Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

"But people in the world have never seen gods with their own eyes, and they have different impressions of gods because of different myths. I also want you to know who I offended, so I can't leave you with any ambiguity. That's why I chose that A girl who is similar to me, let her be punished by God at an age similar to mine."

Although the girl's tone was as indifferent as before, as if she was just talking about a very normal thing, but I could hear a bit of resentment hidden in her voice.

It was as if she had experienced great misfortune once, and it was thousands of people who caused her misfortune.

"Unfortunately, the plan has been abolished now~ I have considered the alternative plan carefully, and I have been troubled for a long time, and then I suddenly felt that maybe there is no need to let you see the gods of resentment, because when disasters come, the world will naturally turn to itself. Prayer of faith, whether it is religion, mythology, or science, the world will naturally confess to these things.”

The vision of lying in the abyss suddenly changed from dark to bright, across the bloody entrance in the distance, and then the burning red sky immediately looked above me.

"I forgot to mention that there are four reasons: neither of you wants the world to come to an end, you can do anything for what you believe in, you have abandoned reality, you have betrayed destiny, no one is more suitable than you to fight against the end of the world .And this fateful battle is your only chance to prevent the end of the world.”

——Here is where the story begins.

The stars hidden in the crimson sky seem to be calling for our help all the time, and the huge clock standing out of nowhere under the twinkling starlight, the town that breeds evil spirits and bottomless ruins.

"Rulers, welcome to the cracks in the dream—"

From an ancient clock tens of meters away—a place called the "Observer's Clock"—the sound resounded all around.

I suddenly wondered, when the Dominator game was not called "Domination War" and there was no dream madman who claimed to be an observer, whether it was the start of the game announced by such a girl standing on the huge clock.

I don't know why, but the scene I imagined made me feel unprecedentedly lonely.

"This is the sacred place where the rulers wish to recognize the Tomb of Battle Souls. It is the realm of gods where countless dreamers go on and on to plunder each other. In this "War of Dominion", I will personally be the observer. There are no rules in the game. Please listen to me." Now~ I will look forward to your performance. Please——write the final ending to the cracks in the dreams since 1998!"

As soon as the voice fell, the ancient clock lost its light. There are only two lone Roman numerals emitting dazzling light above the sky, and the world is only echoing.

Lin Yu and I looked at each other in unison, and we smiled wryly at the same time, as if mocking our fate of nowhere to escape.

This time I also began to believe that there may really be such a thing in the world that determines what is destined to happen in our life. Even if we escape by chance, it will reappear in the same form in a short time. Just like us today, we come and go and eventually return to the original point.

He couldn't hear Lin Yu's inner voice, and he was still not ready to speak, so he could only guess what he was thinking from his penetrating eyes.

Hey, if you are misusing "one person with thousands of faces", can you hear my thoughts?

If it were you, I think you would definitely spy on the other person's mind in advance. Because you found out that I haven't decided to fight yet, that's why you haven't moved for a long time, right?

However, this time I don't want to give up. It is impossible for me to entrust my life to others.

I want to win; I want to dominate this absurd world; I want to get the truth of the world; I want to personally challenge the gods above me.

— want to live.

Lin Yu, what do you think?

【Meeting you has long been a fateful accident, you are the only person I should choose. So, please don't regret meeting me anyway. 】

Suddenly, a pure and clean female voice echoed close to my ears, making my heart itch uncontrollably.

It was as if someone was hugging the nape of my neck—warm breath against my ear, soft hair touching my collarbone—and she was whispering something she didn't want others to hear.

Lazy like a cat, but more serious than anyone else when he is serious; fresh like tea, but more affectionate than anyone else in front of the one he loves.

[What you have is the favor of the gods. Although as a god, I don't have the confidence to bring you happiness, but I will do my best as a god to work hard for your happiness. 】

That being the case—you must give your all, and fight to the end with an aura that won't lose to anyone.

I immediately bent down and sprinted towards Lin Yu, stretched out my hand bent into a "C" shape to the air on the right, and pulled out the pitch-black blade to slash towards Lin Yu.

Almost at the moment when the dark light fell, the fully armed mechanical units made the noise of the engine running, blocked Lin Yu who was still motionless, and took the blow. But Lin Yu in front of him had changed into another look, his dark green pupils reflected the flames of metal scraping against each other at a high speed, and at the same time, dark tides emerged behind him, rising and falling like mountains and seas.

Take a closer look—it's the mechanical soldiers in front of me, and they spread to hundreds of meters behind Lin Yu in numbers of hundreds or thousands.

