Meanwhile in a bizarre forest covered by an expanse of giant tall white trees and all sorts of bizarre and deadly vegetation, suddenly the fabric of space-time around a gigantic white tree with bone-white bark, started fluctuating violently causing the tree to distort and warp…followed by a small spatial rift opening right infront of it, destroying its entire body.
From the spatial rift suddenly the unconscious body of a handsome young man was spat outside, into the forest, followed by the closing of the spatial rift. The young man was none other than Aron who had been sucked into the spatial rift while in the Nightmare city.
As soon as Aron's body landed on the hard ground of the unknown forest, the Star fragment floating a few millimeters above Aron's chest suddenly flashed with a burst of dark purple light. and then started Slowly sinking into Aron's chest as if sinking into water instead of flesh.
At the same time, a colossal eye appeared in the vast purple sky covering the entire expanse of the endless forest, followed by the emergence of loud whispers and murmurs, that started affecting the world around the colossal eye.
The air in the surroundings started vibrating and the fabric of space-time seemed to have been affected by the loud whispers and murmurs, creating several distortions of space-time around the colossal eye.
As soon as the colossal eye appeared, it opened its gigantic closed eyelids, revealing the enormous purple eyeball inside it that was covered in countless shimmering golden runes that were slithering all over its surface like giant snakes. The colossal eye had an extremely ancient aura of timelessness and omnipotence filled with infinite vicissitudes of time.
As soon as the gigantic eye was opened up, it turned its massive eyeball to stare at the location where Aron's unconscious body was currently lying.
Meanwhile, Aron's unconscious body was suddenly encased in a mysterious purple aura that covered his entire body and lifted him above the ground, then suddenly it shot upwards, flying in the direction of the colossal eye at astonishing speed.
In no time Aron's body appeared 100 meters away from the colossal eye, if one were to look at the scene now, it would look like a gigantic celestial eye spanning millions of kilometers and covering most of the purple sky, staring at an indistinguishable spec of dust.
As the colossal eye continued to stare at Aron's unconscious body, a gigantic purple rune that was currently slithering over the enormous purple eyeball, suddenly stopped moving and started peeling off from the surface of the eyeball like a flat sticker that then started flying in the direction of Aron's unconscious body.
As the mysterious golden rune continued to move towards Aron's unconscious body, it gradually started shrinking in size. When it appeared before Aron's unconscious body, it became the size of a blanket and started covering Aron's entire body with its bright golden light until it fully merged with Aron's body.
As soon as the gigantic mysterious rune merged with Aron's body, suddenly a purple holographic window appeared infront of Aron's face.
Nightmare Realm System Initializing…
Soul Scan Completed!
Consciousness Scan Completed!
Body Scan Completed!
Subject: Aron
Race: Human
System Integration Protocol Initiated…
Nightmare Realm Database uploaded!
Nightmare Body Transformations Initiated…
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In the next instant, Aron's entire body got enclosed in a glowing purple cocoon with countless unreadable runes moving all over its surface like slithering snakes.
Then suddenly the glowing purple cacoon started falling down towards the ground from an altitude of more than 15 kilometers from ground level.
Within a few minutes, the Purple cocoon could be seen crashing down into the forest, blasting away a large portion of land, several trees, and nightmare creatures, leaving behind a huge crater 5 meters deep and 10 meters wide.
But surprisingly the purple glowing cocoon appeared unscathed with not a single scratch over its smooth surface.
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As time went by, the progress of the Nightmare Body Transformations also gradually progressed….
[100%]
The Nightmare Body Transformations have been Completed!
Initializing Integration Sequence…
Soul Integration Completed!
Consciousness Integration Completed!
System Integration Completed!
As soon as the purple holographic window panel displayed System Integration Completed!, the glowing purple cocoon started turning into a bright purple mist and the unconscious body of Aron came into full view.
As soon as the glowing purple cocoon turns into mist, Arons who had been enclosed inside the cocoon, opens his eyes….
Compared to the Arons before the Nightmare Body Transformation who had a beautiful face with delicate facial features, bright ocean-blue eyes, and smooth silky blond hair. Now after the Nightmare Body Transformation, his appearance and aura completely transformed.
His previously blond hair turned into a shade of dark indigo, and his bright ocean-blue eyes also turned into a shade of bright purple with snake-like vertical pupils.
His beautiful delicate features now had a sharp devilish look to them, his already fair skin was now even smoother and pale like a porcelain doll, and more astonishingly his peaceful and harmless scholar-like aura had now transformed into the sharp cold aura of a predator. His eyes were now cold and indifferent, making his overall appearance even more Develish and predatory.
Suddenly a purple holographic display appeared infront of his face.
Status:
Name: Aron Smith
Race: Gospeler of Nightmares
Rank: Aberrant - I
Level: 1
Title: Champion Of The Nightmare Realm [You have been chosen by the Nightmare Realm to be its champion!]
