"Huh?"
Startled by the mysterious words, Ye Chen looked left and right, yet he could see no unusual figure anywhere around him. His face immediately filled with utterly unexpected shock.
The young man had originally thought that what lay before his eyes was merely an illusory, fleeting dream!
But he was wrong!
The truth was nothing of the sort!
"Who's speaking!?"
As Ye Chen warily scanned his surroundings and demanded an answer aloud, another sentence surfaced from the depths of his mind.
[What thou hearest is not conversation, but revelation.]
At this, Ye Chen's expression suddenly froze, and his eyes began to flicker rapidly.
"What?"
"Revelation?"
"Could you be—!?"
Faced with Ye Chen's surprise and bewilderment, the mysterious words answered without hesitation:
[My name is Auling.]
Ye Chen's heart gave a violent lurch, and his mind instantly grasped the situation!
Just as he had suspected!
After all, before arriving in this dreamscape, he had already been suffering from the bizarre symptoms brought about by coming into contact with the "Apocalypse"!
In other words, Ye Chen had, in effect, been "brought" here!
Therefore, even if everything before him had something to do with the owner of this divine artifact, it was not strange at all—indeed, it was perfectly reasonable!
Auling!
And His revelation!
Every one of these terms plucked at Ye Chen's heartstrings!
He had originally thought that the hallucinations he saw after touching the "Apocalypse" that day were the entirety of what he had gained from his journey to the Hunter Corps Forbidden Ground.
Who would have thought that the real main event was only beginning now!
And it was being presented before him in this unprecedentedly bizarre form!
[The world thou sawest before.]
[And the scene thou beholdest now.]
[Both are but a corner of the revelation I have