Dreams often had no concept of time. They could be fast or slow, depending on the condition of each person's brain.
Even ordinary people, after being woken by an alarm every morning, might go back to sleep for another five minutes. Five minutes in reality was extremely brief, but they might very well experience a dream lasting several hours.
For an existence like Ruben, who nearly crushed the entire Cosmic Domain on the level of the brain and was proficient in dreams, he could achieve Instant Dream.
No time passed in reality, yet a vital information-based dream had already been completed between the brains.
The same was true now.
Perhaps he had instinctively sensed danger, stimulating Ruben's brain into carrying out a "precognitive Instant Dream" to rapidly foresee his own future. As a result, he dreamed of being decapitated.
Cold sweat poured down.
Ruben sensed a threat on the Soul Level.
Terrified, he hurriedly retracted the Dreamscape he had spread out and wrapped it around himself. The outlines that did not belong to the current dimension were drawn around Ruben once again.
All parameters were adjusted to their maximum values.
Even with the strongest form he could display at that moment, the precognitive result brought by Instant Dream remained unchanged. He would still be decapitated.
"What exactly is it? What have I forgotten? What exactly am I fighting?
"Impossible. My brain is flawless. It's impossible for me to overlook any existence. It's impossible for anything to evade my brain's perception... The New Moon is right before my eyes. Everything hinges on this final step. Nothing can go wrong."
Ruben compressed the Dreamscape further. Instead of enveloping his entire body, he made it act solely upon his brain.
It acted upon the core brain suspended within the true Consciousness Space, supported