Madman in a Fantasy World

54. nightmare…?

“Huh~ It’s so delicious~”

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Marquis territory covered with thick pink fog.

The Nightmare, Lilith, who was sitting on the roof of the inn, smacked her lips.

A night when everyone is asleep.

She was alone enjoying a gourmet meal lit by the moonlight.

For her, food is not material, but anti-material.

The biggest examples are emotions such as fear, anger, and sadness of others.

The pink mist covering the Marquis’ territory was one of her abilities.

The effect of the fog is to force people to fall asleep and at the same time to force them to dream.

Even at night, not everyone sleeps all the time.

A soldier on guard, a married couple doing something fun, and a child getting up to go to the bathroom.

For whatever reason, there is no time when everyone is asleep at the same time.

Besides, dreams are always arbitrary.

It’s not like you’re dreaming that you want to dream.

One day, a dream full of one’s own ideals, and one day, a nightmare showing a terrible scene that one does not want to see the most.

All of that was a variable.

In a situation where everything goes their own way, Lilith has to make humans dream as well as put them to sleep.

So, the first ability she learned, Puppet.

It was a name given in the sense of manipulating human consciousness.

That was the identity of the fog that covered this marquis territory.

It acts as a sleeping pill and eliminates variables by making you dream at the same time.

In addition, the dream was designed to appear only in the form of a nightmare.

“hehehe~ There are a lot of pretty good people here~”

She can peek into other people’s dreams.

The same goes for the present.

While peeking into other people’s nightmares, they were feeding on negative emotions.

Nutrients are different depending on the level of emotions that humans feel.

For example, whose feelings are more intense: the sorrow of a child who cries after falling and scraping his knee while playing, or the sorrow of an old man who lost his life partner.

The latter, without question.

In that sense, there were many people who had decent nightmares in this Marquis Territory.

Who has what kind of nightmares, what makes them angry, sad, and afraid.

That was out of her interest.

I just wish I was more angry, crying, and scared.

That was it.

“Humans are too weak.”

It’s not even reality, it’s just a dream, so why are you having such a hard time?

However, it is a creature called human being that easily collapses even in a mere dream.

But up to that point, there was nothing she knew.

In a way, her ability can be said to be stronger than the strength of her single body.

It’s no different than digging into the opponent’s unconscious and attacking the weakest point that can’t be defended.

“Etcha~ Shall we go now to deal with the purpose?”

She got up and spread her wings.

Even though the entire marquis territory was wrapped in Puppet, the original purpose was a party.

Lilith broke in first through the window of the room where the beast woman was.

A woman lying in bed and weeping.

Lilith put her hand on her forehead.

“Whoa… such a nightmare. You’re more traumatized than you thought?”

Just taking a peek at it is enough to make your lips tremble.

“I’m looking forward to it? Please be sad more~”

Lilith left the room and headed to the other side.

This time, it was a room with a small, silver-haired woman.

As before, Lilith put her hand on the silver-haired woman’s forehead and peeked at her dream.

“Huh? Isn’t he a vampire? I heard that they all died, but I guess that wasn’t the case.”

She wasn’t just a vampire, she was a queen.

“Why are you here?”

It was an unexpected variable, but it didn’t matter because this kid was having pretty good nightmares.

It was a release that I thought things would end easily at this rate.

and last.

Lilith headed to the next room on the other side and saw a black-haired man lying on the bed.

This time, instead of placing her hand on the man’s forehead, she placed it on his stomach.

It was to use her other abilities.

“Then let’s go in to finish it.”

Another ability of hers was the ability to intervene in the dreams of others.

The ability to literally intervene in the dreams of others.

Except for a few problems, this was the most powerful ability she had.

The first problem is the ability to directly intervene in a dream, so there was a disadvantage that only one person could intervene at a time unless they used clone magic.

Even taking that into account, the fearsome ability remained unchanged.

The most terrifying thing about this ability is that if you kill the target in a dream, it can destroy the mind as it is.

You don’t die in reality, but when you wake up, you become a vegetative person with not a single bit of reason to be found.

So her new body was sucked into the man.

***

The emotion she felt after entering the dream was neither ecstasy nor pleasure, but curiosity.

The only thing she sees right after entering her dream is an all-black room.

No, it was covered in darkness except for a few rays of light.

Originally, nightmares were dark and shady, so there was nothing strange about them.

She had seen the dream of a child confined to a room because of parental abuse before.

Lilith looked around the room.

desk, bed, etc. He knew it, but his appearance was far from what he knew.

Furniture that looks much more luxurious than you know…

And the most suspicious thing was something resembling a box that emits colorful light under the desk and a box that emits pure white light above the desk.

For things I had never seen before, I wondered if the person who had this dream was a dreamer.

After a moment of doubt, she remembered her original purpose and began to search for the owner of this dream.

I couldn’t check it properly because I was blinded by the light-emitting box until a while ago, but when I looked closely, a person was sitting on a chair in front of the light-emitting box.

But it’s strange.

If there is only one person in this dream, it must mean that the man sitting there is himself.

It was clearly different from the man he had seen before entering.

Dense dark circles and a tired face.

The only resemblance is the hair color.

Other than that, the color of the iris and the shape of the face.

All of them were different people than the man I had just seen.

“…You. Who the hell are you?”

