Chapter 314 – Episode 314 – Academy (47)

Episode 314 – Academy (47)

[This is a world where dreams and reality are mixed. Welcome to the dream world.]

With the system guidance sound stuck in my head, my vision finally became clear.

As I looked around, I saw a very familiar scene.

Baaaaang!

The streets are full of people walking briskly, and dozens of cars are honking their horns on the road.

Before I knew it, I found myself standing in the middle of the city.

‘···This is a dream world?’

At first glance, it looked like just an ordinary modern city. If you look at the elves and halflings wandering the streets, you’re guessing it’s the Academy district.

However, the closer you look, the more heterogeneous the scenery becomes. You can see old-fashioned cars that you would only see in a museum and the latest sports cars at the same time.

Mmmm!

There was even a cart pulled by oxen on the road.

Bang bang! Baaaaang!!

“You bastard, hurry up!”
“Hey, you guy with long hair. “I’ll go when the time comes, so why bother?”
“Ugh! “I’m going crazy with frustration!”

Bang! Baaaaa!! Bang bang bang bang!!

A young man in a Porsche slammed the steering wheel. His face turned red and he shouted loudly, but it was meaningless. Even so, there was no way the cart would go faster.

Rattling rattling.

The old man driving the cow just sits calmly and laughs. When you frown at an incomprehensible sight.

Just like that.

I felt an unfamiliar touch on my wrist.

‘Bracelet?’

His left hand was filled with a bracelet he had never seen before. When I looked closely, I saw something that looked like a glass tube at the top.

Golden liquid flowed from a cylinder divided into a total of 10 compartments. A mysterious energy was felt in the yellow liquid that seemed to be melted gold.

I knew what kind of energy it was as soon as I saw it.

‘The power of the goddess…?’

A warm and mysterious energy. It is similar to divine power, but is much higher level. This is the power that the goddess wielded.

I looked at the bracelet blankly and stretched out my hand.

I unfolded the note sandwiched between the bracelet and my wrist.

[You are a stranger. Since this is not an official entry, keep traces to a minimum.]

It seemed like a message left by a goddess.

Before I even figured out what it meant. The note turned to powder and disappeared. It happened so quickly that I couldn’t do anything about it.

‘If I explain it in more detail, it will make more sense.’

I forced myself to swallow the complaints that came out of my mouth. Perhaps there is an unavoidable reason. Because there was no reason for a goddess to fuck me.

‘···Nothing, right?’

She shook her head. I stopped worrying about useless things and started with a clear goal.

‘Cabrax, the king of nightmares.’

I had to kill him. To do that, information was needed. I took my smartphone out of my inventory just in case, but the internet wasn’t working.

‘But. ‘It’s even weirder.’

I stopped while wondering how to find the King of Dream Demons. I saw a stand selling newspapers on the edge of the sidewalk.

‘Do they still sell newspapers on the street these days?’

I put aside my doubts and headed to the stall. Newspapers are media that contain concentrated information. I didn’t know that there might be information about the King of Dream Demons there.

“What can I get you?”

I asked the owner, who spoke bluntly. There was something strangely bothersome from earlier.

“Today is a few days. No, what year is it?”
“What?”

When I asked the same thing back, the owner clicked his tongue. He said, tapping the stall as if he was annoyed.

“You’ll know when you see this.”

When I looked at the newspaper he pointed to, my eyebrows naturally furrowed. The date is a mess. The newspaper on the far left has 1683 written on it, and right next to it has 1812 written on it.

The numbers themselves don’t make sense, and they’re all different.

‘···They say it’s a place where the flow of time is twisted. Is this what it meant?’

It seemed like it wasn’t just the past. Come to think of it, the system said that the dream world is a world where dreams and reality are mixed.

After thinking about it, I asked the owner.

“Is today March 7, 1812?”
“1812? What bullshit. Today, huh? So… What year is it now?”

The owner’s face was filled with confusion. He looked at the sky and his expression became distorted. The eyes rolled around like a broken machine. He even drooled with a dazed face.

“Uh… Well… Today…”
“That’s it.”

I hurried away from the stall. It wasn’t a big deal that the owner was acting like a crazy person, but another problem arose.

I entered a deserted alley and looked at his bracelet.

Subtle golden dust began to fall from the bracelet. The golden liquid that had filled 10 squares had suddenly decreased slightly.

‘…It continues to decrease little by little.’

As if there was a hole. The golden dust scattered in the air and disappeared. Suddenly, I remembered the note the goddess had left.

[You are a stranger. Since this is not an official entry, keep traces to a minimum.]

I looked back on what happened a little while ago. A simple conversation that involved just asking the stall owner for the year. That was barely enough to use up the remaining power of the goddess.

‘···Did that leave a trace? ‘Don’t even have the conversation itself?’

She was frustrated, but she took a deep breath to calm her mind. She organized the information she had obtained so far one by one.

‘It was said that the more you know about the dream world, the less influence you can use here.’

In that case, trying to find out more about this place is something you should not do. It might be a loss for me.

‘I spoke to the stall owner and her goddess power was drained.’

Perhaps it is because it left a trace in the dream world.

The system said that the dream world is a world where dreams and reality are mixed. If you recognize that a dream is a dream, you will wake up. Connecting with the previous facts, a hypothesis came to mind.

‘No way… The more I learn about this place. ‘Is the speed at which we leave traces faster?’

Judging up to this point. The golden dust fluttering from the bracelet increased slightly.

