While in this black void, which I'm pretty sure is my new mother's womb, some green words just appeared in front of my face before disappearing.
[Initializing....]
[Hunter of Dreams]
[Welcome to the Hunt]
[To access a Hunting Subroutine at anytime, the user must think of Dream and one of its subroutines. Ex: Dream + Home + Hunt + Life]
That's kind of cool, there's a program in my head now.
Okay let's try this, Dream Home
[Beginning primary scan of Current Body Condition before entering the Dream Home]
After a few moment a voice appeared in my head describing the process of activation.
[Statistics Complete beginning Dream Home Process. Process will be seamless on next usage.]
With that I suddenly felt different before finding myself in a different setting. It was hazy and somewhat dark. There was a small hut in front of me. I looked around and found myself in a dark wood. There was a small garden and a dirt path leading up to the hut.
Looking at myself, I was still a soul since I had no limbs or body to inspect but strangely I could float around.
Moving toward the hut, the door swung open for me to float on in. Inside the small hut were a lot of cobwebs, a small bed, and an antique desk with a wide open book on it.
Avoiding the gloomy atmosphere, I floated over the book to read it. It depicted what seemed like an embryo on the right page and the left depicted a stat sheet
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Name: ???
Species: Human (Unknown)
Age: 0.1
Class: ???
Rating: 2.91
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Strength: 0.01
Constitution: 0.1
Dexterity: 0
Intelligence: 1.6
Wisdom: 1.2
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Status: In gestation
Current Energy: Mana
Elemental Affinity: ???
Blessings: Unknown Goddess (S.L.A.D.)
Skills: Earth Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Basic Engineering, History and linguistics)
[Note: as more info is collected the statistics will update ???]
[Note 2: based of standard of one adult human Male is equal to a number of 1]
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It looks like this book keeps a record of stats of myself in a way I can diagnose. It looks like the skills only show things I have acquired and not hand them out like in those systems some other novels have.
Also it seems some of the missing spots of information is based on my own perception and what is affecting me currently.
Its essential a diagnostic tool on myself.
Reading into it, it looks like my intelligence and wisdom might have been carried over from earth along with my skills which is convenient. My rating may be skewed for a while because it looks to be the total of all my stats
Another thing, what's mana? This stat sheet is only supposed to show me things that I am being exposed to currently. I can guess mana is a type of magical energy but I'm already exposed to it while as a fetus and going further, I don't know what mana is so how is it popping up.
Thinking about it further, this likely has something to do with my mother.
Drawing attention to what the Goddess had said about knowledge I didn't feel like I learned anything new so how does mana pop up.
Maybe this system is using the other portion of Hunter of Dreams to understand this.
Dream Hunt!
[Diagnostic of Sensory Organs]
[No working Ocular, Auditory, Respiratory organs located. Diagnostic Using only Somatosensory]
Oh so it goes based of my senses including touch
Before I could say anything, Information was whispered in my head about the Hut I was looking at. The whispers told me this Hut was part of my Dream home and it would morph according to my rating, and how I perceive the world. The Dream home can function in different ways depending on what I want it to do. In order to leave the Dream Home I have to sleep.
These whispers were extremely creepy. Every word told to me was from a different person. Regardless I am eager to try this outside.
Floating to the bed, I did what felt most comfortable and attempted to lay down and sleep. Apparently that was enough because I felt the darkness around me return with my eyes attempted to be opened.
Trying the Dream Hunt again, a whole bunch of whispers filled my head again describing where I am.
[Diagnostic of Sensory Organs]
[No working Ocular, Auditory, Respiratory organs located. Diagnostic Using only Somatosensory]
Location: Frigga's Womb
-Place where your being developed idiot!
[Entity Detected... Searching "Goddesses Database"..... Search successful]
Name: Frigga Frost Hammer
Species: Human (Lost Wood Tribes)
Age: 22
Class: Druid
Rank: 6.7
Status: Pregnant
[Diagnostic Complete]
Clearly this Goddess loves to play games because I heard her voice in the Whispers. Also it looks like she's the source of all the knowledge given to me. So she can basically throw remarks my way whenever I want to understand something. And it looks like I'm part of the Lost Woods tribe. I guess the Dream Hunt automatically feeds info into my status in the Dream Home.
Besides that, it looks like my name is Frost Hammer now and I live in a tribe in the woods.... Great. Also Frigga is a Norse or Germanic name... it must be a coincidence. It also must be a coincidence that it seems like people in this tribe have a first and a last name. That's something humans in my world came up with after four thousand years of history. I'm really interested in this world already and I haven't even been born yet!
I wonder how the log works
Dream Life?
With that, the voices in my head appeared again speaking to me.
[Log tool commencing]
[Error: Unable to Demonstrate log]
[Troubleshoot: User is currently in prologue "A Lost Boy in a new world". Please attempt again in 282 days 9 hours 36 min when your first chapter begins]
[Note from Goddess: There's nothing to log about in your mom's belly but don't worry the auto log is working now so you can look back at this later.]
So if I am to understand this correctly, the Goddess is gonna force me, against my will, to write an autobiography of my life in diary format for her, and whoever else she pleases to enjoy. Seems like a very cathartic form of therapy if you ask me.
And what is this Lost Boy thing, it's not like I'm that confused about my life?
In any case it's time to think.
After returning to the Dream Home, Andre noticed a new page in the book depicting his mother's status. Now knowing that he has a record of everything he sees, he began to draw some inferences and plans based off the data shown.
My mother is a Druid and it must be the reason I'm surrounded by mana. Therefore maybe I can use mana early and maybe get an advantage
Settling his mind he exited the Dream Home and started trying to feel the mana in his surroundings. Andre felt embarrassed. To him it was like pretending to be psychic. As much as he tried he felt nothing but exhaustion.
Looks like I'm not a genius.
As a fetus, he was asleep most of the time but whenever he was awake he would attempt to feel anything. He knew since the Dream Hunt only worked through touch currently, something in his body was picking up mana.
After months of trying, as he was still trying to feel anything he started to focus on the comfort of his position. He was totally at the mercy of the outside world and really couldn't do anything but get comfortable.
From what he could tell, he felt the temperature to be perfect for him and he kept falling in and out of sleep.
Then one day, he saw green lights in his mind. They felt like a warm summer breeze. He could swear he could smell the breeze was filled with the scent of flowers. But he has no working nose so how can he smell it. These lights just surrounded him like fireflies. They embraced him like a mother would embrace their child.
"What is this?...", he tried to say. (There was a shock factor here)
Some type of sigil appeared in his mind just then, depicting a great tree. It quickly glowed in a green color then disappeared. He had no idea what it meant all he knew was that he felt extremely comfortable. All though he was technically in his mother's womb he felt as if his mother was embracing him. He felt the cold wind, the warm earth, the raging storm, and even the pulse of the earth.
The feeling came, then went just as quickly. But left a connection that he still felt. He slept soundly in his mother's womb for the next few months.