29 Mind Palace (1/2)

Dorian opened his eyes abruptly, and looked at the two Sadunites. He said ”I have done it. What now?”

One of the Sadunites said ”Good, what is it?” Dorian replied ”A white flame. Any importance?” The Sadunite replied ”It is very important. It is good your is a flame, the way you will approach Mind Magic will be similar to ours.”

Dorian frowned and asked ”What do you mean?”

The Sadunite replied ”There are several paths to Mind Magic. Some practice telekinesis, telepathy, mind attacks… You must pick a path that is suitable for you, and to know the right path you mainly deduce it from your mind's shape.”

The other Sadunite intervened ”Now, we will teach you a spell that will allow you to project your mind's flame into our own minds. This is the most basic form of attack, and will allow us to understand more about your shape.”

Dorian nodded and looked at the two patiently. The Sadunite who just talked said ”Now what you need to do is visualize your flame. Try to make it as realistic as possible.”

Dorian closed his eyes and tried to recall what the flame looked like. He then heard ”When you are done, open your eyes and imagine that flame leaving your mind and throwing itself at our eyes.”

Dorian continued visualizing his flame until he found it detailed enough, and opened his eyes. He looked into one of the Sadunite's eyes and projected his flame into it.

He felt his mind leave his body and enter the Sadunite's. He entered that familiar space, but instead of the dark void, everything was red.

Moreover, he saw an orange fire, next to a shabby looking house.

He heard the Sadunite say ”Impressive, your flame is even bigger than mine, you have a lot of potential for a human. Now, try to destroy the house.”

Dorian looked at himself and realized that he had come here not in his human form, but as the white flame. So to destroy that house, he simply rushed at it, and tried to burn it.

But he strangely passed through it without doing any damage. Dorian frowned and tried something else, he detached a part of his flame and controlled it to become a long blade, which he threw at the house.

This time, the fire didn't go through, but hit the house. It made a little tear on the wall it hit, not enough to go through it but still made a tear.

But what was interesting was that after the initial impact, the area around the tear began burning under the white flame, which grew bigger and bigger.

Dorian didn't doubt that if left alone, it would burn the whole house. But as it was burning, the red flame passed by, and extinguished the white fire.

With a weaker voice than usual, the Sadunite said ”Your mind shape is special… The main flames seems to be nonexistent, whereas your attacks destroy. If I had to take a guess, I would say that your body has a great affinity for the Space element, as well as for the Fire element.”

Dorian retreated back in the sky and the Sadunite said ”It seems we were wrong, your path isn't the same as ours at all. What we do is mainly mind attacks, such as what we did to you earlier. But it looked like yours is telekinesis, or anything that meddles with the material world.”

Dorian asked ”Can you teach me?”

The Sadunite replied ”I can't, but Jok'ii can.” Dorian asked ”You have been helping me a lot, may I know what's your name?”

The Sadunite replied ”I am Jun of the Tenth Tribe. You?” Dorian replied ”Dorian Hunt, from the Earth Kingdom. You don't have a surname?”

Jun replied ”We Sadunites only have a first name followed by our tribe.” Dorian asked ”Is the Tenth Tribe powerful?”

Jun shrugged and said ”Depends on what you mean by powerful. Out of the 26 tribes, we are ranked 19th in term of influence.”