◈ Episode 550: The truth in dreams (3)
Tetra, a shepherd boy, sat alone in a wide meadow and gazed at the flowing clouds.
It is a peaceful world.
The sheep grazed leisurely in the pasture, and all he had to do was sit back and watch.
But young Tetra was not simply satisfied with it or bored with this meaningless time.
“How on earth was this a dream?”
The words that came out of the young country boy’s lips were in a cold, adult tone.
Shepherd Boy Tetra.
No, Ludger Cellisi, who was dreaming of the boy, found it difficult to understand this situation.
‘I thought I lost my mind, but was born as a completely new being.’
It seems as if he lived a new life after death, just like his previous life.
But Ludger knew.
That this is not real life, but a dream that mimics someone else’s life.
In other words, Ludger Cellisi was dreaming of the shepherd boy Tetra.
‘Someone’s dream. Even now, the years are much further back than when I was alive. The boy named Tetra has already been dead for a long time.’
Ludger sensed that this was a prison created by Nirva.
As an apostle serving the god of dreams, Nirva took advantage of the gap in Ludger’s heart and granted him another person’s dream.
‘An attack related to the mental world wouldn’t have worked on me.’
Mental attacks such as curses did not work on Ludger.
Nevertheless, having this dream meant that Nirva’s power was not just a curse.
‘I guess so. Because this is just a dream. ‘You can’t just call a dream a curse.’
Nirva told him to dream of butterflies before going to sleep.
Actually, this was my second dream.
The first dream was of a butterfly, and the butterfly died while flying.
The next thing I woke up to was now that I was working as a shepherd.
‘A dream that is as real as reality.’
Ludger clenched and unclenched his hands.
The feel in the palm of your hand is vivid. The feel of the wind blowing through the flowing clouds, and the smell of sheep wafting from afar.
Can we really call something that feels all five senses a dream?
He could have passed it off as a strange experience, but Ludger could not take it lightly.
Rather, this situation even gave him a kind of eerie feeling of anxiety.
‘When I became a butterfly, I forgot for a moment that I was Ludger Chelsea.’
There is a saying that it is a wildflower dream.
This comes from an anecdote in which Zhuangzi dreamed of being a butterfly, and when he woke up from the dream, he was confused as to whether he was a butterfly or Zhuangzi.
If I had dreamed and woken up, I could have passed it off as having dreamed of becoming a butterfly.
He probably didn’t know that, but Zhuangzi thought for a moment that he was a butterfly dreaming of Zhuangzi’s dreams.
That’s because he didn’t dream of a butterfly from Zhuangzi’s perspective, but really lived a life from the perspective of a butterfly.
Even though it was a dream, it was very vivid and the whole process seemed real.
‘If you look at it from another oligopoly, it would be said that the country can learn the perspectives of more diverse others beyond humans and realize the law of all things.’
But if that happens.
What happens to my self?
I didn’t worry about that until I ended the butterfly’s life.
But when it’s all over.
And the moment you open your eyes, a new dream begins.
Ludger realized.
The hell of dreams presented by Nirva begins now.
“still.”
Ludger snapped his fingers.
Sparks of magical power flew from the tips of my fingers.
Awareness of magical power that I would never have realized if I was originally a boy named Tetra.
Realizing this meant that he was still Ludger Chelsea.
“You can’t give up.”
get out of here
Ludger stood up with that promise.
* * *
Clara Cowen slowly opened her mouth.
“Actually, this story has been passed down only to Dream Masters for a long time. “With a strict warning not to reveal it to anyone else.”
Clara was going to tell the secret now.
A gaze filled with a mixture of affection and concern was directed at Franz.
“You clearly fell into the depths of Dreamland. But you know. At that time, you clearly had outstanding talent, but it wasn’t enough to go all the way down to the depths. “Because you were still young at that time.”
“that… … .”
“There is no need to hide it. “The reason you fell that day was because you were called, right?”
The eyes of the dream walkers who did not know the English language were turned to Franz.
“A calling?”
“What is that again?”
Franz’s lips trembled.
“Did you know?”
“You were young, but obviously talented, so you were called to it. So I grabbed it without realizing it and fell into the deep end.”
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“master. “What on earth is ‘that’?”
When you get to this point, you realize that Clara is not talking normally.
