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Chapter 16 Dream World
In the dream, Dorothy sat in front of the desk, looking at the spell written in front of her and nodded with satisfaction. Although this spell was pieced together, Dorothy thought it might work.
Never mind, just give it a try. It’s just a dream, right?
As she thought about this, Dorothy stood in the room, coughed and cleared her throat, then she began to read.
"In the name of Akatosh, I am born with wings, with strength to reach the heavens and balance to pierce the storms."
After Dorothy finished speaking, something strange happened behind her.
Hot orange-yellow gas appeared out of thin air around Dorothy, then completely enveloped her body, and in an instant it turned into a blazing orange-yellow fireball.
From within the fireball, huge and sturdy skeletons emerged and extended in all directions, quickly filling the entire room before bursting.
With a loud bang, the entire roof of the Nanyang Hualu Apartment in the dream world exploded, and rubble scattered all over the place.
Behind, on the broken roof, there was a gigantic skeleton dragon lying. The scorching orange-yellow flames spread over the entire body of the skeleton dragon, condensing into rough and hard scales that looked like slate.
Finally, a nearly ten-meter-long, ferocious and majestic Western dragon with gray-black scales, strong wings, a long spiked tail, twisted horns, and appeared on the roof of the apartment building.
Dream Mimicry—Dragon.
"Oh my god! It really works!"
Twisting her long neck to observe her new body, Dorothy was surprised and delighted to think that the spell she had pieced together actually worked!
Moreover, it did not mimic a flying bird, but instead mimicked a dragon!
A dragon is much more awesome than a bird!
Dorothy thought with some excitement in her heart, and next, she should get down to business. Mimicry is only the first step. After mimicking herself in her dream, she will be able to enter the dream world.
That is the common dream of all intelligent life.
As she thought this, Dorothy raised her head and then roared towards the sky.
After the thunderous roar, the space in front of Dorothy's eyes suddenly shook, and finally a big crack appeared like glass. Dorothy, who was disguised as a dragon, spread her wings, soared into the air, and drilled into the crack of the dream.
…
Here is a dark and vast space.
Giant trees tens of meters thick and hundreds of meters high rose from the ground, layer upon layer, stretching as far as the eye can see. The dense canopies blocked the entire sky, and only wisps of faint blue light shone through, bringing a little light to the dark space. Under the trees were patches of dense blue-purple grass, and among the grass were dotted blue, green, purple... flowers of various colors in full bloom, and these flowers were glowing with a strange color.
On the grass, there were all kinds of creatures active here and there, including deer, birds, lizards, flying insects... Their appearance was no different from normal creatures, except that their bodies were glowing slightly and had strange patterns.
On the thick branches of those towering trees, there are densely packed countless large cocoons of different colors hanging. These cocoons, like the trees and the grass, extend to the end of the space, with no end in sight. They sway gently in the breeze, scattering countless tiny light balls like powder, floating in the space.
The scene here is like a dream... No, this is a dream.
Suddenly, one of the cocoons hanging from the giant trees began to tremble slightly. Then, a crack appeared on the surface of the cocoon, and a shaking roar came out from it.
Hearing this roar, all the creatures in the giant tree forest were startled and fled in panic. At this time, the crack on the cocoon became bigger and bigger, and finally, a gray-black dragon flew out of it.
Spreading her wings, Dorothy soared in the giant forest, curiously observing the bizarre and dreamy environment around her, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
"Is this the Dream World? To be more precise, this is a level within the Dream World, the Forest..."
According to the notes in "Dream Exploration Records", the dream world has multiple levels, but the most vast of them is the 'woodland', which is the main body of the dream world.
"The Dream Exploration Records" has a brief introduction to the dream world. It says that, essentially, the dreams of all intelligent creatures are actually in dreams, but these dreams are protected by "dream cocoons". After falling asleep, every creature will have its own dream in its own dream cocoon.
"So, these things that fell on the tree are dream cocoons?"
Dorothy looked at the cocoons hanging on the trees, and she thought that each cocoon was a person's dream. The dreams of all people in the world could find corresponding dream cocoons here, and some extraordinary people could come out of the dream cocoons in a mimicry way and roam in a wider dream world.
If you enter someone else's cocoon, does that mean you are entering someone else's dream?
It's quite interesting... Dream world...
But now is not the time to play, it is important to do business.
Dorothy came to the dream world for the secret messages that might be hidden there. According to the records in "Dream Explorations", there are countless fragments of information floating in the dream world, which may contain secret messages. According to Gray Hill, there are both infinite threats and endless opportunities there.
Thinking of this, Dorothy continued to fly forward. With her eyes, she could clearly see small and large balls of light floating in the woods.
Dorothy flew towards one at random and broke it apart. Then the ball of light turned into a halo and attached to Dorothy's body.
Then, an extra piece of information appeared directly in Dorothy's mind.
"I really want to be with Domiya...I really want to be with Domiya...I really want to be with Domiya..."
After reading this message, Dorothy blushed, then turned her head and scattered another ball of light.
"That bastard William dared to do this to me. He will be in trouble tomorrow!"
Dorothy paused for a moment, then turned her head and saw that the light balls around her were all floating out from various dream cocoons. In other words, most of the information in these light balls were dream fragments that were almost useless to ordinary people.
Trying to find the secret teachings in such a large forest seems like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Hey... finally there is a way... just take your time. If there is no result this evening, you can just continue the next evening.
So saying, Dorothy continued her flight through the dark woods.
…
In the dream world, somewhere in the woods.
Between the forests of giant trees, on the fluorescent grass, agile figures are galloping forward, shuttling quickly across the grass.
That was a fox, a little fox with a snow-white body and a fluorescent body, running at a very fast speed in the grass. Behind it, three or four ferocious black hyenas were chasing closely.
This seems to be a hunt, a hyena hunting a fox, but in fact it is not that simple.
While running, a hyena suddenly spoke in the common language.
"She began to lose her strength and her speed decreased. She quickly caught up with me and was the prey of the night..."
"In this forest, no one can escape the hunting of the Black Dream Hunters..."