It's been hours since Asnor sat in front of a pillar to crack the way to smoothly get inside the huge building. Asnor was trying to figure out the way by studying flaws in the entrance. Usually, it would've been very easy for Asnor to figure it out but this time he didn't have his sensory powers and also because this wasn't an ordinary entrance. He's just relying on his sensitivity to find the flaws.

Asnor sighed and rubbed his head with his hands, "I am feeling a headache. This is too tiring. I wish I had something to counter this barrier. Will there be some powerful weapon inside this palace like building for me to counter this barrier. I hope so. I don't want to use my cracking methods to get further inside the palace because it's a very very time consuming process."

Asnor then looked at the entrance and then at the pillar. He thought, 'I need to get this done as fast as possible or else Mom will be very angry. It was a huge mistake of mine to think that this would get done pretty soon. I want to go back but at the same time I don't want to since the vision told me to come here. There must be a reason to why the vision wanted me to cone here.'

Asnor then continued to focus by closing his eyes for one more day.

'I FINALLY GOT IT!'

Asnor opened his eyes and got up.

Asnor then walked towards the front of gate entrance.

Asnor then focused on his own magic inside himself and then an aura started coming out of him.

The gate entrance then lightened up on specific linings and spots. It then opened slowly.

CREEK

Asnor had already teleported himself inside the palace-like building by the time the door had already fully opened itself.

Asnor's body then started to giving off different aura to close the door. The lightened up door then slowly started to close.

CREEK

The lights on the door then turned off.

'AWESOME! I didn't think the gate could have managed to not let any of the dumb crazy beasts realize that the gate had opened despite such lights and sound. Even the water didn't enter inside the building.'

Asnor was joyously inspired. But Asnor soon remembered the pain he was suffering. When the lights had turned on, he had no choice but to quickly vanquish his blue black colored magic placed inside himself He then jumped to teleport inside the building. Finally, he floated himself in the air. Asnor did all this while being invisible to anything.

Asnor then looked around inside the building. He could see that the dead magic existed even inside the palace like building. There was a luxurious pathway ahead that had a carpet laid between several pillars and light sources placed alternatively on either side.

'Thankfully the gate scan system wasn't stringent when it came to scanning. I managed to imitate someone's aura that had the permission to enter this building.'

Asnor then walked through the pathway while looking around.

'I think it's better to stay at this spot while I train to be more proficient at utilizing more than one magic. I want to go outside to train as it's more comfortable but this stressful environment inside the building might motivate me to train even harder. I need to head back to home as fast as I could.'

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1 month later,

'I aaamm suuppeerrr tiirreed.'

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Asnor looked around with his sleepy eyes. Magi doesn't need sleep but sleep is a always good form of rest exercise for magi.

Asnor is finally reaching his limit as it's the second month of not getting an opportunity to sleep. If it was just that, Asnor would have been okay. But unfortunately, Asnor had to undergo intense training this past month.

But because of that, Asnor has finally managed to simultaneously utilize three of his powers at once on his own body. His body has pretty much adapted to his own powers to withstand three of them at once.

Asnor then decided to take a day rest by meditating and then move.

A day later,

Asnor still had the tired expression on his face but he was okay enough to continue moving forward.

And so, Asnor started moving through the pathway while trying to sense any flaws.

Asnor then started looking around and he then finally looked at the huge door in front of him. Asnor didn't need to use his flaw sensing power to understand the fact that there are sensors all around the door. Asnor realized while gritting his teeth that he had to crack the method to get inside yet again.

Few hours later,

'I need to disguise myself as someone perfectly get through this gate. But unfortunately, requirements are too strict. It's impossible for me to completely imitate someone else. The only way to get through this is by teleportation. In fact this is only because of omniscient presence of dead magic everywhere inside dead land.'

Asnor sensed his surroundings and noticed the presence of dead magic. He couldn't see it because of no light before since he never had made any detectable movement that would immediately switch on the light sources.

'I must be able to utilize my invisibility, flying, flaw sensing and teleportation powers simultaneously if I need to get through these defense systems smoothly. DAMN YOU, MY VISION! This is much dangerous than I thought. I miss my sensory power.'

Asnor then closed his eyes and realized what he needed to do for the sake of his own life.

