The Temple - The First Test

Finally they reached the top of the mountain first.

Apparently there were already some teams that succeeded before them.

Anka was very tense right now, and her body seemed ready to jump at any moment. Matei looked at her and seemed to want to say something, but then Alesio grabbed his sleeve and shook his head seriously.

The situation on the top of the mountain was pending.

The door of the temple was supposed to open any moment now, so everyone was waiting with bated breath. When almost all the teams reached the top of the mountain, the temple door slowly opened.

Anka's group was about to advance, but Anka didn't move. In her eyes the door of temple was filled with different souls, these were different from the two before in that battlefield .

Their souls appeared a faded white and had black cracks on them. Something like strings were tied to them as if they were dolls.

The feeling they were giving Anka was a strange one. She didn't know why but she didn't want to go near them just yet. The group looked confused at Anka , and was about to speak, but Alesio seemed to support her decision, and Matei naturally did the same, singing Alesio said.

Ella also seemed strange.

They chose to wait and see what would happen first.

So Juliana, William and Pavel with Sana could only swallow their dissatisfaction and questions for another time. Since their group does not move, other groups take it forward.

Although the other species were from other planets, they were actually humans with an evolution in another direction. For example, they developed animal characteristics, or acquired special talents, but they were essentially human.

So when a man tried to pass the gates and it exploded like a balloon, they were affected.

Anka's eyes caught something .

One of the souls at the gate tried to enter the body of that man, but it seemed that the soul inside did not accept him and destroyed itself.

It seemed strange to say but it was so.

Then the soul that was the man's slowly appeared in the place where the body was thrown into the air. His color was quite white, except that the place where his heart was was black as pitch. But what surprised Anka was what followed.

The human soul that was still dazed by the sudden death was tied with various strings and dragged into the temple by force.

The souls at the gate then walked among the participants, and from time to time they touched someone and lost a string that bound them, and the person touched seemed to receive it in their soul.

When a soul approached their team, Anka had a very serious look on her face.

Ella not far away seemed very strange .

But the rest of the team had no idea what was happening. The teams did not advance through the gate because the previous incident scared them, but after a while they had to try again.

The time for completing the missions is approaching and they had to enter the temple. When someone tried to enter, a soul arrived right in front of Alesio from Anka's group.

Our girl seemed to be fighting a hard battle in her mind. As a result black energy like fog surrounded her and she looked troubled.

The soul of the temple didn't manage to touch Alesio, he was scared to death by the black smoke, but still approached her without control. Like a moth attracted to fire.

Anka noticing this, her face looked complicated.

She hadn't decided whether to join the plot, but unconsciously she probably already did so now.

She looked at the soul that was approaching her slowly and suddenly changed her attitude again. The mist that was around her evaporates instantly.

The soul of the temple was confused, but it did not continue. He went to a nearby soul who was luckily from another planet and after touching the last string on his soul he disappeared. Then he descended into the ground and became invisible.

The same thing happened with the other souls of the temple. As for the participants, when they saw another person pass the gate without getting hurt, they slowly walked through the gate.

Anka's group also moves next. Anka returned to her state of constant joy that made her look crazy, and Ella looked at her for some reason.

Anka ignores her as well as the rest of the team. After entering the temple gate, they were led into a huge hall of servants. These servants were made of stone.

Stone servants are an easy doll pattern to make.

They are usually used as guards or as a person in certain houses. They were very popular in the past, but now other more attractive models have appeared and there are not many left in the universe.

This temple seems to have been left in the care of these stone servants.

They moved hard, and slowly, but they were very industrious. The place, which should be deserted due to the lack of living things, seemed well-kept. The inside of the temple looked a little dark, but there were magical stones that lit up the hall.

The place where they were taken was a large hall, it had different rows of stone benches. One of the walls had narrow but high windows, and the light from outside penetrated through them, bringing warmth to the stone rooms.

As it was a large stone building the inside was cool. For the group that traveled under the sun for almost two days, it was very pleasant.

The groups sat together on the stone benches, waiting to see what would happen next.

Anka looks happily at the building structure inside. She knew what was coming next, so she didn't pay much attention to her surroundings.

Tomorrow morning will be the first magic lesson. This will be the naming ritual of dragons and phoenixes. This ritual usually begins for the newly born of the race, through it one can observe the affinity of the soul with magic and talent.

It's a shame that for other species it's pure torture.

The ritual consists in bathing in the lake of energy in this mountain. This lake has accumulated in it all the primary energies of the universe in the form of water, by entering that water, the soul will attract what it can use and reject what it cannot, and the amount attracted shows the talent for that energy.

Anka generally knew the theory of energies in the universe but she was waiting to see what she would be able to attract herself.

Now she wanted to climb a tree in the temple yard and rest. So that's what she did. While the groups were getting ready to talk with each other, they sneaked discreetly out of the room.