373 Nightmare (1/2)

Luna abruptly woke up from her sleep.

Her beautiful face was filled with sweat and her chest was heaving as she gasped for air. She was a bit pale as she remembered what just happened.

She just dreamt about something really terrible.

At first she saw a deranged and deformed man, screaming in pain. He doesn't seem to be suffering from physical pain but rather something else entirely. She could hear him constantly grunting and cursing at someone.

The deformed man was surrounded by people wearing black robes, which struck some form of familiarity to her for some reason. They were trying their best to ease the deformed man's pain but what ever they do, the pain wasn't stopping. Some of them left and came back with silver trays on their hand. As soon as the platter was revealed, Luna felt her heart grow cold.

The platter was filled with carcasses of humans.

Luna retched by the dream didn't end there. The deformed man devoured the human flesh, and based from what she saw, he was gaining a little bit of strength every time he consumed human flesh, which is something that Luna couldn't understand.

The pain didn't stop for the deformed creature but due to his meal, he was able to numb his senses and ignore the pain he was suffering.

He then gave out strings of orders to his followers and the whole territory boiled in activity. The nightmare fast forwarded and to Luna's horror, it showed a battalion of Demonic Beasts and Black Robed humans marching towards somewhere.

Their numbers exceeded millions, and the auras combined made for a very threatening force.

All the way at the back of this enormous horde, the deformed human sat on the throne being carried by several men. His gaze was burning with anger and desire, while his aura alone was way beyond anything that Luna felt before.

The nightmare ended with the deformed human making eye contact with her. She never felt so alarmed and threatened that it forced her to wake up from that nightmare.

Luna shook her head and tried to tell herself that it was just a dream. She drank a glass of water and looked at the moonlit sky filled with stars. She sighed and accepted her fate that she might not going to be able to sleep after experiencing that.

She changed her clothes and decided to go out for a brief walk. But as soon as she walked out of her room, she was surprised to see that almost every single one of the guards on duty were incredibly alert and somewhat jittery.

”What's the matter? Did something happen?”

”Ah! Oh!” The guard almost jumped in surprise seeing her in front of him. It was clear that there was something weighing out his mind. He cleared his throat and said: ”Pardon my inattentiveness, Princess. I just thought about something strange.”

”Mind telling me what is this strange thought of yours?” Luna asked.

”It's just something silly Princess. Don't pay attention to it.” The guard replied, but looking at Luna's gaze, he felt that he couldn't escape this, so he explained: ”Well, I just had a terrible daydream. It's like this…”

The more this guard told her about this daydream of his, the more somber Luna's expression became. The guard's daydream was extremely similar to her nightmare just now except for a few details. On his vision, he saw himself being eaten by a monstrosity.

Luna was about to ask him more but the guards near them also heard this conversation and decided to chime in.

”Holy crap dude! I experienced that too just now! But unlike you, I was stabbed by some sort of poisonous spike!”

”I saw myself being beheaded.”

”I became a puppet for the enemy.”

Luna was astounded, heart turned cold and a grimace found its way to her beautiful face. The guard in front of her saw this and somehow understood…

”Heavens! Did you experienced it too Princess?” His outburst was heard by the other guards and they too were shocked.

Luna sighed and nodded: ”Yes, I did. But I didn't die. I just saw a very, very frightening existence leading those troops.”

All the guards had an unnatural reaction upon hearing her say that. This specific event is just too coincidental. Granted that someone could be saying similar things to join the bandwagon, this is very unlikely due to the nature of their work.

They didn't doubt Luna at all, since there literally no reason for her to lie to them.

*Beep!*