While everyone was listening with bated breath, Zantman asked cautiously:
“That’s a sculpture.”
“You mean the piece?”
“okay. A piece that falls out when something originally intact breaks apart. “The pieces were scattered all over the world, and one of them came into the hands of our Dreamers.”
“Why on earth… … .”
“In the distant past, the previous Dream Master participated in a study. “It was an important thing that would determine the future of this world.”
Clara calmly took a breath.
What I’m going to say from now on are things that should not be passed around behind anyone’s back from now on.
I didn’t know that, but I still had to do it.
Because if it isn’t now, there won’t even be a chance to tell the truth.
“The fragment we received is a fragment of a very dangerous relic. In the past, long before the empire was created, people tried to do something with this relic. I don’t know what it is exactly. “I just said it was very important and involved the whole world.”
Everyone was taken aback by the absurdly large scale.
However, no one thoughtlessly denied that the statement was nonsense.
Because everyone knows that the Master is not a person who talks nonsense.
“Then a saboteur appeared. They quickly tried to eliminate those involved in this matter. The relic was broken, and its fragments were scattered throughout the world. The previous Master took care of one of them. And he wanted to hide this fragment in a deep place where no one could reach it so that no one would notice it.”
But the Dream Master could not find a suitable location.
At that time, he was too old and had used up a lot of his strength. He was too late to do anything.
So, we selected the person who would become the next Master, told him the truth, and entrusted him with that role.
The next Dream Master also searched for various places, but could not find a suitable location.
In fact, I even thought that way.
I thought it would be better to hide it safely in the Dream School.
In this way, fragments of the relic remained in the Dream School and continued to be passed on to future generations.
“Why on earth did you hide it so tightly because who would be looking for it?”
“The Kingdom of Bretus.”
Everyone’s eyes widened at Clara’s words.
The Holy Kingdom of Bretus? Why is the headquarters of the Lumensis Church here?
This is a difficult story to understand.
But at the same time, I understood why she tried to hide the truth.
Even the Dreamers would have had a hard time if they had messed with the Lumensis Church.
It was natural, considering the words of those they branded as heretics.
“However, the current Holy Kingdom of Bretus does not have much influence on the international community. There is no need to worry so much… … .”
“I guess it is now. But it wasn’t like that in the old days. At that time, they ruled the continent, and beyond that, there was an undisclosed power. “It was that hidden power that I was wary of.”
It was about 20 years ago that the Holy Kingdom of Bretus suddenly became quiet.
Except for the sudden locking of the door that day, it would be safe to say that their influence had not reached every corner of the continent.
“But that’s not the point. Nathanael was designated as the next Dream Master at the time and learned the truth from the Sentai Master. The choice Nathanael made at that time was to hide the fragment of the relic in Dreamland.”
“Dreamland!”
The Dreamwalkers shouted in surprise.
However, some dream walkers nodded as if they understood.
“okay. “Dreamland is a place that you cannot enter unless you are a Dreamwalker.”
“You could say it’s the best way to hide something.”
“But the surface layer is also a place that people can reach when they fall asleep. So it would have had to be hidden deeper.”
The Dreamwalkers, who had started talking amongst themselves, simultaneously closed their mouths and looked at Clara.
Clara nodded, saying it was true.
Sighs like, “Wow,” came from everywhere.
“We moved to the middle layer with Relic. But even if you left things in the middle floor, you couldn’t move real things to Dreamland. A dream is a dream, reality is reality. “The difference was so clear.”
If I had given up here, I wouldn’t have known.
But Nathanael did not give up.
“Nathanael said. There is a place to place real objects in the dream world. “The moment I heard those words, I knew what he was trying to say.”
The expressions on the Dreamwalkers’ faces all hardened.
This is because there was only one place where the boundary between dreams and reality completely collapsed.
“He was planning to go down to the depths and hide it.”
Clara acknowledged that it was true.
“I was against it. If you go down to the depths, there is a very high probability that you will never return. “Even for just the two of us, it was too dangerous to go into the depths.”
Clara wanted Nathanael to keep the relic fragments like other masters.
Because that’s how it’s been done so far.
Because there is no need to take risks.
However, Nathanael was not very pleased with this, perhaps because of his sense of responsibility.
“I persuaded him who was worried. “We have a precious son, and he asked if we were going to leave him behind.”
