Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Under the blue sky, there is a mirror reflecting the same sky, making it difficult to tell which side is the real sky.

The endless sea of ​​violets behind him has disappeared, and the trains and tracks have also disappeared. I clenched the sickle in my hand and cautiously approached the center of the sky realm. The tip of the sickle brushed against the mirror under his feet, causing ripples.

Before I knew it, a badly damaged scythe appeared on the clear mirror. I hesitated for a second and stopped. Beside the scythe lay the black robe that had just been punctured. I bent down and picked it up gently, then waved the black robe and put it on my body again, then lifted the brim of the hat and put it on my head.

The young man in the black robe was reflected on the mirror, except for the arms protruding from the black robe, there was not a single inch of exposed skin. I looked at the black god of death in the mirror, took a deep breath, and then dozens of angels waving pure white wings suddenly appeared out of thin air in the mirror.

I quickly raised my head, only to see that the previously empty space in the sky was suddenly filled with white angels, and at the same time they rushed towards me, their eyes were filled with lifeless eyes. I held both hands on the handle of the knife unhurriedly, counted silently and separated my hands vigorously, and the sickle split into two in an instant. Immediately afterwards, I raised the sickle in my hand and pointed it at the angel in the air, and slashed to both sides respectively. The mutated gravity instantly tore the angels coming from two directions to the left and right.

In this place where it is hard to tell where the sky is, angels fall eternally in different directions.

At this moment, applause rang directly in front of me. Accompanied by applause, a gloomy male voice sounded, "Thank you for a great performance."

It seems to regard the fall of the angel as a grand welcome ceremony. The Dream Thieves, who were obviously intruders, descended from the sky majesticly and landed on the mirror, so they walked towards me unhurriedly.

My eyes quickly passed over the several dream stealers walking in front of me. Compared with the previous formation of dozens of people, now there are only three Dream Stealers left.

"Hey, why are you the only ones left? Are everyone else dead?"

"I didn't expect the black god of death to be so brazen~ To deal with you, all I need is my control ability [disqualification]."

The young man standing in the middle was wearing a pitch-black overcoat, and his tone was obviously quite impatient, but it was more like expressing anger. He's the guy who can make other people's dominance nullify his own. So this dominance ability is called "disqualification", isn't it?

The young man on the right of "Disqualification" is holding a blue-green pistol in his hand, and his bright purple hair is combed back into a big back. Standing behind him is a stilted samurai with hanging eyes, his right hand clenched the samurai sword pinned to his waist, ready to fight at any time, he should be the dreamer with big back.

And the one on the left of "Disqualification" is a giant whose physique is much bigger than the other two. The dry skin showed a dead gray.

"But your companion who is always dangling with a saber was defeated by me just now."

"What did you say?"

"I thought you all knew about this, so most of you ran away in fright? Or...is this a civil strife?"

Although I just mentioned it casually, as if I accidentally said something, the expression of the "disqualified" suddenly became extremely embarrassing.

"Could it be that I was right?"

"Annoying flies."

The young man squeezed out these five words, then grabbed the dagger at his waist and threw it at me. I quickly dodged to the side, the sharp blade brushed my cheek and flew behind me, piercing the angel's wings. In the next second, the young man who kicked his right foot approached me.

Before I could deal with the young man, there was a loud "bang" from the side. The bullet cut through the air and hit my sideways sickle. I waved the sickle in the other hand and smashed it in the direction of the shooter. The reversed gravity pulled past.

Dabeitou quickly grabbed the broken sickle I had left on the side, and stabbed it hard towards the mirror, so he grabbed the handle so as not to fall over. However, groups of angels smashed onto the crumbling sickle one after another, and the big-backed head fell instantly due to the huge weight.

at the same time. The young man's raised knee hit my abdomen forcefully. The severe pain and the opponent's tremendous strength made me take a few steps back. I quickly tightened the sickle in both hands, and blocked the long knife that the young man slammed into me fiercely.

On the other hand, the giant whose fingernails were stuck firmly into the mirror finally couldn't support the gravity and fell to the right. I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to give myself a chance to breathe, but the young man grabbed the giant's hand and spun around counterclockwise on the spot. The giant who was driven up fell on me in an instant. As a result, I was thrown tens of meters in the direction of my side before falling back to the mirror.

As soon as he clutched his chest and wanted to stand up, the young man raised his long saber high, jumped up, and with all his strength, Mouzu slashed at me with all his strength. I didn't have time to stand up, so I turned to him quickly, and put my hands on the sickle in my right hand to block the blow, but I didn't expect that the force would directly smash the mirror with my back.

