Chapter 58: Mirror World

I woke up laying on Precia's shoulder. "How long was I out?"

"About an hour. You need rest. Continue sleeping."

"I need to find out who that guy was that I found in the castle." I stood up and cleaned my rugged clothes.

"..." Precia was sitting there silent.

"So you saw...?"

"Yes. Only for a moment. I can only... Imagine... What he forced you to see and hear." Her whole body was trembling.

She's talking about the illusion that man gave her.

"Don't worry about it. Whatever you saw."

"You're real right?"

"You? Are you real?"

"Yes..."

"Then so am I." I reached out my hand to her. "Stand up. We need to get going."

"Yes!"

We go on ahead in the place Precia and Yefa found. I contacted Greta and Zeta but no replies were heard. I'm starting to get worried.

We entered the room Precia lead us to. "Is it here?"

"Yes. But where is Yefa? I told her that she'd wait here."

"I'll try contacting her with Telepathy." After a few tries, I couldn't hear her voice. "Darn. As the same with the two, I can't contact her also. Let's just go in."

We stepped into the room and in a flash, a giant magical circle appeared. "Wha-" the magical circles latch on to our bodies. And as we open our eyes, we were transported somewhere that we weren't familiar with.

It was a white, cold, empty room. In the distance, we could hear metals clashing with each other.

"Let's go there!"

"Mhm!"

We both used Sprint and began running towards the location where the noise was heard.

"Yefa!?" I could see Yefa in the distance battling with someone.

"Zieglind!" Yefa punched the man with her gauntlets and it knocked him back a few meters. Yefa then instantly used blink towards us. "Greta and Zeta are there." Yefa pointed at the two bloodied bodies laying on the side.

I rushed to their aid and used every healing spell I have. Zeta managed to open his eyes and stay conscious. "Hey, you alright?"

"Yeah... Is that you Zieglind?" Zeta then coughed up blood.

"Be careful! And yes. Its me."

"Is... Greta okay?"

"She's still unconscious but still alive."

"That's plenty enough to have a reason to live."

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing, nothing." Zeta then stood up and walked slowly to Greta's aid. "Maybe you'll understand someday." He then began healing her unconscious body. "You take care of him."

"Yes." I looked at the way of the man. He didn't have any weapons and was only using his bare hands. "He was clashing with Yefa with bare hands?"

He was the same man I saw in the castle. Wearing full white armor and his long blonde hair was glowing beautifully in this room.

"Are you next?" The man asked.

"I'm Zieglind. Zieglind Reysh. What's yours?"

"I'm Hera. The one true god."

"Bold statement."

"Igno-"

"For a dead man."

"You truly seek death stray lamb. Come, you shall be judged by this god."

"Armor of the Bloodfallen!" I tried this skill for the first time when I'm sane. "It failed... Huh." The only armored part of my body is the bottom part. My waist down to my foot. My upper body is completely open. Despite it being incomplete, I could feel my bottom body being pierced with spikes.

"Master... You're really desperate huh? No matter what you do, no matter what your intentions are... WE'LL DEVOUR YOU." The souls of the Bloodlust started attacking my bottom part of the body.

"You fool... I could feel demonic power from that armor. You dare show that to me?"

I endured the pain but I'm slowly losing blood but the Karmic Pain passive is slowly healing me. "Co...me, Bloodlust!"

"Mirror Multiplication!" Tens or hundreds of mirrors spawned around the whole room. Different sizes and different types of mirrors.

"What the hell is this?"

Hera pointed his finger on one of the mirrors. "Light Buckshot!" A small light appeared on his arm and then suddenly split into multiple pieces. When the light touched one of the mirrors, it instantly travelled to another mirror and into another until it didn't have any mirror to go to.

"AGH!" I was hit by one of the flying light that was jumping through mirrors and mirrors. Despite them being called light, they aren't that difficult to dodge but they are still fast. "Those things hurt."

"Mirror Cloning!" Hera looked at one of the windows and then another one of him spawned.

"What?!"

There are now two Hera standing infront of me. "Light Buckshot!" In unison, they fired off both of their skills.

The bullets they shot has now been faster and had more random trajectories. Its difficult to keep up.

"AGH!" It might be a chip of damage but my health will whittle down while he does this. "I just need to bear with it! Sprint!" I began running full charge at him and taking the damage of the bullet lights. My lower body is practically immune to his light attacks but in my upper body it hurts so bad.

"Useless. Mirror World!" The room we were standing on suddenly changed. Before it was a rectangular room but now, its a sphere. We were all falling down to the bottom part of the sphere. "Mirror Transfer!" Hera vanished and his clone stayed in the middle.

I attacked it but it just vanished like a fog.

"Mirror World, Change!" The spherical place we were standing on changed into a big spherical mirror.

"What?!"

"You know what this means right? If everything here is a mirror that means..."

"The light bullets you use will be bouncing infinitely..."

"Bingo! You're just a stray lamb in my world. You should either die or serve me forever. I'm your god! Mirror World, Unify!"

Hera's body was like mist. It instantly disappeared. And after a few seconds, I could see his face appear on the room we were standing on.

"This... This is MY WORLD. I could do anything I want here in my Mirror World. You can't kill me if I don't have a physical form. But I surely can kill you..."

"Damn..." What do I do?