Ding!
[The Dream Dungeon Seed has absorbed the Distorted Dungeon Dimension, and all surrounding Dream Clouds and Fragmented Dream Realms!]
[All the Memories and Emotions left behind by those that once inhabited this place have converged into a new Dream Dungeon…]
[You have entered the [Divine Dream Dungeon: Distorted Laboratory Of A Forgotten Future Past]!]
The moment we stepped inside the Dungeon, we were greeted with a blinding sight. Our surroundings were now the same as before, but much cleaner, as if it had become anew.
It was all futuristic, silver-colored walls, silver and blue circuit-like lines spread across everywhere, neon lights constantly flashing in and out, and three long corridors, one leading towards the front, an the other to the right and left.
The ceilings had huge led lights, illuminating the entire place even brighter… Yet there was an unsettling silence in this place.
"We're here…" I said, looking around my surroundings.
"Huh? It looks kind of the same as outside!" Said Emerald. "Yet… Hmm, there's little Winds here."
"This silence, and these bright, artificial lights… They feel so unsettling." Said Tyrannus. "Is everyone alright? Did you all made it?"
"Yes chief!"
"We are all safe and sound."
"Ready for anything…"
"Just what is this place?"
"A-Are we really inside a dungeon?"
The warriors were as chatty as ever, Tyrannus nodded, affirming that this was indeed a Dungeon, a strange one at that, one born from Dreams.
"It is a Dungeon born from the Dreams of those that once lived here." I explained. "Everybody's emotions, memories, and energy is never left, it stays in the air, fusing with Dream Energy, and transforming into invisible Dream Clouds that float around. Dream Magic has the ability to gather such powers and allow us to see through them. When I condense it all into a Dream Dungeon, it creates some sort of ancient visage, it is even possible to replay memories of people."
"W-What…?"
"Incredible…"
"But who's memories could these be from?"
"We're about to find that out right now, so stop being so impatient." Miranda said angrily. "Stay silent if you don't have anything good to say, please."
"I agree that they're a bit too loud, I apologize on their behalf…" Tyrannus tried to apologize.
"No need to be so grumpy." I said. "Are you feeling alright?"
"Maybe it's the pregnancy, I've been having some mood swings…" Miranda sighed.
"You're tired?" Wondered Benladann.
"Nah, I'm fine. Let's keep going at it. I want this to end by midnight so we can eat and sleep." Miranda shrugged.
"Well, if you insist…"
As we stepped forwards into the door at the end of the corridor, it suddenly started glowing bright red, emanating a strange sound, like an alarm.
[You've not allowed to enter private area, special personnel card needed.]
[To enter into the second and third private areas of Nexus Corporations building, please complete the Trials of Memories and acquire the necessary Memory Artifacts.]
[To the left and right there are two Trials of Memories, complete them to acquire Memory Artifacts and advance further…]
[The [Dungeon Core] has noticed your presence.]
"Looks like this Dream Dungeon got a bit of a strict rule." I wondered. "Belle, can't we break through forcefully?"
"I wouldn't recommend that, this Dream Dungeon seems too fragile, if you do things outside of the rules, it might collapse, and everything within it will be lost." Belle explained. "It shouldn't be too hard to get the Dream Artifacts either." The pink fox said.
"Wait, so these things have rules?" Asked Emerald angrily.
"Well, to not risk ourselves, let's go all together… To the right it is."
Without hesitating anymore, I led my group to the right corridor. The place was absolutely barren aside from the led, unsettling lights, and the smell of plastic and metal, until we finally arrived at a huge gate.
["This place… why does it feels so familiar?"]
"You know what Nexus Corporations is?" I asked her.
["I-I don't know… But it does sounds familiar…"]
"Strange, but let's get this done with."
I touched the gate, as it opened instantly, bright white light greeted our sight, suddenly showing us fragments of the past of someone else…
FLAAASH!
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The world distorted around Drake and company, reconstructing into what seemed to be a futuristic world, with tall skyscrapers, flying cars, robots walking here and there, and… a strangely dark sky, a polluted air, and what seemed to be small red crystals raining from above.
Every person that could be seen was wearing special suits to protect them against the pollution, as a tall, blonde man made his way into the tallest building in the middle of the city, taking off the suit once he walked in, and running upstairs.
As he walked upstairs towards his office, his blue eyes glanced into the world outside through the windows, the dark sky, the falling red crystals, his eyes filled with dread and fear…
"How long has it been… Since all of this began?" He wondered. "Earth… is dying. And its death, is partially our fault."
He walked into a huge room, showing his card to the gate to let him access, and then entering into a gigantic hall that amounted most of the building. There were dozens of scientists in there, all glancing into the middle of the hall, where there was a tall tree.
The tree, on its own way, was quite bizarre, although it seemed to be made of wood, the wood was dark green, and it was also covered by several growths of colorful crystals, its leaves shining with rainbow-colored metallic light.
It emanated an aura of life and spiritual energy like nobody here had ever felt before, yet… that very energy was also dangerous, the tree was contained inside bullet-proof glass.
"Professor Johnathan, good morning." A woman walked to his side.
"Jessica… How are things going?" Johnathan asked, looking into the big tree. "Is Test Subject 1 doing alright today?"
"Its vital signs seem fine, and it is, as you can see, brimming with life and light!" Jessica giggled. "Who would had known that the cause of our planet's quick decline… Might become our very last hope."
"Even now, I feel a slight amount of fear whenever I see this... I know that it is not the same as that one that caused the Red Rain… Yet just remembering what happened when they opened the Quantum Gate… and everything turned red…" Sighed Jonathan. "90% of the planet's living beings are gone since then… and half the planet is covered in red crystals, sapping away all life."
"Professor, it isn't your fault…" Jessica said, her eyes filled with guilt.
"At the end, I helped in that research, I am as guilty as everyone that died there…" The man said, gripping his fists. "And it is also my responsibility to fix this… somehow."
"Then it is also my responsibility." Jessica smiled. "Let's get to work."
"Yeah…" Johnathan nodded.
As the Professor nodded, he talked with several other scientists, analyzing the life signals of the tree, its potential, and the energies it emanated, several machines constantly imbued different types of light and electricity into it, both boosting its energy development and also enhancing its growth speed.
FLAAASH!
The Memory Fragment quickly ended there, as everyone found themselves in front of dozens of robots armed with weapons…
