The energy circle with empty slots disappeared. The pupil inside the "eye-barrier" moved chaotically and tried to find it, but could not.


    "You destroyed the barriers on the Ring of the Four Elements?" Myuryuri guessed. "But you won''t be able to break through my barrier. You yourself said that it is impossible to break through it."


    "Did you believe it?" Sanachan smiled. "Your barrier is really strong. Even I don''t have the strength to break through it. But why hit it if you can do it differently?"


    A clot of dark blue energy appeared in the free hand of the mushroom spirit:


    “Not everything is decided by strength.”


    Sanachan raised her hand up, released the clot, and it turned into a black mushroom with dark blue energy veins and a ring of energy of the same color around the stem.


    “This mushroom will suck the energy out of me,” Myuryuri guessed. “But I know what to do with it.”


    A beam of blue energy shot out from the pupil of the "barrier eye" and headed for the new formation above the opponent''s head. Sanachan realized this, summoned a large blue energy mushroom and put its cap towards the beam, like an umbrella...


    The cap opened, took the beam''s impact and blocked it. Myuryuri''s horns and tusks "lit up" with a bright glow, and then transmitted an additional charge of energy into the pupil along the energy threads.


    "You transmit a signal to the pupil," Sanachan noted. "By default, the beam is aimed at the first object it comes across. But with the help of the signal, you can change its direction. Why did I then, many years ago, see an image with antennas?"


    The beam from the pupil shifted to the side. Sanachan wanted to save her mushroom, but at the decisive moment, the purple aura that held her in the air disappeared. The spirit of the mushrooms began to fall down.


    … When Sanachan''s body was a few steps from the ground, a hidden purple mushroom came out. The spirit''s feet landed on the cap…


    … The mushroom''s stem acted like a spring and pushed the cap out, and the cap threw Sanachan up and gave her a purple aura.


    Meanwhile, a beam of light moved towards a black mushroom with dark blue veins. Sanachan aimed a crossbow with a purple "arrow" at it in flight, and then pulled it back by the "bowstring".


    The mushroom arrow intercepted the beam and exploded. The beam disappeared, having fulfilled its purpose. The black mushroom with dark blue veins threw up its cap and released from its stem a multitude of dark blue energy spores, which began to slowly descend.


    The white light inside the "barrier eye" went out. For a few moments, it disappeared into the darkness of the night. Now its shell and pupil were purple, which immediately gave a hint to the enemy.


    "You are going to escape so that the spores do not absorb your energy," Sanachan thought. "But even if you go beyond the radius of the skill, you will not be able to leave the island."


    The energy around Myuryuri''s horns and tusks changed color to purple, and then transferred to the pupil. The "eye barrier" disappeared. The dark blue spores did not have time to reach it and continued to descend to the ground.


    Sanachan looked around. The island was hidden in darkness, and the cloudy sky did not allow the stars and even the moon to appear on it.


    "It''s good that I limited you to the boundaries of the foot of the volcano," Sanachan thought. "You can''t even get to the shore."


    The veins on the mushroom spirit''s horns were activated by a bright blue light. The glow was transmitted to his eyes, and the purple aura disappeared.


    Sanachan began to fall again. This time, a mushroom was waiting for her below, but not purple, but blue. It did not throw the spirit up, but gave her its aura.


    "I see. You decided not only to avoid my spores, but also to lure me into a trap."


    Sanachan''s horns and eyes "went out." The spirit jumped to the ground and immediately stepped on a purple mushroom, which threw her up and gave her its aura...


    Myuryuri, inside a huge purple "eye-barrier", waited for his creator on the lower slope of a volcano, which abruptly ended in front of a shore with black sand. It could not go further. An invisible barrier, through which attacks and other creatures passed, did not let the character through...


    "You should sleep," a familiar voice said from the nearby forest. "You''ve been too tired for now."


    Myuryuri quickly found the creator. Her purple aura glowed brightly in the darkness at the top of one of the trees.


    “I don’t want to sleep,” Myuryuri said. “I want to live with you, creator. I want to live in this world, not in the world of dreams. That world is not real. It only gives hope, but does not fulfill wishes. It is dead, and I want to live in the living world, like other creatures. I want to truly live.”


    A blue aura surrounded Myuryuri''s horns and tusks, but it was thicker than before. The energy from them gradually began to be transmitted to the pupil, and clots of energy appeared in the "barrier eye".


