The End of Delusion (2)
Succubus and Incubus.
They were also called “dream demons” or “sex demons” and were a type of demon that appeared in the dreams of the opposite sex to seduce them and steal their energy.
As a species specialized in seducing the opposite sex, they have a very attractive appearance and are also highly skilled in magic such as illusions and charms.
‘I think this is the first time I’ve used this ability in such a serious way.’
And now it’s time to say this again.
Hela was also a half-blood, inheriting the blood of a succubus.
She is not even a normal succubus, but has inherited all the superior genes from the Queen and the Demon King.
‘Well, actually, there was no need to use this ability until now. It was just a hassle.’
There’s no need to use useless tricks when you have the power to solve it easily with force, right?
Hela licked her lips as she looked around at the surrounding scenery that was swaying back and forth like a tidal wave.
[Okay, let’s work hard today too.]
Dream Dive is an ability that all succubi are born with, and is also a bonus effect of Hela’s “Lord of Illusion” ability.
That was why she could be in the dream world like now.
‘I guess there are bound to be restrictions on actions in reality. I didn’t know I would experience this kind of eye-catching experience.’
Considering various interests, they are following along for the time being, but the leadership of Yun Ga is not stupid and they could not have just left a disaster that would have serious repercussions on the surrounding area alone.
In such a situation, the succubus’s ability to freely move between nearby dreams was no different from giving wings to her movements.
‘There were more people who fell for this delusion than I expected. But it seems like it’s finally coming to an end.’
After she and Harley showed up at Sungcheon Yunga.
The two countries of Hongsan and Cheonghae responded more quickly than expected.
Not only did a large number of elite troops move to the border with Yunga, but they even requested the suspect’s transfer through official channels.
But of course··· there was no way Yun Ga could grant such a request.
It literally just happened by chance, it wasn’t something they had been able to hold onto in the first place.
In fact, they too wanted someone to take those troublemakers away.
‘I did achieve my original goal of buying some time by drawing aggro like that, though.’
With all these circumstances intertwined, time just passed without a trace.
However, it would be difficult to just attack first, as there were already severe losses, and the public awareness of Sungcheon Yun Ga’s name was not that small.
In the end, everything went as Hela had hoped.
[Oh? You found another one.]
During that time, Hela diligently roamed the dream world, working to save the deluded lambs.
[Now, let’s see… What is the delusion you have?]
In the process, there was also the side effect of being able to inadvertently peek into other people’s private lives…
Well, I guess that can’t be helped, right?
I just hope you understand that this was also an act of God.
[Oh, the boyfriend you promised to marry cheated on you? But the person… Huh! Your sister? Yeah, so you went undercover and caught her…?]
He was so frustrated that he was afraid to even touch the illusion, and his complaints burst out.
Hela nodded with interest, hugging a large popcorn bucket that appeared out of thin air and munching on the popcorn she was holding in her fist.
[···Oh my god! Even the enemy’s back is a waste of time. And you just left it like that? Yeah, yeah. So?]
In fact, it was not easy to invade the dreams of a practitioner with strong mental power in the realm of Yun Ga, which was covered with all kinds of barriers.
But, if the subject of the ability is Hela, the story changes.
She had been continuing the dream outings of the Seongcheon Yun family for five days now without leaving even a trace.
[You were left to rot and rot inside because of those who were worse than beasts. Even though your anger had built up to its limit, you never crossed the line. That was truly admirable.]
-Ugh… I don’t know what to do anymore. I think about killing them and then dying myself dozens of times a day…
[I understand how you feel, but it’s not a good idea. At times like this, you need to be more alert. I have a good idea. Would you like to hear it?]
In the dreams she visited, Hela bewitched them in various ways and made them her own.
It was as easy as eating cold porridge to captivate those who were not in a state of complete reason, who were half-asleep and could not tell whether this world was real or a dream.
[I will take away all the troubles you have been harboring. When you wake up, you will be able to wake up feeling clearer and more refreshed than ever. With that purified mind, try doing as I say.]
-Ah, ahhh—! Thank you, thank you! Sob, but you are so beautiful.
[Huh? Suddenly? Um, well. Okay, thanks?]
-I don’t think I need a man in my life. Can I call you unnie?
[···Hmm, I guess I’ll go now? Even if there are hard times ahead, I’ll live strong.]
