The Frozen City

I just saw a trail of cyan light in the sky, then suddenly, the light began to fall towards the center of the village, when the light came close, I could see a dragon, of ice, with its wings and mouth loaded with a load of shiny ice, everyone started running to the sewers, bringing pots and food, water and their young, the soldiers and some who were late stayed outside, the last thing I saw while closing the sewer was a blue flash, I didn't hear a cry, nor footsteps, just the dragon leaving. On the first day in the sewer we made a fire, but soon we went out because the smoke would choke us, so we had to eat hard grains and raw meat if they wanted, then the children started to cry, and the mothers together with them, then a group decided to find a safe way out because of them, I was one of group. After walking a long time in the sewer we found a trap door, but it was locked, so we looked for a stone or metal to break the trap door, or even look for another way out, so we started looking, them this guy, Ethan took a mouse in his hand because he thought it was a stone because it was submerged in water, so he hit the rat so hard on the trapdoor that he crushed the rat, but then, someone outside listened and opened the trapdoor, it was a guard who survived, so Jack shouted to call the others, but the dragon hovered around the area and he froze the guard and spat out ice that hit Ethan, who was under the trapdoor, so i quickly closed it and ran from there to warn the others, so with the dragon hanging around the area and knowing that we were there, we had to wait for the night to come. After eating more grains and raw meat, we peeked through the trapdoor and it was already night, so we left quietly and decided to go to the castle, but a man took a sword from a frozen body and attacked the dragon, thinking he could defeat it, that bastard, woke up the dragon! We started running from the dragon that ran with fury in his eyes, we parted and hid in several houses, throwing stones at random places to make the dragon get confused and go away, however, the dragon was smart, stopped in place and started watching where the stones came from, so he destroyed house by house, until we managed to organize and throw the stone in one place. After deceiving the dragon we continued on to the castle, but they wouldn't let us in, so we started walking in search of shelter, until a knight in black armor came to us offering shelter, the mothers accepted on the spot because of the children, me i went, but i think it was suspect. He took us to an old tower where there was the first magic academy, when we entered, the old tower inside was intact, the books in perfect condition, the alchemy equipment, everything seemed new, probably magic. Then the knight took us to an altar with two pillars and a ring in the middle, he took a shiny black powder and threw it in the middle of the ring, the powder started to rotate until it formed a transparent circle, which behind there was the landscape of a great black castle with white details, until he took us there, after arriving at the gate, there were two more black knights, one who raised the gate and another who stood guard, then a woman walks up to the gate along with two elite soldiers, she arrives and says:

_These are the new recruits?

And he replies:

_Yes Empress

_Then take them to the well

Then the rider takes us to an empty well filled with dense, black smoke that does not float, and then he takes a glass and fills it with black smoke, he hands it to me and says:

_Drink it

I put the smoke in my mouth and it descends down my throat, suddenly a heavy armor formed on my skin, a smoke armor that soon became dense and made of black steel. After everyone had the same process, they took the children and took them somewhere and the empress sent us all to the throne room. She asked who we were and I introduced myself:

_I am Bjorn Dragomir, I come from the North and I am an alchemist

The empress interrupts me and says:

_My name is Eliza, you are an alchemist so ... Griffin take him to the laboratory, the last alchemist is not good for the job.

An elite knight arrives and takes me to a huge laboratory, he had huge platelets full of resources for alchemy, ectoplasm, bones, and he also had tanks with huge creatures with pumps that removed some type of fluid.

So Griffin gives me a magic watch with a circular background with a blue top and a black bottom, he said the had moon on one end and the sun on the other, and also said that if you turn the clock on letters on the side of the clock are organized, so if i travel to the other side of the world, I just had to turn it upside down that marked the time without need progam it. I didn't know why he gave it to me so i asked:

_Why do i need this?

He replied:

_Here is a limbo, the souls rejected by heaven and who escaped from hell come here, after the Lord of death discovered created a portal, but here souls are purified, as soon as he entered here, his soul was drained by the force that here lies, Eliza was a powerful witch, cracked hell in half and hurt lucifer, and took an army of souls with her, but most had the same fate as the Lord of death, Eliza only survives by her witchcraft and potions, i'll tell you, you will have a lot of work, the forces here increase with each drained soul, soon the potions of the last alchemist became useless and he had no more ideas for potions, and as it is a limbo, it is not possible to know if it is day or night.

I go into the lab and read the notes and start working.