'I need to train again while being in this spot. Why does this feel much more strained compared to Leona's training? I miss her training sessions.'

One month later,

"All right! I have completely become proficient in utilizing my powers. There is nothing in this castle that can't stop me getting inside as long as dead magic exists."

Asnor then started focusing on his teleportation power in addition three power he had already been using, that is, invisibility, flying and flaw detecting power.

'Focus! Focus on the dead magic behind the the gate! Then teleport through the objects between my current spot and destination by forcefully breaking through dimension.'

'Huh? What's going on? All though I can sense my destination behind the gate, I can't find a way to reach safely at my destination spot. Could it be the barrier? DAMN YOU, BARRIER! WHY DO YOU GOT TO BE SO ANNOYING?!'

Asnor was super annoyed by the obstacles that kept jumping in his goal of going back home as soon as possible.

'No! I should have expected this. I was too hurried to not think that I would come across such an obstacle. I mistakenly compared the defense measures taken by this building with the defense measures taken by Gremory Utopia. It was my mistake. A childish mistake.'

Asnor breathed in and out.

A while later Asnor thought to himself, 'I hope there are stuff here that I can utilize to robbing other places like this building. This is too time consuming.'

'So, what other way is there? This gate has a very stringent scan system. Previous gate scanning system was easy to fool since I am very good at deception.'

'Should I look around? Let me sense the flaws around me first.'

'Honestly speaking, flaws are too simple of a word to describe what I am sensing. It's more like non-pure stuff. Consider a good human and a evil human. A good human has flaws unless he is a just a lump of energy that is completly pure. In case of evil human, the flaw feeling will be more intense from my perspective. In conclusion, all humans have flaws.'

'The same goes for all magic except for the magic in that magical flow pathway between utopias and dead lands. In fact , the only reason why it took so much time for me to decipher the ways to get across the gate systems is because the flaws I saw was too confusing.

'It took time to detect and decipher the flaws I was only interested in. Since I have good synergy with chaos magic, I was thankfully able to easily decipher the flaws.'

'Hmm? There is a room that seems like library. Definitely got to check it out! A kitchen? I think. An empty room? Wait a second!

Asnor then found something very spectacularly interesting!

'Magical Guards? What are they? Machines? I think. Now that I think about it, why doesn't dead magic affect this building's functioning, those magic based sensors, and magical machine guardians and so on?

'Very very interesting! Let me figure it out! Hmm... Too confusing! What the hell does this mean? All of this stuff is tangled up a bit too much.'

Asnor kept trying to figure out the reason as to why dead magic couldn't affect magical devices made inside this building.

10 minutes later,

"AAAAHH!! I GIVE UP!", thankfully Asnor's magic enveloped over himself didn't let the voice out.

Asnor had a very tired expression on his face.

'My curiosity got me impatient in figuring out the mystery and now I have a headache. I better check out other rooms. I might figure out something on how to get across that gate.'

Asnor kept humming as he arrived at what seems like kitchen.

'Too advanced! I don't even understand what these magical kitchen devices even do? I know only that they are used to make something and that's how I knew that this was a kitchen. If I had my sensory capabilities, it would've been a piece of cake to figure out the layout of this building with the help of my flaw detecting power.'

Asnor then looked at what seemed to be a fridge, a very huge one at that. Asnor wasn't surprised by the size since the kitchen was also very big. It seemed like the kitchen was utilized to feed many people that would be living in this building.

'Does this fridge have something to eat? Thankfully, I sense no problems in opening the fridge. No, no. Be calm. No expectations, no disappointment.'

Asnor then slowly opened the fridge and the light coming from the light sources inside fridge kept flashing outside but Asnor didn't stop since he had already expected it. But light flashing out doesn't create any problem.

Although it ain't a good thing to be always so confident in everything that Asnor does but Asnor still did things confidently.

'No food... Hmm? What are these bottles?'

Asnor looked inside the fridge and found no food except for some bottles.

'Huh?! Magic!? These bottles are filled with magic. No. These bottles filled with magic have different attributes to it. Well, it's better if I ignore things I don't understand. In the end, I am just a kid.'

Asnor then closed the fridge and he then headed to his next destination which was the room that seemed like a library from Asnor's perspective.