After passing through one dream after another and answering the questions of one Giant after another who had been trapped in nightmares, Abner descended before an ancient castle that seemed to be bathed in twilight.
Built against a mountain, the castle was magnificent and imposing, in no way inferior to the Twilight Giant Palace of the Feysac Royal Family. It carried much of the feel of the Giant King's Court from the original work...
"It is said that Half-Giants of relatively pure bloodlines often dream of towering peaks, enormous walls built upon them, palaces, towers, and all kinds of buildings forever bathed in twilight.
"Everyone who dreamed of it was convinced that it was their homeland—the Giant King's Court!
"So, this castle, which had been drawn into the nightmare back then, must have merged with this dream of longing for 'home,' forming an ancient castle resembling the Giant King's Court?
"It made sense, yet something still felt off... And that 'twilight' was unsettling..."
With those thoughts in mind, Abner looked around again and discovered that, apart from the castle, the outer courtyard remained shrouded in darkness. Only because it was close to the twilight could he barely make out its surroundings.
Two things there caught Abner's attention.
One was an altar located at the center of the courtyard.
Complex symbolic patterns and magical markings had been carved around the altar, while at its center lay a regular icosahedral gemstone shimmering with five flowing colors.
Under the observation of Abner's Pure White Eye, he discovered that it was linked to the "twilight" above the castle and used it to form a Barrier around the entire courtyard, fending off the encroachment of the darkness outside.
The other was the skeleton of a Dragon at the courtyard gate. Including its tail, it was