Heaven's link.

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Chapter 2.

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The world was shrouded in a veil of darkness. Rain poured from the heavy dark thunderclouds the droptles striking the large windows of the castles bellow.

The wind howled, moving the tops of the trees erratically.

A thunder clapped, illuminating the interior of the huge structure bellow it.

It was a large castle encircled by a pair of stone walls with two towers in each direction, a banner on the top of the keep proudly show casted the coat of arms of the Einzbern family as it shuffled with the wind.

The keep itself was an intimidating structure, evidently made for defense rather than beauty, its walls were made of heavy bare stone and a tower was sprouting from its peak.

Figures in black clothes huge halberds in their hands patrolled the area, their futures hidden under their cloacks.

Hurrying through the magically illuminated corridors was a young woman, her white long hair was falling to her waist and a small smile was gracing her futures.

She walked quickly her steps creating an echo which resounded in the heavy stone hallway.

Her long white dress covering her legs completely gave the impression she was gliding as she moved through the corridors and down a set of stairs toward the deepest part of the dungeon, where she stopped in front of a heavy set of doors.

Knocking on the doors she took a step back as they opened automatically, carried by a set of enchantment courtesy of the owner of the castle.

As the doors opened completely she gazed carefully into the chambers behind them.

It was a circular room filled with small shelves filled with books and tools.

In furthest part of the room was another door leading to a small office, which she knew was filled with books and papers of research.

In the middle of the room was a small pair of stairs descending down into a pretty large pit like area used for rituals.

And it was there, in this small pit where the person she was looking for was.

He was on knees his long silver hair tied , a small blade lying discarded near him, blood pouring from a wound on his hand as he used the blood to write symbols in the pit.

She waited patiently her eyes carefully following his actions, her brows furrowed.

It was a few minutes later that the man got up and wrapped his hand, his eyes moving to look at her his eyebrow rising.

"I do not recognize this ritual uncle" she said quietly "Although with you I really shouldn't be surprised.. You and your inventions" she shook her head in dismay, but a small smile was placated on her face.

"Really Cwen" the man said smiling slightly "How many times did I tell you not to call me uncle? It makes me feel old when I am just two years older than you" he replied.

"You can't ran away from that uncle Kaylan" she told him "You are my uncle and nothing will stop me from calling you that" she folded her hands on her chest.

Shaking his head in a false dismay the man didn't drop his smile "Do as you please Cwen" he said "However I have a ritual to complete and I can't waste any more time.. The Pendragon is awaiting my help after all" he said.

The woman nodded in understanding "How long will it take?" she asked her gaze focusing on the layers of runes on the ground "And what exactly is it that you are trying to achieve? The runes for mind, soul and connections?" her eybraw was raised in wonder.

"This is a ritual created to amplify the connection between the humans mind and his soul" he explained "Its based on my thesis that the concepts of our souls are even now connected to Akasha... Or in other words what we call our origin is a connection to Akasha which uses a form of concept manipulation to give us our souls" he explained.

Seeing the blank look in her eyes he sighed "In practical terms my thesis says that it is possible for anyone to manipulate a concept, for example the stone" he pointed to the wall "Has a concept of sturdiness density and so on... In theory you can manipulate the very concept of anything" he explained.

Cwen's eyes widened in understanding "So accepting this theory brought you to a second theory, that the souls or more precisely the origin is concepts from Akasha itself ?" she asked for confirmation.

"Indeed" he answered.

"So by amplifying your connection to your soul you hope - should both your theories prove right - to trace it all the way back to Akasha?" her voice was now filled with awe.

"I always said you were quick on the uptake" he praised her "Indeed".

"Speaking about concepts" the woman returned to the first topic "Does that mean that everything has a concept of existing?" she swallowed hard before continuing her voice now filled with both fear and excitement "Can it be earsed or altered?" she finished her question.

A huge smile appeared on the older person's face and his crimson eyes twinkled merrily "In theory yes... Not that anyone beside Akasha herself has enough prana to do something like that" he said shaking his head sadly.

To Cwen however it came as both a relief and dissapointment. Relief becouse the idea of any magus being able to just undo anything he wanted was quite scary and dissapointment from a researcher point of view.

"Oh" was the only thing she said "If that's the case then I'll let you be.." she said bowing her head.

Raising his brow the elder Einzbern looked offended "That's it? You won't try to take my reaserch?" he asked "What kind of magus are you?" he asked.

"Ha" the woman shook her head in disdain "The kind who values her life.. I still remember the results of your previous ritual.. Frying the cores of two homonculi".

"Well that was an accident! A slight miscalculation" his voice was now defensive "I was trying to strengthen their cores as to prolong their lifespan!" he protested.

Cwen just shook her head "Just be careful not to accidentally kill yourself uncle" she said.

Kaylan smiled at her "Very well, should I survive this I'll come see you " he said "Take the time to rest from your journey".

The woman bowed respectfully a small smirk on her face and a real worry in her heart, before she walked out of the chamber leaving the man to his own devices.

As the doors closed automatically Kaylan turned around rubbing his hands.

"Very well" he said "Let us get back to work"

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The time was exactly midnight when the Einzbern activated the now finished ritual.

Channeling prana, the symbols around him suddenly lightened up in an eerie red light encasing him and the whole room in their glow.

