As they walked through the spacious valley their eyes caught a jagged opening from one of the valley sides, a cave was dim inside but they lit up the cave by their glowing forms, the woman with her fire halo that made the cave shine with red and the man with his pure white form, as they kept going inside, the design of the cave start changing with every turn, from the jagged rocks of impenetrable blackness to a spacious ovoid-shaped place with loose stones littering the floor, to a luxurious hall surrounded by small lakes from the two sides, the lakes were decorated by gemstones with different size and shapes, at the end of the Hall was a majestic emerald gate, anyone would think it is a big gemstone but If you look and observe carefully you can see that the gate made from wood, the woman was a captive of this gate, it was not her first time here but every time she will feel attraction power from it like it was calling her back.
maybe it's a curse set by the multiverse that you must never get enough of anything beautiful, be it women, Jewels or treasures, a sin that was the cause of wars, betrayals.
The woman in red is the same as a beauty seeking to take this beautiful gate every day, but she fears people will take it from her.
As for the man, he never sees beauty in anything but women, the wood of this gate is mysteries, he has never seen this type of wood before, he tried to open the gate but with no result, even though he is not strong as the lady beside him, he has confidence in his physical body at least he won't have a problem opening a gate, but the gate didn't move even millimeter, on top of that he can feel a spell inside the gate that attract anyone into it or maybe it is a characteristic of the tree that made this gate, he felt its stuped to use this kind of wood to make a gate, it can be used as pendant or ring to add charm to the person wearing it or even traps, but why make a gate from it? maybe it must be so the person will have to touch it for a long time. he can't think of anything.
The woman touched the gate with her finger adding magic essence, after few seconds the gate started opening, they can see a massive room with nothing but white except the big formation in the center and three doors at the three sides of the room.
"What a strange place," Amon walked inside the room toward the gate, this morning he asked Theia to give him the cave coordinates so that he can investigate it, but Theia who was cultivating postponed her cultivation session and decided to guide him, he refused but she told that the cave had a gate and if her guess was correct it was linked to her the moment she stepped in this side of the forest, like that she came with him, Amon did not expect the cave would be like this from the inside.
"I tried opening the three doors many times but with no result, I have a feeling that what is inside them was there just for me," Theia always trusts her intuitions.
"Well, you can guess or know that without intuition, the gate is the best proof, now, can you tell me your story with all this?" he pointed at the doors and formation.
It all started when Theia was visiting her mother castle outside the capital, her mother was out so she waited alone inside the castle, and out of boredom, she starts searching inside her mother's treasure boxes until she found a weird cubed wood.
When her mother came back, she asked her about the cubed wood she found out that her mother forgets about how she gained this thing.
when she returned to the royal palace she entered her usual "cultivation's" session, but inside her room, she was inspecting the wood with her magic, she discovered that the wood was absorbing her magic essence so she kept feeding it, the process lasted two hours then the wood moved from her hands to the top of the bed, she tried to move it back but it was like glue then it starts glowing, a green light start surrounding her and she found her self here.
"So that is how it is, I have some keys to what is going on but I will think of them slowly" he is certain the one who made this cave and the wood and the one who sealed this world are the same if not then he must have a connection, he will investigate them all.
He placed his hand on the formation and let his magic essence run through it, every Formation master have his own rune language so it is hard to understand the formula even if you try all your luck, the stronger the formation master, the harder the formation to decode, but Amon invented a way to decode it or a set of steps that can help a little;
first is to know what the formation task exactly what laws or Tao are used, if it floats formation, for example, he will compare it to one of his floating formations, to understand the rune pattern, then he will observe the magic flow inside and outside the formation and the runes, from that flow he can sense many things, and one of them is with what element or coordination every rune is linked, like that he will have have an understanding of the language and he will copy the formation with the same rune language many times until he grasps how it works.
"So did you manage to get anything from it?" Theia was silent for two hours watching the silent Amon. She is confident he will discover something.
"Yeah, woman intuitions are a frightening thing, a little of your essence is fused with the runes inside this formation, I guess you are the only one able to use it, and you are the only one that has access to the three doors there or some of them,"
"Some of them?"
"Yeah, the formation can identify two people. One is you, the other slot is empty and I can guess without looking at the coordinate the place of our other "chosen"one who will get the empty slot," Amon was smiling and amused at the same time.
"??"
"He will come from the sealed unknown zone!" he was certain of this.
"I don't understand why you are smiling mysteriously like this, and what is this "chosen" thing you are talking about, please explain your point I don't want to exhaust myself thinking since you already know,"
"the two of you are chosen to be students or followers, of the one who sealed this world" and there is another thing that shocked him but he will keep it for himself.
"!!!" she was startled, the one who sealed this world?
"But don't worry he/she means no harm, that thing I am sure about" who would put a trial to a people that he will kill later?
"there must be two people to open the doors?"
"I am unsure it's just a guess, but let me inspect the doors first," he walked to one of the doors and placed his hand and the same process as before went by, he inspected the three doors one by one.
"Oh, I think I was wrong."
"Wrong about what?"
"There is only one chosen person and not two,"
"And what has the doors to do with this conclusion?"
"The doors meant to be for only one person to open."
"you found a way to open them?" she was elated Amon is really one to depend on, he never disappoints.
"Touch the three doors at the same time with your magic essence,"
"Just that?"
"Yeah, I don't really know how is this a trial, is he out of ideas or he will merely appoint anyone that comes through the formation?"
Theia did as he said, and that moment the three doors opened bringing with them strong natural scent.
"I think your reward for coming here is inside."
Amon said as he looked at the rooms inside.