Chapter 74 - 74. Three Months Later (1/2)

Three months had already passed since Mack entered the 6th gate and today he finally reached the end of the 'road'.

Because in front of him a giant portal waited for him.

All around Mack seemed as if made of white opaque glass, the temperature was so low that all seemed to be frozen.

[Contratulations]

”Yeah yeah but i didn't do anything actually”

[Its expected, your will is solid. This and the next trial ahead are only to eliminate those that didnt reach this point, while also giving them a chance to do]

”The next one will be like this?”

[Yes]

”I see. Thanks for the warning”

Said Mack, retracting his hand that almost touched the portal..

[Im glad my future master is clever to undertand the clues]

”Stop with that future master thing. Im no master, except for my death.”

[Wise words for a chitchat]

~tsc~

Mack clicked his tongue and looked around, there was nothing much to see, but he was not actually searching for anything.

It was his way to decide what to do. The mind sometimes needed some visual feedbacks to be able to formulate a plan better.

”If the next gates are like this I may not survive without water. I bet the next one is about fire.”

Mack body could easily go days without food or water now, but he could not keep this forever. He was already more than 2 months without food, as his backpack now only contained some Essence Crystals and other tools.

He thought about what else could be but water and rock didn't made sense for a trial, if it was the same line as this one then fire made much more sense.

[Unfortunately i cant help you as the rules forbidden me. But oddly, I can tell you the gate name. This is called 'Gate of Duality' and the next one have the same name as this. This is the maximum I can do.]

”You girl. twisting the rules to help me? Did you fear so much about me?”

[Without me, you would be a corpse already]

”A very handsome corpse at least”

[...]

”What?”

[You are lucky that you can't see your face on a mirror. When you get out of here people may confuse you with Santa]

Mack put his hand over his long beard and stretched it a bit.

~sigh~

It was indeed abnormally long. He was not sure when he stopped caring about his beard or his hair, maybe it was because no one saw him, only dealing with light constructs didn't gave a 'real' feeling of interacting with people.

”Anyway. Thanks for the heads up.”

[Just remember to treat me well in the future. And stop thinking if im hot]