Seeing the distraught expression on her mother’s face, Hannah knew things had not gone as hoped.
However, the question was in which direction they had gone wrong.
“Mom?” Hannah spoke up, instantly gaining her mother’s attention.
“AH… Hey, sweety… I am back.” Her mother said after almost getting spoked in turn, as if her mind had been somewhere else and all that had been there beforehand was habit. “We will talk later. For now… I need to process just how utterly useless I am… Yes… We will talk later.”
Hannah was unsure of how to respond to her downtrodden mother, so she simply nodded before watching her world, her pillar in this world, stagger into their shared bedroom.
Just as her mother was about to enter the bedroom, Hannah, for one single moment, imagined herself rushing to her mother and hugging her from the back so she could tell her mother that everything would be alright.
Unfortunately, her imagination was a tad too slow to build enough encouragement for Hannah actually to do it on the fly.
Instead, Hannah just stood there.
When the bedroom door closed with a rather louder sound than Hannah was used to, she knew that her mother’s investigation could only have led to one thing, namely the denial of Hannah's wish to return her father’s gifts so the debt would be alleviated and thereby freeing her mother from the burden that she bore.
Naturally, Hannah had no idea how to do that, but if it was possible to put them inside her Dream Sanctum, then it was also possible to take them out, somehow.
Only it was clear that Hannah’s instant solution to her mother’s debt problem failed, and if that was the case, there was only one thing left to do, at least, in Hannah’s mind.
Gathering her courage, Hannah steeled herself for what she had to do.
Having prepared herself for it the whole day, mentally that is since there was not much to be done about it physically, Hannah found the couch and laid down on it. While staring at the white ceiling with her brown eyes, she took a deep breath. After exhaling it, Hannah nodded and steeled her resolve one last time.
That done, she closed her brown eyes and tried her best to fall asleep.
Maybe it was determination, or maybe it was something else entirely, but Hannah fell asleep very fast.
In truth, whichever it was, it did not matter when Hannah found herself within her father’s office, her current Dream Sanctuary because everything she was currently witnessing would vanish the moment she was done Awakening.
The very first thing she noted was the clear absence of her father’s ghost.
The second was about the floating multi-colored Dream Gem, while the third was about the unique items lying on the office desk.
Only after she was done examining all three of those, had Hannah taken a large breath to relax herself even further before enacting the Awakening process. Once it was done, she took a few steps closer to the office desk to center her gaze on her Dreamer’s Status Card resting on the wooden desk, or D-Card for short.
Since it had been a while, the D-Card had turned itself off, though not completely. The way her father had mentioned it, it was closer to sleeping than being actually turned off. As such, all it took for Hannah to turn it on again was tapping the front side of the transparent crystal twice. As a result, the transparent crystal instantly attained new colors, colors displaying a swirling vortex in the middle of the screen.
Accompanying the swirling vortex of black and white were six icons; Status, Abilities, Skills, Inventory, Map, and Social.
Tapping on Ability, the screen flickered for a second causing a new window to pop up.
Inside that new popped-up window two new icons emerged.
The first icon was Ability Potential Assessment. If Hannah tapped it, it would lead her to the readings showcasing her current Ability Potential Assessment. Additionally, Hannah could activate another Assessment process if she desired since Potential was fluid and never truly fixed upon one result, hence Ability Potential could grow and decline from use or disuse, with growth being much more common than decline.
Regardless, after seeing it, Hannah instantly set it aside to focus on the second icon, Ability Awakening.
Hesitating for a single moment, Hannah took another deep breath before pressing the icon labeled Ability Awakening.
Nevertheless, unlike previously, she did not let go. Instead, Hannah simply waited for about ten seconds. After those ten seconds passed, a DING sound echoed from her D-Card.
Having been told about it, Hannah did not panic and instead released her right forefinger from the screen to read what had emerged alongside the ding sound.
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening has been initiated!
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[First Warning]
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User; Hannah Blackwood, please confirm your desire to Awaken an Ability.
[✅] - [❌]
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Seeing it, Hannah felt her throat itch for some reason, as if parched for water. This caused her to gulp once before actually pressing the heavily indicated Yes button, though there was no actual button on her D-Card.
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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[First Warning] - Successfully passed.
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The alert stayed for five seconds before flickering, causing a new screen to appear.
