Going towards a new pathway, the door slowly opened with nothing inside but dusty furniture and a messy room.
As hours passed he slept for a while, enduring the fatigue he has while covering himself with his black cloak.
After that, he continues towards the pathway, random door after door that is connected to another dimensional plane.
He took an enormous amount of time to pick door after door to get it right.
Moving forward to the journey, he has face a new background, a more ruined place where the land was even destroyed seeing only floating landmarks, it was difficult for him to find another way out and so he slowly but surely took each door or even window to enter the pathway he needs to enter.
A not long while, he was chased by night crawlers, a four-legged creature that feeds among any flesh of the living, more of them gathered in one place during nighttime and so the man in black clothing fled the scene and covertly lurk around them to ensure that he won't give them much attention for safety reasons.
Finally, he was able to see the last door, where he can finally escape the remains of the ruins.
Due to its last seconds, it will soon destroy itself and further break down into nothingness.
Though with all the careful stealth, he was spotted by a much larger threat, a spotlight that was showered upon the man in black clothing, it made him unable to move for some reason.
It may be the cause of the spotlight, he has to escape somehow.
And that's when it hit him, he can escape by controlling one of the night crawlers nearby and kill the one behind the spotlight.
He was lucky enough to control one of it and somehow, in the eyes of the night crawler, the one who does the spotlight was in mid-air as tentacles slowly and closely gather up to the man in black clothing.
Luckily, he was able to tear down the creature called light snatchers where they can petrify the targeted being and slowly devour them whole.
Good thing it was put down by one of the night crawlers by the man in black clothing.
And with that he enters the last door with determination in his gut, he sees only deep darkness.
Without much thought, he aimlessly wanders through the darkness to search for a light somehow.
Sooner or later he will be able to succeed in finding it, with hope on his side, he must find it.
Piano music slowly enchants the reader's thoughts of a man in black clothing wandering through the darkness.
It was lonely for him to travel alone but he needs to find it at any cost.
Slowly, the spotlight that was given to Nightingale was only seen in the scene to provide a vision for the readers to heed.
47 hours later of wandering through the darkness, he finally sees the light, slowly he was able to run now and so he did.
Continuously running from the darkness all around him, he finally was able to reach the light.
He was somehow in a cave with bats flying around and water leaking into the stalagmites as he carefully walks through the open area of the cave and finally sees the sunlight.
He gets down from the cave and through the forest.
Not long enough, he was found by a villager who was just washing clothes with her little sister in the river nearby.
Going closer to the villager, the man in black clothing greets the villager and kindly asks the location of the forest they are in.
The villager responds,
"You are in the Tokunaga Village. If possible, I can assist you through the village if you need assistance."
"That would be great, thank you…
What's your name, miss?"
"Nice to meet you, Lyra is my name and this is Rebecca. And you are?"
"Barrow, just a friendly merchant."
"So you are a merchant."
While walking around the forest, the little girl named Rebecca seems to be interested in his goods and so she asks,
"What products are you selling?"
"Just some artifacts, potions, and any valuable materials.
If you need something from me, we can do a trade."
"That would be wonderful but I have no money to spend."
Suddenly the man in black clothing gives an old rag doll to the little girl."
Thank you very much! Look we are almost close."
While carrying the bucket full of garments to wear, they finally arrive at the village.
As the elderly wave by to the young Rebecca, she introduces the merchant to them.
"Chief! We have a visitor or a traveler.
He seems to be lost in the forest."
"I see, I see.
Well, good thing you found our village.
Come in."
The man in black clothing was given good hospitality by the chief villager.
Giving him an old cup of tea and a loaf of bread, he enjoys it with full blessing.
"What brings you here in the Tokunaga Village?"
An old woman asks the man in black clothing.
"I'm a merchant you see, I was a bit lost in the forest halfway through since my map went missing.
Can you tell me where Greenley Village is?"
After the chief villager tells the specified location, outside of the village was refreshing to see as before the journey went by, it was a cruel and harsh environment that even travelers like him were warned of the danger that lurked by.
But today, it was relaxing for once in a while.
Finally, he has the map for the location of the Greenley Village, he can now continue the journey.
As he closely leaves the Tokunaga Village, the young girl named Rebecca calls him by his name
"Hey!!! Merchant-kun!"
She waves at the man in black clothing, he on the other hand was left unsettled as waving back at her.
It took three days and two nights for the man in black clothing to wander through the forest and finally, he found another village.
Through the meadows see a vibrant village where near outside the forest was seen, and so do the lovely villagers appear at the well nearby to do a simple task for the day.
The man in black clothing has arrived at the Greenley Village.
Entering the gates sees many little kids playing tag, old men playing chess, and young villagers working for the wooden walls to be built.
It has been a while since Nightingale was in this village.
All he remembered was when he was a child, he grew up in this village by no other than the old chief himself of the village and he had met villagers such as a swordsman, a healer, and an old monk.
He learned how to keep valuable things through his ability, and with that, he wanted to be a merchant and a traveler.
After walking a long path, he goes to the house and knocks through the door.
And so the door opens and see an elegant lady in front of the man in black clothing.
"It's been a while, Tomo."
Tomo is an acquaintance of Nightingale before, also just a new name since she is a reincarnation of Trolie which they had similar features of her hair and eyes because, in this world, some souls from the original world were transported here if they have met Mr. Smiley himself.
And with that, her name was rewritten in this world as her soul was transported as a human being compared to being an android in the past.
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While in the world of Ignis Fatuus, Professor Cthulhu has a lot of plans in waiting for the event that Mr. Smiley made for all the dominators to be shared, that is to take world domination a little bit of mixture of pleasure and satisfaction including the timeline fixed by Trolie for the maids of Mr. Smiley to take part in it and the gears that all dominators have to test it out for the fight.
While on Claire's side, standing in the white room and testing out her real powers and abilities, she was able to enhance it with full control.
Due to it, she had another oracle, the white-haired reaper, a young lady carrying a katana to end her life.
She is prepared to die but she isn't intended to so she keeps on waiting for the time being to see what awaits her spinning on the other side of the coin.
The maids including Chui, Solly, Goi, and Holie were kept inside the white room to ensure that they reach their full potential, Trolie has finally done the time experiment and connected their past towards the point of the game, what would have happened if Mr. Smiley hadn't gotten to reach the maids in their display of support?
Where there was no one to save them, Professor Cthulhu has finished writing a full statement about the overtime work he had been through.
The talents of her members, the maid's suffering, and Claire's secret behind all the parallel universe.
He had thought of an overwhelming number of deaths of Claire where the result of how viciously powerful her true ability Oracle would be.
Since Professor Cthulhu had found a way to consciously connect to all the multiverses of himself with the power of the most powerful one possible to administer all of the remains of all Professor Cthulhu's conscious mind and share as much information as possible.
A new ability has been shared.