Bzzt Bzzzt Bzzt
Shocking and paralyzing it was, damaging as well, yet as surprised as Hannah was about the Red Ray of Lighting zapping her, she found herself remarkably fine if she ignored the elongated agony produced by her Dream Gem.
Even the Red Ray of Lightning seemed to agree with that notion because, a few moments after that the realization that it had barked up the wrong tree, or person in this case, it stopped zapping Hannah.
Instead, it jumped from her body to the nearest object which was the office desk. There it attained a rough animalistic shape. Nonetheless, even without any actual knowledge about its true origin, it was easy to recognize that this Lesser Dream was not in fact a true life form despite its current behavior.
Still, it stayed on the office desk for a moment as its animalistic head bobbed here and there as if having a difficult time deciding where next it should jump onto. When the target was decided, it zapped there, then from the office desk to the office chair, from the office chair to the left wall.
Like that, the Red Ray of Lighting zipped around the office unleashing its chaotic nature by causing everything it touched to fry and smoke instantly.
Maybe it was because of the Dream Gem in her left hand, or perhaps it was due to being more resilient within her Dream Sanctum, regardless of the truth, Hannah quickly recovered from the shocking sensations.
When she did, her head bobbed alongside the Red Ray of Lighting, only it was clear that the Lesser Dream was too fast for her.
“Hnng… Stay Still!” Hannah bellowed out after the rapid head movement threatened to overwhelm her.
Unfortunately, the Red Ray of Lightning, being what it was, refused to listen to the Master of the Dream Sanctuary it found itself in. No, it simply ignored her and continued exhibiting its wild nature in zapping from place to place and frying everything it touched.
Though, there were a few things it stayed clear of, and those were the last two bubbles containing its fellow Lesser Dreams. Since Hannah’s D-Card was within their presence, it remained untouched. Everything else, however, was fair game, even her father's red leather sofa chair as it left a black stain on one side. But then, as the Red Ray of Lighting displayed its wild nature, it did something that it should not have.
It zapped towards the only door in the office. Specifically, it zapped onto the handle of the door, and when it did it fried the locking mechanism somewhat. It did not destroy it, but it still managed to somehow influence the isolation feature of the Dream Sanctuary.
It was that very sensation that Hannah felt, and when she did, images flashed through her mind. Images she desperately did not want to see happen. As a result, in one single instant, Despair flushed through Hannah’s Dream Body, only when it did, it spiked her current control on the Dream Gem drain. As a result, the elongated agonizing effect was reduced instantly while the relieving effect returned to normal.
With the normality in place, Hannah flinched out of the single moment of Despair as her attention instantly shifted to regaining control of the Dream Gems draining effect.
After managing to stifle the draining flow once again, Hannah’s attention shifted to the Red Ray of Lightning, and within her brown eyes, anger could be seen. Only, the anger was directed at herself for having failed at transferring the Lighting Aspect of the Red Ray of Lightning into the third Enchantment Engram.
Nevertheless, since Hannah could not take out the anger on herself, her target was obvious, only how would she accomplish such a thing.
Quickly remembering the basic facts she knew about Lighting, an idea spawned into Hannah’s mind.
Grabbing for the Pure Potential within her, Hannah led that potential to her right hand before willing it to attract the Red Ray of Lightning.
How it would do so was simple, and her inspiration lay within the process happening inside her. As such, Hannah wished for the Pure Potential to become positively charged such that it would look much more appealing to the Lesser Dream sparking about her Dream Sanctuary.
The success was clear when the Red Ray of Lightning stopped zipping around to once again reveal its animalistic form before settling its animalistic head on Hannah’s right hand. However, unlike what Hannah had expected, it did not jump to her right hand instantly, as if it was hesitant.
Maybe it sensed its doom if it did so.
Thinking about it for a second, Hannah did the first thing that came to her. “Here… Kitty-Kitty…”
In one moment, Hannah saw the animalistic shape flinch as if responding to the call, only it was not enough. Nevertheless, since nothing else reached Hannah’s mind instantly, she simply continued calling on the Lesser Dream.
