Dream and Idona didn't need to walk through the forest for long before they began encountering life.In fact, it was only a couple of minutes before they had walked up to the 'gates' of their city."Halt!"Dream and Idona were yelled at as they walked up to a huge natural barrier. This barrier was a 50 meter high wall, and it was made entirely from living wood. The trees seemed to reach out between each other and connect, forming this wall of wood."This cannot possibly be natural."Dream came to this conclusion as he scanned the wall. It spanned for miles into the forest, and he was pretty sure it surrounded the city around the Tree. There was no way he would believe that this just happened to grow like it did."Elves have some powers that can control nature, almost manipulating it. These walls were built after the elves came and modified the trees for this very purpose. You will see lots of these kinds of constructions instead of the normal dead wood housing as in the human Empires.
After following Idona up the Tree for nearly 1000 meters, they finally came to a massive branch extending off the side.This branch was partially modified so as to accommodate many buildings, and inside these buildings, Dream could sense many people with class 3 auras."So this is where all the powerful people live. I was wondering where they were.""The majority of the elven elites live in the Tree. There are countless branches, many of which are simply massive. They can allow for entire communities to be built on top of them. But of course, they still need the resources of below to operate. Food and materials can't be harvested on a wood branch." (Idona)"Sure.""Though there are many class 3's who live on the ground too. They're the ones who take the taller trees near the home Tree. Sometimes flying up and down the tree can be time consuming, so they stay down there. Or they have families that can't fly up the tree.""Right. So these Ljosfar. They're meeting us? How many are there?
Dream and the elf stood across the table from each other.Having come to this point, none of the other elves chose to stop the conflict. The male and two female elves didn't believe Dream could put up a fight. And they didn't know why, but Idona didn't stop Dream either. Either way, none of them had any thoughts of interfering.With nobody getting in their way, the two quickly floated in the air over the table.Dream had a smile that irked the already angry elf even more. Despite his confidence though, he understood that he would need to put in some effort.'Aegis.''Understood.'Aegis responded to Dream's mental command and quickly formed into a 'solid' liquid over his skin. His body soon had an opaque gray color drape over it like a fog. He looked like a ghost."So, elf, how strong are those skinny muscles of yours?"Dream spoke derisively at the elf, who snorted."Stronger than yours. And faster."When he said that, the elf suddenly zipped over to Dream's side, throwing a fist towa
"Your parents live in a castle?"Dream was surprised as they walked up to a huge wooden structure. Idona smiled and responded."My dad is a class 3, and a rather powerful one at that. Plus he's an important military advisor, earning him a high position.""If he has such a high status, why doesn't he live up in the Tree?""Because the rest of his family is down here. He settled for this place instead.""Cause this is 'settling'.""Come on, they should be inside."Smiling and pushing open the gates, Idona happily walked into the property. Dream just followed behind while observing the place.[Well wouldn't you know. She's taking you to meet her parents.]'Hmm, maybe I should head to the factory...'[No! Escort her, you fool! Time to snare yourself another woman!]'You and the two girls are enough for me, thank you very much. Besides, Iris would probably kill us both if I brought Idona back home.'[Hm, yea, she probably would.]'Let's just find a time to head out. I really do want to res
Barely half an hour after Dream called, the girls were boarding the factory."I still can't believe how huge this place is."Iris spoke as they walked past the massive processing machines and cauldrons of molten metal. The amount of energy flowing through the place was far higher than they could imagine, and if it weren't for the reactor technology Dream recently developed, he wouldn't be able to expand his processing facilities so much.After admiring the sight of huge machines and metal processing, they arrived at the storage room. Both of them sighed as they saw the heaping piles of ingots that were being constantly stacked and taken from.And off to the side of these piles, Dream was sitting in a chair, fiddling with some crystals in his hand."So Dream, done with your negotiations yet?"Luna smiled as they walked over to him. Hearing her, Dream sighed."I wish. I just happened to have some free time.""So you decided to play with some crystals?""These crystals are very special."
[I've got an update from Earth.]Sophia spoke as Dream, Luna, and Iris relaxed in the ship in the middle of the forest.'Oh. How's it going over there?'[If you disregard the downfall of a few dozen governments and the death count that's surpassed 4.1 billion leaving only around 11 billion people left, I would say pretty good. It could definitely be much worse.]'...Please tell me this update is good news.'[It is. First off, there are 7 people who have advanced to class 3, and many more are on the cusp. One of these 7 people is actually your sister.]'Melody advanced? Impressive'[Yup. Turns out she's a combat genius. Combine that with the fact that she's been traveling the world hunting monsters and you've got a recipe for success.]'Hmm, didn't you say something about her joining a guild?'[I did. I had them do it so they would have access to more resources. The one they joined is the strongest one in America that has the greatest infrastructure, capital, and foundation. Plus, your
After Dream few into the air, he made his way out of the forest and into orbit, going straight for his space factory."Okay. Let's properly figure this out."He spoke as he sat down on a couch, getting comfortable. At the same time, Sophia began giving him schematics.[Previously your muscles were a grouping of thermally activated, twisting carbon nanotubes. These muscles had already been artificially made on Earth when we summoned them. And they weren't bad. On average, it would provide a base increase in strength per gram of muscle by a couple hundred times. However, I've devised an even better setup for them.]"Buckyballs."[Yes. We can spiral buckyballs of carbon around each nanotube, giving them a kind of stub. And when these stubs hit each other from movement, they'll obviously provide deformation resistance. This setup will increase the mechanical strength of your muscles by several fold.]"I get the toughness aspect, but what I don't get is the muscular strength aspect. These
At the time that Dream, Luna, and Iris were discussing the avatar, he was actually nearly done with his upgrade. And because of this, the girls decided to stay there and wait for him to finish.And so, for the next 6 hours, the three watched some movies as Dream's calves, feet, neck, and face muscles were upgraded.When he was about to start restructuring his neck and face muscles, he had actually warned the girls about it. During that period, he wouldn't be able to talk or do anything as if he were paralyzed. Unfortunately, the girls saw this as an opportunity to play around.As he started they didn't do anything, but midway through, Iris began playing around with his cheeks. Since his muscles were basically mush, she could pull and squish all she wanted, and she started forming his face into weird shapes.Although he thought they would be cautious about it, they totally disregarded the notion of his upgrade being messed up. This confused him until he realized that Sophia had told th