Chapter 20: Elements of Nature (lV)

  Waking up suddenly, the first feeling slapped to my face was the dense air that the environment gave. Just like before, the darkness resembled the place that I’ve entered before in which I met the figure inside my head. The extreme cold got into my spine. Shivering from the cold, I created myself a leather coat and trudged toward nothingness.

  The surface was the substance of water, it wasn’t soggy and wet. Each step on the surface created ripples, the water didn’t submerge anything like it was there just for decoration. I wondered if the summoning beings were having fun or hard time with Jastine, the two I summoned administered each other’s weakness, Doctor was responsible for giving magical attacks, if necessary, he could reinforce physical attack. The non-existent dragon was giving offense, it would take the lead in giving fatal strikes with its enormous strength on par with Jastine.

  Just a circumstance I created for my resting purpose, the time in here isn’t corresponding with the time in reality. The amount of time when I got in here for the first time and encountered the figure was exceeding the amount of time that I could have already gone home. The time I woke up commenced with my friends carrying me to the medical clinic. It must have been just around fifteen seconds in reality because the estimated distance my friend got me up and walked me to the medical clinic was just a quarter. Therefore, I had approximately one hour to change everything before they got washed away.

  Marching toward nothingness, the seemingly void started to give glints of light, just like before, a portal appeared. However, this time, the portal didn’t have a color of white, it had a color of yellow orange similar to flames. The smoke leaked out from all edges of the portal, the temperature exceeded the threshold that humans could bear to live. Surely, that wasn’t a portal anyone could go in, the only one I think can go in was only Jastine with his elemental manipulating magical ability.

  “Is this portal for me or something? I guarantee that I cannot go into that portal.”

  The hot air was traveling through my skin, at that time, I knew that I obviously couldn't go in there.

  I didn’t know what to do, so I looked around to cease the perplexity. I looked up, looked down, looked left to right. There was nothing beside the door pervading hot air into the atmosphere in front of me, appealing at its finest but devious at its core. Then, I came up with an idea relating to my atomic manipulation.

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  I created a pool of water and formed them in the shape of a rhombus. Then, I navigated the creation above the fire door that’s blasting flames. The pool of water was poured out like a waterfall down stream. The flaming gate was conjuring the tremendous mass of water from above. Smoke was leaking out but kinda left some small fire from all edges of the gate, the scenery was just like a purification using holy water.

  However, the flames weren’t acknowledged to shut down from water, instead, it was burning more ferociously than before. The main conjunction of water is to regulate the temperature and specifically known to shut fire. Hence, the gate remained unchanged, and it wasn’t consent to give anyone whom isn’t qualified.

  “It doesn’t work.”

  Sometimes, we can’t do anything but accept the truth that we can’t do anything to fix the situation. If that time comes, the thing we need to do is the tendency to broaden our knowledge and perspective to expand our visualization to the world. When I thought of this, I was trying to look around one more time for certain things.

  “!.”

  Another portal gate which is different from the flaming gate appeared diagonally behind the flaming door. The darkness leaking out was giving humping noises like souls whispering wistfully. The temperature had no specific determination of hot or cold, it was regulated at a normal temperature.

  I looked back. Another diagonally portal in the opposite to the dark gate was giving a blue transparenting look, mimicking the surface of water and its references from how people think it’s supposed to be. The gate had a similar architecture to its two distinctive gates, the difference…was just the display it gave.

  “Enough!”

  A loud horrific noise was spoken in the dimension that completely shattered my attention span. The noise from the void told everything was enough at that current. It was like its command was the subjugation, must be obedient without rebellion, nothing was allowed to keep functioning.

  Suddenly, each door popped its title slightly above itself. The pedestal showed a name each taken from the seven deadly sins. The flaming door was given ‘wrath’, the water door was given ‘sloth’, the dark door was given ‘pride’, each came up with a name to embody the meaning itself as the display was non-mistakenly contributed to each other.

  A flattened stone rose up from the ‘cannot dive in’ water gradually.

  “How is this possible? It’s like my mind was a mechanism itself and the active system itself.”

  The remarkable thing it gave was nonchalantly connecting the dots to that one I was thinking about. My contemplates were suddenly flowing into that one existence. The reminiscence and the explanation from Julia earlier gave me the clue of this whole phenomenon.

  It was about a sudden change through multiple strangenesses coming up with an examining stereotype from novels I read –The self-confrontation.

  The flattened stone displayed ‘sloth’. I already knew what to do next.

  “Blind by sloth, qualified.”

  The sloth portal opened itself.