The first Armor, Nigori armor was a red metallic armor similar to the Japanese samurai armor, 'This one looks pretty damn cool….It provides a Nargy and defense boost and has an invisibility skill that lasts 15 minutes.'
Looking at the second one, the Grimgar armor had a dark purple heavy leather armor with a sturdy robust build.
'Hmm….this one also looks pretty good, it provides a strength and vitality boost and has a powerful offensive skill that summons some kind of dragon-like creature to attack the enemy with dragon breath…. it's a great defensive as well as offensive armor…'
Then looking at the last one, the Coat of Deception was not an armor but more of a garment type…as its name suggests it was a pitch-black leather trench coat, made from the hide of a zikaros.
'This one also looks pretty cool too…but it's a leather coat, not armor…it provides an intelligence and sense boost which is quite rare as far as I've observed….It also provides two illusionary skills which seem pretty useful…'
'Overall…Coat of Nightmares seems pretty rare and more useful than the rest….especially the skills, it can be pretty useful to avoid troublesome nightmare creatures…'
'The only problem is the price…I have 1350 Naruka gems and this coat of nightmares cost 1300…leaving me with only 50.'
'Sigh…I guess I have to start hunting down more nightmare creatures for their nightmare cores….'
He then clicked on the Coat of Nightmares and bought it for 1300 naruka gems…
Soon the coat appeared in front of him, looking at the pitch-black magnificent-looking coat, he grinned happily and started wearing it.
As soon as he wore the long trench coat, it automatically started resizing to his body size, fitting his body like a glove, but at the same time enabling his body to move freely and comfortably wearing it.
The coat of Nightmares was a pitch-black leather trench coat, long enough to reach below Aron's knees…the material of the coat looked like leather but was much sturdier and tougher than he had initially thought.
The trench coat was right-sided, with bone-white buttons to fasten on the right side, along with the long collar that hid the lower half of his face. The coat's material had a matt black finish, absorbing all the light that fell over it.
Wearing the pitch-black trench coat made Aron look much more devilish and mysterious than before…like a certain movie character named Neo…
After wearing the Coat of Deception he instantly felt his mind becoming a lot sharper and his computational and thinking speed becoming much faster than before!
He also felt his senses become a bit sharper and the range of his senses becoming a bit wider…
He felt really satisfied after wearing the black trench coat, compared to before when he was totally unprotected, wearing only the clothes he had been wearing since the day of the talent test….now however he was wearing proper defensive gear, making him feel a bit prepared for whatever was to come.
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He then got ready to once again continue his journey…he did not desire to stay in the same place for much longer than needed after experiencing the truth about the stationary-looking giant white trees that hid their deepest horrors deep underground…
But before that, he saw his severed left arm laying on the ground in a pool of purple blood at some distance from him….Walking towards it he looked at his purple blood, which he had seen for the first time…Now I can fully confirm that I'm no longer a human being…but a nightmare creature…sigh~
'I wonder if I can even leave this place…This all started from a magic talent test that should have just made the talent crystal ball glow in the color of my magical affinity….but then I got teleported to that damn nightmare city and met that maniacal clown!!!'
'If not for him I would have at least had a chance to return back to Almazure to the Smith castle…my new home…This all happened too quickly…'
'Sigh….I don't know what kind of game my fate is playing with me…all these events..everything is somehow linked to the Nightmare realm…'
'Even the original Aron, who had been suffering from nightmares since he was a child was only due to his extremely high affinity to the nightmare realm….'
'Sigh… let's not think about these things for now…first I have to manage to survive in this bizarre Nightmare Forest to find a way to get back home if possible….'
