Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The dim candlelight flickered, dotted the deep corridor.

Suddenly, the rolled up air current made the candle light flicker. A wooden door of a tavern suddenly appeared in the center of the corridor, and it was pushed open quietly.

Elus said goodbye to William on the other side of the world gate, then carefully closed her world gate, and exchanged glances with Xia Yinci.

Xia Yinci tilted her head, feeling that Elusi's eyes were a little strange, but she didn't care much, and took the lead to look away. She took a look around, the dim candlelight, and the old walls washed by time. She didn't know where the corridor led, but felt that the atmosphere here was extremely depressing.

The two of them were not alone here, Xia Yinci could hear footsteps wandering nearby, it seemed to be at the next corner.

They both understood that it was futile to meet the Dreamer, so they unanimously lightened their steps and chose to start from the opposite direction.

After the corner, there is another same long corridor, and the next corner. The heavy steps came forward this time.

Realizing that there were dreamers approaching from behind, Elus immediately stretched out her right hand from the cloak to draw a circle in the air, and the tip of the staff in her left hand emitted a purple light, which in turn created a circular opening out of thin air. Immediately afterwards, she took Xia Yinci's hand and entered the circle.

The moment the Dreamer passed the corner, Elus closed the entrance. The dreamer, whose whole body was made of metal mechanical shells, only saw a strange purple light disappear, reached out and scratched his helmet in doubt, and continued patrolling with a mechanical sound.

As for the other end of the circular entrance, it was connected to the ceiling of a room, and Elus and Xia Yinci suddenly fell down due to gravity.

Elus hurriedly closed her eyes, folded her hands instinctively to block the coming impact. However, Xia Yinci first raised his hands and pressed down, the gravity suddenly reversed, and at the same time, another control ability was turned off. Elus.

"Hold on tight."

As soon as the words fell, she reduced the gravity again, turned downward, hugged Elus's petite body horizontally, and landed lightly on the floor of the room.

Gravity returns to normal. The items in the room fell back to the ground. Fortunately, Xia Yinci only completed this series of actions within a few seconds, and none of the items were lifted to an excessive height, so there was no sound that would attract people's attention.

Xia Yinci looked down at Elus, and smiled lightly.

Elus, who was in a shutdown state, froze for a few seconds, blushed, and hurriedly broke away from Xia Yinci's hands, and returned to the ground.

How could it always be like this! ?

In the past, she was easily picked up by Su Ruoyang like a kitten, but now she is hugged by a girl like a princess...

Elus dodged Xia Yinci's clear blue eyes, and lowered her head in depression.

Depression is not only due to being treated unintentionally as a small animal by the other party, but also for other reasons.

For example, she's really good-looking, especially her eyes.

If Xia Yinci in reality is also so good-looking, then Su Luoyang will definitely like her, right?

Elus quietly glanced at Xia Yinci, who was much taller than herself, and sighed softly.

"...Why don't you go with Su Luoyang and the others?"

"Um?"

"Usually, you go wherever Su Luoyang goes, you always act together, don't you?"

Xia Yinci rested her index finger on her chin, and seriously considered Elus' question.

"Because... I can't do nothing. In the past, I always followed him because I was worried. After all, he would abandon me at any time. How can I still be by his side now? Since he wants to respond to me now expectations, then I should respond to him with my trust~"

Respond to her expectations? Elus doesn't know the story between them, she can only guess, trying to restore the relationship between them.

Although in the end she couldn't find a convincing answer, the only thing she could be sure of was that the bond between Su Luoyang and Xia Yinci was far deeper than that with herself.

As for a closer answer.

Don't think, don't think, can't think, shouldn't think.

Elus shook her head vigorously, shaking the strange thoughts out of her mind, and took the lead in bringing the topic back to what she thought was on the right track.

"By the way, this is...?"

Xia Yinci followed Elus' gaze and looked at this strange room.

There are all kinds of weapons piled on the ground indiscriminately. However, all weapons here are knives and swords.

The only thing that caught the eye was a saber inserted in the center of the room, shining with a sharp silver light, exuding a distinctive aura from the inside out.

"Is it what we're looking for?"

Elus swallowed, and looked at Xia Yinci in confusion, with some uncertainty in her tone.

The dream world is a world built entirely with personal cognition. The same is certainly true of the Dream Palace, itself a symbolic product of the Thing of Fear. The so-called dominance will also be manifested into specific things as its symbol, which is the "power ring" that dominates dreams.

"possible."

Xia Yinci and Elus' task now is to find the item that symbolizes dominance and steal it away. At the same time, William, Chart and others, as well as Clock No. 3, are also carrying out the same mission on other targets. Eventually, those who acted separately should be able to meet through the Dream Thief's interconnected dreams.

