Ancient Dream Monster Hall

[Fountain Water]

Shattered.

[Hero Statue]

Shattered.

[13th Generation Grand Master’s Masterpiece]

Shattered.

Now, only one remains.

Or perhaps there are more.

Keeping that in mind, I rushed towards the giant tentacle.

I was running along a path that was strangely straight.

[Ancient Nightmare Lord]

Black Text.

I encountered the [Ancient Nightmare Lord].

The glasses-wearing maid, who had blocked the [Magic Sword] earlier, adjusted her glasses and glared at me with a solemn expression.

Soon, her eyes widened.

She was visibly flustered.

Regardless.

I raised the [Black Sword].

I immediately lunged at the glasses-wearing maid, presenting the [Black Sword]’s blade.

───A swing in vain.

I slashed at empty air.

A magical illusion.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord] spoke emptily from the distant sky.

“…You’re a different person.”

“….”

I tilted my head.

She spoke as if she knew my face.

Ah…

‘Is it Cappuccino?’

She had been to the Dream World before.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord] cast Magic.

A sphere of transparent power formed in her hands, distorting the light emanating from [A Strand of the Dreaming Great Devil].

I wonder what will come out.

‘Get serious.’

Cappuccino’s sharp words.

I know.

Cappuccino’s face, as if she were about to cry any second, flickered before my eyes.

‘That face is cheating.’

I ran,

[Boost]

[Magical Power] 50 percent

I put strength into it,

[Leap]

As I leaped high, I gripped the [Black Sword] tightly and rotated my body.

[Storm Sword]

The wind swirled around the Magical Power on the blade, and a storm flew out with the swing.

As I flew with [Leap], I entered the eye of the [Storm Sword]’s storm.

The [Storm Sword], which had gone ahead, flew like a snake and swallowed the [Ancient Nightmare Lord], and I met her as if on a narrow log bridge in the eye of the storm.

Entrusting my body to the momentum of [Leap] and the flow of [Storm Sword], Americano rushed towards the [Ancient Nightmare Lord].

I quickly closed the distance.

“..!”

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord] tried to cast Magic, but the storm mixed with Anti-Magic Power tore the Magic apart.

“..?!”

“….”

Her flustered face is a welcome sight.

It’s worth being serious.

Spinning around following the storm,

I quickly passed the position where the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was floating and was spat out outside the storm.

I landed gracefully on the ground.

The spot where the storm had disappeared.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord]’s body, split in two, and her head fell.

It was anticlimactic, unlike the Black Text.

I was wary, in case there was more to come.

“….”

Nothing?

She was weak for a Black Text.

‘Is Anti-Magic Power a hard counter?’

I didn’t expect Magic to be torn apart so easily.

I was prepared to counter if she shot Magic at me from within the storm, but it was a letdown.

Before the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] could do anything, Anti-Magic Power erased the Magic. She seemed very weak for a Black Text.

I felt sorry about that, but,

‘I have to keep my promise.’

The reason I broke my words and cut the handcuffs was also because I promised Cappuccino.

Anyway,

‘At this rate, that thing might not be a big deal either.’

Judging from the enemies I’ve seen so far, it seems to be the type that commands subordinates like the [Elder Treant].

In any case, I turned towards the newly opened path.

I headed towards the giant tentacle that I could see there.

At that moment.

It shines.

The giant tentacle.

[A Strand of the Dreaming Great Devil] made [Crescent Moon] shine even more strongly.

Then the path twisted.

It bent,

It undulated.

I [Leap]ed onto the roof and quickly [Leap]ed towards the giant tentacle.

But the giant tentacle was like a background, no matter how much I ran, I couldn’t reach it. It just stood in the background, looking down at me.

I moved forward, but,

I arrived at the same place as before.

I reunited with the [Ancient Nightmare Lord].

“….”

“….”

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord], sweating profusely, stood in the middle of a winding and wide downtown street.

I should have killed her?

The information window had also disappeared.

That meant she was dead.

‘She revived.’

I didn’t miss the moment when the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was bewildered.

I [Leap]ed and disappeared from my spot in an instant, swinging the [Black Sword] greatly to sever the [Ancient Nightmare Lord]’s neck.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord]’s head.

I snatched it in mid-air.

“….”

“….”

The hand holding her face.

Between those fingers,

Our eyes met.

Her complexion was pale.

She was dying.

Who would let her die?

[Heal]

Electrical Stimulation.

“..! ..! ..!”

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord], whose neck was cut, jumped with electrical stimulation and endured without dying even when her blood ran low from receiving [Heal].

Just having her neck cut off isn’t an instant kill.

I know from experience.

“….”

From left to right.

A new path.

It didn’t open.

I guess I have to kill her after all.

I looked up at the giant tentacle.

[A Strand of the Dreaming Great Devil] tilted its head as if it were about to fall towards me. It even shone a bright light, looking down at me.

“….”

I reached out towards the giant tentacle.

I raised my index finger.

Electrical Ability.

I gathered Electricity at the tip of my index finger.

But,

“Tch.”

I soon folded my index finger.

Electricity was targeting.

The reason why an Electrical attack was guaranteed to hit was because the attack had already landed at the moment of the attack.

But I can’t shoot it.

That’s the background.

Originally, it was a distance where the attack would reach, but the Electrical signals of the giant tentacle were not detected, as if it existed in a different dimension.

