Limitless Dream

There was only deep darkness everywhere. There are no traces of light anywhere.

The backbone looks around slowly with its eyes missing.

I still can't see the old man's vision. Instead, only the old man's bones have faded in time.

The bones of the old man were beneath the feet of the white bones. You hold your head to the backbone, as if you were going to take care of the king until the end.

His loyalty to his heart until the last moment seemed to reach even the heart without any trace of life.

The rotten vocal chords do not burst with grief or laughter. It is difficult to rotate the cartilage of the neck a little.

A mountain of endless bony graves enters view.

Now I can see. The bones of the myriad of people are tightly connected.

And at the very center and highest peak, there was the self, the backbone.

The backbone turns its head roughly in the opposite direction to the old man's bones. There, a bit thinner and shaped, another person's bones sat on their knees. Perhaps a woman's bones.

The woman's bones had stopped all traces of life, kissing the back of her hand.

Only fragments that remained faint on thin ankles, presumably armor, felt the discoloration of time.

The backbone calls out to its owner in a strange voice.

― Scarlen…….

Memories drawn from the deep sea of longing bring up unwanted sadness together.

With restless memories of the past, happiness, and loss and sadness, the backbone was unable to control its emotions. If he could, he would have stood up and mourned to heaven with all his heart.

But now that life is rotten, it's all I can do to just turn my head with difficulty.

― Limitless Dream is a sacred spell for a noble soul. When a brave and virtuous person faces an inevitable death, he leads his soul to the everlasting dream sanctuary. You can enjoy happiness that doesn't end until the end of the world.

― No one can enjoy this holy blessing. Only the virtuous can enjoy this sacred time after death.

- Your Majesty, only you have the power and the right to receive this sacred blessing!

A long time ago, a vivid memory passes through my mind like it did a moment ago.

I fought for ten days, day and night, but I was defeated without even seeing the shadow of God. The darkness that poured out of the collapsed sky led to the death of everything in Renozian, and opened the door of destruction.

The continent that was swept away by Renault lost all life and turned into the land of the dead. Until the end, all the officials and people who followed Arthur lost their lives, and his soul was in danger of scattering the mountains.

The light of hope that bloomed from the end of its great despair, that is the Limitless dream.

- Jim won't be the only one with a final pass. I will enjoy it with all the people. That is the last sin and reward I can give to those who believe in me.

- I will dream of the souls of all the people. I will always dream pleasant dreams, and I will protect them so that they can experience happiness. Even though we Lenozian are defeated and destroyed by God, our souls will be able to share eternal happiness in our dreams of burden.

The Limitless Dream is not a curse.

A magic originally created by the banished god to bless the virtuous. However, there were very few people on the continent who could accept that blessing.

Renault, who was defeated in the temple, was doomed to perish, but King Arthur's decision stands against it.

Gather the souls of all together and rest forever in a beautiful dream made by the king.

- But you were too virtuous to unconsciously believe in the beautiful dream world you created for yourself. So he kept trying to wake up from his dreams.

― …….

― You always regretted waking up from your dreams. He felt sorry for listening to him, believing in him, not denying his dream. And…….

- You must have fallen asleep again.

- You've repeated it a few thousand times. Doubt and Awakening, and regret and sleep again endlessly... ….

― …….

The backbone smiles without a face.

You just woke up from a dream. It meant that the world of the perfect Lenosian was paused, and that the time of the 25 billion Lenosian people who lived a happy life in it was stopped.

If you don't dream, their time freezes. It becomes something that exists but does not exist.

When they dream, their time is thawed again. And laughter, prosperity and happiness are repeated forever.

While Renault is fixed forever on the most beautiful, beautiful and beautiful time axis, destruction and death can be avoided.

Other than that, they would not have been able to save the souls of all those who were slain.

- 2.3 billion years ago, the king and queen were sacrificed for all of the Lenosians. The king dedicated himself, and the queen...

― Losing myself…….

The backbone couldn't help but yearn.

It was Corvius, the continent's greatest doppelganger and sage. However, as the destruction was imminent, the king did not have the least amount of magic left to receive the blessing.

So she dedicated herself to helping cast the blessing. In return, the queen's soul would have perished without permission from the dream world.

Being the leader of a rebellion the queen has never had in her dreams, because Arthur loves her very much.

