Chapter 202: Nightmare

So the second catastrophe of the past that wiped out the people in that era was because of corruption. It’s a forbidden power and could even cause the wielder to be consumed by its power. It can give anyone power just like the monster evo gas that I made but their souls are forever changed. They’ll possess a black aura and we’ll become a being straight of out a nightmare. Anything contaminated by this thing will no longer have a pure soul and it won’t drop any experience

[System: The hiatus decree makes it possible for the event to continue… It will resume once the time of the decree has been met, approximately 27 days. Once 27 days have passed the players will be forced to participate in this special event. Because the difficulty has been changed from E -> D, the system will triple the rewards]

“Shit!!!” He lies down on the sofa inside his office after he heard about the real reason for the anomaly

’Hugo, that idiot… Everything was going so well and he did the unthinkable, but why did he do it in the first place? There’s no reason why he could’ve needed that item in the first, unless… Oh shit, im the one responsible for all this shit then? With the arrival of the three big guilds, they manage to take his spot his party contributing 2nd. In the original story, he would’ve easily taken first place but now it’s gone,’

([Rewrite system: Correction, the author’s meddling causes the main character’s contribution to drop. Hugo Miller’s current placement is no longer the 2nd contributor and now is within 5th place. The only players who’ll receive a specialized reward from the Game master are the ones on 1st, 2nd, or 3rd placement. Because he lost his placement he opened the forbidden chest that stores the consciousness of the labyrinth. In exchange, he gained an item that permanently improves their overall power by 35%])

’35%? Wow, now that’s some game-changing shit over there… Forget about being equal to that prick’s power, he just toppled all my hard work like it was nothing. Seriously I can’t believe how god tier his luck!!! Thats like buying a 10-dollar lottery and you got 1 million on your first try,’

[Hugo Miller LVL 37 Equipment on

Title: All-rounder, Solo leveler, Equivalent to an army, Monster in human skin, Prodigy, Speed runner, Jack of all trades, Untouchable, Treasure hunter

Class: None

Blessing: God of Destruction

Hp: 174 (+30)

Atk: 154 (+17)

Spd: 122 (+13)

Def: 101 (+ 27)

Mp: 78

Chi: 106

Stm: 68

Unused points: 0

Unique ability: Ego weapon (Ruined blade), Mastery boost, Exp gathering boost, Enhanced senses, Martial prowess, Golden ticket

Skills: Dragon fang arts (B) Weapon master (A) Physical boost (C) Stealth (B) Dexterity (D) Haste (D) Foresight (A) Inhuman regeneration (F) Evasion (C) Crit (D) Luck (S) Vulnerability (C) Corrosive slash (F) Intermediate flow (E) Sword ki (F) Berserk (D) Bloodlust (E) Close combat (E) Counter (E) Stability (D)

Overall ratings: Your rapid growth is something that the system is doubting to be true. Not only the eyes of the deities but the Game master as well. You became a monster that even the system has acknowledged as a player]

’Bruh… This guy wasn’t joking around when he said he was grinding shit! Look at this… His stats are so high up even at the first volume, well it’s not going to be a problem. Stats can change in just about every second that passed but plot armor reigns supreme. Because I aided Gaust, he’s easily learning how to control his curse and maintain his consciousness. If things get out of hand I can count on him to fill Hugo’s shoes if needed,’

[Status: The player is feeling a little tired after a long and tiring day… We advised you to sleep and restore your energy or suffer the consequences. You also have a schedule you’d prepare for the morning to arrive]

’Guess thats the point where I’ll finish checking my characters. I’ll check the stats of the rest once I get some needed rest, I can’t ignore my beauty sleep… I have a long way to go before I reached my room, guess I’ll settle with the sofa. I wish that I have something to cuddle with, oh well sun and moon, come out and be my pillows for the night,’

He sleeps for the night whilst he was accompanied by his familiars that acted as his cuddling pillow. It would’ve been a perfect sleep if he could’ve exposed his body and slept in his birthday suit but he was tired to reach his bed. Instead of a pillow, he cuddled his familiars, and he came to use one of the best features of his room. His office was hooked up to a magicraft that functions the same as an air conditioner and gave him the warmth he wanted

’Where the hell am I?’

