Chapter 152: The Book (2/2)
A few books slid off their shelves and floated to the storyteller's hand. ”But there is a certain book recorded here that is a journal; the journal of an experienced and talented soul practitioner. You should be able to find something useful in its contents,” he said and flicked his fingers. One of the books flew toward Rakna who caught it in flight.
The werewolf opened to the first page and read the first lines before closing it again. ”Hey, can I read this outside of here?”
”It should not be a problem for you to manifest it as the genome trio would. If you use your star constructs, physically reading it shouldn't be impossible as well,” Fray said.
”I see. In that case, I'll read it later. I'll go rest for today,” Rakna stated and tossed the book in a random direction. Then, with a thought, it flew right back to its place on the shelves.
”So, you already learned how to control your soul realm, huh?” Higure remarked as she noted both his trick with the book and the cigarette he was smoking.
”It's not too complicated. Anyhow, see you tomorrow,” the therian said and faded away.
After he was gone, Fray sighed and looked back at the door of the room holding the book. ”That is nothing less than a mystery now. Let's hope that this book doesn't get out of control one day.”
”Hm, what do you predict it to be able to do?” Higure asked. ”It seems that it is being imprinted an identity. Do you think it will gain its own life?”
”Improbable,” Fray shook his head. ”Perhaps a sort of beacon or a source of power are more likely outcomes. Regardless, I do not think it will become something nefarious to Rakna. It comes from his uncle at the end of the day. It wouldn't do anything to harm him.”
Higure gave one last glance at the door, barely acting as a barrier for the overflowing bloodlust behind it, and nodded. ”I guess we'll have to see.”
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Rakna 'woke up' in the morning with his body still under gravity's influence. He grunted and stood up with a slight stagger. ”My body's a bit sore,” he grunted. ”Trii, turn off the gravity,” he ordered and the pressure was lifted from him.
He instantly felt as if his weight had become nonexistent. It wasn't because his physical abilities had become massively higher, of course. It was just a trick his brain was playing him after getting used to the restrictive hold of the amplified gravity.
”It wouldn't be a bad idea to come here regularly,” he noted to himself as he left the room. He went to the entrance of the Pavilion and popped his joints with a groan. He held out his hand and closed his eyes for a second.
Cold energy swirled around his hand to create the journal he saw inside his soul realm. He walked out of the Pavilion whilst reading it and followed his map to the Trial. After around ten minutes, he had read around a tenth of the whole journal.
”There's nothing lucid in this thing,” Rakna clicked his tongue. ”It feels like it was written by someone with delusions; spouting shit like enlightenment, ascension, and earthly desires. It's your soul damn it, not some sort of alien power that will make you invincible. People are weird.”
”{…well, you're just that special to be able to understand your soul directly. Other people have to invent themselves artificial ways to further their insight. It's not incorrect in itself, it's a different method from yours.}”
”I guess.”
”{Did you find anything about Kzanarias?}”
”Hm, sort of. I'll make a conclusion when I'm done reading it,” Rakna said and put the book inside his storage. His Star Hearth made it that it wouldn't disappear for an entire day after all. ”Anyway, it seems I'm the first to arrive,” he muttered as he stopped in front of a big rectangular pillar in the middle of a plaza in town.
He looked around a few times and shrugged. ”I might as well do it first. It's not like I need to leave the Plateau right away after finishing it,” he muttered and placed his hand on the pillar. A blue outline appeared around it and a System window popped up.
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You have reached a Trial Zone.
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Trial of the Tenth Plateau: Simulation Trial.
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You will be transported into an artificial dimension where you'll be faced with a situation to solve, survive, create, or avoid, etcetera. The nature of the simulation will be random but the objective will be fairly clear to discern.
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Conditions to Pass: Resolve the simulation.
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