GUARDIAN OF THE END

"So I am back here."

Jason found himself standing inside his dream world again. He clearly remembered how he had fallen unconscious.

"Hey, system, can you hear me?" Jason asked aloud. He wanted to try and see whether the system could communicate with him while he was present inside his dream world.

Jason waited for about five minutes before coming to the conclusion that his connection with the system didn't work during the time he was present inside his dream world.

"The pen is still floating at the same spot…" The next thing Jason noticed was the purple pen that was still floating in the same spot.

Much to Jason's surprise, he had found out that he knew every single detail about his dream world, except for the number of grass present there.

"I wonder when I will wake up in the real world." Jason murmured while settling down on the ground.

If he had entered the dream world while being asleep, Jason was sure that he would've been able to wake up on command.

But since he had entered the place by falling unconscious, he had no control over his body in the real world.

Jason had of course tried to exit the dream world seconds after appearing inside it yet his attempt had failed.

Jason was feeling quite bored while being inside his dream world and he wasn't in the mood to renovate it either.

'Can I use my mana in here?' As soon as the thought entered his mind, Jason sprang to his feet.

He lifted his right hand forward and tried summoning a lightning bolt. Jason felt the flow of mana moving through his… dream world body.

'Its weird to think how I have one body here and one in the real world.' Jason silently thought as he waited for the lightning bolt to appear.

However, nothing like that happened.

Instead, a window opened in front of Jason and it didn't belong to the system as Jason didn't hear any voice echo inside his head.

< Would you like to take the tutorial of the dream world? >

Jason looked at the screen in interest while trying to wonder what kind of tutorial would he receive.

'Oh well, there isn't anything else that I can do here.' He thought before thinking yes and starting the tutorial.

The screen vanished and was instead replaced by one that Jason had seen before. It was a status screen yet it didn't show the things Jason's system did.

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Current number of active divinities: one(Erebus)

Current number of dormant divinities: two(Sancus, unknown)

Amount of creatures available for fighting: 3

Dream world management

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Jason looked at the options with interest and was about to press one of them when all of a sudden, a rusty mechanical voice appeared inside his head.

"Welcome to your dream world. Every person has a dream world that they can access but only those with a guardian can access their dream world and make changes to it. To proceed, please chose one of the following options."

'That sounds exactly like a system from one of the generic system novels.' Jason observed before choosing the first option.

"This divinity has been handed down to you by your patron god Erebus in the form of a system." The voice went silent.

Jason then pressed the second option.

"Your first secondary divinity is a purple ball pen handed to you by the god of contracts and oaths, Sancus. This divinity is yet to be activated and only offers a passive ability which protects you from slavery.

The second divinity can't be identified. It gives you a slight increase in the charm stat. To unlock both divinities abilities, summon them in the dream world and touch them to activate a trial."

Jason raised his eyebrows in surprise as he received useful information. Now he knew how to activate his divinities at least.

'The third option is self explanatory but I guess it doesn't hurt to try it.' Jason thought with a shrug before pressing the third option.

"By making use of your mana, you can summon certain creatures here which you have fought before. This does not work on creatures at or above S rank."

The window suddenly expanded to show the name of three creatures, all of whom Jason had fought before.

< Goat

Eelfish

Sharkdono >

All three of the creatures had been fought by Jason before.

"What are you though?" Jason asked curiously.

"You can refer to me as the dream world system. I am similar to the system you have inside the real world. In simpler terms, think of me as a RPG mechanism."

Jason nodded as he understood that the voice was similar to a gaming system.

He then chose the goat option to see how it worked.

The window immediately vanished and in the next second, an adult goat appeared in front of Jason.

Its horns were enormously huge and just by looking at it, Jason knew that it was stronger than any other goat he had fought before.

< Start battle >

A screen appeared in front of him as the goat suddenly lunged at him with an inhumane speed.

"At least give me time to prepare!" Jason exclaimed as he turned around and started running.

He tried to activate his lightning steps yet all he saw was an error.

< Skills from the outer world don't work here. You can create new skills here and export them to the real world. >

'I would've liked to know this before I started fighting.' Jason thought silently as he tried summoning lightning around his feet.

Since he used lightning steps similarly, Jason could replicate the same effect and increase his speed multi-fold.

< Lightning run has been created. This skill can't be imported as a similar skill exists in the real world. >

Jason shook his head as he suddenly jumped in the air and hung to the branch of a tree. He looked down and saw the goat hitting the tree with full force.

Its attack shook the tree badly as Jason realized that he only had a few minutes to come up with a plan.

'This should work the best.' Jason thought as he suddenly jumped in the air and pointed his hand downwards.

A web made from dark element shot out from his hand and directly hit the goat. It entangled around the goat and completely restricted her moment.

Jason then pushed lightning through the net the same way he had done during his fight with the shark and Eelfishes.

However, the effect was on the goat was different than what had happened with the shark.

The goat received minor injuries all across its body as it bleated loudly. Its horns suddenly started glowing brightly. Wind wrapped all around the goat's horns and sharpened them greatly, allowing the goat to easily tear the web.

After freeing itself, the goat once again bleated loudly. Two spinning disks suddenly shot out from the goat's horns as they targeted Jason.

The latter had recovered from his slight shock and realized that he was at a disadvantage.

Jason hurriedly shot a harpoon of darkness towards one of the trees and pulled himself towards it.

It was as though the goat had anticipated his moves since the disks hit the same tree a few seconds later.

The goat had already charged forward and this time, Jason couldn't escape. A column of wind was weighing him down from all directions and he couldn't move despite the his lightning steps being active.

The goat soon appeared closer to Jason as its horns glowed powerfully. It aimed directly towards Jason's chest and with a swift movement, pierced his chest.

The goat vanished the next second as Jason's body hit the ground.

< Battle over. You have lost. >