Echos: 0
Soul Points: 0
Health: 100/100
Nargy: 100/100
Stamina: 70/70
Attributes:
Strength: 80
Agility: 85
Vitality: 100
Intelligence: 90
Defence: 75
Senses: 60
Attribute Points : 0
Skill Points: 0
Talent points: 0
Talents:
[Nightmare Body (Level 1)]: A body Forged by the will of Nightmare Realm, you have the highest affinity to Nargy and the Nightmare Realm—your body courses with a highly concentrated amount of Nargy and will regenerate Nargy every 0.001 seconds. Your body has 75% resistance to Nargy-related damage and 25% resistance to all kinds of damage (physical/elemental/soul/mind)
[Shroud Of Nightmares (Level 1)]: In the liberated state your wings will generate a shroud of Nightmare Aura around you, which will boost your Nargy regeneration rate up to 3 times. Anyone who comes within the range of the Shroud of Nightmare will be instantly trapped inside a nightmare.
Skills :
[Eyes Of The Paragon (Level 1) (Level 1)]: You can summon the @#$&# rune into your eyes to see the ultimate Truth. By summoning the @#$&# rune into your eyes you can cast an inescapable Nightmare illusion that cannot be avoided.
[Kasimo's Flames (Level 1)]: You can summon Kasimo's flame for a set duration. WARNING! Kasimo's flames are extremely chaotic and can have unexpected effects.
[Kasimo's Mark (Level 1)]: You can mark up to 3 objects/beings with Kasimo's Mark which will directly mark the target's soul in the case of living beings. The mark can be tracked irrespective of the distance.
If Kasimo's Mark is attached to a living being, it will constantly release a fixed amount of Nargy into their soul, slowly corrupting the soul of the target, and ultimately turning them into Kasimo's soul puppet.
If Kasimo's Mark is attached to an object, it will constantly release a fixed amount of Nargy into the object, slowly corrupting it, and ultimately turning it into a bizarro Object.
[Kasimo's Soul Poker (Level 1)]: [Locked]
[Kasimo's Nightmare Circus (Level 1)]: [Locked]
Meanwhile, Aron just looked at the holographic window in a daze, But strangely his calm and cold expression did not change nor did his cold eyes display any sigh of panic or shock at the sudden appearance of the purple holographic display or the information displayed over it, it was as if the information had already been present in his memory.
Even though the information was already present in his mind, it didn't help him from feeling slightly confused and surprised.
' It seems I have received a system like those fantasy novel characters!? Something must have happened while I was unconscious, the Nightmare Realm must've done something to me…..At least from the Title "Champion Of The Nightmare Realm" it is clear, that it must be the doing of the Nightmare Realm….'
Meanwhile, Looking at his Race Aron was shocked….
'Does that mean I'm no longer considered a human!?!?'
'Damn! I must keep this a secret….otherwise the crazy Arcanist from this world would probably want to dissect me to pieces for their research!!! '
'And what the hell does a "Gospeler of Nightmares" even mean anyway!? '
'Wait a second!! If the Nightmare Realm had changed my race….does that mean I am a Nightmare creature now!! DAMN!!'
After a while….
'Sigh~ There's no helping it now…..sigh~'
'Nightmare Realm….'
'So the Nightmares that had been haunting poor old Aron must be somehow related to this Nightmare Realm'
'Was it because of this body's high affinity to this Nightmare Realm?'
'That must be the case….'
'Anyway…. It's undeniably a boon for me, and I have to utilize this boon in every way possible to become a formidable Arcanist!!'
'I have been granted a second chance at life, that too in a fantasy world of Arcanists!! And now with this System, I can start my journey to become the strongest Arcanist in this world….no, in this universe!!'
Getting up from the ground and dusting his butt in an excited mood, he looked around himself just to find the entire area shrouded in a bright purple mist, looking at the bright purple mist around him, as if knowing what to do, he deeply inhaled at the mist, inhaling the entirety of it.
After inhaling the bright purple mist, his eyes momentarily shone in purple light and he started feeling a cool and powerful sensation from within, making him feel much stronger, sharper, and more powerful than he had ever felt….
'Where the heck am I? The last thing I remember was that bastardly clown stabbing me with that ominous-looking Joker card….which fortunately seemed to have come in contact with the Star Fragment….triggering some kind of space-time phenomenon…. Hmm, I remember seeing some abstract lines and distorted stars and planets…..From the looks of it, I must have been sucked into a spatial rift and ended up landing in this place…..'
After the mist had been cleared out, he found himself standing in the middle of a 10-meter-deep crater, like the ones formed by astray asteroids falling crashing on Earth, suddenly an idea of jumping out of the 10-meter-deep crater appeared in his mind which seemed absolutely ridiculous and impractical…..but deep down he had a feeling that he would be able to jump out quite easily.
'Let's give it a try Shall we!!! '
"Here goes nothing!" he said faintly and prepared to jump.
Zoooppp!
After jumping with all of his might, he found himself floating in the air, far above the 10-meter-deep crater….Whoooa!! Shouting excitedly he started enjoying this feeling…the feeling of freedom…he had always dreamed of flying in the sky like a bird ever since he was a child. Although he was technically not flying right now, still somewhere deep inside…he felt liberated and free.
As if responding to his feelings, suddenly he felt a slight jolt coming from his shoulder blades on his back, as he descended onto the ground with a loud bang, he swept his hands behind his back towards his shoulder blades, only to find 2 small wings like protrusions coming out of his shoulder blades.
Shocked by the sudden discovery he tries to touch and feel it….at this moment 2 small pairs of black wings can be seen on his back with small black feathers ending with a shade of dark purple at their tips. Are they the wings mentioned in the Passive skill "Shroud Of Nightmares" !?
[Alert! Several Aberrants have been detected within the range of 30 meters of the host…]