While the traumas were being replayed again and again. There was another thing that was still trying to resist the eternal nightmare, and was actually getting stronger as time passed.
[Mental barrier (lvl 4) > Mental barrier (lvl 5).]
[Mental barrier (lvl 5) > Mental barrier (lvl 6).]
[Mental barrier (lvl 6) > Mental barrier (lvl 7).]
[Mental barrier (lvl 7) > Mental barrier (lvl 8).]
[Mental barrier (lvl 8) > Mental barrier (lvl 9).]
[Mental barrier (lvl 9) > Mental barrier (lvl 10).]
[Mental barrier (lvl 10) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 1).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 1) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 2).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 2) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 3).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 3) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 4).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 4) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 5).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 5) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 6).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 6) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 7).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 7) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 8).]
[Advanced mental barrier (lvl 8) > Advanced mental barrier (lvl 9).]
This was the very thing that was going on beside Ken's suffering in the eternal nightmare. The skill he rarely got to use, trying again and again in order to resist and break the eternal nightmare off.
As time passed, Ken really couldn't understand how much time had passed. And at the same time, his mind was breaking apart.
ADHD. This type of brains have one main thing that differentiates them from the every other one. And that is, instead of being task driven, they are interest driven.
For them, the hardest thing is to sit and do nothing, or do something that is boring as hell. But the worst thing they can ever face is none other than the word called repetition.
Which was exactly the thing happening to Ken. Time felt meaningless. He even wondered how the time in this place really worked.
Since this is a mental skill, does that mean the time here is compressed? That must be it, since there is no other way to break a person's mind apart in a really fast rate without it working like that.
But the main question he pondered the longest was. How fast? How fast is the time in here? Considering how bad this is, and how much time it has passed in here, it has to be at least a hundred times faster than normal, right? Right?
If not, then he might as well quite literally a scenario or two. This was his thought during the time when his mild trauma from having the accident with the bicycle was still going on.
And now, as his skill level reached just a step away from the maximum possible level for it. The eternal nightmare finally broke off.
Even though a few extra notifications came up, Ken didn't really notice them with the state of his mind.
When he woke up, he was being carried by someone. Looking around himself, he could understand one thing. The state of the place around here is just really bad. Really really bad.
Noticing the shift of weight, the woman who was carrying him, quickly helped him properly stand up and left him to another one, before rushing somewhere as quickly as possible.
Ken's mind was still in daze. And the biggest and most important thing, he felt depressed as hell. During the fourth scenario, he did indeed go through depression, so he knew very well as to how depression really feels.
Still looking around in daze, almost like a child, Ken muttered two words. "Attribute window."
[Name: Kennedy.]
[Age: 15.]
[Attributes: Regeneration (Heroic), Avid reader (Rare), ADHD (Rare), Delusional (Common), Enigmatic merciless king (Heroic), Author (Rare).]
[Personal skills: Regeneration (lvl 5), Body control (lvl 5), Reading (lvl 4), Reader's POV (Stage 1), Hyper thinking (Stage 1), Hyper imagination (Stage 1), Advanced weapon proficiency (lvl 7), Poison resistance (lvl 7), Advanced dark star weapon aura (lvl 5), Lie detection (lvl 5), Advanced thread manipulation (lvl 2), Advanced hand to hand combat (lvl 3), Conditional mercy (lvl 1), Harmony (lvl 5), Poker face (lvl 4), The way of the wind (lvl 5), Cold resistance (lvl 7), Heat resistance (lvl 5), Advanced mental barrier (lvl 9), Psychokinesis (lvl 1), Predatory fear (lvl 3), Avatar (lvl 1).]
[Stigma: Indomitable, Baseless survival (lvl 2), Persistence (lvl 4).]
[Stats: Strength (lvl 70+7), Constitution (lvl 70+5), Agility (lvl 70+7), Mana (lvl 70+2).]
[Coins possessed: 137,960.]
He stared at it for a while before realizing something. It was a thing he wanted for a long time, but didn't really get even through the hardest moments.
—***—
Lee Sookyung, still acting as the leader of the wanderers. When she was defeated and captured by Nirvana, not long after, Sangah was also captured by him, still fighting thought infection by herself.
Then, the very next day, another person was brought in. Who was none other than the boy she had seen with Dokja and the other girl quite some time ago. And also at the meeting between the kings.
To her, he seemed quite weird. Since, according to him, he is not a Korean. Then he also revealed that he is fifteen… if you consider his international age, by Korean standards, he is seventeen. And he still somehow became a king.
He is also quite brutal. Since the president of Yeoidu was punished quite bruttaly. Not enough to kill him or severly cripple him, but bad enough to leave trauma, maybe. Three ice pills must have been quite hard for that guy.
But the surprising, yet intruging part about him has to be the fact that he knew about TWSA, meaning that he is most likely a renouncer. But the way he talked, it didn't seem like he was a renouncer either.
When the meeting ended, he even came up to her and whispered that he got a potential daughter in law for her. Who was actually the girl called Han Sooyoung.
After that, they never really met again until then. Unlike Yoo Sangah, who was under the effects of thought infection and trying to resist it internally. Ken was more hopeless, as he was under the effects of eternal nightmare, which keeps on repeating traumas until the skill wears down.
After she escaped from Nirvana, she also got picked him up. Because, unlike Sangah, who could potentially break the effects of thought infection, Ken couldn't really do it.
And just today, after five days of Nirvana being defeated. She got informed that he had woken up.
As she came to the the place where he is supposed to be in, she saw two of him.