Felix saw a blinding white, but he didn't feel touch the ground or see anything, he saw only white, he couldn't even see himself.

'What did I do.. to deserve this...' Felix thought

he soon saw something, it was colored, it was a square panel that showed himself, Khan, and Reinhard together, it was when Felix was checking what was Felix's affinity and Reinhard beside him, he swam through the blinding light to reach out the panel, he touched it...

And his vision started to glow into a yellow light.


"Felix-san? Are you fine?" Reinhard asked Felix.

Felix was still for almost 2 minutes, he still had his finger pointed at Khan's forehead and had a blank stare.

"It normally takes this long?" Khan asked Reinhard

"N-No.. it shouldn't take this long, I believe there is something wrong, Kaan-sama please move aside." Reinhard said with a serious expression.

So Khan started to stand up.

Felix stood still, still had the finger pointed, and with a blank stare.

"Kaan-sama, what did you do to Felix-san." Reinhard asked Khan seriously.

"I didn't do anything." Khan said.

Reinhard checked him for any lies but could find no one.

"Do you have any idea what happened to Felix-san?" Reinhard asked Khan

"I don't know, but I could check." Khan said

"Please do." Reinhard said

'This effect that Felix is having right now doesn't look like magic, but I'm gonna use magic detection anyways' Khan thought

"Unterstützende Magie: Magieerkennung" Khan said to no one, Reinhard heard the words but didn't understand.

However, as soon Khan said those words, above his head appeared two glowing blue circles, with letters that were incompressible to Reinhard

"Now let's wait 12 seconds." Khan said.

Reinhard just nodded.

It passed 10 seconds, and an additional pair of glowing orange circles started to form in front of Khan's eyes, which followed Khan's eyesight.

After 2 seconds, Khan could see the flow of magic.

'Huh, I wonder why the magic color is blue here? Why this all this magic in the air? They are moving in a random pattern.' Khan thought while looking around him.

Khan started to examine what is going on with Felix.

He looked at him, his entire body had some kind of magical signature, the shape was unfamiliar to Khan, as it looked like more of a pool of magic.

However, the densest magic signature was on his head, like a white flame blown by the wind.

Mainly where his brain and eyes are located.

'This magic signature doesn't have the color of magic, it has more a color of witchcraft, If it was magic it should have been orange.' Khan thought

"I sense a dense amount of hexerei in his eyes and the brain." Khan said to Reinhard

"What is it kaan-sama.?" Reinhard asked

"It's a similar thing to my magic, but it can be used by anyone, although it's a lot harder to cast it because you need different resources and complex spelling to achieve it, it's kind of weird, normally it doesn't happen out of nowhere, only an Upper Oberherr and other higher beings can cast hexerei by using only their magic reserves" Khan explained.

"What-is a fluch Kaan-sama?" Reinhard asked

"Hmm, it's a condition where the victim will be unconscious, and their brain will start to dream, and they can't be physically harmed, however, if they die in the dream they will also die in reality, except one type.." Khan said

"-However, it might also be a coma spell or a paralyze spell, but I doubt it. Coma and paralyze spell affect the body rather than the brain, so it's more likely hexerei" Khan unnecessarily theorized.

Reinhard also wanted to know what hexerei, and oberherr meant, and what are those higher beings, but it was more important saving his friend at the moment.

"Fortunately, it seems like he's not been affected by a terminal curse" Khan said

"W-What do you mean, Kaan-sama?" Reinhard asked

"There are three types of curses. game, maze, and terminal curses" Khan said

"Game curses it's a type of curse that the victims have a win condition, and if they win the curse will be eliminated, Maze curses is a curse which you must find an exit out of it, and terminal curses are the rarest out of the three, its a curse that makes the victim die on the spot-" Khan concluded.

But as soon Reinhard heard the description of terminal curses

"Kaan-sama! WHAT-type of curse Felix-san got inflicted!" Reinhard shouted.

"without a doubt a maze or a game curse. Did you just forget that I mentioned that he's not affected by a terminal curse?" Khan said

"Sorry kaan-sama, i was.."

Reinhard was visibly bereaved, but his fear got lifted, but not too much.

