Chapter 1066: The Power of Dreamification!
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 1066: The Power of Dreamification!
"Is that so?"
The First Casting Elder’s eyes lit up as she listened to Yi Shi’s explanation.
As the pinnacle of both combat power and technical skill within the World-Casting Courtyard, she was a woman who could wipe out a small world community with one hand and engrave a multiplication table onto an enemy’s backside in perfect script with the other. Naturally, she was more than familiar with the art of potion-making.
Without hesitation, she personally took the raw fruit materials originally intended for me to use.
In short order, a "First Casting Version" of the Fool's Dream Drink was born. She picked up her teacup, tossed out the black tea Yi Shi had brewed for her, and used the same cup to catch the freshly blended mixture.
Then, she took a careful sip.
"Hmm... the taste still isn't quite right, but the feeling is there," the First Casting Elder said, smacking her lips.
"First Casting Elder, the taste of the Fool's Dream Drink isn't fixed. Or rather, it presents different flavors depending on the specific Fool's Dream creature that prepares it. Even the one I brew wouldn't taste exactly like one made by any other Fool's Dream spirit," I explained.
"As I thought. That’s what makes it a true Fool's Dream Drink. Xiao Han, have you researched exactly what variables cause the flavor differences?"
"My apologies, First Casting Elder, I haven't delved deeply into that aspect," I said, shaking my head.
"Strange. That doesn't seem like you, Xiao Han. Such a glaring anomaly, and you didn't bother to study it properly?"
"Well... perhaps I just wanted to leave the Fool's Dream spirits with a little bit of mystery."
"Mystery? Haha! I respect your strange sense of ritual, Xiao Han," the First Casting Elder laughed. She then pulled out a massive pile of ingredients. "Now, it's your turn to brew a cup for me to try."
"Very well."
I looked at the ingredients—clearly enough for three servings—and smiled faintly, not minding at all. Three portions meant there was one for me too, didn't it?
Besides, the topic I came to discuss today was related to the Fool's Dream spirits anyway.
Unlike the First Casting Elder’s rugged brewing style, my technique was far more delicate. I didn't use any tools either, but my movements possessed a certain unorthodox wildness within their refinement. I preferred to call it... my "signature style."
After all, once you become powerful enough, no one calls your methods "wrong"; they say you've "forged your own path."
In reality, the subtext of that phrase is: don't try this at home.
"Did you come here today because you ran into something you don't understand again?" Yi Shi asked, opening the conversation while I worked.
She poured her own black tea into the surrounding flower sea and used a Cleaning Spell to wipe away the faint tea stains, seemingly waiting for my finished product.
"Not this time. I don't run into difficult problems all the time," I replied, shaking my head.
"Even if it's not a problem, you can still come and chat with us," Yi Shi said.
She was subtly suggesting that I didn't need to rack my brains in isolation every time a question arose. While the process of thinking was important, not every process was worth a massive expenditure of energy. Solving a complex problem was like a gamble between the process and the result; some cared for the outcome, others for the journey.
"Well, that's why I'm here. Actually, I haven't hit a research bottleneck this time; there's just something bothering me that I wanted to consult you about." As I spoke, I poured a third of the finished Fool's Dream Drink into Yi Shi’s cup.
Seeing Yi Shi get served before her, the First Casting Elder seemed unwilling to be left behind. She downed her own concoction in one gulp and pushed her empty cup toward me.
It felt like being at a banquet where someone sees a bottle being opened and slides their glass over for a refill.
"Consult us on what? Tell me, I might have the answer," the First Casting Elder chimed in.
"It's nothing major... I was just curious, First Generation Elder, First Casting Elder—how do you two view the Fool's Dream spirits?" I asked.
"The Fool's Dream spirits? A bunch of cute little things," was the First Casting Elder’s reply.
"Pioneers of dream life, the primal template for all future dream life research, and the source of the Dream Life Sequence Derivation," Yi Shi’s response carried far more weight. It was an incredibly high evaluation.
