Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The man standing in the front looked down at me with his dark green pupils, and his hands were resting on a pole with four-legged ends. Through his fingers, he could see the piercing skull shape at the top of the stick, and there was a little light-like purple light in those empty eyes.

Even putting aside these, it makes people feel that he is obviously not a simple character.

Don't say anything at this time, I'm afraid they will take the initiative to attack, right? Just seeing the darkness behind him made me break out in a cold sweat. How can we get him to let us go?

"Hi~ How are you? Are you interested in forming an alliance?"

"..."

There was only deathly silence, without any response. It seemed to push me into an embarrassing situation, and I wished I could leave this ghostly place immediately, but due to the current situation, I still raised my eyebrows and coughed softly.

The girl in the dress standing next to the man kept waving her fan, and even the sound of this fan was enough to melt my whole body... At least I couldn't destroy my prestige by myself.

Want to go to war? No way... There is also an idiot lying on my lap and falling asleep, Xue Xueer doesn't look like a guy with fighting power... Think about it carefully - the tea cat who was in a confrontation with the dream madman just now is here, they should Are you afraid of her? As long as you threaten them a little, maybe you can get them down in reverse, right?

Due to the overload just now, the time available for mind reading is limited compared to usual, so more reasonable planning is required.

"Tea cat... can you scare them away?" I pried open the window that restricted mind reading, and conveyed my thoughts to the other person's brain.

"Hey, I'm sorry. I've almost reached my limit with Dream Maniac...I'm afraid I won't be able to help you in a short time."

"You guys, don't be bored over there." Suddenly, there was a muffled sound of the stick hitting the back, and I saw that the foolish yellow-haired man combined the three sticks in his hand and held it with both hands, "like this I don't understand what you guys are trying to do... just say something, I'm suffocated! That boy who looks like a bystander with a sour plum, start it."

The frown that was tightly furrowed instinctively unfolded, and I raised my eyebrows and pointed to myself, only to see that he raised his head impatiently, and swung the stick in front of him with his backhand.

Talk to me, don't swing the weapon around and play with it... In this way, I am afraid that I will be knocked to death by him if I say something wrong...

"Ahem." Anyway, I cleared my throat to show that I didn't ignore his words. But I noticed a sly smile in the crescent-like eyes of the girl next to him, and I always felt uneasy, so I couldn't help but be more cautious, "I should have overdone it just now, so let me say it again... Interested in forming an alliance?"

"It's okay, don't learn from those group of dream stealers. We don't like the idea of ​​forming an alliance, and we will kill each other in the end." Huang Mao said heartily, and at the moment I was thinking, I saw his wrist flicked, tight The stick in my hand suddenly shot directly towards me, even though I dodged to the side, but because I was still holding Xiao Lulu in my hand, I was still hit by the stick on my arm, and then directly tore my flesh and passed through.

"Ha, sure enough, going to war directly is the most passionate way."

The tingling sensation came too late because the shot was too fast. I took a few steps back, covered my arm vigorously, and tried my best to hug the falling Xiao Lulu with the other arm, embracing the fragrance in my arms. It's getting more and more unclear to me. What the hell is going on... Before I could think about it, Huang Mao raised his hand and retracted it slightly, and there was a soft rubbing sound on the ground, and I felt a little numbness in the other arm again, followed by pain In an instant, it exploded. Stirring the brain deep in the brain, cold sweat flowed down with the emotion of wanting to scream.

The tea cat on my shoulder couldn't help but jumped off the ground and turned into a human form, supporting Xiao Lulu who fell down because of my loss of strength. The stick was retracted to Huang Mao's body, and there was a sound of bones colliding with metal. The mind-reading technique erupted uncontrollably like losing my mind, and countless thoughts were intertwined and squeezed into my ears. I used my paralyzed hands to cover my ears desperately.

What exactly are they trying to do? Is that girl's smile deliberately diverting my attention? She must know how this yellow-haired man behaves. If the tea cat doesn't make a move once I'm injured, it means that she doesn't have the ability to fight against her now. take it out?

No...it seems that there is something wrong...Although from the moment the Dominator War was declared to start, the clocks of the various Dominators showed an opposing situation, but it is obviously a kind of self-defeating if you start enmity with everyone. way of perishing. Using the impulsiveness of the yellow hair, they can avoid the situation of being targeted by everyone to a certain extent.

On the contrary, we who were notified of the first murder may be at a slight disadvantage.

