Summoner: The Book of Dimension

51 Peter Acquires Technique Books

Peter continued with the last two tests, but with the thought of leveling up the test.

For the fourth test, he tested her for physical. He made a scenario of her in a spy mission with fewer tools and weapons provided by Peter. At first, she was doing great.

When she was in a situation where she was in an interrogation with the enemy, she successfully escaped by rubbing the rope that was wrapped on her wrists against the corner of the chair she was sitting at. She also fought the two enemies inside that room but it was difficult when she needed to fight the other enemies outside that interrogation room.

Although she showed a promising action when she was having that zombie dream, the dream stone only gave him a green glow, which told that her approach to the dream was just normal.

Now, for the last test, he wanted to test her mind, so he set her up for a riddle tests. The scene he created was, like the previous level, she was trapped in a cubic white room but there was nothing else there but a statue of a goblin. He made it to look like Wibbie, Wiboe’s twin brother.

She woke up inside the white room, lost and confused. She couldn’t clearly remember the last dream nor she knew that she was actually dreaming, but she found the scene quite familiar as if she felt that she had been in the same familiar situation.

Although she was starting to think she was in a dream, she kept losing the idea that she could really be in a dream.

Since it was the only thing in there, she noticed the statue of the goblin. She knew that it looked like a goblin, and from what she was seeing, it was just as tall as her knees. Peter was watching her by a small surveillance camera on a corner.

Curious, she crouched down and studied the goblin statue for a while, and she screeched when it suddenly looked at her. The goblin statue was as white as the room, but the eyes could be seen moving. She was shocked when it smiled.

“Welcome,” the goblin statue said. Of course, Peter used English because he knew she wouldn’t be able to understand Orrinatta.

But now it made him think. She could be like him and his other friends who knew Orrinatta without even studying it or even without being an inheritor or a descendant. Josh could be an inheritor because of Edgar Lee, but that was not important for him to think as of the moment.

If she was an inheritor, she could understand Orrinatta.

“What is your name?” the goblin statue asked in Orrinatta. This was Peter’s test to know if she was an inheritor.

She looked at the goblin statue for a while, and Peter waited for her reaction or answer. But she only stepped back and panicked. “I don’t understand what you’re saying. Somebody help me!” she screamed.

He nodded. Well, it’s not that he actually expected her to know Orrinatta. It was just his hunch and he wanted to know if his hunch was right.

“Calm down,” Peter made the goblin speak but with his voice.

The voice was familiar to her, but she couldn’t tell who it was from. Then, Peter let the goblin statue do its work.

“If you want to get out of this place, answer my riddles. If you answered all of them correctly, you’ll be free from here,” the goblin statue said. “I only got two riddles for you, are you ready?”

She was hesitant but she nodded slowly.

“I swim in the highs, I come down and be gone, I live and die repeatedly. I may be a convenience and inconvenience, I make the water high. what am I?” the goblin statue asked the first riddle. It was easy and Peter could even tell what the answer was.

She thought hard. “Is this something I can find in the sky?” she asked.

“That, I could not answer,” the goblin said.

“I go with...sky. It’s the sky,” she answered with low confidence.

“Next riddle,” the goblin said.

She was surprised. “Wait, won’t you let me know if I answered it correctly first before you go with the next riddle? How do I know if I’m even correct?” she asked. “Somebody please! Help me!” she cried.

“I apologize. The answers will be given until you answered the last riddle. The result must come at the end,” the goblin statue said monotonously. Peter was slightly embarrassed. It was too late to fix the personality of the goblin statue. “Don’t be discouraged. You must believe in yourself.”

Dorothy was kind of encouraged by the goblin statue’s words and Peter was glad. She cleared her throat. “What’s the next riddle?”

“I am you but not exactly. I do what you do but if the light is gone so am I. What am I?” the goblin statue said.

Now, that was tricky for her for some reason. She couldn’t think of anything else but a shadow. But she wasn’t sure because it could be a mirror or reflection, too.

She closed her eyes as she was to answer. “I—it’s a shadow, right?” she asked.

The goblin smiled at her. “Congratulations,” the goblin statue said and after that, the statue started shaking until it imploded, showing a small door about as high as the goblin statue.

She crawled out of there and she was back to her own dream without even knowing what just happened.

Peter waited for the result to come and the dream stone gave him a blue glow.

Finally, he left her dream and went to his place in the dream space. Counting the score, he concluded that she had three blue glow and two bright green glow based on what the dream stone gave him. If he’d follow the majority, her power attribute was just average. Not normal, but she could be a distance inheritor.

He didn’t know how to summon the dream goblin to his dream. He wasn’t sure if Wiboe meant he should summon him using a circle or just call out for him. He hoped it was not summoning with the circle. He didn’t want to use that book nor do anything like creature summoning.

“Wiboe?” he called. “Wiboe!” he called out, raising his voice a little.

Right then, a small smoke appeared in front of him and when it disappeared, Wiboe appeared. He was glad it was not summoning using the circle. “Oh, it is you, Peter.”

“Yeah. I found someone average, but she could be worth it. She showed great action when she was on her dream before, I think she could be fit as a dreamlord,” he said with a smile.

The dream goblin smiled. “Great. Who is this person?” Wiboe asked.

“Her name is Dorothy Parker. She just lives next door,” he said, pointing to the right side of his house.

Wiboe nodded. “I see. What is her score?” he asked.

Peter hummed. “Three average, two normal. So the majority of average,” he said.

Wiboe nodded but he was less impressed. “Well, that was really average. She’s not as impressive as you,” he said with a smile.

Peter chuckled, a little embarrassed. “You’re flattering me. Was my attribute really great before you made me a dream lord?” he asked out of curiosity.

The goblin nodded. “Yeah, some dream goblins of mine actually know you. Some of the dreamlords actually know you. So when you visit the dream kingdom, if some people are staring at you, do not feel strange. They probably know you,” he explained. “That’s why I made you a goblin the next day. It’s not me exactly, but through me, you became a dreamlord.”

“Thanks for that,” Peter said. “But I want you to trade something to me in exchange,” Peter said. “I know it’s part of the deal when I got the dream stone, but now that I found someone you could give me something as a reward.”

The dream goblin raised his eyebrow but he agreed Peter needed a reward for bringing one candidate as a dreamlord

“Of course. Hang on a second,” The goblin said and threw a glass orb that made him gone. He went back to the dream kingdom to get something.

A small smoke reappeared in front of him. Wiboe appeared with two books. “Help me with this,” Wiboe grunted and Peter took the two books.

He read the title of each book, both written in Orrinatta language. “What are these books?” he asked.

Each was titled Mind Magic: The Shadow of Fear and Elf Sword Dance ABC respectively. “Is this some training book?”

Wiboe nodded. “Yeah, they are training books. Is that enough as a trade of reward for you?”

Peter nodded. “Sure. But what do these books do?” he asked, staring at their similar design. They just looked old and almost written in identical handwriting.

“Mind Magic: The Shadow of Fear teaches you techniques to do mind magic. Simple mind controls and such. But this book specifies skills to use extreme fear to control someone. The Elf Sword Dance ABC, a demigod named Barros used this to learn sword fighting.”

Peter remembered Barros. He grinned confidently because he would be more powerful with those two books. “This will be fun.”