Summoner: The Book of Dimension

42 Hiding Inside The Woman’s Dream

The woman couldn’t take her eyes off of Peter as the latter flew to another building.

Peter landed smoothly on top of the building and gently dropped the woman by on her feet.

“Who are you?” the woman asked again, looked at Peter, and waited for his reply. He just smiled and chose not to answer and looked around, making the armor and steel wings disappear from his body.

There was no sign that her dream would change soon, so he figured the dream should be finished for it to change.

He heard growls from a distance, and he knew it was from the dream space. “It’s still there,” he said and looked below the building. Thankfully, there were not many zombies around. He didn’t want to get killed in her dream. Because he might need to stay longer in her dream to hide, now that the squid monster could kill him if he was seen.

However, he wasn’t sure if he’d be safe in her dream at all, because he didn’t know what it would bring him if the woman’s dream were absorbed by the squid. Besides, her dreams were a little dangerous.

“What?” the woman asked when she heard that Peter

Peter turned at her and he could see that she had no idea that she was dreaming.

He used his power to try and alter her dream, but even on the first try, her dream didn’t change a bit. It was still the apocalypse setting. He tried to create things in his hands, and he succeeded. He should be able to control someone’s dream because he was a dreamlord, but it could be the squid monster’s effect.

As long as he wasn’t in much danger, then he had not much to worry about yet.

The woman walked close to him. “Are you here to help me?”

He was confused about her question but he just nodded. “I’ll try my best,” he said.

He then walked to a corner and created a bag filled with weapons. He glanced at the woman and she now didn’t have the katana with her nor her gun. He quite expected it, since details in dreams weren’t constant.

He brought the bag of weapons and walked toward the woman, who was just intently watching him. He knelt down and unzipped the bag. He took a G36C gun, loaded it with bullets, and attached a muzzle on it. He looked at the woman then handed it to her. She just looked at the gun so Peter moved the gun. “Aren’t you gonna take it?”

The woman realized and took the gun from him. “Right,” she said.

He took a SCAR-L and did the same and took two scopes from the bag. He handed one to the woman and the woman attached it to her gun.

“We don’t want the zombies coming up here, do we?” he asked and walked to the edge. Using the scope of the gun, he closed one eye to aim at the zombies seventeen floors below.

He switched the gun to a single bullet and started firing the zombies on their heads, one at a time without missing. His skills amused the woman, and she also started aiming at the zombies down below.

Of course, Peter learned these in his dreams, and since his specialty was action genre, he frequently used guns. To learn all those, he had no other place to practice at but his dream. It wasn’t difficult for him because he was a dreamlord after all.

Firing guns with weapons was much helpful than carelessly using grenades. The zombies would react to sounds especially those loud ones, so killing them with silenced guns was helpful enough to not attract more zombies.

The woman found it easy, and she seemed to not care or mind about Peter. He was thankful because he didn’t want much attention from the woman, because somehow the woman could think that he was an actual person and that he had some kind of power in him.

Suddenly, the details around started to get blurred and seemed to be glitching.

Peter took the gun away from his face and looked around. He was right. The woman didn’t even pay a glance and she also had started to get blurry, too. Which confirmed that his hunch was right.

This time, Peter created a steel wing again and used it to keep him in the air. While watching the dream change, he again tried to control her dream but it didn’t do anything. The squid monster could still be out at the dream space, and he couldn’t leave her dream yet.

A green plane appeared, followed by green contoured shapes of lines. Peter realized it was a maze. He thought it was safe, so he hovered close to the maze. However, he couldn’t contain his balance. He couldn’t see what was happening, but his steel wings started disappearing.

He fell a few feet from the ground, so he was still able to land on his feet.

Peter was now beside the woman, who had just started the maze game. She looked at Peter for a brief moment and proceeded with the maze, not even minding him.

When the woman took a turn and was now out of his sight, he tried creating steel wings again but it never worked. He wasn’t sure about turning back because it might take him longer to find it, so he chose to proceed forward.

“Damn it,” he cursed. He could just wake up to stay away from the dream, but it wasn’t his so he couldn’t wake up until he was either in his dream or he was in the dream space. The latter was impossible because he still could hear the octopus growling out to the dream space. He wondered if people from the dream kingdom came to stop the squid monster.

“A box?” he heard from somewhere. He assumed it was from the woman.

He followed the voice and with two turns, he found a small red box with a yellow ribbon. He wondered what was inside. It made him curious but he was a little suspicious because it could be explosive or something. He couldn’t afford to die in her dream. Because he’d die, too/

But to his surprise, the box started to open on his own. His eyes widened and he covered his head in case it was an actual explosive.

One, two, three seconds passed, but nothing exploded. He opened his eyes and saw a box filled with candies, some of them were golden coins. Peter couldn’t help but chuckle.

He looked ahead of him as if to look at the woman but she wasn’t anywhere near his sight so he chuckled to himself. “What is this now? A childish dream?” he asked.

Without wasting time, he proceeded and walked forward, taking right and left turns until he found another box. This time, it was covered with pink and yellow polka dots with a red ribbon. Instead of opening it, he waited for it to open itself and reveal what was inside.

The box then opened, and what he saw made his eyes open wide in surprise. It was filled with precious gemstones. Mostly diamonds and gold jewelry. He approached and checked each, and they looked genuine.

But then again, he remembered he was in a dream. And as sad as the true sound, like everybody, no matter how much he wanted to, he wouldn’t bring anything to the real world, when he woke up.

Sighing, he proceeded the maze and from above, even though he couldn’t see it himself, he was halfway through the maze, where the end was waiting.

He didn’t stop to look at what the boxes would have and continued to just walk by. He was quick and almost his turns were correct, so it didn’t take long for him to catch up with the woman who owned the dream. She was looking at the green box.

“What are you looking at?” he asked, looking over her shoulder. He saw a box filled with chocolates. He laughed a little. “Do you like chocolates?” he asked another.

She turned to him and he burst out of laughter when he saw her lips with melted chocolates. “Do you love chocolate that much?”

She nodded and stood up before wiping her lips with the back of her hand, ignoring him.

When she faced him briefly, he noticed that she had jewelry on her wrists and fingers, as well as her ears and neck. She chuckled because he knew the feeling of having expensive things on your body. He had been doing those ever since he learned he could.

The woman started to proceed again and Peter followed. He wondered what way the woman would take and if she’d be right. Also to avoid her making hasty decisions that could kill either or both of them.

However, the dream started to change again. The maze was starting to disappear and it was starting to get glitches, just like earlier.

He turned around and listened. He sighed. It still wasn’t safe to go out.

He didn’t have any choice but to stay in her unstable dream and stop her from dying, with him still in there. He couldn’t even create anything to help him.

He didn’t even know what was coming on her next dream.