I instinctively stretched to the right to grab something, but my body instantly fell into the abyss under the mirror, and the salt water immediately penetrated into the orifice on my face. Fall down. This was the first time that I wished that my power of domination could be effective for me.

More and more salt water poured into my mouth, and the salty taste in my mouth was enough to make my eyes sore that I couldn't keep my eyes open. I clung tightly to the sickle in my hand, trying to use it to pull myself up.

As if aware of my plan, the young man standing on the mirror held a strange smile, swung a long knife and plunged into the mirror, drawing a circular arc along the broken trace, and the lens caught by the sickle became more and more unbearable burden.

I couldn't help but climbed up hard, resisting the heavy water pressure and trying to climb up. But the lens was completely broken from the surroundings first, and the salt water instantly pressed me down. And at this moment, a childish little hand tightly grabbed my falling hand.

I tried my best to open my sore eye sockets, and I stared at Xia Yinci who was trying to pull me up. I was puzzled as to why she was here, and felt that it was great that she was fine. In addition, there is unspeakable guilt.

Braving the water coming from all directions, I opened my mouth, trying to tell her to let go, but the voice couldn't reach the other side.

Or maybe she heard it and refused to let go.

At the same time, the young man behind Xia Yinci also walked around behind Xia Yinci with a playful and teasing smile. I squeezed my eyes tightly, but the words of reminder didn't have time to reach there, so the young man raised his right foot hard She kicked Xia Yinci's back hard, and the girl fell into the abyss, her figure getting closer and closer to me.

It is said that two people who sleep together in the same bed can connect two different dream worlds. That seems to be what Lin Yu told me. He said that someone once used this method to quietly break into his dreams and change the path his life would have taken.

How did Xia Yinci break into my dream... Or rather, where am I now in reality?

I, who was deprived of the dominance of the dream, was trapped by the dream and could not wake up. Even the right to wake up was also deprived. I don't know exactly how long I haven't woken up, I only know the vague concept of "it's been a long time". What will my father do when he sees that I have not woken up for a long time?

I, who was deprived of the right to control the dreams, where I will end up after death is an uncertain answer; whether Xia Yinci can wake up again after dying here is also an unknown answer. It may be a less than real death.

I think the Dreamers may be right. This is indeed the real way to kill the Dominators. Because once there is no destination, the rulers have nowhere to go, and death will replace it and become the final destination.

The more you fall into the abyss, the darker your field of vision becomes. Xia Yinci, who was close at hand and grabbed my palm, also became difficult to see. I could only see the crystal tears in her eyes in a haze, and soon merged with the surrounding water . I lost my mind and thought that the color of her pupils really complemented the blue water.

"Why are you crying?"

So, I saw her lightly parted cherry lips, as if she said the three words "I'm sorry".

"It was never your fault... It was my selfishness that drew you into this game."

It's a pity that there is no way to convey these words to her.

However, just as the field of vision was approaching darkness, a dazzling light burst out from the palms that Xia Yinci and I held tightly together, illuminating the world around me and her.

"If you choose to exchange, you must pay the corresponding price."

A distorted sound came from nowhere, and was quickly washed away by the oncoming water.

"How is this going?"

The pattern of the clock emerged in the blue sea water, and I even saw an ancient clock with golden-red flames reflected in Xia Yinci's pupils.

For some reason, I suddenly remembered the term that the girl on the train in the Violet Sea once said - "Fantasy Clock".

"Is that so... Is this the dominance that Xia Yinci will never be able to release? That girl is actually Xia Yinci's dream maker..."

But the facts deviated from my guess again. The ancient clock reflected in the exquisite and disturbing lines suddenly jumped out of her pupils, rushed towards me without any warning, and directly pierced into my right arm. Eye. And what I didn't realize was that the clock that appeared at an unknown time in my left eye also turned into a dark red flame and slipped into Xia Yinci's eyes.

"This is fate. The "registrant" of the fantasy clock will eventually hand over the fantasy clock to its true ruler."

A clear and cold female voice came from my ear, and I knew it was that girl's voice.

But what does depositor mean? Was she referring to Xia Yinci?

If my controlling ability is destined to be a fantasy clock, then who does the controlling ability of gravity manipulation belong to?

Could it be that what I have been relying on is actually Xia Yinci's ability to dominate?

"Start today. I will be your dream maker."