Franz clenched his fists when he heard that he was his precious son.
“So, I thought we would discuss this later someday and put it on my mind. Unfortunately, that was just me. Nathanael, who is full of justice and responsibility, did not do that.”
Then one day, an incident occurred.
As Nathanael took the relic to the middle layer of Dreamland, the fragments of the relic reacted to something deep in Dreamland.
“I didn’t know. “Just as we looked into the abyss to hide something, the abyss also saw us.”
At the time, Nathanael and Clara did not know that fact.
It was so secret and quiet that even if you were keenly aware, there was no way you could have noticed it.
The power contained in the stored relic fragments.
The one who reacted to it was Franz, who was said to be gifted with the talent of being the greatest dream walker of all time.
Franz opened his eyes wide.
“No way, then… … .”
Clara nodded with an apologetic face.
“It’s not your fault you ended up like that. It’s our fault for not recognizing that power. “It was originally Nathanael’s role to leave the relic fragments in the depths.”
It was going to happen someday.
Franz was nothing more than a victim caught in the act.
Franz’s voice trembled at the truth he had never heard before.
“… … “Why are you telling me that now?”
“Because if it’s not now, there will be no chance.”
Clara said that and then shook her head.
“no. I guess this is just my excuse. In fact, the opportunity may have existed at any time. The reason I couldn’t do that was because I couldn’t do it. At that time, I was also so sad that I couldn’t think rationally. “I couldn’t even imagine having to tell the truth.”
It shouldn’t have happened that way.
The Dreamwalkers bowed their heads heavily at Clara’s words.
Franz was not the only one who was sad and frustrated by what happened at that time.
Clara lost her beloved husband.
It happened so suddenly that Clara couldn’t even prepare her heart to let Nathanael go.
The shock cannot be expressed in words.
Even though it was Clara, she was much younger and more emotional at the time.
Clara couldn’t even get over her own sadness, so she couldn’t care about Franz.
Rather, he tried to stop Franz, and that created the opportunity for Franz to leave.
It was an instant for a harmonious family to fall apart.
She lost her husband and even her son left her.
Clara focused on cultivating the Dream School.
Don’t let the Dream School, shaken by the sudden death of Nathanael, be swept away by a faction.
“The reason I worked hard to save the Dream School was actually for my own benefit. I wanted to get something. “I wanted to create a place to lean on that would support me as I was falling.”
Clara shed tears.
“All of this happened because I was inadequate and selfish. So it’s all my fault. The reason you became like this… … .”
“stop!”
Franz screamed.
“Stop, do it.”
“Franz… … .”
“What changes if you find out the truth? no. Nothing changes. The past is gone, and we are now trapped in a prison created by the damn devil. There is only one thing for us to do. Kill that demon. So stop talking about the past. “I just can’t listen to you.”
After saying those words, Franz turned his back and walked away.
When Zandmann saw the back, he felt like Franz was like a child trying hard to ignore an unbearable truth.
* * *
There were quite a few people in prison.
Among them, those who were anxious in the middle class and caught up in the cracks were the same.
“W-Where is this place?”
“Let’s get moving first.”
I didn’t know where the escape was, but that made me even more anxious about remaining in this misshapen space.
People took a deep breath and opened the nearest door.
What was visible beyond the door was pitch black.
“what. “There’s nothing?”
The moment someone muttered those words, a golden light exploded in the darkness.
People froze at the sudden sight, and the first person to open the door was dragged into the darkness.
Quick! Absolutely!
Wow!
A scream mixed with a terrible sound rang out.
And after a while, an old man appeared from the darkness.
The old man, who was missing one arm and looked tired, looked at the people and muttered to himself.
“I feel really guilty.”
The terrified people tried to run away, but Nirva did not let them.
As he stretched out his hand, a sandstorm swirled around and engulfed the people.
People screamed in the sandstorm.
The screams did not last long. People soon withered away and fell like dolls whose strings had been cut.
Nirva, who had absorbed all the life force and energy, could not hide his guilt even as his power grew.
“How dare I touch the tribute that must be offered to the goddess.”
It probably means that you are broken to the point where you have to do this.
Nirva’s eyes sparkled with life.
“You erased the line I didn’t want to cross. That shouldn’t have happened.”
The monster in the labyrinth took steps to find its next prey.