"I was worried for my friend." Reinhard said

"Well, kind of useless worrying, there's nothing much you or I can do" Khan replied

This unexpectedly calmed Reinhard but he also felt miserable.

"But, the real question is this: will be able to escape the curse?" Khan questioned no one in particular

"The only person that can free itself from the curse it's the victim itself."

"Unless.. your magic can do something about this?" he asked Reinhard, curious about how magic interacted with his magic and his law of physics.

"I can't use magic, and I may be the best knight in the kingdom, but I cannot cut a curse." Reinhard replied.

'I never heard anyone that is capable of cutting curses anyways.' Khan randomly thought

"However, I have another friend who could do something." Reinhard said.

"Is it the one that didn't come because he had to attend to other duties?" Khan tried to guess.

"Yes, it's him, Kaan-sama." Reinhard said.

"But what about him? Do you know where he went?" Khan asked

"Yes, I do." Reinhard replied

"I could get him back to Lugunica to help Felix-san."

"Well, but how he's gonna come back fast enough, from the transportation method I see here, they are quite slow." Khan said

"Kaan-sama, I never said that my friend would come back by dragon carriage." Reinhard jested, then he pulled out the usual smile that Reinhard bears on his face

"What" Khan plainly said

Then Reinhard just disappeared, the only thing left was the wind blowing and an audible jump, and the footprint on the grass.

Khan simply deduced that him being a sword saint also allowed him to perform such feats.

"Nun, es scheint, als wäre der Rotschopf gerade superschallig geworden." Khan said to nobody

...

After a few minutes, Reinhard came back and had a man on his back, he has a familiar uniform to Reinhard, but its noticeably different, also had kind-of-purple hair and yellow eyes.

"It's quite embarrassing being carried by another man." The man on Reinhard's back lamented.

"Don't worry, Julius-san, no one saw you being carried by me, except Kaan-sama." Reinhard replied with a polite smile.

"Kaan-sama? Oh, the demihuman that Felix wrote in the letter." The man that Reinhard called Julius said.

"Anyways, what do I have to do to help Felix?" Julius said

Khan simply pointed to the unconscious body of Felix that was standing still and had a roman salute.

"What happened to Felix? Kaan-sama?" Julius asked.

"Apparently he got cursed, particularly a curse that you would find somewhere called 'Beyond the waterfall' thing." Khan said.

The way Khan phrased the sentence was kind of confusing, but Julius understood quickly.

"I see, a curse, I could eliminate it." Julius said.

He then he raised his right hand, and 6 orbs of light orbited above Julius' hand, but eventually stopped.

"I should let my little friends take care of the curse." Julius said while looking at the orbs.

Then a black orb flew out of orbit and went inside Felix.

"Those were spirits right?" Khan asked Julius.

"Yes, they are quasi-spirits, they will soon become spirits." Julius replied

"The one that just went in Felix is called Nes, he's an spirit of-"

but not soon after, Julius touched his head as if he had a headache while groaning.

"Julius, are you fine?" Reinhard asked Julius.

"N-no, I'm fine, it's just my spirit suddenly screamed, and now my spirit is coming back to me." Julius said.

"Why did it scream?" Khan asked.

"Nes is keep saying scary, so I guess whatever Felix got cursed of, must be terrible." Julius said with worried expression.

"Is there any way to save Felix?" Reinhard said, back to the bereaved face.

"Well, I did say the only one who can free himself is the victim." Khan said.

There were no words for a while, as no one really did know what to do.

but obviously, Khan proposed a possible solution.

"Julius, why don't you use more spirits? More of them would also mean more power right?" Khan proposed to Julius.

"each element can do certain things, but yes, it should mean more power, even though it is such a simple way to think." Julius replied to Khan's proposal

"My little friends, if you see something that looks dangerous, please come back, if you find a way to break the curse or help Felix in any way, do it." Julius whispered to the six floating orbs.

The orbs responded by glowing brighter and jumping up and down.
And then all six orbs flew into Felix.

But that also meant that now Julius can see what is happening because he was able to see through one of the 6 spirits.

Julius saw only a void, however, every spirit was following Nes, which was the first one to enter, so it probably knew the way.

