“Crack! Crack!” the sound of something crunching and breaking rang inside my head. My body tossed and turned in my bed as i was still asleep. Vivid dreams flashed by as the crunching sound got louder. I lived through dream after dreams as i showed no signs of waking up.

Each dream moving too fast and too short for me to remember even a glimpse of. The one thing i could make out from every dream was the sound of a storm. The howling of violent gales thundering throughout each dream. Some dreams,i could remember a humongous bird, some a giant dragon while the rest i could see a three legged bat.

When they flew across the starry skies, large turbulent storms erupt wherever they passed by. I could slightly seeing them fighting a large being. Though i couldn’t see what.

As the crunching sound got louder, so did the storm. But suddenly it stopped. A pleasant sensation washed over me as the sounds stopped. As the sounds stopped, i could finally control myself in my dream. I went from an observer to a player.

In this dream, i was in a large field. The grass wiping like daggers as the powerful winds caused it to lash about. However, i did not feel the wind at all.

I could see that when the violent wind were about to hit me, it went around it. Completely ignoring me. At the center of the field was a girl that looked just like me. She was lying naked on a patch of soft grass which seem unaffected by the violent winds. She seemed slightly translucent.

I walked through the violent winds towards her. The winds not affecting me at all. When i reached her, i felt something off about her. Even though she looked exactly like me, i could feel that she wasn’t exactly me.

I raised my hands to touch her but when my hand made contact with her translucent skin, i felt a sharp stabbing pain in my head.

“Arrhh!” I screamed.

“Isn’t this a dream? Why am i feeling so much pain!” I shouted.

As i was rolling around on the grass, the area of the translucent girl which i touched started to dissipate.

It dissipated into small specks of cyan light and flew into the storm. The storm increasing in furiosity. New memories started to enter me as i felt life drained away from me.

Memories started to enter as I could feel myself going brain dead as too much information flooded my mind. I used my spirit energy to manipulate my mind and slow down the process of the memories barraging into me.

I could feel that my manipulation of my mind was a few times stronger than before. Not only that, i could feel spirit energy circulating at a breakneck speed.

As, the memories start to slow down, i could make out what it was about.

I was chained in a room. I could see that my hands and legs were cuffed to a chair. I struggled to get out about it was a futile attempt. The ionic titanium chains locked me in placed tightly.  

Around my head was a helmet with two long needles sticking into my head. I could remember the large torrent of pain i felt as the needles stuck itself into my head.

At first i thought, it was my memories of being brainwashed. It was until i heard this that i was proven wrong.

“My father won’t let you get away with this! I will not let you get away with this! ” I said.

The memories were of the original princess, not me.

“I will not let you do whatever you’re planning to, I’ll kill myself before you do!” the princess said as she tried to bite her own tongue.

But as she were about to perform the act, she stopped herself.

“What! Why can’t i do it!” She screamed. “What did you do to me!”

“Looks like the rehabilitation is a success.” The white haired old man in front of her said.

“In a matters of few hours, you will be our puppet. You will dance to our fingers and kill your own family. How wonderful would that be!” The white haired old man said.

“How is this possible, why isn’t my powers working!” the princess screamed!

“You think your puny low level of spirit powers can stop me? HAH!” The white haired old man laughed.

“Nooo! “ The princess screamed.

The flow of information stopped at this stage!

What happened to her! What happened next!

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I got up and ran towards the translucent girl again, trying to touch her and get more of her memories.

If i touch her once more, i’ll know the full story!

However, as i ran towards her a force pushed me back. Every time i stepped on the soft grass she was sleeping on, i could feel a force pushing me away from her. Now matter how many times i tried, i could not get to her.

What is she? A ghost? A spirit? Her spirit energy? Her powers?

Just what are you?

I tried to reach her many more times as my curiosity propelled me. Only after a few hundred attempts did i finally gave up and stopped.

How did you even get here? I need to know!

Why did you come here and give me your memories?

Why did you allow me to see ur memories but stopped me from seeing more.

What are you trying to hide from me.

Why won’t you allow me to see it?

Looks like i can’t do anything about this now. Perhaps in the future, you will allow me to see more.

Before i leave this place, i should look around.

Giving up on ever reaching her, i took a look around the place. Although the vast amounts of lashing grass filled the place, in the far distance to the left of the girl, i could see a patch of blue.

I ran towards that area, allowing the violent winds to propel me forwards. I tried to use mana to use wind run and quicken my pace but i could not feel my mana at all. However, when i thought of using the winds to push me forward, the wind responded to my will. Whatever i wanted the wind to do, it followed.

As i traveled, i could see the patch of blue getting bigger and bigger. After what seems like days of travelling, i finally reach the area. As far as my eyes could see, a vast sea of water surrounded the land i was on. As i touched the sea, i realised what this place was.

This sea was my sea of consciousness and the land i was standing on was my spirit core that i had been trying to form.

