Chapitre 445: Abyss (2)
"The Crack between the Worlds you say?"
(Indeed.)
"So let me get this straight, this world is this butt cheek and that world is this butt cheek and then we have this crack between them."
(Please put your pants on.)
"The point is… the Cosmic Asshole is around, right?"
(... Actually, that would explain the smell in this place but no, there are no Cosmic Assholes.)
"What a shame! I used to call my boss a Cosmic Asshole in my past life."
(Very funny.)
As the two started exchanging insults and roasting one another, Jon kept scouting the place he is in.
The theme of the area is a Dark Fantasy-like castle that reminded him of his time in Castle Volkihar. Long silent hallways, unlit candlesticks, darkened painting frames, broken furniture and very gloomy corners.
"Hey, Shadow. What is this place exactly?" Jon asked.
(Now you are willing to listen?)
"Don't get salty on me now."
(Fine, the Cracks between the Worlds are areas that connect the Abyss of this World to the Abysses of the Other Worlds. Otherworldly beings can access them but can't use them to travel to other Worlds.)
"So to say it more correctly, it is the cafeteria were otherworlders meet up but can't follow one another to different worlds."
(Couldn't say it better myself.)
"You mean I may run into beings from other worlds here?"
(The possibility exists but the chance is unimaginably rare. Remember, this is as far as you can get from Mundus, you won't receive any blessing in this place.)
"Okay… this is that serious then."
Jon heightened his senses and spread his passive detection.
"Oh!" As he did so, he noticed something.
"The Space and Time around are stable."
(The Crack between the Worlds is a world of its own. It is more Stable than the Abyss so you can think of it as a world that is floating on the sea of chaos alone.)
"I see… wait! I have a very bad idea."
Jon said as he retrieved the Meteoric Glass Crystals that he collected along the way. He had a fair number of them as he harvested 7 Abyss Caves worth of Meteoric Glass.
He held a bright blue crystal that shone brightly under the effect of the Candlelight spell Jon uses and felt like a really expensive gemstone.
(What are you doing?)
"Watch this." Jon used the Crystal in one hand and started charging it with energy. This energy contained the Law of Space from the Crack between the Worlds in the specific coordinates Jon standing on.
Jon used the same technique he used while trapping the Starlight Energy in Azura's Star. Once he was done trapping the Law of Space in the Crystal, he walked twenty meters back where he came from and stopped.
"Now."
While simply supplying the Crystal with Magicka, Jon disappeared from his place and appeared in the place where he trapped the Law of Space twenty meters ahead.
As he did so, the Crystal turned to dust in his hand.
"... This is sick!"
(Nice idea.)
"Indeed. With this, I can enter the Abyss and directly come here. And… wait! There is more."
Jon had an even better idea.
"Azura told me that Time is my only Ally meaning I can harness the power of the Abyss the way I see fit using those Crystals. You said that Abyss is another synonym for Time when it comes to the Law of Shadow Magic which means…"
Jon headed all the way back to the Crack in space and returned to the Cave in the Abyss. He used another Crystal and started trapping the Time Energy from the Abyss itself.
(Oh! So you are trapping the unstable Time Energy from the Abyss because it is easier to digest.)
"Indeed."
Jon had a mad smile on his face while doing so.
He activated his Magicka and something miraculous happened.
His Astral Form separated from his Physical Form and he became a golden ghost. He saw the events from just now happen in front of his eyes but running backward. In his hand, the Crystal was there but it was also in an Astral Form.
Once the Time Energy in the Crystal ran out. Jon reverted back to his body but.
(Oh! So you are trapping the unstable Time Energy from the Abyss be…)
"Because it is easier to digest."
As he said so, the Crystal turned to dust in his hand.
(What…) Shadow halted.
"You were going to say that, right?" Jon said.
(You bastard! You managed to slide back in time under my nose?) Shadow's voice carried a hint of being impressed.
"Hahahaha! This is crazy!"
Jumping back in Time! Not even an Arch-Wizard can pull that one off without the help of a dozen artifacts and scrolls.
