Chapter 549 - Repeated Cottage
A lone house in Nightmare Realm, a lit candle or oil lamp.
Is there someone, or… is it Sunders? No, can’t be.
Of course he wasn’t going to walk to the house and knock on the door. Traps, monsters… there were more than enough things that could get him killed. The house might not be one of the “red zones” mentioned by Sunders, yet Angor wouldn’t trust Sunders’ info too much because he just ran into something unknown. Nothing in Nightmare Realm followed common senses.
He carefully approached the house and planned to check through the window first. What if it were really Sunders in there?
He floated to the window, and the moment he touched the ground, he felt pain on his back. Even though his soul could not be “physically” damaged by the fall, but that accident still hurt him quite badly.
Without thinking too much about the pain on his back, he peeked through the window. Using the faint light, he saw a small flower pot placed on the ledge of the window. There was trellis in the pot but whatever that needed it had withered away.
Then he looked further into the room. From his position, the only thing he could see was a simple desk and the wall on the opposite side.
So is the mist actually taking me to different houses that looked the same?
He entered the cottage to check again, and still, he did not find anything worth noticing.
Unless…
What about the painting?
His instincts told him that if there were differences, he should find them in this particularly strange painting.
He tried to memorize the whole picture as clearly as possible last time, which helped him quickly locate a small detail.
The location of the “viewer” was slightly off.
Compared to the last painting, the angle of view for this painting moved a bit closer to the castle. Several trees on the last painting’s edge could no longer be seen on this one as they were left outside the boundary.
…
It seemed the mist insisted on messing up Angor’s route. No matter where he moved, he always ended up at the strange cottage. He was now visiting it for the tenth time.
Also, he noticed that the “view” of the painting kept getting closer to the center, which was exactly what he guessed earlier. The castle that was originally a background landmark in the entire drawing grew bigger until it almost took up all the space.
There was nothing wrong so far. Angor expected something to happen when the painting finally reached the castle’s door, just like how he entered the fairytale world in the bunny’s book when he read it.
Perhaps I’ll go to the castle for real in the end?
He couldn’t prove his idea for now. Also, he didn’t wish to proceed on this unknown path that was manipulated by something unknown, so he stopped checking the painting and went for the sky next, even if it meant running into monsters.