The shaman didn’t bother to introduce himself, because he thought that it was pointless to know the names of any random customer that walked into his workshop. Perhaps he was right, as he would rarely see a customer come back here for another, second purchase? Twenty-five gold coins were a lot for most goblins, after all, and he didn’t offer many other services either, so overall it was pointless for him to memorize everyone’s names.
The team were unaware of his actual name too, and neither did they care to know it. They were mainly focused on this portal that they were supposed to enter, as a very important world waited for them on the other side, behind that portal! They were excited.
Arvena was helpful with this matter, as she took over the lead of the conversation and spoke to the shaman. She knew how to properly speak to goblins, she was a tad diplomatic too, so she was the best girl for the job. In this case, she wanted to prevent any and all conflict that could spring out of Timothy’s mouth, because her guests couldn’t afford to offend the only summoner in a one-hundred mile radius! That would be really stupid.
“All three of them wish to enter the nano-universe of Nul, sir summoner. I vouch for them. They’ve accumulated the right amount of gold, and I am to be their guide through thick and thin.” She explained.
Arvena helped their case, without a doubt, but the bags of gold coins that the three of them brought, helped too. Gold was very convincing, and considering how much gold they were handing over, this nano universe better be the greatest thing ever! She hadn’t given them much if not any information about that universe, they only knew that it was very expensive to get there, so at this point the shaman was supposed to be doing the ‘convincing’ rather than the other way around. They were spending a lot!
Anyway, the shaman was very cooperative once he got paid. Two minutes later, he started summoning these strange beings that were otherwise impossible to run into, nonetheless tame! He was summoning seventy-five gold coins worth of phantoms, ten entities, to be exact!
Anyone with heightened senses could feel the presence of these numerous entities, as the sense of their presence grew ever so intensive by the passing second. Skendus could sense them!
The shaman was chanting a few indecipherable words, in repeat, and this was likely a spoken-word spell of sorts. It was intensive. One could assume that this procedure was demonic too, and rightfully so, because nothing about this summoning sounded holy!
“Moges radukes scut`us, ragnik alus! Nul!” The shaman repeated, and he yelled out that last word especially aggressively.
When the shaman repeated this spell for the fifth time, the ten entities became fully visible. Their transparent bodies nursed a black shade, they looked really weird overall, and the odds were that these entities were inherently evil too! It was dangerous to summon them, yet they had to.
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The entities were really frantic after they were summoned, they were jittery, and this was especially scary to witness because at first sight they looked like mutant, three-armed starfish! Their arms were long and bendy, so the entities surely looked terrifying while they wiggled their arms around so manically. If they had the ability to scream, then anyone would defecate to the sight of them!
They were clearly upset about being summoned here, but then the shaman started speaking to them. He didn’t cast a spell this time, no, it was obvious from his tone that he was just speaking to them!
“Ulakis, ran.” He said, and then the entities calmed down. “Nul u’rakin, trakm!”
They were really responsive. The mood of these entities had shifted a lot thanks to the shaman’s intervention, one could even consider them all as bipolar. They went from angry, to calm, to goal oriented!
They were staring at Arvena, and her guests beyond intensely after the shaman spoke to them, that part of their behavior wasn’t so hard to decode. They truly had a goal in mind.
The entities had a single big eye in the very middle of their bodies, and as they stared at the group, those singular eyes themselves were enough to scare the team shitless! Tim even started praying that the shaman hadn’t said anything stupid to the entities, he prayed to whichever god that may be listening to him.
Anyway, the shaman then pointed his staff at Arvena, and said. “You, girl, have chosen to be their guide, so your passage to Nul shall be complimentary, as your will is pure and progressive. Guide these guests towards what they seek!”
After he said that, the entities started moving around more than anyone was comfortable with, their receptiveness crossed languages. They piled the group of goblins together, got a sort of physical hold on them, and then they collectively became airborne! They flew through the roof of the stone-walled workshop as if it was non-existent, and then they flew towards the big blue sky!
The entities flew upwards in a spiraling manner, they flew in circles, and they did so at high speeds! Although this spiraling motion managed to make the team feel really sick, there was a purpose behind it, the entities knew what they were doing.
They spun in that matter for a while, up until they flew a whole kilometer above the ground. Once they had flown that high, they didn’t have to spin around anymore because they disappeared, they disappeared in a way that one would think they got engulfed by the surrounding atmosphere! It was a confusing and scary process, so it was great that the team wasn’t awake to see it, the four of them had blacked out only moments ago.
Anyway, after the team disappeared together with the entities, they managed to enter the nano-universe of Nul. If the team was awake, they would understand why this trip was so expensive, or at the very least they’d understand that the entities did their job really well. The entities created a portal of their own, they summoned it, to be exact, and that was why a portal of this kind was so expensive to get to; If one could afford it, it took less than a minute to pass through it!
As far as facts were concerned, the nano-universe of Nul waited for them on the other side!