Chronicles of the Seventh Realm Box Set Books 1 - 13: Epic Fantasy series: Science, Magic, Two Worlds Collide by NAK Baldron

Author:NAK Baldron [Baldron, NAK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Steampunk, SciFi, Portal Fantasy
Publisher: Aconite Cafe
Published: 2021-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Sapphire Nation, Fencura

Ren staggered and took a small step to catch his balance. How do you know my name?

We are the examiners. A chorus of voices filled Ren's mind, and despite looking right at the examiners upon the stage, he saw nothing. His vision shifted from the present moment to that of the eternal presence of mind.

Out of the black void came an island of light, overflowing with a lush garden which climbed the stone walls, floating above a vast ocean.

Floating.

Ren was floating above Fencura, or rather his consciousness was. He could see, but he lacked a corporal body. Instead he existed as pure thought.

What's happening? The experience had silenced his mind.

Your trial. The chorus of voices answered.

Ren felt himself being pulled out of the sky toward a stone tower—in the center of a city he didn't recognize—which stood fifty feet above all other structures. The top of the tower was a pristine lawn of rainbow grass. Ren couldn't see his own body but felt himself firmly standing in the center of the grass, which danced in the wind currents.

Yet, Ren felt no wind.

The grass reflected the source-light, splintering it into a constantly shifting spectrum of colors. As the grass swayed in the wind, the colors shifted from violet to indigo, another shift, and blue became green, shift again, and yellow turned orange. One last shift into a blood red.

It's so beautiful.

Would you like to see more?

Ren's vision went black, then returned with him standing inside a perfect sphere. A set of amethyst lanterns floated in the center of the sphere, and around the lanterns floated the five examiners. Each wore a colored robe with their hoods pulled back—white, green, red, blue, and purple.

Where's black?

The young woman from the stage wore the green robe. "The Onyx Nation doesn't submit pupils, and there will be no further discussion of them here."

"Where am I?" Ren asked.

"You're standing upon the platform in the center of the stone courtyard on Shinzo," the man in red robes said. He looked to be in his early thirties. The right side of his hair was shaved down to the scalp and his ear was pierced with several different metal rings along the cartilage. A golden coin sat in the center of his earlobe which had been stretched to accommodate it. "But I think you meant to ask what you are seeing."

Ren nodded his head eager for the answer, but too shocked to answer. The examiners were floating above in the center of the sphere. No matter how many steps he took, he remained on the outside edge, walking in a circle around them.

"This is your trial room," an ancient man said, wearing the purple robes, clearly the leader. "Every candidate produces their own vision of the perfect room. This is yours. Your idealized room."

Ren swallowed. At the same time he realized the room wasn't real, meaning his body wasn't real. The vision was no different than when he'd been floating above Fencura or standing in the rainbow grass with no body.

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