"You probably have all my memories to create a false nightmare of that magnitude...... But you obviously don't have a brain. ”

Annan leaned against the wall behind him and said slowly: "If you had the same wisdom as me, you wouldn't have left so many holes. ”

Naturally, there was no response to Annan's words.

But that doesn't matter.

After coming out of this nightmare, he had fully understood Denton's logic.

Denton survived his nightmares...... It is probably because Salvatore underestimated the power of the gold-level transcendents and added Denton's brain as a spell material to the pill.

After the soul is stained, it has essentially crossed the limit of the "human" race.

That's genuine inhumanity.

After all, all that Denton had had been robbed of his spine and soul - and although his soul had been taken away, his brain was still intact.

Because of this, this spell material was used by Salvatore as the main material for the dream elixir.

Salvatore must not have expected it...... Even if the soul is lost, even if the brain is whipped into a pulp, and maybe even boiled and filtered, the final pill will still contain the fragments of Denton's will.

Thankfully, it's just a fragment.

Perhaps because of the lack of a soul - Denton's actions are very mechanical.

In other words, they don't understand the truth that fiction is reality.

All his actions have a clear purpose.

He dragged Annan into the fake "Nightmare: Wolf Kiss", presumably in order to get Annan to undergo the wolf kiss ritual.

Annan, who originally held the reversed Heart of Winter, has been deprived of all negative emotions; If he is deprived of all positive emotions in a nightmare by the wolf's kiss ritual...... What else is left of him?

- There will only be an empty shell left.

At that point, Denton's fragments of will will will be able to take advantage of the void...... Occupy a corner of Annan's soul and regain a body capable of thinking and a transcendent soul capable of casting spells.

"But you don't realize how good my memory really is—you can't read my mind in this space. Because you've lost your ability to cast spells, you can only get information from what I say. ”

The corners of Annan's mouth rose slightly, and he said calmly: "Otherwise, you can't know it-

"I recognize more paintings than I can tell.

"-So, I've seen your little moves."

Yes, small actions.

Before Annan first jumped over, he recognized the painting on the wall.

There are eight paintings on this wall, two from Kaphne, one from Kaphne's father, two from old bread, one from Yiyi, and one from wine.

The other one is a black pupil.

Yes, black – not gray.

But when Annan moved his gaze to the painting, it quietly turned gray.

Or rather, it became another painting.

However, this only made Annan a little suspicious.

After all, it's possible that he's misremembered......

But when Annan left the nightmare, he found that what he had not spoken before, one by one, his mouth and the ears of wine, disappeared from the wall.

"That is, you have a certain level of authority to control my nightmares. The fake nightmare created before should also be this level of technology.

"But there's a tiny part of what you can control—you're conserving power, or you're worried I'm going to see through it. So your strategy is to ...... Send your pre-prepared nightmare directly to me.

"I was weird before. Why are the two sides of the burning painting, both at a distance from me? If I hadn't moved, I wouldn't have been able to see the painting that far.

"The answer is simple – because it doesn't matter which painting I'm going to look at. My nightmare is in a sequence that you have personally arranged. ”

Annan replied calmly.

"In the first nightmare, you used your own fragments of fear to suggest to me that 'Denton is indeed dead,' trying to get me to give up my [vigilance] against you;

"And then you told me that reason would make me stand still, so that I could abandon [reason] and go deeper into the corridor without hesitation—all so that I could undergo the wolf's kiss ritual."

But at that time, Denton failed.

Annan was overly rational and calm.

So he realized the loophole of the false nightmare.

However, after that, Denton did not admit defeat -

"Then, you threw me into a dead end where I had to rely on [external force] to clear the level. My mode of action must have been calculated by you...... The purpose is to make me use the power of 'David' and remind me of this power.

"In the previous two shards of fear, you passed the fast-paced nightmare and didn't remind me of this power, so that the wolf's kiss ritual was not interfered with by superfluous factors...... So the question is, why do you want me to use it now? ”

Annan said calmly: "Because you want me to be in this world...... Use 'David' too, right. Or do you want me to be able to change my body to 'David' when we face off.

"If it's a trap, you'll emphasize this concept to me in the next three Fear Shards - you'll specifically choose the nightmare of 'you can't beat the level without changing your body' in order to make me think habitually. The purpose is to subconsciously use this ability when I confront you. I don't know the specific reason, but it must be related to your means of turning the tables.

"You don't have a soul of your own, so you can't enter into a nightmare. Just as a mechanism creature can't sleep...... So you can't be in the shards of fear. You must be right here.

"Why is that eye in heaven my own? What the hell am I looking at? What am I looking for? ”

The answer is already clear.

The eye in the sky indicates Annan's "self-seeing" heart.

What it was looking for was Denton.

Although it is a little strange to say...... But under the night sky before dawn, the broken stone ship should be Annan's inner world.

And Denton is the "virus" program of this world.

The eye is searching...... It's not Annan, it's Denton.

- Let's go through the procedure.

Annan remained motionless, leaned against the wall and sighed:

"I've got it all to say...... Do you want to continue? ”

Annan's voice fell, and there was no response.

“…… Or do you not even have a physical entity until the next three little dungeons are over?

"That's too pitiful?"

Annan sneered without hesitation.

Denton still did not appear in front of Annan.

"That's it, let's go through a procedure."

Annan just leaned his head back and said lazily: "I'm injured, I'm too lazy to run."

"Which nightmare do you want me to get into, you go and get the painting yourself—move it yourself, understand?"

After a brief lag.

The painting in front of Annan that belonged to Kaphne's mouth suddenly became another person's mouth.

At the moment of looking at each other, there were screams, roars, and cries around again—

"-Shut up!"

Annan's cold voice fell.

The moment his voice fell, the cacophony suddenly subsided.

In a very quiet atmosphere, Annan once again fell into a new nightmare-

He noticed that his left hand and right foot were handcuffed and chained to the operating table...... A small saw sits next to his right hand, and directly above him is a large spinning hacksaw, slowly approaching.

He understood very well what the scene was and what he was going to do next.

But looking at this scene, Annan did not panic at all.

Recalling the previous scene, the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Sure enough......

His guess was right.

"It's a nightmare though...... But it's also my own dream after all. ”

It's different from the nightmare before it.

What Annan entered this time was his own dream.

Denton was able to modify his nightmares, and I am afraid it was because of this - if it were a different person's nightmares, he might not be able to modify them.

After all, he's a true Dream Stealer.

Manipulation of Dreams...... Even if you lose your mind, can't cast spells, and only rely on instinct to act, you can undoubtedly be called world-class.

Annan respected his technique.

"But this ...... After all, it's my own world. ”

Annan slowly closed his eyes.

His body swelled up in an instant, turning into a hard marble statue.

"Mr. David" only used two punches to knock the shackles attached to his wrists directly off the operating table.

Yes, not the shackles broke.

— but the operating table was interrupted by him.