"FOLLOW. FOLLOW. FOLLOW" Nes kept saying to the other spirits.

and after a while, Julius finally saw something.

It was a very unsettling scenario Julius was seeing, there was a long series of walls that stretched to the darkness, and at the 'start' of the series of walls, there was a being that had a cloak and a square as a mask.

"Scary." "I don't wanna be near it" "Scary, too scary." Some spirits commented.

It was sprinting against the walls and breaking them, the broken wall pieces would fall into the void, disappearing completly.

and the being it was going at insane speeds, it look like it was going 50 or 60km/s, and it didn't even have legs, it was almost like it was flying.

But why it was going so fast? What is this curse? Why this was happening inside Felix?

'I... I have never seen such a curse.' Julius thought

But suddenly 'In' the Spirit of Yang tried to cast an illuminating spell, but despite the spell being successful, it did not light anything, so it stopped the spell.

"NOT WORK. LIGHT NOT WORK" In just said.

"Minya? Minya!" Nes said, Julius then saw a few minya shards being directed to the being flying at insane speeds.

...

The shards hit successfully, but the entity did not even flinch or stop doing whatever it was doing.

However, the entity slightly turned its head in the general direction of the spirits, but nothing happened.

"My little friends, go see what is that thing going after" Julius ordered his spirits.

So all the spirits flew ahead of the entity and then went above the series of walls.

Julius observed, it was somebody that was running away, it looked extremely injured.

He couldn't exactly understand what it was, because the spirits were keeping a great distance from the entity.

But there was the only thing he could assume that person that running away is.

Julius assumed it was Felix. Julius was also kind of impressed that Felix could outrun an entity of such insane speed, but it wasn't time to be amazed.

"Can any of you cast a spell that can bring him out?!" Julius said to his spirits.

"TWO TIMES! I CAN DO DOOR CROSSING!" Nes responded. (Idk if Nes or any of the spells that I'm gonna make the spirits use actually know the spells, but let's say that they learned that from their long life.)

"Door crossing? I don't know what is that spell but if it helps Felix then do it!" Julius said to Nes.

"CASTTINGG-" Nes basically yelled

However the spell did not reach Felix, and the mana that was used to use the spell got replenished back, as if the spell turned into mana and came back to Nes' gate.

"I CANT CAST. I CANT CAST" Nes said

"..Try to collaborate with each other!" Julius said.

This was only to see what its effective and what is not, in the meanwhile he was making a plan while gathering intelligence.

"let the sun scorch it! I'm casting Jiwald!" In the spirit of Yin said.

"I wanna burn, ul goa" La the spirit of fire said.

"NO GROUND!" Ake the spirit of earth said.

"casting El Huma!" Kua the spirit of water said

"IM CASTING MINYA!" Nes the spirit of Yang said

"Im casting Fura!" Alo the spirit of wind said.

After all the spirits are done casting their spells, La's spell was not even out of the gate, the mana returned to La, however, everyone else's spell was active, and they were shooting at the entity, but one by one, all their spells were canceled and the mana used was returned to all of them.

'Is it canceling all my spirit's spells? But it seems like that it can only cancel one spell at a time, and not only, it also returns the mana used to cast the spell, even if my spirits cast a thousand times, they won't run out of mana, well, if the mana gets replenished Julius thought.

"I got a plan, my little friends." Julius said to his spirits.

"All of you shoot every possible spell as you want, except Nes!" Julius ordered.

So they all complied and every spirit except Nes, and Ake started to shoot all possible projectiles at the entity.

each spell was being canceled one by one, but the spirits kept firing back the spells back at the entity, unfortunately, the spells never seemed to reach the entity.

But that wasn't the purpose of this mass attack.

"Nes! Cast the door crossing you said before!" Julius ordered.

"CASTTTINGG!" Nes basically yelled.

The casting was successful, however, there was one problem.

Felix didn't even see the door, he literally passed next to it, must be because he was too focused to run or because the door was black as the dark environment.

"I CAN CAST ONE MORE!" Nes said.

"Very well, this time cast it in front of Felix!" Julius told Nes

Nes did as Julius ordered, however, the spell failed, as it got canceled, but Nes retried again and again for several minutes, but finally, he managed to summon a door in front of felix, and the summoned door opened, but for reason the door displaying a bright sparkling light, which wasn't present in the previous door.

