Limitless Dream

“Please return to your world. ”

You recite the words like a spell, and a flash of light erupts from the sorcerer's camp and whitens the surroundings. Even Scarlen's eyes are hard to open.

No! No! ’

She screams and resists.

How did I get here? I couldn't hear a word, and I couldn't do this.

I couldn't understand. What about my father?

Because there's a secret you don't know?

“Why are you doing this! ”

Heavy gravity presses against your body, and you hold her tightly in place. Despite the overwhelming strain of one finger, she desperately tries to move forward.

“Don't resist. ”

Corvius spoke softly, but in a voice of decisiveness. The power of the sorcerer grows stronger.

Please!

My whole body trembles. She struggles and tries to make her move.

But the pressure of the magical faction was unbearable to even her, the continent's greatest cheerleader.

I finally realized.

He had been preparing here from the beginning and was only waiting for his arrival.

He mourned to end everything where he had started his dream.

“Ahhhh!”

An unbearable scream erupts.

All the surrounding landscapes were distorted, and the shimmering light encroached on all sides.

My body rises into the air. No, it's more like an invisible force pulling from the sky than it is floating.

Towards the crack in space-time, it is drawn up endlessly.

Renault's landscape is dizzily distorted and quickly drifts out of sight. It's rising into the air, but it seems to be falling endlessly into the unseen.

― Dear daughter, this is not your place to stay.

Asrai's broken voice grabs her consciousness.

- Your presence here is unfortunate for you, for him, and for all of us.

She opens her mouth.

‘…… Why? ’

I wasn't expecting an answer. But instead of answering, a full-length movie, panorama, began to unfold before my eyes.

Civilization emerges, evolves, struggles, thrives, fights, repeats all of it, and collapses....

Tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years have passed quickly, as if they were compressed into just a few drawings.

- You are the most virtuous woman in the world.

- I will get my trust back!

― Lovely children…… Thank you.

- I just want to thank you.

- Will you fight... with me?

One day, the panorama entered the present.

The moment she knows, the moment she's going through.

Every scene passes quickly, without the human mind realizing it. However, he felt that every single one of them was clearly visible on the film of consciousness.

- I'm just sorry for you. Please forgive me... this weak king who failed to protect his people...

The scenery is no longer visible.

Instead, a clear, agonizing voice comes to my heart.

Scarlen feels the hot tears flowing through her cheeks.

The darkness clouds your vision one day, but you can see what he's doing. I could tell by the sound of my voice.

The darkness lifted and the surrounding landscape changed.

A lifeless space filled with only frozen silence unfolds indefinitely. Darkness and endless graves of bones lie all over the earth.

Numerous bones, and massive mountains built into them.

At the top of the mountain are two white bones.

A thin one of them sticks into her gaze like a stigma. A long-waven ankle bone is shrouded in rusty armor like a memory.

‘Is that... me? ’

The bones are leaning down like the legs of a backbone wearing a faded crown. In a peaceful position like a sleep, she tears again without knowing it.

‘Leon……. ’

A backbone in a golden coil. You never know who that is. I can't tell.

The one Queen Scarlen loved the most.

A wise monarch who rules the continent, but who was defeated by God and lost his kingdom, his people, and his life.

- My daughter in the circle of Yoon. Don't come to the world of the dead anymore.

A hard voice echoes in my ears like a fog. As you look back, you see a red mist and Corvius as he is.

She barely speaks.

‘Renozian really... must have been destroyed.' ’

- It was a long time ago.

She realized that.

The first dream he had was a fiction he made based on his previous life's memories. He thought of himself as Shin Hyo-jin and repeated the past he had forgotten.

But now this place is not his dream. That's why it was similar to what he knew, but different.

Lion, have you been reincarnated? ’

- You know very well, daughter.

‘ ……. ’

- Enjoy the happiness of your children. Stay out of the world of the dead. It will make everyone unhappy.

Her body reappears into the air.

The landscape doesn't distort like before.

It just slowly drifts away.

Suddenly, I feel a dazzling light from up there, and she raises her head without even knowing it.

‘Ah……. ’

A piece of silver metal slowly falls from a high place. The light was emitted by a piece of metal.

‘Necropsis……. ’

The broken Necromancer Sword slowly descends toward the White Bone Grave.