It would be convenient if I could attack from here.

I grabbed the [Ancient Nightmare Lord]’s face.

Her facial muscles twitched as if it hurt.

Even though I had incapacitated her, the path didn’t open and showed no signs of opening.

I clicked my tongue and tilted my head.

‘I hate puzzles.’

It’s a headache.

Then…

‘Should I not think?’

“….”

Hoo…

Silence.

And then I moved.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord]’s neck.

I tossed it slightly and [Cut].

The path opened,

I ran.

But soon the path closed, returning me to the original position.

The revived [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was there.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was also surprised, but this time her reaction was faster.

She tried to evade, but,

I extended my index finger.

Crackle.

Crackle.

Gathering Electricity to create Lightning.

Bang.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was struck by Lightning and collapsed.

It opened again.

I ran immediately.

I came back again.

Annoying.

When I looked back,

“..!”

“….”

The revived [Ancient Nightmare Lord] distanced herself, not wanting to die again.

She flew into the air and used the Magic she couldn’t finish earlier again.

In each of the [Ancient Nightmare Lord]’s hands, a sphere that distorted space was created.

Americano [Leap]ed and landed lightly on the roof, using the roof as a stepping stone to [Leap] even higher and approach the [Ancient Nightmare Lord].

Magic had a long casting time.

100 meters to the [Ancient Nightmare Lord].

The distance that had been 300 meters was instantly reduced to only one-third.

Even after approaching this far, there was no sign of the Magic manifesting.

That was the reason why Magic was weak in Full Dive.

The long casting time was a very big gap.

Unlike the flying [Ancient Nightmare Lord], I, who had jumped up, was gradually losing altitude.

When the [Ancient Nightmare Lord]’s face filled with relief,

In the air,

[Meteor Sword]

At the moment when I was about to fall, as if doing a double jump, [Meteor Sword] drew a flash of light in the air.

It soared diagonally, rising higher than the altitude where the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was.

But,

The flash that should have been a straight line bent.

Bubbles formed in the middle of the straight flash.

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord] completed the Magic.

It was Magic that seemed to have less Magical Power than what she was going to use at first, but the power of the Magic that distorted space twisted the path of [Meteor Sword].

“Hmph.”

Indifferent.

Americano took out a new item from her Inventory.

Clatter.

Chains.

At the same time as taking out the chains from the Inventory, she swung them.

Electricity flowed through the chains.

They were swung at a fast speed.

Rattling.

The chains flew.

At the moment when the chains reached and were about to touch the [Ancient Nightmare Lord], a distortion phenomenon was seen in space.

When you bring your eye close to a magnifying glass, the world warps as if it’s inverted at some point.

I visually confirmed the radius of that distortion.

I sent Electricity to the chains.

Then, the chains between Americano and the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] hardened,

Acceleration was applied to the outer chains, and they indiscriminately wrapped around the distortion range.

Then,

It reached.

I caught her.

I grabbed the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] with the chains and swung her around while holding her.

Spinning around.

Spinning quickly like a fan.

As if slamming the ground with a hammer.

I slammed the [Ancient Nightmare Lord], wrapped in chains, strongly into the ground.

I landed following behind.

The path opened.

It opened, but,

It closed again.

I looked for the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] first.

…Where is she?

She’s not around.

I extended my Electrical Ability far away to detect Electrical signals, wondering if she had respawned somewhere else.

───I caught her.

I [Leap]ed.

I reached the highest point.

In the air, I spun the chains around over my head.

Like a spring.

I applied Electrical Ability to the chains that had become a vortex shape.

They wound around and the chains overlapped, causing repulsive force between the overlapping areas. The chains pushed each other away, and acceleration was applied in the air.

A narrow alleyway.

Someone hiding.

Wearing a maid outfit.

When the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was impatient to cast Magic quickly, grinding her teeth.

Thud.

“Peek-a-boo.”

Americano landed on top of her head.

Her neatly gathered feet touched the ground.

The path opened.

It was a narrow alleyway, but that alleyway, where the winding alleyway stretched straight, was also a path.

At the moment when the thought ‘maybe?’ crossed my mind, I extended the chains into the alleyway.

But soon the path closed.

The alleyway curved again.

I felt the chains also receiving the power of that distortion and bending, and the end of the chains collided with the wall.

“Tch.”

I [Leap]ed.

I jumped onto the roof.

While I was doing useless things.

Up in that sky.

“….”

“….”

The [Ancient Nightmare Lord] went far up and completed the Magic of distortion.

Filled with joy, freed from urgency, she raised both hands and cheered.

I wondered what kind of Magic it was, but.

A ‘hole’ opened in the sky.

[Nanos] also did that.

A gate to another world.

Is it another octopus leg?

It was even refreshing.

While the ‘hole’ was opening, I fell to the ground. I even used [Boost] again and [Leap]ed. I jumped up to the altitude where the [Ancient Nightmare Lord] was.

That’s when it happened.

A hole.

An Abyss.

Something came out.

The inside of the hole was filled with black fog, and it revealed its shape only after coming out of the hole.

A metal object with a round end.

It bulged out, and,

A fish tail-like wing was attached to the last part of the torso that was gradually coming out.

Like a bomb.

That shape.

Where have I seen it?

Muddled.

Cold sweat.

I realized.

“A…”

‘An A-Bomb?!?!!?!?!?!!!’

The hole spat out a bomb.