“Kitty-Kitty… Come here…”
It was on the fourth repeat that it occurred.
The Red Ray of Lighting zapped from its place and landed on Hannah’s outstretched right palm, only the moment it did, Hannah snapped her fingers around it before urgently wishing the Pure Potential to grab onto the Red Ray of Lightning.
The moment Hannah felt the distinctive grab, she wished the Lightning Aspect to be transferred into the third Enchantment Engram within her still illusory Dreamon Ball within her first Ability Slot.
Like its two seniors, the Red Ray of Lightning vanished, only with sparks instead of dust flaking into nothing.
With the sensation and knowledge that it was done, Hannah settled her brown eyes on the door leading out of her father’s office, out of her Dream Sanctuary. Recognizing what this meant, Hannah gulped once before quickly walking to the door and grabbing the handle.
Click… Click… Click
“Phew…” Accompanying the sigh of relief was a wipe of Hannah’s nonexistent sweat on the forehead with the right cuff of her father’s oversized jacket she was still wearing.
That done, Hannah’s attention shifted to the dent within the isolation effect of her Dream Sanctuary. This time, however, she had no idea how to fix it, so instead, her mind settled on the simplest of solutions.
“Mmm... Should I unlock and relock the lock?”
Truly unsure about it, Hannah quickly remembered her father’s words regarding Awakening and its effects on Nightmares. Namely, the fact that if not for the isolating feature present, a Nightmare would instantly notice the undergoing Awakening process since it threatened their very existence. Unfortunately, no matter how she remembered, there was no mention of what would happen if she unlocked and re-locked the door.
With no hint on what to do, Hannah simply chose the simplest option available to her.
Taking out the key from the oversized brown jacket, Hannah placed it within the keyhole before rotating anti-clockwise until it unlocked the locking mechanism. In the same instance, the insulating layer of her Dream Sanctuary turned off, but since Hannah had no desire for anything to happen, she quickly rotated the key clockwise again until the isolating effect returned, with full strength behind its purpose.
That done, Hannah nodded her head in success.
Returning the key to its pocket, Hannah shifted her awareness to the last two Lesser Dreams on her father’s desk.
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Having learned from her mistake, Hannah was much more careful with the last two Ingredients for her Framework Prototype.
As a result, when the fourth bubble burst to reveal a flower bud, Hannah instantly wrapped the bud with the energy suffusing her right now. However, unlike before, when the Ingredients were simple, with only one Aspect tied to them, the last two ingredients held multiple. That being the case, Hannah used the Pure Potential available to her to sift through the Flower of Life, or the bud of the Flower of Life, and everything it entailed.
Her goal was the Sub-Aspect of Life termed Serenity of Life.
Luckily, with Pure Potential at her disposal, that was easily accomplished because the bud in her right hand was already emitting the needed Aspect. When it was discovered, with Pure Potential Hannah grabbed the Serenity of Life Aspect before wishing it to be transferred to the fourth Enchantment Engram within the illusory Dreamon Ball within her First Ability Slot.
A natural consequence would have been the Ingredient turning to dust before flaking away. This time, however, that did not happen because there were other Aspects holding the bud in its current shape.
Though, the bud did turn less real if Hannah sensed things right.
Nevertheless, since Hannah did not need for the other Aspects contained within the bud, she simply wished her Pure Potential to draw away the needed energy sustaining those Aspects. As a result, the bud within her right palm turned almost completely transparent before simply popping out of existence, unlike the dust-to-flakes method the first two Ingredients had displayed.
After seeing it occur, Hanna focused on her illusory Deamon Ball.
Noticing the active fourth Enchantment Engram, Hannah recognized her illusory Dreamon Ball appearing less illusory than before.
Seeing the result, Hannah knew it was time for the last Ingredient.
