Chapter 8 part 1 Test of perception

The area I dropped into was huge, it looked as if it continued for miles in each direction and the taxing draw of power had lessened slightly.

Yuri had started to recover and was warming up here as I pushed power into her through our bond.

I kept carrying Yuri as I walked about and suddenly an odd feeling was felt by me I couldn't be sure but I suspected the wall was just before me.

I looked at Yuri and asked "Do you think you can stand on your own for a minute something here feels odd and I want to check it out."

Yuri hopped out of my arms and took up a fighting stance, I push my hand forwards and suddenly a blast sent me flying backwards.

My feet had barely made contact with the floor again when I felt the presence of all the walls around me, being connected to the ground made the fields seem to disappear.

My foot made contact with the ground and I kicked myself into the ground to stop and to my surprise the ground hadn't totally caved in from the force.

This layer of the labyrinth was an illusion and would likely hold a puzzle and clues like the floor above me.

Yuri was definitely strong enough to walk on her own however the poison would still have effects on her for some time.

This was truly a dangerous labyrinth and I realized that stripping us of our powers and sight was just the first lesson the second lesson was poisoning us and the last lesson was not to be narrow minded that meant this floor held another dangerous opponent.

I looked over at Yuri and we both braced up as I knew there was some kind of creature on this floor it could be a bug or a giant monster but it would thrive in this environment and be a clue.

I walked over to where I had touched the force field and as I turned to the left I felt nothing and stepped forward 1 step at a time till I finally should have hit a wall however this time I walked through some kind of wall and behind it stood a monster.

The beast had the head of a lion with the feat of a deer and 2 kangaroo paws, the beast lunged at me and I drew my blade slicing at it however the beast didn't take damage it just allowed my blade to pass through it.

I was terrified as the kangaroo paw slashed at my chest and I was sent flying backwards through the hologram wall I had passed through.

My mind was spinning in terror as a million thoughts flowed through my head and finally I realized it was a holographic creature with proper physical effects somehow being delivered from its attack.

I had barely noticed that my protective field was back up when I was hit but now as I stumbled back onto my feet I braced for the creature.

The creature didn't leave the passage it didn't even seem to move from there.

I put my hand to the ground and felt the field below me pulsing extremely lightly as if it were turning me around.

I concentrated hard on what could be done to get through that passage as I needed to bring Yuri with me however there was a second option and that was to walk the opposite way.

Yuri seemed to mentally agree with my conclusion and we walked on till I felt the boundaries once more and to my surprise this end had 2 side paths.

I turned right and as I set foot inside there were snake headed bears standing beside the entrance and behind the bearsnakes was writing I glimpsed it before I was smacked so hard that I flew into the next passageway and there was another set of text and I didn't see any creature.

I glimpsed the writing again however my senses scream out to me in alarm and as I jumped backwards into the middle passage a huge squid became visible.

In the middle passage I pondered on the first creature and sure enough while viewing my memories I read the text behind the lion headed creature and it read "See what is real from that which is fake."

Yuri had looked through the other 2 and said "2 are illusion 1 is real and bear claws are my key."

This wasn't a riddle it was a straight forward challenge, I needed to have the bear attack something in that corridor to open the door way then 1 of the 2 monsters was real so I had to kill it and use that passage way.

It was simple instructions but multiple bears would attack me the moment I entered that room plus I had to dodge an attack and have it land on the wall somewhere.

I was nervous since my powers were extremely reduced and I suddenly realized if the squid was real I just showed it the way out meaning it would have followed me.

I gripped my sword and monitored around for the slightest distortion, however I only realized it now but for some reason my senses were super focused and that's when I found the squid.

I drew my blade and started moving towards the tentacles however I forgot about the walls and nicked a wall with the tip of the blade and it launched of into the squid and exploded.

The end of 1 of my blades had come all due to my clumsiness, the shards had gotten stuck in electric field around me and that was when I remembered they resonate with our powers meaning the fields were made from our power.

This made no sense this place had living creatures in sealed of rooms requiring near death tasks to be completed to proceed any further.

The entire labyrinth would require to have items brought in and this structure was older then me and definitely wasn't maintained or mentioned by Ra's army.

The structure would likely be huge if the immortals built it but why would it have been built.

The tetrahedron was processing all the information and it put up 3 lines in my mind, the first was you will be apart for a long time.

Second was the past will be repeated and I have my wisdom to rely on and last but not least was tragedy is always unexpected.

This labyrinth was a prophecy and it likely was extremely detailed.

If I were to be separated from Hathor I needed to understand exactly why it would happen and looking at the first floor something would leave me in the dark with nothing to rely on but myself.

Then I would have help and still be all that could be relied on, most of my trouble would be fake some would be real.

This next act and how I played it would define the prophecy for this part of my trip.

I looked about thinking how to disable the bears and I had a crazy idea I needed Yuri to enter the corridor 20 seconds after me and follow me through to the end.

I explained the plan to Yuri and I decided to enter first and jump over the bears to the wall then Yuri would go throw the squid through the wall at me.

This would allow me to escape the beasts inside and make it out however I suspected the holograms would move to the other paths once I succeeded.

I tensed up as I took a running start and I bounced all the way into the back of the room there were 3 bearsnakes and they all struck the wall with 1 pinning me.

The 2 that missed me now struck me and my field may have been up but it was extremely week allowing the tips of the paws to stab into me.

The assault started again with a second wave of heavy hits and as I tried to evade the next wave of hits Yuri threw the squid in and as it suddenly covered everything I pulled out my blade and cut through the squid.

I rushed and entered the passageway and pulled Yuri along with me into the squid room.

To my utter shock there was a squid in the passage yet again and as I struck it I killed it.

I had cut through it and tried to push open the wall behind it but it did not budge.

I turned around and ran with Yuri at my side and knew the outer passage would be full of bearsnakes and the lion headed creature.

I tossed Yuri across the passageway and darted around haphazardly trying to get hold of her.

I had reached the end of the passage and the creatures were hot on my tail so I kicked the wall behind me and instead of kicking of I fell backwards pulling Yuri with me.