Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Stepping through the other side of the door, the dimness of vision was instantly replaced by the campus in the snow scene.

Sure enough, a line of countdown numbers appeared in the lead-colored sky, and there were still two days left in the three-day countdown.

The girl straightened her cloak, snorted lightly, and followed.

Due to the heavy snow, the windows of the teaching building are shining with the light of fluorescent lamps. However, looking in through the windows, every classroom is empty.

"Ah, is this... a school?"

The girl's eyes shone with curiosity, and her face was full of longing. She looked at the heavy snow floating in the sky and stretched out her hand, as if she was thinking about something.

However, when she turned her head to look at me, there was a flash of haste and displeasure in her eyes.

Put this frightened kitten back. When we meet again next time, she will definitely not give me a good face. Maybe she will be taught a lesson by the girl who turned back into a high-cold magician.

Well... I'd better dominate her as much as possible before this happens.

The intruders were of an illegal age, but no loss.

"Feel sorry!"

The girl took off her pointed hat abruptly and bowed to me. This sudden apology made me panic and my mind went blank.

I froze for a long time before gently helping her up.

"What are you doing? Suddenly..."

I have no idea why she apologized.

Her eyes wandered elsewhere, and she explained reluctantly:

"Because... Generally, the rulers who participated in the ruler's game have long-term lucid dream experiences. At that time, seeing that you didn't understand anything, they naturally laughed at you."

"Oh, so that's what happened..."

I didn't expect this proud girl to apologize to me.

However, I must have made a lot of determination to apologize.

I unconsciously changed my view of her, the girl is obviously not as conceited as I had imagined before.

In fact, he would be ridiculed. After all, it was Xia Yinci's problem...

Since none of the players participating in the game are new to lucid dreaming, why did Xia Yinci come to me?

Things are really urgent to the point of starvation and panic?

"Lies are not without reason~"

Thinking of her response at that time, she must be hiding something from me again, right?

My heart was eroded by the thick fog of lies, and I couldn't easily erase the displeasure caused by her concealment.

"You are a novice, I will tell others for you! I didn't stop Charte from teasing you before, and followed me here without authorization, and wanted to tease you... I am really sorry about this!"

I forced a smile, shook my head at her, and signaled her not to care about it anymore.

"So, you want to leave my dream, right? How can I help you?"

"First of all, we have to find Chart... Oh, you probably don't know him, he is the No. 10 ruler. After he and I entered here, we were separated into different places by your dream."

I nodded my head thoughtfully, wanting to use the power of the ruler again to create a device that can track the position of the ruler, but the girl tugged at my sleeve, interrupting my imagination.

"Um... you want to use your dominance to find Chart's location?"

"Yeah, but you're bothering me..."

I looked back at her with some displeasure. The girl stuck out her tongue apologetically.

"If you can't concentrate, you can't create anything."

"Don't tell me, you interrupted me just to tell me something that idiots understand..."

"No! Your excessive dominance of the dream will lead to the collapse of the dream. In order to prevent this from happening, I must supervise that you do not abuse the rights of the ruler... Although this is your dream, if you interfere too much with this dream, it will also affect the dream. to my..."

Looking at this girl who was forcibly switched to science popularization mode, I curled my lips and said nothing.

Seeing that I didn't continue, the girl stretched out her wounded hands, drew a neat circle in the air, and joined her fingers together.

A few seconds later, a ring rippling with purple light appeared out of thin air. Dense coordinates appeared in the ring, like a small radar, marking the surrounding locations.

The girl glanced back at me, and pointed to the star pattern in the center of the circle.

"The way to leave your dream is to enter the 'Dream Palace'. The dream abyss deep in the palace hides the exit from here, and we can also enter the center of the palace, where there is a world gate leading to the gap between dreams."

"So after finding Chart, I'll take you there, right? But what palace are you talking about?"

As a novice in lucid dreaming, I was inevitably confused.

The girl puffed up her cheeks, and gently stretched the index finger and thumb that were stagnant on the ring, and the other coordinates in the ring disappeared immediately. Only the star pattern representing the dream palace was enlarged into a clear picture picture of.

"Your dream scene is arranged and composed by the dream maker, and the story content of the dream is fabricated by the dream builder of the dream palace. Other people in the palace will try to protect your dream, so that your dream will not often dream Collapse."

I don't know if it's my illusion, after the girl knew that I was a novice in lucid dreaming, she seemed to explain some proper terms of the dream world to me on purpose.

This girl is surprisingly careful.

According to the girl's explanation afterwards, I almost understood the basic principle of the dream world's operation.

Everyone's dream has a dream palace, which is equivalent to the dream studio, just like a movie crew, arranging the story content of the dream, setting the scene, and some other trivial matters.

For example, who do you dream about when you dream? Where did you dream? what happened? These are all things that need to be completed to create a dream palace.

Most of the dream palaces are not like palaces, sometimes they are churches, or they may be schools.