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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Stage One; Sequence
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User; Hannah Blackwood, please input the Sequence Pathway for your Ability.
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This one stayed for five seconds as well but when it vanished, in its place a hexagon appeared, a hexagon with small circles around each tip of the hexagon.
Inside each of the circles, a distinct icon was seen. Distinct because each circle represented a different Ability Principle, and since there were six circles, it meant there were Six Basic Ability Principles.
Thankfully, having been taught about it, Hannah knew only five were important to her right now.
Additionally, the User Interface, as her father had called it, had been made to be very friendly for users of D-Cards, hence, Hannah knew this part would be very easy to accomplish. Namely, all Hannah had to do was press the circles one after another and her pathway would be confirmed.
Though, despite said knowledge, Hannah was careful where her fingers went as she did it.
The first circle, the starting point, began in the lower right corner of the screen displaying the hexagon because Hannha’s first Ability would start from the Conjuring Ability Principle.
Carefully placing her finger on the circle representing said Principal, Hannah watched the circle turn green after her finger stayed on the circle for about five seconds.
Additionally, a brief Ding sound echoed for confirmation.
With that done, her right forefinger separated from the Conjuring principle to carefully inch its way for the upper circle, the first circle right at the top of the screen, the circle representing the Enchantment Ability Principle.
Similar to before, Hannah pressed her finger inside the circle for five seconds causing it to turn green and produce a Ding sound.
Emboldened by the success, the process of sequencing her Ability went off without any problems.
The next circle, the circle representing the Evocation Ability Principle, was situated below the first one on the left upper side of the screen. Five seconds and a Ding sound later, the choice was confirmed. Five seconds after that, plus another Ding sound echoing into Hannah’s ears, the Domination Ability Principle situated immediately below Evocation was confirmed.
Two more to go Hannah voiced in her head, before her right forefinger switched sides and jumped to the upper right side of her D-Card where the circle representing the Alteration Ability Principle resided.
Waiting another five seconds, and another Ding sound, Hannah focused her sight on the very last unlit circle, the circle at the bottom of the screen, the circle representing the Unique Ability Principle.
The moment it lit up, the whole screen flickered once causing a new screen to layer itself over the already present sequencing screen.
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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Stage One; Sequence
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[Second Warning]
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User; Hannah Blackwood, please confirm your Sequence Pathway.
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Seeing it, Hannah gulped once more and tapped the Yes button that was not actually a button yet it functioned as one.
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With Stage One done, it was time for Stage Two.
If Stage One was about the confirmation of the pathway, then Stage Two was about the details regarding the pathway choice and the Potential it was tied to. Namely, the numbers her Ability Potential Assessment had spewed out after investigating her deeply before grading her Potential with each Ability Principle through some unknown criteria.
Thankfully, while Stage Two was significant as it defined the effective limits of her Ability, it was easily accomplished because, once again, the User Interface for Dreamers was made to be User-friendly. That being the case, all Hannah had to do was tap each of the lit-up circles once on her D-Card for a new screen to appear with a number at the top of that window and a simple slider right below it.
The slider represented a percentage slider where one could easily alter the indicated number above it.
Additionally, thanks to being User friendly, Hannah’s Ability Potential was already pre-set for each of the five Ability Principles, therefore, Hannah could have simply left it be and locked everything as it was.
Unfortunately, her father had instructed her to adjust the inputs somewhat, so that was what she did.
The already preset choice of 33% for Conjuration was adjusted to 40%.
Enchantment, which had been sitting at 53%, was lowered to 50%.
Evocation barely changed at all, with 61% becoming 60%. However, the same could not be said for Domination since Hannah adjusted the slider by a whopping 9%, thus from 69%, it went down to 60%.
The second to last change Hannah made was lowering Alteration from 71% down to 70%, but the last one, the Unique Ability Principle one, Hannah lowered to 0%.
This part had, and still did, left Hannah somewhat flabbergasted.
Still, after hearing her father say that Ability Potential could grow and decline, it was not too far-fetched for her to imagine that it is possible to shave off somebody's Potential in one category to fill it in somewhere where it was needed.
In Hannah’s case, the shaved-off Potential from the other Principles would tip her lacking Conjuration Potential right into the next grading category, namely improving her Conjuration Potential from Poor to Adequate.
