Dream Dungeon

I was about to go to sleep, but,

I had a visitor.

Someone knocked on Americano’s door in the middle of the night.

I was planning to sleep tonight and go catch the Succubus Queen. The fact that she unilaterally broke the promise first meant she had a way to stop me.

I was looking forward to tomorrow, but,

When I opened the door,

[Demonic Cult]

Demonic Cultists came to the room and thrust their swords in as soon as the door opened.

‘Slow.’

I twisted my body to the side.

I dodged the Demonic Cultist’s Thrust.

When I glanced at the Demonic Cultist, his eyes were hazy, and his sword form was wobbly.

Even if he was weak, the Demonic Cultist was a Martial Arts Hero, and in terms of martial arts, he was far more skilled than a Hunter Hero.

But from the thrusting stance to the eyes, was he sleepwalking?

I snatched the sword,

“Cough…”

And stabbed it into his neck.

Behind the Demonic Cultist, the hallway was filled with Demonic Cultists and other Heroes.

Leaving behind the Polygon Shards scattering into the atmosphere, I closed the door. Immediately, swords, spears, and shields flew back and forth in the narrow hallway.

Americano dodged a sword coming at her and returned it to the attacker by stabbing it back into Attacker 2.

Attacker 3 thrust a spear, and after dodging the spear, she pulled it in, raised her left index finger, and stabbed it into his forehead.

She knocked away Attacker 4’s sword with her Bronze Arm and shattered his neck bones with a strike to the neck with the edge of her hand.

Attacker 5 swung a Greatsword, but it got stuck in the ceiling and couldn’t move.

Stuck in the ceiling like that.

How much Strength did he take out?

She implemented [Strike] with her foot, kicking his wide-open abdomen, and he flew down the narrow hallway, causing the attackers in the rear to pile up together.

Pulling out the Greatsword stuck in the ceiling,

She aimed the Greatsword and used [Thrust].

The piled-up attackers became skewers on the Greatsword and turned into Polygon Shards all at once.

With the Greatsword stuck in the opposite wall, she let go and returned to the room.

When she opened the door,

“Zzz…”

“You’re here?”

There was an attacker who came through the window,

And Cappuccino had put that attacker to sleep.

No, he was already asleep.

She erased the power that was controlling the attacker’s body like sleepwalking.

Cappuccino said.

“I guess it’s a Succubus.”

“Really?”

“She borrowed power from a Dream Demon. Succubus can use Magic to make people dream, but they can’t control them with sleepwalking. Win is saying it, so it must be true.”

“Hmm.”

I looked at the attacker who was sleeping normally and plunged my sword into his head.

“So, you want to start a war?”

I approached the window.

Another attacker was trying to come in through the window, putting his foot in, and I pushed his foot out as it was, throwing him out into the street.

Looking out the window, people were staggering and wandering the streets.

“Are you going right away?”

“I have to. You’re coming too.”

“What about Caramel?”

“Caramel is…”

She’s a bit ambiguous.

Because she’s a Commander-type Monster, her individual combat ability is very low.

I’m planning to take her to the Territory she ruled later. I’m looking for a use for her, but so far, she’s pretty much baggage.

“You can leave me behind. I’m not weak enough to be defeated by those guys.”

“Is that so?”

Then I left Caramel behind.

I jumped out the window.

The Sleepwalkers look back at her as she lands.

They rush at her with shining eyes in the middle of the night.

From left to right.

I scanned them.

There are Heroes, but,

There are also people who aren’t.

Since resurrecting NPCs is said to be difficult, I avoided combat.

I picked up Cappuccino in one arm and kicked off the ground to [Leap].

Landing on the red roof.

I ran along the roof.

The Succubus Queen’s mansion.

I got closer to that alley.

A Sleepwalking Hero jumped onto the roof with clumsy movements.

I immediately kicked off the roof and swung a huge axe.

I was going to dodge as usual, but it was a bit difficult to dodge because of the baggage in my arms.

I wrapped Mana around my head and headbutted the huge axe. The huge axe blade shattered, and the axe Hero couldn’t land and rolled off the roof.

“Stonehead.”

“Going to abandon you?”

“As expected of Amel. You’re my master. You use your head so well?”

Cappuccino, who was slung over my shoulder.

Headbutted Cappuccino’s head with her stone head.

“Gack.”

“It’s hard to carry you around since you got bigger. Can’t you just go back to normal?”

“Not yet. I saw Polymorph in the Grimoire, but it’s difficult.”

“Polymorph.”

“That thing Dragons use. It looks like I’ll have to work hard to use it. So, please bear with me for a while.”

“Hurry up.”

“Win is here too. She can learn Polymorph quickly.”

