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Martina took out her Jester Puppet Dream Weapon, it wasn't that big now that I looked at it, only being around the size of a goblin from Yggdrasil, they looked at me with their empty eyes once I touched their head.

Ding!

[You have touched a Dream Weapon that is available for Dream Weapon Evolution.]

[The owner of the Dream Weapon has also given your approval of evolving the weapon.]

[Do you wish to evolve [Martina Rubio]'s Dream Weapon: [Prankster Jester Cursed Puppet (Familiar Type)]?]

[Material Requirements]: [Darkness Attribute Spirit Stone] x10 [Mithril Ore] x5 [Darkness Attribute Nightmare Beast Bones, Flesh, or Scales] x10 [Any Illusion Attribute Material] x1 [Any Magic Ore] x15]

[Cost]: [10.000.000 System Points]

[Yes] [No]

Huh it asks for different times of ingredients this time, stuff that I… actually have! I do have Illusion Attribute Materials, from monsters from Yggdrasil.

Back then I remember fighting a variety of creatures inside of dungeons specially, there's this type of lizards that have rainbow-colored, spinning eyes.

They are called.. I don't remember, but they are Illusion Attribute, among the first things I ever fought.

Their corpse should be stored inside my inventory, or at least whatever remains…

Let's press [Yes], and the System will just look for it for me either way.

FLAAASH!

As I pressed yes, all the materials appeared out of my inventory, rotating around the puppet. I quickly asked Martina and Sofia to step back a lot, as the Dream Weapon needed its space to evolve.

"It's evolving! It's really… it's really evolving!"

Martina's star-shaped pupils shone brightly as she saw her puppet beginning to rapidly transform, absorbing all the materials until a bright white light encompassed our surroundings completely.

FLUOSH!

And once it all dissipated, the puppet reached the ground, the light disappeared, revealing its new appearance and…

Well, that's not something I expected.

The jester puppet, which wore a creepy mask and all of that changed… quite a lot, but at the same time, not too much? It was weird. My Virtual Library Empire (M|V|L0EMPYR) hosts the original.

All of its wooden appearance was gone, replaced by flesh-like body, yeah it was pretty much humanoid now.

It was as tall as Martina, and had long purple, blue, and pink hair, they had two big, cute eyes, pink and red colored.

They still wore a jester outfit, but it was now a dress wrapped around their body, and a jester hat with two divided colors of purple and blue.

The entire dress was colorful and filled with little patches of clothing everywhere…

The Jester Puppet was now also wearing black and red colored boots, and looked adorable, but quickly looked embarrassed, summoning a jester mask and putting them over their face.

I couldn't quite tell if it was a boy or a girl though, it was rather androgynous, and I suppose Dream Weapons don't really have genders or sexes either way, they're not like us, but more like embodiments of emotions, abstract and conceptual lifeforms.

"Oh wow! Y-You changed so much! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh, Jester! You're so cute now! Come hereee!"

Martina ran towards her Jester and tried to hug them, but the Jester annoyedly pushed her away with their hand in her face.

"Guuggh! Why don't you let me hug youuuuu! I am so happy you're all big and grown up! T-This is so amazing- Geh!"

She was constantly trying to hug her Dream Weapon but the Jester was constantly putting their hands in front of her face, stopping her every time.

It was honestly very… very hilarious.

"W-What is that? Is this really Martina's Dream Weapon?! It looks almost like a person!" Sofia said. "Is it still a puppet? Wait, can it talk now?"

"Doesn't seem to be able to talk," I said. "And yeah… I think it still a puppet, just now very realistic looking, the wood and everything else is well hidden underneath their artificial, real-looking skin."

"Wow, this is sure an incredible upgrade…" Alma said. "Your powers are wonderful, Maria!"

"Hahah, you think so?" I giggled, happy to be praised by such a cutie.

"Hmm, so what's the puppet's name now? Do you know what it is now?" wondered Emily.

"Ah yeah…" I nodded.

Ding!

[You have successfully evolved [Martina Rubio]'s Dream Weapon: [Prankster Jester Cursed Puppet (Familiar Type) (Dream Weapon Rank 1)]!]

[The Dream Weapon: [Prankster Jester Cursed Puppet (Familiar Type)] has evolved into the: [Cursed Puppet Jester Princess: Egolatra (Familiar Type) (Dream Weapon Rank 2)]!]

[The Dream Weapon: [Cursed Puppet Jester Princess: Egolatra (Familiar Type) (Dream Weapon Rank 2)] has received a great boost to its stats and abilities and has gained the new Dream Weapon Ability: [Hammerspace]!]

"Huh yeah, it's now a Princess and she's called… Egolatra?" I wondered. "She has a name yes… Huh? What is that ability? Hammerspace?!"

Wait a second…

"Um, Martina your puppet got a personality, I would suggest you not to bother her too much or-"

"Or what? She's still my dream weapon and she has to obey me… Now just let me hug you!"

"Hmph!"

Egolatra groaned angrily, suddenly putting her right hand in her dress' pocket, of the many it had, and pulling…

Something enormous came out of it.

A big hammer.

A typical giant, cartoon hammer of black color with a wooden handle, it even had a painted "100 TONS" on the black hammer, using white paint.

No way…

Is this for real?!

"Martina!"

CLAAANK!

The hammer went down over Martina, hitting her with so much force the ground beneath her and us cracked into pieces, exploding and sending a massive shockwave.

We managed to hold back the shockwave with our Auras, but Alma, Sofia, and Emily would've been sent flying if it wasn't because I grabbed them using my Shadows.

"MARTINA! NO!"

Sofia screamed in horror as she suddenly ran towards her.

"D-Did the Dream Weapon killed her?!"

Emily gasped in disbelief.

"It evolved into a Nightmare?!"

Alma was shocked.

But… well, reality was quite different.

No, Dream Weapons cannot kill their masters, that would be like killing themselves.

And no, it wasn't a Nightmare either.

It was a genuine Dream Weapon.

Yep, as Sofia saw and as we saw once we walked to her side.

Martina was alive, and fine.

But her body had been flattened like a pancake.

There weren't any broken bones, or torn muscles, she looked like a hilarious human pancake!

Yep, like a cartoon.

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