Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 1557 - 343: Battle in the Dream

Chapter 1557: Chapter 343: Battle in the Dream

"This time while I was sleeping, I had a dream," Nellie no longer teased Pannis and gently stopped the bleeding of his most severe wounds. She tried to dress them, but Pannis waved his hand to stop her, so she could only kneel beside him, gently letting him rest his head on her lap, and reminisced, "It was a very chaotic dream, many of the details are quite blurry to me. However, in the later part of the dream, I remember very clearly because I dreamed that I went back over a hundred years and entered this space again. Unlike reality, there were none of you in the dream—not just you, but none of our friends were there. It was just me entering here, alone facing Danacus."

"You dreamed of Danacus?" Pannis raised his eyebrows sharply, trying to sit up suddenly, but the movement pulled at his wounds. Grimacing, he lay back down on Nellie’s lap and quickly pressed, "Are you sure you were just dreaming at that time?"

"I of course thought I was dreaming before, but after seeing your reaction, I can’t be certain anymore," Nellie said with a wry smile and shook her head, "Maybe the parts I initially couldn’t remember were indeed dreams, and the parts I remembered later might not belong to just a dream."

"Perhaps," Pannis said pensively, "You don’t remember anything from the earlier part of the dream?"

"That’s not entirely true, but those dreams were really chaotic, with no connection between them. The content was extremely jumbled. At one moment, I would be dreaming of feeding birds in front of our little house, and the next moment, the scene would shift to a place I had never seen before, fighting a giant beast I had never encountered. Then, the next moment, I might find myself wandering in a completely dark environment, unable to find any pattern or rule." Nellie scratched her head, troubled, "Not only was there no pattern, but there were many scenes in the dreams, at least thousands, flashing before my eyes. That’s why I can’t remember what the dreams were about; after all, the content was too fragmented and too chaotic."

"Memory Fragment?" Pannis ventured, "Is it something like that?"

"Not quite," Nellie shook her head, "When Danacus first invaded my body, I experienced the process of receiving Memory Fragments, so I can tell there is a difference. What I experienced in the dream seemed much shorter and more disordered than Memory Fragments, some could only be described as brief scenes, lasting less than a fraction of a second."

"Well, maybe they’re more fragmented Memory Fragments then," Pannis stroked his chin, musing, "I can’t determine the exact cause, but considering usual logic, a collision of souls might create such fragments, although maybe not. Let’s set this issue aside for now. Anything else out of the ordinary?"

"Indeed, there was something unusual," Nellie, as if suddenly remembering something, tensed up and spoke earnestly, "I felt my emotions were being interfered with. Throughout those dream sequences—well, let’s still call them dreams for now—my emotions were consistently low, as if I was in deep pain, very sad, and most importantly, my heart was filled with resentment. You can’t imagine how intense that resentment was. I truly detested everyone, wishing to kill every person and let them die in the most tragic way possible."

"Resentment?" Pannis narrowed his eyes, uncertainly said, "And a desire to kill everyone?"

"It’s hard to imagine, I genuinely loved every being," Nellie said with a bitter smile. "Even I can hardly imagine falling into such a mental state. Even though I knew it was wrong, I kept suppressing the resentment in my heart, but it inevitably affected my emotions. If I were in the mortal world at that time, I guess that even if I could control myself not to randomly attack others, I would still be influenced by my emotions and might use violence against those who dared to come near me."

"Yeah, like me." Pannis shrugged his shoulders, seeming to have figured out some things, and a smile appeared on his face again. After a remark that made Nellie want to poke at his wound, he slowly said, "I think, not long after that, you dreamt of Danacus."

"How did you know?" Nellie exclaimed in surprise, but it was just a question. Having gotten used to the fact that Pannis would somehow always guess certain things, Nellie was left with only a routine surprise, too lazy to inquire about the reasons. After all, she wouldn’t understand his explanations anyway, so it was better to save the effort. Thus, the knight didn’t wait for Pannis to say anything and directly replied, "Yes, when the hatred in my heart grew stronger, the dream changed. I dreamt that I first entered this space, the first time I faced Danacus."

"Hmm, interesting," Pannis said with a strange smile, pondering, "I think, a fierce battle erupted between you two."

"Yes, a battle erupted right from the beginning," Nellie nodded. "We were essentially enemies, only one of us could rest in peace if the other died, plus, at that time, my heart was filled with hatred, so killing him became the only thought I had upon seeing him."

"Heh, I thought so," Pannis nodded. "And I guess, in the dream, you were the one who had the upper hand in the battle."

"Huh? How do you... never mind, too lazy to ask." Nellie frowned with a mix of perplexity and said, "The way of fighting in the dream was very bizarre, I can’t describe exactly how we fought. To put it simply, we were not fighting with our bodies, but with our minds. We both had physical forms, but we controlled our bodies not by strength but purely by spirit. I could appear wherever I thought of, attack however I wanted to, everything was decided by my own will and mind, rendering the role of the body minimal."

"Then you must have fought very hard," Pannis couldn’t help himself and made quite a dire remark.

"Snap." Without a doubt, Pannis received the treatment he deserved, as Nellie withdrew her hand and said irritably, "I don’t feel like talking to you anymore. Anyway, a fierce battle broke out between us, and gradually, I gained the upper hand, completely suppressing Danacus. Just when I thought I could finally do what I had always wanted to do in the dream, thoroughly teach Danacus a lesson, the situation suddenly changed."