In the first place, a person different from the owner of the dream.

In response to that question, Lilith made a sound without even realizing it.

OK.

knock, knock.

A sound came from his throat and he turned in the direction of Lilith.

Within,

– Sick.

The corner of his mouth was torn, and Lilith was in his eyes.

Frightened for a moment, she blinked her eyes once.

“Hee, hee…!”

The man who had been sitting until just now stood up.

Is it because you’re scared?

It seemed like I was seeing an optical illusion that got closer and closer every time I blinked.

No, now that I see it, it’s not an optical illusion.

It was getting really close.

“Let’s do something fun together.”

“Oh, don’t come!!”

she raised her hand

It was to change this dream to his advantage and at the same time to cast magic.

But nothing happened.

“What, what kind of mental strength…!”

The second problem was the ability to intervene in dreams.

Although she can change the nightmare to her advantage to some extent, the owner of this dream is the person who dreams it.

That is, that man.

It is impossible to manipulate more than a certain amount, and if the dreamer’s mental power is strong, on the contrary, she may be trapped in a dream or get caught up in a nightmare.

The reason why she didn’t consider the problem was because she had never seen a human with that level of mental power, though she had been in and out of thousands of human dreams.

In other words, Lilith herself entered the dream of that man with strong mental power.

It means that he is an underdog who cannot currently manipulate magic or nightmares.

“hehehe… Newbie Newbie. Too erotic. Chewy. Mouthwatering… hehehehe.”

“Please don’t come!!!”

***

-I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella.

A woman’s voice came from another box on either side of the shiny box.

Before long, the text filling the box in front of both eyes.

-YOU DIED.

How many hundred times already?

Lilith had no time to be amazed at the first thing she saw.

The reason is fatigue.

3 days in dream time.

72 hours.

4,320 minutes.

259,200 seconds.

That’s the amount of time Lilith and the man next to him, the owner of the dream, didn’t get a break.

Lilith has not been killed or killed since.

Thought she was fortunate, as time passed, she gradually realized that it was better to die.

While saying strange things that he couldn’t understand, he kept saying something next to him.

Even though I didn’t listen to the lines because there were so many of them, I was still getting tired.

Besides, he was expecting something from himself.

By manipulating a machine he has never seen before, he makes the picture in the box move, and informs him of unknown information at intervals of 10 seconds from the side.

“It’s a piece of shit! It’s fucking run!!”

“Yeah…!”

“Isn’t that right!! You have to parry three times to become a minion once?!”

“Yes, four!!”

Unable to escape, Lilith, whose powers were at the level of ordinary people, had no choice but to do as she was told to survive.

I was able to infer some information from what he said.

The box showing this picture was not a magic tool, but a machine, and he was currently playing a game.

By the way······.

‘Why do humans play games like this?!’

The man believed to be himself in the box was naked.

No, actually wearing shorts.

Her skin was purple, not human, and her face was more grotesquely distorted than that of a goblin.

All he was holding was a small shield and a wooden club.

The level of difficulty was daunting, he would die if he was hit once, and even if he was hit, his stamina would only decrease by an inch.

I couldn’t understand it at all.

Why are you doing this?

No, before that, what the hell was this for?

Was it made to annoy someone?

why? What is there to gain from the same human beings torturing human beings?

It was full of things that could not be understood with her knowledge.

Even the man next to him allowed only a special technique to reflect the opponent’s attack, not just hit and catch it.

The first time he swung the bat without knowing what she was, his gaze was truly terrifying.

Those eyes were like the eyes of an old veteran who had gone through countless wars.

Anyway, after that, I just did as I was told.

After three days of hard work, her efforts paid off.

“I did it, I did it…!”

The woman with the attitude in the painting that had bothered her so much fell on her knees.

‘I can finally get out of here…!’

“Prepare quickly!”

“uh···?”

I thought it was over, but it wasn’t.

A red flower bloomed from the woman whom she thought had fallen, took off her helmet and flew up with her wings.

“Phase 2 begins! Phase 2 is red Aeonia from the start!”

Phase 2?

What is it?

don’t know that

isn’t it over now?

When she came to her senses, the red flowers in the box were in full bloom.

-YOU DIED.

“Ah… He’s dead. I have to start over. Now that I’ve seen Phase 2, wouldn’t I be able to break it with a little more effort?”

from scratch?

Do you have to do this from scratch…?

“I hate it…!”

Hate it no more!!

As she longed for it, a door appeared in the room where there was no door.

The way out was opened for a while in her desperateness.

Lilith gasped out of her seat and headed for the door.

And when she barely opened the door and got out, there was an inn she knew, a beast woman and a vampire standing next to her.

“Sah, save me!!!!!!”

I prayed for them both to live.

I think I’ll get a mental illness.

Being locked in a dark room and repeating the same actions in the same position for three days.

“I hate it!!! I want to stop now!!! I’d rather kill it!!!!!”

If it was impossible to escape anyway, it was better to die.

“Is the dildo broken?”

snap.

A violent hand grabbing his own horn.

There’s no way I’d forgotten the voice I was hearing just now.

“Kyaaa”

In the end, she missed her first and last chance to escape and was sucked back into her dream.

day like that.

In reality, it was a day, but after a week or so in the dream, Lilith managed to get out of the nightmare.