Ancient Dream Collector - Chapter 1. A Man With Dreams.

“Finally I would be able to go for a second awakening, and my power would definitely increase.”

“I have dreamed of this moment for so long.”

In a tattered small cottage behind the mountains, 24 years old Xiao Shi was desperately staring at the fruit he had found in a certain cave.

“Who would have thought that, I would have such great luck to be able to find Awakening fruit in this desolate place?”

“I knew you wouldn’t abandon me God, I knew it.”

A long awaited excitement can be seen from his face, as he was continuously praising his own luck and thanking the GOD.

This world is same as Earth in some ways.

The only Difference is that people here are born with strange types of super-powers which were connected to there soul.

Some can fly at sonic speed, some can shatter rocks, some can control elements, some can teleport and some can control minds.

These powers also decide there ranking of a person in the society, the higher the power level the higher the ranking and living conditions.

Xiao Shi was forced to live in the mountains because he truly has shitty powers, “at least that’s what people said” he had the Power of Dream and that may also have been the reason that his parents abandoned him at birth.

Every child at birth go through the checkup to test his abilities and powers, and decide his ranking from birth.

His power was a rare one which was unheard of in the society, but all he can do is to dream and do whatever he wanted inside as if he was a god of Creation.

But if you can’t contribute to the society in real life, then you will be kicked out of the Zone after you turn 18 and live as an outcast outside, there are many like him who can’t prove the worth of their power and Roam outside the comforting walls.

Which truly shows the cruelty of this world.

Sometimes he even wonders that is there even a reason to let them live outside, as they also can do the jobs all others privileged one can do, so why is this idiotic system even exist.

But what you can do in the face of power, which can crush you like an ant and nobody would even interfere, the only thing to be done here is to sigh and accept the fate.

And since he had a lot of time to spare from childhood, he truly used it to its limit.

He liked to read novels and watch Anime all the time, using the little money he earned from working on small jobs here and there since he was 11.

He used them as a reference to build a Haven like world within his dream to satisfy any of his needs and desires.

With endless expanses of beautiful mountains and lands, oceans filled with water of life, endless expanse of spirit plants and world trees with fruits hanging, flying islands filled with treasures and even flying continents, everything he had read from cultivation novels he had created it in his dream space.

Over the years of countless creation it was truly a creation that even gods would envy, it even reached to the point that somehow he was able to create his own Heavenly Laws for his dream world, giving birth to new Dimensions and life in his dream world as countless Races of beast, humans, elves, dwarfs, demons, and even Fairies and gods started being born.

It was like a true world, with unlimited boundaries and Laws which work on its own and doesn’t need his interference.

Those were laws true laws of the universe of Creation and somehow unknowingly he had pulled it off.

But it was truly a pity that he cannot Use the powers or show his Heavenly creations to others. Only if he could take those treasures outside, he would have already achieved the pinnacle of this world.

He had always wanted to go from an Awakening process to awake his powers further, in the hopes that he would be able to take things outside from his dream world, and achieve his goal to live and Rule his own creation.

“I think I should stop thinking and eat this fruit.”

He slowly picked up the fruit with trembling hands due to Excitement and nervousness, and placed it close to his mouth. He could even smell the intoxicating fragrance, as if it was a Thousands of year’s fermented wine.

Opening his mouth he swallowed the whole fruit, without even bothering to bite it.

Entering in his mouth it break and crumbled itself on its own, slowly entering his throat it felt like burning hot magma with sweet texture, the flavor was to rich and intoxicating that his mind went to daze for couple of seconds, but the slowly increasing pain and burning sensation brought him back to reality.

When it reached inside his stomach and started spreading in every corners of the body, he wasn’t able to handle the burning sensation as it felt like his whole body was on fire from inside to outside and started groaning painfully.

“AHH why is this happening, I have read that it only feels hot as if you have a high fever when you eat the awakening fruit”.

“Why is it as painful as If am about to explode.”

He truly didn’t understand what was the reason of such pain.

“Unless…”

“Unless the fruit was more than 10000 years old.”

At this time he knew he screw up.

As he made his own deductions, He was shocked. If what he thought was right then he had eaten a fruit that could be considered as higher than a national treasure.

“What can I do now, the pain is getting unbearable every second.”

He tried many things to ease the pain, even eating ice he had collected but it wasn’t helpful even for a second.

“I Ahh, I think I would not be able to handle the berserk power inside the fruit.”

He was groaning pitifully as He truly feared that he would die, he could even feel blood from his seven orifices was slowly seeping out and his vision slowly turning bloody as well.

“Am I truly going to die this pitifully, even going to be abandoned by you.”

Facing upwards he has slowly saying his words to God he idiotically believed in all his life.

“Is there really nothing I could do.”

“And I thanked him for nothing.”

“If I am going to die I will die in my dream, my world, and my own creation.”

As he was truly prepared to die his determination can be seen on his face, he slowly closed his eyes as he desired to see his creation, his last hope.

He truly regretted eating the fruit without checking further, in the fear that it will get snatched from him.

Inside his dream world which was still stable, but it was like darkness was slowly taking over his world, he sat on his throne inside of the palace, from where everything outside can be seen clearly.

Countless monsters wailing and shouting can be heard as they can feel what was happening.

He slowly closed his eyes and prepared to die any second.

“I wish that I would be able to achieve what I wanted in next life, I hope my creation would not vanish.”

What he was not able to see was that, after eating the awakening fruit his power was slowly rising and his dream world was expanding rapidly by hundreds of times every ten seconds, everything was strengthening from laws to creatures, everything, as sun-moon and some stars started shining brightly into the sky which was previously only blue sky with a giant orb of light as sun.

There was also a small portal which was appearing beside him in his Dream world and in his real world, it slowly grew in tens of meter, and started sucking everything slowly as a black hole.

“What the k” he felt the suction, as he opened his eyes only to see this weird portal appeared out of nowhere.

And next thing he knew he was sucked inside and he was gone but strange thing was his whole world also disappeared with him nothing was left behind as if his whole world followed him in side along with his soul, only leaving behind the lifeless body inside the cottage.