The queen's soul did not enter the king's dream in return for offering itself as a medium of blessing. It doesn't exist in there.

But what happens when you treat a false queen in a dream?

The longer I spend time with the queen in my dreams, the sweeter I feel, the more different Arthur will feel in the world of dreams. It has consequences that dreams don't last long.

Because the queen in the dream is a lie.

That's why in the dream, the queen was always a traitor and unconscious. It was a painful constraint to myself to keep the white bones away from the queen.

The backbone reminds me of someone.

Much like the queen, but not at all like the queen.

Believing that she was the rebirth of the queen, the backbone knew how strong God's ruthlessness was.

But the stubborn Sovereign Union makes gears open their mouths.

- Are they... the rebirth of Jim and the Queen?

- The world of dimensions is huge. It's just a coincidence that they have nothing to do with you and the Queen.

― …… is that really true?

- If I told a lie, would you accept it?

The old lord's ghost stares with sad eyes. Why do I feel sad when I don't have eyes? The backbone itself was an unknown emotion.

- If Han Seo-jin and the woman were to be reborn, would you believe that?

― …….

If Seojin is King Arthur's rebirth, it means that there is no soul of Arthur left in this rotten backbone.

It can't be more than just a moving skeleton, left by Arthur as a fool, a mission, and a sense of responsibility.

The soul of the monarch Arthur is nothing but a shell that thinks and moves with only remaining memories.

If Han Seo-jin is Arthur's rebirth.

- If it was Seojin who escaped the prison and was reborn from another dimension, can you admit it?

It sadly dawned on me what the spirit of faithfulness knew, and what it meant to say.

The backbone is forced to give a hard laugh.

- Han Seo-jin is Jim's rebirth.

― …….

The backbone is only a backbone and does not contain Arthur's soul. Arthur's soul disappears to the dimensions of space-time and enters the endless cycle of lubrication.

That's why the backbone keeps having another dream. To be precise, it is to experience the life of a divided soul like a dream a long time ago.

- Sir, you don't want to deceive your burden.

- If you know the truth, you will make the same choice again.

The backbone laughs louder.

Yes. Even if Seojin Han is reincarnated with Arthur's soul, nothing will change. In the end, you will make the same choice.

Limitless dream, to keep that beautiful Renozian world forever.

To the poor people who have lost everything.

You have to go back to your dream.

- I think you've been awake too long. I'm going back to sleep.

― In Your Majesty's dream…… I will see you again.

- Please stop Jim from realizing this time. If you've woken up more than 30,000 times, how many times do you think you're lying?

- I beg your pardon, Your Majesty.

― By the way, Sir used to be a bad liar…….

Slowly falls into deep sleep.

As the blackout curtain falls, the field of view drops slightly from top to bottom. Every one of the people who are making a pile of white bones is drawn to my eyes as a scaffold.

It doesn't matter if Arthur's soul doesn't exist. Just because you are soulless and have no thoughts, you are not Arthur.

‘Jim... is Arthur. Their monarch.’

I will comfort their souls who have fallen asleep within them forever. It will be a home for them. I will shine a light on you.

Before I closed my eyes completely, I looked at the blade with a broken backbone.

On a blurry blade, a crowned backbone glows lonelily. He bears the souls of countless worshipers and people like a yoke, but as he has always done more than 30,000 times, he does not have any regrets.

The backbone closed its eyes.

* * *

The king had a strange dream.

After living as a slave for decades, I dreamed of becoming a young man who later realized his genius and ruled the world.

He succeeded in capturing all the wealth of the world, and all the countries on the continent bowed before him. All sorts of beautiful women sought affection, but he had a happy family with a beautiful woman who shared a heart.

Compared to what the king had, there was nothing left to enjoy in that world.

While dreaming, the king was only that young and forgot that he was the original king.

Decades of dreaming, but little time in reality.

And the king who woke up from his dream saw him.

Luxurious golden bedroom, loyal worshippers on their knees, high priests praying for their own well-being.

Kneeling down, the Great Wizard calmly stares at the faithful old man, he opens his mouth with a solemn voice.

“Your Majesty, dreams are a false curse that deceives you. Please overcome.”

The king smiles powerlessly.

“It was all a dream. It's so interesting and vivid... ”

* * *

In the world of darkness, only the sound of a drunken white skull's sleep echoes quietly.

~ You didn't realize it was a dream all the time…….

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