    "I don''t want to use Eternal Dream in Reality, but there is no other way to save you," Sanachan pulled the edge of her hat with her hand. "If this world does not accept you, another will."


    The purple aura that surrounded the mushroom spirit''s body disappeared. A blue energy circle with an image of a mushroom in the center appeared under her feet, causing her eyes to emit a blue glow again.


    The air around Sanachan was filled with clots of blue energy, which quickly grew and soon merged into a single formation. The surface of the island turned into energy matter for a few moments. The air vibrated so much that it shook the trees. The glow emanated from everything: from the ground, the trees, the rocks, the sand on the shore and from the lake in the center of the crater a translucent column of blue energy rose up and disappeared into the black sky.


    But the glow disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. The darkness returned, but not for long. Multicolored lights "lit up" all over the island, in the forests on the slopes of the volcano, in the crater and on the coast.


    "The creator activated the mushrooms all over the island," Myuryuri thought. "She wants to use something very powerful."


    The “wisps” really were energy mushrooms. Threads of all possible colors stretched from them to Sanachan''s horns and were fixed there... A thick blue aura surrounded the spirit of mushrooms, causing her horns and eyes to glow brighter.


    Meanwhile, Myuryuri''s "eye barrier" was filled with purple energy about halfway and partially hid the character itself. But Sanachan''s skill prevented it. Some force pulled Myuryuri to the wall of the "eye barrier", but was unable to pull it out.


    Sanachan''s aura expanded so much that a stream of energy rose from it. This helped: Myuryuri''s body, surrounded by the "barrier bubble", passed through the wall of the purple "barrier eye" and found itself without protection. The connection between the creature''s antennas and the pupil was interrupted, and the violet energy stopped accumulating inside the skill.


    The "barrier bubble" around Myuryuri turned yellow, after which clots of yellow energy appeared inside it. This canceled the attraction of the Eternal Dream in Reality, and the head returned to the “barrier eye”.


    Sanachan concentrated even more energy in herself. Her aura became like a blue cloud, and an endless stream of energy was now rising from her hat. Soon her body could not bear it: her head was torn from her neck and stopped at the end of the energy stream high in the sky.


    The attraction grew stronger. Myuryuri was pushed beyond the "eye-barrier" again.


    "The creator did not destroy the barrier, but simply pushed me out of there," thought the head of the horned mammoth. "But I still have one more barrier."


    The yellow energy inside the "bubble barrier" continued to accumulate, and soon hid Myuryuri itself. The mushroom spirit''s skill no longer pulled it, but it couldn''t go back either...This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.


    Meanwhile, Sanachan''s body was under too much stress from the excess energy: even the arms separated from the body.


    But the barrier in which Myuryuri was located was also completely filled with energy, causing it to come out in different directions in thin beams. The walls of the barrier flickered, as if they were ready to disappear.


    "I''m about to...” a thought flashed through the horned mammoth''s head.  “Explode?"


    At the last moment, Myuryuri switched the color of the barrier around it using the signal from the antennas. The walls turned pink and stopped flickering, and the yellow energy inside disappeared. But the effect of the yellow energy, which removed negative effects and prevented their imposition, no longer worked. Myuryuri was almost instantly pulled to the head of the creator, after which the walls of it bubble barrier ran into horns...


    ... An explosion of pink energy occurred above Sanachan''s head. Myuryuri''s head, without a barrier, began to slowly descend to the ground...


    The energy flow that held Sanachan''s head weakened and it slowly sank down. At some point she met her character''s head.


    “I’m sorry, Myuryuri,” Sanachan thought. “Your life is no more. But now you will have a new life. It will be life, not a dream.”


    But the character no longer understood anything. He reached the surface and dug his tusks into the sand on the shore, where he had never been before.


    The "Barrier Eye" was left without its owner, and was now doomed. At first it simply flickered, but then its walls weakened so much that they could no longer hold the enormous amount of purple energy...


    The shore along with the adjacent part of the volcano was blown away in a couple of moments. A passage formed between the crater and the sea. Water immediately rushed there and erupted as a huge waterfall inside the island.


    Itinit stood near the ashes and looked at the huge wave that was approaching him and sweeping away trees and remains of buildings in its path. Thoughts appeared in his head again:


    "Where is the "metal bird"? I must take Noru, Kimchan and fly away from here. Nothing will happen to Etinnei and Tuot. They are in the residence."