Now Jon could do it by using the Data he acquired from analyzing the Dawn Magic spell used by Darius in the final match of the Grand Champion.
This spell that can trap pure energies into Crystals is now called the [Meteoric Protocol], an Expert level spell inspired by the Dawn Magic that can trap Energy and Powers in Meteoric Glass.
Jon repeated the process with more Crystals and had different effects based on how he used them. If he threw them at the enemy, the Space Crystals would devour a part of it in a Void Orb that appears for a second while the Time Crystals cause the target to go in Stasis.
The potential was limitless but the crystals were not so Jon had to keep most of them and continue his course. Still, the trip became 100 times safer with the existence of a method to jump back in time. Of course, using this method in stable dimensions like Mundus as much harder than the Abyss or the Crack of Worlds.
Anyway, fun time was over. Jon returned to exploring the dark castle beyond the crack.
The corridor was pretty damn long and some places devoured the light of magic Jon used to see around. This eerie place would give anyone the creeps so Jon kept an extra careful awareness.
Finally an on the turn of a corner, he found himself in front of a single door.
"Nefertiti, is the Soul Scent of Azura still coming from there?" Jon asked.
"Yes."
"Okay… just when we find ourselves reincarnating in Dark Souls this time, don't play me."
Pushing the door, Jon found one single room.
"Seriously now?"
He was annoyed as he had to look somewhere else but still Nefertiti walked in.
At the center of the room, there was a table. On the table, there was a strange-looking box.
"And?"
"... Inside the box?" She pointed.
"Should I open it?" He asked.
"You can't. This box is bigger than this place." She said.
"Huh?"
Jon looked at the box and could hardly understand her until he started scanning the space around and the box.
"Holy shit!"
Couldn't help but swear, Jon noticed how large the box was. It was as large as a castle from the inside but from the outside, it was compressed to the size of a box with complicated mechanisms to keep it locked and to keep anyone from seeing what's inside.
"Nice try!" Jon smirked and cast [Eye of Magicka].
The spell that can expose the flow of Magicka around the space was one of Jon's secret spells. Still, it didn't work as he thought it would work.
Instead, he saw a fingerprint on a certain part of the box as if it was highlighted by ultraviolet light.
"Wow!"
Gasping from surprise, Jon couldn't help but touch the fingerprint spot with his thumb.
*Crack* *click click click click click*
Suddenly and without warning, the box started moving on its own. It rotated around itself and made mechanical sounds then its a lock appeared on the outside of the box with many lines of brass metal and nails separating some parts and connecting others.
"What is that thing? Is that Dwemer?" Jon freaked out unintentionally.
(No, it is a tool from another world.) Shadow replied.
"Another world? Why would something like that come here and imprison Azura's Divine Extension?"
(Someone must have found it and put it to use. Many things from different worlds drift through space and time. This tool is similar to the [Cube] of yours.)
"Where did it originate from?"
(A world called Arag, created by the magic of the Horned Dwarves. Arag is a fun place but gradually losing its peace due to the discovery of gunpowder, you can imagine the rest.)
"An advanced world, with magic, eh? Sounds fun indeed." Jon replied, "Still, this machine is very curious. Sadly I can't take it back to Nirn."
Jon didn't bother and pulled out the [Skeleton Key] to unlock the lock on the chest. Once that was done, the box opened more and showed a secret mechanism, one of those that are used with modern safes.
The Catatoskr inside Jon was fully curious and swore to open this box no matter what. From a safe mechanism to secret maps mechanism, musical notes mechanism to star-formation mechanism, Jon kept solving every riddle as the box grew bigger and became more complex with every turn.
After some time, Jon arrived at the innermost deep part in the box. Once he solved the puzzle, a red gem appeared for him and stood across a stand. On that gem, there was a Magical seal and it was a typical to the one used in Mundus. This is where things got interesting as this seal can't be left unless by someone from Mundus meaning that someone has solved it before Jon.
The answer to that came earlier than he expected. There was a note signed by an M letter.
