Tomy or rather Djabal San was now conscious of himself. He had managed to complete the first step toward dream mastery.

" so I'm a prince now!" he was somewhat surprised.

From what he knew beforehand plus what he learned from the spiritual device, dreams were a global amalgamation of many things. It was like a plane where were projected illusions, images from reality, collective consciousness, and many other kinds of stuff forming a world system of its own.

Myto inspected his surrounding egg. It was a grand, luxurious, and magnificent bedroom.

" it is more like a 'gallery d'art" with the many paintings on the walls and the different shining objects that seemed to be made of silver and gold, Myto was mesmerized.

But even more mesmerizing was the fact that all of this seemed real, he could feel pain, he could touch things, he could think clearly, and could even read.

Everything seemed real, surpassing the limits of simple illusion.

It was not the first time for him to be conscious that he was dreaming. It happened in the past but this time it was different.

What Tommy did not know was that since his birth he has always been different from other people in this aspect. It could be said that he was a prodigy in this area or else he would have not wakened up just by glancing at a glass.

He remembered that novel, in it the main character was only able to awake t a moment of life and death.

" now that I have awakened, the next step is to take initial control of my dream," he told to himself.

The next moment he raised a finger at his chest level and concentrated. A minute passed but nothing happened.

" It is embarrassing, but luckily enough no one saw me. I guess that things don't always go as planned" he resigned himself

He had just tried to create a fireball to judge his level of control over his dream but embarrassingly nothing happened.

At that moment he saw the glass once more and tough for a bit.

He held the glass once more in his hand while gazing at it and he did his best to mentally focus.

" whine like many liquids can be separated into two parts if all the conditions are met. Water as the solvent on one side and everything else on the other"

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At the same moment, the wine in the glass started to transform. Magically the layer of red residues detached itself from water and accumulated itself at the bottom. There was now crystal clear water above it.

" so it is like that! I don't need to understand too much whatever I'm doing, it does not need to be exact knowledge either. All I need is a concept, and I could do whatever I want to do. It is just like a... Dream"

Tommy was now existed and could not help but continue.

" When the temperature of the water is low enough, the link between the atoms becomes shorter and more solid. Like this, ice a created"

As soon that he said that the water in the glass froze and appeared solid. It was ragic-like.

Tommy started to play with his new power.

As soon as he is tough of g the oxygen in the air just above his fingers a flamme with low heat appeared. But the more he augmented the heat the more he felt uneasy. He cried to press on but soon he felt unbearable pain in his hands.

" it seems like, my subconscious fear from fire is keeping me from reaching g a higher degree of mastery" Tommy concluded after giving it some toughs.

Tommy tried many things, heat, fire, cold, ice, water, light, darkness, sound, gravity, opacity, as long that it was a concept he could understand somewhat, he could control them to a certain level.

"I think that this can be considered an initial success at controlling my dream. It was easier than I thought. So now I should think about how to achieve the third step: Dominate my dream world. It is the level where I dictate, the fate, the life and death in my dream world, and even time and space will be at my beck and call after that.

But How to do it?" Tommy started to plan what to do next.

" I think that there is two way to do it. The first is through chear power, to destroy everything in my way until there is nothing left. But there are two problems, the first being that I seem to be in a world with modern settings, with weapons of mass destruction, that can certainly destroy me. The second being that my power is limited, I don't even know it can cause an earthquake.

The second option is to dominate the world through tactics, either by using political means, or financial.

Sadly I'm a prince of a declined nation, I'm rich, but not that rich compared to the wealthiest people in the world. So what to do?

I guess that I will go for the third option, adapting myself while gaining more control over my mastery of the dream world" Tommy already planned

" now I'm but a prince.

Earlier before awakening, I did not realize it, but things are really strange and awry.

One, the envoy from Botz came and proposed a partnership, but they did not sign it immediately but requested the king to go in their country.

Two, by now even the first prince, my 'big brother' abdicated as soon the king died and traveled overseas.

Three, by now no one had shown support to the prince nor had anyone tried to help him. Some people from my palace even fled. It is as if they knew that I did not have any chance to succeed.

To answers, I will need to go to Bostzwanga. It is what I previously planned but I hesitated because I did not have any means to protect myself. But now even though, I'm more confident I don't want to leave this country. My plan now is to dominate the world. How can I reach this goal if I can't even take care of such a small country"

The prince has decided what to do and what in this 'world' could stop him?

Alternative title: making use of concepts