    But the huge mass of water was moving too fast. Itinit remembered where he had left the flying machine, but realized that he would not have time to reach it. Fortunately, a blue energy barrier in the shape of a mushroom surrounded him, and then a clot of energy appeared nearby.


    "It''s her," Itinit smiled. "She''s finally come to me."


    The clot turned into a mushroom, inside which the silhouette of a humanoid creature in a hat with horns appeared.


    "Stay here," a familiar voice sounded. "I''ll lower the lake."


    A blue energy circle with an image of a mushroom appeared under the creature''s feet...


    Noru and Kimchan, who were lying on the shore of the lake, suddenly woke up from the noise of the water and saw the translucent walls of the barrier in front of them.


    But something even stranger was happening in the lake. A large mushroom with a blue cap emerged from the center of the reservoir. Then a girl in a hat with horns jumped on it and pressed it with her weight. The cap flattened, and the water began to quickly go down.


    In a few moments, the lake basin dried up, and a bottomless abyss opened up before the dog girls. The huge wave that had already been hanging over the former lake passed through their bodies and collapsed underground.


    ***


    Tuot and Etinnei stood on an ice floe in the “strait” between the rocks, looked at the sky and waited for the energy “eyes” to appear, but they did not appear.


    "I won''t be able to maintain my aura for long," Etinnei admitted. "And without it, we''ll fall into the water."


    "I won''t be able to maintain my aura either," Tuot admitted. "A little more and I won''t be able to use energy skills. And without them, we won''t be able to hit them."


    “You said that only energy skills work on energy "eyes". Why then was my ice ball able to freeze it?”


    Etinnei looked at Tuot with a curious look. Her arctic fox ears moved synchronously several times.


    "Eh..." Tuot answered. "There is water here, and fumes come from it. Pure energy absorbs a little elemental energy, but does not change color, because there is little elemental energy. But it was enough to freeze.”


    A clot of blue energy appeared in the air. Tuot aimed the harpoon at it and was about to attack, but the clot turned not into an "eye" but into a mushroom, which slowly descended into Etinnei''s hands.


    "It''s vibrating," the arctic fox girl looked at the new creature. "I wonder if it''ll knock my teeth out when I eat it."


    The mushroom vibrated more strongly. The cap moved and then flew up. Many small clots of blue energy flew out of the stem, which were attracted to the cap and created the silhouette of a creature already familiar to the dinosaur and the arctic fox girl.


    "The spirit of mushrooms," Tuot and Etinnei thought at the same time.


    Sanachan landed on the ice floe. The greatly thinned leg of the energy mushroom in the hands of the Arctic fox girl dissolved into thin air.


    "Don''t go outside," Sanachan warned. "It''s not quiet there now."


    "But..." Tuot tried to ask.


    "The energy ''eyes'' aren''t here anymore," Sanachan interrupted. “Myuryuri took them.”


    "Why did they appear here?" Etinnei asked. "This is your space, not its."


    "I created this residence to communicate with Myuryuri," Sanachan explained. "So it can come here whenever he wants. But that''s impossible now, so don''t be afraid. Just wait."


    Sanachan was covered in a blue aura, after which her body burst and turned into an energy bridge from the rocks to the shore.


    “Let''s go?” Etinnei extended her sleeve to her friend.


    “What if I fall?” Tuot took a step back.


    “It doesn''t matter. This place is not real.”


    … Noru, Kimchan, Itinit, Tuot, and Etinnei were sitting in a mushroom-shaped pavilion on the shore of a lake in the middle of a volcanic crater. It overlooked a steep slope on the opposite shore, covered in thick, dark-green forests of tree ferns and shrubs.


    “This place looks different,” Etinnei noted.


    “The whole island used to look like this,” a voice said from above.


    The creatures looked up at the ceiling and saw Sanachan''s head hanging from there.


    “I want it to remain like this for my character, even if it’s only in a dream,” the spirit of mushrooms continued. “The island is now destroyed. I drained the lake, and the water went deep underground. But it won’t last long. The island will soon disappear. You will have to leave it, and I will remain in this shelter with Myuryuri, because it only exists in my reality.”


    Noru and Kimchan looked sadly at the floor and let out a quiet dog groan.


    "You don''t have to worry," Sanachan shook her head. "You have a creator."


    Noru and Kimchan looked at Itinit, but he turned away toward the lake.


