Mirror palace 3

Seeing that, we both smiled or at least I thought I did. Soon there were no more buildings and before us stood a large ruined palace like structure that was unnaturally silent.

It was just like any other building, only grander. But if there was one thing that creeped me out about it, it was the way it was unnaturally silent.

At least in some of the other buildings, you could hear the noises and skirmishes made by some beasts of thee rat family.

"So, do we go forward or not?" Owen asked.

"Hard to say" I replied. Because if my deductions are right, which they almost always are, then this is a den of the Asuras, so if we enter and they are too much in there or there are platinum ranked Asuras, then we might very well have to give up.

"Hey look" Owen said breaking me out of my monologue and gesturing to the sky. I looked at the place he gestured and I saw a few dots rapidly closing in on us. And behold, it was emo dude and his family members, all with white hairs and cold expressions.

Soon they landed before us with emo dude at their front. They were four of them, two girls and two boys including emo dude and they walked past us without a single word....well tried to walk past us.

"Hey, hey, hey, do you think we're invisible!?"

Owen protested and moved in front of Damien. "No, I just think you're not worth it especially you, at least he has the courtsey to not interfere with his superior" emo dude indifferently replied while glancing at me.

'This bastard, what does he mean by my superior? Because I know for a fact that Aurora is the first year representative after all she did rob me of fifty thousand points. And I don't remember the academy giving Damien any position' I thought but I let it go.

"Tsk" Owen clicked his tongue "arrogant bastard". "Ever with the foul mouth I see" emo dude said before moving past Owen followed by his clan members. We watched as they entered the ruined palace and then nothing.

"That guy is insufferably arrogant" Owen continued. "Does he have any position in the academy?" I asked. "No, why do you ask?"

"He called himself my superior" I replied.

"Oh that,.... he meant you're a lesser being and he's a superior being".

'i see now, he's crazy' that was the only thought in my head after I heard Owen. Then I turned to Owen and asked "Do they perhaps teach that in noble clans?"

"Teach what?"

"That you nobles are superior beings and commoners are lesser beings" I replied. It would make sense if they all are thought that from childhood because if not, then....

"That....how did you know!!?" he asked with his mouth agape as if I just said a big secret.

"Just a guess" I replied. "Now let's scout this palace, it seems extremely suspicious".

The fact that people entered right in front of us and there's still no cacophony means something was definitely wrong.

Meanwhile, inside the ruined palace,

The gold rank asura was sitting on his stone throne with his eyes closed but suddenly opened them when another asura entered the room.

"My liege, there seems to be some people outside that are reluctant to enter" the asura

said kneeling in front of the one on the throne.

"I see" he said before he continued "don't worry about that, they'll eventually enter, the mirror palace always gets it's prey, once you're intrigued by it, you won't be able to resist entering it".

He was that confident, after all the mirror palace was his authority. His ability had to do with dreams and illusions, so the authority he comprehended, that is 'mirror palace' is an authority that creates your dream life or your worst nightmare from your memories, effectively trapping victims in it.

So far no one has been able to break free from it, but it only has two weaknesses that is, he has to base it on a structure, hence the ruined palace, and two the range is limited only able to cover about one hundred meters in diameter, which is roughly the size of the ruined palace.

Once victims are caught in the webs of the mirror palace, their dreams or nightmares are used as fuel for the mirror palace and their life force are slowly siphoned which then increases his (the asura's) power.

He doesn't even have to do anything, all he has to do is wait and watch the scions of those pesky humans bring themselves to his doorstep.

*Adam Walker's POV*

"Now let's scout this palace, it seems extremely suspicious".

"What!? Why would you want to scout it when you can clearly see there's something wrong with it!? Ain't no way I'm entering there" he said gesturing to the ruined castle.

"Well suit yourself, I'm going in" I said and started walking towards the ominous looking entrance. "Sigh, this is a bad idea" Owen muttered under his breath before coming after me.

As soon as we went through the entrance, I felt a veil, as if I just passed through a boundary. "You feel that?" I asked Owen to which he nodded grimly.

We passed through a corridor and then we saw them, numerous cadets standing still, with vacant eyes as if they're not in their minds. Well the moment I saw them all standing still, I knew they weren't in their right minds.

As I was pondering, I suddenly saw Owen move right to where Damien was standing, he chuckled a little and looked at me and I instantly realized what he was going to do.

"Don't" I whispered to him to avoid alerting any asura which I was definitely sure were there. "SLAP, wake up, SLAP, wake up" he kept slapping the shit out of Damien's face.

It amused me for a bit until my body started to feel sluggish and my mind started to get muddled. I looked at Owen and saw he had also stopped slapping Damien and his body was also getting sluggish. It was then I knew that we had fucked up.