Chapter 19: The Mystery Dream Reappears

After being scolded for god knows how long by Sara.

Zhen became exhausted from spending a lot of time coaxing her to forgive me.

Zhen sighed as he went back to my room, ignoring that damn Kuro who is still busy stuffing his mouth with food.

Zhen took off some clothes before falling asleep. Zhen was overly fatigued from today's work and he was a lazy person, to begin with.

Once Zhen is in deep slumber, the atmosphere becomes bright despite the darkness in his room.

Light sparkling shined through his closed eyes. Zhen slowly opened his eyes to see if it's Kuro playing a prank on him.

'I already let you off and you still dare to joke around'

Right as his eye finally opened, before Zhen could start roaring at Kuro. He noticed his surroundings were no longer in the inn's room.

"What the heck?" Zhen said aloud in this turn of events.

'I'm back in this weird environment again. Is this going to happen every time I'm falling asleep?'

Thinking that it is a possibility, Zhen starts to sweat as it will mean, he will never get a good night's sleep.

Checking the environment with his Sense, he found no life form around and it was just these stars above him.

Without having a single clue on what's going on, Zhen stretches his hand out to touch a single star.

*Ding* *Ding* *Ding*

As soon as his hand touched the star, it made some weird noise before exploding into sparkly dust.

The sparkly dust didn't scatter around the area. Instead, it went straight to Zhen's brain.

He tried to dodge it but alas, it was a futile effort.

When the last speck of sparkly dust entered his brain, Zhen felt his brain going crazy.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Zhen screamed in pain when his brain started to combust, almost like it's trying to destroy everything.

The pain was at least 10,000 times more painful than Sara twisting his ear.

His body could no longer handle it as Zhen started to lose his conscience. Before his eye completely shut down, Zhen thought he saw a tiny core staring at me.

While Zhen is lying on the floor without any conscience, the tiny core starts to flow around him.

"Are you my host after my fall or supposed death?"

The tiny core mumbled after a while. Confused, it dived straight back into Zhen's stomach and everything started to crumble down again.

An unknown amount of time later~

Zhen felt someone shaking him hard so he opened his eyes slowly with difficulty.

"MASTER, ARE YOU OKAY? MASTER, WAKE UP!"

Zhen heard Kuro screaming at him while pushing his body.

'What's going on?'

Zhen woke up and stared at Kuro before exclaiming in an irritated mood, "What are you yelling for? I'm about to be deafened by your scream."

"Thank goodness, you're fine Master," Kuro replied before hugging him tightly.

'Damn, do you have to hug me that tightly'

Almost unable to breathe, Zhen said, "Let go of me Kuro, I'm about to be squeezed to death by you."

Kuro let go of Zhen before looking deep in his eye. Kuro's eyes show concern but most importantly, there is some scared or panic expression in his eyes.

"What's going on with you Kuro? You're acting weird now."

Zhen spoke to Kuro after seeing how he was simply looking at him without saying anything.

"Master, do you not remember anything? You were sleeping peacefully but then you started screaming and your body started to twitch. Not only that, you were sweating." Kuro replied.

'Huh, so that mystery dream really affected me in reality.'

Hearing Kuro's remark, Zhen just noticed the condition of his body. His clothes were wet but it was sweat and not the kind you were thinking about.

*Bam*

While Zhen was trying to think, his brain started thumping like that in the mysterious dream except there was no pain this time.

A load of information starts to flood his brain.

'Chaos Void, a tyrannical technique that is capable of destroying space-time curriculum and manipulates dimension. A technique that is known to be forbidden as it is possible to destroy the entire world.'

Zhen murmured in a low tone, "Chaos Void? Is that my cheating ability since it mentioned the technique being forbidden?"

'Sigh, this luck of mine is truly insane but the pain I get from it is a nightmare.'

Kuro asked when he saw his Master saying something while having a dazed expression, "Master, what did you say? Are you really okay and nothing abnormal is happening?"

"Yea, nothing is wrong but Kuro, thanks for worrying," Zhen replied, not trying to make him worry about this mysterious situation as even he has no clue about it.

