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Episode XIX: The End of a Dream

□ ■ [Play Lost Dream Dreamland] - Internal

The battle between Ray and Cardinal A ushered in one settlement.

Cardinal A was completely amputated of its body by the enormous amount of heat and disappeared from the world of dreams shortly thereafter.

Perhaps a loss of consciousness… disqualified by death from being present in the world of dreams.

The victorious Ray stepped out of the meteor windmill and was breathing heavily, either because of fatigue and injury or on his knees.

…………

Gabella looks at him with a worrying look somewhere.

Then inadvertently, he drops his gaze to the back of his left hand.

Her crest is invisible to the rest of us because she specializes in cover-ups.

Still, I was staring at something that looked just like her.

"... I see"

Zex, looking at the two of them, understood correctly what had happened now.

An attack of Cardinal A that would have struck a ray of reality.

That was probably on the verge of arriving.

But Ray wasn't dead, and some sort of... unexpected event resulted in a rigid Cardinal A being debated by Ray.

Ray himself didn't know what it was that protected Ray at that time, nor would he have understood the obstructed Cardinal A.

All I know is Gabella and Zex.

It is not an april. Priority will be given to protecting the Zekes, even if Ray is targeted.

So it was Garbera's alhazard that sheltered Ray.

I didn't even get taken in by my dreams, I kept staying in reality (...) It's Alhazard.

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The story goes back to when Ray discovered the Zekes and [Slal] raided them.

When Zex and Candy perceived signs of impending [slurs] and set up a state of battle.

- So, but I still have Alhazard's HP... let me retake it for now...

Gabella was also moving.

Even though he was half-dead, he was letting Alhazard re-emerge from the crest.

I didn't even let him fight [slur] because of the damage, and I kept it.

The problem arose when Mithril's [thral] was later exploded by Cardinal A and sprayed with Dreamland aura.

Alhazard was naturally also involved in the indiscriminate widespread spraying caused by it.

It is a thin but willing < Embrio > and would otherwise be taken into dreams.

But it went through (...).

Alhazard specializes in concealment ability and pushed through < Super Embrio >.

I don't see, I don't hear, I don't feel it.

That's why Dreamland couldn't even sense that Alhazard had come into contact with himself, nor could he use his skills to drag him into his dreams.... didn't even realize it existed.

After that, Garbera, the master, kept waiting beside him because he slept.

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Alhazard was not drawn to the dream and kept coming out in real life.

For that reason, it could not even be used by Gabella in her dreams.

However, the situation changes when Garbera is asked by Zex to speculate on the current state of Alhazard… the answer 'Standby in the real world'.

Understanding that she was in reality, Gabella thought, 'I want you to protect yourself' with regard to Alhazard.

It's the form I was calling to Alhazard from my dreams.

I would have been able to share Alhazard's vision, but I couldn't have done that either if I had been divided into dreams and reality.

I can only give vague orders one-way from my dreams because I can't receive information from reality.

Still, Alhazard had received and executed orders.

Beside Gabella, he told me that if anything, I could protect her.

But the order had changed along the way.

When Garbera guessed that Cardinal A's movements had changed in the battle against Ray with the axe in his hand and that he was trying to kill Ray in reality.

Gabella's orders had been transformed into something called 'Protect Him'.

Gerbera herself...... I don't know if she was aware of that.

Or maybe it was' I don't want you to lose like this'.

But with that in mind, Alhazard, who accepted the order, moved to protect Ray.

Alhazard had no power left to fight Cardinal A because he was in a half-dead state after his escape.

But he moved Ray and Silver with his last strength, and stood up and sheltered.

As your Lord wills.

"... Hmm."

I naturally haven't seen Zex in my dreams in person with such a backdrop.

But I was guessing what happened.

The back of your left hand… from the look of Garbera staring at the crest, you will also be feeling the extinction of Alhazard.

Protect someone at the expense of your own Embrio.

That was never in Gabella.

Even Gabella with her training under Zex won't do that.

For there must have been an event that would have been sensed in the short time in this dream.

That could be one word Ray uttered.

Just words.

But strong words of will had a definite effect on Gabella.

To the extent that you don't want his defeat.

(In terms of impact on others, maybe he's bigger than Shu)

Zex was interested in how much that would affect us as well.

But now there was something to be done before that.

(... Well)

Their consciousness is still in Dreamland now that the settlement has been reached.

Perhaps even if [Slal], which was the chain that binds them to their dreams, were wiped out, they would have to wait to wake up naturally to wake up from their dreams.

It's not something I can scratch in my dreams to wake up or wake up. That's what nightmares are all about.

It would be quick if the real apple woke me up, but at the moment its not looking good.

But I can't stay very long.

There is also a risk that a second wave of [slurs] will be dispatched in the gap until you wake up.

Or has it already been sent in?

(Let's say we kill [Lazy Demon King] and get out of this Dreamland)

Zex begins to move the subdivision that lurked near ZZZ.

While unnoticed, strike a deadly blow into the steeple.

So settled.

Although unexpected problems overlapped after the escape, now we can put the situation back within our assumptions.

Kill [Lazy Demon King], wake up from your dreams, and move before Ray discovers who you are.

And then we go through the territory of Legendary, where [Lazy Demon King] is gone, to the east of the continent, avoiding the eyes.

