Chapter 17 Three Simple Words (2/2)

But it could still be considered getting off lightly An Ascended, the woman was an Ascended! She could have torn his head clean off with a flick of a finger Why did he have to offend someone so powerful, of all people?!

Meanwhile, the woman cleared her throat and crossed her arms

"Are you awake now?"

Sunny held his nuive you a piece of advice: don't just say anything that coirls It's not like you haven't seen a girl before, right?"

'Say "Thank you! I definitely will not!"' Sunny thought

But instead, his mouth moved on its own, and he said:

"I've seen plenty but no one as beautiful as you"

Then he flinched back, his face as red as a lobster

The wohter

"I see you haven't met a lot of Awakened then By Awakened standards, I'lanced at her with doubt

The woman shook her head

"As your soul core develops, the body gets rid of all its imperfections So it's hard to find an unattractive Awakened, especially aht just becoave hih look and added:

"Well… maybe In any case, since you're awake — welcoratulations on surviving your First Nightmare, Sleeper Sunless"

Sleeper Sunless

That was how people would address him now, at least in the short span of days until the winter solstice — after that, he would either return from the Dream Realm as an Awakened or not return at all

It felt strange to have a title put before his name In the past, Sunny was rarely even addressed by nas like "boy", "punk", "brat" or "hey, you!" But now he even had a title

Sleeper Sunless…

Actually, the correct term was "Dreamer" But huhthtmare were called Sleepers because of how they interacted with the Spell

Basically, once his spirit enters the Spell, his body was going to fall into slumber That slumber would continue for days, weeks, or evenit takes him to escape the Dream Realm Hence the term "Sleeper"

Once he escapes and beco the day and return to the Dream Realm every time he falls asleep The Awakened were called the same by the Spell and the hueneral term for all carriers

Then, if he were to decide to enter a Second Nighted to survive, he would become an Ascended — people called them Masters Masters could enter and exit the Dream Realm as they wished Some even chose to never come back there at all More than that, they traveled between the worlds physically, not just in spirit

And then, above the Masters, there were Saints — those who had conquered the Third Nightht to call themselves Transcendent They were as powerful as demi-Gods, and even more rare Not only could they travel between the real world and the Dream Realm, but they could also take others with the back to Masters…

The beautiful woman stood up and approached the reinforced an to undo the restraint holding Sunny in place

"I am Ascended Jet You can call me Master Jet These past three days, I was on watch duty due to your Nightht… before I fell asleep, the policeman told me that an Awakened would arrive in a few hours to hth'

Sunny was unwilling to open hisout But there were things he simply had to know

"Master Jet? I have a question"

"Go on"

"Why would a Master be put on watch duty? Isn't it… below your pay grade?"

Jet gave him a dark look

"You're smarter than you see in this sector Most of the local Awakened are either wounded or occupied with the clean-up Or dead It's always like that close to the winter solstice"

She opened the final restraint and took a step back

"Plus, there's not a lot of Awakened who, like overnlorious carrier one of us can choose Would you abandon wealth and fame to work abysmal hours and risk your life, fuelled only by altruis flattering Instead, he looked Master Jet right in the eyes and smirked

"Of course not I'm not an idiot!"

'damn this damn Flaw! damn!'

She stared at hi to get slapped again

But instead, Jet sht You really are smart"

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