Morning sunlight coming from a window was illuminating my eyes. I was lying on the bed in a beautiful room, painted in white, far away from the darkness of night. Outside the window was clear blue sky with a few white clouds drifting with the wind and the sun spreading light in the world.
My thoughts were drifting like the clouds when a voice broke in, "How long are you gonna sleep for? We are getting late."
"Just a minute." Replying to her, I stood up from the bed, walked to the wardrobe and took out a Blue T-shirt and black pants, and quickly changed.
After dressing up, I took a look at the mirror. A guy around 5 feet 8 inches, with black hair and slightly odd golden eyes, stared back at me. The eyes weren't just odd but...
"Are you coming, or not?" The voice came again.
"Coming…" Replying to her, I turned around and walked out of the room, but as I moved forward, the sunlight coming from the window cast a shadow in front of me. It was just a simple shadow of a normal human, except for its slightly crimson eyes, staring at me.
Glancing at it, I walked forward, opening the door and going downstairs. As I stepped down stairs, I couldn't help but recall that horrible dream.
'It had been 18 years since I was reincarnated into this world. At first, it didn't make sense at all to me, but with time, I got used to it. I have always been delusional, so accepting these wasn't that hard for me. Unfortunately, I still couldn't move on completely from the day I was born into this world; that horrible night had been chasing me in dreams.'
"What took you so long?" In front of me was a girl wearing white, her hair tied into a ponytail, and her eyes were completely different from mine, filled with Life and a youthful spirit. Staring at me with an angry look.
"What?" I asked her.
"Hmph!" With a pout, she turned around and went out of the house. I, too, followed her.
As I went out, I turned to close the door, and met my shadow cast inside the house, giant enough to cover the whole house from inside, two red pupils locking at me. I gently closed the door before sitting in the car next to me.
Inside the car sat two more people, the girl beside me and a woman in front. The car moved on, drove past houses and trees. As my thoughts drifted with the wind.
'We had been living in a bit remote place, though it was close to nature, but it was really far from the city. We always had to travel for almost an hour to go to school.'
'Since I came to this world, many things have changed. I lost a world and got a new one. It felt so unreal, yet that's what it is, but this time I am not pursuing being a hero; Instead, I'm following my role as observer from the start.'
'When I was born. I had already chosen my path from day one. This time, I only cultivated the Soul refining path, not the body. The Nightmare method I found in my first life had two ways to cultivate. The first one is body refining, which I used in my first life, but in this life, I have chosen the path of refining dreams. The only path made for me.'
I took a glance inside. Alina was scrolling through her phone while Mom was focusing on driving. Then I looked at my feet, where those crimson eyes were still staring at me.
'This shadow is the dream beast I manifested at rank 7 of Nightmare. Though Nightmare Path has many cool powers but the cost is too high, unlike the body refining path, which only requires you to suffer for only one time.'
'Once you reach the Rank of Dream refining realm, you can manifest a dream beast. The only problem is that once it came to the real world, it continued to cloud your mind, and if you lose your control over it even for a second, then… game over.'
After 1 and a half hours of travel, we arrived at the city museum. Alina quickly got out of the car, looking excitedly at the museum. Mom and I also followed behind her, as she led the way happily.
As we were all walking inside the museum, a voice came from behind, "Alina, we are here."
I looked in the direction the voice came from there stood a group of teens, and the one calling out to Alina was a blond girl with blue eyes. She had visited our place many times. Her name is Alice. As for others, I didn't know them all, but had seen a few in the school.
Alina went to join them, while I stood there with Mom.
"Lucian, I will go now, I have work to attend take care of Alina and yourself. I will come back in a few hours." Mom said to me.
"Hm", I nodded in reply.
After Mom left and these Kids were done with their talk, we all went inside together, passing through giant white gates with an artistic touch. Once my step landed inside the shadow became restless, wanting to go deeper into this place.
'Well, interesting except for devouring dreams, there weren't many things that made it so excited.'
'Well…If it were my past self, then I would have definitely gone there to check what was making him so excited. I was just an observer, not a researcher.'
I continued to follow behind the group, ignoring its urge to go deeper. There are many things to look for, some dinosaur skeletons, some unknown beast skeletons, many ancient paintings and many other things.
After everyone was done looking around, they actually went in the direction where that dream beast wanted to go from the start. As we were moving closer, it was becoming crazier with each step forward.