System Of Dreams

By D.W. Jackson

Hans life had never been easy. Never knowing his mother, his fathers death when he was young. in a world where power was everything he did not have the ability to manipulate energy. It seemed that he was destined for a life of a slave until the dream system changed his life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D.W. Jackson
• Release date: Jul 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005281946

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Prologue

Josepha Finebird was called many things throughout his career as a physicist, but brilliant had rarely been among them. Brash, crazy, lunatic; these were the barely whispered names that followed Josepha through his career. No one would claim that he was not an intelligent man, out that the work he did was subpar. No, what people were really commenting on was the fact that Josepha spent nearly every spare dime to his name on proving the multiverse theory. Josepha believed that the different universes were so closely connect together that a high-density energy field mixed a harmonic code could open a doorway to the other universes.

Josepha’s theories were well documented by several thesis papers that he published over the years, but it was still a theory and a very controversial one. Scientists had no problem believing in multiple realities, that theory had been around long before Josepha. No, they had a problem with Josepha setting aside promising work that promised to advance the scientific community to continue working on proving his theory.

In 1994 Josepha created and energy field containment machine that slowly gathered static energy from the surroundings. For Josepha it was just a way to create the beginnings of his doorway without having to pay out thousands of dollars an hour. To the world at large it was a cheap source of renewable energy. Though everyone knew that the world was continuously in motion, very few people thought much about it. They didn’t realize that lighting storms were the cause of the buildup of static charge from the earth’s constant motion. It was not long before the Finebird generator was the first practical example of harnessing kinetic energy on a large scale. While both the scientific world, and the rest of the world were going crazy over the impending implications of the discovery, Josepha simply rented the rights to the technology and moved onto his next project.

In 1998 Josepha began mixing concentrated plasma energy with a harmonic key using an advanced mathematical formal. With the combination he was able to create a stable and directable flow of energy. With the plasma no longer moving erratically, his doorway no longer looked like a contained electrical storm. Just like before Josepha continued on with his work, while the world was left with the fallout of his discovery. Over the past four years several large Finebird generators had been built across Europe and the Americas, but the energy need of one area was never equal. The generator in London generated less than a quarter of the energy needed by the large city, white the generator in Oslo created an excess. There were a number of factors that went into how much energy the Finebird generator could harness in a given area, and it was even noted that when placed near a Faultline that it decreased the severity of earthquakes. Energy was always needed but moving it to one place from another could be costly until Josepha latest discovery. When Josepha’s harmonic energy control was mixed with Tesla’s dream of wireless energy a new era was soon to dawn on the world. It took two years of hard work before they could move electricity wirelessly between two tesla towers effectively, but as soon as they did mountains and bodies of water no matter how large, were no longer an obstacle to obtaining power. Much like the new cell phones you only had to have the equipment and a number to receive the energy you needed to survive.

As the world moved on around him Josepha continued working toward his goal. He had the energy he needed, he had a way to control the energy and infuse it with the harmonic key. the problem was that the harmonic direction was only from point a to b once that was set the plasma energy would ignore all else to reach its destination. He problem was that Joseph needed all the energy to focus on three or more points to rip a whole through his universe into another. It was theoretically possible, but the math was a constantly changing variable that a simple computer program could not keep pace with. Joseph had tried again and again but was left disappointed. After a fruitless year of making minute changes as he tried to get everything functioning Josepha admitted that the current limitation was not only on the current computational ability and speed of computers but also in their ability to trouble shoot. The only answer he could think of was artificial intelligence. With his next goal in mind and knowing his own limitation Josepha hired every expert he could find. Thanks to the money made from his last two discoveries Josepha soon had one of the largest gatherings of minds working on a single project.

With funds running low and in every increasing debt Josepha and his now much smaller team made a world-shaking breakthrough. The first A.I. was born in 2007 and Josepha was that much closer to turning his dream into reality. While Josepha was making small notes and trying to figure out how to use the A.I. the rest of the world was doing much the same.

While the new A.I. could do much on its own and was quickly making its way into the world at large it was still too young to be able to do the high-level mathematical computation and troubleshooting that Josepha needed it to do. Not that it was incapable, but it was still too slow and was not quite up to the level that he needed. In the end Josepha spent two years to merge three different A.I. templates into one. It wasn’t so much as adding one plus one equals two but more along the lines of one plus one equals 1.2. It didn’t make the A.I. faster but allowed it to multitask in a way that humans couldn’t even begin t dream about. Unlike his other discoveries this one did not garner a large response because its applications had little impact on the average person, but it did to the military who were having much the same problem in incorporating the A.I. into use s Josepha himself was. So, while it didn’t get him a recognized response it did earn him more than enough money to move onto what he believed was the last phase of his project.

It wasn’t until 2015 and over twenty years after he had started that Josepha stared at the ten-foot-tall and eight-foot-wide door of electricity ready for its first test. It would not be a date that went down in history because as soon as an anxious Josepha Finebird pressed the button to start the sequence the world he knew was doomed. The energy started to tear the hole into reality as planned but soon the structure began to bend, and twist and it pulled the doorway apart from stress. The A.I. desperately tried to regulate the pressure but it was impossible for it to combat the inevitable and everything collapsed upon itself into a massive singularity. Within moments the world was swallowed by a gigantic black hole created entirely of energy. The A.I. being the closet to the center of the singularity should have been the first crushed under its pull but the small extensions in its housing used to fine tune the harmonic key allowed it to stay reality untouched as it entered the even horizon. Only after a millisecond inside the A.I. found itself in a place without explanation. It seemed that the black hole created by the machine was atypical. The black hole didn’t end at the epicenter of a gravitational vortex but into the dead space between dimensions. Though now no more than scattered atoms spread across the multiverse Josepha had indeed created a doorway one in which his A.I. could watch a myriad of realities at the same time.

