"Dream... We stand with you.""Oh?"Patriarch Star gave his answer. It wasn't an easy decision, but a shallow judgment on his part could force things down a very bad path. For now at least, he didn't wish to walk a path of no return. Plus, he could tell that there was more to Dream's situation than he knew.Dream smiled at this."That's good.""No! Patriarch of the Red Eye clan, you are siding with an evil being!""Hey old bag, shut your hole."Suddenly, Dream snapped to the old man. Reaching for his holster, he rapidly equipped his 1911 pistol, pointing it at him. Seeing this, the old man's pupils contracted as he instantly raised a barrier of mana.*BOOM*Dream fired, shooting a white beam of light. When this beam of light exited the barrel, the power of space it was enchanted with made it zip around in unpredictable directions. Then, the old man was horrified to see it come from the side. The beam hit his body."Ahh!"He yelled, mustering up any power he could to dodge. But the bea
When Dream fired into the sky, the barbarian was shocked. His spatial blade was going to sever Dream in two, so what was he doing, not even defending?However, that random bullet Dream fired carried with it a strong spatial power of its own. Suddenly, after reaching a certain point in space, that bullet hit something and exploded into a messy ball of chaotic void.*Crack!*Suddenly, the barbarian saw spatial fissures erupt all around him. Then, these spatial cracks shattered apart. He suddenly felt the space in the area lighten up. And when Dream teleported out from under his nose, he felt his heart drop."NO!!"*Woosh!*The spatial sword hit nothing but air. The two swordsmen felt their eyes widen in shock."How?! How did you break the Spatial Cage?!"One of them shouted in unfair disbelief. That Spatial Cage was actually able to lock Dream down, and the sword the barbarian pulled out should've been enough to at least wound him. But with a random bullet, Dream was able to shatter the
After Dream left the battlefield, he shuttled all the way back to Tersa's planet with Melody.He hadn't sustained much in the way of wounds, but he had actually expended most of his energy. Pulling out class 6 souls wasn't easy even when the enemy was near dead. So while the attacks didn't consume his energy, everything else did.Dream was more than okay with this though. He had taken a single sword to the chest and was able to keep his soul from being injured too much. In the end, he came out with 11 class 6 souls. This was more than he could've imagined."I think I'm actually glad that barbarian called for some reinforcements. He's quite the con artist, isn't he? Tricking people into walking toward their doom."Dream mumbled as he appeared next to his workbench at the top of a mountain. Letting out a long breath, Melody took a seat nearby. A few moments after, Tersa appeared."Master! How was your battle?""It went very well. Nothing too unexpected occurred, and I think I prepared j
Dream entered another round of isolated research. As far as he was concerned, nothing at this point was more important than his own advancement, so he wouldn't emerge until it was finished.The first thing he did was study a soul. He wanted to try and understand how a class 6 soul worked. According to the things he's read, only a class 6 soul could make contact with and draw power from concepts. Thus, becoming a class 6 was like having the gates of the universe open to you. Nobody with any lesser a soul was capable of making contact with concepts, and they certainly weren't aware of their existence.However, many months ago, Dream had disproven this fact. A little, at least. He had successfully made contact with a concept after earning its acknowledgment, but he couldn't do much with it. He couldn't draw power from it and he wasn't able to comprehend any more of it. All he had were those two marks he left on them, like little trophies that were good for nothing more than being eye can
*Crack!*As Dream read one of the monoliths, his mind space suddenly cracked again. He was still on a clock, and if he took too long, his mind space would shatter.Yet, the Keeper was baffled as he saw Dream casually read the monoliths, completely disregarding his very psyche that was breaking down every moment. It was like it had nothing to do with him.Across the span of a few minutes, Dream bounced between each of the 14 monoliths, merely reading their introductions. When he was done, he took a step back."So, correct me if I'm wrong because my mental faculties are not at their peak. Or maybe too far beyond their peak?"Dream turned to the Keeper."From each of these 14 monoliths come the greatest formations for Divine Seas, and each of these Seas have a certain domain."{Correct.}The Keeper nodded.{Like the prophets whose monoliths you comprehended prior, these 14 silver monoliths carry the inheritances of the greatest 14 Emperors under the Archons. Each monolith details the for
2 and a half years.Dream was surprised at how long he had spent in the legacy space. He had thought that he had a pretty good grasp on everything he was faced with. Sure he took a while studying the script behind Dust, Ash, skills, and Gray Mist, but he didn't think it was that long. Time really flew by.The Keeper smirked at Dream's surprise.{The knowledge and inheritances of the Emperors are not so simple as to be completely grasped in a short amount of time. What do you take their knowledge for? They were forces far beyond your understanding!}"I'm sure they were. Then again, they were obviously told to dial themselves down when writing this script, otherwise I doubt I would be able to understand any of it."Dream sighed as he looked at the faded silver script of the 14 monoliths. If the Emperors were placed in today's universe, they would be demigods at the minimum, likely far above that. Plus, these were the greatest 14 Emperors under the Archons, so they could very well be god
2 and a half years.Dream was surprised at how long he had spent in the legacy space. He had thought that he had a pretty good grasp on everything he was faced with. Sure he took a while studying the script behind Dust, Ash, skills, and Gray Mist, but he didn't think it was that long. Time really flew by.The Keeper smirked at Dream's surprise.{The knowledge and inheritances of the Emperors are not so simple as to be completely grasped in a short amount of time. What do you take their knowledge for? They were forces far beyond your understanding!}"I'm sure they were. Then again, they were obviously told to dial themselves down when writing this script, otherwise I doubt I would be able to understand any of it."Dream sighed as he looked at the faded silver script of the 14 monoliths. If the Emperors were placed in today's universe, they would be demigods at the minimum, likely far above that. Plus, these were the greatest 14 Emperors under the Archons, so they could very well be god
Dream pondered the issue that plagued Luna and Iris, their conflict of opposite energies.There was only one possibility, and that was that the two girls occupied a single soul while maintaining two independent egos. Only, Dream was curious about how they could also attain two different sets of skills. They also had their own profiles. Everything pointed to them having two separate souls, but their collision of Dust and Ash refuted this theory.So what was their deal? Eventually, Dream came to the conclusion that it wasn't their soul that was singular, but their higher being even beyond the soul. There was something on the level of Dust and Ash that bound them together while also allowing them to form two different souls. This was the only thing Dream could think of, because if they truly did only have one soul, then they couldn't have two different skill sets and profiles. Dream had even observed their souls, so he knew there were two of them.Yet, this conclusion wasn't most comfort