All of a sudden, the clock in his eyes started to reverse, and the feeling of someone holding him tightly disappeared, and the surrounding scene reversed like a video played backwards. When everything returned to normal again, I was still in the salt water, but there was no Xia Yinci by my side, and the sickle was well held in the palm of my hand.

"Time...is going backwards?"

Doubt still permeated my chest, but at this moment someone's arm was around my waist, and a strange force dragged me to the shore.

The young man obviously didn't realize this, and his eyes were full of confusion and incomprehension. The long knife that originally wanted to cut into the mirror also stopped because of this.

At the same time, the sound of something falling to the ground continued to follow. The tinnitus was buzzing, and I looked around in a daze, only to see the angel, who had been torn by gravity and fell forever, as well as the big backed head and the giant, all fell to the ground in accordance with the normal gravity.

Obviously I didn't stop the distorted gravity, but it seemed that this controlling ability had completely failed on me.

No matter how you think about it, it has something to do with what Xia Yinci did.

Before he could figure out what was going on, the young man was ready for the next round of attack again. He swung his red long blade and slashed at me. At the same time, the big-backed head who had regained his freedom of movement also pulled out the dagger from his waist He threw it forcefully at me.

I hastily raised the sickle, trying to twist the gravity around me again, swung the knife to knock away the flying dagger, and took the young man's blow at the same time. However, everyone including the youth did not fall in other directions. Only at this moment did I confirm that I had truly lost that controlling ability.

Suddenly, a roar tore through the sky and hit the eardrum directly. I covered one ear with one hand, but in the next second, I was kicked in the side by a leg as thick as a tree stump. I rolled over several times through this force. Beside the hole, almost fell down again.

I hurriedly supported the ground and stood up, dodging the dagger flying towards me again. And at this moment, I suddenly remembered something——if time goes backwards and restarts, then the fact that Xia Yinci appeared nearby will happen again soon.

And... the location where Xia Yinci appeared just now seems to be exactly where I am standing now.

Realizing this, I hurriedly wanted to back away, but the top of my head hit someone's knee first, I couldn't stand still for a moment, I fell backwards and fell to the ground, Xia Yinci also fell on me naturally, her head It hit my forehead with a thud.

In a way, everything is like repeating what happened just now.

It's just that this time I didn't stay under the mirror, but was dragged up by the silver-haired girl ahead of time.

I quickly jumped over Xia Yinci, who was in a daze, and saw that the young man took advantage of this opportunity to kill him. I quickly turned over and pushed Xia Yinci away, but I couldn't dodge the opponent's blow. Let me instinctively stretch out my hand to cover my eyes.

However, the blade did not pierce my skin for a long time. Instead, the young man let out an extremely small exclamation of astonishment. Then I lowered my arm, and saw the gray giant body hit the young man hard, knocking him down. It was knocked several meters away, and at the same time, the big back head was also falling in the same direction as the giant.

I suddenly understood what was going on, and my eyes fell on Xia Yinci who was beside me. I saw that she was sitting on the ground in a duck sitting posture, and her index finger dangling in the air was poking in the direction of my back. What I didn't expect was that her body also began to fall in the same direction after a few seconds. I quickly held her hand, but my feet rubbed more and more in the direction she was falling, and I immediately released one. He grabbed the sickle and slashed to the ground, holding on to the spot.

"I'm sorry Su Huohuo... I'm really sorry!"

It doesn't sound like an apology for being on top of me just now, or for dragging me down.

Just like she is not as good as the young man, as if nothing happened before time went backwards, but she seems to clearly remember what happened just now.

I think she's apologizing for exchanging our dominance in a self-righteous way.

Although I don't know if this is just my one-sided opinion. But no matter what, Xia Yinci seems to still remember as clearly as I did, the exchange of her dominance between me and her just now. This can also explain why she reacted so quickly to use the dominance ability to manipulate gravity.

"You shouldn't be the one apologizing."

It stands to reason that Xia Yinci, as the initiator of gravity distortion, would not be affected by it. But now I'm not moved by it. From this point of view, Xia Yinci should have some kind of control ability to exchange the two's control abilities with each other, but the exchange is not complete, so this part of the problem remains.

At the same time, the young man also revived and rushed towards us, and it seemed that he was not as comfortable as he was at the beginning. Xia Yinci immediately turned the gravity downward, and she fell to her knees on the ground. I hastened to hold on to the time she bought and pulled out the sickle to block the "disqualified" long knife.

"In this case..." I suddenly realized something, quickly looked into Xia Yinci's eyes, and said, "Xia Yinci, you can exchange your control ability with someone else's, right?"

