Chapter 157: Where the dream begins (Part 2)

How long ago did it happen? She was about to forget it, but no matter how long it took, as long as she was still here and as long as her dream was not over, she would always remember this smell.

"Ayu, so you just need to help...I must..." Ulysses's voice echoed in Ayu's ear, but she could no longer hear what he was saying.

The soul mirror that seals everything can be used to subdue all the magic power, but there is one thing that can never be sealed off, that is, dreams.

"Woog, Ulysses, do you really want my most precious thing? Do you really have to?" Ayu made up a big decision and looked at Ulysses beside him with some special look.

"If you want, you have to come and do something for me."

If, really want it so much; if, really care so much and pursue her; if it was Ulysses, maybe it could be done.

"Well, Yayu, are you willing to help me?" Ulysses thought that it was his request that touched Yayu's heart and began to look forward to it.

He knew that Yayu was a very kind girl. As long as she explained sincerely, she would understand and lend a helping hand.

I really want to say thank you, he rarely asks for such a request. So no matter what harsh requests Ayu made, he is willing to go ahead.

"Ulysses, then, are you willing to accept it? My commission." Yayu's eyes were a little strange.

"Well, I'm willing, what do I want me to do?" Things that even Ayu can't do must be very, very difficult. Even the opponent may be a fantasy creature at the level of Wind Fish, but Ulysses's answer will not change anything.

He will no longer be confused. When he personally sent Lala into eternal darkness, he will no longer look back. After choosing the path of the Demon King, he chose the most unknowable future.

Just because, only in such a future, he can find his only hope.

"That's something I can't do, something I can't change or recover even in my dreams. But I forgot, Ulysses, help me find it back." Yayu seemed to be missing, and as if he was missing, his eyes were filled with a faint sadness.

"Go to the place where I can't get in, and find me and bring back something very, very important. That thing must be on me, but I lost it."

"Where is it?" Ulysses was ready. No matter whether Ayu asked him to go to the deep sea or in the volcano, he would set out without hesitation.

"Nothing is there, nothing is there. It's my past dream, a dream I can't remember, a place I always want to go back but can't go back. Now, I open the door for you, you must find something like that."

"The dream is where it begins and where it ends. I have been praying that the dream will come true one day. Autumn has passed, spring has come, summer has ended, winter has begun again. The dreams I am looking forward to, the dreams I am forever. Now, please let me open the door of that dream and let the people in front of me enter!"

Ayu began to pray, praying for the realization of the dreams of the people she trusted. The power she held allowed her to give the people who have dreams and hopes a power, a power that can create miracles.

However, this time, the wish she made was a wish she had always wanted to fulfill but could not do it. Because this was a wish related to herself, and she wanted others to help her realize it.

Open up her dream and let Ulysses go in and find what he lost in the past, something very important to her.

She couldn't remember what was like that, she only vaguely remembered that it was a very, very important thing she had lost.

Perhaps that is her most precious thing.

Amid the prayer of Ayu, a door began to appear before Ulysses, which was the door she could not enter, and that only those who were willing to help her realize her wish could enter.

"I will find it, no matter how much time it takes." Although I didn't know what Ayu said, Ulysses's voice was extremely firm.

That is his will, who has chosen the path, will not turn back.

After a flash, Ulysses passed through the gate and disappeared into the real world.

"Woog, Ulysses, you're going to find it." Ayu closed his eyes and began to dream.

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Snowflakes fluttered gently, falling from the high sky, and then a thick layer of snow was piled up on the ground. Transparent icicles hung in strings under the eaves, and they looked like there was no sign of melting, and they might be getting longer and longer.

All the roofs turned white, and only a few outstretched chimneys were left to see a little black. The entire city and the earth seemed to have been covered by this overwhelming snow.

There were no more pedestrians on the streets where people were coming and going, but occasionally people walked by the thick snow and then entered the streets with few leftovers to enjoy the spicy soju and rough barbecue in the open tavern.

This is the scenery of the northern towns that can be seen anywhere. The ice and snow seasons have suddenly narrowed the scope of human activities. The small towns spread across the northern continent are like isolated islands in this season, and they have cut off their ties.

Ulysses walked alone in this strange town, looking for clues related to Ayu.

This is the third day he has been here. If it were the original ones, he just needs to spread the wings of the Fallen Angel's light and can easily search the entire town.

However, the reality is that he spent two days still wandering around the corner of the town, because in this world he lost all his power. All the power of the demon king, the high-speed sword and silver healing hand he could not use.

So he discovered that his current body was actually not his body, and it was the body of an ordinary person who did not have the blood of the devil. In this world, his power level was almost the same as when he was in Taji City.

The power of the fourth-level light magistrate is his current limit. The realm of infinite desires, the light of the fallen angels beyond his body, cannot be used, and even the high-speed sword cannot be used, because they are all moves that can only be activated if his body is strengthened by the blood of the devil.

If you use the body of an ordinary person to use those moves, you may have to collapse before you can use them.

However, Ulysses did not just look down, but began to search one step after another.

Since Ayu asked him to come here to find her most important thing, she would never harm him. This is Ulysses' trust in Ayu and his persistence in his own beliefs.

After losing the most powerful force, the cold wind from the north began to invade Ulysses' body, making him feel the long-lost cold.

Strolling in this cold and harsh north wind, Ulysses continued his exploration.

"Woo...woo...woo..." The girl's crying sound came from the wind, very faint.

In this cold world, no one will pay attention to this sound. People who are uncomfortable with the cold are walking in a hurry, and no one will stop their pace.

Ulysses paused and found the sound's master in the direction where it came.

