Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 369 - Morpheusʼs Life-Attribute Dungeon Conquest 15/30: Root Of Life Magic

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In the distant Realm of Dreams and Nightmares, Fólkvangr, which was once part of Alfheim, the Realm of Bright Elves and Fairies, the Great Goddess that represents the Dream Attribute and possess the Divinity related to Dreams and Nightmares, Freyja, glared at her pinkish crystal ball.

Her beauty was fitting of a Great Goddess… her eyes were scarlet red, gleaming in an eerie and cold light. Her purple hair was long and silky, and covered in black rose thorns. She had two large red horns growing from her forehead, giving a great contrast to her angelic beauty. Her nose was small and pointed, and she had long elf-like ears.

She seemed conflicted.

Since long ago, she was the first one to obtain the Dream Attribute and manipulated it to her heartʼs content, with such power, she was able to become an important figure in the war between Gods countless of years ago.

Now, given the task of ruling over the Dreams of all Mortals after Genesis was split into Realms, she dominated the Dream Attribute and even offered several services to Gods, like communication or other things… their wildest of dreams could be accomplished in dreams, and most came to pleasure themselves in her Realm, this created a large and stable source of income for her in the form of Divine Energy Crystals, which she hoarded greedily to slowly raise her God Rank.

However, in the thousands of years that Freyja had lived, she had never seen any other god nor mortal grasp the power of Dream Attribute like her. Some would use it barely, manipulating small things, or powerful Succubi would be able to enter the lewd dreams of humans to drain their Life Energy… but that was it. There wasnʼt anyone capable of manipulating Dreams like her or her selected group of children, all of them being Demi-Gods at minimum.

But… that changed a few days ago… in a faraway Realm which she had never had any connections to except a few gods wanting to communicate with a special mortal named ʼKireinaʼ, the Dream Attribute was strangely gathering around somewhere, or something. A certain mortal was constantly having special Dreams, which she used to increase her power and awaken special Skills.

And interestingly enough for her, this mortal was Kireina, the same one that all those lowly Beast Demi-Gods wanted to speak with and ask for her help…

”My Dreams… drifting away? Who is this mortal? How dare she…”

Freyja was deeply attached to her powers, she was the first one to be able to manipulate dreams and use them as a weapon and as a shield, and she had the mentality that someone else capable of such things would never appear aside from her children, born from her own womb.

She glanced as the Dream Attribute, represented as large accumulations of purple-colored clouds spiraled uncontrollably around a certain area in the Realm of Vida.

”My Dreams… come back to me!” she ordered, infusing her might and Divine Energy into her arms, from thousands of kilometers away, she ordered her divinity, her own Attribute, to come back to her…

But it didnʼt, the purple clouds twitched for a few moments, but kept spiraling in the same area, ignoring her completely.

”WHAT?! My divinity… ignored?! Impossible! Is that Kireina a Goddess? Could it be, she is a Dark Fairy?! But those are only born from my own womb! Damned System! Giving away the powers of gods and their races to mere mortals!” she raged.

Her uncontrollable rage made the clouds of Dream Attribute inside her Realm tremble chaotically, creating countless drifts in space, to dreams filled with destruction and suffering… thankfully, no mortals were present, or their soul would have been sucked into such worlds, to never wake up again.

The Dark Fairies, her children, were still deeply frightened. Their beloved mother, who usually has a very calm demeanor, was raging in frustration as she had never done before.

”Mother, please, calm down!”

”Mother!”

”Freyja-sama!”

As her children tried to calm down the Great Goddessʼs tantrum, Kireina was once again engulfed in her strange Dreams.

She opened her eyes and her consciousness quickly gave her the ability to understand where she was now.

She saw herself… as a plant.

A small green sprout, over warm and healthy dirt. Several other plants like herself were at her side, and the sun shined brightly.