The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 420: Nightmare: a dream within a dream

Awesome..."

Annan whispered: "I gradually understood everything..."

That is a very, very important question.

——First of all, it is impossible to enter a second nightmare in a nightmare. Because the nightmare itself is a projection created by the dream world using the soul. Although it is extremely real and can even be regarded as another direction of history... it does not affect reality.

And projection naturally cannot produce the projection of projection.

In other words... in a nightmare, it is impossible to enter a new nightmare.

This is also the main way to distinguish nightmares from reality.

The reason why Annan has many nightmare fragments appearing intermittently in this nightmare is because this is the special mechanism of this nightmare itself.

But this is a problem with "Special Properties: Dreams".

It has nothing to do with the "distortion" that occurs.

Since it has been distorted, it means that a certain part of this nightmare has been quietly replaced, resulting in some random changes that cannot be reproduced.

Annan even searched for a long time to find out where the "distortion" of this nightmare occurred.

He cares about this very much.

The distortion of the previous "Great Hunt" should be due to Kafni herself entering that nightmare with Annan. Therefore it undergoes "irrepeatable" changes.

That is, the Kafni in the nightmare is not the Kafni of the year, but the Kafni played by the Kafni of the future.

If Annan enters that nightmare again, I'm afraid many of Kafni's responses will be different.

Therefore, it is very important to detect the location of distortion.

But just for a moment...

Annan realized belatedly where the distortion of this nightmare...had occurred.

——Because this nightmare is a completely unsolvable dead end.

"Haha...hahaha..."

Annan suddenly couldn't help laughing.

That was real joy.

That is the satisfaction of completing the decryption.

——It is definitely not the emotion that can arise before knowing that one's happiness is about to be swallowed up by a frost beast.

Smelling the fresh "joy" and "satisfaction", the frost beasts were uneasy and scratching at the edge of the cage. There were many noises in the originally quiet basement.

The old man's movement to release the frost beast suddenly stopped.

He turned around in confusion and looked at Annan silently.

He didn't speak, but he had already asked Annan silently.

Annan just waved his hand and stopped smiling.

"Teacher," she asked respectfully, "how can we become extraordinary?"

"You must survive the wolf kiss ceremony first."

"No, I mean...if an ordinary person wants to become a transcendent, what is the last thing he does?"

Annan asked.

The old man was silent for a while and replied: "After accumulating enough strength, you enter a nightmare.

"For example, you, who can walk through a blizzard, and Solonik, who has undergone special training. The two of you have already reached this standard.

"So you need to survive the nightmare once at this time - use the pure curse power obtained from the nightmare to corrode and perforate your soul. Through the 'hole' made by the curse, you can continuously obtain the outside world. The power of the curse...Only those who can restore the lost power of the curse over time can be called extraordinary."

"——That is to say."

Annan chuckled and interrupted the old man's words.

He slowly straightened up and said in a calm and calm tone: "If I want to become a transcendent, I must pass a nightmare, right?"

"Yes."

"But that's impossible."

Annan said calmly.

The voice belonging to Annan overlapped with the voice belonging to Bella, and sounded underground:

"——Because this is my nightmare."

The next moment, the entire nightmare began to shake. But the amplitude is not large, just like a very mild earthquake...

Both the old man, who was as silent as an iceberg, and Solonik, who had his head lowered, became motionless, like dolls.

Soon, the ceiling collapsed piece by piece, smashing open the cage that bound the frost beast.

But the frost beast did not take the opportunity to attack Annan. Instead, it whimpered and hid in the cage, huddled in the corner. A handful of others escaped from the cage and tried to escape outside.

——But outside there was nothingness.

So Annan will never be able to achieve the main mission of [becoming a transcendent].

Why was Annan able to master all the abilities of a werewolf immediately after entering this world? Just like when he became a detective in Nightmare Fragments, he had the power of a detective?

You know, when he entered "Nightmare: White Tower", he did not have any of the original owner's deception and mind-reading abilities; when he entered "Nightmare: Gallery", he did not have the artistic talent of a painter. , he couldn't even understand those paintings.

There is only one real answer.

Because at its root...

This is not the nightmare that Annan entered at all. It truly belongs to him.

——This world is false.

"Why did you let me be Bella instead of myself? Because even you can't understand myself."

Annan sneered: "Why did you let me see Denton's fear of death? What are you hinting at me? What do Mr. Detective's nightmare fragments~IndoMTL.com~ want to tell me? Warn me not to be too rational. Is it implanted in my subconscious mind and wants me to act according to my body’s instinct?

"——But who gave me the instinct of my body?"

A nightmare that can never complete the main mission.

A side quest itself requires entering a nightmare of nightmares.

And... a nightmare in which a dialogue with "self" occurs.

"What do you want to tell me? What do you want to mislead me?"

Annan's voice gradually lost the werewolf Bella's voice and returned to his clear and transparent voice.

The face and skin on his body that belonged to Bella were also beginning to disintegrate piece by piece.

Only the remaining part of "Bella's" face remained.

Annan picked it up and threw it into the air.

Bella's last piece of skin gradually turned into ashes in the air.

He stared at the disintegrating nightmare, into the void.

——Kafni is the "related factor" that causes the distortion of "The Great Hunt".

So, what are the detected "related elements" that distort his nightmare?

There is only one answer.

Annan looked at the empty sky and calmly issued his final inquiry:

"And you trapped me here...what do you want to do?

"——Dream Stealer, Mr. Denton?"

At the moment when nothingness disappeared, a few lines of words that had been covered for a long time appeared in front of Annan's eyes.

That is his real main mission——

[Main mission: Wake up]

Immediately, a large number of small words appeared under this line of words again:

【Escape from the rewritten nightmare (completed)】

[Collect at least seven fear fragments (3/7)]

[Find and kill the remaining consciousness of Dream Stealer Denton]

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