There was a golden coil in her eyes. The traces of the man I loved, the history of the man I craved.

Sitting there without the slightest tingling sensation of responsibility, I feel no breath of life.

It was then.

My backbone is slightly trembling. It's as if it's going to move very soon.

She pauses and looks closely.

Am I mistaken? You look like you're gonna be up and walking in no time.

At that moment, a piece of broken sword is firmly planted next to the backbone. And like a lie, all the foreign sensations she had just felt were erased without a trace.

Her voice echoes in a distant voice of sorrow, longing and rigidity.

- Go away. Leave this place...... and never come back.

* * *

Shin Hyo-jin woke up.

His back was wet with cold sweat. It was still dark outside the window, and it felt cold even though the room temperature was not low.

Before she even tried, she had already realized.

This dream is also closed.

If there was a difference, the old dream was only his own, and this time it was someone else's. No, maybe it wasn't a dream at all.

She clenches her fist.

The reality of Renozian, which rebelled against God and refused to acknowledge, was that Renozian was already destroyed.

I remembered the tomb of countless bones, but I didn't get a drop of tears. It was an unbearable scene, so sadness overwhelmed me.

She sat there for a long time until dawn came.

Only the sound of the clock's shivering tone is palpable, and the cold silence mixes with the sobbing sound of crying.

She drops her head and buries her face between her knees, feverish until sunrise.

* * *

The light fades away like a lie, and all the surrounding landscapes return to their original state.

With the aging crystal wand in hand, you look only at the sliding sorcerer.

A gigantic enchantment over tens of meters in diameter gradually loses its light and erases its traces underground.

At last, there is no trace of anything, as there was nothing there from the beginning. The ether energy that formed the magic circle also returned to nature.

“This is the place where he started...... blocking this place, so he'll never come back in again. ”

The old man mutters with a dark face.

“Forgive me. Only this.... ”

The silent murmur grows smaller and smaller backwards, and you don't hear the next word.

Soon he raises his head.

His face was completely erased from the gauntness that had been there until just now. With a relaxed and gentle smile, he suddenly regained the continent's greatest wizard's monument.

He returns to where the king was.

The king was preoccupied with scrutinizing for traces of the sorcerer painted on the ground. Then I felt the popularity of the old man and raised my head.

I was glad to see the face of the king who found the old man.

“Sir! You made it. ”

“Since the king has found a humble servant so far, how can he just keep hiding and performing?" ”

“Yes, have you had any performance? I couldn't bear to wonder what kind of enlightenment you had and how you spent your time trapped in the foothills of this mysterious mountain. ”

“I dare not boast to His Majesty. I think I'll have a chance to tell you if it's cleared up later. ”

The old man bows politely, and the king suddenly changes his face as he smiles satisfactorily.

“But Lord, have you not seen the queen? I must have come with you to look for you while I was awake.... ”

The king's words have become more and more confident. At the same time, his expression distorted in a bad way. The king frowns and scowls at his forehead, confused by the distorted memory.

“Your Majesty, what do you mean? ”

“The queen must have been first……. ”

“Your Majesty, she sacrificed herself and put a curse on you. As a result, the consciousness was trapped in the dream of the curse. You're being watched while sleeping in the queen's saga. ”

“... or so I thought. ”

The king's gaze is blurred. A murky shade covers the gun in your eyes.

The pain came to my forehead. For a moment, everything seemed to be chaotic, and the blurriness in the king's eyes seemed to have cleared up just like when.

The king opened his mouth slowly.

“Sir, are you... ”

“I was studying interpretations to overcome the curse. ”

“…… Have you had any luck? ”

“I'm not satisfied, but I'm glad I didn't take a wrong turn. ”

“Well done……. ”

The look on the king's face is heavy.

Slowly, the king turns his back toward the direction he came from. The old man stared quietly.

“Your Majesty, do you still wish to forgive her? ”

“... I don't intend to abandon my duties as a monarch. Queen Scarlen is only a traitor. ”

“I beg your pardon, Your Majesty. ”

The king drifted away, and the magic spell that emitted a faint glow disappeared like melting on the ground, losing its power.

At last, when the king disappeared, he stood up with his knees straight.

“Got it. With this……. ”

The gaze of gazing into the monarchy's footsteps was filled with heavy grief.

“You will never wake up. ”

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