37 The One Who Dreams

[You Have Died]

<Dream Sequence Has Been Disabled>

{Interference has been detected. <Dream > will not be activated}

<The Conditions Have Been Met>

{Exclusive Skill: <Nightmare > has been initiated}

[Nightmare will now commence]

"Haaa..." I exhaled, my breath visible in the chilly dawn air, a ghostly whisper in the awakening world.

Where was I? What was happening? I had no answers, only the feeling of being lost in an enigmatic void, like a wanderer in a labyrinth of uncertainty.

As I rose from the wreckage, an eerie sensation washed over me. The world had turned monochrome, like a dream.

  Each step I took felt strangely weightless, as though I were treading upon the wisps of a fading memory.

Was I dreaming again?