Somnus found himself surrounded by white text. His body seemed to be nonexistent here. He looked around and all he saw was various letters of the alphabet and symbols he didn't recognize. There was even magic symbols from his game here.

He reached out towards one of the letters and a memory appeared in his mind. It was when was under the illusion. He had thought he had fused every multiverse. He thought he had reached the peak.

Somnus shook his head mentally at this memory. He then saw that he could manipulate this letter. He waved his will to clear a space.

Soon an area was clear.

"It is like a puzzle..."

The letters and symbols seemed to be able to get chained together. It was like taking the pieces of a puzzle and forming a picture.

But every time he touched a piece and added it to the puzzle. He experienced a memory from his life.

Sometimes it was his mental energy server plan. Sometimes it was him being trapped in his puppet body. Sometimes it was him performing a ritual and killing 50,000 people.

Every single piece was a story.

Somnus realized at this moment. A part of him had left ALL universes. This wasn't simply a part of him. His current state was the living embodiment of 'distort'. This wasn't simply him as an individual, this was like the collective consciousness of him as a hidden existence.

Somnus had become part of Distort.

Distort had become part of Somnus.

Right now... time didn't matter. It was just Somnus alone as he constructed a divine skill.

Soon the first image was constructed.

The first layer of this image he called 'Memory'.

Distort didn't require mental energy or energy particles. It required something far more precious. It required memories.

The more you distorted reality. The more distorted your memories would become.

Soon Somnus got to work on the second layer. He called this layer 'Warp'.

This allowed him to change his surrounding areas rules and logic.

For example:

2 + 2 = 4.

This is simple logic.

But Somnus could make this not be the case.

For him. 2+2 could equal five or six. This was the power of the warp attribute of distort.

Somnus began to work on the third layer. He called this layer 'Twist'.

This was different from changing the rules. If 'warp' allowed him to adjust the values of something in his vicinity. This allowed him to do something very similar. But it was a permanent adjustment.

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But this ability was less powerful. Since it was a permanent adjustment. It needed to follow the rules of the universe.

So twist couldn't make 2+2 =5.

But it could change the '2' into something else.

For example. Instead of it being 2. It could be 4. So 4+4 =8.

This still follows the previous logic. But it twist the original statement.

So if someone said their name was X. Somnus could 'twist' this into being A.

Twist couldn't do impossible things. It could just make it so possible things had already been the case.

Somnus began to work on the fourth layer. He called this layer 'Garble'.

This neither made 2+2=5 or changed the statement to 4+4=8. It completely randomized the statement completely.

So instead of it being 2+2=4.

It became a series of random numbers with almost no relationship to the first statement at all.

Somnus began to work on the fifth layer. He called this layer 'Tamper'.

This didn't randomize it or swap it or make it make no sense. This directly broke the logic down until it wouldn't be able to be anything at all.

Somnus started to work on the sixth layer. He called this layer 'Deform'.

This would make 2+2=4 look like 2+2=5. But it would still actually be 2+2=4 underneath the surface. This was like an illusion.

Somnus started to work on the seventh layer. He called this layer 'Manipulate'.

This was the most mysterious attribute of distort.

Somnus put these images stacked on one another.

It looked like a cube made from text. He then started to compress this and it formed a special attribute. A new type of energy never seen before. Something he had hoped to make a long time ago.

[ECHO]: Dream Force: 100%

This divine skill was made from his memories. It was engraved deeper then soul.

There were seven attributes that made up this dream force.

Memory

Warp

Twist

Garble

Tamper

Deform

Manipulate

All of these attributes mixed together becoming a single powerful skill. Thanks to the foundation of distort being based on memories. It had become 'dream force'. This force wasn't in infinite supply. Somnus had lost a chunk of memories to have full capacity of dream force.

This type of energy and force was incredibly precious.

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[ECHO]: Fusing memories with ME and EP...

[ECHO]: Unique energy unlocked...

[ECHO]: Dream Force!

Atesh didn't know that he had spent an eternity outside of the universe. A part of him had spent unfathomable time creating layers and the foundation of his new skill and energy. Perhaps the portion of him that had become distort. Perhaps, that entity was the real start to becoming the master of dreams.

[ECHO]: Dream Force: 87%

"Time to end this..." Atesh's voice entered Agar's mind.

Agar punched again, exploding Atesh's head.

But his 'lifeless' body moved as if on instinct. It grabbed Agar and refused to let him go. Atesh's head reformed and he spoke directly despite being in space. The rules surrounding him were changing.

"You are a normal human..." Atesh looked into Agar's eyes.

This statement became a reality. But it used up a large portion of his dream force.

[ECHO]: Dream Force: 20%

Agar felt his point mass become unstable.

His spell models engraved in his sea of consciousness were out of control. He felt as if he had become a normal person.

He felt naked.

Atesh squeezed his wrist, breaking it. He then swung him into the wizard tower. Atesh continued to pummel him into the wall until he was a bloody paste.

The point mass in his sea of consciousness abandoned its body and flew away. Atesh didn't react in time and missed this opportunity to wipe him out.

But from its corpse. He got a pleasant surprise.

[ECHO]: Fire seed detected!

Atesh searched the body... but couldn't find the seed.

"It seems it has partially integrated with the body."

Distort

[ECHO]: Dream Force: 10%

The body was compressed into a ball as Atesh extracted the fire seed. Soon it was in his hand.

"How do I recover my dream force?"