A splitting headache later he felt himself loosing consciousness as everything faded into black.

When he next opened his eyes he couldn't help but look around in wonder.

He was in no place he knew, or to be more precise in any place at all.

All around him was nothing, literally.

It wasn't like en empty space, instead there was nothing there not even space itself.

He couldn't fathom what he was seeing or not seeing, his mind couldn't understand what that meant.

He looked around carefully eyeing the nothing around him when he spotted it, a single concept he could understand.

It was a gate, a simple heavy gate the likes of which most castles had.

Slowly he started to move toward it, and as he did a path came to be out of the nothingness around him, as if his existence there was what brought the concept of reality there.

Reaching the gates he froze for there in the gate he saw so many things at once he was unable to comperhand.

The gate was there and yet it wasn't, it existed and yet it didn't.. It was physical and yet it wasn't.

It was as if it wasn't really there but rather the concept of gate that he was seeing, just as the concept of nothing was all around him.

And for the first time in a long time the magus felt fear clenching his heart.

Taking breath he stilled his nerves, his red eyes narrowing, he was a magus after all the young man extended his hand and touched the gate.

The moment he did he felt as if his entire body shuddered and a splitting headache assaulted him.

A splitting scream escaped his lungs as the pain washed over him, strong, piercing, terrible.

After what felt like eternity the pain subsided and he could breath normally again.

His mind was ablaze, as if somone set fire directly to his brain.

Blinking Kaylan couldn't help but look around him in fear.

"Was this.. " he mumbled "A gateway to the Akasha..? " he wondered as he looked around.

He was now in something akin to a library, filled with rows upon rows of shelves with numerous books on them.

The room stretched endlessly and he couldn't help but shudder as he approached one of the books but didn't touch it, instead he just gazed upon it.

It was then he noticed that just like the gate this book wasn't a book but rather the concept of knowledge, appearing for him as a book.

His eyes wondered around, awe in his gaze.

He walked through the endless bookshelves eyeing them carefully but he didn't touch them.. Not yet.

As he walked through he arrived to a small pedestal upon which a single 'book' was placed glowing an eerie light.

The book picked his interest and before he could think about what he was doing he already touched it.

As his hand touched it the book which just a moment ago was glowing suddenly darkened before it opened and the light that escaped it engulfed the white haired magus.

His mind was assaulted with concepts his mind couldn't comprehend and had no words for, he saw flashes of images he didn't fully understand as he felt his mind being torn to shards as something far great than the human mind was passing knowledge to him.

He fell to his knees his hands clenching his head as an agonizing scream escaped him.

He screamed like he never screamed before, he felt his magical circuits howl in pain as blood started to drip from his eyes.

Finally, just as he thought he couldn't hold any longer the pain subsided, giving him a chance to take a breath.

He got up shaking, his breathing heavy and irregular, he gazed around him but now instead of the curiosity he had earlier the red orbs now showed nothing but fear.

"This" he mumbled "Was not meant for humans.. Or for any other species for this matter" his voice was shaking as an insane laughter escaped him.

"And we" he couldn't help but laugh "We thought we can control it" he exclaimed to no one "What fools we were" he shook his head in dismay.

Taking a deep breath he set down on the ground which he wasn't surprised wasn't really a ground, and closing his eyes he tried to sort what exactly did his brain received.

The vast amounts of knowledge were so great he couldn't help but be in awe of the treasure in his disposal.

"Even if I'll have thousand of years to write I'll never be able to write all of this" he mumbled "The third magic".

And yet though he didn't fully comprehend how, he could recall anything about it without needing to hurt himself over it.

And despite the pain and the fear he felt a smile appeared on his face.

Without another word he got up and walked toward the gateway he came for.

Just before he exited the fount of all knowledge he looked back at it pain in his eyes. He knew that leaving now means he turns his back on the way of magi.. After all he reached that which they all thought and turned his back.

But he couldn't bring himself to stay here.

"This wasn't meant for humans" he repeated "Though as a motivation this is definitely something" and with this thought he exited Akasha.

As he left the realm if it's can be called that he felt himself vanish back toward where his body was, waiting in a ritualistic circle.

As his soul slowly returned to his body the magus unconsciously decided to put some of the third magic into practice as a survival mechanism , severing his soul from his body and stabilizing it as a mental entity outside of Akasha, before he binded himself to the body once again.

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Slowly opening his eyes Kaylan felt his body ache.

He slowly got up from the circle which was now dissolved leaving nothing but blood stains as a sign of what transpired here.

The dark chamber was still illuminated by the torches casting deep shadows on the ground and walls.

Even as he walked toward his office the Einzbern couldn't help but remember what has transpired with him.

Accessing his circuits to unlock the doors he froze.

For instead of the substantial amount of prana he always had.. He felt something different.

It was as if he had an endless pit right inside of him swelling with power.. Endless power.

His mind now filled with knowledge of the third magic provided him with the information he needed to puzzle what happened, even though he didn't remember it.

"the heavens feel" he mumbled in awe, and closing his eyes he finally understood.

His old life as the magus head of the Einzbern family is over as is his search for Akasha and his life as the Third wizard started.

End of chapter 2.

The heavens feel additionally grants the soul endless magical power because of perpetual motion.