Shaking his head he pointed his index finger at his severed left arm and summoned the purple-black flame to burn it down to ashes which the flame did while making an excited and happy expression over its flame…
By now Aron had already come to terms with the sentient nature of the purple-black flame…
Turning his head to look at the sky, he saw the sun was still at its peak meaning it was still noon…'I don't know how long the day and night cycle lasts here…whatever it is, it's definitely far longer than Earth or the current world I was transmigrated into…'
Soon he once again started jumping from one tree to another, heading towards the east where he had noticed the white trees becoming scarce in numbers compared to the rest of the forest…
While on the move he then suddenly remembered that he had received the echo of the bizarre-looking bird-like nightmare creature, a Tier-III aberrant that was two tiers higher than him in the ranking.
Opening the status window, he clicked on the Echo window located on the left side of the status screen.
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Status:
Race: Solaris-Iromot
Rank: Aberrant - III
Level: 1
Type: 3-Star Summon
Summoning Duration: 3 minutes
Summoning Cooldown: 5 hours
Health: 70/70
Nargy: 60/60
Damage Type: AOE
Attributes:
Solaris-DMG Bonus: +15%
Sense Boost: +8%
Skills:
[Nightmare Hypnosis (Level 1)] (Passive): When the Solaris-Iromot is flying, it spins around itself creating a strange spinning pattern. Anyone who looks at the Solaris-Iromot while it's flying will slowly fall into a state of hypnosis, the longer they look at it, the more hypnotized they will become. Ultimately getting fully hypnotized by the Solaris-Iromot.
[Solaris Beam (Static) (Level 1)] (Active): Each of the eyes of the Solaris-Iromot is capable of shooting off a concentrated Solaris laser beam. While in a status state, the Solaris-Iromot can shoot three Solaris laser beams from its three sets of eyes in an extremely wide range.
[Solaris Beam (Flying) (Level 1)] (Active): While in the Flying state, the Solaris-Iromot starts spinning and can shoot extremely concentrated spiral Solaris laser beams in a straight line dealing extremely terrifying continuous Solaris Damage.
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'Now that's a powerful Echo! It seems Solaris is equivalent to light energy/element…Earlier, before I could even dodge, the Solaris beam had already reached me at the speed of light, cutting off my entire left arm….'
'Compared to the Solaris element, Havoc seems a bit slower but with a wider range of destructiveness…'
'Anyways…this Solaris-Iromot seems pretty powerful but the only thing is…I can only summon it for 3 minutes and with a long cooldown of five hours! I gotta be decisive about when to summon it….'
He then quickly equipped it, adding it to the second circle right below Havoc-Lykor that was equipped on the topmost circle…
As soon as he equipped it, he felt his senses receiving a slight boost which was due to the 8% senses boost provided by the Solaris-Iromot…
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As he continued his journey towards the east, time quickly passed by…
On his fourth day in the Nightmare realm ever since he had first appeared here, It was currently a sunny morning, and a gentle breeze was blowing past the white leaves of a giant white tree.
Aron could be seen resting on the branch of that giant white tree, with his body entirely covered by the Coat Of Deception….At this moment the normally pitch-black trench coat appeared to have changed its color and texture to the same color and texture as that of the branch he was currently sleeping on.
This was the effect of the second skill Illusionary sight that created a faint layer of nightmare aura over the coat thus providing it with a basic camouflaging effect….helping the physically and mentally exhausted Aron get a much-needed peaceful sleep…
After sleeping for approximately more than six hours, Aron finally wakes up with a refreshed mind and energetic body to once again continue with his journey to the East…
After having some raw meat for breakfast he climbed the tree top to approximately calibrate the distance and time required to reach the easter side of the forest…
'It's not too far away from here, I can already see the dark barren lands with no white trees around from here…I do not know whether the place I'm heading to is safe or not….I'm just too sick of these white trees and this forest at this point, I just want to get out of this f#cking place…'
Aron was not wrong to feel that way, he had been attacked by the giant white trees a couple of times in the past few days while traveling through the dark moonless nights….
The giant white trees, unlike any nightmare creatures…were actually a part of the Nightmare forest…making even the system oblivious of their eerie presence to alert him about them, making their presence a bit more creepy and mysterious…..