Quickly grabbing the last bubble, yet not rushing to burst it showed Hannah’s cautious attitude regarding it because the last bubble appeared to contain some kind of black, blue, magenta, and similarly colored fluid substance. So to avoid everything spilling and wasting the Ingredient, she imagined a big cup in her hand, large enough to encompass the bubble.
Just like before, Pure Potential was extremely eager to accomplish her desire, so when she imagined her favorite cup, it appeared at once, only bigger and more transparent, of course.
With it there, she poked the bubble and it burst before depositing its content within her imagined large cup.
In the same instance, Hannah noted the increased sensations emanating from the Lesser Dream, Water of Chaos. Nevertheless, just like the Red Ray of Lightning that came from the Nightmare of Red, Water of Chaos possessed a unique behavior that seemed to want to do stuff, only Hannah could not allow that to be the case.
Following her father’s instructions, Hannah sifted through the Lesser Dream in search of the Change of Form Aspect, a Sub-Aspect of the Chaos Aspect.
Unlike the previous Ingredient, this one was much harder to recognize since Chaos and Change held a remarkable resemblance. Thankfully, Pure Potential was on the job, so Hannah managed to find the needed Aspect moments later. The moment she did, it was transferred into the fifth and last Enchantment Engram within her illusory Dreamon Ball inside her First Ability Slot.
Similar to the fourth Ingredient, the Lesser Dream did not collapse instantly. Instead, the fluid nature of the Water of Chaos seemed to take a dip in activity, but when it did, Hannah noted the liquid turning more and more black, with magenta and the other colors seemingly taking a step back.
As a result, her senses told her the Water of Chaos was becoming more and more hostile to her.
Hiss Hiss Hiss
Accompanying the hissing sounds was a very dark trail of smoke from her big and transparent cup.
With those two effects, Hannah instantly understood that the Water of Chaos was quickly transforming itself into some kind of acid. Acid that could and would eat through her big and transparent cup before dropping onto her hand. The only thing preventing it from doing so instantly was the fact that the big transparent cup was made from Pure Potential, so the acid-turned Water of Chaos had a much harder time melting it than it should have had.
Regardless, seeing where things were going, Hannah urgently drew on the energy holding the other Aspect in check. Once it was done, the inevitable collapse of the Lesser Dream was inevitable. However, as if acting in pure spite for being forced to do so, this Lesser Dream did not go quietly into the night.
No, it protested with a loud BANG.
The small explosion exhibited so much force that even the large and transparent cup, manifested and fueled with Pure Potential, could not withstand it. Instead, the force of the explosion shattered the cup, forcing Hannah to stagger a few steps with clear surprise on her face and an embarrassed cry on her lips.
“Eeep!”
Thankfully, after recovering from the shock, Hannah knew she had accomplished her purpose, and there was no doubt about that since a very distinct feeling manifested within Hannah and her First Ability Slot.
When it did, it took almost all of Hannah’s attention, and it would have probably taken all of it had there not been an elongated agony-draining effect on her from her Dream Gem. As such, with its presence, Hannah was not entirely lost within the gripping sensation of her Dreamon Ball switching from its illusory Framework Prototype kind of existence to a Stable Dream Prototype since the Framework had transformed from something illusory into an actual and genuine Dream.
Well, Lesser Dream.
Even then, a Lesser Dream of the lowest rank, E-Rank.
Nevertheless, this meant, Hannah had already manifested her Tool, her Dreamon Ball, though it was useless without having gone through the whole process of being charged and calibrated properly so it could exhibit its Core and Utility Features.
That was why her Dreamon Ball was still temporary in nature, even if it could hold its current existence without degrading for a long time.
Regardless, if it was more or less temporary, this meant that Hannah no longer needed to interfere with the draining effect of her Dream Gem. At least, not before all of her stored Potential was converted into Pure Potential, through which Hannah would establish her Dream.
“Ahu… Phew… Ahu… Phew.”
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Just in case, Hannah took a few more breaths before releasing her hold on the Deam Gems main function.
