The Key

I shouted urgently.

“Chris!!”

Giant Tentacles came crashing down.

Not just one, but hundreds of thousands of tentacles of overwhelming size poured down all at once.

That giant humanoid [Dream] had abundant hair, and all of it was Giant Tentacles. [A Strand of the Dreaming Great Devil].

As the Giant Tentacle turned its will towards us.

Amel used her Electrical Ability on Chris.

Zzzt.

“…Hick?!”

“Punch!”

“Huh?!”

“Puuunch!!!!”

Chris, who had been bewildered, understood intuitively when she was shocked with Electricity.

She used her Awakened Ability to fly up,

Poured out as much Magical Power as she could, and threw a punch that was as weak as it was reflexive.

Even so, the Giant Tentacle soared.

Leaving afterimages immediately,

Moving to another location.

The afterimages Chris left behind drew a pinball-like trajectory through the Giant Tentacles nearby. The rushing Giant Tentacles flew away with a heavy thud.

“Hong Joo-ah!”

I looked back at Hong Joo-ah.

Small sparks of Electricity flew.

“Ah…?!”

Hong Joo-ah was surprised by the Electric shock.

Amel stood in front of Cappuccino and prepared to unleash [Frost] to the maximum.

“Fire!!!”

“Uh, uh?”

“Fiiiire!!!!!”

“…!!”

Only after being shocked with Electricity once did Hong Joo-ah finally set her body on fire.

Instinctively understanding what Amel wanted, she spewed flames in all directions.

She put Strength into it once strongly and then explosively spewed out flames.

A storm of flames that Hong Joo-ah radiated in all directions at maximum output passed by. The flames burned her skin, and the storm raged, revealing the burned skin and offering new flesh to burn to the flames.

That process flowed as quickly as the wind speed of the Flame Storm, and the Giant Tentacles were swept away by the Flame Storm and quickly incinerated and disappeared.

Within the Flame Storm,

Amel protected Cappuccino,

And Cappuccino also used Frost.

“…Huh?”

For a moment, I thought something.

Looking at Cappuccino,

“….”

“….”

She had the same face as me.

Except she had horns on her head.

Dragon horns.

She also had a tail, and it was the appearance I first met her in the Dream I had on the [27th floor].

Cappuccino made eye contact and said.

“I can’t be your baggage forever, can I?”

Phantasmal Dream Ability showed its true value in the Dream.

Magic that manipulates the world in the world called Dream.

She became Amel with Phantasmal Dream Ability,

But it wasn’t perfect.

She can’t use my Awakened Ability.

Still, to reduce Amel’s burden, Cappuccino absorbed Magical Power from the [Dream World] and became Amel’s cooling device.

Even as her body was being burned by the Flame Storm, Cappuccino giggled and began to wrap her body with even stronger [Frost].

Looking at Cappuccino smiling brightly, I understood her intention.

Amel also circulated [Frost] even more strongly.

Until superconductivity flowed through her body.

She cooled her body down faster.

To avoid being defeated by the Flame Storm, she circulated Magical Power mixed with [Frost] more strongly and faster through her body, and the flames of the Flame Storm avoided her.

Superconductivity.

That Strength pushed the flames away.

“Still.”

Cappuccino said regretfully.

“I couldn’t imitate your Awakened Ability.”

“It’s okay. It’s enough.”

As superconductivity occurred, the sensation of Electrical Ability expanded even further.

A portion of the Flame Storm was captured by the superconductivity and rotated around me, and where it gathered by Rotation, the flames formed a round shape.

Nuclear fusion.

Small Sun.

A sun was created above Amel’s head.

The appearance of the Small Sun, which could not be realized even with 100 percent output of [Magical Power].

Once it appeared, its shape was maintained semi-permanently and produced Electricity.

The produced Electricity was absorbed in reverse and used as my Magical Power.

The Magical Power added [Frost] to cool my body further and strengthened the superconductivity.

The strengthened superconductivity further increased the intensity of the Small Sun.

It gets bigger and bigger.

‘I won’t make a mistake this time.’

