RUBIX THE GODDESS OF ORDER WITHIN CHAOS
"I didn't expect we could harvest magic directly from a magic realm and more surprisingly only with a machine", I said to her.
It was possible to obtain magic from the magic realms such as realms of Blood or Darkness. But in order to obtain magic from those realms, usually sacrifices or trades have to be made with those realms.
The Mages of Prolis created a machine that could simply extract magic from another magic realm through openings of fissures in the realm.
The cavern of Eloora was probably one of those openings that King Drach made use of.
"The Mages of Prolis are very clever", she replied to me.
"How did I get here into the Realm of Order? All I did was duplicate the key to the machine, the Crown of Eloora, and I did everything correctly according to the Mage of Prolis' manual", I asked the girl.
"When you obtained the Crown of Eloora, you created a permanent link between you and the Realm of Order which was what the Prolis machines was meant to do. Magic from the Realm of Order will channel into your machine through the Crown of Eloora", she explained.
"So, I was channeled to the Realm of Order by accident?" I asked.
"No, you are not", she replied to me.
"Wait a minute. Did you say I am in a place between Order and Chaos?" I asked the girl once I remembered her words.
"Yes, that is correct", she replied.
"How did that happen?" I asked.
"Because you have another source of magic in you that opposes the magic of Order, so your route was diverted here", the girl said to me.
"What source?" I asked.
"Don't you already know, your Chaos magic of course. How did you cast and use Chaos magic without templar or bone magic, have you ever wondered?" the girl asked me.
"Delirium taught me how to use Chaos magic by understanding the flow of my chaos. I thought he passed a part of his chaos magic to me", I replied to her.
"Yes, he taught you how to use your chaos magic, but the chaos doesn't belong to him. You tapped the power from the Realm of Chaos yourself", she told me.
"How did I obtain chaos magic if Delirium didn't give it to me?" I asked.
"When you augmented the Seeds of Chaos into your body when you obtained the Black Heart, one of the side effects of the augmentation was creating a link in your body to the fractures of the Realm of Chaos, just like how the Prolis machines connected to the fractures of the Realm of Order", the girl explained to me.
"So, what you are saying is. The Seeds of Chaos accidentally helped me create a channel into the Realm of Chaos and that channel diverted me to this place between Order and Chaos after I obtained the Crown of Eloora", I said to the girl.
"Precisely", she replied to me.
"Now, how do I get out of this place?" I asked the all-knowing girl.
"Play a cube with me", she replied to me in a voice before disappearing from my sight.
"Damnit, you haven't told me yet", I protested.
"Play a cube and control your chaos. You will find your way", the voice replied before it went silent.
"Now what do I do?" I asked myself.
"Play a cube", I replied to myself suddenly, echoing the girl's voice.
So, I took one of the Rubik cubes in the realm and tried to solve it.
However, solving a Rubik cube was an impossible affair without the correct mathematical formula.
"Asterix, can you hear me?" I tried to contact Asterix in my earpod hoping that she could help me solve the puzzle.
"No cheating in the Realm of Order and Chaos", the voice of the girl reminded me suddenly to my surprise.
"Damnit, I must solve the puzzles by myself", I complained to myself.
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"What happened here?" Ratatouille asked Kabigail.
"I don't know. For a short moment, the machine was reset after King Orion went into the core of the machine. We thought he obtained the Crown of Eloora but suddenly, chaos erupted. The machine went chaotic suddenly and became uncontrolled, taking on a life of its own", Kabigail complained to him.
The machine inside the Temple of Eloora went berserk all of a sudden, its tanks and pipes were thrown around like flying furniture. The entire chamber became a scene in Upheaval.
Suddenly, a tank flew toward Ratatouille. He quickly transformed into a bird to escape from the incoming tank.
It was impossible to stay in the Temple of Eloora. So, everyone there had to return to the surface, leaving the chaos and ravaging machine behind.
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"Well, finally you solved one of the puzzles- the easiest one", the girl said to me.
Solving the Rubik's Cube took me quite some time.
At first, my attempts were haphazard, with random twists and turns that led nowhere.
Frustration mounted as the cube remained unsolved.
But then, I took a step back, cleared my mind, and began to analyze the puzzle. I realized that the center of each side served as a fixed anchor, a clue to guide me. Gradually, I started matching the colors, one side at a time.
The progress was slow, but eventually, I solved it—my very first Rubik's Cube.
"Can I leave this place now?" I asked the girl in this realm.
"You don't need my permission to leave this realm", she replied to me.
"Then how do I get out from here?" I asked her.
"You already know how to leave here", she replied to me before disappearing.
Then I understood.
"What is your name?" I asked the girl.
"My name is Rubik", she replied to me in a voice before becoming silent again.
Rubik the Goddess of the Realm of Order within Chaos.
I focused on the Order within the Chaos in this realm and demanded to return to where I came from, and the realm complied with me.
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