Chapter 93: Conquering Poseidons Wrath (2/2)
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It took another two days until Quinn was fast enough to cover the sixty meters in three-meter shifts before time ran out.
'One more shift and I'll be inside the center,' noted Quinn as he looked to the side. He could faintly see the boundary where the water ended.
The circular water whirlpool had a five-meter waterless wide center. Quinn saw it every time he fell into the water.
In fact, in the beginning, which was a few days ago, Quinn would try to get into the center without entering the water.
He would try to use the seize-and-pull spell to fasten himself to a wall or the ceiling, but they were too far away for Quinn to get any use out of them.
Transfiguring an object underneath while riding it using levitation also didn't work. The transfigured material would glow red and immediately vanish, and Quinn would drop into the water.
He had even tried to get a broom inside, but it wouldn't take flight no matter what, and once again, Quinn would drop inside the water. Because of that, he had lost the broom he had used since he was eight years old. The wood brutally snapped because of the turbulent flow, and the pieces flew away before Quinn could get to them.
The ward administration inside the expanded place was so extensive that Quinn didn't have a choice but to get to the center via the water. [1]
'One last time,' thought Quinn, gathering his magic and shooting it for the final time.
The water flow changed and was now aimed towards the center. Quinn naturally swam with the flow, and in a moment, his head emerged from the water.
”I did it!” exclaimed Quinn, but his eyes widened when he realized that with his exit speed, his body was going to enter the water from the opposite side.
”Oh, hell! No!” yelled Quinn and immediately killed his fall with Arresto Momentum. He stopped right in the middle of the center of the vortex.
He looked down and saw another triangular entrance on the floor, although this one also was filled with water. As he dropped, Quinn saw words appear above an edge of a triangle.
「<-~| TEHOM'S DELIGHT |~->」
Quinn stopped just above the entrance and stared at the words etched on the floor.
”There's another place after this?”
But then the words at the first gate flashed in his mind,
「The trials are long and arduous...」
”Ah, it was 'trials,' plural. Alright, that checks it out,” nodded Quinn.
Then his eyes went to the name of the next trial.
”Tehom's delight?” Quinn tilted his head in cluelessness. ”Who the hell is Tehom? Damn, another god or someone?”
But that wasn't the thing that Quinn was mainly concerned about. The other word was more concerning to him.
”Delight? Yeah, no way this is anything good or delightful.” Quinn didn't for a second believe that the positive-sounding words in the title were anything but negative. ”That just screams trouble,” scoffed Quinn and shook his head.
He went silent and stared at the water inside the entrance.
”Should I go in?” contemplated Quinn. He had just spent a lot of time slowly shifting sixty meters, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to drop down into another trial. ”Should I research 'Tehom' before going in? Or should I just go and see what's inside?”
He felt the insignia on his arm and was reminded of its existence.
”I have the teleportation insignia. I can always pull out at any moment,” mused Quinn. It was the safety mechanism that would pull him out immediately the moment he activated it. ”Yeah, I should check it out.”
With a sharp exhale, Quinn released the magic holding him in place and sunk into the water. He felt the same tug as the last entrance and the momentary loss of sensation.
But this time, his sense of sight didn't return.
He could feel the water against his skin, his ears picked up sounds, he could smell some scent of water and taste the water as he gulped it down. But he couldn't see anything through his eyes. Darkness dominated his vision as he turned in the water, trying to see anything.
Quinn felt fear grip his heart as he looked around. Suddenly losing your sight wasn't a pleasant feeling. Quinn could feel his heart racing as, no matter what direction he turned, he didn't manage to see anything.
'Okay, this is freaking me out. I need to get out. I need to get out, right now!' thundered Quinn and activated the safety insignia.
The next second, he was back in the stone cave, and to Quinn's relief, his sight was back along with all his other senses.
”Oh! Colors, pretty colors, and light!” smiled Quinn as he stared at the crystal light sticking out of the ceiling. ”Oh, I love sight.”
Quinn placed his hand on his beating heart and took deep breaths to calm himself down.
”Yeah, what could go wrong, indeed!”
Even though Quinn hadn't gotten injured, he would have ended up extremely scared if his vision didn't return after he was teleported. At that moment, Quinn didn't think it would be another trial; he was just worried about his eyes.
”Delight, my ass,” spat out Quinn in displeasure.
He looked back to check something and saw that the triangular entrance in the dome's wall still had the words Poseidon's Wrath etched into the stone above it.
”Aww! Don't tell me I have to go through the Poseidon's Wrath before I reach the Tohem's Delight?!” complained Quinn. He had completed the first trial, so he was expecting the door to change, but it didn't. ”Will I have to go through every trial to get to the one at the end of the line? That sucks!”
Quinn only had completed the first of many trials.
Nonetheless, Poseidon's Wrath had been overcome.
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