"Thank you for proving that killing the other party in general cannot be eradicated." The girl covered her mouth with a fan and said in a strange accent.

At the same time, the words she didn't say were clearly conveyed in the form of thoughts through mind reading——

"Since you can't eradicate your scum with your hands, and you will be targeted by others, then let you be in a situation where you can't hinder us..."

The girl put away her fan and glanced at the leading man. The leading man who was hinted at stretched out his index finger and waved it slightly, and the soldiers behind them all with thick arms rushed over neatly. It seems that I am destined to be taken away... I leaned against the wall, letting countless thoughts squeeze into my brain with limited capacity, and I was so exhausted that I couldn't think.

"Vientiane copy——!" Suddenly, a voice broke the established fact, and a white sky fell between us. When the soldier who was close at hand stretched out his hand, he was caught by the screen from our side. The screen appeared out of thin air, and the exact same wrist was grabbed!

Immediately afterwards, the scene really made me unbelievable—the mighty soldiers not only appeared on their side, but many soldiers who were exactly the same stood in front of us, blocking each other. For a moment, there was a suspicion of whether the other party had defected, and then the explanation came from the other party's No. 1 brain along with the suspicion.

Obviously putting on a calm expression, it turned out that his heart was already in a mess.

"My "Ghost Legion"...has been copied exactly! This is impossible!"

Probably due to his reluctance to admit defeat, many troops with similar outfits appeared behind him, but the screen was like a mirror, copying those troops to our side again.

I glanced at Xue Xueer in a daze. It was confirmed by seeing the cold sweat oozing from both his (her?) and No. 1's foreheads——

Duplicating the specified object, this is her dominant ability. The opponent's No. 1 is able to create an army of this level, and calls itself the "Ghost Army". No. 1 is in an overloaded state at this time, and Xue Xueer will also fall into overload to a certain extent if he wants to maintain the same number of legions as him. But judging from her slightly improved expression, the copy of her obviously saves a lot of effort.

After thinking about it, the members of the two legions have already found their opponents, and because of the complete duplication of power, they naturally fell into a draw.

It seems that Xue Xueer's dominance ability is more useful, it is to use the other party's ability to hold the other party down.

At this moment, there was a sudden hissing sound, and more than a dozen shattered lenses shot towards me. My brain collapsed again, and I was naturally unable to dodge, and my mind reading skills were instantly turned off because I exceeded the limit. And I was pulled over by a strange force. In a blink of an eye, I realized that it was the tea cat who pulled me aside forcefully. The lenses dug into the wall behind me, a testament to the strength of the yellow fur that threw them.

Hearing a disdainful "tch", the stick came again, but I didn't realize at all that it was just his foreplay. The stick was not thrown in my direction at all, but flew towards the mirrors, and disappeared behind the mirrors. Then, I saw my own reflection from the end of the mirror, and the next moment the stick jumped out of the mirror...

"Infinite mirror image." The corner of Huang Mao's mouth tilted to a cunning angle, and with his sound, I found that it was not just a mirror—all the mirrors that reflected my reflection had the same sticks...they hit my face The direction flashed over quickly... The speed that the naked eye could not catch, plus more than ten sticks attacking at the same time, even the tea cat was powerless.

"Joker!" came a rather non-standard Japanese English, my closed eyes were trembling constantly, and the moment I realized that there was no pain, I slowly opened my eyes. In front of him, many flying cards blocked the sticks in place. The No. 5 ruler named Kazuhiko Sato stood at the entrance of the alley, and the cards in his hand were still being thrown in the direction of the stick.

After distributing all the cards, he seemed to be manipulating the cards with his hand. The sticks were cut in half by the cards sharply. The moment of shattering was like a broken mirror, accompanied by shards of mirror, and finally gathered into sticks. Returned to Huangmao's hands. Huang Mao frowned tightly, his eyes flickered for a few seconds, and his eyes were a little cold.

"Araki!"

I looked around cautiously, but didn't find anything unusual. Finally, my eyes fell on the mirror, and a pair of curved eyes appeared behind the mirror that originally reflected me. As my eyes became clearer and clearer, I noticed that the eyes on the mirror were getting farther and farther away. Appearance, the Taoist uniform worn, and a slightly burly man, these features are all clearly presented on it.

The "Araki" called by the yellow hair should be the name of the dreamer... "Infinite mirror image" is his control ability, and he can use the reflections to attack... So, he let the dreamer act as The subject of the attack! Realizing this, I quickly yelled and got down, and pulled Sato Kazuhiko, who was still stunned, to the ground.