More questions than answers were acquired when i had reached this blue area. I had thought that when i reach here, i could answer some of the questions that i had. However, finding out that this entire place was actually my sea of conscious sent me into a loop.

Why is the princess in my sea of consciousness?

Why is my core a piece of land with grass instead of a gold core that the guy from the resistance had described?

Why are there wind in my sea of consciousness, isn’t mana and spirit energy two entirely different things?

I was so confused. The only thing i was certain of was that my core had complete forming and i had new powers.

My divine sense had increased, i could feel and see everything in a 20 meter radius around me.  The speed and skill of my ability to manipulate my mind was a few times better. I could go into sensory overdrive mode for a long period of time before my brain start hurting. Moreover, during overdrive mode, i could copy and memorise whatever i see.

I had gained two new abilities. One was mind haste, it allowed me to multiply cognitive abilities. Doing this will let me perceive everything around me at a faster rate. When i tried using it, i could feel as if time had slowed down. My body and everything around me moving 25% slower than normal. Everything felt like it was in slow motion.

The other ability was six sense. This allowed me to sense for danger around me. It could even warn me of danger before it happened. Six sense not only allowed me to sense danger, it also increased my intuition.

When i had found out i had new abilities, i was excited and had hoped i had some sort of super strength. I had imagined myself lifting cars and carriages and tossing them at people. However, i didn’t get sad when i found out that i didn’t gain super strength. I was quite content with my new powers.

On the surface, it didn’t seem as strong as super strength. However if i used six sense,mind haste,sensory overdrive, windrun, wind prediction all together at once, I would become a monster! I can predict everything someone is going to do before they even do it.

Imagine fight someone who can predict your every move. Yeah, a predicting a few seconds into the future may not be a big deal now. But in the future this will be overpowered. When two strong opponents fight, a few second is the difference between life and death.

After finding out that this was my sea of consciousness, i left it like how i usually do.

When I woke up, i found myself the carpeted floor. I turned to my clock at found that it was only 4am.

Looks like i only spent a few hours there.

I went back to bed hoping to get more rest before the start my day tomorrow.

I had decided to put what happened to me just now to the back of my mind. I could not force it to give me more answers and i would accomplish nothing trying to force it. I will carry on with my mission.

As i grow stronger, i’m sure i’ll learn more.

=====4 hours later=====

I woke up and start on my morning routine. I had already gotten used to it, it no longer felt as shameful as before. When i had my dream last night, i had an epiphany. Anna was my life now, even if i was Tate before, i can’t lie to myself that right now i am not Anna.

As i wore my school combat uniform, i remember the last time i wore it. About how much skin i showed off.

In the future when i have my own supplies, i will make my own uniform! I just need to make a bionic synthesizer and a energy printer to make my own composite silk.

I wonder if i can combine enchantments with composite silk.

Okay, this will be one of my goals during the academy from now on!

After pumping myself up, i left the room and headed for advance battling class. I arrived at the arena 30 minutes early and saw that the black haired girl was there. She was sitting at the corner of the arena reading a book. I couldn’t help but stare.

Even though i hate wearing this stupid uniform, I can’t say that it doesn’t look nice.

I walked towards her and sat beside her. She turned her head towards me and raised an eyebrow when i sat down beside her.

“Hey! What are you reading?” I asked.

“My name isn’t Hey.” She said.

“I don’t know what to call you, you never said what your name is before” I said.

“My name is Vivian” She said before returning to her book.

“Your name match your looks, both beautiful.” I told her.

I could see a faint blush on her face as i complimented her. After noticing that she was ignoring me, i went to the training room to practice by myself before class started.

I went up onto the training arena and five metal dummies formed. These dummies were very tough and hard to damage. Not only that, if implement mana, it could come to life and fight.

I went to the crystal core of each dummy and inserted enough mana for each of them to last ten minutes.

The dummies each pulled out a sword and the battle began. I immediately used six sense, divine sense, sensory overdrive, mind haste, wind run and wind predict.

I had started this practice match with the dummies to see how well i would do when i used every ability.

Instantly, everything slowed down. I could see faint images in front on each dummy. The dummies following the exact footsteps of the images. When the image slash at me, i felt nothing.

I back out after the image slashed me, narrowingly dodging the dummy slash by a few centimeters.

This is incredible! I can see exactly what action they are going to take 1 second into the future.

I continued to dodge every attack even when fight five at once. It felt like a breeze dodging every attack and stabbing their weak point whenever i had the chance. When i saw a red line at where i attacked, I had no fear of breaking or damaging the dummy. The red line were only meant to show that i had made lethal damage to it.

I continued dodging and attacking till the time ran out and the dummies stopped attacking. I was not hit even once and i had hit more than fifty lethal strikes.

Using my divine sense, i could see Vivian spying on me. Her eyes taking a peek from behind her book every few seconds. When i turned my head towards her, she ducked her head and hid behind her book, pretending that she had been reading all along.

So cute!