The Gatekeeper - Chapter 17 De Magia

It has been three days since the Emmisarry took me in I think, but anyways what I have discovered about this floating land is that it’s more to it than it seems, looking outside from my room the land seems to stretch far and beyond. This place seems to be a floating island.

Yesterday the Emissary destroyed my magic, it didn’t hurt like I was expecting it to, in fact, it felt as if a burden was raised of my back. And now I’m stuck in a dark room, today is the second day in here I think. I seriously can’t tell anymore.

The room is a big sphere and I am floating in the center, but the odd thing about this room is the lack of magical force. I can’t sense anything in here, but I have to or I’ll be stuck here for a “month” as the Emissary flatly said.

I try to sense mana again, nothing happens. The whole damn place is dry it feels like a wall, a perfectly built wall without any crack and no matter how hard I try to draw in mana I cant. Behind the wall, I can feel the surging mana that one would usually feel if they tried to absorb the mana but instead it not as chaotic its more organized more powerfull like the wall. I inspect the wall more closely, it’s thick and pulsating very slightly like a beating heart.

How couldn’t I have realized it? The room is mana! This time I don’t even try to absorb the mana but instead I push my mind to the wall like structure, I gently push on one of the bricks, unlike the tough wall I expected the brick moves. It doesn’t move outward but it moves toward my body and enters it, it feels like mana entering my body but unlike the past where the mana felt sparse when I absorbed it, this time it feels like a torrential storm has entered my body.

It fills my body, making it feel like a stone it make me feel way more powerful than when I was an initiate. I go on to do the same thing with the other bricks in the sphere room, the more I absorb the more I feel sturdier. I still don’t feel like I am at the threshold to enter the initiate realm.

The more I take in the bricks the more the room lightens up. By the time I finished absorbing all the bricks, I felt like the threshold was close. The room around me isn’t a sphere anymore and this time I can feel the mana, I tried to absorb them but I couldn’t. Another change in the room was that there was a floor now, the floor was like glass and reflected the room making it seem even bigger. I moved everywhere in the room, but there was no exit anywhere.

*SIGH*

I flop my self down to the floor.

“You finally did it, boy, I’m very impressed.” A burst of laughter came from everywhere in the room, “Now pass through the door.” the voice said as a black tiny sphere appeared into existence in front of me, it grew big and before I could even take a step towards it I was sucked in.
for visiting.