Chapter 409 Leon's Thank You Gift
Chapter 409 Leon's Thank You Gift
See what I am most afraid of?
After hearing the words of the Nightmare King, Leon's pupils couldn't help but dilate slightly as he looked at his face reflected in the mirror crown on its head.
Your memories must never be shown to others! Whether it is the existence of the badge system or the fact that you are a time traveler, these are the kind of secrets that must never be revealed!
Especially the latter!
Once this secret got out and was identified by the people in the General Administration, and they thought of the "soul from an unknown world" in the warning from the Watchtower Palace, even if Director Scorpio could arrive within five minutes, his career as a cleaner would probably be over!
Faced with the sudden emergency, Lyon, who originally wanted to wait until [Drunken Immortal] lost its effect and then struggle with the help of Archer's Mark and [Dream Invader], suddenly did not bother to keep any trump cards and directly activated [Dream Invader] to prepare for a desperate fight.
However, although the [Dream Invader] is an anomaly made with the weapons of the Lord of Dreams and its own status is not low, it is still not enough to face the King of Nightmares who comes in person.
Even though Leon managed to lock onto the Nightmare King's consciousness with the enhancement of the Mark of the Archer, before he could drag the Nightmare King into the dream, the Nightmare King's skinny head mysteriously split horizontally in the middle, splitting neatly into two.
"hehe."
Accompanied by a sneer of slight contempt, the countless nightmares that made up the Nightmare King's body quickly circulated, just like a crab shedding its shell, directly following the cracked part and shedding a new self from the old body.
"You don't think you can use the same method on me a second time, do you?"
After fiddling with the old body that was captured by the [Dream Invader] and whose eyes gradually became confused, the Nightmare King, who looked a little annoyed, said with a slightly amused look in his eyes:
"The secret technique of Sagittarius is truly amazing. It can even allow a third-level cleaner like you to briefly perform at the level of a director. I caught you off guard and almost let you escape from me.
Unfortunately, no matter how good something is, it ultimately depends on who is using it. If the person using this thing is the Sagittarius Director himself, no matter how much I struggle, it will be useless and I will be dragged into the dream directly.
But with your soul strength, you can't lock onto my main consciousness at all. At most, you can only catch a few hundred insignificant nightmares. There are as many of these scattered nightmares as you want. What good will it do to you if I give them to you?"
"..."
……
"Well, after struggling like this, it's time for you to give up."
He took the mirror crown off the empty shell of his old body and put it back on his head. Then the gray mist giant stretched out his bluish-gray skinny fingers and wiped the mirror surface of the crown with his fingertips. A hoarse and malicious voice unreasonably broke into Leon's eardrums.
"Come! In the name of the Lord of Nightmares, I command you to open your heart and reveal to me your deepest fears!"
As the Nightmare King shouted, the scorching sun hanging high above his head flickered several times, and then seemed to be moved from midsummer to late autumn, changing from the scorching white to the orange-yellow at the turn of autumn and winter, weakly emitting a not very warm light.
Then, the yellow sand all around quietly faded away. With Lyon standing still as the center, the endless sea of sand quickly dissipated and turned into a dilapidated ward filled with coughing sounds and the pungent smell of medicine.
On the dirty bed at the edge of the ward, a pale, frail girl turned her head slightly and said in a soft but slightly stubborn voice:
"Brother, why don't you just leave me alone?"
"..."
So what he fears most is just the death of his family?
After looking at the thin girl on the hospital bed, and then at Leon with a distorted face in front of the bed, the Nightmare King, who had been somewhat excited just now, suddenly had a flash of deep disappointment in his eyes.
Although the feeling of fear is very strong, and the strong unwillingness and resentment are also very interesting, I have seen too many fears and nightmares of this degree and I can't muster up any interest at all.
boring.
Looking at the boring nightmare in front of him, which replaced part of the Nightmare King of the Endless Desert with Leon's deepest fear, he couldn't help but sigh in dismay.
It seems that the fact that he can face eternal torture calmly does not mean he is truly fearless, but is probably the result of some abnormal substance.
I had originally thought that this guy who almost made me fall would have some interesting fear in his heart, but this is all he got? This is really...