Felix for several minutes continued to run, and he saw the door, and he went for it, however..

the walls were trying to crush him, but most importantly, The entity obviously, can also see as good as Felix and Julius.

The entity raised its right hand, closed into a fist, and swiped to the left as if it was slamming a door shut.

And not soon after, the door immediately closed on Felix, making Felix bump into it.

The entity was very far away from Felix, however, Felix was now idle, and the entity was going at insane speeds.

"Nes! create another door!" Julius ordered

"I CAN'T! I CASTED ALREADY TWO DOORS!" Nes responded

"Then.." Julius thought

"I have some mana!" Ake the spirit of earth said, which never shot a single spell the entire time because there was no dirt for Ake to use.

"lend some of your mana to Nes! quick!" Julius ordered him

"Yes! i will do!" Ake said

So Ake flew near enough to touch Nes, and Nes started to feel the mana flowing into itself.

In the meanwhile, all the other spirits were still shooting at the entity but without any success.

And after a while, Nes finally received the mana that he needed to summon a door crossing.

"Do something! The walls are about to crush him!" Julius said

The spirits were still shooting at the entity, however, it still gave the same results as before; untouched and unbothered.

And then Julius saw Felix was about to get crushed by the two walls, however, a very long hallway started to form on the right side of Felix, the hallways for some reason where sparkling in white color, and when the hallway fully formed, a passage started to form for Felix to go through.

However, when the passage was about to fully form, obstacles, spikes, tentacles and so many other things would further diminish Felix's escape started to form.

But before the passage could be fully formed, Nes created a door not so far from the passage, and Julius saw that the rest of the long hallway go cut and crumbled to the void, and a wall started to form around the door, making it seem natural that its there.

"Go to the door!" Julius ordered his spirits.

So the spirits stopped what they were doing and flew to the door, but they didn't do anything.

"The monster will try to shut it like before!" Julius reminded them.

The spirits were still listening to what Julius would order them.

"keep the door open for Felix!" Julius gave them the order.

The spirits started to orbit through the door, and magic started to form around the door, basically creating a shield.

"And after Felix went through the door, escape!" Julius gave the last instruction

"Yes!"

"Im scared!"

"I don't wanna do this!"

"After she escapes we fly away!"

Some of the spirits commented.

"I also agree with all of you, except for that I don't wanna do it" Julius responded.

And when the passage for Felix fully formed, Felix saw it and ran through it not thinking too much about the dangers in it.

Julius couldn't see exactly where was the entity because he wasn't looking anymore from above, however, he could understand that it was very far away, because of how tiny it looked, however, it seemed it started to fly even faster, and with each passing seconds, it became bigger and bigger, and the black cloak that it carried started to wave like a flag in a strong wind.

Julius looked at Felix that was squeezing through the small gaps in the obstacles, running, sprinting, crawling, sliding, jumping, and diving. He done every possible move to survive, but unfortunately, he wasn't always lucky because he sometimes got hit by the spikes, the spikes tore away all the tissue in a radius of 2 centimeters around it, leaving only bones intact.

Julius was sad and angry that his friend was put in such a state, however, he interrupted his vision through the spirits, and he opened his eyes and looked at Felix's immobile body.

He was unharmed, in the same static position, eyes wide open starting forward, and blank expression.

"What are you doing?" Khan asked Julius.

"No, nothing. I just wanted to check on Felix here, what im seeing in Felix is in quite a bad condition." Julius responded.

"Alright, then go back in to continue rescuing him" Khan said to Julius

"Well, I wasn't gonna be looking at him for long, I was checking up on him" Julius responded.

Julius went back to his vision of the spirits, and he got jumpscared that Felix was about to reach the door, and the entity was right behind him, his hands were about to grasp Felix.

But fortunately, Felix managed to go through the door, and the spirits flew around to evade the hand of the entity, all of the spirits started to fly away in evasive manuevers.

and the spirits started to find their way out of Felix's body, except Nes.


Nes was going where Felix was falling, however, it got pushed away, as if an invisible force was making him impossible to come any closer.