The instant she had, the elongated agony vanished in favor of the regular one returning. Most importantly, though, the relief accompanying every bit of the agony returned to full power as well.
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That way, it eased every moment that passed under the Dream Gem’s draining effect.
Naturally, since she had been close to it, it took very little time for the stored Trauma/Potential tied to the Conjuring Ability Principle to be fully excavated from Hannah’s existence.
When it did reach that point multiple phenomena occurred.
The first was, was the most obvious one and it elevated Hannah’s understanding of Trauma itself, in general, because the drained Trauma from the Conjuring Ability Principle had left behind a whole, in a manner of speaking. A whole that could be filled with something else, something that would facilitate its existence to its best possible Potential.
That very something could only be one thing, and Hannah was certain about it since her father had told her she would understand after she was done Awakening. Only, even without fully Awakening, Hannah was certain that Skills were made just to fill that spot.
Though, how exactly they functioned Hannah would have to wait till she got access to some of them.
Regardless of the future Skill option, the more important phenomena occurred during the climax of the fully excavated Conjuring Ability Principle.
Specifically, the moment the last shred of the Trauma attached to the Conjuring Ability Principle vanished, the relief function provided by the draining effect achieved its maximum strength by being juiced with Pure Potential, so it instantly exploded from its spot to travel all over Hannah’s Dream Body, like a ripple across a still pond of water.
In that one single moment of transcendent bliss, reaching every inch of her Dream Body, the relief transformed from a simple recovery effect into transcendent healing. And not just ordinary healing at that, but the kind of healing centered around the Stat the Conjuring Ability Principle was based around, Insight.
Soul Mend
That was the name of this transcendent healing factor because this particular healing factor targeted the Soul as Insight represented the flexibility of the Soul to perceive, to conceive, to manifest one's preferred Truth. So, if there was something preventing that flexibility from occurring and developing, it was seen as something to be addressed.
Unfortunately, one small little caveat of the Soul Mend, similar to the other unique phenomena achieved during Awakening, was that its power was proportional to the amount of Trauma/Potential being drained by the Dream Gem, hence Hannah only enjoyed the Soul Mending healing factor for a few moments.
Nevertheless, as short as it was, and as significant it was to be healed of one's wounds, there was more to this single moment of transcending bliss targeting the Soul since, in one single sweep, it allowed Hannah to recognize her own Soul instead of remaining ignorant about it. As such, it was in this single moment of transcendent bliss when Hannah locked her future as a Dreamwalker because it was not the Principles that determined the Dreamwalker but the order in which one unfolded one's Soul.
Plainly said, Insight determined a Soul’s Malleability, which in turn determined the number of times a Soul was allowed to separate slices of itself without any adverse effects upon the individual's Soul.
As such, many thoughts passed through Hannah during that moment of transcendent bliss, and many realizations embedded themselves inside her, even without her being conscious of that actually happening.
Yet, as this was a natural process, even without being told about it, Hannah knew what she had to do, so she went and separated a part of her Soul as if it was the simplest of actions possible.
Like moving an arm without actually commanding your arm to do just that.
Then, just like when she had done with the Ingredients her father bestowed on her, she infused that part of her Soul into her First Ability.
When she did, the Stable Dream Prototype within her Soul elevated itself in Rank, from E to D. Meaning, while it was still weak, it was no longer at the bottom of the pole.
Right after the upgrade in Rank, the moment of transcendent bliss vanished and things returned to normal, or as normal as they could be within Hannah’s Dream Sanctum.
Nonetheless, Hannah was not given time to process what she had just done.
Instead, her Dream Gem reared its head as it discovered its next target of opportunity, namely the Enchantment Ability Principle.
With that as the goal, a new draining effect emerged immediately centering Hannah’s awareness to the here and the now, such that nothing else mattered bar what would occur soon enough since it was inevitable happen for as long as Hannah managed to hold her grip on her Dream Gem. Unfortunately, because there was more Trauma to drain, it also meant it would take longer for the second draining process.
