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?

Force was in a benign state. Despite being able to come out of his

limited him in this way for a long time. In fact, even Lionel, who had reached Tier 5 and could project his Dream Force outward,

Savant due to the existence of his Lineage Factors and his Innate Node,

to manipulate reality if

my approach,

going through every vital sign and checking for

would always enter his Dream World. Everything flowed faster there and he was in control of every single variable. His models were vivid, his mind seemed to work at twice the pace, and it was easy to visualize

NEVER… Had his thoughts appeared in

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

'… What the hell?!'

causing the Dream Clone to waver and almost completely

'No, no!'

was looking right at a hologram, as real and tangible as such a thing

his hand passed right through it, just like it would in

expression kept changing, trying to understand what

Could he make illusions now? Warp