"There are actually many ways."
"The simplest is to wait until it finishes reconstructing its understanding of itself, then attack."
After all, a native Dream Beast was newly born. Even after reconstructing its understanding, it would not be much stronger.
At most, it would gain a few more Dream Beast-like abilities: spending less time in a physical body and more time dissolved into dream.
But it could not sustain that dream-form for long. It would flicker in and out, because it could only learn to dissolve fully into dream after falling into the Sea Beyond Dreams.
Under those circumstances, killing it might be harder than before, but far from impossible.
They only had to strike hard whenever it became physical.
Of course, Moon Dew's advice was based on the methods the Sun and Moon Wizards had used earlier. If they had a way to strike it directly in dream-form, such as an energy attack, that would be simpler still.
"In that case, let's wait until it finishes building its new understanding, then fight," Ms. Moon said.
Hearing that the native Dream Beast's strength would not change fundamentally, and that it would merely gain the ability to dissolve into dream, she had no reason to fear it.
As long as it could not remain in dream-form for long, the instant it became physical—even for a heartbeat—they could settle the fight in one blow.
Mr. Sun looked at Moon Dew. "Little Moon Dew, when will it finish building that understanding?"
"I'm not little!" Moon Dew pouted.
"Then Miss Little Moon Dew?" When Moon Dew objected to that as well, everyone finally agreed to call her simply Moon Dew.
Moon Dew then answered Mr. Sun's question. "There's no fixed time for reconstructing its understanding. Sometimes it takes a long time, sometimes very little.