The ominous glow from the blood red moon bathed the land in crimson. Hundreds of bodies, all broken and shriveled up, having been robbed of all life and essence. *Huff* *Huff* *Huff* A young boy breathed raggedly as he fell to his knees, among the sea of shriveled bodies. He clutched his chest with his left hand as he took in the sight of the corpses that seemed familiar and yet unfamiliar. As he took in the sight of the carnage, something grabbed his ankle from behind. It was a cold touch that sent a dreadful chill sweeping down his spine. His head snapped around in an instant only to see that he was being touched by one of the corpses. The corpse's hold on his ankle tightened as it struggled to pull itself out from the pile of bodies it was buried under. The boy felt a sharp sting in his chest as he saw the face of the corpse, although her eyes were sunken and her skin shriveled up, it seemed like he actually knew her but at the same time did not, just like it was with the othe

“Wish me luck.”Sam said with a strained smile as he stood up from his seat and approached the platform. Hundreds of students had already had their chance at awakening on the stone platform, some succeeded but others…..they were not so lucky.Now it was time for Oberon and his classmates to attempt to awaken on the stone platform. A few of them had attempted to awaken but none had succeeded, the air felt heavy as tension remained at an all time high. “Will I fail to awaken? If I fail to awaken, is it all over?”Oberon muttered to himself as he watched Sam step onto the platform with steady steps. The instructor placed both palms on the surface of the stone platform and as usual, the inscriptions began to glow and white motes of light began to gather from the air before forming a stream that continuously encircled him. Oberon and the rest of his classmates watched in anticipation as the stream of light encircled Sam as if searching for something, eventually the stream flowed into him

“This can't be real, a skill of the initiate rank can't just grant me access to a realm all of a sudden.”Oberon said in confusion, and his confusion was not unfounded.“A realm is supposed to be an independent plane of existence governed by its own laws, essence and inhabitants. This shouldn't be possible.”He thought as he calmed himself down by taking deep breaths. He set the description for his first skill aside for a while and instead focused on his second skill so he could take his mind off the questions that now bugged him. “The ability to bring things back from the dream realm and into reality.”Just thinking about it made Oberon gulp instinctively. It was too good to be true and yet, there it was on the record. Realms were places laden with opportunities and also dangers, there were a lot of things to be found and discovered within realms that perhaps nobody really knew anything about.“If I could make a stable line of selling scavenged items from this realm then wouldn'

Oberon's eyes fluttered open calmly as the rays of the morning sun filtered into his room through the window. For a moment he could do nothing but lay still in bed, his mind wondering on and on about the events that had occured in the dream realm.He sighed, and got out of bed expecting to be exhausted however he seemed fine and relaxed, like he had gotten a good amount of sleep, however he knew he had gone through quite the stress searching through the village for clues. “Even my clothes aren't dirty.”He thought as he looked at himself in the mirror hung on the wall. Then he sighed once again and thought about what had occured after he discovered he had been in the dream realm. After he discovered he had been in the mysterious dream realm all along, Oberon had brought himself to accept it and had calmed his nerves. He had searched beneath the beds in the other houses and had found more dream Stone bringing his total to sixty.“I have no idea if it has any value but for now, I

CHAPTER EIGHT“Wow.”Oberon said under his breath as he looked around him, he could see all sorts of people going about their daily activities, from people in armour and all sorts of gear to people buying groceries selling goods in established stalls.“I heard there were shelters set up in the void for mystics to stay in during expeditions but I never expected the shelters to be this big.”Sam said looking ahead at the gargantuan white walls that surrounded the city, protecting it from stray beasts. If one looked closely, they could even see the tiny figures that manned the walls, puppets.“Alright, enough sightseeing. I'll go gather our new party members, it's best we begin as soon as possible and saturate our cores.”Sam said as he clapped his hands and turned to Oberon who nodded and replied.“While you do that, I'll look around, there are a few things I want to get for myself.”With that the two friends parted ways. Oberon walked through the crowd of people and he