Chapter 168 - Conductive Earth Dungeon (1/2)

Every maji regardless of their practice, affinity or abilities require aether to do any of it. Unfortunately, aether is very hard to gather.

It's not that there isn't enough of it to go around, in fact it's everywhere like water. The main issue is that it's everywhere like fog.

Aether in it's natural state is too spread out to gather normally, hence why maji developed cultivation techniques as a mean to condense and collect aether as efficiently as possible. Evidently, this desire for denser aether led to the development of spell circles and formations.

To go back to the water metaphor, cultviation techniques used by maji were like barrels left out to collect rain water, while formations were like digging out artificial ponds or a reservoir. Both collect water, but at very different scales.

Now how dungeons factor into this...imagine that reservoir was suddenly filled with fish, plants and corpses.

Voxea wasn't sure how it happened, but she guessed that over the course of eight hundred years, and a certain cataclysmic event, some of the formations had mutated into doing more than just collect aether. Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/majimonsters-rosewood-journey_14361764405099505/conductive-earth-dungeon_50831273307992222 for visiting.

Either way, my friends and I were now standing in front of a crazy gold and brown portal emitting dense Earth and Lightning aether. In front of the portal were pair of binder guards armed with spears and Lionyxes by their side.

”Well”, I said for everyone to hear, ”what are we waiting for? Let's go”.

Putting on a brave face for myself and my friends, I walked right up to the guards of the portal.

”Please present entry key”, the guards said in-sync as soon as we got close enough. Following their prompt, I took out the rune stone that Headmistress Malrena gave me.

”Acknowledged”.

The guard to my left proceeded to reach out to take the rune stone from my hand...and then throw it out at the portal.

”???”

The rune stone went flying through the air until it suddenly stopped, suspended just a few feet in front of the entrance. The rune stone then began to fly upward and embed itself to a small part of the top of the portal. I soon felt a change in the aether as the rune stone locked into place.

”Location locked”, the guards stated in unison, ”please proceed”.

[Huh...how unusual...], Voxea commented, [Whatever was going in there seemed to have change...I'm excited now, let's go]!

”Well then...shall we?”, I said as I made my way to the portal. A moment of hesitation took me before I steeled my nerves and just pushed through.