××××××××××××××××××××
It was a pleasant encounter running into an otherworldly artifact during my trial in the Abyss. Master Iachesis insisted to focus on my trail, collect a fair number of Meteoric Glass and pass but how can I resist such a curiosity?
That idiot Vanus is also keeping an eye on me. I think Master is the one who told him to do so. The fool wouldn't let me do my work in peace.
Thankfully, I found this otherworldly artifact that I can't tell its name but I'll call it the Puzzle Box from now on. For an item like that to drift between worlds, it is my fortunate indeed. This box can twist itself into various puzzles as if something created by Sotha Sil or a Dwemer Tonal Architect. It can contain Space and even trap parts of the Rifts between Worlds. The rest of this Maze will be trapped by me so Vanus or any other Psijic can just run around like headless hens.
I also kept the space of the original owner intact so I can experience how the other worlds felt. Such a curious style indeed. No man or Mer can create such elegance.
××××××××××××××××××××
This was obviously a note left by the young Mannimarco who was annoyed by Vanus Galerion and their Masters, Ritemaster Iachesis.
To think that Mannimarco was the kind to enjoy puzzles.
"Well, let's just free the Space." Jon said as he started decrypting the seal.
After ten minutes, the red gem started glowing and a ray of red light was shot from it. That light hit a wall in the room and created a door from that light. Second by second, the door became more real and the red gem finally broke to dust.
"Here we go."
Taking the first step through the fancy wooden door, Jon's halted his steps and opened his eyes wide.
"Wow."
Followed by Nefertiti and Jax who have no civil sense whatsoever, Jon had to ask them not to touch anything.
The room looked quite the old fashioned by Earth standards.
A large wooden desk, a leather chair, a typewriter, a collection of books written in a foreign language and many other things that gave the vibe of the 19th century.
This is surely the space of the original owner Mannimarco kept intact.
Jon looked around for a way to open the door to the next room but he soon realized that the room is also another puzzle.
Moreover, there were many engineering schematics lying around that Jon couldn't help but make copies from them.
Now to finish up things, Jon took out the Skeleton Key and became hell-bent on going forward.
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Chapitre 446: Abyss (3)
An old office room, a desk with papers on it, a lightbulb, a locked cabinet with a bunch of books, an old model typewriter, Tarot cards and a big gramophone.
This image fits really perfectly with the wooden ground and the paintings on the wall but all of a sudden it became awfully disturbed by the appearance of a hooded and cloaked warrior in full black armor, a small girl in a black gothic dress with cat ears and a Minotaur in an Imperial soldier armor.
"Don't touch a single thing." Jon said.
Excited about what he just came across, Jon had that blaze in his eyes. He took out his gauntlets to not damage anything and carefully took a look around.
The place was abundant with Magicka as if some expert has stayed here for a long time. The leather chair was comfortable and cozy while the desk was neatly preserved with Magic.
Mannimarco has really taken care of this place.
Not sure where to start, Jon used [Eye of Magicka] once again and managed to find out the first detail about this room. A few fingerprints were left here around on the cabinet on the other side of the room Jon walked to it and tried to open it but it was sealed. The [Skeleton Key] came in handy once again and in there was a strange suitcase-like object, Jon took it out and studied it to find it a box camera, those old types of cameras with the shape of a box.
He found the tri-legged base this camera stands on and stationed it on the top with a screw. After that, he carefully figured out how it works and installed a few lenses on it. With that, he could finally set the focus and look through the lens.
With an excited look, Jon searched around the room by looking through the camera. Indeed as he thought, there was something different in the room, the sight seen through the camera showed certain glows and colorful stains around the room. Figuring a pattern out of that led Jon to a new finding.
Depending on where he stood in the room, worlds would appear based on how he looked at the patterns around.
Many patterns were entangled and Jon could see many letters but the only word that was read was "Kingdom".
"Shouldn't a fella like Mannimarco pick some scary ass words?" Jon wondered.
The only clue he has now was the word "Kingdom". Not sure what to do with that, Jon kept scanning the room normally until his eyes landed on the typewriter.
He sat in front of the typewriter, figured out how to mount a paper in and wrote "Kingdom".
