Hours passed from the moment his last notification sounded in his ears as they turned to days, months and eventually years of sleeping there in the hard cold floor...
Soon the year X791 arrived and from the body of Ryouji movement could be felt as he tried to open his eyes and see a barren crystal world...
Ryouji : Ughh... W-what the...
Ryouji : How long was i out??
After remembering what happened at his fight with Acnologia, he shuddered thinking that if they were to clash one more time he was dead...
He called his status board as he didn't remember much of when darkness took over him and was shocked to see that not only he became powerful, he was also shocked to see that 7 years passed...
After feeling his whole body sore from sleeping in the cold like that, he tried and tried to move it even though it looked healed in his eyes but was unable to do so...
Day after day, he willed his body to move and after 10 or so days he moved his fingers...
Close to a month, he moved his legs, after two months he could finally somewhat move every part of his body enabling him to walk...
Finally, on the 3rd month, he was able to move normally and even lightly run, he tried to use magic and it came to him naturally but only for natural types like flames magic...
If he uses something that strains his body a wave of pain from his muscles not moved for 7 years was still assaulting him...
Ryouji : Now then, how do i get out??
Ryouji : Oh... right!!!
Ryouji : Over Soul Magic Alter Clone!!!!
Ryouji through these months of rehabilitation kept checking to see what else he gained and had noticed this particular Over Soul...
Just as Ryouji's body started morphing with dark green silver scales, each one of those scales when formed on his body, flew off and floated in the air until millions of those scales united and formed a physical mental image of himself...
It felt weird to look at himself and started making different signs to see what will happen...
Alter Ego : You are annoying!!
Ryouji : How should i know if it worked??
Ryouji : Perhaps you were going to mirror my movements...
Alter Ego : The way to send someone in and out of this place is by using the principals of Time and Space...
Alter Ego : As Acnologia had created a phantom soul while his true body wrecked outside similarly, i will control this place while being ejected from here...
Ryouji : How so??
Alter Ego : You really haven't realised??? We are the same person after all...
Ryouji : Sometimes others see what you don't see and vice versa...
Alter Ego : Only one persona or two different people can reside in this place, if two identical people are here one of them will be ejected outside to the point the had entered...
Alter Ego : Look your body has already started disintegrate and possibly appear in the outside...
Ryouji : Aaahh... I see... Wait... Possible???
Ryouji : You mean you don't know??
Alter Ego : How should i know the way it works??
Ryouji almost spat blood at his words as he vanished from that place leaving his Alter Ego touring around for Ores...
Somewhere on the sea, where nothing could be seen except the blue waters of it, a magic circle flared up that was white and silver in colour...
From there particles started appearing slowly and condensing in reforming his body slowly from his feet, towards his head.
When it finished, Ryouji opened his eyes and before he could say a word he lost the sky under his feet and fell down on the sea while screaming...