It was complicated, but organized simply. In the end, the action to be taken was clear.

‘Deal with the King of Dream Demons as quickly and quietly as possible.’

Once I organized my goals, I felt at ease. I decided to gradually think about how to deal with the 9-star demons.

My body became increasingly blurry. I went out onto the streets with Wolyoungshin in full swing.

‘I guess I’ll have to steal the newspaper first.’

As secretly as possible. I planned to use my secret skills to find out where the King of Dream Demons was.

***

She became invisible and wandered the city.

Getting information wasn’t particularly difficult. All I had to do was go to a nearby electronics store and turn on the news.

[It has been 15 days since Cabraks, the king of nightmares, occupied Pyongyang. Rescue requests from the North Korean government have been cut off. Accordingly, the military completed the construction of the wall as soon as possible, saying that they had to prepare for an invasion by Cabrox…]

When you are thinking while listening to the announcer. College students passing by said:

“That bastard. “You’re not coming to our country, are you?”

“Oh no way. They say that dream cub eats people. There are so many people in China that they probably go there. And… It doesn’t matter if you come. Adrian will take care of it.”

I frowned while listening to their conversation.

‘Adrian? No way..’

The man who was tilting his head chuckled.

“I guess so. It’s a hot day. Should I skip class and go to Busan? “Let’s go hunting while swimming.”

“Are you skipping class? “If I get an F this time, I’ll be in Hak High School, right?”

“It’s noisy and it’s going to go. Just tell me.”

“Hmm.. I heard that sea monsters are polar. Will it be okay?”

“Ha.. This guy is so scared. What’s so scary about slow sea monsters? What is it. “Aren’t they the ones who procrastinate like sea cucumbers?”

“Is it?”

The more the conversation continued, the more absurd it became. Marine monsters are so dangerous that you would even think of playing at the beach. In the Academy district, the beach has long since turned into a military base.

Besides, the King of the Dream Demon might come down, so you’re acting like that.

‘I don’t understand.’

A 9-star monster is a strategic weapon. To exaggerate, it is no exaggeration to say that it is a living nuclear bomb. A dangerous entity that could literally destroy the country.

They say such a monster is invading, but they are completely carefree. It’s playful, as if talking about someone else’s business. No matter how you look at it, it is not normal.

‘After all, the dream world is a dream world.’

The more absurd situations were repeated, the more these thoughts grew. Although reality was mixed, it felt like a world much closer to a dream.

I wandered around the city for about 30 minutes.

As information about the King of Dream Demons accumulated, the plan on how to deal with him became clearer.

‘···I guess it’s easier than I thought?’

In the first place, the current situation was a reward given by Goddess Freya. There was no way she was letting her do her nonsense. If my prediction was correct, there was no need to fight.

Tooung.

He lightly kicked the ground and rose into the air.

Shhh!

We left Seoul and continued heading north. We arrived at the northern wall in an instant and a fierce battlefield unfolded before our eyes.

The atmosphere changed completely starting from the barrier.

“Defend your position! “Never back down!”
“Waaaaa!”

A long, straight wire was visible.

Quang! Quaaaaang!

Heavy drinking hit my ears, and the acrid smell of gunpowder pierced my nose. Every time I blinked, countless people died and were killed repeatedly.

“Hold on! “As long as the wall is built, we will win in the end!”

Monsters flocked endlessly towards the half-built barrier. Tens of thousands of monsters filled the ground. It shimmered like a black-green wave.

‘Do you want me to help you?’

I tried to grab the hilt of my sword but ended up losing it. This is a dream world. It’s not reality. If it’s as I expected, it’s a world no different from a dream.

There is no point in trying to help. Only the power of the goddess is consumed. In the first place, it was impossible to leave a mark on so many people.

“Tsk.”

I ignored it and continued north.

The farther away we got from the wall, the more artificial structures disappeared. There were no more buildings or roads. I saw a jungle that had become bizarre due to dimensional erosion.

I ran through the sky and stopped. I could feel the presence of people in the thick bushes.

“Catch!”
Haha! “Where are you going to run away from?”

The neutral voice was oddly unpleasant to listen to. I felt an instinctive feeling of rejection. The voice was neither male nor female, but like a eunuch.

‘It’s a voice I’ve heard before…’

I saw some humble-looking men. He wasn’t even wearing a top. He was chasing a woman wearing only pants, and except for his purple-black skin, he was handsome enough to be considered an elf.

‘It was a dream.’

I remembered what I learned at the academy. Dream demons, especially incubuses, are like parasites that live by sucking the vitality of women.

My hands itched with discomfort. My murderous intent boiled over, as if I had encountered a cockroach. I wanted to eradicate them all right away.

‘···They’re all dead anyway.’

Incubus has already been destroyed.

I tried to force myself to look away but stopped. The face of the woman being chased by the monsters looked somewhat familiar.

‘Why is that woman here?’

I never imagined I would see her in her dream world.

Sword Saint Isabel Eichern.

This is the woman who helped me reach my peak. She is also Helena’s aunt and encounters her in her dream world.

‘Something strange?’

If he were a sword saint, he would cut down those monsters with a single wave of his hand.

When I looked closely, I saw that her face was also different. She was much younger than Sword Saint Isabel. Even though she held her youthful face high, she looked like she was in middle school.

The level was too low at 5 stars.

‘Could it be… Young Isabel?’

She couldn’t just ignore it and leave. He approached her with her concealment tassel spread out.