Clink!

As she filled a cup with still-smoking tea, a well-dressed maiden pushed it across the desk toward the two individuals.

Among the two, one was worm-like, with rough skin resembling the surface of a rock. Sweat dripped constantly from his body.

Taking the cup of tea, the worm-like figure took a sip.

Slurp!

"Delicious," he muttered.

The other man at the table, thin but quite handsome, was obsessed with reading a book titled "How to Escape from Dream Beasts."

"Aren't you going to drink your tea, Malkoth?" asked the worm-like man.

Hearing him, Malkoth lowered his book and glanced at him. Then he looked toward the steaming cup of tea.

"I don't enjoy morning tea without a side of pertize cake."

"A pertize cake? Ah, a decent choice for the morning. I have to admire, Malkoth, your taste in food is quite delightful."

"Meliana, you heard him. Bring us a slice of pertize cake," the worm-like man said to the maiden standing near their table.

"As you wish, sir Daniel," Meliana bowed toward the two of them and left.

"don't forget to add some salt on it," Malkoth said to the leaving Meliana.

Malkoth gazed toward Meliana as she was leaving, his eyes landing on her plump backside, which jiggled with every step she took like soft rubber.

"Man, look at that thing," he muttered.

"Huh, look at what?" Daniel asked, confused.

"At that," said Malkoth, pointing with his face. Following his eyes, Daniel also gazed toward Meliana and her body.

"Why, what's wrong with her?" Daniel asked.

Malkoth glanced back toward Daniel.

"You're telling me you don't get any arousel from seeing that great body of hers?" he asked.

"Actually, no. Why, am I supposed to get something like that?" Daniel replied.

"Hmm," Malkoth cast a keen and observant glance toward Daniel.

"No, not at all," Malkoth said, lifting his book back up and beginning to read again.

Daniel slightly turned and glanced at the cover of the book Malkoth was reading.

Within a few minutes, Meliana returned with a tray of delightful-looking cakes. She placed the cakes on the table along with a few plates.

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"Here, you should enjoy it first."

Putting his book down, Malkoth sliced a piece of cake and offered it to Daniel.

"So, how does it taste?" Malkoth asked after Daniel ate a piece of cake. Daniel stayed silent for a few seconds before answering him.

"Does it taste like milk and salt mixed together?" Malkoth asked.

"Ah, indeed. I couldn't come up with the precise words, but you already did. This is really tasty. Do you enjoy tastes like this every morning, Malkoth?"

"Haha, actually I'm not. In fact, this is the first time I thought about a thing like this, and to think this thing tastes like milk and salt—eww, how awful," Malkoth said in disgust.

"Wh... What are you talking about? You said this is your favorite dish," Daniel asked.

"Yes, I did, but I only said it to figure out whether I'm still living in reality or inside a dream created by a dream beast. And it's not the only thing I did to confirm this."

Thud!

"What kind of tasteless bastard would think that plump butt of Meliana is not appealing to anyone," Malkoth said, hitting his fist on the table.

"Calm down, Malkoth. If you're really in a dream realm like that, how did I end up with you, aren't you and I best friend?" Daniel said.

"Oh, are you Daniel, or are you a part of the consciousness of the dream beast, faking you're self as my friend with memory, waiting until I run out of vitality and mantel power to take over my whole body, potentially devouring me?" Malkoth exclaimed.

"Malkoth, calm down. You're overreacting. Look Isn't that your other friends? Do you think they're fake too?"

Hearing the denial, Malkoth turned back and gazed at the entrance area of their little tea pot and saw a group of people arriving.

"Ugh, just great, just what I was missing," he muttered in annoyance.

"Oh, did you see what he did the other day? That was so cool."

"And then I said no, not yours. I'm still processing this."

"But why won't she listen to me? I did everything I had to do."

Talking with each other, the group arrived toward the table where Malkoth and Daniel were seated.

"Look, there's that warrior guy, and also that guy with a talent to build things, and also that guy who always has tons of weapons with him."

"And don't forget the females, too. There's the extremely beautiful one, and that wild one, and they're the one that quite a bit more captivating than the others," Daniel muttered while gazing at the group of people arriving.

"Hey, Malkoth, why are you drinking tea in a time like this, and who's this guy? Is he your friend?" Among the group of people, a muscular man asked Malkoth.

"It's none of your business Cassien. Go mind your own business," Malkoth said.

"Hey, what's the deal? We agreed that we'd never talk like that to each other," hearing Malkoth, Cassien became irritated and moved closer to Malkoth's body.

"Stay back, Cassien," Malkith said, and Cassien suddenly moved back. Seeing this, Malkoth became a bit confused.

"Oh, that's right. I'm in a dream," Malkith said, his gaze turning toward Meliana.

"Meliana, bend down," said him, and Meliana bent down to her knees.

Daniel closed his eyes, feeling what gonna happen next.

"you know what Dream Beast, suddenly it's not too bad being in this dream realm," Malkoth said as his gaze turned toward the females in the group.

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"Raaagh!"

A giant worm-like beast is battling against the group of well-equipped humans. The humans launch a gun with giant rods right at it, circling the beast and using machinery to pull it right to the ground, restraining the movement of the beast for a few minutes.

"So, why aren't we killing that dream beast?" Cassien, the man with a well-gilded muscular body, asked from his nearby friend as he gazed toward the group of men trying to subdue the dream beast.

"Because, without telling any of us, Malkoth has gone and done it again. So, we have to save him before defeating that thing," Selene, the one with the most exceptional beauty and also the leading figure in the group, replied as she gestured while they were moving toward a giant tent placed a bit far away from the dream beast by there tron.

"So, you're telling me that Malkoth is inside that beast?" Cassien asked again, to which he received a nod in response from Lyra, the quiet and aloof but pretty girl.

"Cool, can I get a shot in the head then?" Cassien said, lifting his plasma gun.

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*Tron - a machinery vehicle built by advanced magicians for better and faster transportation. It uses gravity magic to levitate above the ground.