Chapter 74 Changes In The Dream (1/2)

I fell asleep very quickly. I was already tired from all the training and building I did those past couple of days. My consciousness faded quickly towards the lands of dreams. I opened my eyes and saw the same scene I usually saw during those couple of weeks. The dark hooded figure was there, standing and talking away as usual. I no longer tried to do anything because it didn't matter what I did, the dream would always end with a punch.

I waited for the dark figure to stop talking and throw its punch to finish this weird dream. After a while, the dark figure stopped talking and ran at me. I thought 'Good, finally this weird dream will end'. The dark figure punched me in my stomach and the next thing I expected was to wake up but it didn't happen. I was shocked when I saw the dark figure moving backwards couple of metres and then started to talk again.

I looked down and saw a gaping hole in my stomach with dark flames surrounding it. Black blood was gushing out and although I felt pain, it was not comparable to the wound I received. With that kind of wound, it would be very hard to move or even stand on my feet. Yet the pain I felt was much lower compared to the injury. I checked my surroundings and tried to find anything that could at least stop the bleeding but there was nothing. There was nothing on me either. If this wound was not taken care of in couple of minutes I would die.

The dream was different this time and I didn't know if that change in the dream would affect me in reality or not. I would usual wake up when the punch arrived but now I was still in this dream. I decided to attack. If the dream was different maybe I could perform different actions as well. I moved towards the dark figure step by step. When I got more momentum I started to run, the painwas more intense the more I moved but I gritted my teeths and ran with my full strength at the dark figure.

When I was about 3 metres away from the dark figure, it simply stopped talking and threw another punch this time straight at my head. The dark figure was simply too fast, I couldn't even see it move when my vision got dark and I died. Or so I thought. I tried opening my eyes and I saw the same scene again.

The dark figure was talking away like usual and I was there standing with no pain or wounds on my body. I was confused and scared 'What the hell is going on? Why do I dream it again? And will this stop?' I thought to myself. I tried calling out to the dark figure ”Hey, what do you want from me!” but I heard no response as the dark figure simply talked away as usual.

I thought about it some more 'I will try to remember all the words the dark figure speaks. Although I don't understand what is being said. I can still memorize that and maybe if I repeat those words, I will be able to leave this damned dream'.

I tried to memorize the words spoken by the dark figure but it was not as easy as it seemed. Not only it was a dream and everything was hazy, it was also very hard to say these words. The dark figure again stopped talking after a while and ran towards me to punch me. But I was wrong again, this time the dark figure kicked me. I could feel a great force pushing me away as I flew through the air and landed on the ground. I either died or fell unconscious again.

After a while, I managed to open my eyes again and well I don't think I have to say what I saw. I again tried to memorize the words of the dark figure before I got punched or kicked till fainted or dead. This repeated for 10 times and I noticed that some of the words that the dark figure spoke were repeated many times. This would mean they were probably pronouns and conjunctions. Stuff like ”I, You, Me, And or But” which would mean that the most repeated words could represent similar things as in human language.

With that thought in my mind I started to separate the most used words by the dark figure to the ones used less often. After fainting couple of more times, I could distinguish about 10 of the words that were used the most amount of times in the whole speech. They were Fer, Lak, Ak, Ji, Ki, Rei, Lan, Peris, Fal and Kroh . I didn't know the meaning of these words but I knew they were the most used in the speech, this would probably mean that they were the equivalent of words such as ”I, You, But, Or, And”. Now the problem was to find out what these words mean. If I could manage to learn the meaning, I could try and further decrypt the meaning of other words that the dark figure spoke.

After the 20th repeat of the same dream, I finally woke up in the shelter. I was very tired, as if my whole body has been through hell and back. My mind was tired as well. It was as if I stayed up for couple of days without any rest while focusing on something very hard.