It's a shame Hare isn't here, otherwise weaving a dream would be much simpler.
In Ryn's hand was a ball of light. This was the Authority of the Herrscher of Sentience, which controlled consciousness.
Ryn had found it in Stigmata Kiana's little treasury while Tianqi and God Kiana were tearing each other apart. He had almost been discovered and caught by God Kiana.
Those big, snipping scissors in God Kiana's hands looked very, very painful to Ryn.
Thank goodness he was a fast runner, otherwise the happiness of the rest of his life would have been gone.
The Authority of the Herrscher of Sentience was, in Ryn's opinion, one of the most plain and simple authorities.
Controlling consciousness. Although it had a lot of potential, in the end, it could only control consciousness…
If it could also control the "consciousness" of machines or inanimate objects, becoming a conceptual-level ability, that would be interesting. But unfortunately, it couldn't.
At least, the "artificially created" Authority he got from Stigmata Kiana couldn't do it.
If he were shameless enough to ask the Great Will of the Tree and the Sea for it, he might be able to get a conceptual-level Authority of consciousness control.
Crushing the ball of light, Ryn absorbed and fused with this Authority of the Herrscher of Sentience.
After the fusion, Ryn felt a change in his sea of consciousness that was hard to describe, hard to put into words.
Roughly, it was like gas condensing into water, water turning into ice, and ice sublimating into nothingness…
The soul acts on the body, giving birth to consciousness. Consciousness feeds back to the body, strengthening the vessel of the soul.
At the moment his sea of consciousness changed, Ryn's soul seemed to have crossed a certain level. The connection between his soul and body began to blur.
It was as if... the body had become the soul, and the soul had become the body. There was no essential difference between the two anymore.
Perhaps... in the future, when he and Tianqi were together, he would be the one on top? (You get this ability, and this is what you do with it? Have you no ambition, no goals!)
But no matter what, he could now control the consciousness of living beings.
Although it seemed he could already simply control the consciousness of living beings by modifying their brains with the Authority of the Herrscher of Life and Death…
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With the Authority in hand, the next step was to weave a dream.
As Ryn was thinking about what kind of dream to create, he suddenly felt something trying to emerge from within him…
The head of a white-haired furball popped out of Ryn's left shoulder. Then, as if in competition, a small, black-haired, red-eyed furball also popped out of his right shoulder.
God Kiana and Tianqi looked at each other, and sparks of annoyance flew between their eyes as they began to clash in the air.
God Kiana: "Why isn't Sleeping Beauty still sleeping? What are you doing out here?"
Tianqi: "Oh~ Someone who only knows how to play dead and hide dares to mock me?
Instead of talking about me, why don't you ask yourself? Why aren't you back watching over those little ones? What are you doing here? Be careful you don't screw up again this time and have to restart civilization."
God Kiana: "You really don't mince your words. With a body temperature of thirty-something degrees, how can you say such cold things?"
Ryn: "Moshi moshi... can we please not fight? Also, can you come out properly? Just having your heads sticking out of me is really creepy!"
Tianqi suddenly smiled playfully. She separated from Ryn's body and, under God Kiana's shocked gaze, pinched God Kiana's little face and started playing with it.
"You bastard...!" God Kiana was both embarrassed and annoyed. She looked like she wanted to shoot fire from her eyes and burn Tianqi to a crisp.
But right now, she was just a projection dependent on Stigmata Kiana. Her abilities were limited, and because she was an existence dependent on the Stigmata Space, she couldn't maintain her form if she left Ryn and would be sent back to her own world.
"Aiyo, aiyo~ Look here, isn't this our Herrscher of Finality, Kiana? How is it that you can only let people play with your little face like this now~"
"Tianqi!!!"
God Kiana shouted angrily, but Tianqi pinched her face, making her mouth pucker up so she couldn't speak.
"What are you calling your grandma for?"
"I will def-in-it-ly kill you!!"
"Hahahaha! I'll be waiting~"
Tianqi laughed heartily as she played with God Kiana's little face.
But after seeing Ryn's somewhat exasperated expression, she gradually stopped smiling.
"Boring…"
Tianqi suddenly felt that everything was so boring. What was she doing all this for? Was she trying to get Ryn's attention or God Kiana's? It all seemed meaningless.
So, she let go of God Kiana and started to lift Ryn's chin, looking seriously into his eyes and saying gently:
"I forgot to tell you something. Don't fuse with those messy things or so-called 'Authorities.' Those things aren't yours, nor are they the true 'rules.' Fusing with too many of them won't do you any good, and might even restrain you."
Ryn's heart clenched. For some reason, he thought he saw a helpless and sorrowful look in Tianqi's eyes…
After a long silence, Ryn finally nodded.
"Mm... I understand."
"Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't... it's all the same anyway~"
After receiving Ryn's reply, Tianqi suddenly started laughing again, as if the sadness in her eyes before had been just a deceptive trick.
Tianqi wrapped her arm around Ryn's neck, covered God Kiana's eyes, and pushed her head to the side. Then she held Ryn's face with both hands and kissed him hard.
Ryn instinctively wrapped his arms around Tianqi's waist, responding to her greedy kiss.
A long time later, their lips parted.
Tianqi's cheeks were slightly flushed, her eyes filled with a dazed intoxication. She raised her hand to pat Ryn's shoulder, but for some reason, her hand slipped and slapped God Kiana's face instead.
This sent God Kiana into a frenzy, like a mad dog, snapping her mouth at everything around her. Tianqi found this amusing and slapped God Kiana a few more times, timing each slap perfectly so that she was almost bitten every time.
"I just love this look of yours, wanting to kill me but being completely helpless~"
Tianqi was laughing so hard she was out of breath. Bullying the handless, defenseless God Kiana was more fun than she could have imagined.
"Hahaha! Well then, Ryn, I'll be going now. Don't miss me so much you can't sleep at night, okay~"
"Mm-hm."
Ryn gave Tianqi a wink and then said with a smile, "Unfortunately, I can only miss you for another seven or eight hours. But not because I'll stop, but because the sun will be up~"
"Hmph hmph hmph~"
Tianqi's lips curled up into a smile she couldn't suppress. She then bounced over to Ryn and leaped at him with her arms wide open.
Ryn also opened his arms, ready to catch Tianqi.
But just as she was about to touch Ryn, Tianqi dissolved into a puddle of red water that soaked Ryn's clothes, passed through his body, and disappeared onto the floor.