"Now… 'Uneasy Nightmare'…"
I moved my fingers as I released dark clouds from within my hands, they quickly entered the third subject's mind.
"And… 'Memory Visualization Screen'!" I said, activating the Mirage Magic Spell after I inserted a thin slime tentacle inside of the subject's skull, reaching its brain.
The purple screen appeared as it showed the muscular spy having troubles. He was currently trying to swim through a lake. He did not know how to swim properly, so he was half-drowning.
"Hmm… An 'Uneasy Nightmare' is different from a 'Dark Nightmare'… it doesn't bring much horror, but uneasiness by giving a small hope of survival… of course, that might change" analyzed Herbell.
I decided to manipulate the Nightmares by infusing my mana into the spell, as I managed to change things a bit, deciding to add sharks with sharp teeth following him from behind. The sky also became dark as it began to rain heavily.
"It seems that I am capable of manipulating Nightmares slightly by overflowing the nightmare with my Mana… hm, what if I use my Aura or my soul?" I said, infusing both at the same time.
Suddenly I felt like a part of my consciousness was sent inside the Nightmare.
I could see the guy struggling in the lake as the rain and the sharks made his small hope for survival even dimmer.
"Hmm… So I can even enter a Nightmare like that god. Alright, how about this?"
I manipulated the nightmare to my will, using my own imagination, I created a world of happiness and fluffy things, long greenery, and vast plains, covered in fluffy and puffy cushions. The sky was bright blue, with a pinkish tone, alongside several moons and stars shining happily in the sky.
The subject fell over the cushions, he seemed relieved for a moment.
"Do you like it? Finally, some time to relax, right? Hmm… time's over!"
I once again manipulated the dreams and made the subject fall over an arid and scorching area, there were lava pools everywhere as the sky became hellish red. The ground was scorching and dark-colored, it resembled the Lower Realm.
To top it all, I created a few monsters from there and made them follow the guy around. He was now even worse than before; this could be attributed to being a 'Dark Nightmare' already.
As I was watching the nightmare unfold, everyone seemed bewildered.
"Impressive! So by infusing your Aura and Soul into the spell, you can enter nightmares and manipulate them?" analyzed Herbell.
"I think I can, but it has some limits, I feel like a lot of mana is used each time I decide to change something, and there seems to be a slight cooldown… Perhaps to beings with stronger minds, it would be harder to manipulate their nightmares" I said.
"Mommy, can I try?" asked Vudia.
Her consciousness quickly appeared inside the dream at my side.
"T-This is crazy! I am inside a dream again!" said Vudia, she was quite excited. Her dream avatar was her usual bright appearance, as she flew around with her butterfly wings.
"Now, let me teach you… infuse your Mana… or Divine Energy into the environment and by using your imagination, create a scenario" I said.
"A scenario…? Hmm…! How about a cave! And filled with gemstones and minerals! And small gnomes and dwarfs are working around!" said Vudia, as everything she thought about became reality inside the 'nightmare'.
The subject was suddenly put in the middle of a cave filled with materials of all kinds stuck to the walls and ceilings, as small people harvested them. A burly dwarf noticed him and began to reprimand him.
"Hey, you lazy ass! Get to work!" it said.
"W-Work? What is happening? W-Where am I?"
"Fewer questions more working! Here! Take this pickaxe! Go! NOW!" shouted the dwarf, he was tired of this guy's laziness!
The subject began to mine the rocks and jewels in the walls, alongside his dwarven and gnome colleagues.
"Look! I did it! It's so cool! So many dwarfs and gnomes! Sometimes I like to go look for materials to the Rocky Mountain Mines, and they are always so nice to me!" said Vudia.
"I see… it seems that you have such a vivid image of them that the ones created through dreams even possess personalities. Look at him working, what a nice Miner!" I said, laughing.
"Yeah, it's crazy to think that they are not the real ones… Hm, what if I go talk with them?" asked Vudia.
She slowly descended to the dream as she began to talk with the dwarfs and gnomes… but they ignored her completely as if she did not exist.
"Hm? Guys? Why can't you see me?" she asked.
"They can't see you because they are a mere image of the subject's mind, he is the only that is part of this 'world'. We can manipulate it, but we are not capable of interacting with it… but perhaps we may if we level up the Nightmare Magic Skill" I said, hugging my daughter and patting her chestnut hair.
"I see… So if I manage to level up the skill, will I be able to create any worlds I want with my dreams?! That's so cool!" she said.
"Hm, even I don't know the full extent of dreams… But it may be possible. I have considered using dreams as a way to train certain skills as well, but the skill needs to be leveled up. For now, let's change around this nightmare to gain experience in the skill"
"Alright, mommy! Bye, guys! Now, let's change it into a jungle! Filled with Dryads and colorful birds!" said Vudia.
"How about we add some ruins as well? Or perhaps a civilization of dragon people that live in the jungles! Or lizardman as well" I said, joining in my daughter as we designed a new dream world.
Damn, this was unexpectedly fun.
The endless caves filled with treasures alongside the gnomes and dwarfs disappeared as if they were made out of white smoke.
A new world appeared in front of the subject, lush jungles filled with plants and carnivorous monsters, alongside dangers in every corner. In the middle of it, there were large ruins filled with the ancient civilization of lizardman.
"What… Where am I now?! What is this place?! Ah! Huh?!"
The subject began to run for his life as a large reptile resembling a tyrannosaurus started to follow him around while opening its large jaws filled with sharp fangs.
"Gyaaaaah! Noo! I don't want to die!" shouted the subject.
However, just at this very moment, a group of lizardmen appeared from the sides, attacking the monster with their poison-coated spears.
"I'm saved!" said the subject.
The lizardman began to butcher the monster as a group of them walked towards the man, a beautiful and voluptuous lizardman woman seemed to be leading the group, and she took a liking to this guy.
"Gral! Ishta!" it said, in a strange language as it made her subordinates carry the subject with them. Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on novel※fire.net
Sometime later, he was trapped inside the house of the lizardman woman… and this is when I decided to change the dream because I did not want Vudia to see this.
"Mommy, why can't I see it? It was like watching a theater! So fun!"
"Err… it was not suited for you, yet."
We kept changing dreams and making the subject go through all types of dreams and different worlds, he was constantly trapped in troubles, but he somehow slowly developed himself and became cautious and more intelligent… and his skills also developed somehow.
"I think we are shaping this man to be some kind of super-soldier!" said Vudia.
"I suppose… let's give him a break then," I said, as we finally got out of the dreams.
It felt like a whole week inside of there, but outside, only some minutes passed.
"We saw everything! It was amazing how you two changed the dream world all the time!" said Herbell, bewildered.
"To think that Nightmare Magic could lead to the manipulation of Dreams as well," said Zehe.
"I think it's because we were able to infuse our Aura and Souls, which already have divinities. Something else had triggered in there which gave us the ability to travel inside. Perhaps the small divinity fragment related to Nightmares" I said.