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663 – Infinite

663 – Infinite

Shock-! Sho-sho-shock-!

Gaeul kept repeatedly sticking and unsticking her fingers.

It was a shocking sight, but I quickly regained my composure.

This world was not reality, but a dream.

Thanks to that, I soon realized how Gaeul was able to stick and unstick her fingers.

“Is it… controlling the dream with thoughts…?”

I imagined stars and hearts in my mind.

Then, star and heart emoticons began to pop out beside my head.

“Wow! Gyeoul, how did you do that?”

“I just imagined it, and it worked!”

“Really?!”

Bomi clenched her hands tightly and began to imagine.

Then, countless frogs started to jump out from the top of Bomi’s head.

They were her favorite green frogs.

“Wow.”

Pop! Pop!

The green frogs spread out in all directions.

The frogs passed by the stationary monster and ventured far away.

What an incredible dungeon.

I hurriedly shook Levinas’s shoulder, who had his eyes covered.

“Levinas, this isn’t the time to be blindfolded.”

“Huh?! Why not?!”

“This is an imaginary dungeon.”

“Imaginary dungeon?”

“Yeah. It seems like a dungeon where we fight using what we imagine.”

“What?!”

Levinas’s eyes scanned me and the kids.

Stars, hearts, frogs, and…

“…Ice cream?”

Ensia was making ice cream.

When our eyes met, Ensia flinched.

“Would you like some, Winter-nim…?”

“Um… Yes…”

Ensia made me vanilla ice cream.

Even in a dream, I could taste the ice cream.

“Wow.”

It’s so delicious, even though it’s a dream.

Just as the tail was swaying gently, Sophia forced her clumsy body to move and snatched away the ice cream from me and Ensia.

“I hope you don’t satisfy personal desires here.”

“What? Why?”

“Because it feels like being enchanted by the dream.”

“Ah…”

Indeed, there was no need to be enchanted by the joy the dream world provided.

I understood what Sophia was worried about.

“Then…”

“Then we only imagine fighting!”

“Fighting?”

“Yeah! Attack techniques! Levinas is the hero of the Fire Dragon…!”

“Horned Rabbit?”

“The king!”

The hero of the Fire Dragon nation.

Is he yielding to me just for today?

At that moment, as I tilted my head, flames began to shoot out of my mouth.

“……!”

Gaeul, who was doing finger magic, and Bomi, who was spewing frogs.

Saebyeok and Haneul, who were quietly watching, looked surprised as well.

Of course, the most surprised among us was none other than me.

“Meow…”

Whether the breath had a guidance function, it flew past the kids and headed straight for the monster.

Levinas’s breath turned the monster into ashes in an instant.

The kids applauded in amazement.

“That’s amazing…! I want to imagine Master’s beam…!”

“Huh…?”

At the same time as Haneul’s wind, a mechanical arm began to form on my right hand.

It was the same arm as Haneul’s.

Just then, monsters began to walk out towards the corridor.

It was as if they were coming out to show off the weapons we had made ourselves.

“It’s Master’s beam…!”

“Like this…?”

As I reached out towards the monsters, Haneul’s unique beam was fired.

The beam, with tremendous destructive power, melted all the monsters.

“Wow! Gyeoul is so strong! I want to strengthen Gyeoul too!”

“Gaeul too.”

The kids gifted me even more special abilities with their imagination.

Bomi’s Black Mana, Gaeul’s Milk Wave, and Saebyeok’s tremendous strength.

With the abilities the kids gave me, I went hunting for monsters.

While everyone was having fun, Sophia wore a worried expression.

Knowing what Sophia was worried about, I didn’t bother to ask why.

“Wanga! This time, let’s smash the building!”

“Should we…?”

With just the strength borrowed from Saebyeok, I was nearly invincible.

As I smashed through walls and monsters, I discovered an alien cave beneath a building.

‘This place…’

We encountered numerous monsters in the cave, but we managed to navigate through it without any trouble.

At the end of the cave, we found a black energy as big as our fists.

It looked just like the black hole I saw before entering the dream world.

‘It’s the core.’

We instinctively realized that it was the core of the dream world.

If we just destroy that, we could leave here, but the kids were hesitating.

This was exactly what Sophia was worried about.

Permanently destroying a world where anything could be done was definitely not an easy task.

“Hey, are you guys reluctant to destroy the dungeon?”

“Huh…?”

“Yeah! Can’t we keep playing with it without destroying it?!”

