Brace for impact

Alusec jumped down from Ruby's back and she transformed back into a human.

"Welcome back Lord Alusec.... where would you like to go?" A voice was heard in the hallway.

The voice was the consciousness of the castle. Alusec built the castle to travel through the universe from a single point. He could travel to and fro any planet in the universe from here. He was waiting for his powers to get to 1% first because his link with the castle was weakened due to lack of strength, if he was not powerful enough and decided to travel from here to another planet without the link, he wouldn't be able to return, with the help of the castle.

Alusec touched his chin while replying to the voice, "I would like to go to Trinbad, but first of all let me visit section 27f"

When Ruby heard section 27f her eyes widened, "master do you mean....?" she didn't complete her question before she was cut off by Alusec.

"Yes, of course.... why else would I want to go there?" Alusec answered and asked with a knowing look.

"But master, you're still too weak right now.... it wouldn't acknowledge you..." Ruby spoke with concern.

PAH!

"Then I'll just have to beat the crap out of it," Alusec said while connecting his right fist to his left palm.

"Miracule, take us to section 27f," Alusec commanded.

"As you wish master." The voice replied.

Swhiiiinnnngg!

The hallway disappeared from their view and what appeared in front of them was some stairs and at the top of the stairs was a huge door. Alusec and Ruby climbed the short stairs and the door opened up for them.

What greeted their sight was a long white isle and racks of weapons in varieties on both sides. This was obviously a weapon vault.

As Alusec and Ruby walked forward on the isle, weapons of different kinds could be seen; Swords, daggers, hammers, shurikens, sabers, smoke bombs, poison needles, katanas, armors, e.t.c. The top-grade weapons that could be seen here would make any warrior's eyes shine with greed, but Alusec didn't even spare them a glance and kept walking forward until he got to the end and stopped.

He touched the wall and it opened up, granting him passage to another room that was once again filled with weapons, the same case scenario repeated itself until they arrived at the fifth room.

This room was also as large as the others but no weapons could be seen anywhere. Only an orb of light could be seen floating about ten meters above in the middle of the room.

Alusec walked to the front of the light and stared up at it, "Vitu, your master is back."

Immediately Alusec spoke a big eyeball opened upright in the middle of the light.

"Go home mortal.... you don't belong here."

The orb of light spoke up.

"You're talking to your master like that, how rude...." Alusec replied while clenching his right fist.

"It seems like I have to teach you some manners..... again," Alusec smirked and jumped in the air while throwing his fist towards the light.

Bang!

A barrier appeared and blocked Alusec's punch.

"Weak!.... the master I remember is not a weakling like you." The light chided.

"Oi.... you're feeling smug now that I'm weak eh... do you think that I cannot destroy this barrier," Alusec spoke with ridicule.

"I sense your weakness but you're no master of mine if you cannot catch me." the light spoke challengingly.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The light moved very fast from place to place, leaving afterimages in the air.

"Hehe.... challenge accepted," Alusec replied with light laughter.

Fwoosh! Swoosh! Fwosh! Swoosh!

Alusec and the light kept moving from place to place with speed a,s a game of tag began, while Ruby watched from the sidelines.

Alusec was not able to keep up with the speed of the light orb as it kept slipping right past him anytime he was close to catching it.

This continued for a while until...

'Dark entrapment'

Alusec used an ability whereby he absorbed the darkness in the area and turned it into four nets, that tried to trap the orb of light in a cage....

Swoooooooshhhh!

At that moment the orb of light accelerated to the extreme and escaped the entrapment from the left side before he was able to form a complete cage. Immediately it escaped the entrapment.....

Grab!

A big palm grabbed it. The light was shocked and stared at the Alusec on the other side casting the 'dark entrapment', who smiled at him and disappeared.

'How? A clone.' the light came to a realization and stared at the real Alusec that caught it.

'He attacked with his clone while using invisibility on his real self and waited at the right place for me to escape the entrapment before catching me.' The blob of light analyzed.

"Just as expected of my Alusec sama, using wits to surpass speed." The light began to bootlick after it was caught.

"Oh? when did I become your master?.... wasn't I a weakling some moments ago?.... you want to see what this weakling can do to you?..." Alusec threatened while raising his other hand.

"No, Lord Alusec.... Vitu at your command sir what do you need." The orb of light asked feeling intimidated.

Vitu was a transdimensional storage orb with sentience, that could store things and had a space that was the size of a moon. Transdimensional storage orbs were a rarity that only a few gods had. It was just like carrying a weapon's vault anywhere you went.

"Is the void piercer in you?" Alusec asked.

"Yes master, but at your current strength, I don't think you can swing it more than once," Vitu answered.

"That's not a problem, so long as it is in you... can you locate the rest of your kind?" Alusec asked.

"Yes master, but the connection is very faint because they're scattered far and wide across the universe," Vitu answered.

Alusec reminisced about the time he was betrayed and about to fall in battle, he scattered the orbs across the universe, because if they any one of them were to fall into the hands of gods, it would cause chaos across the universe. Fortunately, Vitu happened to not be among the orbs that were with him on that day.

"Let's get going, it's time to visit Trinbad," Alusec spoke while walking back towards where they came from with Ruby and Vitu following behind him.

-Several minutes later

The trio arrived in the hallway.

"Miracule, take us to the Trinbad section," Alusec commanded.

"Yes, master." The voice resounded across the hallway. 'Should I tell him..... no.... it would be better if he found out himself.' Miracule thought.

The scene changed again and they arrived at a vast dark space, with about fifty-seven doorways, one was glowing white, while the others were dark.

Alusec stared at the doorways in confusion, "Miracule, why is only one doorway lighting up? What about the rest?" Alusec questioned.

"My Lord.... the rest of the doorways can't be accessed again... the only one glowing is the one that connects to the space above Trinbad," Miracule replied.

"Why? I checked the spatial chains and they were still intact... why would the doorways that lead to different cities on Trinbad not light up?" Alusec questioned again.

"It's not a problem with the spatial chains my Lord..... it's a problem with the planet." Miracule answered again, but this time Alusec eyes opened wide, "Don't tell me.... no it can't be possible, what am I thinking." Alusec didn't want to jump to any conclusions.

"Anyways I will find out what I want to, after passing through this doorway." Alusec stared at the glowing doorway and started walking towards it, Ruby and Vitu followed behind.

They were finally standing opposite the glowing doorway. Alusec stared for a while before closing his eyes and entering.