Chapter 20: Chapter 20 – Too Much
Silence.
Nick just looked at the ceiling in silence.
He had expected that things wouldn't be as bad the second time.
He had been wrong.
Things had been even worse the second time.
Back when Nick had been underwater, the Nightmare had used subtle influences.
The next time, it had used horrors to stop Nick from moving to where he wanted.
Then, it created illusions of Nick losing control and being swallowed.
And now, it had just directly inflicted an unending amount of pain on him.
The Nightmare had lost all its subtlety.
It had transformed from horror into terror.
Nick just looked at the light at the ceiling.
He wasn't sure what he was feeling.
Fear, apprehension, relief, anxiety.
This wasn't like the last time.
The last time, Nick had been happy that he had managed to do it.
But this time, Nick was not happy.
The pain had been bad.
Real bad.
For several minutes, Nick didn't do anything.
He just looked at the ceiling with a worried expression.
He didn't want to feel such pain again.
He never wanted to feel something like that again.
Just now, his body had been torn apart one piece at a time.
This was a pain that should have killed someone.
But he was still alive.
...
...
Nick gulped in worry.
'I don't want to do this again.'
'How many times do I have to do this?'
'What will happen next?'
'I can barely swim for a bit more than ten meters in pure darkness, and it's already this bad.'
'This is one of the smaller blocks of houses.'
'There are blocks with no toilets, which means I have to look at the ceiling while under illusions.'
'And then, I need to go back.'
'Also, what about when I actually find the Dreamer at the ceiling in one of those?'
'At that point, I need to climb one of the pillars in pure darkness and catch it.'
'The Nightmare could easily show me illusions and make me move in the wrong direction.' novE/lb.In
Nick just floated on the liquid as he looked up.
Silence.
'I don't know.'
'I have no idea how to find and catch the Dreamer.'
For over ten minutes, Nick didn't do anything.
Naturally, Nick knew that he couldn't spend the rest of his life in the light of this little toilet.
He had to leave at some point.
Yet, he just couldn't.
The terror he had felt just now was too much.
The pain was too much.
He was only 16 years old.
He had never undergone something this painful or terrifying.
This was not the work of some random weak Specter.
No, this was the Nightmare.
One of the only five level nine Specters.
Even the strongest Zephyx Extractors couldn't remain in the darkness for an extended period of time.
The Nightmare's power was absolute.
It had killed tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people just by mentally breaking them.
It had killed people far more experienced and tenacious than Nick.
'I can't do it.'
Silence.
'I just can't do it.'
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