Wizard's Journey

Chapter 504 Bold Guesses

Thoughts change in an instant.

As if he had thought of something deeper, Green suddenly took out the Awakening Lamp from the dimensional gap. At the same time, he invoked the original will of the wizarding world to condense himself from an illusion into a physical form, and then disappeared in the witch's eyes.

The things that happened to this witch apprentice in her dream were like everything Grimm saw in the dimensional gap. Her reaction seemed much slower; she didn't show any surprise at the various bizarre phenomena, nor did she really believe them.

After all, who would believe in a dream?

Even if the dream feels incredibly real, it's still just a dream.

As for the scenes of prophetic guidance in dreams that appear in some biographical novels, prophecy itself is extremely rejected in the face of the unpredictable and endless fate of the world in the eyes of wizards.

Any prophecy other than that of an omnipotent "God" in our ideal world is absurd and ignorant.

The moment Green disappeared, the witch rushed to the baby and held him in her arms, tears of anguish streaming down her face.

"It's all Mom's fault, it's all Mom's fault. It's understandable that you resent Mom. Mom shouldn't have dragged you into her resentment of that faithless man. It's all Mom's fault, sob sob sob..."

The sobbing sound was the same sound Green heard when he first arrived at the castle.

Green seemed to be an invisible person, silently observing everything.

"Ya ya yi ya..."

The baby let out a joyful laugh, seemingly enjoying the warmth of its mother's arms. Its eyes were wide open and incredibly bright, and its tender little hands reached out towards the female magic apprentice's fair face.

"My child..."

The witch apprentice held the baby tightly in her arms, kissing it, crying and laughing.

Gradually, in Green's eyes, the dilapidated little house in the nightmare world began to emit a golden light, as beautiful as a wonderful dream, and definitely not a nightmare!

Splash splash splash splash...

The witch apprentice and the baby in her arms turned into countless golden specks of light and vanished, flying into the rift in the world. The brief moment of bliss gradually disappeared, and the clock in the room began to tick again.

Meanwhile, the cracks in the world on the wooden bed gradually healed in the dead of night in the nightmare world.

"Waaaaah, it's my fault, it's my fault..."

The sobbing of the witch's apprentice came from the gradually closing rift in the world, while on the other side, the younger sister seemed to have been awakened as well.

"Sister, what's wrong? Did you have another nightmare?"

The witch apprentice suppressed her sobs.

"It's all in the past. Everything that happened is just our experience. The future is what we have to face. It was my fault back then. I shouldn't have lost the baby because of him..."

The sound ceased as the cracks in the world closed.

Green went to the window and looked out at the hazy mist in the distance of the nightmare world, sorting through his discoveries from entering the nightmare world over the past few days.

First, just now.

The witch apprentice had just entered the nightmare world, and the powerful feeling she gave Green a sense of powerless awe, as if he were facing the Winter Guardian of the Wizarding World!

This is definitely not a normal phenomenon.

The other party descended from time and space, causing an inexplicable distortion in spacetime in that instant, and even the clock stopped completely.

And the other party was actually calling him a monster?

In the other person's eyes, am I a monster from a nightmare world?

After dispelling the original will of the wizarding world and placing the Awakening Lamp into the dimensional rift, Grimm looked at his own distorted, nightmare-filled palm and fell into deep thought.

Through the infant nightmare shadow in this room, the first thing Green knew was that the essence of this nightmare shadow was the witch apprentice's guilt.

Generally speaking, psychological trauma can gradually heal through dreams, which is perfectly normal.

The witch's apprentice's psychological trauma stemmed from the abortion she suffered after a complicated emotional relationship. She harbored guilt about it and hoped to heal this guilt and psychological trauma through her dreams.

Under normal circumstances, what just happened in this room should have started much earlier.

It can be said that in that instant just now, the instant the witch apprentice entered the nightmare world room, she represented the will and rules of the entire world, because this dream was created by her.

but……

Green took out the black ash collected in the clear glass bottle.

It was because of this black ash that Green guessed it was the metabolic dander of terrifying creatures from the nightmare world that enveloped the baby. As a result, the witch apprentice's original dream of psychological healing turned into an eternal nightmare, constantly tormenting her.

If it were a creature from another world with a weak will, it would probably have been affected by such a situation long ago. However, as a carrier of spiritual power and knowledge evolution, the most basic characteristic of a wizard is that he must always maintain his wizardly rationality and even continuously meditate to consolidate it.

Thus, the shadow of nightmares only affects the dream world and will never affect the wizard's judgment in reality!

This is how the terrifying creatures living in this nightmare world controlled other species before the ancient times of the Wizarding World.

Based on the clues he had gathered, Green used his wizarding wisdom to make guesses.

However, upon closer examination, many aspects still fall short of being perfect, since Green had obtained far too few clues.

Green remained silent, still organizing his thoughts.

The nightmare shadow in this room is the baby itself, and the baby is a vessel created by the witch's apprentice spirit out of guilt and remorse, hoping to make up for her mental trauma through dreams.

However, this infant vessel was enveloped in black ash, becoming the image of the ugly, red-haired monkey in her eyes, and thus becoming the nightmare of the witch's apprentice.

Her unintentional actions shattered the surface of the nightmare, allowing the witch to realize the dream she was meant to have.

In other words, the Nightmare Shadow is merely the image of a terrifying creature?

We should check again tomorrow to see if the wall clock in this room will still be there...

and many more!

I think I've overlooked something!

Suddenly, Green's body trembled, and he asked himself in a chilling voice, "A monster? That witch apprentice said she was a monster, and left her child. So, in her eyes, am I just a nightmare, that ugly red-haired monkey?!"

At this moment, Green was certain that he had indeed fallen into the nightmare world and become one of the creatures of the nightmare world, or in other words, he had been sealed into the nightmare world.

"The way to distinguish them is to see if your exterior is covered in black ash."

Without saying a word, Green took out a delicate knife, cut off a lock of his long golden hair, and stared intently at it.

"really……"

Green sighed. It seemed that he was not the shadow of the nightmare, meaning that he was truly trapped in the nightmare world, not the baby, but a dream constructed by the witch's apprentice's mind.

correct!

If I am not a Shadow of Nightmares, yet I am a creature of the Nightmare World, doesn't that mean I have become a terrifying creature of the Nightmare World?!

The defining characteristic of terrifying creatures is their desire to escape the nightmare world, and isn't that exactly what I am?

If this conjecture is true, then could we say that the terrifying creatures in this nightmare world were not originally naturally generated by this world, but rather, like ourselves, were beings who were trapped in this illusory world from the outside?

Above the terrifying beings, there are the most powerful creatures in the Nightmare World, as Peranos told him, the Dreadlords. They are the original external beings that the Nightmare World was trapped in.

The more Green connected the dots, the more incredible it seemed.

His breathing was somewhat rapid.

Green muttered to himself, "To prove whether I am a member of the terrifying creatures of the Nightmare World, the next experiment will be to see if I can 'create' a Nightmare Shadow similar to this baby."

Lost in thought, time slipped by unnoticed, and the black sun of the nightmare world gradually rose, ushering in a new day.

At night, Green conducts experiments on the nightmare world; during the day, he advances his studies on the path to becoming a wizard.

Green suppressed all his speculations about the nightmare world and waited for the next nightmare world night to arrive.

Several hourglasses passed, and as the crimson crescent moon rose into the sky, another night descended upon the nightmare world.

Tick, tick, tick...

However, after a whole night, the wall clock was working perfectly, and the nightmares never reappeared in the room.

(End of this chapter)