Jacob stood at the edge of the deeper layers, his flaming eyes fixed on the shifting abyss before him.
The fragment he had just consumed was gone, but its impact remained as a faint pulse lingered within his consciousness, not power but understanding.
Without hesitation, Jacob moved, but not forward recklessly; instead, downward into the layers where instability still existed, and where fragments drifted like broken stars, for here, just as Nyx stated, the Dreamscape didn't care enough to defend.
This time, it didn't take Jacob long to find another small, flickering fragment, which was barely holding shape, and he somehow knew it was another Fragmented Nightmare.
After deciding on the target, Jacob approached silently and carefully before he touched it.
The next moment, darkness swallowed him, and then emerged sudden, violent pain. He knew he was inside a nightmare again.
This time, he seemed to be inside a broken mantis' body with torn limbs and shattered chitin.
