THE CORRIDOR TO THE REALM OF LIFE
"Maname must have mistaken your chaos magic as a Battle Realm, there is nothing more to it, don't worry", Chash told me.
"Perhaps", I replied to them.
Then I realized the change in scenery in the cavern.
I returned to the cavern under the Sacred Grove to find the cavern flooded with a small stream. The water from the stream did not originate from Mamane but what appeared to be a large circle of stone in front of us.
There was another world inside the stone circle.
"What is that magic circle?" I asked.
"That is a magic corridor into an unknown realm. I can feel its magic flowing out into the lake", Rinna told us.
"It is the Corridor to the Realm of Life. Mamane told me himself", I replied to them.
"Let's go inside", Cassandra suggested to us as she swam into the magic corridor.
Suddenly, Cassandra was thrown out of the magic corridor to our surprise.
"There is a barrier protecting the magic corridor", Rinna told us.
"Should we break the magic corridor?" Chash asked us curiously about what lay behind the magic corridor under the lake.
"Look, there is white milky water flowing out from the magic corridor", Ratatouille told us about his observation.
Sara checked the milky water and soon her entire body glowed with magic when she touched it. The rest tried touching the milky water too and their bodies illuminated in a magic glow too.
"The magic in the lake that made our hands glow comes from this milky white water from the magic corridor that becomes diluted into the stream from the water in the cavern", Sara told us her observation.
"I've been to a magic corridor like this before in Pallantium which leads to the magic Realm of Aqour. Magic pearls flow out from the corridor just like the milky water here", I told them.
"How did you get into the corridor in Aquor, master?" Meera asked me.
Meera was usually not interested in much except her books and scrolls but this time she was unusually attracted to the magic water here.
"Last time, I entered the portal to Aqour, I used the Eye of the Sea, a magical gem that originated from the Aqour realm", I replied to her.
"So, we need a key of some sort from this magic realm to enter it?" Ratatouille asked me.
"I guess so, but we don't even know what we are looking for that can enter this magic portal, and we don't even know what is behind it", I told them.
"The magic water that flows out from the corridor is good for us", Cassandra told us as her skin glowed as she applied the milky water on her skin.
"Damnit, it might be dangerous over there even if they have good body lotion", I said to them as I planned to leave this realm.
"Please bring us into the realm, master", Meera pleaded with me.
"Yeah, please", Cassandra added with her eyes blinking cutely to me.
"What is happening to you guys, are you addicted to the white lotion?" I asked them.
"I don't know about them, but the bloody lotion is changing my skin too", Sara told us.
"What is happening to you?" Rinna asked her.
"This bloody lotion is making my skin, like damn human", Sara complained to us.
Sara was an enhanced human who obtained a soul, but her body and skin were made from synthetic material that mimicked human skin. The magic water from the magic corridor could turn her synthetic skin into living human skin.
"Yes, Sara is right. My skin is actually turning into living skin again too", Chash told us as turtle scales began growing on him again.
"Why are you turning back into a turtle?" Ratatouille asked him.
"It is my skin. They are transforming back to my old skin when I was alive", Chash told us.
When Chash was alive, he was actually a giant turtle in the realm of Aqour. The magic lotion from this magic corridor revived his dead skin.
The magic lotion rejuvenated the skin and flesh of my friends who were once dead but now revived as golems with the immortal essences of the Anti-Saints.
"Can we become human again?" Cassandra asked us excitedly and with hope.
"What is this realm behind the magic corridor? Why can its lotion revive our dead skin?" I asked.
I walked toward the magic corridor to inspect it. To my surprise my hand went into the magic corridor. Suddenly, the barrier to the magic corridor opened for us to our surprise.
"The barrier to the magic corridor is open", Rinna said to us.
"What happened? Did you have the key to open this magic corridor?" Sara asked me.
"I don't know", I replied to her when suddenly I realized my hand was grasping something inside.
When I opened my hand, I found a large seed.
"The Seed of Life?" Cassandra asked me.
The Seed of Life was one of the rewards that I obtained from the Knight Templar Academy. It was said to be a powerful artifact obtained from the Realm of Life although few knew about its magic or its use.
I found a use for the Seed of Life by incorporating its magic in my templar skill, the Rails of Ikea. After I lost my bone magic, the Seed of Life was returned to me.
"The Seed of Life is the key to enter this magic corridor", I said to them.
"The magic water that comes out from this magic corridor even when diluted in the lake can preserve the dead bodies in the burial ground. This could be the source of the Skeleton King's indestructible regenerative magic although he probably thought this was the bone magic of his ancestors", I told them.
"It was also the source of Mamane's Immortality magic", Meera said.
"The magic can also revive our dead bodies", Cassandra told us excitedly.
"So, shall we explore the realm of life?" Chash asked us.
"We didn't come all the way here just to turn back", Sara replied to him and walked into the magic corridor first and we soon followed her.
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