Looking at the tentacle-like roots coiling around the location he was a few seconds ago…he feels cold chills running down his spine, not wasting any time he starts jumping from one tree to another in the dark moonless night, solely illuminated by the lights coming from the glowing white leaves of the terrifying white trees.
But thankfully the other trees do not attack him, as if treating him like a passer-by…Meanwhile, Aron keeps jumping from one tree to another, searching for a place with no white trees…After continuously jumping around for a while, he starts to get tired.
He then stops over on a white tree to rest for a while, but not daring to stay for too long…climbing to the top of the tree, he tries to look for a place with fewer white trees, thankfully due to his night vision he was able to clearly see everything even in the pitch black darkness….
While looking around, fortunately, he managed to notice that the white trees were getting a bit scarce around the east, compared to the rest of the forest. Taking a deep breath, he starts moving towards the east, while stopping in between to take a couple of minutes of break before resuming his journey…
While continuing to jump from one tree to another with his monstrous strength and agility, he eventually starts getting exhausted and hungry…but having no choice but to keep moving, he grabs a piece of meat from the inventory and starts munching on it raw while on the move.
Surprisingly he does not feel any rawness or gaminess from the meat even after eating it raw…'So after becoming a nightmare creature my tastebuds also seemed to have changed'…at this moment the raw meat he was munching on felt rather tasty, it had a slightly spicy flavor which must have been due to the salamander being fire-related.
Slowly time went by as he kept munching down on the meat and jumping from one tree to another, and soon the pitch black sky started turning into a faint purple shade, following which a gradient of red and purple appeared in the sky making it look mesmerizing….
Aron who currently stood on the top of a white tree looked at the beautiful sight and sighed in relief…'As far as I've observed…during the daytime all the White trees act like any ordinary tree…only during the night do they show their true color'….He also noticed that the glowing white leaves of all the white trees were starting to dim and all the paper butterfly leaves were returning to their places once again….
'This forest is really strange…I guess this place is not called the Nightmare Realm for no reason….'
Soon the dawn arrives with warm rejuvenating sun rays, bringing with it a new day….the sky becomes a beautiful canvas of vibrant colors…making a beautiful gradient of purple, red, yellow, and orange.
When the trees become completely dim, he heaves a sigh of relief and tiredly lays on the branch of a white tree. He soon falls asleep without realizing it. Due to constantly moving throughout the night without stopping for too long as well as being constantly on guard against the white trees, it seemed to have taken quite a mental and physical toll on him, making him utterly exhausted. Thankfully no nightmare creature appears to attack him, letting him take his much-deserved rest.
But after a couple of hours when the sun in the sky was at its peak, a large bizarre abomination…it somewhat looked like a bird with a round body full of white feathers, it had a small golden beak in the middle of its round body, and surrounding the beak were 3 sets of blood-red eyes with bright golden iris and pitch-black pupils, sitting in a triangular manner around the beak with one of the eye sitting right above the golden beak, while the rest of the two located right below the beak, in the bottom left and right of the beak.
The strange Nightmare creature didn't have any legs/talons, appearing to be just levitating in the air. It had 4 sets of wings, the first located right on its head, the second one on its right side, the third one on the bottom, and the last one on its left side.
The wings of the bizarre bird-like nightmare creature appeared in such an arrangement, that it looked like a Nazzi symbol or a tilted swastika…
At this moment the bizarre bird was spinning rapidly like a slanted helicopter and flying around the trees, looking for a prey to hunt, and unfortunately, its three sets of eyes soon landed on the peacefully sleeping Aron and started moving towards him.
Meanwhile, Aron who was in deep sleep suddenly heard a voice inside his mind...
[Alert! A high-tier Aberrant has been detected within the range of 30 meters from the host]
"W-What what's happening? Where am I?" Aron suddenly gets up startled after hearing the sudden warning and looks around in confusion…
'Where is this place….where the heck am I?' Then after a while, he starts recalling all that had happened last night….'Man! I really wanted to sleep for a bit longer!! What kind of bastard is it this time!?' Feeling extremely angry he starts looking for the Nightmare creature who disrupted his sweet sleep time.
Soon he spots a bizarre spinning creature rapidly approaching his position, but as soon as he spots the bird, a terrifying feeling starts building inside him, as if a deep-rooted primordial fear had been reawakened.
Suddenly he jumps off the branch he was standing out of pure instinct just missing his entire torso from being cut by a bright yellow spiral laser, but unfortunately he still gets his entire left sounder along with the left arm cut/burned by the spiral laser that continues to follow his falling body meanwhile cutting/burning everything in the way.
The laser had appeared at an astonishing light speed, if not for his instinct telling him to jump, he would have been long dead…
Meanwhile feeling intense pain from getting his whole left shoulder along with his left arm cut from his body makes him painfully convulse in midair, he starts screaming in extreme pain while staring at the flying abomination with his narrowed eyes full of rage…
Wasting no time, he raises his right arm and makes the same gun-like gesture, manifesting the purple-black flame "MAKE IT SUFFER LIKE HELL!" he shouts at the purple-black flame with an enraged voice, and as if feeling his rage and pain, the flame materializes into a angry face shooting straight at the spinning abomination…
Meanwhile, the spinning bird-like nightmare creature paused for a second the moment it spotted the purple-black flame shooting off towards it, quickly switching targets it started firing its intense light-speed laser at the incoming purple-black flame…
But the purple-black Flame just hungrily absorbs the laser as it continues to shoot towards it. Looking at its attack being ineffective the creature further increases the intensity of its laser but still finds it ineffective as before…
Soon the purple-black flame reaches its position, too late to retreat, the spinning abomination tries to dodge it and successfully dodges it. Feeling relieved it once again faces towards Aron who had already fallen on the ground and was heavily bleeding.
But just then it suddenly finds extremely fine needles of purple-black color piercing into its body from all directions, and before it realizes it, the thin purple-black needles start burning and destroying its body at a cellular level…feeling extreme pain it starts shrieking in its sharp shrill voice, violently convulsing and shaking but its pain and suffering only keeps on increasing…
Thump!
Falling on the ground with a loud thump its body continues to shirk and convulse violently…slowly on its round white body full of feathers tiny purple holes start appearing, which keep on multiplying, further increasing its misery….
Aron meanwhile gets off the ground with a lot of difficulty, gritting his teeth he starts moving towards the miserably shrieking nightmare-creature. As soon as he reaches it, "BURN TO HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!" he then starts raining down a monsoon of curses towards the miserable creature which soon starts burning from the inside out, its loud shrill cries and wails slowly start to grow softer and ultimately die down…
Feeling extremely happy and satisfied he starts laughing out loud like a madman…Soon the creature gets burnt to ashes leaving only a smooth bright golden sphere of a Nightmare core behind…
[You have killed a Tier-III Aberrant identified as Solaris-Iromot]
[Rewards: 300 Naruka gems, Echo of the Tier-III Aberrant Solaris-Iromot]
Looking at the system message, he sat down on the ground, leaning against a white tree….Feeling extremely light-headed and weak due to excessive blood loss after getting his entire right shoulder along with his entire left arm cut but the Solaris-Iromot, "S-Status" he opens his status window with a weak shaky voice, with his vision already starting to dim.
He raises his shaky right hand and clicks on the System Store that he had previously dismissed…