That night after signing out of his lab he worked his way to the old housing district bringing him near the grand crystal, which kept the island of Asgard floating in the air. He stops at a nearby bench looking at the crystal. He stares at the dark black crystal and contemplates what to do about Hella and the powers that had appeared in his body.

“Well if it is not the hot shot branch member Dragis!” A low voice yelled out.

Closing his eyes and leaning his head back “Devin you are just mad that I passed your magical power level in last year’s family competition.”

Suddenly a splash of water hits Dragis in the face. “Cool down hot stuff you only beat me because you knew that strange method to combine different elements that should now be.”

Sitting up opening his eyes as and shaking the water off his face and looks at Devin with a slight grin “If you spent less time studying theory and more on actually practicing it you would have figured the trick out first.”

“Well we can’t all be monsters in multiple aspects I am a few years older than you and yet you are at the same level as me.”

With both of the men smiling “Well at least we both make a powerful pair the powerhouse and the theory maker. Also, have to add my brother Layzrac into the list as he is not too far off from us in either.”

“Have you managed to fuse the wind and earth elements yet or they still rejecting each other?” Devin asked as he sat beside me with a serious face.

“I have yet to find a solution to fuse the fast and slow areas of the elements. I can begin the fusion but as the elemental laws fill the stone it tears itself apart.” Dragis said with a sigh as he looked into the large crystal.

Devin leans back “Do you really think that if we can fuse all of the elements we can make a space crystal like the grand ones that hold the mainlands above the lower world?”

“I believe so , or at least in theory, we know that it radiates all the different elements that allow us to use magic as well as make elemental stones” Dragis responds placing his chin in his hands.

“True but just the fusion of fire and water only worked because you were able to use the combination of the fog and smoke spells as a starting point and a base to hold it together that was hard enough on their own much less adding in the other three.”

“There is no choice with the power from the grand crystal getting less and less each year within the next one hundred to two hundred years the islands will fall,” Dragis says seriously as he looks at Devin.

“Well thankfully at our level we should have about that same amount of time to work on the problem,” Devin says as he stands up and smiles.

“How do you stay so calm when we are one of the few who knows this secret and has so much responsibility?” Dragis stands up asking him.

Patting his shoulder Devin says “We will figure it out just breathe and stay focused. I will see you later I have to go home to the wife at least one of us focuses on love some.” He smiles and walks off.

“You are not very funny” Dragis yells at him and turns and starts walking back to his housing district.

Before he leaves the area he looks back one last time “Who made these giant crystals and if they made them where did the knowledge they used to make it go?” he ask himself as he turns and walks out of the area.

Again I say be careful the questions you ask and the knowledge you search for because if you look hard enough you will find an answer even if after you wish you had not.