Three days passed tediously, and Dream was now in the factory.As he stood inside the container for his armor, he stared at the cloud of silver cells in front of him. Although he knew that these cells weren't fragile in any way, he didn't dare touch the cloud for fear of affecting this 'delicate' project.[You can touch it.]"You sure?"[Yes.]Sensing his desire to touch the metal cloud, Sophia stepped in. Hearing this, he threw away all reservations and slowly stuck his hand into the dense silver fog.His hand was enveloped by a metallic and dry feeling. It was like he stuck his hand into a liquid metal glove, not that he really knew what that felt like. The fog was dense and viscous, not easily allowing his hand to pass through. Though with his strength, it was no issue."It's...Interesting. So now's time for the enchantment?"[It is. Three days. Though with how intricate this piece is, things may happen and it could take longer. But no more than 5 days.]"Oh well. I gave myself 4.
After about a day, Dream and Sophia had finally finished establishing the first few million cells in the suit."*sigh* That was difficult."Dream couldn't help but pull up a chair and slouch. In front of him was that same view of the constellation, and it had expanded greatly. He had been active for all 20 hours of this process, and the fatigue had built up. He was tired.[We aren't done yet. We still gotta drive this virus. I'll be booting the infection soon.]"Alright."Moments after, Dream could see all the connections turn golden. Sophia began to activate her programs and build the infection. And about 20 minutes later, the first infected cell was connected to the cluster.[Success! Launching infection...]Soon after, the cluster began to expand rapidly. The edges of the constellation began to reach out, bringing in the cells next to them. Not only that, but patches of cells were sent out over to different areas of the cloud to begin an infection elsewhere. Their efficiency was un
"There you are."As Dream looked down on the city, he could see where Luna and Iris were. And when he traced the mana connection and strengthened it, Luna was alerted to his presence as well.'Dream?! Is that you?!'He smiled when he heard that beautiful voice come over the connection.'Yes, it's me. How are you two?''It's really you! Dream we're...actually not doing that bad. We got here not long ago. Hey! We met our mother! She's real!''Of course she's real. It takes two to tango after all.''R-right. Speaking of, how's...''Your dad is alive. He recovered fully after I saved his ass.''...Thank you.''Don't mention it. My only regret is not getting there in time to get you two back as well.'Dream could feel a wave of emotion from Luna. Their dad's status has probably been the biggest thing on their minds this whole time. To be kept in the dark about something like that must've been soul-tearing.'Anyway, I haven't been able to get in contact with Iris. Something happen?''Yes. T
The next day, Mara and Arrina went on with their schedule.Dream on the other hand was focusing on his next project. Or, projects.[Other than getting a pet, we'll do some tests with flux and see if we can build new weapons. We should also build some combat robots and see if we can use those.]"Alright. Let's test this flux bullet concept first."Dream brought over some mithril and steel and put them on the table in front of him. He was currently in the storage area of the factory. Bots were constantly flying around enhancing the stacks of materials and explosions could be constantly heard.Sophia's design for the gun wasn't actually a gun. She planned for this weapon to be integrated with Aegis. Though they first needed to test whether this would work.Sophia had run several simulations in the past so she already knew how she would design this weapon. She took clumps of silver and encased them in steel like a cartridge. She then took this cartridge and put a steel bullet in it.[Alri
Dream led Riddick over to the other extension of the storage.It took him a while to tear his eyes away from the resources, but when he finally looked over, Riddick was rendered speechless once more.In front of him were rows upon rows of robots. There were also large aircraft around them with their hatches open like they were going to swallow up the robots."This is my army. 5,000 combat robots with C stats. They're capable of various magics similar to mine and they're equipped with my weapons. Some are more specialized for different purposes like defense or assassination, but that's only about 2,000. The rest are just the default soldier. This is what I was planning on sending to the third continent.""...It really is an army. How have you made all these?""Like you normally would. Forging metal and enchanting. It took two weeks, but I've done it. Honestly the only thing limiting me was materials. I don't have an infinite amount. Otherwise I would've built several times this.""...I
As Dream heard her talking about this new knowledge, he honestly felt a bit stupid."...Why didn't I let you look at this earlier..."[Because you wanted to take things slow. It wasn't the best decision, but at least you know now not to do things like that again. Hehe.]Sophia chuckled a bit at his regretful face. He just sighed."I did indeed learn my lesson. Not that I can do anything about it now."He shrugged it off and told himself not to do that again.Since he had two more days, Dream went back to the Spire. When he was on his way back though, he got a call from Riddick."Hello.""Boy. I have two things.""Shoot.""One, I could use your help moving my things.""Alright. I can build you a portable workshop or something.""Thanks. Two. They want to meet you.""Who?""The higher-ups. We have a meeting today about the expedition. I've told them about you and there are several people who are interested.""Wait, why did you tell them about me?""Because you not only gave the intel bu
Two days later, 20 class 3's, 1 class 4, and a dozen other people were in the same meeting room."Is everyone prepared?"Magus Idona walked into the room and spoke to everyone. They all nodded."Good. Now for the moment of truth. Dream?""My ship is currently in the sky, so wherever you wish to exit the city is where I will send it.""I can open the dome for it. Everyone come out here."Idona went over to a set of doors that led outside. After walking onto a platform that hung off the side of the Spire, Idona brought out a device and activated it.Everyone else followed and watched as the protective dome covering the city opened up a large hole. Dream nodded."So where is it?"Everyone looked around, not seeing anything in the sky. They then looked to Dream."It's right there."He pointed up to a streak of light in the sky. Everyone looked at it with questioning gazes.The streak of light got brighter and then dimmer. Not long after, a black object could be seen in the sky coming towa
Two days after they arrived, the operation was officially started.The plan that they were given was to make their way from the kingdom through the frontlines and ultimately cut their way through to the third continent. They were obviously going to meet resistance along the way and it wouldn't be a fast process.Dream had actually asked why they wouldn't just drop in by flying, and what they told him was that they wanted to use this spearhead as a way to lessen the pressure on the frontlines. Basically, since they had the combat power they were going to make full use of it. He didn't have any objections, not that they would matter much.Currently, Dream, Riddick, Idona, Ciroc, and a few dozen other mage and fighters were at the front gates to the city."We'll use these carriages to take us to the target outposts. They're mana driven and although they aren't fast, they can carry all of us."Dream looked around at the 8 carriages lined up. They were made of wood and metal and they were