-Thank you, Sister! By the way, did you know that a bakery opened next to the Terio Orphanage in Oeseong…
Hela, who had sucked up all the afflictions and removed all the buds of delusion, shrugged her shoulders and moved on to the next dream.
Originally, it was normal for dreams to flow like that, without any order, following the flow of consciousness.
Rather, it would be better to view being obsessed with one subject and obsessed with one topic even in one’s dreams as having a mental illness.
‘Even problems that seemed serious don’t seem like much when you look back at them calmly. As time passes, new worries will pile up, but for the time being, everything will be okay.’
She wiped her nose, feeling happy that she had helped another little lamb.
Of course, the owner of the dream will also forget most of what happened just before the moment he wakes up and will only vaguely remember some of it.
Because that’s what dreams are all like.
But even in the midst of all this, one thing is clear.
Even if he forgot everything, he would become a fanatic of Hela without even realizing it.
As if I was in a state of fascination.
‘Well, I have to charge that much to make ends meet. It’s not easy to do on-site consultations like this.’
No matter what, she is the Demon Queen who stands at the top of the demon kingdom.
Free service was not spiritual.
But unless something big happens, I don’t plan on ordering you to do anything particularly difficult.
-who are you?
Then, suddenly, a voice full of caution was heard.
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Ouch!
Hela, who was looking around the new dream out of habit, wiggled her eyes.
It was the first time since I had become somewhat accustomed to dream diving that someone had noticed me intruding into their dreams.
I wondered if I had been stabbed in the back.
-This is my dream… How did you get here?
I could be sure of this from the words that followed.
That’s what Hela said to her.
‘Your consciousness is so clear that it’s no different from when you’re awake. Isn’t this more than just a lucid dream?’
Who the hell are you?
At that moment, my curiosity aroused, and the surrounding scenery that had been swaying like a mist began to gradually become clearer.
The rubble of collapsed buildings and the piled up junk that looked like a garbage dump.
A gray sky, cracked and broken and falling apart in places.
‘Here?’
Hela, with a stern expression, met the eyes of the girl in the middle of the ruins.
A little girl looking up at herself while hugging an old storybook in her arms.
-···But it feels strangely familiar. Who are you, really?
The reason Hoon came to this Sabacheon— Ramyu frowned at her.
***
“Space-time control”
It was the name of the unique skill that Ramyu had awakened.
‘I knew from the name that it was an ability to intervene in time and space, but···.’
Who would have thought that this would apply to the space called ‘sleep time’ and ‘dream’?
Now this place was not just a dream.
It would be more accurate to say that it is a unique world created by Ramyu as a god, controlled solely by “Time and Space Control”.
Above all, the greatest evidence was that the time here was more than a hundred times different from the outside.
-So, to sum it up in one word… Are you saying that you’re running around like this to catch bad guys who are trying to start a war secretly?
[Yeah, yeah. Right. You’re really smart, aren’t you?]
-I’m not particularly happy with such lip service…
Ramu responded with a sullen expression to Hela’s praise.
Still, I was a lot less cautious than when we first met.
-You’re working with Hoon oppa? Masquerade?
[Yeah, we’re a group of troubleshooters who travel through dimensions to solve problems. In fact, we came here because we were asked to help. Ask me later when you wake up from your dream.]
-Hmm, somehow I felt something similar. That dragon called Horus was like that too.
Perhaps because Hoon had previously told him about the Masquerade, he seemed to readily agree.
As you said, you might have felt something similar.
But regardless of Ramyu’s attitude, Hela had been trying very hard not to show the surprise that had been building up in her since a while ago.
‘How long has it been since I awakened my unique skill and it’s already like this?’
It wasn’t even that long ago that I woke up from a long sleep.
Considering that unique skills are great for performance but difficult to build up proficiency in, this was a truly absurd growth rate.
‘If I hadn’t received karma points as achievements in the very beginning, I wouldn’t have even dreamed of operating “Avatar” at the level I do now.’
Perhaps the ‘power to transcend dimensions’ that he originally possessed had some influence.
If not, it was at a level that was completely unacceptable.
But when I heard the story, it seemed like that wasn’t all.
[You’ve been learning chakras all this time? And you’ve already unlocked them?]
-Yes, well… Hoon oppa seems busy with something, so I can’t just spend time blankly alone, right? Then I met someone named Yoon So-so…
It was a story about how she met the girl who tried to seduce Hoon, who was always stubborn, by attacking those around him, and learned the basics of chakra.