Nevertheless, if that was not enough, this particular Trauma liked its current state, so it was particularly stubborn when drawn out as if it had a mind of its own. And maybe it did? After all, Trauma attached to the Enchantment Ability Principle was also Trauma attached to the Vessel Stat of a Dreamwalker. Therefore, the Vessel Stat represented the quality and purity of the Soul, and thereby, what Hannah was draining right this moment was corruption which had infiltrated her soul through her Dream Body thanks to the seven-year-long exposure to a Nightmare.
“Hnngngngng…” Hannah grunted out before quickly falling down to her knees.
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When simple kneeling was hard enough, Hannah quickly held the Dream Gem to her chest before lying on the floor with her back.
“Ugh… Hurts.” Hannah unconsciously murmured.
Had there not been a soothing and relieving effect accompanying the agonizing pain that seemed to be coming from her very bone marrow, Hannah would have no doubt dropped her contact with the Dream Gem. But since there was, she held on to the Dream Gem with both hands, thus providing double access to its draining procedure.
In the end, after enough agonizing moments passed, Hannah, once again, reached that moment of transcendent bliss after the last of the stubborn corruption got drained away.
Since this transcendent moment of bliss was centered around the Enchantment Ability Principle and the Stat Vessel, the relieving effect of the draining process did not become an actual healing effect, but a cleansing effect as it exploded and rippled across Hannah’s Soul and Dream Body.
Similar to Soul Mend, Soul Cleanse did not last for long. But during its presence, Hannah was treated to the best and most direct presentation of just what soul integrity meant. However, since the Core Feature had already been slotted for her First Ability, Hannah was only able to apply the Utility Feature to her Dreamon Ball.
Namely, establishing a connection between her Soul and the Five Enchantment Slots within her Dreamon Ball through a resonance-like effect. Such that Hannah’s Soul and Ability operated on the same level of existence. Once that was accomplished, Hannah almost immediately recognized the signs of her Stable Dream Prototype elevating its Rank from D to C, thus losing the Prototype from its designation because it was no longer temporary but a stable type of existence, and it would remain as such for as long as Hannah’s Soul shared that connection with her Ability.
Right after the Rank elevation, the transcendent moment of bliss ceased only for a new draining effect to signal its approaching return.
Thankfully, after going through what she had just gone through, the third draining process felt like a breeze passing through Hannah, though, one that took longer because there was more to drain than the last one.
Either way, when the moment of transcendent bliss returned it came in the form of Soul Temper.
Through this transcendent phenomenon, Hannah became privy to her own Soul having the ability for self-regulation, and self-optimization so her Soul would operate under greater and ever greater efficiency ratings.
That being the case, for a few moments, Hannah’s Soul optimized itself before settling its attention on her Ability. Nevertheless, since there was no way to apply the Evocation Ability Principle Core Feature, all Hannah did was allow the self-optimization Utility Feature to be incorporated into her Dreamon Ball.
Specifically speaking, onto the Enchantment Engrams inlaid within her Ability.
To be even more specific, this self-optimization Utility Feature was targeted at the Aspects contained within those Enchantment Engrams so they would operate without her direct attention.
There was no greater moment for that either, because the moment Hannah’s Soul applied the Evocation Utility Feature onto her Dreamon Ball, the Enchantment Engrams roared to life. In the same instance, Hannah’s Stable Dream began to quake as the Enchantment Engrams, and the Aspects they contained, stretched and regulated themselves thanks to her Soul doing the hard work behind the scenes.
In the end, when the process of optimization was concluded, Hannah inherently identified four different Evocations within her Dreamon Ball.
Four because that was the maximum amount of Evocation Slots available to her Ability.
That and the fact that two had combined their effects to create one Evocation dubbed Pocket Dimension. An isolating piece of Space and Time, separating the insides of the Dreamon Ball from that of the outside, thus making the insides of the Dreamon Ball bigger than its outside dimensions made it out to be.