    "What happened to the lizard?" Tuot asked.


    “She will be waiting for you on the ship,” Sanachan said. "Do you want her?"


    Tuot opened his mouth and shook his head with joy. Sanachan jumped from the ceiling onto a table in the middle of the gazebo. A wooden basket with several purple energy mushrooms appeared in her hands.


    "Eat one mushroom," Sanachan Tuot suggested. "It will help you meet the lizard.”


    The dinosaur carefully picked up one of the mushrooms, brought it to his mouth, but then looked at Etinnei, who was sitting next to him. Sanachan noticed this and handed the basket to the Arctic fox girl.


    “I know that you wanted to try the mushroom, but you couldn’t,” the spirit of the mushrooms tried to fake a smile. “Now your dream will come true.”


    Etinnei stuck out her tongue and moved her tail. Her eyes trembled. Then the animal girl craned her neck, grabbed the cap of one of the mushrooms with her teeth and pulled it out of the basket.


    "I will come to you in your dreams," Sanachan looked at Tuot. "So you don''t have to be afraid. Eat the mushroom and go to your dream."


    Tuot looked at Etinnei. The friends understood each other without words and simultaneously swallowed the mushrooms. A purple aura surrounded their bodies, after which they disappeared.


    Sanachan turned to the dog girls, who took turns licking each other''s cheeks.


    “I need to talk with your creator,” the spirit of the mushrooms said. “Therefore, take the gift.”


    Noru and Kimchan looked at the sky, then at each other, but still took a mushroom each, bit off the caps, received an aura and disappeared.


    Itinit was left alone with his savior.


    “They want to meet their third sister, so they look at the sky,” Itinit explained.


    “Are you talking about your original character?”


    “Yes. When I created Noruluya, I thought I would only have one dog girl. But then she got lonely, and another character appeared inside her, similar to her. Noruluya considered her little sister. Then I brought her to you, and you extracted her.”


    “If I hadn’t done this, Noruluya would have generated the character again.” This is how the brains of the creatures from the “Mausoleum of Nature” work.


    “Since then, Noru and Kimchan have not been able to meet Noruluya, but for some reason they remember her. And Noruluya only appears when Noru and Kimchan turn into comets and collide with each other.”


    “I’m sorry, Itinit. I didn''t want to talk about it”.


    “Then let''s meet in the real world”.


    “You’re still too weak to withstand my signal level. We met recently, and you couldn''t say anything.”


    Sanachan took the last mushroom from the basket and handed it to Itinit:


    “You were the only one who could find me, even in a shelter. I hope that you will be the first living being who can find me in the real world and talk to me.”


    Itinit took the mushroom, brought it to his mouth and remembered the beautiful doll with pink hair that nearly killed him:


    "I have no luck with the opposite sex. I couldn''t talk to one doll either. At least I can talk to you in this space."


    “But you’re lucky with the animal girls,” Sanachan smiled. “You have two or three of them.”


    “They are like pets.”


    “And I’m like a mushroom that is kept in a jar and will someday be opened to eat.”


    “What?”


    “You already have a mushroom. Eat it first.”


    Itinit smiled, but still managed to put the cap in his mouth and bite it. The guy was surrounded by a purple aura, and he left the world of mushrooms. Sanachan was left alone and looked at the ceiling, where a clot of purple energy was glowing.


    The gazebo began to move and headed along the energy thread to the top of the crater, above which the head of a horned mammoth hovered inside a blue barrier.


    "Here we are together," Sanachan sighed.


    ***


    The rain fell from the sky. Unana stood near the wooden fence and cried along with the gray sky. The deciduous trees and one coniferous tree that grew in the yard had already partially turned yellow.


    “Unana, go home, otherwise you’ll get wet and get sick,” a voice came from the house.


    But the archer continued to look at the yellow-green forest beyond the fence and cry. The rain soaked through her few clothes: a short black T-shirt and shorts.


    “I’ll stay here, Yueret,” Unana said. “I’ll wait for it.”


    A guy in a blue aura came out of the house onto the porch with an energy umbrella in his hand.


    “You’ve been standing here for a month now,” the brother said. “Kimchan won''t come. The dinosaurs probably ate her already. She''s a dog.”


    But Unana continued to stand near the fence and cry. Yueret approached his sister and tried to grab her hand, but suddenly heard a dog moan.


    A brown puppy, looking like a bear cub, ran out of an open door in the fence.