It is difficult for people to know that they are dreaming, and once they recall, they are lying in bed and their mind is in a dream.

Moreover, it is easy to have wild thoughts at this time. The whole dream scene jumps and changes. It may be related to reality, or it may be an illusion world combined with many parts of one's own thoughts.

But

Sean knew that he was in a dream and that he had no control over anything in the dream.

It is more like what is happening in reality, and you are just the person observing on the screen next to you!

The power bestowed by Yog-Sothoth, the lord of time and space, always makes him lost in time. Even in life, Sean sometimes feels that he has clearly finished something, but when he looks down, he finds that he has not even started.

This applies to writing letters, recording, and even planning notes for Oro City.

There is also the daily work. I have clearly read the report and signed to agree or reject it, but when I come to my senses, I find that I have not signed it yet.

Fortunately, he had some fragments of the content he had already read in his memory, so he could sign directly. Every time this happened, Sean had to take another look at the time display outside.

Because as long as you confirm that time is moving in the overall environment, there will be no mistakes.

For this purpose, the desks were moved closer to the windows.

But even if you can control it during the day, the images you occasionally see in your dreams at night are completely beyond your control. Judging from your previous experience, what you see may be an event at a certain point in time, or it may be a story happening somewhere in the world.

And it is either related to yourself, or it is a problem that you have been thinking about and struggling with recently, so it will appear in your dream.

And this time, it should be the same.

Sean looked at this huge, completely unfamiliar room, and outside the window he could see a house on a high ground.

Below, you can see a vast building complex. It is much bigger and more prosperous than your own city!

Where is this?

Some big city? ! !

It’s still in the imperial capital.

Sean had been to a big city like Lietis, but it was still far inferior to what he saw before him. He guessed that only the imperial capital could have such prosperity.

The sky is full of floating airships, and there are even bicycles on the wide roads on the ground?

hiss

Awesome.

Which place is this? They actually use mechanical wheels.

The road has become much cleaner and is not as bumpy as in my city, but is smoother overall.

This place must be a very rich city, but why did I come here?

Sean looked around. Different things were happening in the world every moment. It was impossible for him to feel them all before he knew them all. Unless he had an incomprehensible and unknown material body like the Lord of Time, how could the human brain know everything in the world in a short period of time?

So this must be related to the issues I have been thinking about recently.

Go around the corner and continue forward.

Sean noticed many people wearing beautiful clothes, but standing guard at the door of a room like servants.

Walk in

In this state, you can enter directly without opening the door.

What you see inside is an elderly man with a crown on his head, talking to himself in front of the mirror.

Sean woke up from his bed again.

There was already a hint of light in the room.

Look up at the time outside the window: Night: Sunny, 0:50:20

There are still more than fifty minutes until dawn! Already you can see the sky gradually getting brighter.

"Is anyone outside?" He shouted outside the house a few times.

Normally, servants would take turns on duty outside, and if you needed anything, a servant would come in immediately.

"My Lord Earl!"

Soon, a maid came in, gently opened the door.

"Pour me a basin of hot water."

"If there is any, I will get it immediately, my Lord."

The door closed again

Sean stood up and put some clothes on himself, then walked to the table and poured a glass of water with the exquisite tea set.

It's cold

After taking a few quick gulps, the maid came in with a basin of hot water from outside.

Wash your face and wipe off the cold sweat on your body!

"Your Excellency the Earl has gotten up so early. It's not even dawn yet." The maid standing by suddenly said.

Only then did Sean look up at the other person. It seemed that he had never seen this servant before, otherwise he would not have said something similar. Weren't the previous servants used to it?

"Are you new here?"

"Uh-huh. Yes, my lord."

Sure enough, Sean remembered that he had never seen the girl in front of him. The maids in his house were all relatively young. They were all arranged by Kalibo. Maybe he thought that younger ones were more diligent.

He put down the towel and walked to the window to open the curtains. The light shone in and also shone on the girl's brown hair.

"You don't look like a local girl. Where is your hometown?"

"I come from the North, my Lord."

"The North? The front line of the Imperial War?" Looking at the girl, Sean suddenly asked.

"Yes, my hometown was originally in the north, but after the Borg attacked, everyone in our village fled. I followed the refugee group all the way south and was finally sold here." The girl seemed a little lost when she talked about her experience, but she tried not to show it in front of Sean.

There are many voices of slave trade in the market, and they cannot be eliminated.

In this world, servants are the property of the rich, and resale and debt repayment are commonplace. Even I cannot change this fixed social structure.

Sean suspected the maid had been sold by her parents. After all, they had become refugees, so this was one way they could ensure a better life for their children. While they had become the property of the wealthy, the fate of many servants wasn't necessarily bad; they simply lacked a name and freedom.

"Has the war in the north become so serious?"

"Yeah." He nodded at the maid in front of him.

"Many people died on the battlefield or starved to death. Some of my companions who came here with me also starved to death. Oh, my lord. I've heard that you are a good lord. I beg you to buy them as well. We will work hard and will definitely repay you!"

Looking at the maid who suddenly knelt in front of him, Sean remained calm.

"Go talk to the housekeeper about this. I don't have to do everything myself."

The maid probably felt that she couldn't speak like that in front of the count, so she stood up immediately.

He bowed and was about to leave with the basin.

"But you can rest assured about one thing: this war won't last long!"