I deliberately slowed down the strength in my hands, letting the opponent's strength overwhelm me and lean forward, so I immediately raised my foot and kicked it in the chest, which dissipated instantly when it hit Lin Yu's body.

But I am not allowed to swing a knife at Lin Yu, the mechanical army behind him has already used his waving hand as an order, and the machines in the front row pushed Lin Yu up and lifted him up, and then the turbulent undercurrent rushed towards me. , I flew tens of meters away with this force in an instant, and crashed into a nearby clock.

Before the feeling of falling came, I reflexively swung the sickle backwards, piercing it into the inside of the clock, gripping the handle of the knife violently, turned over and jumped onto the clock, and then pulled out the sickle for defense. And the dark tide on the opposite side roared endlessly, jumping off the clock one after another, creating a huge motor force to float in the air, and at this moment it was close to the clock under my feet.

During this period, Lin Yu himself was just sitting on top of the surging machinery, with his fingers tied together to symbolize progress, commanding the clanging army below.

"I'm sorry...!"

The machines in the front row hit the clock under me one after another, pushing the huge clock base to accelerate in the air. I suddenly lost my footing, my arms instinctively found balance, and at the same time I took a step back and spread my feet. As for the machines in the second echelon, they climbed up the clock and approached me one after another, using the machines that pushed the clock as a backing.

Based on the current self alone, fighting with Lin Yu would only passively suffer from group attacks. As far as I know, there are dark green pupils, mirror masters, black knights, and Baitu Mei who can use the dominance abilities of four people for him, let alone how many people's domination abilities he has stored in "one person with thousands of faces" over the years .

Puppet Legion, Mirror Inversion, Invisible Barrier, and Absolute Observation.

Including Lin Yu's own mind-reading ability, as well as the mind interference technique that had not yet been revealed that caused Baitu Mei's death.

Besides, I don't know if Lin Yu can use multiple masks at the same time.

If you can't use the "fantasy clock" at this point, then what's the point of its existence?

Can you push yourself to the point where you can't do anything just by being under the influence of drugs?

——Then it seems like I was chosen.

There was a change in the air, and the mechanical soldier approaching me raised the lightsaber in his hand high, swiping through the air and making a continuous buzzing sound.

I held the sickle horizontally with both hands, and swung it out with my right hand. The pitch-black Li Guang cut through the thorns and thorns all the way, and the electric sparks floated into the distance irregularly in the airflow. I closed my eyes abruptly, and slapped my chest fiercely with my right hand, right in the middle of the scar left by Lin Yu's previous dagger.

The pain made me grit my teeth and clutch the clothes on my chest.

The knuckles were pressed against the wrapped bandage, stained with blood that flowed again, and the intensified pain affected the injury Su Huilin slashed on my shoulder.

Perception is stimulated in such a way that the palm of the hand becomes sensitive to touch.

It's just a dream, but it gives me the same sense of reality as reality.

I complained from the bottom of my heart about this matter that I had felt deeply from the beginning, and finally felt the temperature in my palm that was so hot that it burned my skin, but I missed it so much. I seemed to dive into the sea to find the straw that made my life hang by a thread. I was afraid that the hard-won temperature would slip away, and I clenched my hands tightly on my chest to feel the seemingly invisible touch.

The pointer gradually took shape in my palm, and I really felt its existence. Dazzling flames were about to move in the depths of my eyes, I resisted the burning pain in my eye sockets, and pushed and pulled the hour hand to 11 o'clock. In an instant, a golden clock was opened on the chest, and the dazzling white lightning scattered immediately caught up with the sickle I threw out.

Almost at the same time, an undercurrent of air flow erupted from the pitch-black blade to spread out the plane, cutting off all the machinery passed by the rapidly spreading flat slash, forming a smooth cut surface. In the next moment, the mechanical units with their half-cut bodies produced sparks one after another, spreading the air wave of the explosion, and the dark tide extending far into the field of vision was suddenly pierced by the light of rumors.

Lin Yu, who was sitting quietly above the mechanical soldier just now, noticed the abnormality, and immediately stepped on the shoulder of the mechanical soldier who started to emit electric sparks. The second they jumped into the sky, the flames that spread to the entire legion immediately exploded with the roar, creating a powerful explosion cloud, and burst into a mushroom-shaped airflow for a while.

Lin Yu's figure disappeared into the mushroom cloud hovering above, but I knew better than anyone that he was just playing tricks to temporarily disappear.

