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A cursed teen wakes in a nightmare dream-realm with a sarcastic shadow monster — and the only way out is through the nightmare.

Sunny was supposed to be a mundane kid, but a soul-worm brands him and drops him into the Dream Realm, a dying pocket dimension crawling with nightmare creatures and other stranded humans. His cheat is an unusual one: a sentient shadow familiar that grows with every monster he consumes, plus a cryptic spell that lets him tag enemies as his "Echoes." LitRPG / system progression written by a Chinese author that exploded first on Royal Road and then WebNovel — dark, witty, and updated continuously with 12M+ combined international readers. Heavier tone than most web novels, lighter on translation friction than the 2020 generation.