Hello fellow pinguines and pinguinets! Here is another chapter. Enjoy! :-)

The runes trembled and shone with various colors upon me. In the next moment I was standing in a dimmed space. This is very strange I thought to myself. It’s like there is no end to this vast space. I turned around to see if it’s the same anywhere I see. I noticed then that there was no wind, no sun, no stars, no Moon. This definitely isn’t Earth, I was standing on.

“That’s correct, young child.” (???)

“What? Who are you? Who is speaking?” (me)

“You don’t have to be afraid. This is my realm, the realm of Vexus”

“Why am I here? I take it that you brought me here?” (me)

“That is mostly correct, but I didn’t actually brought you here. You brought yourself here by touching those runes on the stone you were under a minute ago.” (Vexus)

“What do you mean, mostly correct then?” (me)

“That stone is called The Stone of Mastery. When you used that gravitation rune earlier you awakened one of the masteries a person can possess. The interesting thing is that you are the first to use it in a thousand years. Many have tried using it during these thousand years, but they all faltered because they were incompatible. They died as soon as they tried to put runes on themselves.” (Vexus)

What I heard, stunned me. I was that close to dying.

“Why did I have that aftereffect of having my arm burnt?!” (me)

“That is because you still don’t have the complete control over the gravitation. For your first use, I was surprised how good you did.” (Vexus)

“That’s great news, at least I DIDN’T DIE….” (me)

“Unfortunately my apprentice 1000 years ago didn’t write down a warning” (Vexus)

“Is that so?” I asked angrily. “Also, you didn’t introduce yourself” (me)

“I am Vexus, the greatest manipulator of gravitation to exist ever. I’ve always wanted to say that!!”

And so our dear Skylar finally encountered the wielder of gravitational magic. As he says, he is the greatest… If he was the greatest, why didn’t he defeat the person who trapped him here? Foolish human… I guess you want to know how and why he was trapped here, right? Okay, so this Vexus was a human like everyone else once. At the age of what now Skylar has, he found out about a powerful magic that was waiting to be manipulated by him, or so he concluded. He had a gift of controlling gravitation. He didn’t have the same problems Sky encountered as he was far much compatible than him.

What happened after he graduated school? Well other than dark elves invading the school he graduated from, nothing much really… The school was destroyed and most of the students were killed that day. So many talents had been lost then, but Vexus boy here didn’t die. He was too powerful even for some dark elves. Then he finally unlocked his hidden potential after they killed his gf. Oh boy was he mad. He created such a gravitational field that the dark elves were squashed like bugs. Blood splattered everywhere. Only few of the dark elf mages were still standing barely. Mostly on their knees now that I recall.

The sad thing is that one of the bloody dark elves wasn’t even affected by the gravity. She was ethereal, most likely dead but the ghost remained. Vexus couldn’t do anything to a ghost since they don’t exist materially. Also, guess what. The ghost was a mage too. She cast some spell on da boii Vexus which trapped him in a space which he resides in to this day. Lovely story huh?

“So what do you want from me?” (me)

“You are gifted my son. You could become the best wielder of gravitation, but of course after me…” he said with a stupid grin on his face.

“Look, Vexus, I’m really not interested in gravitation magic right now. I have a friend which has lost her memory. Could I give you an answer later?”

“I see, you can. Whenever you wish to visit me, just meditate and think about those runes which you saw earlier. I will then materialize you here and we can continue our business.

“Alright then. Farewell Vexus.”

“Likewise” (Vexus)

I then woke up under the same rock right beside Lora, who was still sleeping despite the Sun which was now rising on the horizon. I woke her up and checked how her head was. It was alright it seemed to me, but also my arm, which was hurting yesterday, was now healed. This is great! We can now continue our journey to the city of Light.

We once again started travelling. After what we have been through, I’m glad that we haven’t died. I started noticing how Lora is actually beautiful. Her white hair was covering her perfect shaped face. Her blue eyes were giving off a motherly vibe, while her posture was proud and confident. Her white robe was a bit stained in blood and was a bit messy from the grass and muddy floor, but that was barely visible in my eyes.

She had curves, I must admit. I then started imagining various things, which are quite inappropriate, but I guess that is what makes me a human boy. It can’t be helped right?

It was a days’ worth of walking until we finally saw a huge wall that was clinging to a mountain. The walls were gigantic and white. We could see people who were on their way to the gate which was closed.

This didn’t seem right. It was like the people were blocked from entering the inner side of the town. When we got closer we could see what it was all about. They were protesting about something. I overheard the people talking about this.

“I don’t understand why they are doing this. Are they trying to kills us, farmers that work for them?” (Stranger 1)

“The current Earl is a madman. We should leave this place while we have the chance.”(Stranger 2)

“If they closed the gates, how are we going to enter?” I wondered. Right when I said that a man with a cart behind him came behind us and spoke.

“Loraine Lunaglide??? Is that you?”

Lora turned around looking with a blank face at a stranger in front of us.

“Don’t you remember me? You saved my life when those flying creatures attacked me and my cart.” (???)

“I know you!” (me)

“Who are you?” (???)

“Lora told me about what happened and I’m a friend of hers. She lost her memories few days ago and now were are looking to stay in this city to recover a bit.”

“I see. Don’t worry, I will get you into the city. It’s the least I can do for a person who saved my life. By the way, my name is Lanfaerd.”

“I’m Skylar”