I’m Doomed! I Got Trapped in a Dream! [6]

“Come on, follow me—hands like this.”

As he spoke, Chen Mo bent down so that his face was level with Nahida’s, then held his hands up in front of her, forming the shape of a picture frame—like scanning a QR code.

“Mhm.”

Nahida nodded, mimicking his gesture, her small hands forming the same scanning-frame shape.

“Now, like this—sweep across all the hilichurls.”

“Scan across all the hilichurls…”

Nahida repeated after him, sweeping her “frame” across the enemy group.

“Now say it with me: Everyone hold hands~!”

“Everyone hold hands~!”

As Nahida chanted the phrase, a sharp kakakaka! echoed—and green lines burst across the bodies of all the hilichurls.

“Okay, drop your hands.”

Nahida released the pose. With a loud boom, flashes of green light exploded across the hilichurls, digits flying above their heads as grass-elemental marks appeared on every one of them.

Clear as day: Dendro successfully applied.

The hilichurls staggered two steps backward, as if taking damage—then, in perfect unison, let out a synchronized “ya!” that made the whole thing oddly comical.

But what came next wasn’t funny at all.

All of them raised their wooden clubs and charged full force at the two of them, weapons swinging.

“Crap! Charged shots take too long—fall back!”

Chen Mo shouted, immediately switching to his second character slot—Amber—and drew his bow.

With a sharp fwip!, a blazing red arrow shot out and struck a hilichurl in the head, knocking it flat. Pyro met Dendro, triggering a burning reaction that set the creature ablaze with a slightly cartoonish flame effect.

The others, still connected by their elemental links, took damage too. But none of them went down. Instead, they kept charging.

“No good—charging takes too long. We’re retreating!”

He grabbed Nahida and took off running.

“Wait—you said NPCs don’t react to us. Why are they attacking?”

Nahida stumbled forward as she was dragged, trying to understand through the confusion.

“Those are wild mobs! Not NPCs!”

Another new term—but Nahida seemed to get it. Wild monsters. Enemies that roam the open world.

“Baron Bunny!”

Chen Mo lifted his hand and tapped the large, bowl-sized [Elemental Skill] button. He hurled a red, dancing bunny doll onto the field—Baron Bunny deployed. The button grayed out and entered cooldown.

Three of the hilichurls immediately focused on the toy and diverted their aggression, but one stubborn brute, wielding a flaming club, continued its charge straight at them.

“No choice—eat my Wind Blade!”

In a blink, Chen Mo switched back to his main character and, just as the fire-wielding hilichurl raised its weapon overhead, unleashed a long arc of Anemo.

The monster howled and was blasted backward by the shockwave, flames trailing from its body. The surrounding grass ignited too—caught in the elemental spread from the burning club.

“Ow—hot hot hot!”

Nahida yelped as she bounced through the scorched area, red damage numbers popping constantly above her head. She dashed out of the fire zone, the Pyro aura lingering on her for several seconds before finally fading.

“You’re going to start a wildfire like this! You know how serious fire offenses are in Sumeru?!”

“It’s fine, chill! This is Mondstadt!”

Chen Mo drew the Dull Blade from his back and charged in for some good ol’ melee hacking.

No way around it—at Level 1 with no real gear, their elemental damage wasn’t going to carry. In the end, he still had to get his hands dirty and chop down monsters the old-fashioned way.

Nahida stood still, watching Chen Mo dash into the fray.

All around her, fires blazed—the ones left behind by Baron Bunny’s explosion, the ones lit by burning hilichurls running in panic, and the ones spread by wind-aided combustion…

The entire valley was a flaming mess.

“Uhh… Let’s hope the Knights of Favonius don’t arrest us for this…”

As the saying goes, set a mountain on fire, and you’ll burn down the jail with you. Caught as an unwilling accomplice, Nahida couldn’t help but worry a little.

But just as she was wondering how to put the fire out, it all suddenly vanished.

In the space of a few seconds, every flame—no matter how wild—snuffed itself out.

So fast, Nahida didn’t even have time to react. She let out a soft, confused “Ah?” as she stared at the blackened valley that remained.

Even stranger: despite all the fire, the grass hadn’t changed shape at all. It looked exactly the same, just painted over with a layer of black.

Nahida stared at the scene, deep in thought.

“Hm… Fire that behaves this illogically… Grass that doesn’t burn properly… This place really is a dream.”

As the God of Wisdom, the one who governs dreams, Nahida could say with certainty—no one understood dreams better than her.

When she’d first been pulled into this world via a fluctuation in the Void, she’d been stunned by the sheer size of it. For a time, she’d actually doubted whether this was a dream.

But now, seeing this absurdity with her own eyes—flames that break the laws of physics, plants immune to combustion—it triggered a familiar sense of dissonance. That surreal absurdity she often felt while walking through others’ dreamscapes.

This place was a dream.
She was sure of it now.

“But if it is a dream… that’s even more troubling…”
Nahida furrowed her brows.

“For a dream big enough to encompass all of Teyvat… that’s far beyond what any single mind could create.”

“What’s going on here? Who—or what—wove this colossal dreamscape?”

After they’d cleared out the hilichurl camp, a menu notification popped up:
Chen Mo had received a new in-game mail.

Opening it, he saw his beginner’s reward: ten Intertwined Fates.

“Ooh. Starting bonus—free 10-pull.”

But instead of immediately hitting [Claim], he reached out and touched one of the fates inside the mail.

To his surprise—it had a physical form. He could actually grab it.

He plucked one out and held it in his hand.
The mail’s content changed from [x10] to [x9].

“Huh… Never looked at one up close. These little guys are actually pretty intricate.”

“What is it? It looks so pretty…”

Seeing him holding something fascinating, Nahida leaned in with interest.

“This? It’s called an [Intertwined Fate].”

Chen Mo said as he finally clicked [Claim Attachment].

“There’s also another kind called [Acquaint Fate]. But honestly? I just call them both by one name—Source of Suffering.”

“Eh? But… they look so beautiful. How can something that pretty cause pain?”

“Heh. Let me show you.”

With that, Chen Mo opened the wish screen.

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