Chapter 52

After eating Nyx goes right back to Xod. Seeing her back he looks at her with a tilt of his head, "Why are you back so soon?"

"Well first my brother has asked me to have you talk to Lyracula from Rêves musicaux. Second I have found out whats happened to my parents. I am to weak to help them."

"What do you mean to weak to help your parents?"

"The Remalais Church."

"That explains it all. We can continue then. I'll have someone come here to train you as I go talk to Lyracula," With that Xod leaves the room. Shortly after someone enters and nods at Yuna-mierem.

While Yuna-mierem is there, Vayu looks for his master. After finding him, he gets to work on how to more accuractly travel through the wind. While trying to form a miasma core. Electra went back to the library to continue reading through all the books about magic cores. Freyja went back to Rêves musicaux. Ms.Arminia looks at him. Explaining it she laughs and starts his training.

Sitting down Amber ponders what to do. 'These are most likely soul based attacks. Then how should I protect myself from such things. Perhaps a palace in the soul or even a world. Why not both. I should also probably do the same thing within the mental landscape. Well one step first lets start with a brick for the palace and build it up from there.'

As she does this Lillan looks up and sighs, "I haven't even made it past the spatial nodes myself. To think she would be so far ahead."

"Yeah I haven't been past those myself and ive done this twice myself. Her physical and mental strength are amazing. She has barely used magic in any capacity. What could have stopped her on the 85th step?" Primar looks down and shakes his head.

"Maybe its a soul attack. That adds another thing to learn how to defend against. To think she was able to get so far with just the strength of soul before figuring out how to set up a soul defense system. But there is still a dark horse that can surpass her. Every month there is one. If she doesn't at least reach the 95th floor she will lose," Lillan smiles.

"The last nine stairs are just being able to fight. They shouldn't be a problem for her. She enjoyed having to fight on floors 70-79," Primar chuckles.

After several hours only two people are left on the stairs. Amber moved up to the 89th step and continued to focus on working on her soul palace. While on floor 86 a young man stands still. Looking up at Amber he laughs.

Hearing the laughter she looks down at the person and shakes her head, 'I've only managed to complete the outer walls and the roof of the palace. Looking at her palace, she smiles. With it being five stories tall. The main section of the palace in the center having a grand archway to lead into the palace, off to the left is a small eastern wing. Mirrored on the other side is the western wing.

Looking at it she smiles, 'Before I get started on the inside I should build walls and towers around it. Damn not enough time to do so. That last guy is right behind me. I have to win, so it is time I go up to the last set of stairs to see what they have to offer.'

The young man looks at her and shakes his head, 'I am told to not go too fast so they have a chance to win. But even with my capabilities as they are now if it wasn't for these steps I wouldn't have been able to catch up to her. Well at least this is free training.'

Amber steps onto it and is greeted by a spirit. Looking at her it says, "Welcome you have made it to the last section of these stairs. You will be fighting against the spirits of those who have managed to ever make it to the last step. It will be limited to the strength they were at when they achieved such a thing. Each floor will give you one of them randomly. Some were way stronger than others so they will appear at higher floors only."

Nodding her head Amber creates a mana naginata and waits for her first opponent. Looking forward she sees the first opponent wielding daggers. Slashing down with her naginata, she presses the opponent back.

The opponent steps back and twirls around the naginata. Throwing up a miasma shield, the daggers bounce off of it. Amber goes to kick and the spirit jumps back. Sweeping with her naginata, Amber pushes the opponent backwards.

Blocking a thrown dagger, she kicks and sends a wave of mana at the opponent knocking them back. Sending mana into her feet she appears in front of the spirit and knocks it off the step.

Shaking her head she walks up to the next step. Going through several more fights she steps onto the final step. Diving to the side she narrowly avoided a blast of ice. With a thought a wall of flame appears in front of her. Quickly spinning she sends waves of mana, miasma, and flame that push away the needles of ice.

Pushing herself off the ground she avoids a snow hill burying her. Finally able to see the opponent she sees it is adorned in an icy blue dress that has snow white pedals on it. On the spirits hands are deep blue gloves.

'Now that looks pretty. I guess that's the ice and snow version of the form I managed to use. I will go to the library after this just to find out more about that kind of form. I've only entered it once out of anger. How do I enter it at will though. It does boost my capability with flame, however why not use this as an opportunity to increase my usage of mana and miasma. That will benefit me way more.'

Looking at the spirit she smiles brightly and gestur snot to come forward. Then it says, "You are quite skilled. However you need to learn how to enter a priestess form to defeat me."

Laughing Amber says, "Bring it on. I will do as I wish. Let's continue our fight."