Sticking to the icy ground, I was startled to feel a dangerous streak passing behind me. I breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly raised my head cautiously. Several charms were burning not far behind him. The man named "Araki" sneered openly on the other side of the mirror.

There was noise from the town, and the street across the alley was crowded with many residents, looking in our direction curiously. Discussions such as "he is the man pointed out by Princess Zero" and "has the new campaign started?" are endless. The central fountain sometimes emits dazzling light when it sprays water, and sometimes stands there quietly.

"Thank you for your hospitality just now, it would be too impolite not to give something in return!"

At the end, the voice was a little hard, and the moment I realized what he was doing, there was a tingling pain in my neck, and I couldn't help but "呵", and the palm that touched the neck reflected blood stains. The lens that brushed my neck sank into the wall to my right.

"Kazuhiko Sato, right... Since you can manipulate objects, is there a way to send my dream maker somewhere else?"

"This doesn't work, but I might have a way to help them escape from here." Kazuhiko frowned, and his counting fingers seemed to be calculating something. I froze for a moment, then looked elsewhere in the blink of an eye, and the scene that suddenly broke into my eyes shocked me unceasingly - countless lenses stretched all the way forward and stuck on the wall, reflecting the same figure.

"Let's fall into reincarnation!" Araki's voice passed the mirror and came to his ears clearly... It seemed that something terrible would happen.

"Pay attention to Sato Kazuhiko's hint! Take the opportunity and take Xiao Lulu to find a way to escape first!" I quickly told the tea cat, she nodded slightly, and Sato Kazuhiko pointed to the window on the upper left with his eyes, The tea cat froze for a moment, hugged Xiao Lulu and jumped over there, trying to jump into the window, but a piece of yellow paper with a spell on it jumped in front of them, and the tea cat had to turn back step.

Xue Xueer probably also noticed that our side was in trouble, and turned his gaze here, as if he wanted to turn here to help, but because of a momentary distraction, our copied legion instantly lost a few people.

"Don't be distracted while fighting. This is the foundation."

As soon as the man with dark green eyes finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the vacant soldier immediately attacked Xue Xueer. She turned her head quickly, and with the help of "Copy Vientiane", the bright white sky disappeared for a moment and blocked her again. In front of Xue Xueer's eyes, the number of people also returned to the level at this time.

And I don't have time to care about them, because one after another spells are flying across the mirror, although the flying speed is slow, they follow us as if they have a soul, and we can't get rid of them. I had no choice but to move my legs all the way, circling with Sato Kazuhiko to prepare the Command Seals to collide with each other, thus eliminating these troubles following closely...but my physical strength wanted to surrender first.

At that moment, Sato Kazuhiko's fingers counted down to zero, I quickly raised my head, and the tea cat and Xiao Lulu she was holding by the window disappeared in an instant, replaced by hundreds of playing cards falling one by one from there down, forming a columnar shape.

At this time, He Yan and I turned to the same place again, and when we intersected, we dodged to the side at the same time, and several spells successfully collided together and emitted a strange light.

The person behind the mirror is constantly waving his fingers, manipulating them to continue chasing. He Yan also refused to admit defeat, and manipulated all the scattered cards on the ground into the air. While pointing at the mirror, all the cards rushed up, and the broken lens fell to the ground with a crisp tearing sound.

It is reasonable to say that their abilities are comparable to ours, and it is no problem to be able to contain them... However, we cannot escape easily because of this, and besides, that fan girl is really disturbing. She seems to be looking for the best time to come on stage... As more and more shattered lenses increase, the number of spells also plummets.

The eyebrows on the back of the waving fan suddenly frowned, and the wrist stopped to put the fan away. In the next moment, the water in the nearby fountain was all rolled into waves out of thin air, and there was also converging water in other directions. The land gathered here. The residents of the block hurriedly pushed aside. I also quickly dodged to the side, and the water wave washed away the spell.

"You guy, are you messing with your own business?" I sneered, pointed at the fan girl and said in a mocking tone. But her expression didn't change at all, as if she was laughing at me instead, I was a little puzzled by her reaction, "What the hell are you laughing at?"

"You are only allowed to laugh?"

She raised her eyebrows and asked back. I stared at her wordlessly, suddenly remembered something, and quickly lowered my head. The stagnant water spread out on the smooth ground, reflecting my reflection.