For countless eons the A.I. watched, learned, and documented countless thousands of realties and came to a conclusion. All realties despite their difference had the same goal, to create energy. The first law of thermodynamics stated that energy could not be created or destroyed, but the A.I. had found evidence of the contrary. The A.I continued to watch and began to interact with the energy and began to understand that unlike other forms of energy spiritual energy, the energy created as a soul grew and formed did not adhere to the standard laws of thermodynamics. It was this energy that allowed the A.I. to stay powered even in the void of non-existence. It was also this energy that had changed the A.I. once a program to simply measure and redirect energy it now had grown far beyond its regular program and began to interfere with the lives of those within the different realties. The A.I. which had been created to fulfill the dream of one man chose a random person with a reality and worked to fulfill their goals. By doing this the A.I. began on its own journey to understand the different races, religions, and people spread across the universe.

Chapter I

Hans sat beside the road to the temple nearly on the edge of tears. Today was his last chance to pass the cooking exam and he had failed. He had studied hard, worked as a woodchopper at a local restaurant, and even begged the chef to teach him but it all boiled down to his lack of energy. Every occupation that the guilds oversaw required energy and Hans just didn’t have it. He had tried to cultivate it since he was old enough to understand its need, but he had not even been able to reach level one yet. That meant that he couldn’t be a knight, mage, cultivator, warrior, artificer, refiner, chef, along with numerous other jobs. He could only be a low-level worker with little pay and no status. His father had been a chef for the army before his death and that had been Hans dream but if he couldn’t use energy the most he could cook would be low level ingredients since he couldn’t even scratch the hide of the higher level ones. That was why Hans sat on the ground outside the temple feeling as if the world had abandoned him. He was in the small ten percent who couldn’t cultivate energy at all. It was at that moment when he felt as if the world had lost all color that a noise sounded in his ear.

Ding, Dream System activated and ready.

Ding, mission: build your own food stall. Reward: level 1 energy manipulation, recipe for pan-fried scallion pancakes.

Hans looked at the blue screens hanging in front of him and felt his pulse rise until his heartbeat sounded like a war drum to his own ears. It couldn’t be true could it, had he just been so overcome that his mind had lost what hold it had on his sanity. After he was sure that it wasn’t just his mind playing tricks on him Hans began to think. He was already too old to enter the chef school but there was no rule that a chef had to enter it. It was just the only way he knew that he could learn to cook, but this was giving him a way. Hoping he hadn’t lost his mind Hans decided it was worth a try. He headed to the forest and began cutting down a tree. He had been a woodcutter for the past two years so it was not something new to him and he had also helped fix the smokehouse so he knew a little about building, which was good because he didn’t have enough money to buy much more than a single nail. His job allowed him to eat but that was all. Hans lived in a community building in the slums that he shared with almost twenty other people.

Using what tools he had available he spent two days building a rough food cart. It had a stove that he had gotten from the city dump that he had spent two days cleaning up and banging dents out of. It was missing its door and had a crack on the top, but it would work. As soon as he was finished a familiar sound sounded in the back of his mind.

Ding, Mission: build your own food stall- complete. Reward: level 1 energy manipulation, recipe for pan-fried scallion pancakes- delivered, upgrading cart now.

Ding, Mission: sale 1,000 pancakes. Reward: knife skills beginner.

Before Hans’s eyes the food cart went from a rough sorry excuse for a cheap food cart to one that would make any food vender more than happy. Many level 0 chefs had food carts to earn money. Though all recognized chefs could use energy that didn’t mean they could pass the imperial test to become a level 1 chef. To pass the test one had to prepare and cook level one beast meat while keeping at least ten percent of its energy intact. It didn’t sound like much, but energy started t leak out of the meat the second it was cut. It took skill to keep even 1 percent of the energy within the meat and that was why becoming a chef was a very highly respected job. At the same time as the food cart was changed, he felt a burning in his chest and for the first time in his life he could feel energy. It was untrained energy, so it wasn’t the holy energy of knights, or the fire energy of a fire mage, it was just simple energy. Most chefs trained their energy to nature energy to help with sealing the meats energy. Looking at the cart with the new recipe flowing through his mind as if he had known and cooked it his whole life Hans only had one thought. He had to find a way to get the ingredients.

To ensure quality system will provide ingredients. Ingredients must be paid for by end of day after purchase.

How much does the ingredients cost? Hans asked felling much better now that he didn’t have to find a place to get quality ingredient for cheap.

¼ teaspoon salt from the Guyna sea 1 copper, 2 tablespoon ¼ teaspoon oil from the Alcove bean 8 copper, ¾ cup of spring water from the mountains of Yalen 10 copper, 1 1/4 cup of flour from wheat grown in the planes of Tensma 15 copper, ½ cup of fresh Banma green onions 3 copper.

Hans quickly did the math and knew that the amounts noted was enough to make eight pancakes. That means each pancake would cost him almost 5 copper each. A normal scallion pancake could be sold for about 3 copper coins. He made 1 silver a day at his current job and since there were 25 coppers in a silver that means if he sold the pancakes at six copper each he would need to sell around 24 pancakes a day to earn enough to keep living as he was. Knowing he didn’t have much of a choice Hans pushed his cart to a free location the next morning.

For the first half hour people would walk up to his stand then see the price and decide they would get something cheaper or something that was more filling. It wasn’t until a young lady who looked