If I can rendezvous with the Rascals in Cardina, I have nothing to say.

……

When I assumed the situation to that point, I inadvertently remembered the strange feeling (...) of Xex's split.

It's a common feeling in itself.

Many times before, that's what I've even felt in that “prison”.

But a feeling I never felt in this dream.

That's......

"Wind...?

It was the feeling of the wind blowing through the surface of my body.

The wind is now starting to sound and blow in a dream world like a windless one.

Its origins are:

Ray got it - Meteor Windmill (Nemesis).

The meteor windmill that supposedly caught up with Cardinal A, destroyed it and finished its role...... is still turning.

When traveling, open the windmill that should have been closed, like a hua.

'... No way!

Zex noticed what Ray was trying to do.

For him, the battle has not yet been settled.

I defeated Cardinal A in front of me and didn't think it was the end.

Enemies who have still accumulated damage counters...... [Lazy Demon King] ZZZ remains.

That's why he was trying to defeat [the Demon King].

Ray came up with the same idea as Zex.

The opponent has sent [Slal] in large numbers [Lazy Demon King].

It's sweeter to assume that no follow-up comes, no matter how you defeated the specially made Cardinal A.

And Ray, the full-blown Creator, has no room to continue any more battles in a row.

That's why Ray hits the last hand to settle everything in this fight.

"The Payback."

The acceleration of the rotating blade is extreme and eventually reaches the highest speed.

And since the battle with the former [Demon General], Meteor demonstrates true value.

That is the power that he and Nemesis have created to make it reach the unreachable.

[Revenge Maiden Nemesis] 's strongest blow at the moment.

The essence of a meteor windmill is not the wheel that runs through the earth.

Its essence is:

- Beyond the stars.

- It's nothing more than a star that can fly.

Nemesis becomes a subsonic star and flies through the world of dreams like a cloud.

The total damage Ray took in the fight against Cardinal A is better than 50,000.

Much more damage than Ray's max HP right now and would have died if it hadn't sandwiched healing magic along the way.

Nemesis was flying at a rate that accumulated.

Nemesis pushes in a straight line as his damage counter shows.

Even if I didn't see it, I understood it was ahead of me.

The object I aim for, needless to say...... [Lazy Demon King] ZZZ.

Who deployed Dreamland and sent out [Slal], his own hands and feet - a big book of damage that Ray took.

If you were to exercise your skills in this dream, ZZZ should be in the dream... Ray was also guessing.

That's why I thought The Return would arrive.

"There, hey!

I finally saw Baku's figure wrapped around him.

"..." Sleepwalking "

ZZZ immediately exercises his skills when he perceives an enemy flying in on him and perceives his danger.

Use the 'manipulate your own military placement in your dreams' skill, which you also used when sending out Cardinal A, to move yourself far from the impending nemesis.

Cool time is long and range is limited in your dreams, but momentary travel that allows you to reposition freely.

By virtue of this skill, ZZZ repositions itself in the most remote position of his dreams, leaving both the nemesis and the split of Zex behind.

The area of Dreamland, the dream world, is also finite, but still dozens of chilometers were on the move.

"Now."

ZZZ knew nothing about Ray and Nemesis, and most of the power of Nemesis never showed up in the fight against Cardinal A.

Naturally, I don't even know the specifications of Return, but Return can only track up to a tenth of the damage counter.

This time the range is only about 5000 meters, and the "reward" will not arrive when the distance is removed.

ZZZ hit his best hand.

Unless this is where you dream (...).

- Can you still come after me?

Five thousand meters, ten thousand meters.

It should be noted that nemesis keeps flying, even if it crosses the limits of its original range.

The reason why flying is uninterrupted is because this is the place to dream (...).

The original concept of distance does not arise in this dream so that the split of Zex could diffuse without the limits of distance.

Because they are connected without separation in reality, or simply because they are dreams?

At least the properties of this dream were ironically unfriendly to ZZZ, who was supposed to be the lord of dreams.

'Now, I won't let you get away with it...!

Nemesis just kept following the signs of ZZZ upright.

Fly without limits of distance, track damage counters to landmarks, rotation does not fade,

Eventually I got to see ZZZ again.

"Did you find..."

Running away again… cannot be done.

Sleepwalking requires 30 minutes of cool time for reuse on the same subject.

Otherwise, it would have been used and supported by Cardinal A at the time it started running away from buying time.

Even ZZZ itself cannot be chosen for the subject until the dawn of cool time.

Also, the status is never high in the [Demon King] series [Lazy Demon King].

With ZZZ, which is inferior to Cardinal A except for some, it is also inevitable to avoid.

"... Phew."

ZZZ sighs and looks to the flying nemesis.

And with his right and left arms, he puts his head and heart up to shelter, respectively.

"Dreamland -"

ZZZ speaks to his own < Embrio >, the space of this dream itself.

And when I tried to give one order,

- - A meteor windmill pierced my right arm sheltering my head.

Not between, the counter bursts three times more than the Return.

The ZZZ's right arm starts to crumble due to the pure damage it sends in.

"- Self-destruction (...)"

As soon as ZZZ finished saying the order, Dreamland lost color and sound - the solution (so much).

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And the dream ends.

To be continued