From the looks of it, he had another dream that was different from the rest of what he experienced. It wasn’t a dream about the past or his deepest darkest fear, it wasn’t even about his regrets about his life. He wakes up in the middle of a battlefield that was consumed with a pitch-black substance. He couldn’t quite understand his dream so he tries to explore and came upon a red substance on the ground

’Its blood…? Why the hell is there blood in the middle of this area? It seems this black substance doesn’t seem to cover up the blood it even repels the blood when I tried mixing the two. I wonder what kind of dream this is~’

At the end of the trail of blood, he was left speechless to see a dark and shapeless entity that stands in a thousand corpses. But that wasn’t the reason why he was stunned in his position, there were a few exceptions to the corpse. A bunch of people he came to know was sentenced to be crucified in the very same substance he touched

’Jin, Yuri, Esther, Kyo, Blake, Silas, Lillith, Quon, Zeke, and even Gaust? Apart from the members of my group, I can see a few core members of the cult and Persevis. What the!!! Shin, Gale, Yoona, Charlotte why the hell are they here? Hold on where’s Hugo? I haven’t seen him, where the hell is he~’

After he sees the ones who were crucified he tries to walk closer to the figure and there he sees his headless main character. Most of his limbs were scattered across the shapeless entity and before he knew it his eyes met with what he guessed to be its eyes. He started and he found himself submerging to a good he wasn’t able to escape and appears a voice that taunts him

“Keheheheheheheheh!!! You’re too late to act… Truth seeker, why have you forsaken them all, these people that you know of their future… Why is it that you can’t alter their fate? Why are you so weak and you can’t even match me with my strength?” He was sent back to face the shapeless entity after he was taken out of the void

He notices that his body was shackled to the ground and he came to be surrounded by a bunch of corrupted players. To be more accurate they were the corpses of the player and he realizes this once one of them came closer to his face. He can see through its body from a hole that came from a sword and he gazes at the player’s organs. More corpses joined after he sees such a horrific sight from the player he gazes

’Bluaaaaaargh!!! Oh, right this is a dream… I can’t puke here so it’s kinda a bummer since this whole scene is so fucking messed up man. Oh god, mother fucking shitzzles!!! Why do you have to do that in front of me?’

The corpses go on to show a newly captured player and they sink their teeth and eat him like an all-you-can-eat buffet. He could hear the player’s screams which makes it worse for him since he couldn’t avert his eyes. A bunch of arms points his head into the location where they massacred a ton of players. Soon after he was met with the ones that were crucified not long before standing in front of his body whilst he kneeled

“You have forsaken us!!!” They came together and chant with each other until it became an irritating experience. But as time passes through his nightmare he realizes that chant summons forth another image. In the last memory, he notices the reason why they suffered from this fate

He enters the viewpoint of the shapeless entity that massacres everything in its path and corrupted those he used as his puppets. The players came together and try to beat him with all of their strength but they were not a match, later it was the turn of his crew. But something was missing, where was he in this dream? He tries to look around and yet he wasn’t able to find his location even after he sees the slaughter of his allies

’No way… It can’t be,’

After the shapeless entity finishes crucifying his crew members its form came to have morphed. The sludge which he often sees in the fight was taken apart and he sees the identity of their killer. It was him, no was it a body similar to him or a doppelganger? He thought it was a lie and he tried to shake off his uneasiness but the voice appeared once again

“Truth seeker… I never thought about it before… This body of yours was the perfect vessel,” After he heard that last voice he woke up in the middle of the night and his heart had never before beat any faster in the entirety of his life

([Rewrite system: Your dream has been detected to have predicted a future wherein you lose to the anomaly!!!])

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