According to the information provided by the black cat, it is indeed possible that the right to dominate is this saber.

"Take all the ones that may be. It's so big here, it's impossible to find them accurately."

Elus grabbed the saber after speaking. Xia Yinci, who frowned, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took a step forward, trying to stop Elus, but Elus had already drawn out her saber, and looked at the tense Xia Yinci suspiciously.

"What... what's wrong?"

As soon as the voice fell, the deafening siren and the red warning light filled Elus' hearing and vision.

"Since there is a ring of dominion, there must be something that means a vigilant heart."

Xia Yinci hurriedly explained, grabbed the saber in Elus's hand and threw it back to the spot, and immediately ran to the door of the storage room. Xia Yinci tried to open the door, but was shocked to find that the door had been locked from the inside due to the alert state in the dream.

"Elus, find a way to blow it away~"

Although Elusi was a little dazed by the sudden situation, at least she could understand Xia Yinci's instructions. She turned her staff and pointed it at the door, pressed the pointed hat on her head, and supported the top of the staff. A turquoise magic circle was formed, and suddenly a strange air flow swept in, crushing the door abruptly.

However, as soon as the two of them ran out of the room, they heard the sound of "clang" from the mechanical operation.

The robot whose whole body was made of steel and other materials raised its long sword and slashed in Xia Yinci's direction.

"Hold on tight!"

Xia Yinci threw down such a sentence, and hastily stretched out her hand to push the gravity forward, and at the same time squeezed Elus' hand tightly. Elus quickly pressed the hat, and the robot quickly fell to the side wall, making a dull collision.

As long as they are still in the alert state of the dream, there will be a steady stream of guards looking for them.

Gravity quickly returned to its original state. Xia Yinci turned around and ran in the opposite direction. Elus immediately drew a circular entrance clockwise again. The direction leading to it was still unknown, but the two had no choice but to He rushed in with a single brain.

"You——are not the rulers of this dream."

The Dreamer at the back roared angrily, quickly shortened the distance to the girls, and the moment his arm turned into a sharp blade reached into the entrance. Elus, who passed through the entrance, immediately turned around and walked counterclockwise around the circle, and the scenery at the other end disappeared suddenly together with the entrance.

Only the opponent's mechanical arm was neatly cut off and left on the side of the entrance.

Ellis finally took a deep breath. This is not a gap between dreams, but a personal dream, so the owner of the dream has overwhelming power. If you face the people here, there is absolutely zero chance of winning. They can only find the so-called "power ring" on the premise of avoiding the dreamer.

"This place... seems to be a little different from the place just now."

Or the corridor. It's just that the current corridor has no candlelight and no corners, and it seems to extend endlessly to the distance beyond the sight.

Loud jazz music reverberated nearby, and dim and indistinct paintings hung on the dark red walls, all of which were incomplete. Although it is full of artistic atmosphere, it is unexpectedly messy. There are frames of damaged frames and sabers scattered all over the place.

A TV is mounted on the wall at the back, playing animations that were popular a few years ago. The remote for the TV is kept in a hanging bag on the wall.

The protagonist on the screen - the king of sabers has countless swords, but still stands up handsomely holding the hilt of his sword, roaring like a wild beast, summoning thousands of sabers, flying away in all directions, tearing the surrounding body from The mechanical units made of steel were crushed to pieces.

Xia Yinci remembers watching this animation with Su Luoyang before, and she was particularly impressed by the ending. The King of Sabers brought back light to the world, but the fruits of victory eventually fell into the hands of the royal family, who enforced a brutal dictatorship.

The people hated the King of Sabers who took back the light but handed it over to the nobles, and finally called him "the lackey of the dictator".

Standard BadEnd.

Xia Yinci stared at the picture on the TV, and stretched out her hand to her side cheek. For some reason, the TV kept replaying the penultimate episode. The protagonist won back the light of this world, bathed in the applause of the crowd, and the dark ending of the animation has not been released for a long time.

Since the owner of the dream has watched this animation, it means that the other party is likely to be about the same age as him.

The information provided by the black cat actually explained the general image of the other party. Xia Yinci carefully observed the image of the protagonist on the screen, compared the two, and then thought of the dreamer who just saw it, which is also similar to the animation in the animation. The mechanical arms are exactly the same...

Is that so? I adore the protagonist of the animation to such an extent that even the dream imitates the image of the other party, wishing to be him.

Therefore, he was unwilling to accept such a Bad End, and simply let everything stay in the best place.

"I see~ so, is this your power ring?"

The expression on Xia Yinci's face changed from cloudy to sunny, showing a suddenly bright smile, and approached the hanging bag under the TV. Before she could take out the remote control in the hanging bag, the sound of roaring machinery and heavy footsteps came from both directions of the gallery at the same time.

