Nightmare Mythos

Chapter 124: Reflecting Upon

After that night on seeing Cesar continuously pouring out blood from his holes which continued to happen for a few minutes, Arnold changed his stance when dealing with The Freak of the Academy.

What happened to him there wasn't normal after all.

Besides, some of the reports that those interrogated from the Library saw him doing the same thing after battling away a Nightmare that had disappeared.

Arnold didn't know that Cesar had suffered like that. After all, the results of the examination of the condition while he was unconscious all told him that he was all right.

There weren't any major injuries suffered from him nor was his mental or emotional state in disarray.

But it didn't look like he was suffering from any illness yet Arnold knew Cesar was keeping his condition to himself while feeling crap on the inside.

Well, Arnold was right when Cesar was hiding his condition to himself. Probably he and Cedeit knew what kind of situation are they undergoing since they were in the same body.

However, Cesar hadn't felt a single bit of pain in himself. He didn't know how to react to such a case when he was unsure if it was a good thing or not.

But it was definitely a bad thing after experiencing something like that while having zero pain whatsoever.

It looked like he had acquired absolute pain tolerance which is impossible to receive. There's no way he would believe such a thing just because he experienced terrible things.

There's the Nightmare as well. If not for Cedeit, Cesar wouldn't be aware of it. He would've been left standing if he remained quiet which he was glad that he didn't.

'I'm very calm though…'

It's probably because he encountered situations that were deemed impossible, something that caused him physical, mental, or emotional damage that he didn't appear hectic to this condition.

When he had lost his eye on one of the corrupted humans, that was the time when his emotions were all high and fervor.

Cesar knew that if that hadn't happened, his understanding of regarding 'dangerous risks' and 'life-threatening situations' couldn't have been deepened. Nonetheless, it didn't change him for the worse. He made use of that learning and continued pulling off ridiculous actions per action.

'Reflecting this now is very fulfilling… I might do this sometime in the future to analyze what I learned…'

Cesar rests his arm at the window as he gazes at the world that didn't change even if he was gone for a year in their eyes.

Yes, after Cesar told Arnold that he had changed his plans to wait for three days, they immediately began their venture back toward the Academy.

For Arnold, it looked like Cesar hurriedly wanted to return since he would feel safe from the walls of the Academy but he wasn't entirely right. Read exclusive adventures at M V L

He indeed felt safe right in the walls of the Academy but he also wanted to go back to see if would find information in the Academy data books about Nightmares that can be considered a Soul Scholar.

Finding information about it is his top priority right now.

His second top priority right now is to determine what caused him to return a year later in Earth's Time.

The only difference between this category to the previous one is that he had a clue how he could've happened.

'It's the Void isn't it?'

Cesar first encountered the Time Dilation when they were about to be transferred to the Mansion. That was the time when he asked his group what the date was as for him, it appeared glitchy and said something different.

As for how he was able to discern that there was a time dilation, it was only because he had an inkling of connection with Deceit, this stemmed right at the start when the mysterious voice in the memory of his Facet was actually the same Nightmare Deceit.

A similar thing could be said for Caster, the Heretic, as he tried to keep them from escaping the Void's influence. Yet, he couldn't quite identify his connection to the Nightmare creature beyond the Library itself. That should be enough information how Caster was also able to distinguished the real time instead of being under the Time Dilation.

However, that didn't make so much sense. After all, Deceit and Void are two different beings.

The question is, How come beings related to Deceit were able to peer through The Void's Time Dilation?

This is where the realization of Cesar kicks in.

After all, when he met the Void's figure reaching out to him while the purplish expanse bent on its will, it didn't look like they were being attacked. Well, they did but not in a way that can squash them into pieces right away.

That should be just the nature of being 'The Void'.

Nonetheless, from that time, it wasn't full of malice nor a force to reckon with.

It was more like asking for help from Deceit, her master, from afar.

What if The Void is just actually pleading for help?

What if the only time she traced Deceit's trails was at that Mansion?

Thus right after finding it, The Void began isolating it within her grasp and tried to barge inside for who knows how long. Because of her relentless infiltration, the Mansion's protection continued to weaken hence the Penetrated Realities that seemed from the room where Cedeit was staying, continued to leak out.

It was invisible to most eyes at first before finally seeing the real deal which resulted in Vin at that time to lose consciousness. Not only because he was seeing the Mansion but also tried to stick his influence to the Void which caused his severe condition.

'So that was the reason why he uttered 'Time' at that time. It was because he was able to peer through that something was wrong in the City. He was the first one to discover it after me. I see… it all started to make sense…'

Cesar whose opinion on this matter was becoming true, unbelievable or not, couldn't help but muse inwardly.

'If so, why does the Void need help from Deceit? And how come Cedeit isn't telling me about it? Is it because his memory hasn't reached the point where he can know about it? Does the part where his only part of the real deal's consciousness comes into play? Actually, that's probably it…'

Cedeit wasn't telling him anything regarding the Void because there was nothing to tell.

This piece of memory that Cedeit had didn't contain any information regarding that entity, The Void, even if through Cesar's eyes, the Nightmare dwelling inside him was already knowledgeable enough.

'Thinking about relationships between great beings is too much for a puny human like me at the moment. Maybe when I'm strong as them?'

Cesar couldn't help but chuckle at that notion, thinking that if that time when he had the same stenghth as those ever came, it would be a very long time.

"Cesar,"

Bringing him out from his reverie, Arnold saw Cesar's attention shift at him as he suggested with a slight smile.

"We've been riding for a few hours. Wanna grab a bite somewhere?"

Cesar paused for a brief moment before replying right away, "I will never reject an offer that comes with food. Your treat, right?"

Feeling that he liked this version of Cesar more, Arnold nodded and replied with a disbelieving tone, "What kind of stupid question is that? If you want, I'll rent that restaurant just so you can eat peacefully,"