1 Chapter 1
Gray POV
'Where am I?' I thought as I saw a white ceiling. My mind was fuzzy and clear as I tried to regain my senses. I tried moving my arms, but I felt restraints on my arms.
Looking down, I see that I'm shackled to a metal bed. I started to freak out, but strangely, I felt my fears being restrained by an unknown and familiar force. My rationality took front row as I looked around the room that reminded me of a hospital bed and in the corner sat a beautiful jet black haired woman with extremely pale skin on a strange device that reminds me of a phone.
I was captivated by her beauty, but something felt extremely wrong about her. My intuition was telling me she is dangerous and isn't natural.
As if noticing my gaze, the lady looked up at me and smiled.
"So you've completed your first nightmare. Congrats, Y/n." Said the woman who smiled as she got up.
'Nightmare?' I thought wonder why would that seem so bad. It's just a dream. The lady reached me and began to unlock the restraints on me
"Umm, what's a nightmare I asked the lady who paused and gave me a puzzled look.
"Have you lost your memories?" She asked as she resumed her actions.
I opened my mouth but closed it as memories flashed in my mind.
My name is Y/n L/n. I was an avid reader of novels. My favorite series was LOTM. I was a high school junior in America when the school alarms went off before I heard a loud sound as everything went dark.
But new and foreign memories were also there. I had the same name, but I was an unwanted child of a legacy clan that I never knew the name of. My mother was, for some reason, forced to live in the outskirts despite her being part of the city's council. We were constantly harassed, but we've survived through sheer determination, luck, and cunning.
My mother wasn't some damsel in distress she was once a soldier who kept the gangs and thieves away. Despite the lack of food, I strangely grew healthy and normal despite eating once every few days. When I was 4, my mother taught me to fight and survive and thrive.
Our lives were constantly moving from one place until one day, a low nightmare gate opened in the middle of the night. I witnessed my mother dying in front of me as she was ripped apart. The creatures noticed my presence and instinctively back away in fear before a few masters and awakened arrived who didn't notice me. I ran away from the area, unaware that the inhabitants saw me. Word got around, and I was obsturized by nearly everyone and sometimes hunted down in fear.
I hated everyone as I fought to survive. Stealing from gangsters, swindling others, to even performing elaborate plots to steal from policemen whenever I got a chance. I was surprisingly resourceful and enjoyed the performances.
Then, a few days ago, I got infected with the spell. After much debating, I turned myself in and entered the first nightmare. After that, there are no memories. I get the feeling that "he" died in the nightmare, and my intuition was telling me I was right.
'As an avid reader, the reasonable conclusion is that the 'me' of this world died in the nightmare, but for some reason, I transmigrated into his body before he could turn into a monster. But why? I hope it is not some tentacle wanting to revive in me.
I looked at the woman and spoke.
"It seems that I can't recall what happened in the nightmare, but since I'm alive right now, that means I'm now a sleeper, right?" I say hesitatingly.
The woman looked at me, bemused, and I could sense a lingering feeling of jealousy and pity in her eyes.
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3 days later
I found myself in front of an academy with two others.
One of them was a scrawny boy around my age, but short. Like me, he is from the slums. His name was Sunless, but he went by Sunny. He was a bit weird and awkward at answering my questions when they weren't needed to be answered. I sensed this and didn't bother to ask many of them. I figured it probably had something to do with his flaw.
Though apparently, Sunny heard of me in the outskirts and tried to keep the distance, but with Jet, the beauty who I woke up to, had us in the same car we opened up a bit and learned so valuable information.
Especially on flaws to never reveal them as it draws too much attention, to learn wilderness survival as its more important and to survive the Dream World you must work with others
After that, Sunny and I made an agreement to work together if we came across each other in the realm.
Next was a girl in a tracksuit with silver hair and headphones on her head. Not wanting to be rude, I minded my own business as we waited. Wanting to kill time, I've pulled up the runes to see my stats.
[Gray Liming
True Name: The Lord of Mysteries
RaceMythical Creature(Beyonder)
Age:16
Rank:Sleeper(Dormant)
Cores:4/9 (2,136/5,000)
Aspects: Flames of Divinity, Outsider, Unknown, Humanity, ?????
Uniqueness: Fool, Error, Door.
Dormant Aspect:???
Flaw:None
Humanity:87%
Divinity: 13%
Seer Sequence 6 Faceless
Door Sequence 6 Scribe
Error Sequence 6 Prometheus
...
Echos:None
Memories:
Cloak of Mysteries
Rank Divine III Garment
Description:
A cloak once worn by The Lord of the Mysteries from outside reality. #%$^$& ^#%!%_ #&$%!%!^#&$^$&^$^
Enchantments
Indestructible: This item can not be destroyed in any way or form.(Passive)
Concealment: Can hide the presence of the users from all eyes. (Active)
???(Active)
Bloodfire Blade
Rank: Ascended III
Description: A blade forged in the blood droplets of the lord of lights and gallons of humans and nightmare creatures blood. A vile sword with an even more vile history.
Enchantments
Blood flame:Once a drop of blood touches the blade, it turns into flames capable of harming both the coperal and noncoperal. The more blood, the stronger it becomes.(Passive)
Blood Beserker:At deaths, the door offers all of the spilled blood as a sacrifice to recover your strength, but madness will slowly take over your mind. (Active)
Bloodly Butcher: Every kill restores 4% of essence.(Passive)
Sun Charms I x20
Rank:Unknown
Description:???
Enhancements
Purification
Slumber Charms I x20
Enchantments
Forced Slumber
Rank Unknown
Description:???
Inheritance
1. LOCKED
2. LOCKED
3. LOCKED
4. LOCKED
5. LOCKED
Domains:
Sefiroth Castle]
I was surprised to find out that my golden finger in this life is that was the main 3 pathways of the LOTM, and to find out that I had the uniqueness of all three.
I could feel a connection to all three of them, but they remained dormant. While I'm a bit bummed that I don't have full access, at least I won't instantly lose control, and I can feel my connection to Sefiroth Castle.
I haven't tried entering yet as I've haven't had a chance to yet, but I can tell that I won't need to perform any rituals to enter.
Though I've learned a lot of other things to as Jet gave me more knowledge about the spell. My current bodies deceased host didn't get much information thanks to how he lived and I was a bit shocked that this is an alternate future dystopia where humanity is fighting abomindal creature were current technology is useless and only those who have conquered a nightmare are able to challenge & kill these creatures. All this happened in less than a century.
America was lost after a level 5 gate appeared on its coast, and I'm currently somewhere in the Asian areas.
The most shocking and terrifying thing I learned was that something was on the moon. I learned this while looking at the cloudy sky when my intuition went off in alarm, forcing me to look away as my body went stiff.
After that experience, I learned that this world is incredibly dangerous and possibly living on borrowed time as my intuition told me that whatever that thing was, it could destroy the world if provoked.
Moving on, I also did some exploring on telling what my ability it. Remembering Jet's advice, I mixed up a bit of truth andlies in it as my ability is able to perform deadly magic tricks while keeping the others hidden.
Though I did mess up by revealing that I had a true name, much to the shock of my interviewer and Jet.
I told them I didn't remember my first nightmare, honestly.
I was taken out of my reminiscing as someone approached us.
