The light turned out to be unneeded as he entered a well-lit room which had four bare, iron doors lined to his left side… No, there were five doors in total. There was another, more fancy looking door on the right, which had a very noticeable keyhole on it. The first four doors he noticed weren't locked in any way, so he could probably open it without much effort. Other than that, the room was empty.
But he couldn't help but notice another glaring obstacle: the whole room was made with processed ketricite.
It was Evin's first ti entering a place built from the material, and he imdiately hated it. The whole area seed to exude an aura that denied the very existence of mana and magic, constantly putting pressure on Evin's core which was practically bursting with Air energy. It felt weirdly paradoxical.
Evin's practical experience with ketricite only extended to its dust-like form, which was formally called its raw form. Most people imagined that the re presence of ketricite would disintegrate any sort of mana or world energy let loose nearby. But this phenonon only happened if there was a truly unimaginable amount of ketricite around, like in the Gray Fields for example.
In smaller amounts, it could only negate magic if a spell or mage made physical contact with it. Hence, if one wanted to deny soone their magic outside the Gray Field, they needed to grind raw ketricite down to powder, chuck it into an easily breakable vessel and throw it at a mage.
However, if you mixed raw ketricite with listones or any other binding agent, you could create processed ketricite. Build a house out if it, and you would get yourself an establishnt that could partially negate spells inside its premises, and dissipate any incoming projectile born out of World energies.
But of course, this didn't an that mages were useless. Normal projectiles still worked: a mage could pick up a boulder from the ground and throw it towards the building; and they could still use life energy contained inside one's core to buff their body from the inside. The only thing they couldn't affect were their skin, hair and eyes. Other than that, they would have harder bones and stronger muscles compared to a normal person (assuming that they could already do these things beforehand).
'But are the entire Tunnels made of processed ketricite?' Evin couldn't help but ponder. 'Probably not… If the whole thing's made of ketricite, then the place can't be infested with mana-beasts.'
He looked around the room, searching for puzzles or riddles regarding the doors, but couldn't find anything.
the Voice explained coldly.
Evin tried to speak back, but the Voice wasn't finished.
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