Wrapped in mist high above the clouds in the Trial realm of Intellect the guardian watched as the challennger below destroyed hhis perception of what was possible once again at this point he had given up making the trial more challenging as with the problem solving ability the trial takre had displayed there was no need to as even the greatest diffiulty he was permitted to utilise was worthless against him
he continued to observe as the rewards from the Tower of Babel an enormous amount of mental energy was relaesed falling into the small body of the challennger like it was an enddlless black hole as the trial guardian watched the changes something strange began to occur
although the challenngers life force aura had become blurrier after that breif dissappearance earlier it was still somewhat acceptable however at this moment as the bountiful maental energy flooded into the challengers body his life force began moving further and further away from his perceptiion soon it was as though he was trying to see a tiny cnadle flame within a trailer which was driving away from him although it was blurry already it took much more effort to sense it
at this point the guardian gave up on uderstanding exactly what was going on he had made up his mind to seal away these curiosities should this ttrial come to an end without a astisfactory explanation
he woulld not suffer from the torment of endlessss pondering for any god dammed reason
deep within the Tower alex sat still bathing in the endlesss energy reward his aura becomiing more and more obscure within his mental space what looked like a multicoloured moon with straks of red blue brown gold and green mixed in withitn thw white around this moon was an expansive region of shimmering water glinting with gold paticles ALex wached as this gold srincled water region continued to compress the incoming energy increasing the conenteration whilst flowing outwards increasing its radius to about 5000 meters from its center the polygoon inner barrier
taking the changes in alex relaxed and enjoyed the ease at which his defense grew stronger at any point where the debris layer expannded to a radius of 10000 materes it would contract and compress the energy increasing the energy density growing from a gaseous state it quickly became a clear fluid and soon it was just as dense as mercury
finaly within the hallway the five doors stopped relaesing more energy rewards and a single five coloured barrier of light appeared in the middle of the hall
ALex opened his eyes after absorbinng every last grain of energy in the hall
lets see whats next huh
alex walked thru the barrier of light and was transferred directly into the final chamber of the fifth floor
how did he kow it was the final floor of the fifth floor?
the hall was dome shaped unlike the previous oones turning a full 360 alex saw 9 door ways in every direction and as he was transfred into the hall there wasnt even a passageway from which he entered
the entire hall way glowed in an etherel white light as hexes adorned the marble doors these doors stood at a height of 15 meterrs however they were not all equally adorned
from Alex's far right to his left the door had a diffrent llevel of charm to each of them from the simplest door he named door 1 to door 9 ale x could feel the interdependence of each of these doors using his eyes he examined them quickly and noted there was a repeating pattern to the hexes on the door aith each door's hex being an enhancement ffor the next
alex colud feel that it would not benefit him in the slightest to activate all the doors at once and there was a reason for their mutual dependence not every thing could be dominated by brute force alone
to verify these feelings ALex used a new strand of intent from his mind core and attaching his preception to it sent it to the most charming door number 9
on approaching the door alex found to his suprise that he could not find the origin particles on the hexes even the surrounding free particles were not affeccted by the hex trating it as a dead object
it is incomplete
alex soon noticed what was the problem
alex used his intent to carefully inspecct each of the doors and soon arrived at a conclusion
although there were all hexes they were bound by a certain condition befre they could be activated and until this condition was fulfilled the hex could never be activated
it was another form of restriction however in this case the hex did not channel its restriction outwards by rather focoused it inwardly making it unbreakable by brute force
i see
alex quickly understood the intent of this hallway
walking to the door number 1 alex began attempting to activate it on each of the doors there was a varying number of hexees and the number 1 door had a staggering 244 hexes however only one hex right in the middle coulld be activated
without wasting a moment more alex effortlessly linked the hex to his mental space with a strand of inteent at this point alex no longer needed to direct the frequency of origin to the barrier as once it hit the external debris alyer it would be filtered step by step before transmittng the frequeny to the barriier of the sea of conciousness where it would be recorded and reaonance would be achived activating the hex
however this hex was diffrent it not only caused its reflection on the barier to flash but also affected the aother hexes its presence began to reinforce the barrier strenghtening it
alex paid this change no mind and turned his attention to the 243 other hexes on the door alex noticed that now 2 more were activateale
wihtiout wasting a moment more alex began activating them and always the number of hexes he could activate fgrew in number exponentialy filling the 15 metr door in under 5 minutes with activated hexes'
Alex moved on to door number 2 and sure enough the re was now a single hex among the 487 hexes which he could activate
smilng alex approached the hex with his intent and to his suprise it was slightly more complex to activate and althouogh the difference was minimal it did exist and similar to the first hex of door number 1 when alex activated the hex the light of resonnace affected all the other hexes on alex's 'hex barrier' strengthening them
taking it gradualy alex moved on to the next hex here the hexes were unlocked in geometrical sequences of 3 filling the remaining 486 hexes in under 4 minutes
Alex moved on to dooor number 3 and just like all the others the 730th hex was the only unlocked hex on the door where on activation it stimulated all the hexes on the hex barrier unlocking in sequences of 5 the hexes on door number 3 were cleared in 3 minutes
alex couls feel the difficulty and complexity of the hexes incerasing constantly he needed to pay more attention to each hex as the nature of their origin particle was no longer distinct and althoughh their external restrictions were powerful alex's indestructible intetn could directly ignore them the sand of reality that contained the frequncy of origin also called the origin particle had myriad forms many of them were wrapped underneath layers of free particles like a core some sped around the hex's domain this made it much more challenging however alex's skill in controlling his intent grew wit the challeenges bringing him hgher with evey successful activation
at this point the barrier of ale'x sea of conciousness was complety pepppered with hexes
on door number 4 there were once again the number of hexes had jumped to 973 with only a single hex unlocked so alex contiued with the same pattern moving on to door number 5 with 1216 hexes and door number 6 with 1459 hexes alex at the moment alex activated the last hex on door number 6 the there was a rapid transformation on his hex barrier..