Amel took the failure in the Duel Arena as a lesson and intuitively understood and rationally analyzed the limit she could control.

Since I entrusted the cooling to Cappuccino, I could put more effort into Magical Power manipulation.

In the growing Magical Power, I find a clue to realize the [Chapter Six, Sixth Form Sword God].

Once I use it,

The next time will be easy.

[Sword God]

Breaking through the shell of the flesh, I pulled out the giant body of Magical Power.

A Flame Storm that turns an area the size of a large city into a sea of fire.

The wind generated by the high heat created a Flame Hurricane in the center of the Flame Storm as if sculpting pottery, standing straight and tall.

The Flame Hurricane soared high, quickly turning the Giant Tentacles into ashes.

Giant Tentacles writhing endlessly in the sky above the sea of fire.

Among them, thousands of Giant Tentacles gathered to create an even larger Giant Tentacle.

A tentacle much larger than the Flame Hurricane descended.

Whoosh.

Whoooosh.

Between the Hurricane and the Ultra Giant Tentacle.

A white flash trajectory floated.

The white trajectory, which quickly moved from one end of the Flame Storm to the other, accelerated even further and climbed up along the Flame Hurricane.

Flying up to the Ultra Giant Tentacle at the end of it,

White trajectory.

Chris.

“..!!”

She covered her head with both arms,

And collided with the Ultra Giant Tentacle.

She flew up at maximum speed, but the reaction of stopping in an instant rushed up, and she received inertia that made it seem like her internal organs would pour out of her mouth.

Her body, which had paused, gradually fell following gravity.

Flying again, leaving behind plasma like afterimages.

Wiping the nosebleed with the back of her hand, she looked back at the Giant Tentacles gathered around the Flame Storm.

“….”

And the sky.

No, the face.

[Dream]

Red letters.

How could that be red?

Based on myself, who is level 81 when calculated at level 100, red letters are correct, but I never dreamed that the scale would be so different with only a level difference of 19.

I knew that the difference between levels increased as the level increased as I climbed, but level 100 at the end was on a different dimension.

Still, I felt a sense of incongruity from the feeling that the difference was too great, and I thought it might be due to the special environment of the ‘Dream World’.

But now I was focusing on the fight rather than questions.

[Dream] had the face of a woman.

A beautiful woman with a glamorous impression.

Her abundant hair flowed down.

Her hair, which fell like a waterfall, and the woman’s upper body surrounded all sides like a barrier imprisoning the world,

The ends of her hair met the floor and became Hail, heading towards us.

The Flame Storm showed Hong Joo-ah’s territory, but the area the size of a large city was gradually swallowed by [Dream]’s Hail-like hair.

The sea of fire that was the size of Seoul.

Its diameter was halved.

At that time.

Wind pressure.

Wind blew down.

Chris knew what it was.

Flying through the sky and increasing her speed, she saw the Flame Hurricane shaking and increased her speed again.

Ultra Giant Tentacle.

Its end was broken.

By the collision with Chris.

But the remaining part of the Ultra Giant Tentacle fell again towards the Flame Hurricane.

Chris, who had become a white trajectory by super-accelerating, collided with the Ultra Giant Tentacle again.

She deflected the Ultra Giant Tentacle away from the Flame Hurricane.

The Ultra Giant Tentacle, which made the Flame Hurricane look like a mere candle. Chris broke the end of it with her efforts and deflected it,

But to [Dream], it was just a strand of hair.

“..!”

Ultra Giant Tentacle.

The Giant Tentacles newly gathered to create another Ultra Giant Tentacle.

Ultra Giant Tentacle 2 slowly headed towards the Flame Hurricane.

Too late.

At that time.

The figure of a person rising from the sea of fire near the Hurricane.

Seeing the existence of a different color shining blue in the bright red flames, a sense of relief spread.

I’ve seen it before.

In the Duel Arena video.

A giant of blue form.

It was smaller than the Flame Hurricane, but boasted a comparable size.

