The Spirit World

Slowely we kept walking in the direction of the royal capital, I felt a gaze on me just then. I looked around but could not see anyone, My eyes might have been deceiving me so I tried to pick up a scent of the person or thing that was gazing upon me.

I smelt a faint smell, one I could not tell which smell it was, it was completely new. I had never smelt something of this kind before, it was close to fire but at the same time had a hint of the smell of water. The smell came from further down the road. I beckonned the woman who was now by my side closer, I told her to watch out, there could be something ahead of us. As she walked closer I asked her as if in a normal conversation: "I have yet to hear it so here I would like to ask it first, what is your name?" She opened her mouth to answer but quickly withdrew what she originally had wanted to say and told me the following: "My name is Eliza Leadenbart." I thought and immediately realized that that was a fake name, she did not want to give out her real name so I would not pry into her mysteries. 

Slowely on the horizon a fire started appearing but this fire was not coloured red or orange like a normal fire, but it was instead a purpelish hue with a blue colour at the base of the fire. I started walking faster as to reach the settlement now engulfed in the purpelish blue flame quicker. As I arrived at the flame, I felt that the heat was not scorching my hand, it at first felt like no residual damage was done to my body. But as soon as my arm was fully in I felt something was wrong not with my physical body with something else, in a different location, somewhere not on this plane. Eliza Leadenbart quickly pulled me back and whispered in my ear. Watch out these are the flames off hell that lead to the spirit world. If you can survive them you will enter the spirit world but if you can not your soul will perish and your self consciousness will disappear into nothing. Once your self consciousness is gone you will be like a zombie holding the appearance of your old self. You will not remember anything and will not be able to create any new memories, you will also attack all who come into you sight, the only way to heal from a destroyed soul is to have someone create a new soul, this would however make you a new person with no memories of you old life. The second solution would be to get a chronomancer to cast a time reversal spell on you.

I then reached into my bag and pulled out the 2 tents we had bought just before leaving the city which we were just in and set them up. I sat down inside one of them and told Eliza to sit down in the other tent and get a good nights rest. I would keep watch when necessary. I did this because I no longer needed to sleep due to the vampirism gem implanted inside of me. As soon as the sun went down I felt much stronger and pulled out my engraving kit and took off my shirt and started altering the vampirism gem very carefully as to not ruin it. Besides the intricate drawing which I had made for the vampirism power I made a smaller one. This one was ment to get alleviate the burden which the sun now had, I knew it was impossible to completely remove the weakness but this would still help. Slowely the engraving started comming along it was something along the line of KRONG ITOL NEBI which means ALLEVIATE WEAKNESS SUNLIGHT. Soon I finished the engraving process but I would have to wait until the morning to see its effectiveness.

Then I reached into my bag to grab a gem which I had yet to engrave and started working on it. I grabbed my engraving tools and again started engraving. I wanted something to make it so I could go though the spirit fire. Slowely a magnificent shape came to be on the gem. An intricately designed shape started appearing one some would not even be able to somprehend, normally my engravings only reached into the 3rd dimension, but because this spirit world was far above this I had to match it. Slowely my engraving started reaching into the other dimensions, time and things beyond it which even I the engraver could not comprehend and finally the spirit world, after having engraved through all the other dimensions I felt that I arrived at the correct dimension but then I suddenly noticed something was again looking at me. I could not longer see my hands as they were in the spirit world but the resst of my body was still here, I had to do everything based on instinct.

Then I noticed something in the spirit world was getting closer, well me hands felt that something was getting closer to me, A breath could be felt on my hands, a cold breath so cold it could freeze lava, so cold it could freeze over hell. But for some odd reason I could not be bothered by it I continued engraving, maybe I could not feel the true pain of it because the pain was above me even this slightest pain was still pain on the 15th dimension, the spirit fire was something else it was both 3rd dimensional and 15th dimensional at the same time but this freezing breath was solely on the 15th dimension so the pain would not be transmitted from the 15th dimension to our dimension as the feeling I got when my hands started burning in the spirit fire. This was different soon I noticed the sun come up again and I was still busy. I noticed the Eliza came out of the tent I had set up for her, she could see my mising hands and looked me up and down still a bit out of it because she had only just woken up.

I quicly withdrew my hands from the endless spirit world, but as soon as they were back in my world I noticed that my hands were actually almost completely frozen over, luckily my FULL RECOVERY gem recovered them fully even while working on the gem in the spirit world. I stood up and faced Eliza.