Better said, a place for her future Summon to chill out until she called for it.
The second Evocation inherent to her Dreamon Ball was Translocation. It was an Evocation that helped catch and release her Summon through a Red Ray of Lightning, thus it was the medium by which her Summon would appear and disappear.
The third Evocation was called Illusion of Serenity, and it was an Evocation that targeted the Summon within the Dreamon Ball. Its purpose was to create an Illusion in which the Summon would live in order to increase its comfort levels within the Dreamon Ball since her future Summon would be actual thinking creatures instead of puppets following her every command.
The fourth Evocation was named Rapid Mutation and it was the most crucial of the four Evocations as it was the main mechanism by which a captured Nightmare transmuted its Chaotic nature into a more Orderly one.
However, there was an opposite option built into the fourth Evocation that her father had been adamant about and it stated that the Rapid Mutation Evocation affected not just Nightmares, but also Dreams as well.
Nonetheless, what that entailed was beyond the current Hannah.
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Right after Hannah understood the inner workings of the four Evocations attached to her Ability, she sensed the third elevation of her Dream, namely from the C-Ranked Stable Dream to a B-Ranked Dream.
A moment after the elevation process ceased, the transcendent moment of bliss receded as well. Nevertheless, knowing it would soon return, Hannah awaited its presence after some time of enduring its buildup within her.
With its return, Soul Judge emerged, the transcendent phenomena of the Logic Stat.
With its presence, it catapulted Hannah’s awareness to the editorial department of her Soul, where she could recall, evaluate, revise, and modify her Soul, and the Truth it holds, all she wanted.
So that was what she did.
Hannah recalled everything she wanted, especially for the last two to three weeks when she had been forced to live without her drugs. Nonetheless, it was the last week that got most of her attention because that was when her father had first bestowed her with knowledge.
Once she had those, Hannah began evaluating that knowledge and that was when the Truth, hidden within those memories, revealed itself in the form of her father’s machinations because Soul Judge revealed all foreign influences that one had been under, without fail.
As such, Hannah followed the breadcrumbs of her father’s influence as it revealed how, and just how much, she had been nudged to consider and accept taking her monster as her Summon, her pet.
Unfortunately, a side effect of the Soul Judge was that it disallowed any emotion from manifesting, hence why under Soul Judge, all Hannah could do was trust her own Logic. Yet, as she followed the breadcrumbs like a drowning man seeking safety within the ocean of indifference, only with Logic instead, the breadcrumbs began painting a picture.
An image of something that slowly built itself up, piece by piece throughout the scattered memories of her last week.
When the evaluation reached its peak, Hannah was struck with the emerging Logic that made so… so much sense, as if it was undeniable with its Truth. Only the moment it manifested, Hannah’s awareness was privy to a memory she had not witnessed in the last week, but a memory that had been embedded into her during that week.
A memory that displayed her father’s ghost relaying a simple message.
Your Logic is Flawed, dear daughter of mine. Find my present and you shall understand.
Like an echo, her father’s Statement reverberated within Hannah’s Logic fueled awareness, asking her… no, urging her to seek that present.
Hannah, being so very new to this, did as she was told and went through her memories.
Day by day, she went through her past, from the most recent memory to her oldest ones. Then, after what felt like a very long time, she found the present which was a literal present as it had been given to her on her eighth birthday, her GameBoy.
Only it was not the GameBoy that was the present but the Logic centered around its presence. Like a book that she could read whenever she wanted, and if her current understanding was correct, she had done so many, many times over the last seven years.
Especially, after growing older and closing in on her Awakening.
Nonetheless, the true form of her father’s Logic was instructions.
Instructions on what to do, how to do it, and just why she should do it.
As such, rewatching those days, Hannah witnessed her father’s Logic firsthand in how it influenced her younger self, unconsciously, that is, in using said instructions as a reference book for building her own Dream Instance, her own Dream Body, her own Monster, her own Ruleset by which to play pretend at being a victim instead of the mastermind, such that she could build up all the Trauma needed to awaken as a Dreamer.