He moved that huge amount of Magical Power like his own hands and feet in a form that had become more gigantic than in the Duel Arena, and there was a radiance like the sun in his chest.

If I wasn’t seeing things, the giant was getting a little bigger.

Amel had become a giant.

She drew a sword that had become as large as the giant’s body, and although it looked slow, she bent her body and then stretched it out, jumping high.

She swung her sword heavily,

Knocking away the falling Ultra Giant Tentacle,

And slashing down towards its side.

The severed Ultra Giant Tentacle was swept away by the Flame Storm and fell prey to the flames.

Giant Amel didn’t end there and raised that giant sword with both hands.

As if gathering Strength, flames from the sea of fire were drawn in and clung to the giant sword.

As she drew it down as it was, a slash flew out along with the swing.

The flying slash cut through the Giant Tentacles, and the hair of [Dream] that had been flowing down like a barrier was cut off and poured down.

A hole was made in the barrier.

Seeing that, I received a small shock along with joy.

Hong Joo-ah constantly released flames at maximum firepower to prevent the Giant Tentacles from covering us with their numbers,

Amel became gigantic and brought about noticeable changes.

On the other hand, Chris was breaking the Giant Tentacles and knocking away the Ultra Giant Tentacle, but she was ashamed that she was only barely maintaining the status quo.

Giant Amel cuts down the Ultra Giant Tentacles and slashes down a large number of Giant Tentacles.

The heavy slash cut across the sea of fire and cut down the hair of [Dream].

‘Then I…’

Chris,

Spun in the sky and accelerated.

Accelerated.

Accelerated.

Accelerated.

The moment I felt the uncontrollable speed on my skin.

I changed the direction from horizontal to vertical,

And flew up vertically, high and fast.

But,

It didn’t get closer.

‘Is this the end?!’

Only then did I realize the strangeness of seeing the face of [Dream] like a background in a game.

At that time.

[Dream] smiled freshly.

Gugugugugugu.

Vibration.

A huge vibration that was transmitted even to me in the air rang out.

Chris saw it.

Because I came very high,

The ground.

The sea of fire.

The whole thing.

I saw a hand that looked like a person’s from beyond the space surrounding the whole thing, and both hands covered the sea of fire from both sides and clasped together.

Chris, who was between those two hands, charged towards the palm of the hand if she couldn’t reach the face, but the hair and the hand were on a different dimension in terms of Strength.

She was pushed back without even trying to resist,

And in vain,

[Dream]’s two hands completely covered the sea of fire.

Silence.

Quiet.

Stillness.

[Dream] looked down at the calmed world and said to her clasped hands.

──Wake up──

I wake up from the Dream.

Alley.

Morning.

“….”

Amel woke up in the middle of the Alley, feeling a bit empty.

I felt the emptiness of waking up from a pleasant Dream and facing reality.

That Great Devil bastard.

He ran away.

‘If you’re going to fight, fight properly.’

“He kind of killed us in his own way.”

Cappuccino, who was lying nearby, answered as if she had read my mind.

“Even if you die in a Dream, you just wake up from the Dream.”

“…Even a Great Devil?”

“Even a Great Devil. Rather, because he clearly distinguishes between Dream and reality, he was able to exercise god-like Strength in the Dream.”

“I was worried that you might really die someday.”

“I didn’t know then.”

She is now ashamed of herself for being so passionate at the time, saying that things are different now.

Anyway,

That means,

“In the end, we lost?”

“That’s right.”

Haa…

Still, this emptiness did not easily disappear.

I went all out for once.

I was just crushed.

Around the time Chris and Hong Joo-ah woke up.

Amel checked to see if the [Loot] she had obtained from the Alley Dungeon was well preserved.

[The 13th Supreme Artisan’s Masterpiece]

It’s well preserved.

It’s damaged,

But it’s better than nothing.

And,

An icon like a magnifying glass.

Inside that icon,

[ ! ]

There was an exclamation mark.

It was a common indication in games that something had been activated, and it pointed to the bottom of the window.

Following the exclamation mark,

[Key to the Great Demon’s Seal] (!)

The Key was shining.