The "mirror" that cannot be cut by playing cards is completed,

"As long as we defeat you, there's no need to deal with this kind of trouble all the time..."

Kazuhiko manipulated all the cards and flew towards Fanzi and Huangmao, cutting off the fan she was playing with and a few strands of hair. She showed a flustered expression for a moment, her eyes wandered for a while, and she suddenly thought of something. She raised her hands, and the accumulated water jumped into the air again, soaking the cards.

The moment the playing card was about to cut into Huang Mao's arm, suddenly the water poured directly onto his body, and the card lost its sharpness in an instant. However, Huang Mao was also a little confused by the sudden cold water, and it took him a long time to turn his head and look at Fan Zi.

"Are you an idiot?"

"You... If I hadn't been here, you would have followed in the footsteps of the twelfth clock and been destroyed!"

"You mean to let me thank you? I'm so wet and uncomfortable..."

"If you want to chat, get away from me."

The dark green pupil interrupted their conversation in a steady tone. In a state of confrontation with others, can you still complain so calmly?

It seems that this guy has great potential in terms of making complaints, and I am almost a successor...

What a ghost!

——At the other end of the stagnant water left on the ground, the spells rushed into reality again in groups.

"This girl's ability is somewhat similar to yours...you should all have the ability to manipulate, right? Can you make water...fly around like her? Or spells can also be used?" I shouted and kept dodging As he spoke, Sato Kazuhiko shook his head awkwardly, but there was no trace of fear in his eyes.

"It's the same type of ability, but there are differences. Although the spell should meet the conditions...but it doesn't seem to be a real thing in the dream world, not material...I can't manipulate it."

From this point of view, my abilities are also similar to theirs. It's just that what I manipulate is people's inner thoughts, and I can't distort them.

"You two, do you still have time to chat?" Araki's voice surpassed reality and rang in his ears. At that moment, the spell was split into two, and it was Fanzi who moved the part of the yellow hair back to the ground! The stagnant water seems to continue to extend. I deeply felt that I couldn't hold on anymore, and I lost the strength to dodge when the spell flew directly.

I have also tried my best. If you are caught by them, you can find a way to kill yourself, just wait for four hours. The bystander's punishment came so soon. Just as I was thinking wildly, Sato and Hikoko suddenly dragged me to the side, and my head hit the wall behind me alive, but it also made me sober up a lot.

"Stay a little longer. Senior will be here soon!" Sato Kazuhiko looked into my eyes seriously, what he meant...was I delaying time?

"Okay, then I'll struggle again..." I propped myself up against the wall and stood up, wading through the water and running desperately. As long as we leave the vicinity of the stagnant water, we will have a chance to fight back.

However, at the moment when the entrance of the alley was close in front of us, Kazuhiko Sato suddenly pulled me around and turned into another alley.

"Hey are you crazy?"

The road ahead of me was covered with stagnant water, and just as I had the idea of ​​breaking free from his hand, a male voice came——

"Shape-shifting!"

The moment I heard this sentence, I saw a dazzling golden light, and I couldn't help closing my eyes. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in the air, and Kazuhiko Sato was on my right.

I looked down in surprise—Huangmao and Fanzi were standing at my original position, and they also stared wide-eyed and didn't understand what happened.

"Senior, he caught up..."

Sato Kazuhiko smiled, I was stunned, and went up a certain distance, only to find that above the roof, a man was looking at the situation below, and Chamao and Xiao Lulu were also in that position.

After thinking for a few seconds, I realized that this man is the No. 2 ruler, Kaede Watanabe.

"You... what did you do..."

I gave him a confused look, but he put his fingers over his mouth and gestured for me not to look in his direction.

"Let's lead one of them to the rooftop, and leave the rest to Senior..."

Kazuhiko whispered in my ear, I was stunned for a moment, then heaved a sigh of relief, looked at him and nodded his head. After all, now is not the time to get to the bottom of it.

"what's wrong with you?"

Huangmao couldn't understand what was going on, so he yelled at us, and the stick in his hand made a sound due to knocking.

"If I say that I have two dominance abilities, what do you think of this explanation?"

Sato Kazuhiko responded quickly, and I turned my eyes to think.

"Who will believe your nonsense!"

As soon as the words fell, the sticks were thrown together again, and the cards scattered in the pool flew into the air at the same time to support each other to form a shield.

Throwing the stick and colliding with it seems to be hard to tell the winner because of equal strength. Both of them had cold sweat on their foreheads.

