1 Second Invincibility in the Game

Chapter 144

Fossils were displayed on the shelves. This was the study of Professor Gomon, where parchments of all kinds were stuck into jars, starting from blueprints. Gomon, who had been sleeping with his head down on the long table, opened his eyes. A magnifying glass was clutched in his hand.“Huh? Oh, right, I was piecing together the bones.”

Scratching his head with a blank expression, Gomon tried to recall. His memory was a bit hazy, but he was certain he had been carefully sorting through the bones he had brought and aligning them in their proper places. During that process, he had cut his hand on the sharp horn of a skull. He had gone to the shelf with the mirror to get a bandage for the wound. But then, he had been startled.

As he glanced at the mirror, he had seen someone sitting on the table. It was a man with extremely pale skin. But when he turned his head, no one was there. Gomon slumped into his chair, letting out a deep sigh. It must have been a hallucination from reading too many old books recently. Shaking it off, Gomon grabbed the magnifying glass again to continue his work. However, the bones had disappeared.

“Huh?”

“You’ve already finished, so why not take a proper rest?”

A sudden voice broke the silence, and Gomon slowly turned his head. Surprisingly, he didn’t feel alarmed. For some reason, it felt as if he were about to have a casual conversation with an invited guest. Gomon blinked.

“Huh?”

A naked man was leaning against the wall. He had horns on his head, wings on his back, and a black tail swayed gently beneath him. His pale skin shimmered like stars. Despite his dazed state, Gomon realized that this sight was beyond reality.

“Am I dreaming?”

“Yes, you are. This is all a dream, a lucid one, if you will. Isn’t that nice? If there’s something you want, just imagine it. Consider it my thanks for waking me up.”

Gomon thought it was a convenient situation. He had always wished he could live without sleep—how much more time he could have spent on re

It’s not extremely difficult, but considering this is his only weakness, the difficulty is reasonable.

So, who are the ones tasked with defeating him?

They are the key characters in the wizard positions:

Bellman, the barrier master,

Ricks, the master of manifestation,

Edina, the shape-shifter, and their helper, Rockefeller.

Except for Ricks, the first-year students of the Adele Hall’s magic department were training under Rockefeller’s lead in a sealed room known as the magic chamber.

Thanks to that, they weren’t exposed to the sleep gas that swept through the area, and they weren’t trapped in the dream state, allowing them to move freely.

“There’s nothing for me to do here, right?”

The setting had been perfectly arranged, and there didn’t seem to be any reason for the scenario to go awry.

Up until now, I’d been dragged into all kinds of chaos and targeted by villains just because I had enrolled in the academy, but I had no connection to Irte.

If the main characters asked what I had been doing while they struggled, I could just say I was dreaming like everyone else.

Of course, I hadn’t been affected by Irte’s hypnosis.

[Threat detected. Type: Hypnosis.]

[1-second invincibility activated.]

“Hehe.”

So, with my free body, all I needed to do was leisurely find a bodyguard, sneak into the dungeon, and grab the hidden item there.

Hopefully, this time, they can handle all the hard work themselves.

***

At the Adele Hall café, Leana opened her eyes.

As she lifted her head, a few strands of red hair stuck to her lips.

“Mm…”

Out of habit, she straightened her hair and looked around.

The café was filled with people wandering about in a daze.

Floating soap bubbles drifted through the air, and people chased after them gleefully.

“It’s a dragonfly!”

“It’s a fairy!”

“No, it’s my love letter!”

It was a truly bizarre sight.

Leana thought, and with that thought, her mind seemed to clear a little.

She then noticed Silla, who was slumped over the table in front of her.

Leana gently shook Silla’s shoulder.

“Silla?”

“Uh, ugh…”

Silla rubbed her eyes as she slowly woke up.

Leana blinked her cloudy eyes slowly.

“Silla, what were we doing?”

“We were drinking tea.”

“Oh, right. What were we talking about?”

“Uh… your fiancé, I think?”

Their conversation, in sluggish voices, continued.

“Oh, right. But, did I even have a fiancé?”

“Uh… Hersel?”

“Huh? That’s strange. Did we really?”

As Leana said this, Silla looked around.

“By the way, why are we at a ball?”

“A ball?”

To Leana, it just looked like the café.

“Yeah, you know, the people dancing the waltz over there.”

They were just people following soap bubbles with wobbly steps.

“There’s even a band over there, hehe.”

But the band consisted of people humming awkwardly, sounding like pigs being slaughtered.

It was clear that Silla hadn’t taken any drugs.

It seemed they were trapped in some strange dream.

***

The interior of the club floor was now dyed a dark color.

The cloth had all turned into red carpets, and occasional ash floated through the air.

The place had fully transformed into a dungeon with a demon lord’s castle theme.

The students wandered around with dazed expressions, giggling to themselves.

“Has this place always been like this?”

“Huh? Maybe? Feels kinda like home. Am I dreaming?”

At that moment, the students suddenly turned their heads toward the sound of clanking armor.

Clank, clank.

I hid among the crowd of students, watching it.

It was a fully armored knight, but its interior was completely hollow.

This was one of the dungeon monsters that filled the castle, one of Irte’s minions.

Clank, clank.

Luckily, it didn’t notice me and passed by.

Just then, one of the girls who had been talking earlier wrapped her arms around the knight’s back.

“Alend, right? Oh, wait. The armor seems a bit big… or is it just me? Oh well. Can you take me to my room?”

“What? Are you saying you won’t give me a piggyback ride now that I’m all grown up? Ugh, whatever. This is a dream anyway. I’m just going to get on.”

The woman slapped the armor with a light thud and forcibly climbed onto the knight’s back. The armored knight ignored her and continued on its path, carrying her along.

Donatan spoke curiously, ‘Strangely, it’s not attacking.’

Minions never attack those lost in the dream. It made sense; those people were their energy source. Killing them would serve no purpose. The only ones they attack are those, like me, who aren’t trapped in the dream.

But where on earth is Riamon? I’ve been wandering around, but I can’t find the guy I had pegged to be my bodyguard. I can’t exactly head to where Mircel and Erucel are either. That place is swarming with minions, and they’re much stronger than your typical undead foes.

As someone who can only use limited ‘physical telekinesis magic,’ I wasn’t confident I could break through that horde. Still, just standing here doing nothing wasn’t much of an option either. I began to quietly walk, softening my footsteps.

Then, suddenly, some guy with a spaced-out look pointed at my face and shouted, “It’s a teddy bear!”

What the heck? This guy’s out of his mind.

I was about to ignore him and keep walking when, unexpectedly, someone called my name properly.

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