I immediately looked around, while holding the pointer in my palm against my chest, the golden clock automatically retreated to my eyes, while stepping on the pointer of the ruler's clock, I jumped up with the help of the instant elastic force, and rushed into the thick mushroom cloud . At the same time, the sickle I left in mid-air vibrated weakly, suddenly broke through the fog that covered my vision, split the pungent gas around me and made my vision relatively visible, and then flew back to me by itself. In my hand, I gripped the handle of the knife and settled down.

Except for the crimson in the field of vision, I couldn't find any figure that could break this monotony. Lin Yu must be deliberately avoiding my existence, and maybe he is planning to sneak attack.

...Sneak attack?

A premonition of danger flashed behind me, and I hastily turned the sickle around behind me. The tip of the knife immediately hit the solid wall, but I couldn't see anything there with the naked eye. The figure of the black knight flitted out of the corner of my vision, and the sickle was thrown out by my conditioned reflex, but was stopped by an invisible wall and bounced back into my hand.

Ready to trap me in the cage formed by the barrier? Thinking of this, the temperature in the palm suddenly rose several times, and the golden clock reflected the opening of the pupils, and the minute hand wobbled counterclockwise to 11:35. I imitated Xia Yinci's appearance in my memory, and immediately waved my palms to push the power of manipulating gravity and clapping to my right.

The dominance ability that once belonged to me now feels strange to use.

But Lin Yu didn't fall into my line of sight as I expected, only the gas cloud that gathered again was blown to the right by the abnormal gravity.

It's gone...?

No,

Lin Yu is not the type to easily distance himself from the enemy!

Almost the moment I turned away from the corner of my eye, the explosive impact hit the wall on my left side, and I hurriedly switched the sickle to my left hand to hold it. I saw the middle-aged man who I missed kicked hard through the barrier and entered the inside of the cage. The gun pointed at my head and burst into flames, colliding with the scythe I swung quickly.

The bullets were cut and split into two sides. William passed over me and fell to the right, his figure changed back to the appearance of a black knight for a short while, and landed on the barrier on the right to stand still.

Does he want to limit the scope of our actions to this narrow area at the expense of his own freedom?

Lin Yu lightly twisted the cigarette butt and put it to his mouth. The moment a tiny spark ignited the end of the cigarette, the person standing in front of him had already put on William's mask.

"It's not good to get addicted to smoking like this."

"Oh, I misunderstood you? I used to quit because the school didn't allow me."

"Does the notorious "truancy teacher" care about such rules——"

I took advantage of his unpreparedness to rush forward and took the initiative to close the distance with him, but Lin Yu observed my movement one step earlier, and only leaned slightly to avoid the scythe's slash in an extremely dangerous posture.

"You bastard, when did you use one person with thousands of faces on Uncle William?"

"It's through Mei Baitu's memory. So what I restored was not William himself, but the "William" in Baitu Mei's eyes."

"It took a lot of trouble...why not just use Shirato Mei's mask? Show me how far you have grown?"

As I said, I quietly noticed the barrier below from the corner of my eye. There is a distinct sense that the six walls that trap us are moving to one place at the same time, but always maintaining the same shape and size.

"Wouldn't it be strange to use a female mask? Besides, Mei Shirato and I are in the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. I don't want to be shaken by this."

"You really like to be persistent in inexplicable places forever."

While speaking, I swung the blade at Lin Yu's side unpreparedly, and at the same time turned the weight to the left. Lin Yu is no more proficient in using it than William and Baitu Mei. Even if he detects my movements in advance, as long as it causes a surprise attack that he can't avoid, he can take advantage of the opportunity to decipher his absolute observation. But unexpectedly, he turned around in the air, perfectly avoiding the attack in the middle.

"Besides, don't you think it's a wonderful feeling? When the person you love dies, the memory of the other person about you that you don't know will disappear forever, just like the world Another version of you has left this world. Is that another reason why people feel so sad when they die?"

The William standing in front of me is the version of Mei Shirato who survived in her memory. It's not the real William, nor the William that Charter knew, but the William that only Lin Yu remembers in this world—in this case, the dominance used by the "Fantasy Clock" may also be left in a certain version of this world who.

I suddenly grasped the pointer on my chest tightly. The high temperature burning in the palm of the hand suddenly brought no more pain, but also the residual warmth of the living and the dead. I close my eyes, and the hour and minute hands of the clock enter a new time point—the dead who pushed me forward when I was always confused in my heart are the version of them in my heart, and they are also the memory that I can only guard.

His thoughts drifted away in the smoke blown by Lin Yu, and Lin Yu suddenly stepped on the bottom facing the smoke, using the invisible pedal that he called to the bottom at some time to provide the jumping force, so as to quickly get closer to me who had just struck the air , The muzzle of the gun was raised to the top of my head, and I pulled the trigger without hesitation.

