"The year is 2087..."

"I am 17 years old."

"Humanity is a bit more advanced then what I am familiar with."

"I just took the college entrance examination."

'Atesh' sorted his memories and thought about his future path.

"There seems to be no traces of the supernatural in his memories besides the dream I created."

Somnus felt quite hungry. He hadn't experienced such a unique feeling in a long time. He went to a restaurant to eat something. Mental energy is just physical energy being transformed from consciousness. Without his generators. He IS the generator. This means he needs to supply this body with nutrition and his brain with oxygen.

"Based on his personality. He would definitely go to college and follow the path carved for him by his family. The college experience is meant to build connections..."

"But who am I? Why should I waste my time in school?"

"I can acquire the skills of those I have contracts with."

Somnus thought about how he had tried to create a contract with Atesh. But the attempt had failed.

"Is it because I am not a hidden existence in this universe?"

"Or is it because my esteemed name wasn't used? A failure to target?"

"First things first. I must construct an energy field."

Somnus did various test. But he found that his control of mental energy had become unstable.

"It seems my powers are useless. I can't even perform simple feats like transmutation."

"Transforming my body is impossible. My consciousness isn't even independent at the moment. I am relying on the brain as a carrier."

"In other words..."

"I am human right now. One without power."

Somnus thought about the fate of Atesh.

"I gave him a fate worse then death... why?"

Somnus was surprised that he got joy from it.

Somnus frowned.

"Am I truly in control?"

Somnus felt as if something had twisted his personality.

"I also just happened to land in a world with humans. Compared to the entire universe. I landed in a world with similar evolution to my own. This is different then when I possessed another version of myself. My ritual didn't have coordinates or links to any alternate version."

"It is extremely likely that if I invaded a universe. I would enter an area without life. Most likely space itself. The odds of landing on a living world is too small."

During the years Visdre had studied mental energy. He had read his technique many times. He learned about a mystic realm or ethereal dimension. One that required him to make a shuttle to explore it. But the book lacked the schematic for it. Visdre also was just a quasi-hidden existence.

It was already impressive he was able to 'feel' his souls. This was one of the requirements to being a hidden existence. But right now, Somnus didn't even meet this bare minimum requirement.

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Atesh took a train back to his hometown. He was waiting for the results of his exam.

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Atesh was in a private school.

Elementary school. He was playing in a playground. This was kindergarten.

"Atesh! You're dead!"

A kid made his fingers like a gun and pointed at him.

"Nuh uh!"

The scene changed.

Atesh was standing in a hospital. At the hospital. His mother was in the late stages of cancer. She was weak from treatment.

"I'll be fine Atesh..."

"You have to be strong..."

She handed over her pendent.

The scene changed.

"Yes! You are almost there. Infinite power! A whole new world!"

Atesh was confused. He had left his body!

"You..?! You tricked me!"

"I wasn't lying. The abyss is a whole new world..."

"I'll bless you! I'll even give you the body of a god!"

Atesh's spiritual body overlapped with the statue. His soul fused.

All he saw was blackness. All he heard was the call of the void. All he felt was nothing.

"I want to be free! Let me out!"

Atesh felt more cold at the lack of response.

"I don't want your blessing! I just want to live!"

The voice of Atesh became distorted.

"Let me out..."

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Somnus woke up.

"Did I hear something?"

Somnus had been 'working' in his sleep. He was building his visualization technique. He didn't follow the steps normally. His imagination had already surpassed humans. Instead of building a chess program. He directly made a rotating lattice.

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"When I first practiced the technique. I was told I was destined. I also already had echo helping me out. Now that I am starting from scratch. I feel no help at all."

"I also searched the internet. The technique doesn't exist."

"So not only am I not able to read the hidden rules just like with universe F554. I don't even know which universe this is..."

"In other words..."

"Where am I?"

"System genesis is useless without completing the technique... I might of broke my golden finger..."

"Luckily, I know some tricks."

Somnus realized something was off about this family. The Patriarch had lived for over 150 years. The average lifespan was 150 now thanks to genetic enhancements. But this wasn't the case back in the day. So he wondered. How did he do it?

"The public knows nothing about the supernatural. But this family had a deep history. There might be things about this world. Things a normal person like me can never access."

"Immortals or gods, or whatever they call themselves..."

"I just need to enter their circle..."

Atesh spoke with his father. Asking for an audience with the head of the family. But he was rejected!

"Supernatural users are still human. They are still mortals. Where there are people, there will be traces. Infrastructure, and leaks."

"Even if the later stages make them become inhuman. They had to have a period to grow up."

"I just need to get my foot in the door."

Somnus couldn't figure out a way to find them. He had searched the internet thoroughly and only rumors and pseudo-science was found. This world didn't seem much different then F554.

"That's it!"

Atesh had photographic memory. Something was highly off.

"Physics and math in this universe are different."

"The constants of the universe... they aren't the same at all."

"The speed of light in a vacuum isn't around 300,000 meters a second..."

"It is almost three times faster."

"Not only that. But the magnetic field..."

"It is weaker."

"But the planet is so much larger..."

"That's it!"

"The map isn't complete!"

Somnus figured that the map everyone used was inaccurate. A main continent surrounded by nothing but sea. It wasn't that it was wrong. But he thought that a lot of it was hidden.

"But how do I pinpoint the location?"

"Do I really need to be like those explorers of the past and sail all around the world? The increased scale... that'll take me me years..."

"Now that I think about it..."

"People don't seem to eat seafood in this world due to the massive amounts of mercury. Finding a boat or a captain will be hard. Especially for such a long voyage."

"But I am a Sostid. Money isn't a problem."

"The main problem is convincing my family to let me drop my studies and take on this venture."

Somnus immediately started to prepare and study excerpts of those that had done what he planned to do. Out of the billions of people in this world. It was impossible that he was the first to want to expand the map. Right?

What he found made him even more sure this world was not as it seemed.

Explorers all met the same fate it seemed. It was like hitting the edge of the map in a game. It wasn't a real wall. But a fog that stretched on forever. People that went into this fog either became lost or went in loops, never progressing.

"Fog huh?"

Somnus remembered when he had died in a fire. When he had tried to manifest fog.

"I want to see it for myself!"