Chapter 233 - Chapter 233 A Permanent Dimensional Gateway

As Thomas sat down at a table with Mary he asked "So what are you gonna order?" Mary pointed time the menu and said "I want this cake!" Thomas stared at the menu and said "Ok." As a waiter walked over she asked "What can I get you two?" Thomas stared at her and said "We'll take one of those cakes." As she walked away a man walked over to the table and asked "Are you the same demi human who pulled that sword from that unbreakable stone?" Thomas stared at the man and said "Yeah that was me." The man pulled a chair over and sat down as he said "You've gotta tell me how you did it." Thomas pointed to the sword and said "I just grabbed it." Thomas unsheathed it and said "Your more then welcome to check it out if you want." The man ran his hand down the blade and said "This truly is an impressive sword, the blade is very sharp." The man stared at Thomas and whispered "Look the only reason I want to know how you lifted it is because I need to know if you used brute force or if you figured out how it truest works." Thomas put the sword away and said "If I did find some trick to picking it up what will you do?" As the waiter came back and set the cake down in front of Mary she glanced at Thomas and said "That'll be two coppers." Thomas set the two coppers down on the table as the man said "So you did lift it by removing the mana from your arms." Thomas nodded and said "Yeah and I'll assume you already knew about this." The man nodded and said "Of course that sword was made by one of my early ancestors." The man pointed to the sword and said "Please allow me to work on that sword, the same as my early ancestor did." Thomas stared at Mary and said "Sure, you can work it." The man thanked Thomas and said "I won't let you down, as the next hero of our generation surely you must be powerful and intelligent." Thomas glanced at the man and said "I'm far from a hero." The man stared at Thomas and said "Do you mean to tell me that your evil?" Thomas sighed and said "Look I'm not evil either, but I definitely ain't a hero." Mary stared at Thomas and asked "Why aren't you a hero." Thomas looked away and said "I've done some pretty, unforgivable things." The man stared at Thomas and said "None of that matters right now, just answer me, are you evil or are you good?" Thomas stared at him and said "I suppose I'm good, although there's probably quite a few people who would disagree." The man nodded and said "Alright then I'll work on that sword and make it stronger for you." Thomas glanced at the sword and said "You can make it stronger?" The man nodded and said "Of course, I have many other methods to enhance the sword that my ancestor didn't back then." The man smiled and said "I might even be able to make it a magic sword however this will likely make the sword heavier since I have to permanently add mana to it." Mary stared at Thomas and said "I'm all done with the cake now!" Thomas glanced at the man and said "If you wanna work on the sword just go to the Eternal Flame guild, I'm sure someone there will know where I am." The man stood up and bowed as he said "I'm Hammer, as you can see I kept the family name." Thomas nodded and said "Yeah your right, early I noticed that on the bottom of the sword it said Hammer, although I figured that's what it was made with." As Thomas stood up Mary grabbed onto his hand and said "Come on I'm sure the others are waiting for you!" As they left the building Thomas waved to Hammer and said "I guess I'll see you later." Mary stared at Thomas and said "Let's go check out the Eternal Flame guild." Thomas stared at her and asked "What about the others?" Mary smiled and said "I'm sure it's fine if your a few minutes late." Thomas shrugged and said "I'm sure a few minutes won't matter too much." As they enter the Eternal Flame guild Thomas glanced at Sarah who was sitting behind a counter in a chair talking to Jules. Thomas walked over to them and asked "Making any progress?" Jules glanced at Thomas and said "Sir it's good to see you!" Thomas walked towards a wall and said "Drop the formalities." Jules nodded and said "Of course I won't disappoint you." Sarah stared at Jules and said "Stop getting so worked up." Thomas held his hand at the wall and made a door and a door frame appear. Sarah stared at him and asked "What's up with that?" As Thomas opened the door he seen through and seen a hallway. Thomas glanced at Jules and Sarah as he said "Nothing much, I just figured I should drop this off, Poppy just finished it." Jules looked behind the door frame and asked "How did you do that?" Sarah walked through the door and asked "But how?" As Thomas walked through he said "This is still the subconscious however it's hidden away and can't be seen from anywhere else in the subconscious unless they know where the entrance is." Jules glanced inside and said "But this is insane." Thomas glanced at him and said "You might wanna walk through, the door will only stay open for around a minute if it's not getting a supply of mana." As he walked through the door behind him vanished and it became a wall. Thomas stared at it and said "Yup, it just vanished." Jules stared at the door and asked "Are we stuck?" Thomas pointed to the door and said "Grab the handle and start pushing mana through it." Jules grabbed the handle and said "Okay." As the wall turned back into the tavern Jules walked out and said "He's right." As Thomas stepped back through he glanced at Mary and said "You can go through and take a look too if you want." Mary ran through the door and said "I wanna look through the rooms." As they all walked back through Thomas glanced at Sarah and said "I already know your gonna ask about the door so I'll just tell you that it was created strictly through my mana." Sarah put her hand on the frame and said "You mean you created this through mana alone?" Thomas nodded and said "Yeah, I'm a bit short on mana and might be for a while though." Jules stared at Thomas and said "You mentioned something about time not existing here right?" Thomas nodded and said "Yeah, you can't age here but time still moves on." Thomas pointed to the door and said "Everything is still going on out there the only difference is is that they're getting older." Thomas opened a door and said "There should be multiple rooms like this one up and down this hallway." As Mary ran back towards Thomas she was breathing heavily as she said "This hallway is long." Thomas stared at her and said "I figured Sarah would need extra rooms so I just had Poppy add a lot of them." Mary stared at Thomas and said "I'm tired." Thomas picked Mary up and set her on his shoulder as he said "Guess we should get going then." As they walked towards the door Jules stared at Thomas and said "Your not actually a demi human, are you?" As the door opened in front of them Thomas stepped through and said "Probably not." Jules glanced at Sarah and asked "What does he mean probably not, does he not know if he's a demi human or not?" Mary stared at Thomas and asked "Are we going back now?" Thomas glanced at her and said "Yeah we're going back to the inn." As they walked Hammer approached them and said "I'm sorry if I'm pestering you but I'd like to start working on that sword as soon as possible." Thomas held Mary with one hand and grabbed the sword with his other s he unsheathed it and held it by his side. Thomas put the sword out in front of him pointing it down towards the ground by the handle as he asked "Are you able to carry it?" Hammer grabbed the sword's handle and said "Yes I should be able too." As Thomas let go of the sword it immediately hit the ground and pieces through the solid rock they were standing on. Thomas stared at Hammer and said "I don't think you have complete control over your mana, but I will say that you have quite a lot of it." As he let go of the sword he sighed and said "Maybe it just wasn't meant to be." Thomas picked the sword up and said "I'll help you with it as soon as I drop Mary off." Hammer glanced at her and said "She slept through all that noise?" Thomas nodded and said "Looks like it."