He was simply trying without much hope of finding a clue but suddenly, the typewriter reacted and wrote on its own.
[Sun, Moon and Stars form one Heaven. As I looked up, I saw nothing but Doom for my mortal self. I ran back to my Sanctuary amidst space and time wishing I can halt this curse.]
"... What does any of this mean? Escaping Mortality? Mannimarco is a Lich King… well, he is now an Immortal CHIM."
Jon dismissed the puzzle understanding that it is one of Mannimarco's ramblings about himself when he was a mortal.
Still, it was a new clue. Jon scanned the place once again while reciting the puzzle until he saw the Tarot cards on the side of the desk.
There were a number of them but reading what the Typewriter wrote, Jon concluded it to three cards. Heaven, Doom and Sanctuary.
Holding the cards together in one hand caused a sudden flash in the room. The cards returned to where they were and everything became silent.
"What was that?" Jax freaked out.
"Do not move or touch anything? You may activate a trap."
"Yes."
Looking around, Jon used the camera once again to see through the room.
Indeed some patterns disappeared and a new word emerged.
"Of."
Jon repeated the same with the Typewriter and got another puzzle. It wasn't simple this time as some cards were hidden across the room.
Jon abused the [Skeleton Key] to get to the hidden cards and kept advancing the puzzles one by one until he got four words. "Kingdom" "Of" "The" "Sun".
As he looked for the fifth, he found the patterns leading to a certain place where some gramophone records were being kept. The language on them was foreign to him but he managed to get the record he wanted by guessing from the pictures on the covers.
"Kingdom of the Sun! Strong name."
Jon took the record to the gramophone, mounted it then let it play.
National anthem-like music was played from the gramophone. Jax and Nefertiti made a fuss about the object but Jon shut them up and kept listening. As the song went on, it came to a place where it stopped, Jon scanned the gramophone to find a strange object that came out of nowhere blocking the record from playing.
Taking it out, he recognized it as a lens for the camera.
This was a new clue indeed. From it, he mounted the lens on the camera and looked around with.
There, he saw a strange object in the room. A pattern but it was floating rather than being painted on the wall.
Jon looked at it from different angles until he found the perfect view of the pattern.
"Fucking hell, it just… good grief."
Realizing that he was lost in solving the puzzle, Jon's head returned back from the excitement and faced reality. That pattern was the symbol of the Worm Cult.
From there, the Box Camera reacted to the pattern and from it, a red ray of light was shot.
"Woah!"
Jon made sure to stay clear from that. The ray of light hit the wall behind the pattern and all of a sudden, a door formed.
"Not weird at all."
The other two realized that they finally are going to leave this strange place, they followed Jon as he opened the door and…
"Come on!" Jon said in frustration.
In front of him was no hallway or magic portal or anything familiar. Just a view to a cloudy bleak sky.
"Hooman, look down."
Jon followed where Nefertiti was pointing and an amazed look appeared on his face. He looked out through the door hung in the sky only to find it a door hung in a long tower made of black stone. To add more to the fun, the space downstairs was akin to a ruined city.
(A realm dragged into the Sea of Chaos. Now that's something to behold.)
"In Nordic please!"
(Nothing to concern yourself with. Think of it as a realm of Oblivion.)
"Whatever! Nefertiti, is Azura's Soul Scent nearby?"
"Down there." She pointed.
Jon nodded and levitated down using the Boots of the Apostle through the long tower until he reached the ground undetected. Through the short trip, he noticed many strange undead all over the place. They were mostly shambles and zombies, nothing Necromancers would really use unless to keep their premium troops saved up.
Jon reached the ground and found some ruined walls to take as cover. He then teleported Nefertiti and Jax near him.
"Listen you two. We may have infiltrated without anyone noticing but as soon as we run into those undead roaming around. Someone or Something will come for sure. We are in their inner sanctum now." He said.
"Hooman, you are so demanding…"
"Lots of fish."
"... But it's okay."
"Good. You can blend in the shadows and recon the area. Meet me back here in 2 minutes." He said and Nefertiti didn't disagree.
