With my sense of time distorted, being alone in a white room was starting to take it's toll on my sanity, I can only suppose it's the end of the third day. I've a gut feeling that being here much longer isn't an option, so the last thing I want to do before opening the door is to attempt to use the simple magic I discovered to better my equipment.

Apart from having a heavy mana toll for every use, the problem with the magic until now it's is fight potential. Maybe it can be used as distraction at best, but that will not help me in a sudden encounter.

So for now the best way I feel I can exploit it is to try to coat all the surface of my item in a diamond-like carbon film. I had the idea while sharpening the knife blade and the tip of the spear. From all the article that I remember reading, it should help immensely the hardness and resistance of the coated surface.

This will also be a test to see if the "Magic" skill have some influence on the expected result. I tried to first coat the spear, hopefully it will go well, but preparing for the worse even a failure should leave a useful pointy end.

Concentrating on all the aspect needed like my previous attempts was a little bit easier, I don't honestly know if it's the skill or I'm imagining it. Albeit slowly a shiny transparent patch started to grow and enclose the spear head. Calmly turning the spear while still focusing was really hard, but the final result made it worth the pain.

Consulting the status I discovered that the mp consumption was much less than before, so maybe the magic skill influences the mana cost more than other things. Still another experiment on the list.

I repeated the coating process on the knife, vest and the shield, and that took all my remaining mana. After gripping the spear and shield...

- So it's time to see who's behind door number one... A quick glance to see if it's all ok...

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What greeted me behind the door, I finally opened, wasn't a life form of any kind or another white area. No, a seemingly endless darkness enveloped me as soon I took a step out of the door.

It didn't feel like the time I talked with the voice at the beginning, it's like being suspended in a black endless ocean. In the same moment I started panicking due to the inability to move or see anything, a feeble light appeared in front of me. The increasing brightness and dimension of the light gave me a vague idea of the speed it was travelling.

- Or maybe I'm the one travelling... 

That would explain the sudden sensation of free-falling I started to perceive when the light become as big as a fist. More detail came into view with any passing second. A strange calmness permeated me while observed what I was starting to be fairly sure was a star.

What at the beginning was a dark spot on the surface of the star revealed to be a planet orbiting it. With another object for reference I started to marvel at my speed and also if I was really going to end either crashed on the planet or burned in the star.

- Well the fact that I can talk surely means that it's again only a trick and I'm not really moving through space, or I'm being protect by some kind of "bubble"?

- No tricks, you're travelling through my protection. And what you're witnessing it's #001 your new world.

- Com'on, really?! You reappear like that and expect me to accept this?

- No, I don't but when you will believe me you will remember it.

- Right... Anyway what kind of people call their planet #001 are the naming sense taken a trip for a while or taken testimony protection program?

- It will all make sense after a while I can't say anything more. Rather than this good luck for your landing!

Opening my eyes again showed me that my vision was filled with the planet, with the star hidden behind it the surface was dark for the night. I was able to te a glimpse of an ocean and various islands before all become red, from the enveloping fire, that created from the entry in the atmosphere.