I could fully understand Levinas’s choice.

It didn’t seem like a particularly dangerous dungeon.

It would be fun to come back periodically and play without destroying it.

I felt similarly, but I knew very well why dungeons existed.

Unfortunately, I had to act decisively here.

“That’s strange, I didn’t find it that fun.”

“Huh? Really?”

“Yeah. Can’t Levinas breathe fire in reality too?”

“…Yeah! I can!”

“Gaeul can do finger magic in reality.”

“Huh…?”

Sho-sho-shock-

Gaeul showcased her finger magic.

It wasn’t using the power of the dream world; it was the magic I had taught her.

“Bomi can create frogs as she wishes, and Haneul can make beam arms, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“That’s right…!”

“We can achieve what we want with our own power, even without the power of the dream world.”

The kids had limitless possibilities.

They had no reason to cling to the power of the dream world.

Whether my persuasion worked, I felt the kids’ reluctance fading away.

‘Saebyeok…’

Saebyeok, perhaps because she was mature like Sophia, showed no signs of reluctance from the beginning.

Seeing that everyone seemed okay, it was time to really wrap things up.

“Hey, isn’t it time for the Animal King now?”

“Huh…! I can!”

“Bang bang!”

Gaeul slammed her fist down on the dungeon core.

Levinas also added his strength and kicked towards the core.

Indeed, the Animal King.

Even the last bit of reluctance was blown away.

I chuckled at the kids and launched an attack towards the source of the dungeon.

Using the abilities the kids had given me.

**

“This is a bit dangerous…”

Jeong Yuna arrived at the children’s house, sensing the alien Mana.

As she analyzed the small dungeon guarded by Park Tae-san, she let out a sigh.

“Dangerous? Is it that serious?”

“Yes. This creature knows how to survive.”

“How to survive…?”

“With the dungeon’s abilities, it easily drives away adults and enchants children.”

The dungeon that survived feeds on vitality and strengthens itself.

It was a dangerous creature that might have the potential to grow into a top-tier dungeon.

“That’s strange, I’ve challenged this thing a few times, but I didn’t feel like it was getting stronger.”

“It’s hiding. If it shows signs of getting stronger, it will be treated as more dangerous.”

“If it’s a dungeon capable of that, isn’t it really dangerous…?”

“…Extremely dangerous.”

I wondered how strong the dungeon had become.

How much hidden power did it possess?

I would have to analyze it accurately after the kids came out.

It was at that moment when Jeong Yuna was lost in thought.

Crack-!

The dungeon she was observing began to crack.

At the same time, the kids rubbed their eyes and woke up.

“Um…?”

Gyeoul, half-asleep, looked around with her eyes half-closed.

In a daze, she saw Jeong Yuna and reflexively attempted to hug her.

“Gyeoul, did you break the dungeon?”

“Yes… I did this…”

Bang-

Gyeoul threw a punch into the air.

Perhaps due to the lingering sleepiness, her punch fell weakly downwards.

Jeong Yuna couldn’t help but be flustered by Gyeoul’s appearance.

A dream world where anything could be done.

For a child, it must have truly felt like a dream world, but how could they destroy such a world without any reluctance?

As a magician, Jeong Yuna couldn’t help but feel curious.

“Gyeoul, weren’t you disappointed?”

“Yes, just a little…”

“What? It was a world where you could do anything?”

“That’s… the same in reality…”

“Oh.”

That’s right.

Jeong Yuna realized late what she had missed.

It was the potential that the children possessed.

The children had the possibility to do and become anything, even without a dream.

There was no reason for such children to cling to dreams.

‘In the end, am I also an adult?’

I had prided myself on being awake as a magician.

But compared to the boundlessness of a child, my level was quite limited.

Gyeoul’s words gave Jeong Yuna a great realization.

It had slightly opened the barriers that had been closed.

“Um… Animal King…”

Unaware of such facts, Gyeoul snuggled into Jeong Yuna’s arms and watched television.

As she watched the interesting Animal King animation, her tail began to sway slightly as she gradually woke up.

“Um.”

Sophia watched Gyeoul with a warm smile.

Every action was wise.

Sophia, who had raised her like a daughter, or rather, her own daughter, felt immensely proud.

A word from the author (Author’s note)

Thank you so much for reading today, PIA1747014585384!

Thank you for the comments and recommendations! They always give me strength…!

What would happen to reality if there were a dream world where anything could be done…?