After that, he said that he met the opening conditions in an instant by using the dream time multiplier of over a hundred times.
At those words, Hela closed her eyes tightly and reflected deeply.
He realized that he had not been paying enough attention to Ramyu.
The reason I came here in the first place was to help Ramyu grow, but it seems like my priorities got pushed back a bit while I was in a long sleep.
‘Still, this is more than I expected. I guess I can look forward to more in the future.’
Hela, who was looking at the child who was growing on his own without being touched, opened her mouth in a soft voice.
[Yeah, so what chakra is our Ramyu learning···.]
-I don’t really want to talk about that.
And then he immediately became sullen at Ramyu’s words of distancing himself.
He only accepted the line that he was Hoon’s colleague, and he still seemed wary of approaching him in a more personal way.
‘Wait? What could this be···.’
Hela, who had been so dispirited, suddenly remembered something and stroked her chin, lost in thought.
Now he was wandering around in his dreams, busy with the task of removing the delusion and tracing the string.
The Chakra of Delusion was so well hidden that it took quite some time just to find one.
I’ve been selling out for five days now, but I still haven’t left the vicinity of Seongcheon Yunga, so that says it all.
‘But what if that guy helps you with that?’
As for his abilities, it would be nothing more than invading a dream and taking one more person with him.
If Ramyu’s “Space-Time Control” is added to that…
‘I might be able to find the dream where the delusion is hidden more quickly. No, at least adjusting the time scale in the dream would be a big help.’
Besides, there was one more benefit to doing so.
‘If we can find the mastermind and destroy him… Ramyu will also receive a lot of karma points. With that, we can achieve faster growth.’
A groundbreaking method that not only speeds up work but also promotes Ramyu’s growth.
Isn’t that killing two birds with one stone?
Hela, who had gathered her thoughts, smiled faintly.
And then he looked at Ramyu and opened his mouth meaningfully.
[Hey, do something with me···.]
-no, I do not want.
···It seems that persuading this child was the first obstacle in this grand plan.
***
When the seeds of delusion sown in Seongcheon Yunga began to be removed one by one.
‘Who is it? Could it be the demon? With such powers? This is becoming annoying.’
The first emotion I felt was a sense of crisis mixed with annoyance.
His chakra was the kind of power that was nearly impossible to detect before it was activated.
Everyone, big or small, harbors inner troubles, and the seeds of delusion he sows dig in there, take root, and quietly fall into hibernation.
The moment the chakra is activated is when the seeds awaken from hibernation according to his signal and sprout and bloom.
The delusion thus triggered creates a subtle twist in the rooted afflictions, cleverly inducing the host’s actions.
And even after it became active, it was so secretive that even the host himself didn’t notice any discomfort, which was his pride…
‘Tsk, I guess I’ll have to give up on the seeds I planted on Yoonga’s side.’
Until then, the stress of things going wrong only felt greater.
It was a shame that the effort put into Yun Ga was wasted, but it was only a small part of the whole.
however.
‘···what?’
Some time after that.
He had no choice but to face a sense of crisis that was incomparable to anything he had experienced before.
‘Why···.’
At some point, the seeds that had spread throughout Yun Ga were all eliminated at once.
Up to that point, I could understand it well enough, but the problem was what came next.
‘What is this ridiculous speed? And the range keeps increasing…’
It wasn’t just limited to the Yun family.
The unknown ‘territory’, which had begun to grow rapidly without any apparent means, swallowed up the central part of the continent in an instant, and soon reached the area near the capitals of Hongsan and Cheonghae.
‘···Damn, what the hell is this?’
In the end, he was left with only one choice.
Just activating everything at once that was left to be used in the right place.
Wouldn’t it be better to do it that way rather than not being able to use it at all?
—To get to the point.
That was the worst choice.
No matter how secretive the activation of chakra was, there was a limit.
It is only natural that as the number of seeds activated increases, the flow also increases.
And the connection that resulted from that was…
[Ah! I finally found it.]
It was inevitable that this moment would be captured by the gaze of someone who had been waiting for it.
[Can you wait a moment?]
A captivating voice that resonates in your head—one you hear once and never forget.
[I’ll go see you right now. Hehe—]
A chill ran down the spine of the mastermind who had been confident that he would never be discovered.
