"I'm back!" Atesh looked at his hands which were glitching. In one moment they were like those of a human. But in the next moment. They were wearing white gloves.

A mirror appeared from nothing as Atesh looked at himself.

His face looked like a mask of fog. It almost lacked an expression besides a weird smile.

Atesh touched the mirror.

"Where did this come from?"

The mirror vanished.

Atesh simply had a thought of making it vanish and it happened!

"Turning the false to true?"

"It seems I have met two of the three conditions..."

Atesh had planned:

1.) Open his own dimension.

2.) Get recognized as the ruler of it.

3.) Design an imprint.

"I just need to create a heavenly treasure that connects to this dimension."

"As for what I should call this space?"

"It isn't really my own dimension. It is just the organs of my soul in the abyss. But it can serve as a spiritual location!"

Atesh had sacrificed his soul to pull this off. Technically, his soul had become the barrier protecting this space from the abyss.

Atesh had entered a sleep for the last decade.

"This is the foundation for my dream realm. But it isn't nowhere near close to complete. So what should I name it?"

"Perhaps..."

"Dream Domain!"

Atesh then did something crazy. He allowed himself to get assimilated by this space.

"If I can reform my spiritual body through the combination of spiritual water and fire. I don't need to worry about getting wiped out."

Atesh could conjure structures in this space through his will alone.

In his dream domain... he was like a god!

So he destroyed his spirit body.

His thought process was that if you were in a human body. You would eventually start to think like a human. Since he felt full control over his domain. He planned to make an independent consciousness.

Soon his spiritual body was destroyed.

The fog tried to reform him. But he resisted this instinct.

"The elemental connection is almost like a revival artifact!"

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"I guess here I should be Somnus..."

Somnus controlled the fog and created a spiritual brain. He then had this brain expand until it covered the entire space.

Tentacles extended from the brain leaving no room for anything else. He found five stars floating high up in the sky of his domain.

As he wrapped around them with his brain. He recognized that these stars were traces of dream force. To be more precise. It was the small amount he had left on his team.

He touched these stars and they became like a heart. The core for an existence. A body formed around them as if they were organs.

Soon...

He was looking at Atesh. That wasn't all. Jay, Lo, Zhar and Ta also had bodies form in his dream domain. Intelligence appeared in their eyes as they became lucid.

Atesh's eyes lacked intelligence.

"I see... I can bring their spiritual bodies into my domain!"

"Better to hide!"

Somnus opened another layer in his dream domain. He still was filling the area entirely. But at the same time he was not. He was both existing and not existing at the same time. Think of it like an illusory form. His spiritual brain was like a ghost covering the entire space.

The fog that filled his domain was HIM!

After he became illusory.

A heavenly palace formed.

He then extended a thread towards Atesh. The intelligence returned to his eyes.

"Where are we?" Zhar whispered cautiously.

Atesh patted him on the shoulder.

"Let's go!"

Atesh then realized that his sovereign comprehension seemed to be restricted in this space. He felt he could give himself permissions by controlling Somnus. But his body had become an empty shell. He wondered if he should pretend to serve a god. He needed to make a permission system.

The group was floating in the sky above the palace.

They floated down to the entrance and entered. After walking for a few minutes. Atesh brought them to a meeting room.

Atesh didn't tell them the true name of this space. He wouldn't advertise it as his dream domain. He would instead use this as a gathering for sharing information.

"This is the spiritual forum. Regardless of distance or location. You can enter this space. You can sort of think of it like a simulation."

Everyone was silent for awhile.

"How do we enter it?" Lo spoke.

"You must first have your existence imprinted with intelligent design."

"Intelligent design?"

"Think of it like a key. You'll use it to enter this space. But be warned. When you are in this space, your body is unconscious!"

Somnus had used dream force on their existence to be able to locate them. He also had a connection with his elf body. He could bring Atesh into this space as much as he wanted. But as for the other four? He had already used the remaining dream force on them to pull them here.

Somnus extended his limbs to them and baptized their existence. He put an imprint on something deeper then soul. Their very existence and consciousness itself!

A magnificent image appeared in their minds.

Some of them were curious how such a place came to be. They assumed it was ancient and the source of Atesh's power... who would've guessed that this space had only existed for a few years?

"If you wish to enter this space, simply rotate that image in your mind. If you wish to leave. Rotate it again."

"If your body dies. As long as you rotate it in time. I can save your consciousness."

Somnus also designed a permission system.

Level 5: Foreign Entity Permissions.

This is the lowest level of access. You aren't even able to manifest a body or move around, let alone communicate with others in the spiritual forum.

Level 4: Guest Permissions.

You are able to manifest a body and communicate. But you cannot edit structures or interact with them.

Level 3: Member Permissions.

You are able to manifest and communicate. You are even able to interact with structures.

Level 2: Operator Permissions.

You are able to manifest, communicate, interact and build structures. You are also able to imprint other existences with the key needed to enter the spiritual forum. You can set anyone with a lower level permissions level 5-3.

Level 1: Administrator Permissions.

Able to change the permission level of any entity.

Level 0: ???

Hidden level of permissions.

Somnus permission level was zero! But he existed outside of this system. He could manipulate it in any way despite the rules.

Atesh explained the rules for this forum and gave all four of them level 2 permissions. They were now operators.