Summoner: The Book of Dimension

47 Second Encounter With The Squid Monster

The night was perfect, and he was exhausted enough for a night of deep sleep.

Well, at least his day was better than the previous ones he had. He had a fun time with Dorothy, and he had enough time how bright she was. Although it was he who always insist on a conversation, he understood that she was just awkward at keeping conversations with people.

He also enjoyed the silence that engulfed them once in a while, since he felt comfortable around her. Although the soul-summoning trick didn’t work, he still anticipated for a moment to make her remember about him.

He stared at the ceiling for a few moments.

At those times, he hated it when he thought about the reason why he wanted to keep distracted. As much as he wanted to forget about it, he still remembered.

He decided to go to sleep and visit the dream kingdom. He had some things he wanted to know more about. One of them was the dream-admiring squid or better known as the squid monster.

Few minutes passed, and he was now in dream space. He sighed in relief when no octopus was around. He was now just as safe.

Going to the dream kingdom was not easy, and as he remembered, the dream goblin used some crystal orb to get there. He didn’t have anything like that, but he was a dreamlord. He could create something to help him get there.

He thought of aircraft but he didn’t have any dream experience of using it. He might die if the aircraft went out of control. Being a dreamlord was easy until it was not. Every complicated thing that he created in dream space, specifically those that could only be smoothly used with experience, he should know how to use it first. Either he had them experienced in the real world or he practiced them well.

His dream is a space for his own, but the dream space was different. It had to follow rules between the real and dream world. That was one factor why someone could die in real life if one died on their dream, under any circumstances. One of them when squid monsters were around, another one was, if the dreamer was affiliated in the dream kingdom. Be it a dreamlord, any powerful individuals, or someone who inherited power from ancestors or relatives.

There are other things, too. Like, if a powerful individual, let’s say, a dreamlord, intended to kill a person in their dreams. The dream owner could die in the real world in that instance.

After some thoughts, he decided to go for the Viking war machine.

A small warship identical to a Viking's warship, but made out of metal and since he needed it to fly, it would be powered by a powerful turbo that would push him upwards. He also designed it with modern technology controls, with buttons made for a specific function.

He painted it with red color, and with the same color, he created a complete robotic suit that perfectly fit him that could protect him from anything. He didn’t know what and who he could encounter, so he must be ready.

Slowly, he controlled his Viking war machine to go upward, st a speed that he would surely arrive at the dream kingdom shortly.

While his vehicle was going up, he looked down to see the aerial view of the dream space. It looked exactly just like how it would look in real life, the difference was it wasn’t in much detail and it looked cleaner. Now that Peter thought, the air was cleaner. He chuckled at his thought.

He waited until he reached the sky, and he could see the bright light where the dream kingdom was. But he could see something else in a distance, something that looked quite familiar.

There were explosions in the air, and there was some figure there, surrounded by black dots where the explosions and such came from. Curious, he created binoculars that had high-definition lenses that could magnify what was that in a distance.

He looked through the binoculars and to his surprise, he saw three men wearing a silver reflective overall suit. He laughed when he saw it and saw what was the commotion was. His laughter disappeared along with his smile when he saw the same squid monster he just saw the last time he went to dream space.

The three men were struggling to fight off the squid monster. Although he was sure that the squid monster would recognize him, he still felt the need to help them. He was a powerful dreamlord, after all. They could be either powerful than him or weaker than him.

To make sure he would be unnoticed, he set his armor and Viking war machine into invisible camouflage and went close to where they were.

While the ship was still on its way, he made a few upgrades. He planted an electrocuting machine on the ship and water spray. It was the only thing he could think he could use. He also planted a machine gun on the arms of his suit, and each bullet was filled with venom.

The three men, however, noticed his arrival, but they sensed it helped, so they didn’t make it obvious and didn’t make the squid monster notice it.

When Peter was at a safe distance, he fired the electrocuting machine to the squid monster, all at once. They watched as the squid monster shook through the electricity, but it had gone immune to the last time he did so it left no effect.

The three men didn’t waste time, they attacked the squid monster with water, fire, and ice.

Peter fired the machine guns from his arms and attacked the squid monster with the poisonous bullets. It had some effects, though. Peter could see it struggle with healing itself, so he continued to attack it with poisonous bullets. However, he never expected the next thing to happen.

The squid monster’s tentacles touched Peter’s Viking war machine, which made the squid notice his presence. He began going shaky, so he upgraded a pair of wings to his invisible.

The squid monster took his ship and before it could touch him, he stayed invisible with his suit and flew behind the three men and watched the squid monster crunch his ship with its tentacles, the rest of its tentacles were used to dodge the attacks they projected against the monster.

Seeing the attack of the three, they had lower power than him. He wasn’t sure if he would be able to win against the squid monster with them. He wasn’t even sure if he’d fight the monster or he would be just left to protect these three.

“What are you, guys?” he asked.

The three didn’t turn to him and covered the squid with ice. “We’re training to be dreamlords,” one of them answered, and she sounded like a teenage girl. “How about you?”

“I’m a dreamlord,” he said with pride and continued to fire it with poisonous bullets that helped at least slow its mobility.

The three didn’t speak after that and somehow, he saw how they started blowing the squid monster with the limit of their powers. One of them successfully cut one of the monster’s tentacles. He grinned. “Wow, that’s impressive,” he commented.

“Thanks,” the girl said. “Nice to meet you, dreamlord, sir,” she said while she continued to attack the squid monster.

“Just call me Peter,” he said. “And, nice to meet you, too.”

The squid growled and with its tentacles, it attacked the four of them. They dodged, but one of them was caught in one of the tentacles.

“Continue attacking,” he said and faced the squid monster head-on, without deactivating his invisibility. He used a giant sword and sliced the tentacle of the squid monster. The guy then came back again to them.

“Thanks,” he said.

Peter just nodded but he said, “You’re welcome,” when he realized he was still invisible.

He had to change his approach, so he created a giant bomb and waited until the squid opened its mouth.

“I need you guys to make it growl,” he said.

“Make what?” the girl asked.

“Growl. It opens its mouth when it growls,” he explained. “But do it safely,” he added.

“Okay, we’ll make it hurtful for the squid.” the other guy said.

While he waited, he continued with the poisonous bullets. Although he wasn’t even sure if it still worked, he tried his best.

One of them created attacked the squid with pointy ices, one that would pierce at the squid. And then the other one made fireballs. One of them made a rope with the water, keeping its tentacles in place.

They attacked at the same time for a few minutes, until one of them hit its eye. The squid monster growled its loudest, and when it opened its mouth to growl, Peter took the chance to throw the bomb.

He fired the machine guns with poisonous bullets, to slow down its healing power. He waited for the bomb to explode but when it did, it didn’t even make the squid explode. The squid just emitted a cloud of black smoke from its mouth.

Peter sighed. “We might think of another plan.”