It was a blinding sparkling, white, all white, he couldn't see where Felix was.

But Julius remembered that he also saw white sparkling when the hallway was forming, it was the same exact sparkling light.

And another entity came out, from the void it was pretty similar to the other one, a long-closed cloak, a hood, the only difference was that it was white and the mask that it carried had a shape of a star instead of a square.

It started to orbit around the blob of sparking-white-light, and it opened the cloak, displaying a bright light, and a pair of hands came out of them, and it inserted one of its hands into the blob of light.

Then after several seconds, about 30 seconds, the blob of light dissipated and started to shrink away.

Felix was nowhere to see.

The white entity looked at Julius or Nes in this case, and wave at them.

But then the void entity flew down from the hallway, which was now crumbling into the darkness. And it flew down and punched in the face the white entity, and the white entity just flew backward and started to dissipate in the void.

The void entity just put its giant hands back inside of it, it looked around, and it even looked in the general direction of Nes, but didn't react to it, and dissipated in the void like the white entity.

"Nes! Escape!" Julius ordered his spirit, despite the fact it didn't do anything, he didn't want to stick around to find out.

And Nes started to fly away, finding a way to get out of there.

every other spirit found their way out, except Nes that stopped to look at Felix.

...

The void started to crack, it started to rip, and the cracks were of a blue color.

"Find a way of there quick!" Julius said.

"AAAAAAAAA" Nes just screamed while finding a way out.

And it eventually got out of the void, reaching reality.

...

Felix was rolling on the ground, screaming, he held his arms with his hands, and was also crying.

"Felix! C-calm down!" Reinhard tried to calm down Felix, he grabbed him by his arms.

however, Felix continued to unintelligently scream in fear.

"C-Crush-sAaaMaaa" was the only thing he ever said, in a sobbing tone but also terrified.

Julius also came to the rescue to help stabilize Felix.

Khan wasn't very emotional or distressed about what was happening, he just stood there looking at the duo trying to calm down Felix.

"Jeez, probably his first time experiencing a curse." Khan said to himself in his native tongue, remembering that it also terrified him the first time he receive a curse in the course of his long lifetime.

'Why did he receive a curse by touching me though? Weird." Khan asked himself in his thoughts

After a while, Crusch, Willhelm and many soldiers that were doing their own thing came running towards them because a scream is a scream, it's loud and attracts attention.

"What is happening?" Crusch asked with a serious tone.

Wilhelm was glaring at Reinhard for some reason.

The soldiers around them looked with the hand already ready to draw the sword.

"Happened an incident, and now Felix is in distress." Khan just said.

"Although it seems that he won't calm down by himself, so I guess I gotta do something." Khan said.

The three looked at Khan, and Felix was still screaming and rolling in fear, but couldn't move at all because Reinhard holding him.

He pointed his arm and opened his arm to Felix as he was about to cast a spell.

"Unterstützende Magie: Emotionale Stabilisatoren" Khan said.

A pair of circles, in front of Khan's hand, one bigger than the other, started to form, it was an orange color, in the circles there was some unknown text.

And Khan pointed it at Felix.

"N-NOO, GET IT AWAY FROM ME!" Felix screaming and his legs started to move like a bunny, while screaming and trying to get away, but couldn't get anywhere because Reinhard holding him.

"What are you doing Kaan-sama?!" Reinhard and Crusch asked Khan at the same time.

"Im casting a spell that will help him to calm down, hold him still." Khan responded.

Reinhard turned around and held Felix in the air directly in front of the magic circles.

"PLEASE NO, GET THAT AWAY!" Felix pleaded.

23 seconds have passed, and a smaller circle than the two other circles appears above Felix's head.

Felix made various pleas and asked to let go, but no one of his requests was accepted in the past 23 seconds.

And magic started to flow into Felix's head, and his sobbing and screaming of fear started to die down, and be replaced with neutral emotions he started to have a more neutral expression, but the tear marks remained on his face.

However, there was a bit of sobbing, but not seconds later there was no more sobbing.

"He's fine now." Khan said to everyone.

Crusch sighed, and then he looked at Khan.

"I believe you need some explanation to do." Crusch told Khan.

"Okay." Khan responded.


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