475 First time (1/2)
Realising the mistake that I made by relying on external help to be safe while preparing myself for the challenge, I ran to the window, my only possible exit point if I wanted to leave this city, only to realise that while it could still be open, a layer of energy was tightly covering it, making it impossible for me to get out of this place without actually breaking the entire barrier down!
I didn't even need to think about it or inspect the protective layer of energy closer to realise that doing so, even if I managed to come up with some way to only puncture the barrier while holding its remaining structure properly in place, a strand of the energy connected to the now departing mass of energy that seemed like Monica would instantly alert her if anything were to happen to this place!
Sitting down on the couch, I started thinking.
With no portal seeds, I was unable to just make the big leap towards my stronghold. While as soon as I realised what was happening, I hoped that digging through the floor or going by the roof might be a way to go, yet to my disappointment, the entirety of the chamber was covered in the bubble of energy, meaning that no matter what direction I would take for my escape, it would be blocked by the barrier anyway!
*Bonger, any ideas?*
With no option or idea appearing in my mind, I had no other choice than to turn to my trusty system. Even though since Eve filled the hole in my emotional self I felt the urge to work my way towards my own aims while basing on my strength alone, so that if something happened to Bonger I wouldn't suddenly lose all of my power, in this very moment, I was simply out of options!
”Sorry brother, I can't really help you out with this one. Or rather, I can't fix the situation for you, but you should be able to do it yourself. After all, I already explained how the fabric of this world works, didn't I?”
Hearing Bonger's answer, I realised that instead of looking for conventional ways out, or lamenting over the lack of the portal seed, I could make a small scale portal myself!
After all, I already managed to open the gate once, back when I didn't really know what I was supposed to expect from it! As long as I could shield myself from the chaos influencing me, wouldn't that work just fine as a small scale teleportation window?
In just a moment, I could feel that my magic was slowly wrestling itself out of my control as if something was eroding it from the inside. With just a single thought, I extracted all of the entropy from the ball of energy floating in front of me, storing it in form of a protective dome around the energy blob, just in case if something from the other side of the hole I was making decided to come to visit.
From this point on, the events only accelerated.
With more and more magical energy gathering in a single point, I felt the space twisting and turning, as if it was unable to hold as much content within such a small area. Before I could even notice, most of my energy suddenly evaporated, disappeared from this world, leaving only the insanely thick walls of energy around a three-dimensional hole coated with my magic all around.
Holding the entry point to my way out as closely as I could, I changed the flow of my magic so that rather than simply feeding it into the bottomless hole, it would infuse itself into the walls, giving me just enough grip to spread them a bit more for every bit of energy that reinforced them.