As Ye Chen awakened to the shocking truth of Nightmare, the figure kneeling amid the bloody mist revealed its true face as well!
It was none other than his past self!
A younger Ye Chen—
And a weaker Ye Chen!
The first figure to appear had been Ye Chen before he became "Those Who Hear Its Song"!
At that stage of his life, Ye Chen was young and inexperienced, and had yet to go through any heart-wrenching separations of life and death.
Therefore, when he first entered the dreamscape, his attitude toward it was nothing but pure curiosity, devoid of any other superfluous emotion!
The second figure to appear later, meanwhile, was Ye Chen before he became "Those Who Smell Its Scent"!
Although Ye Chen at this stage was only a dozen or so days older than before, he had just lost Lyle and Heiqi, his only two remaining family members, and had temporarily become utterly alone.
Thus, his heart was filled with pain and sorrow. He began to resent his own weakness and yearned even more desperately to take revenge on the Abyss that had taken everything from him. The tranquil colors of his life began to undergo a fundamental change!
Had Mu, that elderly mentor, not patiently guided him at the time, Ye Chen might very well have been shrouded in the shadow of hatred, losing his humanity step by step and gradually turning into a cold-blooded executioner who lived for nothing but revenge!
"I see."
"So all of this... was guided by myself?"
"The means by which my past self obtained power from the dreamscape..."
"So it turns out..."
"Were messages from my future self, conveyed step by step through my current state to the past—!?"
Above the bloody-mist sky, the true "Ye Chen" looked upon the