novelraw Chapter 883: It’s All Illusion
Chapter 883: It’s All Illusion
It’s so cold!
I have prepared myself for the climb.
I wore some extra layers of clothing. Warm pair of gloves, and everything to make me warm. But it’s still so cold even though I have using my Aura to protect my body from the cold.
And yes, I wore gloves as I climb on the wall. It’s easy for me since I can stick my palm to the wall if I want to using Aura.
Though it’s good that I have became an Aura Master. Because I can maintain the Aura around my body while climbing on the wall for a long time.
But even then, not only does it still feels cold. I still can’t see the peak!
I am no longer climbing normally again. I’m running on the wall.
I don’t know the rule of the climb. But the content of the task is to climb. So I thought that as long as there’s one part of my body touching the wall as I climb, it should be fine. As long as I’m not flying.
So I started running on the wall. And I already used my fastest speed. But I can’t seem to reach the peak.
Maybe something is wrong with this place as expected. Like the spirits are using illusion magic to make it seems as if this is the tallest mountain.
Even so, I have to keep climbing. This might be the only chance we have on finding the location of the leader of the cult. The so-called Evil God.
Even if it’s an illusion, the task is clear. I have to climb the wall. That’s all.
I have to go on. No matter what, I have to complete the task.
I already stopped caring about Victoria and Shirley. They will do the task on their own. I don’t need to contact Sonia to tell me how they’re doing. I only need to care about myself.
Forget about the second and third wish. Victoria and Shirley will take care of it. Just care about one wish. The cult’s destruction.
I don’t know how the Spirit King will grant our wish. But if the spirits said that the Spirit King will grant our wish, then I can only try.
Forget about the location of the Evil God. Just the total destruction of the cult. That’s all that I want.
My peace of mind that can only be gotten by the destruction of the cult. And instead of asking for a peace of mind, I will ask for the destruction of the cult.
With that in mind, I continued running to the top of the mountain. Even if the height doesn’t make sense since we should have reached the space with my speed.
There shouldn’t be anymore air that I can breathe since I don’t use air magic. I can only rely on the oxygen bottle when I run out of breath.
I don’t know about Victoria, but I don’t think that Shirley can reach the top like this. So I can only rely on myself.
Run and run and run. Forget about everything.
Not even the goal of why I’m here. Why I’m doing all this tiring stuffs. Just run even if it’s an illusion.
Everything else doesn’t matter. Just run.
Even when Aura can no longer block the cold, just run. Even after my body freezes, just run.
I feel like my toes are frozen. And I can’t feel them anymore.
I think they might be broken. But I don’t even use my Divine Vision to see my toes’ condition. I ignore them.
I feel like I started running weirdly and won’t be able to go on like this from now. So I’ll just crawl up to the top.
My fingers in pain. Then I’ll just bite any place I can as I climb.
Finally, when I lost all my teeth, I... woke up.
"What the hell?! It was all just a dream?!"
I looked around and see that I’m not in a familiar place. Not in my bed, and not at the bottom of the mountain.
I’m in a flower garden somewhere. Is this a dream?
But I know some things are real. Like the meeting and the discussion we did before we started climbing.
Since when was it all just a dream? And how did I get here?
The others also here. Victoria and Shirley. Even Sonia is here. And Airy and Breezy. They’re all in deep sleep.
How could Victoria and Sonia sleeping? I don’t think Victoria is a creature that needs sleep.
Then I look around again and see that there are other spirits here as well. They were the ones who gave me the task to climb the mountain. They’re also sleeping. Only some were awake.
Since when were we sleeping? When did we start seeing illusion?
Also, if we’re only seeing illusion from the start, does it mean that the Spirit King lied when he told other spirits that he would grant them their wishes?
Maybe he lied. But the spirits believed him since he granted their wishes in the form of illusion.
"Victoria, Shirley, wake up!"
I tried waking up the other two. As for Sonia, it’s impossible to touch her, so I can’t.
But the two won’t wake up at all. So I had no choice but to leave on my own.
I can still open up a portal. Since Victoria and even her clones were not reacting, I guess they’re all sleeping. And I can’t use them as weapon. So I opened a portal to grab my sword.
"You... how did you break out of the illusion?"
All of a sudden, a voice can be heard. It must be the so-called Spirit King.
Without hesitation, I charged at the source of the voice with my sword brandished. Prepared to kill him in one strike.
But then, I was stopped by the many spirits who blocked me. The Spirits created barriers using magic to protect the Spirit King.
"Are you the Spirit King? Don’t you think that it’s a bad taste to say that you will grant someone’s wish, only to get them be under your illusion?" I said.
It might be pretty in this flower garden. But since I can use Divine Vision, I can see what’s under the garden.
There are corpses of not just humans. But also monsters.
They must be those who came here because of the task. And they were under illusion for the rest of their lives.
It’s stupid how we could get tricked. But maybe because the spirits who spoke to us believed that the wishes can be granted, no one thought that it was a lie.
"You are an Aura user, it seems. Were you perhaps covering your body with Aura when you climbed? I guess you will have easier time breaking my illusion if that’s the case," the Spirit King said.
It seems like Aura is an all-powerful type of energy. I can even use it to break illusion.
"Enough. Just tell me what it’s all about. Why do you bait people with their own greed to come here?" I asked. Still looking at the Spirit King with hostility.
"Because I’m bored. And I want to read the memories of humans who came here. I was about to read your memories when you suddenly woke up," the Spirit King said.
Only then I realized the condition of my body. I can walk again even though I’m sure that my limbs shouldn’t be able there anymore because they were frozen.
"So, all that cold was illusion?" I asked.
"Not all of them. For the first half, let’s say that it’s up until where you were before when you were riding a horse, it’s all real. The cold and the height. After that, you fell under my illusion and I had the spirits to bring you here."
"And all the things about granting wishes are lies?" I asked again.
"It’s not a lie when they think that their wish has been granted. By the way, your friends including the ghost and your spirit friends were thinking that they have finished climbing. And their wishes have been granted in their illusion. The must be happy now," the Spirit King said.
"Wake them up right now. They are not so stupid to be happy about illusion," I said.
"Or what?"
"Or I will kill you here," I said.
"...Scary. But I’ll do that later. I will read your memories and see what the humans are up to now. It has been a while since we have the last challenger. So you are my source of entertainment now," the Spirit King said.
Reading my memory? Then he will read everything about me including my past life.
That’s fine. If that’s all it take for him to release his illusion from the others.
"Then do it to me. Learn about the dangers that you all are facing instead of staying here and living a lie," I said.
"Hah! As if there’s anything that can endanger us here. No matter how strong you are, you won’t be able to do anything in this place being surrounded by spirits! We are not weak," the Spirit King said.
The spirits are restraining me now as the Spirit King who is somehow the size of a human, is approaching me.
If I want to, I can escape from their restraint and kill them all. But just in case they can be used to help us to improve our strength, I will be patient for now.
If they won’t help us, then I will kill them all. I don’t know if that will help Victoria and the others to be released from illusion. But if they’re still under the illusion, then I will think of a way to get rid of it with the help of the others.