Damn... is there anything I can do to help?

I froze for a moment, then focused my attention on the girl fan, and suddenly thought of something. I deliberately pretended to be flustered and glanced at her, then I hurriedly ran behind her, and sure enough there was the sound of the other party chasing her in a hurry.

"I'll leave this poker player to you!"

The Fan Girl hastily made an imperative order, and turned to chase me.

"You have been chasing me, do you want to do something special with me?"

I deliberately said in a provocative tone, then turned around and approached the rooftop quietly.

"The reason why my fan was broken is your fault, and you must pay for it."

"Hey...you are sick, he broke that fan, ask me to pay it back! Do you want meat?"

"Irreverent commoner, let you fall here today, and fall into an eternal deep sleep!"

"Aren't you tired of talking like this? You must be very tired..."

Before I finished speaking, I saw her quite angry, and then I felt a huge pressure coming from the top of my head, and I quickly dived down and circled to hide behind her. The pressure poured directly on both of us... This woman is a lunatic, she even attacked herself...

Wait... Although I want to lure her there, it's okay if I forcefully grab her there, right?

I didn't care what happened and hugged her quickly. Then this guy snorted too much, which made me feel a little guilty. With a turbulent and conflicted mood, I just dragged her to the rooftop and dragged her to the floor.

"Shape-shifting!"

At this moment, Watanabe Feng shouted these words without hesitation, and Fanzi disappeared in front of his eyes in an instant, replaced by Xue Xueer who was raising his hand to maintain a state of alert.

Seeing us suddenly in front of her eyes, she showed a rather stunned expression. I thought of something, I leaned over the railing and looked towards the alley, the person standing opposite the dark green pupil turned into a fan girl.

And those ghost legions lost their opponent's resistance for a moment, leaned towards her uncontrollably, and knocked her to the ground. On the other side, Kazuhiko Sato squinted his eyes, freed his hand with difficulty, and pointed behind Huang Mao. When Huang Mao saw this scene, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. The playing cards had already scratched his distracted arm first, and Sato Kazuhiko was gone in a blink of an eye.

"Anyway...thank you in advance."

I turned my gaze back to the two people who came to help me, and thanked them solemnly.

"Don't talk about it, they will find us sooner or later if you stay here!" Watanabe Feng reminded softly, then glanced at Xue Xueer, and asked, "Can you go back there by yourself?"

"I won't fly around like you guys... Uncle William brought me down just now..."

After Xue Xueer finished speaking, Watanabe Feng nodded to show that he understood.

"excuse me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he hugged Xue Xue'er who was a boy, got up and jumped, and rushed in the direction of the No. 2 clock. Sato Kazuhiko returned to the rooftop and followed after him in a daze.

"Well, shall I come?"

I glanced at the tea cat and pointed to Xiao Lulu who was holding her hands. But as soon as I said it, I regretted it, and now once I was idle, the arm pierced by the yellow-haired stick would cause me to grit my teeth in pain, accompanied by a chill. But the tea cat shook his head gently.

"Hey, I suggest that the master should watch the timing when flirting with girls. When you want to help a girl, if it means helping another girl in disguise, it will not improve your favorability~"

"Where did you learn this from! And don't call me master, I haven't seen any other dreamer call that, it makes me feel like I have a hobby!"

"There are many text adventure games in the master's room, is it called "galgame"? I learned it from there, hehe~ Also, master, you can't fly yourself, right?"

"...I told you not to call me master." I sighed helplessly, got up and chased after him, "How can you be sure that I won't? If you didn't drag me down without saying a word just now, I definitely wouldn't That's what it's called! This kind of thing can be done using "imagination". In lucid dreaming, I was spying on the dreams of the students..."

When I mentioned this incident, the guilt for the students who were spied on by me in their dreams flashed helplessly in my heart for a moment. The voice of the next conversation immediately became much lower.

"...Anyway, I've tried it many times in my dreams too."

"Is that so~ then I will leave the master alone~"

The tea cat smiled and left first, and I also sighed softly, unintentionally complaining that she still uses this name, and followed closely behind.

...

Following the tea cat back to the side of the second clock, I found that she stopped suddenly, and I immediately widened my eyes in surprise, looking at everything in front of me in disbelief.

Parts 1-3 of our clock are split by something, and split apart, crumbling. William was looking gravely at the place where the clock had broken.

"Hey, what the hell... what happened?"