■ Dream World Status: CRITICAL
Core Personality Thread [Yuto Arakawa] – Stabilized
Dream Deity [Kovalein] – Merging with Realm
Realm Classification: [Living Nightmare]
Difficulty Rating: Catastrophic (Unwinnable in Linear Combat)
Yuto stood on a platform of cracked glass, hovering over an endless sky stitched from stars and screaming mouths.
From the sky… something descended.
A colossal figure, robed in ink-black mist and crowned with shattered porcelain masks.
Each mask whispered a lullaby in reverse.
Kovalein's final form.
"You refused the dream," the god-thing spoke.
"So now I become the nightmare you can never wake from."
[Final Boss Initiated: Kovalein – Dream Eater, God of Unrest]
Abilities:
– False Awakening: Every time you're hit, you're sent into a nested dream.
– Sleep Loop: If your resolve drops below 50%, your consciousness begins to fracture.
– Dream Devour: Absorbs emotional memories as fuel.
Win Condition: Break the Realm Anchor hidden in his body.
Nyx whispered:
[We can't beat him straight-on. We have to tear the dreams apart. One by one.]
■ First Assault: Recursive Collapse
Kovalein raised a hand.
A million threads of light fell—each a fragmented dream of someone forgotten.
They wrapped around Yuto, trying to pull him under—
Into someone else's nightmare.
"Not happening," Yuto growled.
[Skill Unlocked: Sovereign Thread – Dreamburn Mode]
Converts soul thread into purifying fire. Extremely costly.
His threads lit white-hot.
He scorched the invading dreams—
A farmer begging a lost child to return.
A warrior fighting a war he already lost.
A child crying in a locked closet.
All these dreams weren't his.
But they mattered.
"Rest," Yuto whispered, burning them clean.
"I'll carry the memory."
Each dream purified cracked Kovalein's form.
One mask fell. Then another.
He screamed, the sound curdling stars.
■ Weak Point Revealed
In his chest, a golden locket shimmered faintly.
A single image inside—a young boy, asleep, smiling.
"That's him," Nyx said.
"That's the original Kovalein. Before he drowned in dreams."
Yuto's eyes narrowed.
"Then I'll end this. Not with hatred. But with truth."
■ Final Attack: Thread of Reality
Yuto condensed all remaining thread into a single line—
Forged not from hatred. But everything he accepted:
His pain. His death. His crawl through code.
His failure, his awakening, his survival.
The line turned silver.
He flung it forward—straight into the locket.
Kovalein's body unraveled.
Masks fell like dying stars.
The sky cracked. The dream screamed itself apart.
"So tired…" whispered the fading god.
"Then sleep," Yuto said softly.
"For real this time."
■ [Boss Defeated: Kovalein – Dream Eater]
Realm Collapse Imminent
Extraction Protocol Initiated
As the world fell apart, Nyx pulled Yuto into a white cocoon of thread.
"One hell of a bug you are," Nyx chuckled.
"You rewrote a dream god."
Yuto smiled faintly, his body breaking into particles.
"He just wanted peace. So did I."
"Now we move forward."
[Dream World: Purified]
Host Expelled Successfully.
New Skill Gained:
→ Dreamrender – The ability to see truth through illusion.
■ Back in the Waking Realm
Yuto landed on stone ground—still in the deeper levels of the System Labyrinth.
Broken Hand was waiting.
"You survived. And you smell like dreamfire."
Yuto cracked his neck.
"Next god," he muttered.
"Let's see how they handle a bug who eats nightmares."