— 2:25,

When the gun rang, the skin was torn apart and blood burst——

Lin Yu looked into my eyes triumphantly, but the gun in his hand went nowhere.

Suddenly, a strong sense of discomfort was congested all the way to his throat, and the blood that he couldn't help coughing up stained Lin Yu's palm red.

The scars pierced by the bullets reflected blood on Lin Yu's abdomen, and there were obvious tears in his clothes.

His right eyebrow was throbbing non-stop, pain and doubt in his heart at the same time. Immediately afterwards, the sound of the gun body falling to the wall appeared behind him one step too late. He immediately covered the wound and removed the pedal close to his back. point me in the right direction.

"Watanabe Kaede's, 'Shape-shifting'."

Lin Yu didn't act rashly, but pressed his finger on the trigger, and called out the pedals to extend to the same level as me, forming an invisible staircase. As if stepping on nothingness to approach my position, the muzzle of the gun in his hand seemed to burst into sparks at any time.

I didn't allow him the opportunity to get closer to me, and temporarily let go of the thumb and index finger of the right hand holding the pointer, and made a sound of twisting and rubbing. The sudden snapping of fingers stopped Lin Yu's pace, and suddenly the cards came from nowhere to occupy his vision, turned into sharp knives and shot at him one after another, cutting through the air as if dragging phantoms.

"whispering sound……"

The position of the pedal seems to have shifted. Lin Yu changed direction to avoid the strafing of the cards. Using the invisible pedal as a shield, he blocked the cards from colliding with each other and made the sound of glass breaking. His moving direction deviated more and more to the barrier above. . At the moment when he was only a few meters away from the top, cards from all directions gathered in his direction and launched a fierce attack.

Theoretically, it is under a stronger offensive than any position, but Lin Yu's suicidal approach actually has ulterior motives. He waited until the cards were all aimed at one point, then suddenly stretched his hands forward, and the barrier opened in an instant blocked dozens of sharp blows in one breath, and the cards were buckled on the invisible barrier like a scene in a kaleidoscope.

However, on my side, I was waiting for Lin Yu himself to narrow the range of action to a very limited point - at this moment, he couldn't move anywhere except the left and right sides, so I immediately reversed the position of him and the cards, and the flying light turned around in an instant. Entered the other end of the barrier, lost its attack power and floated down.

On the other side, Lin Yumang raised his arm to block the surrounding Li Guang, and the card immediately shredded the muscles of his arm and brushed against his cheek. He casually wiped off the blood on his face and set up another barrier to block the attack of the cards. This round finally exhausted all the cards as he wished. He swung away the barrier full of cards, and the flames in his eyes suddenly There is a shift.

I suddenly noticed a change, but it was too late for me to respond—the barrier thrown aside by Lin Yu suddenly made a sound of falling apart, and as it scattered debris all over the ground, I suddenly found that they were no longer invisible in my eyes, but like The glass reflected the light that was sweeping down on it like that, and now my reflection was all illuminated.

Dangerous omens fell from the sky like raindrops, I raised my eyes hastily, and saw the flying sticks going straight to the center of the lens, and the mirror image reflected by the lens was instantly reflected to reality, and the same number of sticks as the mirror Quickly flashed in my direction.

I threw out the scythe almost instinctively, splitting the first batch of approaching sticks, but the next batch of offensives followed almost seamlessly, as if in revenge for the strafing I had just done to him.

But the extremely short gap between the two batches of offensives has brought about a turning point. The hour hand tremblingly reversed to 9:50. Pointed hat on top of head. The moment my gaze passed through my fingertips, a huge six-pointed star was released from the top of the scepter, pointing directly in front of me.

The me you have in mind—another version of me—is the hero who brought you back to reality and saved you.

With your departure, the memory about me disappeared, and another part of me that I didn't know was taken away. However, if death has no meaning in the first place, and it is the meaning given to it by the influence of the living, then I hope that the meaning you leave me is to let me become the me in your mind.

No longer muddle along, or even let others impose their wishes on themselves; no longer be self-satisfied, and make your liking for me unworthy.

If possible, I am willing to become a god who can make this world interesting as you hope;

Even if the road ahead will be lonely, I will still choose this way out.

Because I should have known that I had no choice—

Exquisite lines were reflected on the scepter, and the dazzling six-pointed star quickly spread the light to the entire magic circle, and the expanded shield covered half of the sky, blocking the flying sticks.

——Lin Yu, I hope you can connect with me at least at this moment.

If you think the same thing as me, please seize the opportunity I create next and act now!