Megana?
Reilo remembered that the last time he had seen this woman was during the Underground Creatures' invasion of the Grand Duchy.
At the time, she had been with Xixido, the Humble Scholar.
Come to think of it, his relationship with this woman had once been rather complicated. Even now, he still couldn't forget the moment at the academy's graduation ball when she had confessed her feelings to him. He never would have guessed that this young female scholar, known as the Soul Lens, was actually descended from this Ancient Aurora native's spirit-manipulated clone.
"What do you want with her? If she's your descendant, why are you going through me?"
Reilo felt a little wary. "You must have sensed that your descendant recently returned to Starveil Land, haven't you?"
"Ke ke ke ke! I have my reasons for coming to you. I hope you can vouch for your descendant and assure her that I mean her no harm, so she'll feel comfortable studying Nightmare Suggestion under me. In return, I can let you be the first to experience the Fourth Layer World of Nightmare Suggestion, which I've spent thousands of years developing. As for its wonders... you'll likely benefit from it for the rest of your life."
The man seemed quite confident. "Come to think of it, your so-called Academic World began when one of my clones performed a magic trick at a ball more than three thousand years ago. I didn't think much of it at the time; I was just enjoying myself. I never expected it would change the history of this barren, remote land."
The Dream Thief had inadvertently revealed another astonishing fact.
As for Nightmare Suggestion—
Reilo only needed to think about it briefly to realize that it was clearly a new power this Ancient Aurora