Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army - Chapter 445: Self

Coordination, forethought and patience, these were things Yunan had to learn by nearly dying daily, and it is thanks to these three that he can support his career as a dungeon prowler, all other traits he developed along the years were related to those three.

Teaching such profound principles to a teenager was a feat worth celebrating Debauchery party as genius teachers, and Yunan was finding the harder part about imparting the same principles to Effort.

The problem was not the limited capability of Effort, as a sentient divinity, he was still not free from the binding of his previous phase of existence, reliance on a master.

As long as Effort received orders or found Yunan in need, he would do as told or help out with all his power, the lack of a “self” made the sentience incomplete, thus the dependency on a master still.

As a student of the one and only Debauchery party, it would besmirch the name of his teachers if he did things without challenge or half-assed it in any way.

The training thus changed its purpose to something else, giving Effort a sense of self, then help him get in tune with Yunan and if possible meld together willingly.

This had the added risk of Effort rejecting the previous idea of following a master, but it was worth it for Yunan, the Effort divinity was made by him and as such will always be linked to him, unless Effort recognised another god that has effort as his domain, there was no separating Yunan from his divinity.

Instilling a sense of self came through near-death experiences, also known as the short but hard way, Effort would fight Yunan to the brink of death, neither of them would use power beyond a certain amount, these near-death experiences always resulted in momentary conjoining between god and divinity, but since it was too early, the event did not last longer than a few breaths.

To his credit, As Effort expended more efforts in fighting, it grew and ego and self-awareness, and not long after, a sense of self and self-preservation.

On that day, the fight ended with the first draw, it was enough for the two to stop and rest, after all, it took some years of daily fighting to reach this point. But the two mad partners kept at it, fighting endlessly until they could, using only will, join and separate, they were still examining the conjoined state when the alarms of Dreamscape started ringing.

50 years, that was how long it took for Dreamscape to reach a universe abundant with dream energy. And those 50 years of travel provided just enough time for both Yunan and Tasha to power up.

What Dreamscape found was not just a universe with a higher signature of dream energy, when Yunan examined it, he could hardly think for a moment. Dreamscape had found a dream universe, basically a universe version of Dreamscape.

Yunan assumed that Dreamscape found its way here because the dream energy that passively left this universe was like a beacon, the starved Dreamscape locked on it due to its abundance.

Yunan and Tasha wisely agreed to let Dreamscape feed on the errant energy before deciding whether to enter or not.

Dreamscape was dangerous enough to hold out against an invasion of an entire universe, anything that can be an amplified version of Dreamscape is, by definition, dangerous.

Yunan was debating about trying to go in alone first, having a dream divinity made him compatible with dream energy and thought the universe would not reject him, as technically, his effort divinity was a huge amalgamation of different divinities.

Even if he had the idea, he would do nothing yet, Dreamscape has yet to start digesting the energy, and before Yunan had a primary grasp of the energy, taking any action would be extremely foolish.

Tasha, on the other hand, was rearing to get into action, a new universe, a new set of laws and a new challenge.

Although she had not fully understood all the laws she had access to, she had a basic primary understanding of them all and had focused on the laws relating to her domain, for most of the last 50 years, and she was hoping to get a new set.

She had some insight on why Yunan was focused on grasping all laws and assimilating them, although it was only some insight, she knew that for those who accumulate laws, there will be some benefits that can eclipse the use of a single set of laws.