As for the spillover, since Hannah had placed a maximum on her Conjuring Potential? Well. If her father’s teachings were true? Then what was left after filling Conjuration would spill over into the Unique Ability Principle, thus upping its Potential from 5% to 12%.
However, the unique thing about the Unique Ability Principle was that it was never actually used up, unless one was stupid to do so, that is. Hence the shaving and filling process would be repeated four more times until one was ready to face the very last Nightmare Tribulation after reaching Level 100.
Shaking her head, Hannah mentally tossed away the very distant musings.
Instead, she focused on the new pop-up on her screen.
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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Stage Two; Limit
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[Third Warning]
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User; Hannah Blackwood, please confirm your choice of the preferential Limits of your Ability.
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Pressing the yes button, the screen on her D-Card flickered once again, only this time, the hexagram representing her pathway vanished.
In its place, the new popped-up window presented Hannah with a choice.
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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Stage Three; Template
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User; Hannah Blackwood, please input the Template for your Ability via the following methods.
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Analog!
Virtual!
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Reading the words, Hannah took a deep breath before quickly recalling her father’s teachings.
The Analog Template Input method provided a basic input/output interface, where all Hannah had to do was type in the information for her desired Ability, namely the description of the Ability, its Core, and Utility Features.
That way, Hannah would establish the basic framework for her desired Ability.
The Virtual Template Input method, however, was the exact opposite, where one was given remarkable space to design an Ability down to the minute details, and it functioned by pulling a D-Card User’s mind inside some kind of Virtual Space.
The good thing about Analog was that it was simple, the bad thing about it was that during Ability Manifestation, there was room for extra interpretation, thus providing extra randomness, hence an Ability may not come out exactly as desired despite always being faithful to its basic framework.
The good thing about Virtual was that it was complicated, but the bad thing about it was that it required knowledge and serious Stat buffering during the designing process. Another minus for the Virtual Template Input Method lay in the fact that it was possible to overshoot one's goal while designing an Ability, thus botching up the process of Ability Manifestations, unlike the Analog method which was guaranteed to succeed, one way or the other.
“This is it.” Hannah murmured. “There is no going back after this point.”
“Ahu… Phew… Ahu… Phew…”
“I can do this…”
“No…” Hannah quickly shook her head before correcting herself. “I will do this… Yes… I will do it, no matter what.”
Perking herself up, though not entirely for herself, Hannah ignored her D-Card for a moment. Instead, her brown eyes settled on the blueprint of her Tool, her Capturing Device, her Dreamon Ball.
“Ahu…Phew… I will do it.”
With that declaration, Hannah’s right hand zipped for the blueprint, only instead of picking it up, she simply placed her right palm onto it.
The moment she did, knowledge rushed into her mind.
Knowledge that wanted to fill every nook and cranny of her mind, until such a time, where there was no more room available from sheer overexposure and inability to process and conceptualize what the blueprint held.
Having been warned and given a solution, Hannah ignored the rushing images in her head to quickly press the button representing the Virtual Template Input method.
When she did, Hannah almost instantly felt her mind being pulled somewhere.
Where her mind went, Hannah knew not, nor desired to know. Nonetheless, the moment she arrived in that place of eternal darkness where nothing existed but her thoughts, she found a lot of space. So much space, in fact, that her already struggling mind instantly flexed its newfound freedom by conceptualizing the one thing that was occupying its current attention.
By the time the flexing was done, Hannah had envisioned her Tool, her Capturing Device, her Dreamon Ball from top to bottom, from left to right, from the inside to the outside. Naturally, all of that was on top of defining the Core and Utility Features, such that when the conceptualizing process was done and the darkness receded from her awareness, a Ding sound announced Hannah’s success.
However, the same success instantly made the world a roller coaster to her awareness.
The office went round and round to her eyes since Hannah’s awareness failed to hold its grip with reality, well… a reality, since Hannah was currently within her Dream Sanctuary.
Fortunately, having been warned about it, Hannah had practiced for this moment by imagining and practicing what she should do when it occurred to her.
As such, the moment she recognized the spinning, Hannah urgently grabbed onto one side of the office desk. Then, by using it as a crutch, she locked her fingers around the desk edge so they became the anchor for her arm joints which in turn became the anchors for her spine, which then rooted her whole body.
When her body became anchored, so did her awareness, and with her awareness somewhat anchored, the world, or better said, the spinning office, began losing its steam.
