Chapter 323
I had a dream.
1 year ago.
A dream when I was still called rogue.
A panoramic view of the dark days filled with all sorts of criticism and indifference passed by like a panorama.
‘Are you looking at the kaleidoscope?’
kaleidoscope.
Am I looking back on my life one last time before I die?
Does that mean I’m dying now?
No, why do I think I’m dying in the first place?
I don’t know.
I can’t remember.
My mind is so hazy that I can’t think properly.
“no. you don’t die.”
at that time.
A man’s voice came from behind the ever-changing scenery.
A voice I’m not familiar with, but I’ve heard before.
I slowly turned my head.
“you are… … .”
“hi.”
As soon as I checked the man’s face, my eyes widened.
“Tay Lovine… … .”
“I didn’t expect to see you again so soon. It’s a happy mistake. I am really happy to see you again.”
Tay Lovine.
The superintendent who handed me the Book of Danteroa, and a magician who handles unknown barrier magic.
He was looking at me with the same expressionless face as before.
“But a reunion is a reunion. what to say about this I’m afraid who’s not the lord’s successor, even the constitution that causes trouble is the same.”
It seems like he’s saying it as a joke, but his expression doesn’t change so it doesn’t sound like a joke.
You are still a mystery.
no, more than that.
“How are you here?”
Wasn’t it gone?
I thought it just disappeared because it wasn’t in the Book of Danteroa.
“How are you here?”
Tei replied indifferently, with a look on his face as if he was asking something so obvious.
“You ask something strange. Is it strange that I am in my world?”
… … my world?
here?
“It looks like I’m in my dream.”
“huh. it’s in your dreams At the same time, it is also my world.”
My dream is your own world?
“I’m not sure what you mean.”
“hmm. Was it difficult? therefore… … .”
Tay raised his hand.
At that moment, the scenery that flowed like a panorama stopped.
It was as if the dream had stopped at Tei’s beckoning.
“I mean, manipulating dreams is my magic.”
No, actually, this dream itself was stopped by Tay’s beckoning.
“I made your dream come true with this magic.”
ah. I see what you mean.
“In other words, this dream is mine, but… … .”
“huh. At the same time, it is also the world I created.”
Tay moved his hand again.
The world spins fast again.
Like a movie with double speed mode turned on, my past flies by.
“It must have been difficult.”
“Is that all you can say if you look at other people’s pasts as you please?”
“Wasn’t it too sincere? Shall I change my words a little? It must have been very difficult.”
The insincere encouragement was repeated, no different from what he had just said.
Perhaps because of his characteristic insensitive expression, it sounds like he’s being sarcastic.
Of course it would be an illusion.
“I was always curious. What kind of life have you led so that an 18-year-old can be so mentally perfect?”
The corners of Tay’s lips turned upwards just slightly.
I don’t know, but he seemed to enjoy it.
“But seeing this, I think I know. Certainly, if there is such a past… … If you’ve overcome this past, it’s worth it.”
The past went by fast.
The time when the despairing dark days had all passed, and the first semester of the second year began.
The story of the day I obtained the Book of Idred began.
The miraculous story of the day that changed my life was vividly embodied as a dream.
“Did you say you deal with dreams?”
“huh.”
Looking at the scene, I asked insinuatingly.
“Then, was the space you used to test me before also a dream space?”
“that’s right. It was a dream. Because you used Factio, it couldn’t function properly and it was smashed as it is.”
I made a monster that can control my senses freely, keep falling infinitely, and withstand Ignis.
If it’s all a dream, it’s understandable.
“Then why did you disappear after giving me the Book of Danteroa?”
“hmm. It’s not like I’m trying to hide myself. It was just an accident.”
“Are you buying?”
“huh. accident.”
“What accident?”
Tay scratched his cheek as if he was a little embarrassed.
“I’m curious about your past. Should I say that I contacted your mind, but was blocked by the mental barrier and became unable to do anything?”
“… … yes?”
I was stunned for a moment.
What happened to me trying to interfere with my mind?
“So. Trying to peek into my past. Are you saying I’m trapped inside my mind?”
“huh. To be precise, it should be said that I was trapped in your dream.”
“… … does that make sense? A magician who handles dreams is trapped in someone else’s dream.”
“Originally, it makes no sense, but… … . You’re the orthodox heir to the bi-tenor style, aren’t you? Just like the master, the mental barrier is close to invincible. It’s quite possible.”
“It is, but… … .”
My brain has the property of being completely immune to outside interference.
And dreams are a concept that has a lot to do with the brain.
Given the nature of my brain, it doesn’t make sense that Tay Lovine was trapped in my dreams.
“I’m really glad. Your mental barrier is weakened. Otherwise, I would have been trapped in your dreams forever.”
Tay let out a sigh of relief.
I wonder if it’s true that I’m really relieved because there’s no expression.
“however. If you knew about Master and my constitution, wouldn’t you have predicted that you wouldn’t be able to interfere with my dreams?”
“I thought you wouldn’t be as hard as your master yet.”
“Did you do such a risky thing without any certainty?”
“… … Stop being curious about your past.”
Tay shut up.
The response was that there was nothing to say.
‘Contrary to my first impression, he’s quite reckless.’
With this kind of personality, I think I would have bumped into Aslan-nim often.
No, I think it was the same with Mimir.
I think I had a little fight with Elena.
… … no. I wonder if there were any vassals with whom he was close.
My pace, expressionless stage clothes.
hmm. It’s a temper that is hard to endure unless you are a person with a fairly good personality.
“Anyway, did you get out safely like this? That’s it.”
Tay changed the topic.
