“Are you guys even making jokes in this situation?”
Ludger shook his head, looking at Hans and Sheridan alternately.
Hans, who had been tied up with Seridan as a wholesaler, wanted to complain about his regret, but decided to keep his mouth shut because he thought it would be even uglier if he made an excuse here.
In fact, it is safe to say that other reasons were decisive.
‘I don’t think others have seen it.’
When Ludgar swept the surroundings with explosives created by Sheridan’s illusions.
It was a very brief moment, but Hans could see it.
A sight created by Ludger’s fantasy.
Although it was born so quickly that it didn’t take shape, and it disappeared right away in a red explosion, so I couldn’t see it properly.
Still, one thing was certain.
that.
Even Hans, who had collected all kinds of information on the continent, had no sense at all.
‘older brother. What on earth is your brother looking for?’
* * *
Kwakwagwang.
Dazzling magic etched the space.
It was not the superior destructive power and killing power that was the original purpose of magic, but the attacks focused on glare by overinflating the body.
As it even filled the entire space, a scene like a fireworks festival unfolded in a localized place.
Magic that only inflates the body and has no substance.
Of course, the power had to be significantly lowered.
I could tell by looking at the déjà vu that was intact even after being hit.
However, Deja Vu’s expression was not so good.
[It’s intentionally wasting time.]
Even without looking into the future, I could clearly see what the other person was aiming for.
In order to resist one’s dreams, one is intentionally obscuring one’s vision.
But that didn’t mean I was always dazzled.
Among the lights flashing in the colors of all elements, the attack of pink magical power aiming at the vital spot on this side approached particularly frighteningly.
A sharp dagger that squeezes through and stabs the gap while obscuring the view.
Since Dejavu saw it, there was no difficulty in avoiding it, but it was hard to erase the feeling that he was gradually sinking into the mire.
Now that the weakness of this side’s ability was identified, the opponent had no choice but to focus only on desperately covering their sight.
At the same time, it was also taking time to prepare a trump card.
Dejavu had to end this sluggish war of attrition as soon as possible.
‘A particularly threatening person is a fat man with that faint impression.’
It looked like it couldn’t kill even a single ant, but it was the biggest threat to Déjà Vu.
To Déjà Vu, who specialized in anti-magic warfare, the steel golem mixed with science, not pure magic, was an unexpected opponent.
[Until Nirva-sama woke up, nothing like that existed in the human world.]
Of course, in terms of magic alone, humans are rather degenerated now than in the past.
In terms of using magic much more elaborately and calculatedly, it seemed to have become more popular.
The miraculous power that had been unfolding relying on pure imagination and mysterious power was almost lost.
Even at that time, humans did not care much, but now they have forgotten even the innocence of the past.
That’s why Déjà Vu was deeply disappointed in the entire human race.
Now that he has witnessed a new change in the human world that he did not know about.
Dejavu had no choice but to change his mind.
[The new power of science, not magic. Magical engineering mixed with magic.]
Data created by combining fragments of knowledge flowing through Dreamland.
Hitting it intact into your brain, you realize how the outside has changed.
Déjà Vu, who had learned hundreds of years in just a few seconds, changed his goal.
A teacher named Brino.
It’s dangerous if you don’t kill here.
Dejavu’s gaze turned to the direction where Brino was supposed to be.
As if blocking the gap, countless magics obstructed the view.
Every time that happened, Déjà Vu’s retina turned transparent and the magic was erased like an eraser.
More than this.
Dejavu broke through the magic curtain blocking his way.
Elisa Willow’s magic flash flying through the gap aimed at his vital spot, but Dejavu responded by slightly twisting her body.
A flash of light passed through his shoulder.
A clean hit that worked for the first time.
However, Elisa’s expression was not good.
‘I was hit with my body on purpose.’
Déjà vu’s gaze was on Brino, who was preparing something from a while ago.
I realized what he was aiming for.
While taking some damage, it was the intention to remove Brino as a top priority.
Even if he gets hurt, he won’t die, and if only Brino is eliminated, there won’t be anyone who can defeat him.
“Keep it!”
At Elisa’s direction, the other teachers gritted their teeth and used magic.
However, it was not easy to stop the déjà vu, who had made up his mind.
It’s just that it’s far inferior to the other members of the family, but Dejavu’s physical abilities are considerably superior.
Like a rabbit, every time he hopped, he quickly jumped through the space, and in an instant he reached the place where Brino was.
Dejavu jumped high and looked down at Brino.
[That’s it.]
The dream of déjà vu was activated.
His retinas were colored transparent, and Brino’s reflection in his pupils disappeared.
That means one thing.
It was said that the real Brino also disappears like an image passing by on the retina.
Brino’s embarrassing look was neatly erased from the seat.
Déjà vu was delighted at that appearance.
However, right after that, the boy’s face could not help but harden.
the future in seconds.
It was there that his own death awaited him.
Where are you? how? Surely the biggest risk molecule would have been eliminated?
Déjà Vu was able to spot a light purple air current circling his eyes belatedly.
[What is this? Since when… … .]
His bewildered eyes were directed to a female teacher holding a cane in a cold sweat.
it’s meryl
When Dejavu saw her, she curled up the corners of her mouth.
“Little boy. Have you finally seen this sister?”
[You are… … .]
“My specialty is that I usually curse, right? But, did you not know that there is also a fascination that blurs the other person’s reason in terms of curses?”
Startle.
It was only then that Dejavu was able to realize the true nature of this feeling of anxiety.
curse and enchantment. What if it was covering your eyes?
Since it wasn’t direct damage, I couldn’t react that this side was dangerous, and of course I wouldn’t have thought of avoiding it.
[Even so, I couldn’t have noticed this… … .]
A thought that strikes the brain afterwards.
So far, the magic that other teachers have unleashed.
What if it wasn’t to hide Brino from himself?
[From the beginning, I was aiming for this… … .]
I realized the truth, but it was already too late.
He has the power to see the future, but he couldn’t see through that the future he saw was a lie.
Because I couldn’t tell if it was real or a well-made set based on my abilities.
The price of overconfidence in one’s abilities came like lightning striking the sky.
cooong!
The ground trembled violently and split left and right.
A huge steel arm protruded from within and grabbed Dejavu’s body.
Using the dummy as bait, the real Brino went into the ground with the magic of the earth and hid himself, preparing a trump card.
What appeared through the ground was a huge steam golem.
no.
Calling it a golem was extremely disrespectful to that gigantic creature.
“I haven’t been able to fully complete it.”
Brino, who appeared, stared at Dejavu with a clear gaze.
The giant golem that Brino created to the fullest is virtually unfinished with its right arm, shoulder blades, chest, and head.
But that arm alone was enough to achieve the goal.
“Still, this is the end.”
[okay.]
At the last moment, Dejavu calmly nodded and smiled faintly.
[Is this the future I haven’t seen?]
The gigantic hand emitted violent steam as it clenched into a fist.
holding on to déjà vu.
[It’s not bad.]
Kwajijik!