Unfortunately, time was needed for the eventual cessation of this slowing down process, yet time was her current number one nemesis for Hannah since she had to complete the Dream Awakening in one go because what she had accomplished just now, she could not repeat again.
Not only because she was inexperienced with the forestalling methodology required for the sequencing process between Ability Manifestation and Awakening, but also because the blueprint for her Tool, her Capturing Device, her Dreamon Ball was, in truth, a one-time consumable item.
Meaning, that if she failed this time, there was not a chance in hell that she would succeed a second time.
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In the middle of the struggle to avoid falling unconscious as it would jeopardize everything she was trying to accomplish at this moment, Hannah noticed a strange cooling sensation ripple into her head.
Where it came from or why it even appeared, she simply ignored it. Instead, with the cooling effect as the grounding force, Hannah quickly recovered from the strain forced on her from overusing her brain without the required Stats to buffer the process.
Unfortunately, although Hannah recovered, it was not completely, and it would not be for quite some time. Luckily, it was enough for her to finally release the strain she had forced on her Dream Body. However, when she did, another kind of misery awaited Hannah, only this one was somewhat welcome as it provided a decent distraction from the still somewhat spinning office.
Either way, with the recovery partially done, Hannah took a deep breath before exhaling it.
“Ahu… Phew.”
The more she practiced the conscious breathing rhythm, the faster Hannah regained control of herself.
“That… was terrible.” Hannah voiced out, only as terrible as it was, her mind quickly realized that it was nothing compared to what she had experienced under her monster in the past.
Reminded of it, Hannah nodded and focused on the here and now, namely the slightly transparent crystal lying on the office desk before her. With somewhat slow motions, Hannah’s right hand inched for the D-Card before tapping twice on it.
Seeing and reading it, an unconscious sigh escaped Hannah’s lips because the Ability Awakening process was still in progress.
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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Stage Three; Template
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Template Input Successful
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[Fourth Warning]
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User; Hannah Blackwood, please confirm your choice of Template Input
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Pressing Yes was already assured as there was no going back after consuming the blueprint for her Dreamon Ball, but that still did not stop Hannah from hesitating moving forward. Though, this time it was not from not feeling ready to move on to the next steps, but from her actual lack of proper proprioception because her right hand felt entirely too unstable thereby presenting a chance of Hannah missing the needed Yes for its unneeded brother No.
“Hnng…”
After noticing the problem, Hannah leveraged her weight by pressing her entire right forearm on the table before slowly inching the right forefinger at the needed button that was not an actual button.
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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[Fifth and Last Warning]
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User; Hannah Blackwood, please confirm your choice of action one last time.
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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Framework Prototype Synthesis in progress!
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System Alert!!!
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Ability Awakening is in progress!
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User; Hannah Blackwood, prepare for Framework Prototype Insertion!
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Almost instantly, after seeing and reading the message, Hannah recognized a foreign something wiggling its way inside her.
It was not truly uncomfortable, but neither was it pleasant as it passed through her mind and body or what constituted a mind and body within her Dream Sanctuary, before settling into what was known as the First Ability Slot. Once in there, it unfolded itself and when it did, Hannah was instantly privy to what had manifested within her, namely her Ability, her Tool, her Capturing Device, her Dreamon Ball with its pinkish design, decorated with black and white clouds and a thick silver line separating the upper and lower sides of her Dreamon Ball.
Nevertheless, despite being there inside her, it was not an Ability yet.
No, it was closer to an illusory three-dimensional picture of what her Ability would be, but since it was not yet there, it meant it was a temporary thing. However, since it was not an Ability and since there was no Dream to sustain its presence, it placed an enormous burden upon its holder. As a consequence of the Framework Prototype’s presence, a rebound force gets generated with the holder as the anchor since the holder unconsciously desires the burden to be gone.
All this meant that a Framework Prototype was not temporary just because it needed to be filled with stuff to become real, but also because the constant rebound force due to its presence actively damages the Framework Prototype.
As a result, Hannah had no choice but to hurry to the next step of the Awakening process. Fortunately, the problem had been long, long known about and therefore had a simple solution to the indicated problem and it was known as a Dream Stabilization Frame.
It was named as such because it was accomplished through the infusion of Lesser Dreams, Non-Sentient Dreams into the Ability Framework Prototype.