The reason behind all of this?
Well, that too had an answer, moreover, it was stated there at the beginning by her real father. Only, Logic Hannah ignored the reason. For the moment, at least. Because, according to the Ruleset she had built into the scenario, she had not been supposed to be under it for a whole seven years.
No, her father’s instructions were clear: a year to two. At most three years would have been needed for her to manifest an A-Ranked Dream Gem. Yet, Hannah had been under it for seven years and some extra months.
This meant there was an obvious flaw somewhere.
Although the very first culprit Hannah thought of was the pills her mother bought her. However, while Logic Hannah did not dismiss it entirely, the more obvious culprit for the mishap was her monster.
Specifically, the fact that the monster her child self had designed for herself had been much less menacing.
So that begged the question.
Why had a Beholder Nightmare appeared in her Dream Instance instead of the Evil Unicorn she had envisioned for herself?
With no obvious answer, Hannah had no choice but to sidestep the problem, to center her attention on the here and now.
Namely, should she modify parts of her Soul or not?
In the end, the only Logical choice was to leave things as they were because they were needed for her Awakening.
As such, all that was left was for Hannah to finalize the changes to her Dreamon Ball since there would be no Domination Ability Principle Core Feature within her First Ability. Meaning that Hannah modified the Evocation Rules and their interactions between the Enchantment Engrams, the Aspect within them and Hannah herself because she was the center point of it all, after all.
The moment she was done, three Domains emerged for her Ability.
All three of them were of the Conflict Type, and all three of them were passive in nature, as most Domains were.
The first Domain dealt with the capturing process of a Nightmare. Therefore, it was tied to the Translocation Evocation of the Dreamon Ball. After all, a Nightmare had to be somehow shoved inside a Dreamon Ball to facilitate its containment process. As such, the First Domain stated that the initial capturing success of a Nightmare depended on the Vessel and Instinct Stats of the targeted Nightmare in comparison to Hannah’s Vessel and Instinct Stats.
The second Domain was for after a Nightmare was shoved into a Dreamon Ball. It was tied to the Evocation Illusion of Serenity and it determined the success rate of the containment process. Meaning, that a successful containment of a Nightmare was dependent on the Logic and Will statistics of the Nightmare in comparison to Hannah’s Logic and Will Stats.
The third Domain was for after the containment process was completed and it was tied to the Rapid Mutation Evocation. It determined the success rate of a Nightmare becoming a Dreamon. Therefore, the transformation success from Nightmare into Dreamon depended on the Logic, Will, and Insight Stats of the Nightmare in comparison to Hannah’s Logic, Will, and Insight Stats.
Additionally, since Rapid Mutation Evocation worked on Dreams as well, the third Domain affected the success of a Dream evolving into a Dreamon as well, with Hannah’s Vessel, Logic, and Insight Stats determining the chances of success.
After those three Domains emerged, a profound shift occurred to Hannah’s first Ability, her Dreamon Ball. However, since it had occurred before, it was a simple understanding that Hannah’s achieved another elevation to its status.
Hence, Hannah’s Dream became a Great Dream once it went from B-Rank to A-Rank.
As a result of the elevation, the transcendent moment of bliss vanished in favor of another round of agony, though, just like the previous one, it was easily ignored as well.
However, this time it was because another side of Hannah managed to ripple its presence, from the waters of the unconscious self, to process what Logic Hannah had discovered.
Or better said re-discovered.
The rediscovery was both soothing and horrifying.
Horrifying of what she had done to herself, even if it was under her father’s instructions, and soothing because she had never been truly in danger. At least, she should not have been as she had been because the Nightmare Tribulation she had generated for herself had gone on longer than it should have, hence why her Nightmare problem was so big right now.
Either way, as a result, it all led to one thing.
Hannah shouted from the depths of her throat to release her feelings.
“Sssstupid… Father… Who told you to peek into the future!”