The reason why couldn't move his leg wasn't that it was broken, it was more so that they were extremely exhausted and he couldn't lift them. His legs felt heavy, he didn't bother rising them.
When he looked up he saw only darkness, even when he put on his firehands ability he could only see one or two meters away from him. All he saw was grey rock, he felt that the air was very wet, it was also cold, this wasn't a problem anymore for Alexander due to his ability but it did feel pleasant.
It was eerie though, him lying alone and not being able to ee anything. It reminded him of when it had gotten misty and he had gotten attacked by asuls. However, so far he couldn't hear anything.
He focused on the hall and found himself in it again, he felt relieved. Whilst each room posed a painful challenge, the atmosphere in the hall felt calming. It was always nice to be able to transport yourself into a safe and silent location.
There were 3 doors that were made out of wood this time, he walked over to them and read the titles.
"Sparks"
"Fire resistance 1"
"Firehands advanced"
He winced when he saw that another door had firehands written on it. He instantly wrote of that door and focused on the other two. He could already resist his own fire but fire resistance 1 was probably centred around other fires. '
Whilst it was an interesting and certainly useful skill, it wasn't necessary for the time being. This left him with the only option of sparks. He dragged his hand at the speed of a snail towards the door when he pulled down the heavy handle he was transported into a new room.
The salamander's voice sounded.
"To succeed at this challenge all you have to do is catch the lizard"
"Tell me when you are ready"
I was transported to a small room. It had the shape of a circle; the walls were made out of finely polished marble. Alexander saw many objects on the room, there was tables and chairs and in them middle, there was a pedestal. On them, there existed smaller and more valuable objects, they were made out of gold, diamonds and many more shiny stones. Alexander even saw a cup made out of purely diamond., The word valuable was an understatement for this room.
In front of him, there was a small cute lizard, it eyed him with its large eyes. It was read and scaly, the size was the same as any normal lizard.
Alexander's eyes, however, were glued to the objects around the room, even though they were a figment of his imagination, Alexander had not the time to think about the lizard. Instead he was thinking about the possible worth of said objects.
After he had gotten to the point were thinking became an arduous task instead of an entertaining one, he started thinking about the challenge itself. Something he had realized way back was that he could not move at all. His body was stuck in its position, but so was the body of the lizard.
He guessed this would be removed when he started the challenge. The challenge felt overly easy, the salamander had not mentioned any time limit. That meant he had all day to catch a small lizard inside of a small room. It seemed too good to be true.
It was.
"Ready", Alexander asserted.
When the challenge had begun the challenge had drastically changed. He could not see anymore: his eyes were still open wide. It wasn't him being blinded for the duration of the challenge instead there was a feeling of darkness that descended on them.
The darkness didn't feel like the absence of light, rather it felt like something. The darkness was heavy and it felt like Alexanders senses had been clouded.
Alexander tried to activate his fire hands ability in order to light up the room. They could only light up about 3 cm away from themselves. This made it so that Alexander could see his hands, but they weren't useful in finding the lizard.
He started fumbling with every object in the room whilst trying to find the lizard.
The salamander was practically laughing his ass off at the sight of Alexander doing this.
After Alexander had been groping practically every object in the room to no avail, he tried another tactic.
He laid down on the floor and radically jerked everywhere. His thought was that the lizard must be avoiding him as he was searching the room if he wanted to catch the lizard he had to be quick. He jerked to his right, then he kicked the ground to go forward which lead him to headbutt the wall.
He flapped his legs in order to feel the lizard, he managed to make a lot of small accessories fall on him which made a ruckus of sound. Also, the thought of Gold, diamond and other valuable stones falling on the ground like cheap stock made Alexander cringe.
Suddenly out of nowhere, he was pulled out of the challenge. He found himself back laying on the floor. different from the last time he had been in the room, the entire room had been lighted up, in front of him stood a literal god-damned demon.
The demon had light red pupils, the rest of its eyeball was black. It had three horns, one on its forehead, and the two others were on his head in the shape of a tomahawk. The demon had a red upper body. It had a big round belly and it's arms seemed thin which suggested it was weak. It was completely nude which showed its red cock.
The demon had no hair on its body none. None on its head, none on its body and 0 on its genitals and Alexander would know. Because Alexander thought about how it's possible to have such a large cock.