That’s a relief then.

I jumped off the roof.

There was a roof across the street.

Ignoring it, I tried to land in the alley beyond… but a strange energy swirled around my body, and the alley and roofs bent.

As if falling into the water with my eyes open, the world refracted once.

The straight alleyway became winding, and the bricks and roof tiles also twisted the patterns they formed.

The patterns gathered to create patterns that resembled faces.

As if entering a world governed by different laws, I felt a completely different atmosphere on my skin.

The patterns of the bricks that paved the floor also looked like human faces somewhere.

Landing.

Alleyway.

The atmosphere was completely different from when I came yesterday.

———.

“…?”

I felt a gaze and looked up.

The moon was in the sky.

The Crescent Moon was smiling.

“Wow…”

What is it?

The Crescent Moon had mischievous eyes and a stick-like nose.

Its mouth was smiling mockingly, showing its profile.

“The graphics have changed?”

“Amel.”

“What.”

Cappuccino was on high alert, scanning the surroundings with a tense posture.

“This is a Dream.”

“…?”

“The Dream and reality have become synchronized. I don’t know the details, but it feels similar to the Dream World.”

“Roughly speaking, they’ve created a Barrier that’s advantageous to them?”

“Similar.”

Crackle.

Electrical Ability.

Electricity flowed in my hand.

But in a Dream synchronized with reality, Electrical Ability didn’t work.

Overloading with Awakened Ability only shattered the Dream formed by Dream Magic.

It was difficult to see the same effect in a world mixed with reality.

“….”

Withdrawing the Electrical Ability,

I chuckled.

“Cappuccino.”

“What?”

I took out a sword from my Inventory.

“Can I leave you behind?”

“As much as you want.”

I ran down the alleyway.

Winding.

A twisting alley.

I leaned my body and ran through the curved road without slowing down.

Someone was standing in the middle of the road.

I approached with the Blade raised.

[Killing Intent]

A star of death appeared in my pupils.

The opponent in human form was a woman with bat wings on her back. She was wagging her tail near her hips.

[Succubus Warrior]

Orange text.

I immediately closed the distance.

[Succubus Warrior] took a stance to respond to the attack.

Slash from above.

…or so it seemed,

Slash from below.

[Succubus Warrior] fell, and I didn’t slow down my running speed.

“….”

Weak.

It was almost a waste to use a sword.

The color of the text is for comparing levels.

Orange text means she’s 10 levels higher.

I’m level 34, so she’s at least level 44, but she’s still too weak.

‘More than that, what’s changed?’

My head tilted involuntarily.

Reality and Dream overlapped, and [Succubus] are a race that manipulates Dreams. But they were much weaker than I expected.

‘If I go further inside, something will come out.’

I’ve only caught 20 so far.

While I was thinking,

[Succubus Warrior]s additionally blocked the road.

Each and every movement was too slow, so I went between them, slashing once, and the [Succubus]’s information window disappeared neatly.

It was then.

“Found you!”

Someone came over the roof.

I was running, so I stepped back to avoid the intruder.

A short airtime with my feet off the ground after stepping back.

The intruder faintly revealed himself in the dim moonlight.

Black hair.

Black uniform.

The moonlight was weak, so I didn’t know well, but he wasn’t a [Succubus].

No information window appeared.

The opponent was a Hero.

It’s a mess that a Hero appears as an enemy in a [Succubus] Dungeon.

“The world is really going to hell.”

Still, if he’s wearing a black uniform, he’s generally one of those [Demonic Cult] guys.

The airtime of the step back ended, and my feet touched the ground.

I immediately [Leap]ed and slashed past the Demonic Cultist.

When the Blade touched the Demonic Cultist, it clanged! and bounced off.

‘…Oh?’

The accident accelerated in an instant.

I swung roughly, but,

Still, it should have been fast.

It was a speed that few people had properly blocked so far, but,

‘He blocked it?’

My body immediately turned around.

The Demonic Cultist was floating in the air from the impact of the sword strike,

I immediately jumped in and swung the Blade from his armpit to his neck.

Unfortunately, it was a two-hit kill.

The face of the Demonic Cultist, whose body was hardening into a Polygon and about to disappear, was facing the moonlight head-on, so his face was faintly visible.

“It was you?”

It was the guy I froze to death when the Demonic Cultists rushed in.

I was careless, but I remembered him because I almost got hit.

But that was it.

I immediately ran down the alley.

Arrow.

I dodged it.

While dodging, I grabbed the arrow, rotated my body once, and returned it.

A [Succubus]? Hero? who was out of range where the information window wasn’t visible dodged the arrow and rolled off the roof.

Only 300 meters.

