Dungeon Raider System

Fighting a god was bound to be a difficult task which only worsened considering the battle took place right in the god's domain. Luna was well aware of that fact, but that didn't faze her in the slightest as her curiosity far surpassed fear or even her self preservation instinct. When the god warned her that she would probably drop dead just by looking at his face, Luna took it at face value and didn't doubt that he was telling the truth and was actually excited about it.

In many different mythologies, looking at a god in the face equaled death, not because of an absurd amount of power but rather the knowledge that came along with it and Luna referred to that kind of death as 'death by enlightenment' and there was no other death that could possibly compare to that.

When that didn't come to happen she was left disappointed as there was no other death she'd rather experience, but the worst part came when she saw how the so called god was the equivalent to a gigantic single cell organism.

Even worse was the fact that not even after threatening to kill her, he could not deliver despite being in his own domain and she thought it fair to try and fight back with little expectations of any success.

When the figure of the demon appeared Luna was left stunned, not that it showed on her face, but the fact that it looked just like in her imagination made Luna doubt whether she really created it with her own imagination or if she somehow summoned the real deal.

"Impossible! You destroyed my nightmares!" The sandman cried as his creations were now dispersed into the void and the demon replied with a mute fit of laughter proving to Luna that it was not the real thing.

"Please, mister god, can you stop disappointing me?" Luna's request so innocent yet so hurtful the god could not withstand it and fell into a fit or rage encompassed by all the colors of the rainbow being displayed on his cromatophores.

"You will regret making fun of me," He bellowed unaware that Luna was not being sarcastic, ironic or anything in between and was actually pleading for him to stop shattering her dreams. "you may have been able to destroy those lowly creatures, but anything your species has ever dreamed about I can summon with but a thought."

A myriad of weapons appeared out of thin air and manned by all sorts of creatures without a face they destroyed the shadowy figure of the demon Luna summoned.

"Interesting." Luna said.

"And this is just the beginning! I can also summon nuclear weapons!" Morpheus laughed at the same time a nuclear missile appeared out of the void and exploded in a burst of white light erasing everything and anything, even the creations made by morpheus.

"Why am I not dead?" Luna asked after her body was reassembled back into its original shape.

"Because this is the dreamscape and nothing can die here, but that doesn't mean you can't experience pain."

"That was painless." Luna informed.

"I know, I was just proving my point. This may be your mind, but you cannot make a nuclear weapon like I can. Give it your best shot, I dare you." Morpheus bellowed his challenge, though secretly he wished she was unable to. Luna gave it her best shot and while she was able to create something that looked identical to what Morpheus summoned, the bomb didn't go off.

"It doesn't work." She sighed.

"That is because you are a mere human and I am an immortal being, older than your race, older than the world you know. Are you afraid now?" Morpheus said, the colors in its single cell organism shifting from pride to cruelty.

"Not really, I think the reason why I can summon living beings like this," Luna gestured and made a small sparrow that flew away. "is because I have an understanding of how do they work. That is why the demon I imagined could not speak, because while I know it moves thanks to an inner hydraulic system but I completely ignore anything related to its phonatory system."

"I am impressed that a furry ape like you could pick up on it so fast, but that doesn't change anything. Now you will experience a thousand deaths, each increasingly more painful and there is nothing you can do to stop it."

"I wonder...," Luna fumbled to herself causing the god of dreams to shiver in pale confusion, then utter fear when Luna waved her hand and the figure of the mist titan rank cryptid appeared. It didn't move, it didn't speak and looked more similar to a tridimensional painting rather than the actual thing, but the god Morpheus lighting up in different shades confirmed her theory. "you've seen it before."

"Erase that thing, erase it now!" Morpheus commanded, but the misty figure of the titan suddenly began moving and it wasn't until Luna dissipated her imagination that it faded away.

"So, if I start building something in my mind but I ignore how it works, it can still be created as long as you know how it works."

"That's it, I'm banishing you from this realm. go back to whatever nightmarish world you came from and never come back," Morpheus said and when nothing happened he then asked. "how are you doing this? You should have gone back to the waking world!"

"It's easy, I'm using the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response to keep myself tethered to this world, but since you lack bilateral symmetry it's not something you'll understand. Now, what would happen if instead of thinking on complex beings or objects, I picture a simple chemical reaction?" With a thought, Luna summoned white phosphorus which immediately took fire in the Morpheus body. He attempted to wash it off and even scrape it off his body, but nothing worked. "I learned about that substance from a friend. He mentioned how it was so dangerous its use was forbidden even in war and now I can see why. It can be effective even in gods."

"Make it stop!" Morpheus screamed at the same time he countered with a hundred weapons all lined up aiming directly at Luna, but then something incredible happened. Another figure appeared out of thin air and stopped the projectiles by summoning a concrete barrier proving it was not a figment of Luna's imagination, but an actual entity. "this isn't possible! I must be dreaming..." Morpheus said after losing track of what was real and what belonged in the imagination realm.

"Uhm... hi." Luna's werewolfish form said to Luna's human figure and the most surreal conversation took place to the background noise of Morpheus screaming. They conversed about the dicotomy of being a hybrid, their thoughts about their life and the people they loved and even about their research, though her lycantropic form was more interested in her mating habits.

"I beg of you, for anything you hold sacred... I beg of you, take this off of me." Morpheus pleaded.

"One second," Human Luna said to her lycantrope counterpart and proceeded to hurl a fountain of hydrofluoric acid on the crying god. "that is none of your business."

"Our biological needs should come first, even if at the cost of our research."

"No, no, that is not the case. We still have plenty of time to do that in the future, but we are pioneers in our line of work." Luna countered, then added a substance Medusa mentioned to her in passing. It looked exactly like a glass pane, though it was made of iodine triphosphate, a highly volatile substance that exploded on impact against Morpheus in hopes that it will make silence, but the divine creature did not speak with lungs.

"You silly, he doesn't possess organs but organelles." The lycanthrope laughed.

"How do you know it's a he? We have yet to determine whether or not it has genitalia."

"Because he identified as such and that should do."

"I do not want to debate gender at this moment, maybe we could revisit this conversation in the future." Both Lunas agreed.

"Please, I'm just a single cell organism who just happened to be able to process more information that any other organism of my time. I'll do anything, I'll give you my power no strings attached. I can give you a different trait as you call them, just make it stop." Morpheus begged.

"You can do that?" Asked Luna after dissipating the chemicals she used to 'experiment' on the 'subject'.

"Yes," Morpheus meekly spoke. "to put it in your terms, I can change your DNA."

"Nice try, hunter's DNA does not carry our traits or else humans would always inherit the trait of one of the parents or a mix of both and that is not the case."

"No, that's not the case. It's in the secret markers within the strains. I have witnessed thousands of scientists dreaming of achieving the same thing all gods can do. Your species share genetic material with all of the past generations, but not all. This means I can only access the traits that laid dormant in your ancestor's bloodline." Morpheus explained.

"We could finally get rid of this useless trait that only makes us shine." Human Luna said showing how embarrassed she was about her trait, but wolf Luna shook her head.

"It is anything but useless."

At that moment, Uriel woke Luna up with a gentle nudge and a reinforced alloy shield just in case.

"I just had the most amazing dream ever."