Chapter 24: Reflection
Lucian stared at his room with a complicated feeling, he thought it would take at least three months before advancing to rank 8 but now after about a month he was alreasy at this level. After receiving instructions from Xander, he started packing his luggage right away.
The area around the marshes and mine were very difficult to pinpoint through spatial abilities so he and Reina already made plans to have as much fun as they could there.
Xander already arranged for Aaron to deliver food to the temporary guard team regularly. Ordinary food items cannot last long in the area due to an unknown reason, at first rank 6 and rank 5 always guarded the mine due to this phenomenon but after repeated tests, they determined that apart from the food issue, low rank awakened could stay there just fine without meeting any trouble.
The marsh has designated safe zones and supply zones at different areas where there is a semblance of spatial normalcy. And the food mostly eaten there is called the sun seed, this seed usually harvested from a neighbouring plane and also planted in a dungeon near dell plane can provide enough energy to last a day after eating a handful.
The sun seed, the size of a palm nut has a peculiar phenomenon and legend attached to it. It is said that the seed cannot grow in places that have the abyss influence. Multiple forces mostly scoff at this whenever it is spoken because the only plane where the seed grows and the other dungeons have no natural sunlight at all.
The people of the Alpas plane where the seed grows were called the children of the sun due to this. Though natural sunlight cannot be found in Alpas plane, an artifact maintains the day, night and all other weather conditions of the plane.
Lucian now only needed to think about how to fight and establish his personal as a reckless individual in the special mine. Also, he was given a warning not to enter the mine no matter what, he was to guard the entrance and after finishing his shift, he should either use the free time to advance his abilities or explore the marsh.
After advancing to rank 8, further advancement usually involve the consciousness and spirit body improvement. The process of advancing to rank 8 mostly help the awakened adapt to the spirit energy of their chosen paths.
Since Aster came back, all the external influences he thought was affecting him vanished, he was able to sleep well as a result.
….
A palm size mirror floating in the void rotated a few times in an attempt to capture the image of something.
This palm sized mirror seemed to have resonated with another consciousness that also desired something. Part of the mirror became bright, bright lights and partial flares were reflected in this part of the mirror.
Beside the reflection of the light, different scenes, people, realms, ruin, dungeons and planes were being reflected. Parts of this images had thick dark fog covering them while some planes were covered by a little bit of it.
This dark fog could be expected because the abyss was just behind the planes but within parts of dell plane and spatial forces around this plane, a deep dark fog with a force that seemed to be alive loomed over a particular range.
The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
The forbidden realm used mostly by the people of the realms close to this realm had suddenly become a hotbed for the formation of something dangerous. The small mirror looked small but when close to it, everything on the mirror seemed like human sized visuals.
On the day of Reina’s advancement, the silver light ball was captured by the mirror, it reflected the image from this mirror and before the mirror could escape, it immediately looked at Reina’s figure and reflected it in her consciousness.
The crescent moon that Reina developed after coming out of the maze mirror was difficult to hold on to because apart from her low rank, her consciousness and control of her spirit body was not enough to form something of such a large magnitude.
The moment her consciousness captured the image for this silver light ball, it suddenly broke through a restriction, she felt a close connection to the very source of her path. Though the connection was weak, she did not plan to keep it. She instead used this opportunity to develop and advance the formation of the crescent moon.
At first she felt like her consciousness was placed in a deep ocean with the flowing waves and tide washing it away, at other times, she could feel the anchor provided by the silver ball.
She immediately realised the danger of developing something so strong without the corresponding strength. This kind of shaping and pattern within her consciousness was not considered a part of the moon path but a mutation that came from her desires. If it had taken some more time, it would have slowly faded away.
In order to prevent losing herself, she chose to form only the function of digesting chaotic energy while also being able to elevate her consciousness to another level. And she succeeded.
The mirror struggling to hold on to the image of the light ball used it last bit of strength to reflect the entire tyrant team and while it sent a wave of energy to the team to help in the rookie advancement, it also discovered Lucian.
One part of his existence was brightly lit while the other contained a bit of corrosion that was being slowly evaporated.
Along with the mirror, the force of the light ball slowed down when it saw this scene, after repeated struggling, it finally drilled into the void, hovering over different parts of the plane.
The mirror slowly turned to another direction after reflecting the forbidden realm though avoiding the direct reflection of the seed like it did with the silver light ball. It next target was an island that had stars, shadows and immeasurable monsters moving about.
Mountains, valleys and different ruin cities were filled up in this place. Each mountain seemed to contain a world of their own, each possessing vitality like an awakening monster that was about to go on rampage. The mirror reflected everything without taking any sought of action. It action with Reina was just something done to spite the silver light ball.
It knew how proud that light ball was, it wanted to give it some trouble before it escaped his detection like that dark seed. Even now, the silver light already disappeared it’s location unknown.
Within the island world within it reflection, a dark canyon rested there. Stars moved at high speeds around the canyon, sometimes entering the void other times reappearing in the canyon. The constellation of stars concealed everything in this canyon but the mirror easily breached it.
A surging soul force could be felt in the deep part of the canyon and a small human figure lying in a coffin like box with patterns forming on the coffin that seemed to indicate it separation from the real world. This coffin basically served as a world within a world and it prevented anything related to it from being discovered.
The human figure that laid inside this coffin looked like Weimar Valencia. Weimar who thought his clone was dead had been silently corrupted. His mind slowly degenerating to the point of losing his basic vigilance.
The soul force around this canyon slowly drilled into this coffin world. The blurry shadows on the soul force showed a giant figure with snake like patterns and scales slowly occupying the sleeping clone.
Around the stars in the vicinity, images of different figure were reflected and this mirror slowly took it all in.