Hmm? What is he going to do?
Looking at Leon who rushed out of the ward with a distorted face, clutching the knife he picked up, as if he wanted to do something, the Nightmare King finally felt a little interested. He took the initiative to change his body to a height similar to that of an ordinary person and followed him all the way.
Then, everything that happened two months ago was repeated without much change.
"Is anyone there? I'm here to apply for a job!"
"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a demon before?"
"Didn't I make it clear to you? A normal person like you is not suitable to join the Cleanup Bureau." "Please wait a moment!"
"My observation skills are very special! I can distinguish some special things, and if I have direct contact, I can immediately obtain some relevant information!"
"Well, that sheep is a 'special thing', so start talking about it now."
After the red-haired chief raised the "question", facing this last straw, Leon, who had already risked everything, took a deep breath and touched the black goat with a slightly trembling arm. However...
"?!!!"
No? Why not?
Realizing that the situation was not what he had expected, Leon's face suddenly showed a deep look of fear, and an incomparable panic spread over him, as if a huge, icy hand was tightly grasping his heart.
It should be there! It should be there!
As long as I touch it with my hand, something will pop out and tell me the relevant information of the abnormal object, why is there nothing now? !
"Oh, so he's a lunatic."
After shaking her head in disappointment, the red-haired woman, whose face was a little blurry, said coldly:
"Get lost! This is not the place for you!"
"But...but I clearly..."
"Get lost! I'll only say this once! Humph! What a waste of time!"
"..."
Under the interested gaze of the Nightmare King, Leon was chased out of the Cleanup Bureau in a daze. With his head hung in a daze, he moved back to the hospital step by step like a zombie.
After spending all his money and trying his best to delay for more than a week but still unable to raise enough money for the medicine, at the insistence of the sick girl, Leon had to carry her back home as she coughed all night and couldn't even fall asleep.
Then, everything happened just as the sick girl had proposed at the beginning. When the coughing that lasted all night stopped, in order to continue to receive the girl's compensation, Leon had to throw her body into the sewage river at night and pretend that she was still alive to defraud the compensation.
But less than a month later, this little scheme was discovered by the officials from the military who came to investigate, and they were fined even more. The family's life became even worse, and they became increasingly pale and thin.
The following year, a fever broke out in the capital. The two children, who had been malnourished for a long time and were weak, could not survive due to the lack of medical care and medicine. The small home that used to be a little crowded finally became completely empty...
……
It turned out to be the case.
Looking at Leon, who was sitting on the small bed with a hunched back, stroking an old photo album with his hand, and his eyes were full of numbness, the King of Nightmares raised his eyebrows slightly, and finally understood what he feared the most.
If he didn't have the qualifications to be a cleaner and failed to join the Cleanup Bureau, he would have lost everything bit by bit and inevitably, just like this nightmare.
Therefore, if he wanted to torture him, he didn't need to physically destroy him. It would be enough to block his original memory and let him relive it all over again countless times.
Haha, I didn’t expect it to be so simple.
He waved his hand to dispel the dream that was reflected from the deepest part of Leon's heart when he used the [Mirror Crown of Anxiety], and changed everything around him back to the endless desert.
Seeing the real Leon, who had remained silent since the dream Leon rushed out of the hospital, as if he had suffered some kind of great shock, the Nightmare King couldn't help but curl up his lips and commented with a look of pleasure:
“Although your fear is a bit common, it’s still quite interesting overall… Hehe, I’ve already thought of how to punish you for offending me.
Listen, I declare, you will be...what are you going to do?"
"I want to give you a big gift."
He crushed the bottle containing the [Dream-Eating Armor] and stuffed all the remaining beetles into the empty shell of the Nightmare King that he had shed earlier.
In the face of the Nightmare King's puzzled expression, Leon took out the [Unfair Snake Contract] expressionlessly and exchanged it for a bright red hair from the red-haired director outside.
Then, this empty shell filled with the eating [Dream-Eating Armor] naturally disappeared from his hands and appeared in the night sky of the royal capital filled with countless nightmares.
"From now on, no one can even dream!!!"
(End of this chapter)