Non-Sentient Dreams were also called Ingredients, or Material Components.
An unavoidable side effect of implementing a Dream Stabilization Frame was that it required the active participation of a Dreamwalker. This meant that, from this point on, Hannah had no more use for her D-Card, at least during the Awakening process. Instead, her brown eyes dismissed the D-Card in favor of focusing on the floating multi-colored Dream Gem beside her.
Still being somewhat woozy from her previous experience, Hannah remembered what she would be doing right in this moment.
“First… Take a deep breath.”
Following her own instructions, Hannah took a deep breath before exhaling it.
Just in case, Hannah executed a few more breaths in and breaths out because her father had indicated, multiple times, at that, that her following step would be very uncomfortable. However, unlike during the Template Input, here Hannah knew not what awaited her since the same father who had warned her about it, refused to elaborate about it.
No, all her father’s ghost mentioned was that the following step would become very draining. As such, Hannah had to resist and slow down the draining process at just the right moment to infuse her Ingredients, and in the right order. Otherwise, if she failed, Hannah would miss the best opportunity there was for her A-Ranked Dream Gem to transform into an S-Ranked Dream.
“Ahu… Phew… Ahu…. Phew…”
“I will do this.”
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Grabbing the floating multi-colored adult-hand-sized Dream Gem was the easy part.
Initiating its functions was only marginally harder since it required a bit of mental flexing. However, the moment it began what it was meant to do, Hannah instantly understood what her father had meant by draining.
This mainly stemmed from the fact that Hannah was inherently privy to what the Dream Gem did since the Dream Gem came from her and she was its target, so there was feedback in regards to its functions.
Only, it was there where things ceased to be easy.
A Dream Gem was Hope in crystalline form.
As such, if the A-Ranked Dream Gem in her hand, represented the end product of the positive side inherent to Hannah’s existence, then there had to be a negative one as well, and that negative side was what had at first bottled up the positive side, thus allowing the stockpiling of Hope within Hannah in the first place.
That negative side was Despair, but unlike the crystalline form of Hope, Despair took on a different form of existence, a more fluid type of existence, and that existence was known by the term Trauma.
Since it was more fluid, it meant the ultimate form of Despair needed a constant anchor on which to affix itself, otherwise, it would simply dislodge itself from the one generating it, like a snake shedding its scales.
Typically speaking, a Dream Body took the place of that anchor because a Dream Body was solid enough to hold and contain Despair while being fluid enough to generate Trauma just by existing.
Of course, this process of Trauma generation could further be elevated with either external or internal influences upon the Dream Body.
On top of that, different locations on a Dream Body needed different stimulative actions to generate Trauma. As a result, different flavors of Trauma exist, with their own properties and effects. It was these properties and effects, in the form of Trauma, that were drained from Hannah by the Dream Gem the moment she initiated its main function.
The way the draining effect occurred had to do with the interactions of positive and negative energies.
In this case, when the ultimate form of positive energy, meaning Hope in crystalline form, came in contact with the ultimate form of negative energy within Hannah’s Dream Body, meaning Despair in fluid form, the positive became a natural vacuum that drew out the negative from Hannah’s Dream Body.
Regardless of how, it was the why that mattered.
The reason in this case had to do with the fact that during the drawing process, Hope and Despair collided with each other, and when they did, they annihilated each other. Of course, it was not true annihilation since that was not possible. Instead, during the blending process of Hope and Despair, both Emotions, both energies canceled each other's prime characteristics.
Either way, it was what was left behind that mattered, and what was left behind was Pure Potential.
Pure Potential that could be used in anything and everything, only today, in this Dream Sanctum, it would be used up for Hannah’s Awakening.
It was during the initial draining process, which felt both relieving and agonizing, that Hannah innately understood the basic underlying principle behind Ability Potential and Ability Principle.
Ability Principles were tied to a specific kind of Trauma existing within Hannah, while Ability Potential represented the actual current capacity of a specific Trauma within Hannah. Therefore, what was being drained from Hannah was the Trauma related to the Conjuration Principle since that was the starting point of her Awakening.
Moreover, since her very first Ability Slot contained a Framework Prototype, the Pure Potential within Hannah shifted toward the Framework Prototype, instantly transforming its temporary existence into… well, still a temporary existence, if a somewhat longer one.
