Luno's story left the Crystal-Eyed people around him sighing.
None of them had expected him to go through such a harrowing race against death before he died.
Everyone's discussion centered on the gamble he had made at that deadly moment, and the plan he had laid to find life in the face of death.
Only Angel focused on something else: the senior undercover agent from Ocean Prefecture whom Luno had mentioned.
According to Luno, that agent's talent was called the Dream Core. He had developed an ability that let him move freely through the dreams of people nearby, hide within them, and read their thoughts without their knowledge.
It was undoubtedly a powerful ability.
For stealing intelligence in particular, it was almost impossible to detect.
But what mattered to Angel was not its power. Had the Dream Core talent come from a gift bestowed by the Dream Realm's will?
Angel thought the answer was probably yes.
Luno himself had never studied dreams, much less come into contact with the Dream Realm. He had developed the Dream Core Wave based on the senior agent's relic.
So the gift from the Dream Realm's will must have been bestowed on that agent, while Luno had inherited the Dream Core's ability by accident.
That would explain why Luno had unlocked a trial Instance despite never encountering the Dream Realm's will himself.
Once Angel had roughly sorted out his thoughts, he shared them with the others.
"...A trial Instance requires a gift from a world will. Here, that can only mean the will of the Mirror Realm or the Dream Realm."
"The Dream Crystal Plain itself is a world established with the approval of both wills."
"You could even think of the Dream Crystal Plain as lying in the space between the Dream Realm and