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A few minutes later all the students disappeared to their classes and the group stood alone. Just as they thought they would have to look for Jake, voices were heard from nearby.

"Arrogant pest, look how this young master deals with you. Don't think just because teacher Xing De took you as his student doesn't mean you can look down on others."

When Morana and others followed the voices they saw a group of young boys hitting and kicking another young boy mercilessly. As they executed the action their faces bloomed with immense malice and satisfaction.

"Jake" Anna instantly recognized the beaten boy. 

Understanding the situation she tried to stop the bullies but it was as if she didn't exist. None of them noticed her. She tried to touch them, but her hand went right through.

Anna wasn't the only one surprised by this. Morana noticed that Jake also reacted. 

"He can see us, but they can't," she said. 

"Fu*k" Anna was frustrated that she couldn't stop the bullies. All she could do was to stand there and watch Jake's suffering.

The group knew that this nightmare would be worse than the last one but they had no idea it would be this bad.

Over the following month, the six of them watched how Jake was bullied. He was beaten, whipped, humiliated, and shamed in various ways and the worst part of this was that students weren't the only ones participating. Even teachers, guards, and other workers. 

But the true nightmare started on weekends. On every weekend the school engaged in an event called 'The Hunt'. For two days the 'marked' would be stripped naked and hunted in the woods behind school grounds.

'Marked' were people that didn't sit well with the high society of the school, so the organization known as 'Aristocrats' could mark them and make the life of the person a living hell.

The reason that Jake was marked was that the sister of one of the members took a liking when she saw him and was rejected. Resulting in unreasonable and cruel revenge from the 'Aristocrats'member.

The hierarchy of the first academy went as follows: The lowest members - Marked, after that came common students of the academy and then the aristocrats.

The aristocrats had their hierarchy. Barons and baronesses were the lowest, then came viscounts and viscountesses, then earls and countesses, then marquesses and marchionesses,  then dukes and duchesses after that princes and princesses and lastly king and queen.

The academy had one rule: at any moment each of these people could rise or fall, their station depended on their contributions and qualifications.

But even then it wasn't easy to shake the standing of someone higher than you.

Though there was one position just above common students known as 'pet'. Aristocrats could have them and the pet's standing depended on their quality and master.

Currently Jake had the lowest standing in the academy as marked and his days were worse than hell.

The more the group looked at this angrier they became, especially Anna and even Morana who had no feelings left sometimes couldn't help but furrowed her eyebrows in distaste.

But the next moment her expression changed and a faint smile appeared on her face.

"Took you a while." Said Morana and instantly the group's attention was diverted on someone else.

***

"Did you find out what's wrong?" Asked Baeron

"I think she is simultaneously working on more than one person, I'm just not sure how." Said Acheron as he looked at Morana and others' sleeping faces.

Some time ago they watched with gleeful and shocking faces asMorana managed to wake more and more people from their nightmares but as the third person was rescued things went downhill. They noticed that something was wrong and some of the people were rescued at the same time.

No matter how much they investigated they couldn't find anything and the weirdest part was some of the people that were rescued were supposed to be later than the ones that still haven't been rescued.

***

"Samael? How?" Zoel and others couldn't hide their surprise as they saw familiar faces after turning around.

Samael, Ezra, Luka, Lulu, Lola, and Ioannes all stood there.

"How are you guys here? What about Sara and Sophia?" Asked Zoel.

Samael didn't say anything and just picked up Morana in his arms as if a matter of fact and ignored everyone.

The group could only helplessly look at others for an explanation.

"I am not too sure about the details but It was Samael who got me out and then we broke Lulu's nightmare and met Lola and Leonard at Ioannes's nightmare. We couldn't get Sara and Sophia without damaging their mind so Samael brought us to you." Explained Ezra as best as he could.

He wasn't sure how this man did it but the facts were right in front of him.

After hearing the story the others also looked at Samael with surprise but he looked unbothered and only attended to Morana.

"Well done." She said and patted his head.

Finally, as if the whole world was shining, a beautiful smile appeared on the man's face blinding everyone. Unfortunately, it disappeared as quickly as it appeared leaving people wondering if they imagined everything.

"What about Jake?" Asked Anna with concern.

"Can you break it?" Asked Morana.

"Hmm."

Samael, who received Morana's orders, quickly broke Jake out of his nightmare and everything around them crumbled like a broken mirror. Jake stood disoriented for a second as all the memories came back to him. 

He managed to smile, but everyone noticed that the encounter with the past left quite a trace on his mind.

The group didn't have time to breathe out in relief as they were once again covered by light and transferred to a different location.

This time it was an old village.

"Who's nightmare are we in now?" Asked Anna.

Tiredness could be easily read in her voice, but others were no different.

Ever since they entered the dream city all kinds of things have been happening to them. They barely had time to understand what was happening when they were once again thrown into another life-threatening situation. Labyrinth, the domino game, truth or dare, the race not to mention transporting into another dimension in warlord and facing puppeteer and now they had to face their worst nightmares one after another. Remember the worst parts of their lives and relive them again.

The group couldn't help feeling tired, but they knew they had no time to stop. After all, others' lives depended on it and so did their own.

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