A lucid dreamer is a dreamer who breaks away from the guidance of the dream palace and moves freely, but is not the real ruler.

Only those dreamers who can even move around the dream palace at will are the real rulers.

One of the privileges is being able to use the World Gate anywhere.

As for the dream abyss under the dream palace, it is the edge of the dream, so it is the main entrance and exit into the cracks in the dream.

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【※ Memory Village ※】

It usually manifests as the place that the dreamer is most familiar with or most desires to settle down in.

There are multiple memory towns in a dream, among which the "main memory town" is the most important place for dreamers. The center of the main memory town is where the dream palace is located.

【※ Dream Palace ※】

A place like a pillar will appear in every dreamer's dream, and this is the dream palace.

As the center of dream operations, it supports the overall stability of the dreamer's dreams.

In the stage of dream initialization, there are only three people in the dream palace: the dreamer, the dreamer, and the dreamer. Among them, the dreamer is responsible for driving away malicious invaders from outside his dream world.

In order to prevent the lucid dreamer from interfering with the dream palace and causing the dream to collapse, the dream palace will change according to the things the dreamer fears, so that the dreamer will be discouraged. The closer you get to the depth, the degree of fear will increase accordingly.

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"I understand the truth...but where is the dream palace you mentioned?"

"I don't know, I have to rely on you~"

"So troublesome...?"

"By the way... in order to maintain the stability of the dream, the people in your dream will even prevent you from going there."

The girl's words deepened my regret. This is obviously a troublesome thing.

"It's so troublesome...then I won't go, you can figure out a way for yourself..."

Hearing this, the girl hurriedly pulled me back, almost hugging my arm again with her whole body. She stared at me tearfully, as if she was about to cry in the next second.

"Don't go... Listen to what I have to say, as long as you enter the lucid dream state, the dreamer will not be able to stop you!"

Her aggrieved appearance was a fatal blow to me, and it made me feel a little guilty.

"I just wanted to scare you..."

I staggered to look directly at her and scratched my cheek

The cute loli really has a special magical power, she is so cute, even if I am not a lolicon, I will almost be turned into cute by her.

It is true that I feel troublesome for her, but I just want to tease her.

I didn't expect her reaction to be so big...

"Can you stop scaring me by saying you won't help me!"

The girl rolled her eyes, and responded to my apologetic words with displeasure.

"Okay! I won't tease you anymore, I will take you back..."

Um? I don't know why it feels like she has an opportunity to take advantage of, is it my illusion?

"If I don't believe you, a hook will do!"

She took a step closer to me without giving in, puffing up her cheeks and looking straight into my eyes.

I pouted, handed my hand to her helplessly, and then stretched out my little finger.

"Here, I promise you... I will definitely take you back."

The girl was delighted, and immediately stretched out her hand to hook my finger, as if her prey would escape if she moved too slowly.

"OK, the contract is established!"

The girl put on the face of a victor inexplicably, held the staff and knocked on the ground.

No, what kind of strange ritual is this completed?

"Why do I feel something is wrong..."

"Congratulations on being tricked~ This is the magic I am most proud of, and it can be used in other people's dreams."

She puffed her cheeks, looked a little displeased, and gave an explanation like alms:

"Mr. Staff is the witness of the covenant, and those who directly make an agreement with me cannot violate the agreement."

"What, are you kidding me?"

She nodded her head incredulously.

Hey... Isn't her outfit actually a cosplay?

A veritable magician?

This is a calculation!

I raised my eyebrows, suppressed my violent mood and said:

"I promised you from the beginning, it should be done. After all, you have answered so many questions of mine just now, thank you."

Speaking of this, I reached out and held her hand, making her panic again. She didn't expect me to accept her calculation so easily, she kept blinking her eyes and puffing her cheeks, as if thinking about whether there was something tricky about the agreement just now.

I immediately took advantage of the gap when her attention went astray.

"In the future, if I don't understand, I will ask you for advice. Please don't refuse me."

She also seemed to feel that there was nothing wrong with the agreement just now, so she simply waved her hand casually, crossed my fingers again, swung up and down twice, and agreed to my request condescendingly.

"It's a little thing, I promise you this little thing~"

As soon as the words fell, the calmness on her face disappeared without a trace. She hastily reached out and moved her hand to her mouth, and looked up at me.

"It's useless to cover your mouth if you speak out, splash water."

I stretched out my hand triumphantly, relying on the high position of the ruler, I manipulated the staff in her hand and flew towards me.

"Without such...that's cheating!"

I ignored her protests, caught the staff, and knocked it to the ground like her.

"The contract is established! Congratulations, you have also been tricked."

I put on an expression of happy cooperation.

The girl angrily snatched back her staff, and snorted as if she wanted to write her displeasure on her face.

"Forget it! Let's treat it as even!"

"Um……"

She is angry?

"By the way, I don't know your name yet..."

"Hmph! I don't want to tell you now, heartbreaker! You will regret that you lied to me!"