Unpleasant encounter

Suddenly a cracking sound could be heard, followed by what appeared to be a spacial tear, from which emerged warden laughing maliciously as he walked through the crack, he gave off a blue and turbolent aura as he emerged.

The aura was surprisingly that of the sixth level mortal sphere, but even so David was slightly wary, he just had an arduous battle and unlike neural force that recovered overtime, astral force had to be recovered through meditation, he wasn't confident to come on top if they fought.

"A space time sentinel type?"

SAI wondered, but he was quickly corrected by Weiss,

"No, it's a space time technique, "Spacial distortion", although, only those at the 10th lvl mortal sphere can use it."

"I see"

The SAI remarked, enlightened.

Meanwhile warden, who had completely emerged from the crack couldn't stop laughing, suddenly the familiar crystalizing sound could be heard as Reigis reacted, slightly startling David who quickly had his guard up, in a blink of an eye, warden bypassed David and went to the catalog in the center of the room.

He was so fast, it was as if he teleportered, David couldn't keep up, he felt threatened for a moment, but stayed composed, all while thinking, "so this is the power of the 10th stage mortal sphere".

Meanwhile warden completely ignored him, frantically typing away at the catalog, several frames of images and texts quickly pop up and down, producing clicking sounds.

Suddenly, the white coloured texts changed to an alarming red, which clearly bothered warden, his grin, turning into a frown as he tried to type much faster, but was no use, the catalog froze, no more responding to warden's frantic typing, with a boom of astral force, warden was thrown back several meters, bypassing David who had been quietly observing him,

"PRESUMPTUOUS"

A loud voice said emanating a continuous flow of astral force, the shockwaves from the forceful ejections of astral energy, was clearly directed to warden, as the closeby David was not affected at all.

"WHO DARES TO INVADED THE QUINTESSENTIAL RACE'S FIRST GREAT ARCHIVE"

The loud voice said, as the surrounding astral energy converged to the catalog, and a giant of the same stature as the guardians condensed from the energy, it was evident that the loud voice was his, it had blank white eyes like the rest of it body, it was mostly translucent, but distinct tattoos similar to those of the guardians could clearly be observed on it.

Once fully condensed, it stop ejecting the turbulent waves of energy and lifted it hand, conjuring a mighty hammer out of astral force, warden was momentarily freed from the pressure, but was soon faced with the hammer that threatened to crush him, it produce countless sonic booms as it broke the sound barrier.

"PERISH!"

The astral projection shouted as the hammer came down on warden, the floor beneath warden cracked from the impact of the hammer colliding with his golden spear, although the spear was unyielding and successfully withstood the collision, same couldn't be said for warden, as he was immediately brought to his knee, clearly struggling to hold on to the weight he was being subjected to.

Warden defiantly glared at the astral projection, which ruthlessly continued to apply force, David on the side was surprised by how the astral projection easily brought a strong entity at the 10 lvl of the mortal sphere.

"Why don't we take this chance to leave"

Weiss suggested, fearing warden's retaliation, incase of survival. David concurred, but as they were about to leave, warden's gem eyes gleamed, and somewhere in what seemed to be the earlier throne room, the Life crystal shimmered, instantaneously, warden's astral energy surged, becoming more dense and imposing,

"The.. THE TRAVERSING STAGE!!"

Weiss fearfully exclaimed, as he recognised the aura warden was emitting, David wasn't strong enough, and couldn't sense it, but Weiss explained,

"His aura suddenly thickened and his lvl rose from the peak of the 10th lvl to the peak of the 12th lvl, also known as the traversing stage"

He said to David who was dashing to the second room, hoping to avoid being dragged into the clash, he was unsettled by the fact that he had to run, but being smart was also part of one's strenght.

Meanwhile, warden who had now reached the traversing stage, gradually built enough momentum to push the hammer off him, forcing the astral projection to take a step back, visibly angered by the fact that he was unable to overpower the intruder, the astral projection let out a roar, which affected the far off David.

The astral projection, dropping his hammer which directly disintegrated, began to weave more than a thousand hand signs in a second, for three seconds. Warden, understanding what it was trying to do rushed at it, thrusting his spear at it, but was unsuccessful,as he was intercepted by an imitation of Reigis.

This gave the projection enough time to slam it's hand on the ground, the act was followed by the appearance of a spinning circle, on which were drawn intricate patterns spanning from the center, the circle expanded outward, followed by a blast of light.

When the blinding effect of the light wore off, both David and warden found themselves to be no longer in the restricted confines of the room, but in a vast meadow endowed with beauty and sunshine, which was soon exchanged for a barren wilderness, infested with countless brilliant crystals, and an ominous cyan sun.

David looked around confused, but for a thousand miles, he was the only on there, meanwhile warden also looked around unsurprisied, but for ten thousand miles, he could not sense a single soul, his aura thinned and calmed, and his level dropped back to the 10th lvl, then to the 6th lvl of the mortal sphere.

Not finding David after searching for a while , he brought his spear to his mouth and whispered to it, the inscription on it gleamed, as if acknowledging his words, right after, he tossed it high in the sky, it spinned fast as it got higher until it lost it's initial kinetic energy, momentarily coming to halt, mid air, in the next moment, it pointed in a direction and flew with great speed in that direction, leaving a trail of astral energy, in it's wake.

Warden watched it leave as a space crack, similar to the one from earlier appeared behind him, he turned to leave through the crack, and as his silhouette eventually disappeared through the crack, he angrily muttered,

"Damn it, damn it archive, damn it"

Meanwhile David who was still cluelessly looking around, trying to determine his current predicament, suddenly felt a slight decrease in his astral force, followed by the ever so familiar sound, Reigis activated, instantly putting David on high alert, anticipating the unknown adversary.