I immediately jumped.

I held the sword in both hands and struck down.

At that time,

Gugugugu.

A wall blocked my path.

‘What?’

I wondered for a moment.

The wall suddenly moved and blocked my path.

Still, I struck the sword down as it was and split the wall, pulling my body out through the gap.

I scraped the floor and passed the place where the archer was, slashing, and the archer’s neck rolled to my feet where I stopped.

More than that,

The wall moved.

“….”

Bricks gathered and restored through the split gap.

I felt a gaze.

It was right next to me.

The window was the eye,

The door was the mouth.

The House frowned as if it were a human face, and like an angry person, it propped itself up on the floor and raised its body.

[House]

Orange text.

“….”

I straightened my sword.

Raising it high.

[Moonlight Sword]

When I slashed down, a crescent moon-like Slash split the [House] in two.

It hadn’t fully raised its body and spilled out the bricks and the furniture inside.

And,

Rumble.

The buildings that made up the alley began to wriggle one by one.

The [House]’s window became an eye, and the door became a mouth, drawing a very angry face.

But it was just orange text.

It was just refreshing.

At that moment, when I was about to annihilate them with a long-range Slash mixed with [Phantom Sword].

Sting.

I was surprised by the stinging pain right under my feet and stopped casting the Skill.

[Candlestick]

Gray text.

[Kitchen Knife]

Gray text.

The [Candlestick] shaped like a trident was holding a [Kitchen Knife] in one hand and struck my instep.

It didn’t penetrate.

It just stung a little because I was barefoot.

I lightly swung the sword and cut the [Candlestick] in half.

The things wriggling nearby caught my eye, and the core of the [House] I had cut earlier. The furniture moved with their own will and raised their bodies from the debris.

“Trash mobs.”

It was amazing.

It was refreshing.

That was it.

‘If you thought you could stop me with just this…’

“I’m very disappointed.”

The raised sword drew a large circle along the joints of my shoulder.

[Phantom Sword]

[Full Bloom]

“Rampage.”

I swung it.

The created [Phantom Sword]s flew like slashes with the swing as a keyword.

Swing and [Phantom Sword].

Swing and [Full Bloom].

Swing and [Ejection].

Swing and [Berserker].

I scattered [Phantom Sword]s in all directions, carving up the alleyway.

“….”

I stopped the body that was dancing like a sword dance.

The alley was no longer an alley.

The buildings that made up the alley on the left and right had collapsed, but I ignored them and ran straight along the road that used to be the alley.

———.

Magic.

That presence.

[Succubus Swordsman] was waiting.

Behind her, [Succubus Magician]s were gathered, focusing their power on [Succubus Swordsman].

[Succubus Swordsman]

Orange text.

The [Succubus] that was,

[Succubus Swordsman]

Red text.

The color of the information window changed.

“….”

“….”

[Succubus Swordsman] was sweating.

Her eyes were shaking with her mouth tightly closed.

Her eyes went down and looked at the Blade that almost cut her neck.

I moved the Blade away.

I stepped back.

I created distance.

“Continue.”

“….”

[Succubus Swordsman] ordered the Magicians in the rear.

Their Mana gathered on [Succubus Swordsman].

It wasn’t just the Magician’s Mana.

The power melted into the space seeped out, distorting the light like a mirage, further enhancing [Succubus Swordsman].

[Succubus Swordsman] was a female with no wings and only a tail.

As Mana filled up, the unmanaged Mana leaked out over her shoulders, creating a pink mirage.

Her pink hair shone even more, trying to fly against gravity, and began to glow on its own.

The eyes that were looking at the sword also darkened to pink.

The leaking Mana went from her shoulders along her arms and connected with the sword.

Her skin seemed to be getting darker, and armor was gradually put on her body.

The armor, which was gradually darkening like a transparent silhouette, soon became real.

Like her hair and eyes, the armor also received Mana and shone with color.

Pink armor.

‘Hmm, flashy.’

[Succubus Swordsman]

Crimson text.

It was then.

Bang.

[Succubus Swordsman] broke the ground.

She instantly rushed right in front of me.

[Succubus Swordsman]’s Blade, which grazed almost touching the ground, chased me to the bottom of my chin with unstoppable force.

I reflexively stepped back.

Barely getting out of range.

But I felt it was not enough.

The premonition of the [Succubus Swordsman]’s Blade left a scar on the path the Blade had passed. Even though it didn’t touch.

Stepping back alone was not enough.

I leaned my upper body back greatly.

I dodged the sword strike as if tumbling.

As I calmly stood up,

Rumble.

I heard the sound of a building collapsing behind me, but I didn’t take my eyes off [Succubus Swordsman].