"Jax."
"Yes, Chief… Boss."
"How come you are not asking questions all this time during the journey?" Jon asked.
"When I was at the Arena. Some human told me that Hammerfell is a very confusing place… I guess it is all expected." Jax said.
"..." "..."
Jon and Nefertiti had the same look on their faces as the Minotaur said so.
'Hooman, this Minotaur still thinks he is in Hammerfell.' Nefertiti said via Telepathy.
'Let's keep it that way.' Jon replied.
"Yes, indeed… Hammerfell is truly mysterious. Listen, I know Minotaurs have a great sense of direction but I want you to stay here and not make a sound. You are too large to sneak around."
"Yes."
Jon sighed in relief. If this Minotaur found out he is not in his world anymore, things will get ridiculous.
Nefertiti slid into the shadows and Jon covered himself in [Greed] and ventured the other way.
If someone had to ask him how this place looked like, he would say it looks like the Soul Cairn except for the overall theme color being dusty grey instead of gloomy blue.
All in all, it was a wasteland, broken ruins and undead.
Jon didn't detect anything worth detecting in his area of the search so he switched to reading the Law of Space in this place. It wasn't much different from the normal Space in this Rift between Worlds but Jon noticed a lot of movement, it seemed this place was connected to Mundus through a series of Conjuration spells.
Someone is crafty enough to Conjure Undead from this realm.
Only one answer came to mind.
"The Worm Cult."
Unlike the Soul Cairn which is a place hard to reach for ordinary Necromancers, other Necromancers tend to contact certain Realms of Oblivion that house Undead. The reason why this method was inferior to contacting the Soul Cairn was because of the quality of the Undead being greatly different from the Undead that are being maintained by the incredible beings known as the Ideal Masters who rule over the Soul Cairn.
The Ideal Masters create high-quality Undead which are the Boneman, Mistman and the Wraithman to aid Necromancers with. Sometimes, the Ideal Masters ask for Black Souls in exchange for more Undead.
Someone with Jon's ability is pretty much able to summon a large number, which is over 300, by the brute force of his Magicka but if he made a deal with the Ideal Masters, he may multiply this number by three folds gaining the ability to Conjure a thousand undead on his own.
The problem with making deals with the Ideal Masters is because of how it ends. Those who make such dumb deals always end up swallowed by the Ideal Masters in the end. Even their name rhymes with Innocent Insurance Company or Kind Loan Sharks.
For that reason, Necromancers tend to find special realms with a good quality of Undead. Capable Necromancers can even isolate a small pocket realm and fill it with Undead from all across Oblivion.
Jon suspected this realm to be the case and he was right on the mark.
'Hooman, you may need to see this.'
Hearing Nefertiti's voice in his head, Jon returned as fast as he could to the meeting spot.
"What is it?"
Nefertiti led him to a large place that seemed like a ruined city. In there, Jon could feel a ton of presences.
Life signals, Undeath Signals, Daedric Signals… there was a strange festival going behind the walls of that city.
But the most curious thing Jon felt was the familiar sensation of Azura's presence. It was clear where to go now.
Jon, Nefertiti and Jax blended in the surroundings and found a good place to approach the ruined city from. As they had a good view, they saw large banners for the Worm Cult all over the place.
"I see. The question is… why would the Worm Cult travel to the edge of the world to establish a realm of Necromancy?" Jon murmured.
(Two reasons.) Shadow popped up again.
"I am listening."
(One is to stay clear from the Daedric Princes. Mannimarco may be an Immortal CHIM but he is no match for a real Daedra and his cult's reserve of Undead will be too vulnerable to remain in his own realm.).
"And the second reason?"
(It may be highly unlikely but if Jon contacted humans from other universes and made them his followers… he will escape the Aurbis itself. Being a deity worshipping across other universes means you can simply walk freely between the two and have vast power.)
"Well… that's a problem."
(Not really. It is possible in theory but no one bothered doing it. Just focus at the Labour at hand.)
Jon nodded and returned to stealth. This time he has to go through the secret metropolis of the Worm Cult.
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