"Yes, it is."

"Since you also possessed the two dominance abilities of fantasy clock and exchange ability before, it means that you can accommodate multiple dominance abilities, right?"

"This kind of thing... I don't know..."

"Try it! Transfer his dominance to yourself!"

I was obviously at a disadvantage in the competition with the young man's strength, and I finally smashed his long knife with all my strength. Grasping this opportunity, Xia Yinci released the gravitational force of the mutation, stood up and met his eyes directly, and suddenly the image of an ancient clock appeared in the young man's eyes.

Probably realizing that something unexpected was about to happen, the young man whose body was locked for a few seconds immediately planned to avoid Xia Yinci's sight. Give him a chance to hang his head. However, the giant who recovered from this also stood up, grabbed the big back next to him, and threw it directly in our direction. Being hit by this force will definitely waste all previous efforts.

In the midst of this flash, the field of vision was suddenly covered with a negative filter, and the surrounding time stood still for an instant.

After hesitating for a moment, I realized that this was caused by the dominance ability called "Phantasy Clock". I quickly let go of the sickle and came behind me, using all my strength to successfully deflect the big back head that flew into the air from its original track, and then quickly He rushed back to the young man and tightened his grip on the sickle.

Time passed again, and the big back hit the hard mirror hard, and the sound of bone shattering was clearly conveyed. The young man struggled with all his strength, which made me unable to hold on anymore, and I received several elbow blows to my chest.

Immediately afterwards, a strange flame burst out from the eyes of the two people who were looking at each other again, and went into each other's other eyes. After realizing that the exchange process was finally completed, I let go of my hand in relief, but was hit hard in the ribs by the young man's elbow and flew ten meters away before stopping.

"Damn it...you bastard...what did you do?" The young man covered his head and swayed from side to side for a few steps, glaring fiercely at Xia Yinci who was not far away. "You can only be bullied by me unilaterally just now, you hateful fly!"

However, I didn't care about Xia Yinci, because not far from me, the gray giant ran towards me with heavy steps, and the samurai on the other side who raised his samurai sword also rushed towards me. Come.

However, the moment the giant stopped in front of me and was about to kick his thick, tree stump, dry and sandy thigh towards me, the mutated gravity quickly reached the feet of him and the warrior, and immediately lifted his right foot up. Pulled to the ground. In the mirror, he was stepped out of a cobweb-like crack.

I sucked in a breath of air, quickly stood up on the ground, and took a few steps back.

"I shouldn't be the loser."

Heavy breathing was squeezed out of the giant's throat with a roar, and this was the first time I heard this giant speak.

"It's a pity that this is not your dreamland in the first place."

I picked up the sickle that I dropped just now, walked up to him, then lifted the sickle vigorously and smashed it on his chest. The point of the knife pierced his dead gray skin, and blood that was blue and purple gushed out. His widened eyes revealed unwillingness.

In the next second, a huge opening appeared out of thin air under his body, and he naturally fell down.

The old gentleman had never been so punctual when I was in danger. On the contrary, at this time, he used this method to show his weak sense of existence. This made me feel resentful towards this old gentleman who loves to watch operas.

Step by step, I approached the young man who was crushed on the ground by the gravitational force of the mutation for the first time, and passed by Dabeitou, who had no movement, I raised the sickle by the way, and slashed down on the back of Dabeitou's head. Brains splattered. His dream maker in the distance also turned into blue chips and dissipated.

A few seconds later, a huge opening also appeared under Dabeitou, and he was swept down at once.

Realizing that this would also happen to the young man's own expression, the young man struggled to support the mirror, propped up his body in an attempt to escape. I immediately lifted my feet and kicked him back to the ground hard. The sickles in both hands hit his legs one after another, immobilizing his freedom of movement. The young man couldn't help but screamed.

"People in society have different personalities, and they restrain each other like a food chain. This chain continues into the dream world and becomes a new food chain. In the final analysis, it is just mutual suppression between the dominant abilities."

I repeated his words once upon a time, pinching his chin with a playful smile.

"This is what you told me personally when you invaded my dream, isn't it wrong?"

"..."

Seeing that he didn't answer, I simply picked up the salt water from the hole next to me and poured it into the young man's mouth. At the same time, I squeezed his nose tightly, poured salt water into his mouth with the other hand, and finally covered his mouth. His eye sockets were forcefully bloodshot.

