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This web novel is BEYOND GOOD
A classic in the making .and the fact is has to share the same space as most of the trash webnovel contain is an insult to the story .
I spent last night awake binging the first volume .
Synopsis :
Growing up in poverty, Sunny never expected anything good from life. However, even he did not anticipate being chosen by the Nightmare Spell and becoming one of the awakened - an elite group of people gifted with supernatural powers. Transported into a ruined magical world, he found himself facing against terrible monsters - and other Awakened - in a deadly battle of survival.
What's worse, the shadow powers he received happened to possess a small, but potentially fatal side effect...
The synop,as usual , doesn’t say enough. Here is what this story is about :
in the not so distant future . the nightmare spell invade the world ; people infected become drowsy and dysfunctional until they fall asleep and they cant be woken up. Most die and become ‘portals’ that nightmare creatures can use to slip into the normal world and wreak havoc .
Those who survive and come back report being subjected to a trial where they have to survive, and those who do are given certain abilities by the ‘spell’ and become awakened .
the awakened can travel to the dream world in their sleep and eventually at will, where they fight the nightmare creatures and prevent them from engulfing earth as humanity has already lost great chunks of land .
The spell give power as well as a flaw ; every time . no exceptions . the more useful the ability , the deadlier the flaw . if someone can see future visions . he is made permanently blind . if he can heal deadly wounds . he suffers what he healed. And so on. The protagonist has one of the best flaws i have ever seen in fiction. " If he reveals his real name to someone ,he will be enslaved by the person who know it (see title), his flaw is that he can’t lie . if he is asked a question . he has to answer it honestly . he has to navigate his world and make sure he is not accidentally enslaved .( i haven't read far enough to know if he eventually enslaves himself to someone willingly ) "
the writing is good ;as well as the characters .
The mysteries and foreshadowing are well done.
The dream world has a very lovecraftian feel to it . . there are hints that it used to be normal ,until the inhabitants had to go to war against «something » and lost .
The spell doesn’t spoon feed ; the only way both the readers and characters can figure out what even happened to the dream world (and what might possibly happen to the normal world )is by constantly gathering small clues like item descriptions .
The story is just dark enough to keep one on edge while not too dark that it become suffocating . .
Overall ; it’s one of the best if not the best story i have read online . check it out. It’s 600 chapters (around 6 volumes) and ongoing .

I just read this and it was pretty good. I hate systems but at least there were no stats and the MC's powers and Flaw are different enough from the usual trash to keep things interesting. Unfortunately even though there are 440 chapters, they're pretty short