424 Ceremony of truth (1/2)
Without any word of explanation, the elder appraiser that accompanied me all the way here, suddenly moved aside, opening up the way to a single pair of massive doors. Despite how everything in the area was uniformly coloured in red, this single set of doors was decorated with all the colours that I heard about before, from red, through white and yellow all the way to the violet, with a blue hue connecting all the coloured strips.
*If that won't be a problem, evolve the executioner's path for me, but for now, try to solve how the heck will this trial work.*
Communicating with Bonger for the last time before moving forward, I pressed my hands against the doors and slowly pushed them aside, as to not reveal my real, monstrous strength. The chamber inside was a perfect circle, with a circular platform hovering about five meters above the floor, with a set of chairs placed all around its curvature. On the floor, there was only a single chair, with a strangely turned rest, forcing anyone who would want to sit there, to practically gaze at the bottom of the hovering platform.
\”Welcome to the ceremony of truth!\”
As soon as my legs crossed the threshold of the chamber, a domineering voice resounded in the vincity, as if attempting to make an impression of might on me already. While I was eager to simply disregard it, I decided to go with the ruse I still held up and simply nodded my head.
\”You might sit in the chair of truth.\”
Following the orders of the voice, I continued on the floor made by red bricks or something that was infinitely close to them in shape and general look, but the closer I got to the said chair, the more familiar this place turned out to be!
Just like back in the ancient ruins of Golem's civilisation, as soon as I stepped under the hovering platform, the floor turned from a rather flat surface to a single, big set of carvings, surrounding the chair in an intricate pattern. While I lacked the knowledge to understand what did those carving means, the similar way of laying them out as compared with the tower at the ancestral's place of the islanders made me wary of them.
Nevertheless, I still followed with my steps only to sit on the chair and lay my back on the angled rest, turning my eyes at the direct centre of the platform.
At first, nothing happened.
Only after waiting for a few minutes, I could see with the corner of my eyes how the edge of the carvings started to fill up with some shiny liquid, as the platform above me started to turn in circles.
*Bonger, what's going on?*
\”Don't worry. While I can't make any sense of it unless it will start working properly, it doesn't look like its strong enough to break through your resistances. And even if it will manage to do it somehow, I will just take over and answer the questions for you.\”
Calmed down a bit by Bogner's reassurance, I relaxed on my stone chair and waited for the events to unfold in front of my eyes.
\”What's your name?\”