Sculpted from a single stone, forged with unfamiliar elements, the platform occupied a s.p.a.ce of a small room within the luminescent expanse. Astonished by the grace of the craftsmanship, Rais reasoned that, only a master architect can imagine this prototypical wonder during his enlightened dream.At the outer rim of the platform, the marvel white floor held masterfully embedded gemstones creating vivid motifs of nine rings. While at the center, a seamless carving raised to form a small circular podium. Rais began stepping closer to the podium, observing misty vapor spreading from it, while faint light rays reflected on its emerald surface, reaching through the silvery crystal dome.
Four pointed arches erected to sustain the dome while creating large entrances on four sides. In a dazed state, Rais examined his surroundings through the four openings on the platform; he saw emptiness as far as his eyes could see.
However, when he peered through the translucent dome, he discovered the source of the luminescent light. Ma.s.sive delicate white rings of lights arranged upward, reaching into the mysterious haze covered sky. After counting six, Rais wondered if there were more rings on the other side of the mist.
Reached out of the dense mist, descending through the center of uniformly distanced runic light rings, a chain connected the platform to the unknown. Similar to a hanging cage or an ornamental lantern on a balcony.
While wondering if he could climb up the chain, Rais b.u.mped into the podium, waking out of the dazed state. Finally glancing on top of the misty podium, Rais froze from the shock. The reflected rays on the emerald surface formulated a unique script. Although he never saw them before, he could still understand them.
Recorded on it was a list of names, but he forgot most of them the moment he glanced away from them; remembering just two. Recalling a similar situation with the runes inside the tower, he became bewildered as to why he keeps forgetting; even more bewildering were the two names he remembered, Aisaron Fios Nazarc and Sraban Rais Rehalix.
Calming his mind, Rais stared far below to witness the ma.s.sive structure, though seeking to discover the height of the tower, he peered further down. However, the secret remained to accompany him since the light faded before reaching the bottom, seeming the tower went forever into the abysmal darkness.
To further feed his curiosity, Rais walked to the entrance behind him, the one facing the inclined surface of the podium. Stepping down on the long, spiral stairs, Rais proceeded down towards the summit of the tower.
Arriving at the halfway point of the railingless, detached, crystalline stairs, Rais glanced around to witness the heart reckoning surroundings; grand and empty to devour anything. He stared up, pondering if he could stand on the platform ever again, noticing the stairs fading away.
"I definitely will," Rais mouthed, smiling.
Nearing the last hundred steps, Rais"s turned solemn while locking his penetrating eyes at the center of the summit. As he grew closer, an inexplicable desire guided him to a familiar aura. An ovoid crystal, gazing inside it, Rais became lost within the vast ocean of its l.u.s.trous runes; he thought there existed a world within it, antic.i.p.ating to awaken from the deep slumber.
Hovering up from the rooftop of the gigantic tower, It circulated from left to right for the first time in a very long time. Various streams of light shot from the sky, linking it with the surroundings; the sources of the light unknown and untraceable.
Rotating around Rais a few times, it stopped; hovering in front of his keen eyes. Witnessing this strange behavior, Rais reasoned it somehow knew him. While further examining its profound, yet familiar aura, Rais believed it was a part of him. Holding his nerve, Rais extended his hands towards this strange power, tightly gripping on to it.
Bringing it closer, Rais sensed it was expecting for him to do something since he noticed flashes of his body inside his bedroom. Feeling a slight tinge, Rais unfastened his hand, watching it hover while a sphere of dense aura expended around it. Once it reached a radius of two Rais, it stopped expanding.
"Fascinating, but whose mind f.u.c.kery am I trapped inside? An ownerless pocket dimension equals a definite no since there lies such a vast s.p.a.ce." While laying inside the aura, Rais wondered about ways he would leave this stunning yet lonely place. To put his hypothesis to inquire, he attempted to imagine it, though there he lay.
"If I leave, would I not be running away from a gorgeous woman. I also need to find a way to come back."
"Maybe, I am dead? I should be dead, except I just saw my breathing body."
Gripping his hands, Rais stared at his shoulder to detect no sign of the curse; something complex is preventing it from burning.
"Maybe that"s it; something I have yet to comprehend is preventing me." With this thought in mind, Rais rolled out of the dense aura while thinking to sink downward.
"It worked!"
Falling through the roof, Rais felt like he was sinking within the deep ocean. He slowly narrowed his eyes and kept them sealed for a long time. When he opened them again, he woke up at the bottom of the structure once again, still unable to move from the floor.
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The sound gradually became harsher.
He heard a voice very familiar to him, except this time, it wasn"t within his head, but from behind his head.
"Welcome back! I am glad that you are here."