"...."After an unknown amount of time, Dream opened his eyes.The first thing he saw was the wooden roof of the cabin. The second, was Sophia.[Good morning.]"..."Dream saw her face next to his. They were in a bed, and she was laying next to him.[How are you feeling?]"...I don't like being torn apart."Dream spoke as he regained feeling to his limbs. He twitched his fingers, toes, and felt the muscles throughout his body. Looks like he was in one piece.[Through gaining power, increasing the strength of your soul, and having your new body, your mind has become much stronger. For a normal person, disregarding the fact that they would never survive half of what happened to you, the trauma would likely destroy them. But it's an interesting thing, what happens to you mentally as you rise in power.]"I guess."Sophia traced her finger along his chest as she spoke. Dream listened to his slow heartbeat. With each beat, he remembered the shocking power of the copy's punches pounding on h
As Riddick was beginning the fight for his life, Dream was ending his.*Thud*"Oof..."*Click*[I win.]Dream laid on the floor, looking up at Sophia who was pointing a gun to his face."...No fair."[All is fair in love and war.]"This isn't war."[You're right, its love.]Sophia put out a hand. Dream grabbed it and was pulled up.The training he had been doing was all with Sophia. And they had done a variety of things over the last dozen hours. Mainly combat.Sophia trained him in some martial arts combined with the use of his weapons. There was no particular goal other than to beat her. But in the last 12 hours, that never happened.This was the reason Dream said that it wasn't fair. It was the hundredth time that he was thrown to the floor and the thousandth time he was beaten. And the reason was that Sophia knew every damn martial art there was. He was never able to beat her in anything.[You've been getting better though. Definitely better than you were 12 hours ago.]"Thanks."
*A few minutes earlier...*"I was right. Damn..."Dream was still flying towards the battle, but he still had some ways to go. At this point though, the connection between him and Luna was cut off. He couldn't feel her, and the tugging he had felt was gone.[We're almost there. Another minute or so before they come into view.]Dream narrowed his eyes and buckled down, putting a bit more mana into his flight.Eventually, he got within a couple miles of the battlefield. He stopped his flight and hovered in the sky.[There!]Sophia blipped his vision and Dream turned. He saw two men. One on the floor, and one standing above the other.[The one on the floor is Riddick. No sign of anyone else. Including the girls.]'...So they were beat. What's the Old Man's status?'[On the verge of death. The one above him is also very weak, but compared to Riddick, is in much better shape.]Dream nodded. As he was about to prepare a plan to head down there though, he saw the unknown man pick up Riddick
As Dream had guessed, Riddick did indeed get scared.As soon as the mana wave hit, he popped out of bed."...A class 3?"Riddick was put on full alert, though when he remembered where he was, he calmed down a bit. There was no way those foxes could've tracked him here."Where's the boy?"Riddick walked outside the house and could sense a huge source of mana a little ways away. He hadn't really noticed it before since his mind was on other things.He walked around the workshop and saw a big capsule made of intertwined roots. The mana fluctuations came from inside.He walked up to it and pressed his hand against the roots. This was when he felt the true extent of the mana being moved."...Good god. What are these roots? Are these for the trees? Why is there so much mana moving through them? And...Boy? You're in there?""Old Man! Don't come in here!""You are in there!"Riddick exclaimed as Dream's voice came from inside the capsule. He was in the center of those mana fluctuations!"I'm
*1 week later*"...I have risen."Dream opened his eyes with an announcement. When he did, he began adjusting to his senses."...This isn't too different."As he sat up, he noticed that other than feeling a bit quicker to process his surroundings, it didn't feel like that big of a change.[It won't feel different, but I can assure you that your processing speed has drastically improved. You're processing your senses in real-time without delay, and you can control your motor functions instantaneously also without delay. You'll notice this the next time you get into a fight. But you can also look at your status.]"Oh? Status."|Profile|Name: DreamSpecies: Human MaleClass: [Master Artificer]Titles: [Origin Seeker]Level: 155Stats: Strength- B Agility- BStamina- B- Magic- B+Passive Skills: [Sophia] Lvl. 61, [Magic] Lvl. 30Active Skills: [Summons From Another World], [Material Magic] Lvl. 30"...My agility went up. From B-. And magic and strength is higher than before?"[Correct. T
Dream walked over to the building and went through the open gates. When he got inside, a large plaza greeted him.The plaza had a few hundred people in it. On one side, it was filled with tables and doubled as a restaurant. Dream could see food being served, and the people at the tables looked like hunters with their armor and weapons. It reminded him of the Mountain, just without the food.On the other side were different reception stations where people did some business. Dozens of people were coming and going with different papers in their hands.Since Dream needed to register, he went over to the reception area and found an open lane. He walked up to the man at the counter."Hi, how can I help you."The greeting from the man was a bit bland as he had probably been working for a while. Dream got to the point."Hi. I'm wondering where I can register for the academy. I was told to come here.""That won't be necessary.""Hm?"A voice suddenly came from behind Dream. He felt it was awfu
Dream arrived at the front of the academy.He had gone to the castle that the monitor pointed him to a day ago. Though he also tracked the watch on Riddick just in case.As he flew over, he got a good look a the castle that was the academy. It was basically 4 different Spires in a square connected by walls. It was very tall and covered a huge amount of ground. Dream couldn't see hardly any buildings that size except for the biggest buildings in the city center. It was bigger than any college campus that he'd seen before. Made sense because it had to house all its students and faculty.After he got to the entrance, he spotted Riddick and flew over, landing in front of him and undoing stealth."Good day, Old Man.""Boy.""Am I all good? What have you told them?""I refrained from telling them much other than you're a recently advanced class 2. What have you set your class to?""I was going to ask you for ideas.""Hmm... I would just set it to mage. It's common but versatile.""Alright.
Dream and Riddick left Amitel's office together."So that's it? Barely an hour and I'm a student?"Dream spoke to Riddick as they walked. He nodded."That's what happens when one of the top counselors personally admits and sets you up. Otherwise it would take longer, but even then not more than a day.""Huh. Alright. So how's this house of mine going to be?""Don't expect too much. It's not bad but not as comfortable as our cabin. Definitely not as big.""Oh. I'll make it work. So what about you? Where will you be while I'm here?""I'm going to be developing myself over in another Spire. It actually isn't far from here. If you have time, you could visit my research area.""I see. Maybe I will.""We're here."Dream looked up and saw a massive building. The place they were at was a bit away from where all the classes and other school buildings were. It was the dormitory.They walked into this building and went over to a counter where a woman was sitting around. She saw them approach."C