Chapter 682 – Dreamweaver World 20

Mo Lan first tried the Titmouse Transfiguration.

As before, she simply recited the skill’s name silently, and her body began to change.

First, her bones emitted faint cracking sounds as her frame rapidly shrank. Her arms extended outward and were gradually covered in gray-brown feathers. Her legs became slender, her toes automatically curling into a shape suited for gripping branches.

At the same time, she felt an itch on her back as a pair of wings quickly took shape from her shoulder blades.

In the blink of an eye, a plump little titmouse appeared on the floor.

Mo Lan curiously looked down to examine her fluffy breast, then tried flapping her wings a few times. Her light body immediately lifted into the air.

She effortlessly circled the room several times, her technique so practiced it was as if she were a real titmouse!

As a small bird, the titmouse’s visual system was an eye-opening experience for Mo Lan. Her eyes were now positioned on either side of her head, allowing her to see both forward and behind simultaneously.

At the same time, all moving objects automatically drew her attention. The slight sway of a curtain, an insect flying past the window, even the arc of a page being lifted by the wind — all were remarkably conspicuous.

She landed on the windowsill and discovered that her beak could sense temperature changes in the glass, while her talons could discern subtle differences in wood grain patterns.

When a gust of wind blew past, the base of her feathers relayed rich airflow information, allowing her to adjust her stance and maintain balance without a second thought.

Her hearing had also become more acute. The faint rustle of aphids crawling through distant flower bushes, the soft sound of a water glass being set on a table in the next room, even the little tune being hummed by Goldencore downstairs — all reached her ears with astonishing clarity.

Mo Lan tried letting out a call, and her throat automatically produced a crisp “chirp chirp” sound.

The call had subtle variations in pitch — the language titmice used to communicate with one another.

She then tried using the Human Speech skill: “Ahem!”

Speaking in human language posed no problem at all. She could now freely switch between titmouse vocalizations and human speech at will.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Mo Lan couldn’t resist spreading her wings and flying out, weaving nimbly through the canopy. She relished the sensation of airflow rushing over her feathers. Every leaf was a perfect perch, every branch a natural waypoint. This feeling of soaring freely was even more exhilarating than riding a broomstick.

However, the titmouse’s body didn’t seem well-suited for long-distance flight. After only a few minutes of flying, her wings began to ache and grow weak. Once she landed on a branch, she realized the Transfiguration’s duration was nearly up.

Apart from special Transfiguration skills, all other Transfiguration skills required magic power to cast and had a limited duration.

Take Titmouse Transfiguration, for example — each casting consumed 50 magic power. Below level 10, each additional class level increased the duration by one minute. From level 10 to 20, each additional class level increased the duration by ten minutes. From level 20 to 30, each additional level increased the duration by one hour…

Of course, these time units were calculated according to Dreamweaver World’s time.

Mo Lan was currently a level 7 Beast Speaker, so her titmouse form could only be maintained for seven minutes at most before she would revert to human form.

Even if she wanted to transform again, she couldn’t — her magic power was no longer sufficient to cast Titmouse Transfiguration a second time.

Normally at this point, Beast Speakers would use the Dryad’s special Transfiguration skill to transform into a plant, absorbing energy from the earth, air, and sunlight to restore their magic power.

But Mo Lan tried something different. She channeled her own Mana and converted it into the same energy that had flowed from the “Dryad Racial Core” through the “Beast Speaker Class Template” and into the “Class Skill Tome — Titmouse Transfiguration” when she had cast the skill earlier — the energy that had ultimately enabled her to complete the Titmouse Transfiguration.

She called this energy the power of animal transfiguration.

Simulating the skill-casting process, she channeled the Mana-converted power of animal transfiguration into the “Class Skill Tome — Titmouse Transfiguration Skill Tome” within her mental sea.

After passing through the skill tome, the power of animal transfiguration began flowing throughout her entire body according to a certain pattern. Mo Lan immediately felt the energy maintaining her transformed state being replenished. The swelling ache in her bones — that sensation of being about to revert to human form — vanished.

Having confirmed that her Mana could truly be converted into the energy needed to cast animal transfiguration magic, Mo Lan breathed a deep sigh of relief.

This meant that even without transferring the racial core and class template to the real world, she could still cast dream realm skills in reality.

After experiencing the race conversion ritual and using the class invitation letter, Mo Lan had realized that the racial core obtained through race conversion was specifically designed to provide magical energy.

The Dryad’s racial core, for instance, provided an energy close to the forces of nature possessed by Valen Elves — not merely a combination of wood elemental force and the power of life, but more like a fusion of the power of plants, the power of animals, and the power of transfiguration.

The class template’s function, in turn, was to perform a more refined conversion of the magical energy produced by the racial core.

The Beast Speaker’s class template, for example, could convert the nature-like energy into the power of animal transfiguration and the power of animals.

This was why Beast Speakers could not only learn animal transfiguration magic skills but also certain nature magic skills related to animals.

As for skill tomes, they were even more exquisite than a Valen mage’s spell structures. They contained all the knowledge and ability required for a skill, simplifying what would normally demand extensive knowledge and practice into a single casting “thought,” while consistently maintaining the stability of the casting effect.

Skill tomes were acceptable — they were merely composites of casting knowledge and casting experience, and Mo Lan was happy to learn from them.

But racial cores and class templates were a different matter. Mo Lan was not particularly willing to transfer those to the real world.

In the dream realm, bodies were composed of dream energy, making race conversion and class changes convenient and free of any aftereffects.

But if she used a Fruit of Materialization to transfer the racial core and class template into her real-world body, it wouldn’t be worth it. After all, such a conversion was irreversible and would affect both her body and her bloodline.

Mo Lan didn’t believe that any race or class in the dream realm could compare to being a Sorceress.

She could forgo race conversion and class changes entirely, and still use her Mana to cast the various magic skills of the dream realm.

Were it not for the fact that many skill tomes in the dream realm required the corresponding racial identity to purchase, Mo Lan could have done the same even within the dream realm itself.

Seeing that the sky in the Dreamweaver World was about to darken, Mo Lan flew back to her inn room.

The Dreamweaver World only opened during the real world’s nighttime, and its time only flowed during the real world’s nights.

As for when the Dreamweaver World opened and closed — it was basically always at either sunrise or sunset.