"You hold them in such high regard?" Even I was shocked by Yi Shi’s words.
I had assumed that, in their eyes, the Fool's Dream spirits were merely a life race I had created.
Clearly, I still had a habit of anticipating the worst possible outlook.
"Do you think they don't deserve it, Xiao Han?" Yi Shi didn't answer directly, but threw the question back at me.
"No... they absolutely deserve it. They are even more exceptional than you describe," I said instinctively.
"It seems you have very high expectations for them. Did you come today for their sake?"
"Yes." I nodded truthfully. "Actually, I've been worried. Once they truly become a recognized life race, how should their existence coexist with the Witch race?"
"You're worried about that?" Yi Shi smiled. "Mei mentioned to me before that you went to see her specifically about the Fool's Dream spirits... Why are you so pessimistic about the unknown? Any problem becomes unsolvable if you look at it from too high an altitude. You can't make every Witch like the Fool's Dream spirits, and you don't need to make every Witch like them."
"Is... is that so?"
"What else? Even among Witches, we don't all get along perfectly." Yi Shi picked up her cup and took a gentle sip. She was tasting the drink as if it were fine tea, but the reality was... it tasted like fruit juice. Perhaps the Fool's Dream Drink wasn't meant to be "sipped" like that.
"There is no need to rush to integrate them into the lives of the Witch race. Why not look at the present? They are living quite well within the Academy, aren't they?"
"You're right, First Generation Elder."
After a moment of reflection, I realized what I had been anxious about, and it was indeed unnecessary. The Main World could simply be a free heaven for the Fool's Dream spirits. When the moment comes that they wish to step outside... perhaps a Witch will be there to lead them.
But no matter where they go, the Land of Fool's Dream will always be their home.
"It's good that you understand." Yi Shi smiled and dropped her tea-tasting posture, drinking the rest normally.
Suddenly, a strange sensation swirled in her heart—a feeling so elusive that even she, the First Generation Elder, found it difficult to grasp.
"Such cute little things... if any Witch doesn't like them, shouldn't we just brand her a heretic?" the First Casting Elder added, still acting a bit flighty, though it clearly reflected her true feelings.
After all, any living being has a soft spot for cute things. Anyone who would ruthlessly destroy something beautiful deserved a punishment far worse than being called a heretic.
To the two elders, this topic wasn't really a "problem." It was just an exchange of thoughts, and once settled, Yi Shi set down her cup and looked at me. "Xiao Han, did you come here just for this matter of positioning?"
"Well... that was the original plan, but that issue was resolved faster than I expected. I do have other things to ask about, of course."
As I spoke, I cast a spell. My body rapidly shrank, and my clothes followed suit, resizing through the Sequence Derivation of my Change of Clothes Spell.
"Oh? A Fool's Dream Transformation? I heard from Mei that your ambitions for this spell are quite large." Yi Shi wasn't overly surprised by my change. Though she rarely left the World-Casting Courtyard, it didn't mean she was uninformed.
"The Primal Great Fool's Dream Transformation Spell... have you perfected this Grand Spell?"
"What was that?" Beside her, the First Casting Elder stood up abruptly, digging a finger into her ear as if she’d misheard. "Primal? Great?"
"Primal" denoted a Primal Spell, and "Great" denoted a Grand Spell. Combining the two... "large ambitions" was an understatement.
In fact, "large ambitions" couldn't even begin to describe such a logic-defying concept!
"You're behind the times, Yi Zhu," Yi Shi said. "If any other Witch told me this, I'd call it a pipe dream. But Xiao Han... she has already proven through practice that she isn't joking."
"This... this is truly..." Yi Zhu sighed in amazement. The idea of combining a Primal Spell with a Grand Spell wasn't new; plenty of Witches had proposed various theories. But in Yi Shi’s eyes, those were all "pipe dreams."
Because they couldn't do it.
They couldn't even take the "first step" to find a breakthrough for the idea.