Well, seeing how his body is soaking wet, Zhen decided to teleport to a lake nearby in the Forest of Trove to clean himself.

He could use magic but the feeling of being bathed is better since it's relaxing unlike using a simple clear water.

Taking a bath for around 30 minutes, Zhen managed to calm down and there was no cliché scene as he was hoping for.

'Whatever, since I cast spatial space around here, it's not a surprise that there's no random encounter.'

Zhen was expecting to barge into the middle of the night and see a naked woman bathing.

Alas, it was only a pipe dream for him so he could only bathe alone.

Finishing his bath, Zhen dressed up and teleported back to the inn for more sleep as Kuro informed him that he was only in my room for about 40 minutes so it's still a long hour before daylight.

When Zhen teleported away, he didn't notice someone was spying on him.

"Interesting, that individual is indeed unique."

A mysterious person with clothes covering every part of their body except their eyes spoke shortly after Zhen vanished.

Back in the inn, Zhen reappears only to see Kuro sleeping like a pig.

'Tch, and here I thought you care about me but you fell back to sleep instantly. I suspect you only woke me up due to my scream and ruined your sleep.'

'Whatever, at least his concern for me was genuine.'

Zhen falls back to bed and falls asleep after 5 minutes. This time, there was no space-like environment and he was able to get a good sleep.

Only when Sara knocked on the door did Zhen wake up from his sleep. Sara mentioned exploring this town so then he wouldn't be late like yesterday.

Zhen told her that he'll be ready in 5 minutes and Kuro woke up at this time.

Don't even ask why he woke up as he definitely wants to try Sara's breakfast.

They walked downstairs together and the corner side table was available for us.

This time though, Zhen insists on paying as he doesn't want to be a soft rice king.

(Soft rice king is a term used for a male who lived and eat off a rich female without doing anything)

Sara didn't want to accept his money but under his determination, she agreed but only took 1 gold coin.

Zhen was confused and asked, "Aren't your inn's food expensive? I believe a gold coin is not even enough to pay for the food eaten."

Sara meanwhile looked at him like an idiot.

Her right eyebrow lifted up slightly before replying, "You know, our inn only cost around 5 silver coins and 1 gold coin is equal to 100 silver coins."

"Your inn doesn't charge customer g-gold coins?" Zhen replied with a barely audible voice.

Sara replied with a sigh, "Did you think gold coins are cabbages in the street? There are bronze and silver coin currencies. Not everyone can afford wasting gold."

Shocked by her words, Zhen facepalmed and thought back to the places he spent gold coins in.

Zhen started asking, "But I spent 60 gold coins to eat in Lily's Mirage and thought that all restaurants are charged like that as the customers there were enjoying everything."

Sara was speechless by Zhen's extravagant spending. 'No wonder he always looked depressed and to think how he spent 20 gold coins on a Yozu without any change of emotion.'

She explained in an angry tone, "Lily's Mirage is the most prestigious restaurant in this town. Only the most wealthy ones are able to dine in there and they want to see if they can have a chance to see the owner, Lily Meng. I don't even have the wealth to dine there but you went to eat there and not bring me with you hmph."

'Hehe.'

Scratching his head, Zhen took this chance to pull her in the waist and drag her close to him before whispering in her ear.

"I'm sorry when I earn more money, I bring you there to eat whatever you want. If only the Likra gave me more than a 100 gold coins."

With his hot breath breathing through her ear, a blush appeared on Sara's face and wanted to reply before she thought about his last sentence.

To confirm if her hearing was correct she asked, "Did you say you only got 100 gold coins from the Likra?"

"Yea, I only got a 100 gold coin and I have 19 gold left after paying you," Zhen replied with a confused expression on his face.

Sara sighed before saying, "I'm sorry, I should have gone to Uncle Davis with you so that you wouldn't get scammed. A Likra is a rare being as they usually hide in a deep cave so their parts are valuables where you can get around 200-300 gold coins or 2-3 spirit stones."

"....."

Zhen was rendered speechless from Sara's words.