The huge fla was gone from the physical world, but Sage imdiately felt a presence invade his mind. Inside his Spiritual Sea, the ball of fla rushed in from the grey misty borders of the Spiritual Sea and a wave of heat washed over the water and seared against the side of Sages ntal fortress. The huge ball of fla started to float closer. As it moved, the flas silhouette began to change. Slowly twisting and rolling, reforming into the rough shape of a man. A giant created of flas, stomped its foot down upon the surface of the Spiritual Sea. Steam burst into the air, the giants foot boiled away the water as soon as it touched it.
There was no solid ground for its foot to step down upon, but it burned away the Spiritual Sea water so quickly that it kept the liquid at bay, forming a layer of empty air a few inches around wherever it passed. Just by stepping a few inches into the Spiritual Sea it put on a show of walking on water while also creating turbulence in Sages mind. Or at least it would for anyone who hadnt practiced any ntal cultivation. The waters of the Spiritual Sea usually represented the emotions and ntal state of a cultivator, but after practicing a ntal cultivation it protected against the volatility of emotions and outside influence by creating a stable island. The skies above the Spiritual Sea reflected outside influence, weather that could drastically affect the seas beneath them. With his ntal cultivation, Sage had a foundation to center ones self around, and a shelter against the storms.
Yet, none of that seed to matter against the fla giant.
The Spiritual Sea was turned into a torrent of steam when the giant raised its hand and punched towards Sages ntal fortress. Flas spewed forth and splashed against the walls of the fort. At first the walls stood strong and showed not a sign of damage. Taking it as a challenge, the Giant lowered its hand and charged towards the fortress. Amazingly, the giant was actually taller than the fortress, the top of the walls coming only to its shoulder height. Dashing forward, the giant stopped at the wall and let out a loud roar. Instead of striking again, it instead looked up towards the sky. The clouds started to change from a cloudy grey to a stormy black. Yet, that wasnt enough. They continued to roil and shift, and streaks of red started to form within the clouds. Then, the Giant raised the pitch of his roar and the clouds parted. A hole ford and a huge column of fla fell from the sky, raining down upon the ntal fortress.
The level of power was on another level from the first attack and it completely shrouded the ntal fortress with fla. It may have looked to be stone, but the flas were powerful enough to start lting the walls. After a few seconds of resistance, the doors of the fortress were ignited and quickly burned into ashes.
The entrance of the fortress was now open, a reward for the fla giants efforts. At least, that was what Sage intended for the open door to be. He made the fortress seem impregnable to start with, but then gently allowed it to beco damaged, like it was only happening after great effort. If the enemy thought they had finally breached the gates after only putting up a fight they should be more eager to rush inside. The last ti, hed just let the doors open far too easily and a more discerning foe might have realized the discrepancy. This ti, he made it more rewarding and waited for the Giant to head into his waiting labyrinth.
Unfortunately, the Giant was either too stupid to head inside, oblivious to the gates existence or just not attentive enough to notice it igniting and then later turning to ash. The roaring intensified and so did the fire pouring down from the sky. It bathed the entire fortress with heat. Of course, Sage was rely putting on a show and didnt feel that much pressure from the flas. He was making the walls look like they were slowly lting to give the fla giant confidence. The gate was finally destroyed and now was when the giant was supposed to stomp inside and start wrecking the walls. Yet, the idiot just kept raining down fire and blasting the fortress walls. Since the guy seed to be a dummy, Sage made the wall just in front of the giant lt down faster than the rest of the fortress.
The outer few layers of the maze all led to the sa place, specifically to prevent soone bursting through the outer wall and ending up next to the core, so it wasnt too large of a shortcut to allow the giant inside. Sage had also made sure that the core of the labyrinth wasnt at the center either, since then soone might find it with special direction sensing or mapping capabilities. It was just too bad that all these considerations were bypassed by the foe. Even after burning itself a new opening directly into the wall the fla giant didnt stop. The column of fire kept on falling.
After what seed like a few minutes the giant stopped roaring. He lowered his head and examined the state of the fortress. Then, he spread his legs and lowered his stance, pulling his elbows into his sides and clenching his fists. Then, the Giant started making more noise again. Not a roaring anymore, but a low pitched chanting. Instead of coming to an end, the fla column dimd slightly and then roared to life once again. The heat continued to build and the lting walls of the fortress were no longer an act. The very structure of the Infinite Immaterial Seat began to fail. The roof and walls starting to break down, burned away by the unending onslaught of fla.
Sage started to grow worried and stopped caring about battling the mutational energy rushing through his body. He poured all of his Spirit Power into strengthening his ntal fortress and resisting the non-stop damage. In the past he had been devoting all of his earnings to buying the Universe Ring back from Guan Zhenyan. There was no way hed suffer that constant torture many tis over to also beco the mans disciple. After selling him the Infinite Immaterial Seat, the price for other techniques was at a much higher level and Sage couldnt buy a single one. There were a few in the Tiless Masters library, but Sage had only studied the basics and figured it was enough to have a defense for his mind. Why would he need to learn attacks? The Twin Soul was very good at attacking souls, so it had never been a priority for him. The Psionic Crystals had provided him with a route to learning new techniques, but he hadnt had them long enough to study them.
The heat penetrated deeper and deeper into the ntal fortress until Sage felt his mind blurring. His thoughts started to slow down and his perception was stifled. Before long he started to grow drowsy, and the entire fortress was on the verge of complete ruin.
Waaaa!
Everything went completely dark and quiet. Devoid of light and sound, all was stopped. There was only silence. He couldnt feel anything against him. In monts all sense was gone, and only broken by a loud wailing. The cry of a baby.
What was that? Where am I? Why dont I rember what I was doing? Wait. Who am I?
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