I won't bore you with the description of the room, since it was exactly the same as all the previous ones, only with sand-colored walls. The relief on the wall said the following:.
"If you have arrived here, you will know that crossing space is not easy; determination, precision, and concentration are necessary. If you have traveled the rest of the paths, you will have learned that space is a weapon, the possibility of fleeing and resting, the possibility of ending up in the wrong place if you don't know where you are going, and that with imagination, bending space is much more than you can think, so leave the weight of your shoulders on the scale and let's see what rewards your understanding of space."
I left the four rings with the seals on the scale and rested my hands; this time the golden-colored energy grew again to the size of a watermelon and settled on the other side of my neck. Feeling the two energies on each side was a new, balanced sensation, like being in harmony...
I sat down to meditate...
"Affinity with the mana of the created space. 1/43100"
"Congratulations on being the first player to complete the space main mana core during the tutorial."
"Congratulations on being the first to complete the hidden quest in the space room 4/4 completed"
"Congratulations on being the first player with four cores of level 3 or higher in the tutorial"
Mana Core Space, Level 5. 1/70000
I had seen the dangers posed by dimensional rifts so I took the tests calmly. Using the energy to create a rift consumed not only quite a lot of space mana compared to the earth, but it also consumed quite a bit of will mana. I didn't enter the first rift; I just counted how many seconds I could keep it open... A single fissure, 10 seconds... I tried visualizing the other end of the room, and I created the entrance rift and the exit fissure. The rifts could be open for up to five seconds. To check if everything was working well, I threw a dagger through the next pair of rifts; the dagger came out perfectly through the other one, hitting the opposite wall...
I tried making a jump myself, and everything went well... I landed without problems. Regulating the mana I provided allowed me to change both size and distance. I was doing tests along the way, although before I made sure to pick up all the equipment I had left on it, there were no traces of obstacles or abysses, so any precaution was insufficient. With all the tests, my mana reserve had not dropped even a quarter, so it was time to try something different. I concentrated on the statue room.
I knew it was far away and it was a challenge, but I concentrated and visualized it in my mind. I looked at the room, the details, and the shape and established the starting point; however, I did not jump but instead threw a dagger and waited for the fissure to close. If everything had gone well, I could pick it up when it arrived... This jump took away almost a quarter of my mana...
Congratulations to the player for creating the magic skill "dimensional rift." Level 2*: 1/5000
I advanced happily through the tunnel when I remembered the dark elf's other ring. I detected magic again... I could see it shining, however now I recognized the signature of that energy, it was space magic. I put on the ring and waited, the feeling was that space mana was collecting in my space mana pool 5 times faster than before... A great mana regeneration ring, it was my first magic item.
When I arrived at the statue room, the dagger was lying on the floor, just beyond where I had envisioned the door opening. Everything had gone well, all that was left was to choose my next destination. I walked past the tunnels, letting myself be carried away by my intuition, this time it would be the path of air...
The path of the air had sky-blue walls. I reached the first torch with suspicion, because everything always began with the torches. I looked at the space in front of me; I didn't notice anything. I looked at the torch; it didn't turn; it didn't. At the moment, there was nothing to activate. When I took the first step, a torrent of air pushed me back. I tried to turn off the torch and move forward, but the result was the same. I lit it again with the lighter I had borrowed from the cabin, and I tried to try to advance with the torch with the same result, but the air current prevented me; it was an ungovernable force.
I could have jumped into a rift to appear on the next wall, but although it was a tricky advantage to apply this method, it would prevent me from checking if there were hidden doors, and I didn't know what effect it would actually have or if the wind would blow me away as soon as I appeared... I decided on an intermediate option. With my stone mana I raised a wall about five steps away, 2 meters high by one meter wide. I gained momentum and although I did not completely stop the air, with a little effort, I reached its shelter. I looked at the walls. There was nothing on both sides of the hallway at the moment. I built another wall a few steps away from me and ran towards it. The current almost dragged me, but I arrived, little by little, and without any news on the walls. I advanced from wall to wall, and when I reached the torch, I was protected by a wall that made a semicircle from the tunnel wall a little in front of the torch. This torch did spring forward like a spring, and the current ended.
This time I changed my approach tactic, grabbed one of my daggers, and threw it into the space ahead of me in the tunnel... The pressure of the air crushed the dagger against the ground, flowing up and down.
With stone magic I made a cover above the next torch, opened a small dimensional rift with an exit right next to the next torch, manipulated it, and the downward air pressure ended. I performed the same operation with the next section, and the dagger ended up on the left wall, pressed by the air laterally. I activated the mechanism of the next torch with the same combination of stone and space.
In the following sections the current changed up, then to the right, and finally forward, but I saw no traces of secret doors or parallel tunnels... I could clearly see that the tunnel ended further ahead in the room that I sensed was The one on the scale Something is missing, I stopped to think, except for the first torch that couldn't move, the rest had been activated by moving the mechanism... I tried leaving the levers that propelled the air to the right and left activated... Small tornadoes emerged in the hallway, I threw a dagger at one of them from a safe distance to see how it was absorbed by the tornado and thrown against one of the walls, sinking the blade into the wall up to the hilt... a brutal force... what that force would do to a body, I didn't even want to think about it.
When I deactivated the levers a leaf fell in the middle of the tunnel, I didn't know where it had come from but I couldn't miss myself much in this sanctuary anymore, I picked up the leaf and kept it for myself...
Applying logic I tried activating the downdraft and updraft, I threw another dagger to see how it was hit by a burst of compressed air that cut it cleanly in two. I deactivated the levers and another sheet could be picked up.
The next thing was more complicated, when I tried first with the lever, the air that pushed towards the entrance of the tunnel and then the one that pushed towards the bottom of it, nothing happened, the dagger that I threw rotated through the space without being affected by any strength, nothing seemed to happen either, however, when I took a step into the area I could quickly see that there was no air, there was nothing to breathe within the space, on the verge of dizziness I managed to open a fissure and deactivate the mechanisms in the torches in time. . Another sheet was kept in my waist bag.
The last thing I tried was to activate all the torches, it gave me a bit of a headache to find the order, it was more trial and error than knowing why, first the air flow to the right, then back, then to the right. left, towards the entrance, up and finally down... A kind of wind shuriken was spinning uncontrollably in the hallway, the noise was screeching. When deactivating. As he deactivated all the levers again one last blade fell to the ground.
The relief in the scale room basically said the following:
"If you have defeated the pressure of air, you undoubtedly deserve to be here, but if your curiosity has taken you further, you will know that air can rotate on itself to transform into a devastating force, it can be compressed to cut better than any sword, if It disappears, it can kill and its uses only have the limit of your manipulation capacity, leave the weight of your shoulders on the scale and let's see what rewards the air brings you."
I placed my hands on the scale and placed the four leaves on top. A large ball of energy formed on the scale, which impacted my solar plexus. I started to meditate.
"Affinity with the mana of air created. 1/43100"
"Congratulations on completing the main mana core of air."
"Congratulations on being the first to complete the hidden quest in the room of the air 4/4 completed"
"congratulations on being the first player with five cores of level 4 or higher in the tutorial"
Air Mana Core Level 5. 1/70000
I left my backpack on the ground and tried to concentrate my new air mana to push it... It took a while but by applying a small amount of air mana and a little will I managed it, the next thing was to try to compress the air and throw it , this took almost as much air mana as will but in the end an air blade came out of my palm, cutting a little through the wall on the other side of the room. I did several tests before I could create a small tornado... for now it would be enough or so I hoped.
I walked back to the statue room, there was no rush or need to spend mana with dimensional rifts, plus I needed to think about what my next route would be...