"Intruder—I will never allow you to touch the supreme ring!"

The eyes of the leader mechanical unit shone with faint red light, sharply demonstrating its determination. He stretched out his arms, which immediately turned into sharp blades. With a command from it, all the machines rushed in the direction of Xia Yinci and Elus.

Elus grabbed the scepter and hit it on the ground, the golden hexagram instantly propped up an invisible aura, shutting out the first rushing machine.

The Dream Keeper is the incarnation of what the owner of the dream fears the most.

Perhaps the other party was frightened by the image of the villain's mechanical arms when he first watched this animation. In the end, the protagonist who was born out of nowhere and killed the world became the hero in the opponent's heart.

Xia Yinci held the remote control in the hanging bag, took it out, and pointed it at the signal receiving part of the TV.

"I'm sorry...but, after all, this is also a battle of Stealing Dreams~"

Press the "Next Episode" button, and a pattern composed of two overlapping triangles appears on the screen. The moment the protagonist draws his saber, the screen switches to a kingdom that welcomes light, and the nobles drive proudly. The carriage drove out of the palace, but the faces of the common people were covered with gloom.

"All of this is the fault of the Saber King! That lackey of the dictator..."

No one spoke out against the greedy royal family, because they did not have the courage to speak out. I have no choice but to blame the unhappiness in my heart on the hero who brought back the fruit of victory, because he only brought the fruit of victory, but did not send the real light.

In the final scene of the story, the King of Sabers, who is seriously injured, asks hoarsely the servant who takes care of him, whether everything has changed for the better because of him.

The picture stopped abruptly, and the eyes of the mechanical units gathered in the gallery all lost their red light, and they all stopped working and knelt on the ground.

"This is, the power ring of this dream?"

Elus took back the scepter and looked at the long black object in Xia Yinci's hand. After a long time, she couldn't tell what the object was, so she had to give up thinking and shift her gaze to Xia Yinci's eyes.

"So... we, "Inception" succeeded?"

"It's just a victory in the first battle~"

Xia Yinci raised the corner of her mouth, glanced carefully at the remote control in her hand, and pressed the red button on the upper left.

Immediately afterwards, a pitch-black door suddenly appeared behind the two of them. The pattern printed on the center of the door was two clashing sabers.

The sound behind made Xia Yinci and Elus look at each other and turned around.

Xia Yinci held the handle of the door and gently pushed open the door to a world that did not belong to her.

The two of them crossed the threshold and came to the other side of the door. On the other side is the scene of the campus, despite the hustle and bustle everywhere, but the surrounding is actually empty.

Suddenly, someone patted Xia Yinci on the shoulder cautiously, and Xia Yinci turned around quickly, scanning the person standing behind vigilantly.

"It's you, Xue Xueer."

Although Xia Yinci hadn't met him many times, at least she knew his name.

In my impression, Xue Xueer is a boy with the temperament of a little milk dog, and his dominance ability is "replica Vientiane".

Oh, wait... I remember that Xue Xueer seems to be a girl.

"If you're looking for Sister Luoluo...she's already looking for her next target, let me wait here and tell you."

Xue Xueer's eyes were evasive, not daring to look directly at Xia Yinci or Alusi.

However, if they leave first, it means that they have won the dominance of this dream.

"It turned out to be one step ahead of us."

Xia Yinci glanced at Xue Xueer as she spoke, but Xue Xueer's gaze, which was carefully raised, immediately lowered after this glance.

I heard that she seems to be a member of the news department... Is it really okay to be so shy?

"Where's Uncle William?"

"I don't know... I don't care..."

Xia Yinci was a little speechless. At any rate, Xue Xueer has not quit the game until now, so she should at least treat the ruler of the same clock, right?

"Can you have a snack..."

"Dim sum? What dim sum?"

Xue Xueer's answer, which seemed to be a cold joke, made Xia Yinci finally lose the idea of ​​continuing the conversation with her. Fortunately, at this time, Elus had already prepared the world gate, breaking the slightly awkward atmosphere between the two.

"We can't lag behind the black cats and the others, so let's go to the next target~"

"Why do you even call them that like Su Luoyang?"

Xia Yinci looked at Elus strangely. Although she just mentioned it casually, Elus somehow thought of something strange. She rubbed her crimson hair and her cheeks were dyed the same color as her hair. s color.

"Ah... well. The name he took didn't have any derogatory meaning, and it sounded nice, so I followed suit."

Hmph, at least it's much more normal than a name like Little Magic Meow!

"Elus...do you know? In our world, your personality is called 'Tsundere'~"