"Drink it for me." I grabbed his hair and pushed his head under the salt water in the hole. He sank under the abnormal gravity, but the sickle and my hand held him tightly. Let him move, and the wound on his thigh tore longer and longer, "This is the price you paid for taking away my dominion over my dreams."

When his struggle became weaker and weaker, I pulled him out of the round hole by pulling his hair.

"Don't die here, I still have something to ask you. ——If I heard correctly... Did you tell Xia Yinci just now that she was bullied by you unilaterally?"

However, this sentence seemed to give the young man an opportunity to humiliate me, and he actually laughed.

"Yeah...how? When you don't know where to hide...we killed her 13 times."

The depths of my consciousness suddenly sobered to an unprecedented level, I widened my eyes, grabbed his head and slammed it hard against the mirror, the young man screamed in pain, and his expression became extremely painful. No longer as rampant as before.

Thinking that when he bullied Xia Yinci, she might have cried out in pain like this, and I took his head and hit the mirror dozens of times before I stopped. But for some reason, the abnormal gravity suddenly lightened a bit, and the young man's head seemed to be no longer so heavy.

I realized that it might be Xia Yinci's problem, so I quickly turned to Xia Yinci and said, "Don't be soft-hearted, if we let him go, we will be the ones who die."

"I... I know..." Xia Yinci's tone sounded a little weak, probably because she had been holding on for a long time. Knowing that Xia Yinci couldn't hold on for too long, I had no choice but to stand up and pull out the sickle that was stuck on the young man's right leg, and the heart-piercing shout seemed to be beyond reality.

I always feel that my thinking is more clear than before. This is something that has never happened before in a lucid dream.

Heart filled with bursts of joy, I picked up the sickle, raised it above my head, and slashed down into the young man's chest. At this moment, the gravity maintained by Xia Yinci disintegrated instantly. But now, whether there is abnormal gravity or not, it will not affect the outcome of the matter. So I stopped thinking about it, and raised my sickle and stabbed him in the chest several times.

Suddenly, the angels who had disappeared appeared in the high sky of the sky realm, as if announcing that the dominance of the dream realm had returned to the hands of the black god of death. A circular hole also appeared under the young man's body in due course, and he stretched out his palm tremblingly to grab the mirror, as if he still wanted to resist.

"You nasty flies..."

"Hey. I said, you'd better pray that I don't see you again."

After I said that, I stepped on his back, and the young man finally had no power to resist, and fell into the abyss.

The clear sky is now a mess. I sighed softly and walked towards Xia Yinci's direction.

"Hey...that...thank you."

I scratched my cheek, feeling a little embarrassed when I said thank you. Xia Yinci looked at me with a sickly smile in her pupils. Before she could say anything, her body fell powerlessly on top of me.

"Isn't that... is it that tiring to use my control ability?"

I gently supported Xia Yinci's body. When I held her back with my palm, a cold and sticky feeling climbed up my palm. I was suddenly bruised in my chest by uneasy feelings, and goose bumps all over my body.

"Su Huohuo...why...why..."

The weak female voice didn't seem to come from this world, and the nothingness made my back burst into cold sweat. Trembling, I put my hand on her shoulder and pushed her away gently, trying to confirm what happened. Dark red blood from her belly stained her white shirt.

"why?"

"What the hell is...what's going on? Who did this kind of thing?"

The scene in front of me was so real that it was distorted, I couldn't help closing my eyes violently, and then opened them again.

The brain became more and more awake, and suddenly even the scenery of the sky disappeared completely, replaced by the scene of the ward that I used to see when I went to my mother's side every weekend. The only thing that remains the same is Xia Yinci who is staring at me weakly and absently, and the dark red color of her belly.

The back of his head exploded. I clearly felt a sticky feeling in the palm of my hand, as well as the suspected shape of a knife handle.

I tremblingly looked away for confirmation, and looked at my palm. As a result, Xia Yinci's body lost its support, "pata", and fell powerlessly in the ward, the blood gushing out stained the floor with the same bright color. And what I hold in the palm of my hand is clearly a blade soaked in blood.

The field of vision shook violently. The sound of nearby machinery, the sound of the fruit knife falling from my hand and falling to the ground, and the increasingly violent heartbeat. All the sounds bombarded my eardrums for a while, and the bright red color filled my vision.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

Suddenly, someone's piercing scream was heard. The fear clogged in his chest intensified.

Who is crying helplessly?

The answer emerged hesitantly——

...

It is I who cover my buzzing, restless ears,

I couldn't help tearing at my hoarse and sore throat,

fearful and hopeless,

screamed out——