Knowing that the topic was unfavorable to him, he tried to change the topic.
“Another phone call. Thanks to my actions at that time, I can talk to you now like this, right?”
“What is now… … . ah.”
At that moment, something about the current situation that was momentarily blurry came to mind.
‘I remembered.’
In order to deal with the Dark Mage King, I used the coercive method of making Ignis run wild.
And as an aftereffect, the inner mana started running out of control, and he lost consciousness.
“know? you. I would have died if it wasn’t for me.”
Tay glared at me with sharp eyes.
“If I hadn’t momentarily covered your mind barrier, your mind would have collapsed.”
“… … Was it that dangerous?”
“uh. Even if he died as it was, it was not a strange situation.”
I couldn’t even calm down the runaway and lost my mind, I wondered how I was alive.
It must have been Tay who protected me.
One question has been resolved.
“Try to thank the me of the past. This is all because I was trapped in your dream and became like this.”
“Isn’t that just a corollary?”
“Consequences and what? It’s true that you bought it thanks to me.”
“I see… I do.”
That’s right.
Consequences and whatever, Tay Lovine saved my life.
“thank you. I live thanks to you.”
No matter how many times I thank you, it’s not enough.
“You don’t have to say that to me. If you’re going to give thanks, go outside to the mage who calmed your mana runaway. If it wasn’t for that wizard, my body would have collapsed and died whether or not I kept my sanity.”
“ah.”
Magician must mean Sophia-sama.
Sophia-nim has calmed my mana runaway.
“yes. I will.”
After you get out of this world and come to your senses.
First of all, I would like to thank Sophia.
I made that promise.
“Well, if things go on like this, it looks like you’ll die before you even say thank you.”
“… … yes?”
“A mage and a swordsman fighting outside. If this continues, I will surely die.”
“… … Wasn’t the situation over?”
Wasn’t the situation over after the Dark Mage King was burned to death by Ignis?
“no. The situation is not over yet. The battle continues.”
“Even if he directly receives the rampant flames of Ignis with his body… … Are you alive?”
“huh. The warlock you were dealing with is still alive.”
“No way… … .”
Naturally, I thought the situation was over.
It’s because it’s close to impossible to erode my runaway while the Dark Mage King is still alive.
Of course, he thought the battle was over.
‘Are you still alive?’
How?
Is it possible to live even if Ignis’ flames hit the rampant properly?
If the Dark Mage King was still alive, how could he have calmed my rampage?
How is the situation outside now?
My head was full of all sorts of questions.
“I don’t know the exact situation. Your hearing is completely gone. ‘Cause there’s no way I can hear what you can’t hear All I know is that things aren’t over yet… … .”
Tay Lovine’s expression grew serious.
“It’s just that our side is slowly being pushed back.”
“… … You are also being pushed back.”
It was a scheduled thirteen.
Even Sein-sama and Sophia-sama, it was impossible to defeat a monster that even rampaging Ignis could not kill.
“Your life is in danger at this rate.”
“no. Your life won’t be in danger. The Dark Mage King cannot kill me.”
How did the Dark Mage King heal me while he was alive?
If you think about it, it was a simple thing.
The Dark Mage King ordered Sophia to save me.
Because the Dark Mage King needs me to achieve his goals.
I was waiting in silence for Sofia-sama to heal me.
“Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m safe.”
Certainly the Dark Mage King can’t kill me.
But that literally just can’t take my ‘life’.
You can do some tricks on me.
‘Like I did to Sophia, I could put a curse on my body.’
Master died without overcoming the curse of the veil stall.
In other words, even if you are a bitenor of the world, you can’t solve all the curses of black magic.
If the Dark Mage King puts a curse on my body, everything ends at that moment.
At that point, I won’t be able to defeat the Dark Mage King.
‘Is there no way. A way to defeat the Dark Mage King now.’
It’s okay if you can’t knock it down.
Is there any way to overcome this situation at least now?
‘No matter how much I am the Dark Mage King, there’s no way I can get hit by the runaway Ignis and be fine. He must have done quite a bit of damage. It’s a big gain just to run away from here.’
How to overcome this situation.
way to escape.
What is it?
‘no. Even if you think of a method in the first place, it’s meaningless. It means nothing unless I wake up.’
No matter what strategy I set up here, it doesn’t mean anything.
As long as my body is asleep, there is nothing I can do.
‘Is there anything I can do right now?’
It was when I was biting my lips like that.
“You don’t have to worry about waking up. I just need to forcefully awaken your mind.”
Hopeful news came from the mouth of Tay Lovine.
“Is that possible?”
“then. It is possible.”
The flame of hope that had been extinguished was rekindled.
“Then the key is what to do when you wake up. Because there is no way I can become a proper power with my current physical condition. If he creates an opening by using his weakness that he can’t kill me… … .”
That’s when I was thinking of a countermeasure again.
“Maybe you can win?”
I woke up from my thoughts at Tay Lovine’s unexpected words.
“Can you win? What can you win?”
“If you’re in your current state, you can fight the Dark Mage King and win.”
“… … The me now?”
“huh.”
Tay came up to me and put his hand on my chest.
“Thanks to your unreasonable actions, all the other Infinity Circles caused a decrease in output. Currently, the only thing that works properly in your body is the neutral ring.”
The Infinity Circles in a reduced output state and the Neutral Ring in a perfect state alone.
that means that.
“Should it be because of that? Coincidentally, the heavenly and reverse heavens were balanced. Your body is now in a state of complete neutrality.”
“That means… … .”
“I might win now.”
The ring of neutrality has awakened.
It was like that.
