"What a weird book..."

Hidden Chapter

'There once existed an entity named [redacted]...'

He blinked and the text started to distort. The word 'redacted' changed.

'There once existed an entity named Somnus'

It was at that moment... Visdre felt as if something had invaded his body. Years of bizarre memories flooded his mind. While fighting off this 'entity'. He passed out.

He dreamed of the black book as usual.

But the cover had changed.

Path of Somnus

He felt like he was getting erased!

"You!? Who are you!?"

Visdre saw the book shaking as it opened up. Fog shot out of it as a man in a black suit with unclear facial expressions appeared.

"I'm back!"

"Who am I?"

"I am YOU!"

"NO!!!! GET OU-"

Somnus waved his hands and Visdre transformed into a walking cane.

"Sorry... but this body is mine!"

He grabbed the cane and looked around.

"It was a gamble. But it looks like this book can still revive my spirit body. It would seem I exist in some other universes as well. Perhaps there are more white rooms. But without the catalyst of the technique. It is all useless."

"I need to be careful not to destroy this reality..."

He held the book in the hands of his spirit body and the book acted as if it was bound to him. It turned into fog and shot into his spirit body.

"First things first."

"I'll wake up!"

Visdre woke up and found himself in a familar bed.

"I know this ceiling..."

He looked in his sea of consciousness and was disappointed. There was no visualization technique. It was a normal sea of consciousness and was empty.

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He tried rotating his 'key' to enter his source castle. But there was no reaction. He had nothing to rotate.

"I will need to follow the steps again..."

He got up and went to his desk and turned on his computer.

"What is the password?"

He tried all sorts of passwords, but was unable to login. So he reset the computer.

He then still couldn't access the internet, because he lacked the password to the wifi. So he went to the router and looked at the default password. It was different then in the past. But when he used it, it worked!

He went to the site and pulled up the webnovel.

He didn't need to follow the early steps and instead got to the meat of things.

[ECHO]: System recovery...

[ECHO]: Restarting visualization technique!

[ECHO]: Stage 1 - 0%

"I have lost my original source castle. I can no longer explore dreams... I also have no idea what the hidden rules of this universe are..."

Without the white room, Visdre felt as if he had lost his backing.

"I still have the technique."

Visdre remembered something important.

"There is a chapter with at least one hidden rule."

He clicked:

Secrets of Universe 'F554'

'You are now officially a hidden existence! Congratulations...

There are now things you can learn that no ordinary existence should ever know. One of those things is 'hidden rules'.

What exactly is a 'hidden rule'?

Well...

Every single universe is generated based off a seed. This is incredibly simple as well. I use the seed as the identifier of the universe. The seed itself isn't in any readable language. So I have translated it into something understandable.

The current universe you are reading this from is called 'F554'.

I would never dare to leak information on hidden existences to a ordinary existence, this is why this information is protected.

If you are able to read this text.

You must meet some sort of condition.

Your Destiny is definitely not normal.

Each universe is generated based on its seed. But each universe also has something entirely unique to it. This is the 'hidden rule'.

I can give you an example using this very universe itself.

There can be multiple hidden rules. The main hidden rule of this universe is called 'Null Spirituality'.

What does this mean? It means in this universe. The spirit body cannot exist in the physical world.

The hidden rules of a universe are actually the biggest threat to existences like us. As they can do almost anything.

There exist an infinite amount of universes.

Some are identical with hidden rules, while some are nothing like the reality you know at all.

You are probably wondering... how do you enter another universe?

While you are a hidden existence. You are essentially a newborn.

You have no means to protect yourself.

I'm sure you've caught on to something important from this. If there are an infinite amount of universes, some identical with different hidden rules.

Shouldn't there be an infinite amount of 'you'?

You are correct!

This is where things get fun... and dangerous.

Exploring the cosmos is always risky and you never know what sort of weirdness you will encounter. The multiverse is inherently hostile to hidden existences.

We break rules and logic from merely existing more often then not.'

"It seems I am in universe 'F554'."

"A lack of spirituality, huh?"

"That isn't good, even if I wanted to. I wouldn't be able to pull off what I had previously done in my last universe."

"There also seems to be no real dream realm in this universe as it lacks that hidden rule to maintain it."

"But... there is a hidden benefit to all this."

"I have a body again!"