The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 23: Nightmare: Witch Kill
Artificial nightmare?
Annan saw something that interested him from the window of Delicious Wind Goose.
The only person he currently knows who can create nightmares is Benjamin.
And mastering the relevant knowledge of nightmare science was originally Benjamin's purpose - his initial wish was to save Evelin from the endless cycle of nightmares. Therefore, he had already started studying nightmares since he was a wizard.
Benjamin undoubtedly has a very solid foundation in nightmare science.
He is even proficient in the four schools of soul-stealing, transformation, shaping, and idolatry at the same time. For this reason, he has opposed all other schools in exchange for specialized abilities.
The four schools he mastered are the only four schools that can be connected with nightmare science.
So, it is not surprising to Annan that Benjamin can artificially create nightmares.
But why did Ike Burning Fang create nightmares?
He has no relevant skills, not even a wizard...
"...It's a bit interesting."
Annan thought for a long time.
He took Doreen to find a nearby hotel, booked a room, and ordered lunch in advance, and began to prepare to watch the delicious wind goose land reclamation nightmare.
According to the division of players, each team will be assigned at least one player who is good at conquering nightmares. To prevent everyone from getting stuck when they encounter a nightmare - it's not a problem to always call for outside help.
Nata County is still very important because it involves the high-value specialty product "Devil's Blood". In order to ensure that the teleport point in Nata County can be opened, Tasty Wind Goose, as the main land reclamation player in "Nightmare: Gallery", its main purpose is to fight the nightmare.
This is also the reason why Delicious Wind Goose, as the strongest combat power, cannot keep vigil at night and must enter the nightmare.
If the purpose is to clear the nightmare and collect information, the Delicious Wind Goose is even more useful than the Priest.
As a priest of Sir Silver, Mr. Yokai’s decryption skills can only be considered above average. It can be said that it is quite an NPC level of decryption... It will definitely not be his turn to open up the wasteland. After at least one clearance route has been researched, it would be more useful to let him come in and use his life to test the endings of other routes.
Among all the players currently, the ones with the highest efficiency in clearing the nightmare are actually the two professional puzzle solvers, Si Dark Carving and Longjing Tea, who were specially recruited for the second phase. Once again, it is Yuan Feng Goose.
Although Yummy Wind Goose looks quite intimidating in size, he is a serious card game anchor after all. Speaking of brains, he is obviously smarter than the wandering children, Jiu'er and Lin Yiyi.
Seeing that Yummy Feng Goose was going to fight the nightmare together and started a live broadcast in the game for the first time in a long time, players from other places who had free time also enthusiastically clicked on Lao Goose's live broadcast room and almost dressed up. I chose the full immersion mode - this is a new content in the recent update, which allows you to observe nightmares from a first-person perspective with detailed senses.
"——First!"
"——Front row, front row, watch the live broadcast of Lao Goose."
"——You guys came so quickly, don’t you even have to go to work?"
"——Obviously those who can watch the live broadcast do not have to work."
"——I heard that Lao Goose started a live broadcast, and I just went online. The biggest advantage of this game is that I don’t have to miss anything because of sleeping..."
After Yummy Feng Goose gradually woke up, he opened his eyes and found a large number of barrages flying in front of him - the players were chatting happily, and even blocked his task list.
I immediately turned off the barrage system coldly and calmly.
...I’m asking you to stare at me, why are you all coming to this forum to chat?
After he closed the barrage, Yummy Feng Goose finally saw the nightmare prompt in front of him:
[The difficulty of this copy is Hard]
[This copy does not provide introduction to the plot, and there is no decryption reward]
[Copy loading completed]
...No decryption reward?
Delicious Wind Goose was slightly startled.
He looked around and quickly realized where he was.
He was in a very narrow room, sitting on a very heavy metal chair.
Judging from the roughness and dullness of the skin on his hands, "I" now seems to be a middle-aged man in his forties. And they are not nobles or wizards...mostly farmers or fishermen, and most likely not extraordinary people.
The environment around Delicious Wind Goose is very dark. There was only one very tall window in the room...it looked like a cell in a prison.
And his hands and feet were locked to the chair, unable to move.
In front of him stood an extremely complex but not large bronze machine. This machine is about the size of an induction cooker, with a round tray in the middle, and a thick and long white candle filled with scales.
On the side of it near the delicious wind goose, thirteen long-handled buttons stretched out.
The keys look a bit like the white keys of a piano. The numbers "1" to "12" are written on one side, and a simple, nearly circular rune is drawn on the other side. There is also a single button on the far left that says "Spell".
After that light, Yummy Feng Goose could see a big [3] painted with blood-like red paint on the wall in front of him.
On the right side is a piece of paper with the word "Stalker" written on it in big letters.
...What is this?
It doesn't look like an escape room...and isn't this a shared nightmare? Where are my teammates?
Is it a werewolf killing?
When Delicious Feng Goose thought of this ~IndoMTL.com~ a light curtain suddenly flashed in front of him:
[Main mission: Win the "game"]
Immediately afterwards, three additional conditions appeared below:
【At least one person in the team survived to the end】
[The victory conditions of the whole team cannot conflict]
【Don't let the "Idol Wizard" win】
Wait until the delicious goose is finished.
A somewhat familiar voice came from beside him——
It is the voice of "Ike Burning Fang"!
"Everyone, it's our game time again!"
His voice seemed to be coming from a loudspeaker, ringing over and over again in the room, creating a small echo.
"The identities have been randomly assigned, so without further ado - there are 'newcomers' participating in the game this time. According to the old rules, here I will explain the specific rules of 'Ritual: Unification War' to the newcomers!"
...Ike himself also came in?
Is this why he invited the four of himself into the nightmare?
Delicious Feng Goose’s expression tightened and he focused his attention again.
Soon, under Ike's explanation, Delicious Wind Goose understood the rules of this so-called "game".
It's not complicated:
This is an elimination game, with twelve people participating in the ceremony.
All of these twelve people have no ability to cast spells, and they are all imprisoned in these twelve rooms.
But under the rules, eight of them can imitate wizards from eight schools and have their own special skill to "imitate the wizard's spellcasting behavior."
The identities of the other four are swordsmen, stalkers, hunters, and priests - the unfair thing is that only wizards have skills. The remaining four people belong to the "civilian" camp.
The ceremony lasted four days and three nights.
The rules are roughly as follows:
(End of this chapter)