It was a girl who was crying alone on a bench on a street corner, looking only eleven or twelve years old. She wore a red headband on her head, a long scarf wrapped around her neck, and a beige coat.

Obviously, this was not enough to stop the invasion of the cold north wind, so her body was already trembling with cold. But her confused and at a loss-willing look meant that she didn't know the terribleness of continuing like this, and she was just crying alone there.

No one would listen to her crying, and the pedestrians who were walking by in a hurry before her quickly left without even looking at her.

In this cold season, on this cold street, she is like a child abandoned by the world, lonely and helpless.

However, Ulysses knew this child because she would be a girl with dreams and hopes in the future, and could summon the dream envoy of the Wind Fish. But now she seems to have not grown up yet.

"Woo... Woo..." Ayu, who had not noticed Ulysses' arrival, was crying, and his body was trembling constantly, not entirely because of the cold.

"Yo." Ulysses walked to Ayu naturally and sat with her.

"Woo... well..." Ayu, who found someone coming to him, was choking and staring at the unexpectedly uninvited guest at a loss.

"Don't cry." Seeing Ayu's confused expression, Ulysses knew that this little girl had no impression of him, but this did not prevent him from trusting and caring for her.

Yayu once said that there are important things she has lost in this world. Obviously, the most likely place that thing is this girl - Ayu who seems to have not grown up yet.

"Woo... Woo..." Ulysses's words seemed to have a counterproductive effect, and Ayu cried more and more violently.

Children cannot control their feelings. When they encounter sad things, they will cry loudly, and when they encounter happy things, they will laugh loudly. That is their purest expression, far more realistic than adults.

"Come on, let me show you something fun." Although I lost the powerful power of the Demon King, Ulysses unexpectedly found that the power of his low-level magic did not disappear, perhaps because this was not a field above level 4.

"Bang!" A hot and fat bread appeared in Ulysses' hands, attracting Ayu's gaze.

"Wow!" It seemed that it was the first time I saw such a magical spell. Yayu stopped crying and stared at the fat bread that seemed to have just come from the oven with her innocent big eyes. Her small nose was twitching, as if she was smelling the tempting fragrance of bread in the air.

Ulysses smiled, tore the fat bread he summoned in half, and then put half of it in Ayu's hand.

"Although it's not your favorite fish takino, just make do with it."

"Uncle, how do you know that my favorite is Yuyaki?" Ayu asked curiously, biting the soft bread.

"That's a little secret." Ulysses shrugged and cast a light-based magic "Constant Temperature Technique" that increases the surrounding temperature, temporarily dispelling the cold and squeaky wind around him.

"It's so warm, is uncle a magician?" Ayu, who had been frozen, looked at the sudden warming around with curious eyes, and then tried to pass through the range of this small constant temperature technique with his hands.

"Wow!" The temperature of the north wind outside did not change at all. Yayu's hand was immediately taken back after being holed, like a scared little animal.

"Now, isn't it cold?" Ulysses adjusted the magic power that was not rich in his body, and maintained this small constant temperature technique with minimal loss. This light-based magic is not difficult, but it is not easy for him who has only level 4 magic now.

"Yes, it's so warm, thank you uncle." Ayu's expression became cheerful, and the tears left by the crying just now disappeared in the warm wind.

"I'm not that old, right?" Ulysses couldn't help but touch his face. Could it be that the eighteen-year-old he looked so old?

"Mom told me that those who can use magic in black robes should call them uncles, and those who have white beards should call them grandpa." Ayu replied seriously.

"Is that so? It was my mother who said it." The figure of a kind mother appeared in Ulysses' mind, just like his mother, Euphy.

"Well, my mother also said, don't trust the adults who are close to you easily. Especially those who will use snacks to tempt you to take you away, that must be a bad person. Uncle, where do you want to take me?" Yayu looked at Ulyss beside him with innocent eyes, looking a little expectant.

"Uh, I'm not a bad guy." Ulysses found that his mode of action seemed to be somewhat similar to the kind of person Ayumo's mother said that needs extreme vigilance.

"I know, because bad guys won't use such magical magic, and make Xiaoya so warm." Yayu stretched out his finger and pulled the corner of Ra Ulysses's clothes, as if confirming the material of the magician robe.

"So big." For children, this wide black magician robe is obviously too big.

"Did your mother call you Xiaoya?" Ulysses touched Yayu's head and stroked the ice chips that were about to melt into water.

"Well, Xiaoya is my name, and my mother has always called me that. Mom...Mom..." Yayu's expression dimmed:

"Mom, I will never call me like this again. Dad told me that she has gone to a very far place where there are white angels, and it is the same as spring all year round."

Ulysses' heart suddenly shook. He knew where the place was like spring all year round when there was a white day.

That is the blue sky world that people who believe in the Supreme God on this continent yearn for, and the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss - Paradise where there is no war.

However, if a father tells his child that his mother has gone to that place, it is actually a kind lie. Because humans are absolutely impossible to reach that world, only the souls of the dead will go there.

So, Ayu's mother has...

"I miss my mother so much. Why did my mother go so far? If this happens, wouldn't I never see her again?" Yayu obviously believed this kind-hearted lie, so he was so sad and crying quietly here alone.

Ulysses didn't know what to say at this time. He didn't want to break Ayu's last fantasy, so he could only work hard to increase the temperature of the constant temperature technique to make her warmer.

"It's so warm, uncle, thank you, I decided not to cry anymore. If my mother knows, she will definitely laugh at me as a crying bug." Wiping off the last tears at the corner of her eyes, Ayu showed a brave and confident smile to Ulysses.

"I have to be strong. My father is helping to find an messenger who can communicate with my mother. At that time, I must write a lot of words and tell my mother that I am very good, very healthy, and happy."
To be continued...