Dimensional Descent

It was odd.

Dream Force was meant to be one of the most dangerous Forces in all of existence. As the arbiter of consciousness, having it in too large a supply was always a bad thing as those who didn't have high affinity for it would find the line between fiction and reality blurred, a lot like what a schizophrenic would experience.

Dream Force carried with it the power of perception and fundamentally, perception was often reality.

If someone had a dream about being invincible, they would wake up and this feeling would be gone. In addition, they would then be able to pick out all the oddities in the dream that should have made it obvious to them that it was one.

However, if the Dream Force was cranked up, suddenly the line wouldn't be so obvious. The dream would become too real, too tangible. Then, you'd suddenly have a person jumping out of a building as a mere mortal in the real world because they got it in their heads that they were invincible.

The effects went beyond dreams as well. Just things as simple as thoughts, inclinations, biases, etc, could easily become too real to ignore. Suddenly, an opinion would become objective fact, a day dream would be reality, a hope would become certainty.

Believe it or not, these would be the most benign effects of excessive Dream Force.

Beyond this, one might sink into a forever coma, believing their dreams to be the new reality. And, in the worst of cases, one's mind could collapse, forgetting how to function correctly and thus leading to the most direct cause of death.

Playing with consciousness was dangerous. Almost like playing with layers of irony, eventually if you went deep enough, you would lose the ability to tell where the joke started and where it ended.

However, somehow, despite all these dangers…

The Spiritual was fine?

benign state. Despite being able to come out of his body now, he still wasn't able to use it to attack

Lionel, who had reached Tier 5 and could project his Dream Force outward, couldn't

he hadn't been born a Savant due to the existence of his Lineage

reality if he couldn't

my

going through every vital sign and checking for any stages. But, before he could even get halfway through the analysis,

was in control of

Had his thoughts appeared

but Leonel could see it, not with his mind's eye, but with his real eyes. His Dream Clone… it

'… What the hell?!'

causing the Dream Clone to waver and

'No, no!'

Dream Clone stabilized again. It felt as though he was looking right at a hologram, as real and tangible as such

stretched out a hand, but his hand passed right through it,

kept changing, trying to understand what this sort of

his Ability Index evolved? Could he