The nightmare I had felt so real it took me sometime to realize it. I look at my parents who were standing next to my bed and Zaana who is trying to console me saying "It is just a nightmare, you are fine. Everything is fine"
I know it is a nightmare, but it felt real, too real I could feel the pain and the suffering I went through. In that nightmare, I saw many animals and monsters have evolved into bipedal beings intelligent and strong.
Waging war against humans, destroying anything that is in their way and killing humans on sight. The worst thing is I couldn't recognize the place I was. It was devastated by the continuous war.
The most terrible thing I saw in the nightmare is my family getting slaughtered like chicken trying to protect me from those bipedal monsters. They were like a twigs in front of them broken without any effort.
It took me a few minutes to regain my composure hugging my parents and Zaana with all the power I could muster not wanting to let them go and killed like it happened in the nightmare.
After a few minutes, I let go of them and give a fake smile at them apologizing to them for being a cry baby and disturbing them like this which they didn't care and still look at me with worries in their eyes.
My mother and sister decided to let my father stay in my room for the night to make sure I am fine and leave the room as it is just 2:14 AM. My father didn't sleep for the rest of the night just keeping his eyes on me while I sleep.
I didn't tell them one thing I saw in the nightmare. It was all happening because of me, because I failed in a mission and these bipedal monsters got the access to enter Almeya and destroy it with no mercy or guilt.
This has strengthened my resolve to become more powerful. I will grow strong, no matter who or what comes in my way, I will become stronger.
The day started with my mother and sister coming to my room to check on me. Dawn too comes to my room to check if I am fine. They didn't leave my side for the whole day as they have never seen me like this before, not even after the attack on me and the dungeon outbreaks.
Those incidents devastated me and made me work hard, but now, this nightmare has changed something in me. I can feel it, but I don't know what it is. All I can say is I am feeling anger, a rage that wants me to be stronger than anyone to keep my family, the people I love and care safe.
If I tell this to anyone, they will only laugh. For them, I am already overpowered to handle the dungeon monsters by a whole grade. Only I know, how weak I was to fight the bipedals in my nightmare and I have a gut feeling that it might come to pass if I am not ready for it.
This made me to choose the skill ICE WAVE that is almost similar to the Fury Slash which was my very 1st skill I purchased. This skill is an AOE skill that will freeze the targets and a meter surrounding the impact. This will slowdown the enemy at the most if it is powerful enough to withstand the impact and the freeze.
It will also slowdown the speed of healing for the dungeon monsters which have high vitality and can heal faster. This will help me when I am against a single or multiple targets. A wave of ice in an arc shape will be released from my weapon which will cause all these possible.
My squad have been given a week time to rest from the previous dungeon out break we defended which will be more than enough for me to learn and use the skill with near perfection.
When I told Shona that I will be getting the Ice Wave skill, she asked me to wait for a few minutes and later I got a notification saying 4000 contributions have been deducted from my account and after a minute I received an email with the skill I wanted to buy.
Only then I realized Shona can also handle my finance and anything I want to be done in the internet provided it is not an illegal activity. I at first became angry as she did not tell me about this or get my permission to use the contributions I have, but just did it without my knowledge.
I told her not to do it again without informing me. I am also happy as it will help me reducing the time I need to do any research on the internet for any information I might need. I can get them from her without much problems.
It took me only a day to understand the skill with the help of Shona as she gathered lot of information about it and how I can modify it to my benefit. I still kept it as an AOE skill, but with less damage and more freezing effect which will also help me to escape if the situation requires.
Now that I have the Ice Wave and understood how it works and made my own tweaks with major help from Shona, I need to start practicing it so I can use it with ease even in a high pressure battle. I will not be able to practice it here at home as it will be dangerous as an AOE attack and not a single target attack.
When I checked with Shona regarding this predicament with Jon, he said our squad is given access to a special training facility that we can use for training and practicing. He said that it will help us to learn more powerful skills and train in large scale battle scenarios.
I don't know why we have to use a special training facility when all we have to do is to use the training rooms that are on top of the Hunter's Guild which will be more than enough for everyone in my squad to train in any scenarios and practice our new skills.