"How do I recover my dream force?"
Atesh's head started to shake back and forth as his facial expressions disappeared. Mist seemed to appear behind him as if he had a thousand arms extending from his back.
A suit appeared over his clothes and he was shrouded in fog.
But in the next instant. His head stopped shaking and he looked like a normal elf.
Atesh pulled up Path of Somnus: God's Death in his mind. This was one of his greatest trump cards. Now that he wasn't rejected by the abyss. Perhaps he could adjust the technique and create a global existence.
"Wait... what was a global existence?"
Atesh felt something was wrong. He tried to remember what this word meant. But he couldn't remember.
The book in his mind was blank.
"I don't remember the technique?"
Atesh remembered he used to have a white room with the black book and a door. But the book's title was unrecognizable and was blank within.
"This isn't right..."
"That's how I recover my dream force? It's my memories!"
Atesh remembered when he was in the abyss and distorted reality to bring himself back from it. When he first gained distort. He saw a timeline of himself.
[ECHO]: Dream Force: 9%
A scroll of memories appeared in front of him. He saw the timeline. But the memories were a fog. Much like how his hidden existence was a fog.
"This..."
Atesh started to laugh.
"The fact that I knew the name is 'global existence' means some traces are still left. I can't even remember my past techniques name."
Somnus scrolled the timeline to the very beginning...
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There was a major problem. The moment Somnus went too far back. When he reached the destruction of universe F555.
His distortion rooted itself deeply into reality.
That's right. The hidden rule of F555. It was a result of Somnus's tampering! His 'distort' ability was a power nobody should have ever acquired.
Since the universe F555 was already destroyed and Somnus didn't have a time travel ability. There should've been nothing he could do.
But it his distortion affected the past.
"I just need to make myself find the technique."
Visdre Mallaichte wasn't yet born.
Somnus spoke to himself as he looked at the panel. He was looking at himself.
"I don't remember the technique..."
Somnus's memories were too vague at this point. He had the concept for a source castle and spirit body in his mind. But he could hardly understand it now.
[ECHO]: Dream Force: 8%
The bigger the change to reality. The more dream force used.
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"I've found a loophole!"
Somnus looked at Visdre and gave him his foundation.
He used his remaining dream force to construct a white room. A artifact for spiritual revival in the form of his black book. He also left a door as a test.
All this information damaged Visdre's brain. He hadn't even been born yet. Somnus's tampering had affected his development.
But Somnus didn't care.
"I need those steps..."
Somnus started to make declarations making certain things to have always been the case.
"I have always had that dream."
[ECHO]: Dream Force: 2%
"I have always been Visdre Mallaichte..."
He felt that maybe, one day in the future. He might even forget this name. So since he hadn't yet lost this memory. He paid homage to his real identity.
"I have always been lucid when dreaming."
"I was born in universe F555."
"I found that technique..."
[ECHO]: Dream Force: 0%
The timeline shattered and Somnus faded away.
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Atesh was standing there in a daze.
"I feel as though I have forgotten something important."
Atesh remembered he had just been in a battle.
"Dream force... it is quite mysterious."
[ECHO]: Dream Force: 0%
"I lost a huge amount of memories just to win..."
Atesh looked at the wreckage around him and felt the warmth in his hand.
"Should I use the fire seed?"
Atesh used his will to surround the debris in space. He spent a few days repairing the wizard tower. He then went inside it and swallowed the fire seed.
Atesh felt a violent burning in his body. This was nothing like when he ate the water seed. What he didn't know was that the fire seed made the body go through rebirth like a phoenix.
His body burst into flames as he turned to ash...
This ash burned for years like a magical fire.
The tower orbited around the world like a satellite.
Atesh wasn't dead. This was the magical properties of the fire seed. He felt comfortable despite being ash. He felt himself enter a sleep.
300 years later...
[ECHO]: Fire seed semi-integrated!
[ECHO]: Step: Fire Sovereign partially completed!
[ECHO]: Progress: 16%
His body rose up from the ashes.
"What changed?"
He felt two opposing forces in his body. It was as if they threatened to tear him apart. But he also felt a power of destruction within.
"How old am I?"
[ECHO]: Calculating based on vitality...
[ECHO]: 3329 years old!
"I can feel a faint connection to the fire dimension..."
[ECHO]: Integrating fire seed...
Atesh's surroundings changed just like when he integrated the water seed fully. He found himself floating above an ocean of lava.
This time however. The aura wasn't enough to make him feel danger. His sovereign mind also wasn't giving him warning signals.
"It has been a long time since I've had any visitors..." Ignis spoke in a friendly manner. Well as friendly as a colossal fire elemental could sound. His voice boomed with every word.
"I am Atesh! I have come for the blessing of the world will!"
"Oh? You must pass my test."
"What test?"
"This test is actually of benefit of you. Normally, the moment a body has two opposing treasures. There is a good chance it will explode and die..."
Atesh then thought about it. His body did feel like there was a battle happening within.
"So this is a special test. You must bear the pain of balancing the power within! Your spirit body must withstand restructuring."
"What do I need to do?"
"You must go through a rebirth!"
The fire elemental held out their hand and said:
"Destruction!"
Atesh's spirit body was ignited. It was destroyed.
But Ignis didn't seem to know that this 'test' of his was too easy! Somnus was a pro at putting himself back together. Especially if it was just a spirit body like what was in this fire dimension!
In the next moment.
Atesh appeared.
"You pass!"
Atesh felt himself baptized by the world will. He was absorbing the essence of this dimension as it was engraved on his existence.
[ECHO]: Fire seed fully integrated!
[ECHO]: Step: Fire Sovereign completed!
[ECHO]: Progress: 22%
Atesh opened his eyes and found himself still in the wizard tower. He felt there was a balance in his body now. But he wondered if he could maintain this balance when adding more seeds in the future...
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Visdre Mallaichte was just your average guy. Actually, no. He was far below average. He had no family background. He had no money. No friends or close ones. His intelligence was even a few deviations below average.
But he had a secret.
It involved his dreams.
Every night when he went to bed. He would have the exact same dream. It had haunted him for his entire life.
What was this dream?
He is stuck within a almost empty white room. There was a podium in the middle of the room. On this was a black book. On the cover of this book, there was unreadable text.
The inside of the book itself was entirely blank.