That was the gap between "thinking" and "doing."
Yi Shi loved listening to wild ideas precisely because she possessed a vast and rich treasury of knowledge, yet even she wouldn't dare claim she could bring those specific ideas to life.
After a bit of bickering, the two elders turned their attention back to me. They were intensely curious about what I intended to do.
Surely it wasn't just for fun?
"First Generation Elder, you know I've been conducting life experiments regarding the Fool's Dream spirits. When speaking of life, one cannot bypass two concepts: the racial concept and bloodline information. My preliminary perfection of the Fool's Dream Transformation means I've taken a massive leap forward regarding the Fool's Dream bloodline."
"The Fool's Dream bloodline?" Yi Shi didn't hide her curiosity. She always maintained a burning passion for the unknown. "What form does the bloodline of a dream life take?"
"Since you're curious, I won't keep you in suspense. I have named the power of the Fool's Dream bloodline... Dreamification."
As I finished speaking, my form became slightly transparent and blurred. This was the manifestation of the power of Dreamification. I wasn't a Fool's Dream spirit, but through the Primal Great Fool's Dream Transformation Spell, I had achieved the manifestation of this talent.
"Dreamification?"
Hearing the name, both Yi Shi and Yi Zhu stood up simultaneously. Their first thought was whether I had misnamed it, but then they remembered this was Xiao Han—she wouldn't be so careless.
Names can be given arbitrarily in private, but not when they are meant to be disseminated.
It was like the Fireball Spell; it could never be named "Iceball Spell," nor could it be named "Super Fireball Spell" if it didn't fit.
Yi Shi stepped forward and reached out, but her hand passed directly through my body. She felt nothing.
"This is Dreamification? Material Dreamification?!"
"It is Life Dreamification. Being a dream-state life is the threshold for Dreamification," I explained.
"We can see your form and hear your voice in reality. That means you still maintain a connection to the physical world?"
"Correct... but total Dreamification can sever that connection as well..." As I spoke, my form and voice vanished instantly. It was like a dream ending; Yi Shi and Yi Zhu, who had been staring at me, felt as if they had just woken up. The space before them was empty, and it felt as though their conversation with me had been nothing but an illusion.
A moment later, my form reappeared, and only then did they notice me again.
"This is Dreamification," I said.
Of course, that demonstration wasn't pure Dreamification. It was Dreamification combined with the Ordinary Subject, which made everyone feel as if the moment I vanished, everything they had just experienced was a dream.
This power was utterly subversive!
After all, both Yi Shi and Yi Zhu were physically present in reality. Yet, with the enhancement of the Ordinary Subject, the effect was heaven-defying.
While it didn't truly deceive the two elders, the fact that it could make them experience even a flicker of "doubt" was a resounding success!
One must not forget the massive disparity in strength between me and these two elders.
"This? How is it pos—" Yi Shi’s words cut off mid-sentence because the evidence was right in front of her!
Just as she was about to ask more, I spoke up as if anticipating her question: "I should clarify one thing. This power operates on a different principle than the way Abyss Succubi or Dream Demons traverse between dreams and reality."
"Dream Demons themselves are not 'life.' I've studied them; they are essentially a mode of dream-state using prefabricated reality carriers. I, however, am undoubtedly a pure life form—a pure reality life. But now, along with my body and everything I am, I have entered the Shallow Primitive Dream Realm through the power of Dreamification. This is the true reason I came to find you today, First Generation Elder."
"This... this power is nothing short of a miracle!" After a moment of losing her composure, Yi Shi spoke her evaluation with a slight tremor in her voice.
A miracle!
Even looking across the entire Void, spanning the barriers of countless races, anyone who understood the significance of this would call it a miracle!
In that moment, Yi Shi suddenly understood why Mei, whenever she mentioned Xiao Han, would complain that every time she called the girl over, she ended up with either a headache or a shock that her heart could barely take.
Now... she was beginning to feel the exact same way.