World Online

Jake looked around, and back at the bright sky.

"The bright sky, the whole thing, feels like a farce." Jake muttered.

He looked forward at Annie, who had left him and ran forward, leaving him all alone where he stood.

"And now that I think about it, she has called me a Baron until now, and never by my name. Even though I asked her to."

"The sky, the sky also feels way too wrong. The Evil Lands are too strong, and the entire holy grounds felt like one space, not too separate realms."

One by one, the flaws that were too glaringly obvious here started showing themselves in Jake\'s eyes. He started thinking calmly, and one by one, this place became a trap more than reality.

It was an illusion.

"An illusion. How the hell do I get out of this illusion?" Jake understood. Still, he maintained his calm. Being in an illusion that was not real, well he was way too used to it.

In a way, wasn\'t the game that he was playing an illusion that he was purposefully casting on himself? So he didn\'t panic too much.

As he started looking around, to see if there was anywhere that seemed like reality, from where he could just escape. But he couldn\'t find it. And he knew better than to just walk into the obvious trap that was laid out for him.

"You know what? Screw my eyes. They are the ones deceiving me at the moment." Jake said out loud.

He closed them tight, and started turning.

Turning a few rounds, he did feel dizzy, but he also had absolutely no idea where he was in space.

With his eyes closed, even though he could see a white shine on his eyelids from the light that bleeded in, he couldn\'t know where he was walking.

Sure, he was walking blind into a place that he had no idea would be illusion or reality. But he didn\'t care. He knew that if he wanted to break away from here, he had to do something, and not just stand there think about it.

The clock was ticking, and if he was just going to stand there and wait, he would rather die and wait out the penalty of two days resting in his house or something.

But as he started walking in a direction that no one had any idea where it would lead, the light that was shining on his face started dimming.

"Am I walking toward the trees? Maybe they have some shade." Jake thought. That did make sense, but at the same time, it kind of defeated the purpose of walking with his eyes shut close.

But his theory was just as quickly proven. The surroundings were getting even dimmer, and slowly, the light that was around him was gone completely.

He opened his eyes, and saw himself return to the same place that he was a few minutes ago. The same dark place where he couldn\'t see a single thing.

"I am back here, huh? How the hell do I ever get out of the path of saints? This makes no sense." Jake said out loud.

His head was too small a space to be thinking inside of, so why not make this giant dark cage his thinking house?

"You have defeated the illusion…" a low voice creeped from behind him, growling slightly, and startling Jake.

"Aargh!"

Jake jumped up as he turned around to face the direction of the voice. But that was obviously useless. He could not see a thing.

If this wasn\'t an illusion, then it certainly wasn\'t something that he could see.

"You braved through the illusion, through the trials of three senses, and you still are frightened when someone comes up from behind you?"

The same voice asked, like it was finding this situation here a little humorous.

"I am a human. Of course I would yelp after someone sneaks up on me!" Jake yelled out.

"Hmm. You are a very interesting human." The voice said, its deep timbre resounding in Jake\'s ears.

"Who are you? You can\'t be an illusion. You don\'t seem to be testing me. Or are you?" Jake asked.

"Don\'t worry, blessed child. I have no intention of testing you further. The deal that I made with his Divine Highness was that I show you guys a little mercy. Only three out of the five senses. Obviously, I had to use the senses that were easy to test and easy to pass." The voice said.

"This was easy to pass?" Jake raised his eyebrows, even though no one could see that.

"Of course. If I had to test you to the fullest like I am bound to to every passerby, then you would have lost your life to the dream monsters around you in an instant." The voice said.

"Dream monsters? What are you talking about?" Jake asked.

"Haha! You do not have any idea how lucky you are that you didn\'t take out your weapon during the time that you were walking in blind." The voice clicked.

Jake nodded, understanding what the voice was talking about. But his mind was still thinking about what that one word: dream beasts, was.

They were clearly powerful enough to take care of him and tear him apart with ease. But could they do that to Ganshin, who was so much stronger?

"Would you want to look at them?" The voice asked, chuckling at the end.

"Why would I want to see something that I avoided. My thoughts would be stuck on the possibilities where I actually took out my sword." Jake shook his head.

Ignorance was bliss. He would rather not have known of the existence of the dream beasts in the first place.

"Well, what is the fun in that?"

A red flare appeared, and Jake\'s eyes widened.

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