As the relieving and agonizing draining process went on, Hannah quickly got accustomed to the agony and relieving effects of the drain thanks to her experience under her monster in the last seven years.
Thankfully it was so because she was running out of time, or better said out of Potential because the very first Trauma sucked out of her was related to the Conjuring Ability Principle, and that one had the lowest capacity out of the five important Principles. Therefore, Hannah urgently remembered her father’s advice and focused on the Dream Gem and its draining effect. With that as the goal and the mechanism, Hannah managed to stifle the outflow of the drained resource. Although, by the time she had accomplished the stifling effect on the Dream Gem’s drain effect, about 20% of the actual 33% of her Conjuring Ability Principle Potential was converted into Pure Potential and infused within her Framework Prototype.
A side effect of the stifling process, however, was that the relieving and agonizing sensations, accompanying the draining effect of a Dream Gem, somehow elongated the agony part all while throttling the relieving sensation.
Still, it was nothing compared to the pain she had been under in the last seven years.
“Hnnngggg… Yes… This is nothing compared to that.” Hannah declared with resolve before setting aside the agony altogether to focus on what she needed to do right this moment. And what Hannah needed to do right now, was focus on that newly discovered Ability Slot within her awareness.
The moment Hannah's awareness settled on that place, she became aware of her Framework Prototype.
“It… looks just like it did in the blueprint father made.” Hannah murmured, completely ignoring how she was seeing it. “Hnng… I… am getting ahead of myself. It's not even a shell yet of what I need it to be. Yes… I should hurry it up.”
With that voiced out, Hannah focused on the Dream Gems draining effect, only this time she was not looking to disrupt it, but on what it produced. Yet, the moment she was looking for it, was also the moment she found it because it was not something that could be missed if one knew it was there, to begin with.
With that being the case, Hannah settled her awareness on the Pure Potential and called for it, and like a lost puppy it eagerly responded to her call since it actually preferred being actively used instead of just filling something.
As such, Hannah had no trouble, at all, calling the Pure Potential to her arm, specifically to her right palm since her left one still held onto the adult-hand-sized Dream Gem.
With the Dream Gem in one hand and Pure Potential in the other, Hannah shifted her attention to the five bubbles present on her father’s office desk. Particularly, her attention settled on the first bubble she had pulled out of said office desk, the bubble containing the somewhat pink and white fruit called Peach of Time.
Grabbing the bubble holding the peach fruit with her right hand, Hannah used the energy inside her right hand to burst the present bubble thereby, sort of, opening the package containing her father’s gift, though now she no longer thought of it as a gift but a curse.
Either way, the moment the bubble burst and released the fruit, Hannah instantly and innately knew just how special the Lesser Dream, a Non-Sentient Dream, was.
It was as if just holding it would allow her the ability to manipulate Time. Yet, as strong as that sensation was, today it was but an ingredient, a component for Hannah’s first Ability, her Tool, her Capturing Device, her Dreamon Ball.
That being the case, and with Pure Potential paving the way, Hannah simply willed the Pure Potential to grab onto the Time Aspect contained within the Peach and transfer it to her Framework Prototype.
The process was remarkably easy and fast.
Almost instant, in fact, but as instant as it was, Hannah still noted two different effects occurring almost at the same time.
The first effect came from the fruit in her right hand turning into dust before flaking away to nothingness a few seconds later.
The second effect had to do with the transferred Time Aspect as it easily found its corresponding anchor, its Enchantment Engram conceived during the Virtual Template Input of the synthesized Framework Prototype for her future Ability.
It was also in that same instance that Hannah recognized her Framework Prototype becoming more than a simple illusionary existence because a certain transient quality had been introduced within its existence. Moreover, the extra energy which had kept the Time Aspect in fruit form provided additional support to the Framework Prototype as that extra energy was also a feature to be calculated for one's Dream Awakening since Non-Sentient Dreams could be graded as well, and all the gifts/curses her father gave her were A-Ranked, just like her Dream Gem.
Moments later, Hannah repeated the process with the second bubble containing a Seed of Space. The seed itself appeared very simple, with black and brown colors defining its exterior. Just like the first Ingredient, it turned into dust right as its Space Aspect infused itself into the second Enchantment Engram.
Then as if it was meant to be, despite being warned about it, the moment the third bubble presented its insides, a red spark exploded from within, striking Hannah instantly and electrocuting her, literally.
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