The Greatest Sinner

Crack.

"Eh, looks like that's all" Evan muttered quietly on his eleventh day in the fourth section.

At this moment he had 333 drops of Void Liquid, and he needed three times more to reach the One-Pointed Star. But, the two remaining "Barriers" would not allow him to go any further.

The two chains around his crimson "Warp" jangled loudly and the mana stopped condensing, which was the maximum for a man who only broke through one "Barrier".

<What should I do with all this mana?>

Evan looked at the thousands of pale blue bubbles in his "Nirvana". They were slowly disappearing. Evan couldn't use them to condense or to fill his mana reserves.

If last time at the Zak`s mansion he had completely depleted the mana in the crystals, now in the fourth section the crystals were still full of mana, though the water in the lake began to shine a little fainter. Evan considered that he would be able to condense more than a thousand drops of Void Liquid at this place, until the mana in the crystals and in the water completely dried up.

"Well, I've achieved excellent results anyway. All that's left is to break through the two "Barriers" and we can move on. That will be enough for now."

Mumbled Evan and was about to stop "Creating", but suddenly a strange change began to occur in his "Nirvana".

Crack.

Thick cracks appeared in the white space from which the jaws of the Demogorgon slowly crawled out.

When Zak had given Evan a very powerful pill the same thing had happened, but Evan didn't remember it, he was unconscious then.

"What is this?!" Evan was shocked to see the mouth of some strange creature creeping into his "Nirvana".

He didn't know what it was or how to deal with it. Evan tried to find a way to attack the creature in his "Nirvana", but after a few seconds, he calmed down.

"Nirvana" is the center of a magician, the most important place for him in the whole world. This means that it is where the mage's instincts and emotions are most vivid and precise.

As strange as it was, Evan felt no threat from that horrible mouth, Even though the creature's aura was overwhelming and terrifying.

Evan decided to trust his feelings and see what would happen next.

Whoosh.

The demogorgon's mouth opened wide like five huge petals with a hundred teeth. A crimson magical circle with many symbols and runes unknown to Evan slowly began to appear above it.

This magical circle was nothing like the ones he used to cast his spells. It was something more powerful and ancient.

Whoosh.

The magic circle was ready and it flashed brightly once in crimson flames. The next moment, countless pale blue bubbles turned into huge streams and rushed toward the magic circle.

<Wait... I've already seen that mouth and that magic circle. I need to get there!>

Suddenly Evan remembered that something like this had happened before, only then he was not in "Nirvana", but in a completely different space. It wasn't hard to guess that all mana was going there.

Unfortunately, Evan did not know how to get to that place, each time it happened randomly, without his knowledge.

Crack.

As soon as Evan thought about it, the cracks around the demogorgon's mouth multiplied several times and immediately stopped expanding.

<Huh, is that an entrance just for me? Well, then there's no need to delay>.

Evan's consciousness quickly passed through the cracks in space and he found himself in that very spot.

<Well, he's still sleeping as ever.> Evan thought to himself, looking at the huge black lion.

But it wasn't the lion that caught his attention, it was the pillar on the edge of the black magic circle. In his battle with Roland, the chains on that pillar had been ringing furiously, but now they were at complete peace.

Whoosh.

Just like last time, the jaws of a demogorgon and a crimson magic circle appeared at the top of the space above the lion.

Whoosh.

A pale blue stream of mana emerged from the magic circle and rushed toward the pillar, or rather its chains.

Evan watched the process closely, he was extremely curious to see what would happen next.

Rivers of mana began to flow into one single target out of many others, it was at the very bottom.

Crack.

With each passing second, the chain rattled and jingled harder and louder, until at one point it burst into black flames. The flame quickly extinguished and the black chain detached itself from the pole.

Whoosh.

The chain flew toward Evan and hovered in the air before his eyes. At that moment it was straight, so Evan could see every link of it.

"Isn't that...?"

Evan didn't have time to finish his thought as the chain flew sharply to the side.

Whoosh.

Another crack formed in space, only blue, and the chain quickly flew into the crack and disappeared without a trace.

Evan didn't hesitate for a second to follow it. The presence of another space was incredibly important. Evan had to get a better handle on what was going on here.

Whoosh.

Evan easily passed through the blue crack and found himself in an entirely different space.

"Wow..." Slowly Evan muttered looking around.

If "Nirvana" was a vast white void, and the space with the lion in the distance was as black as the abyss itself, here was a completely different palette of colors.

Right now Evan was standing in the middle of a beautiful blue sky. It was everywhere, from below and above, and to the left and right, on all sides. The space was bright, even though there was no sun, but this sky was no different than usual. White clouds of various shapes and sizes floated serenely across it as well.

"What is it?" After admiring the beautiful view around him, Evan turned his attention to what was in this place.

He looked at three magical circles floating in the air. They were the magic circles of "Magical Missile", "Ice Veil", and "Summon Thorny Ivy", all spells he knew.

Evan knew each of these magical circles by heart, all their details, symbols, runes, and seals. He could have easily drawn them, but now they were floating in the air in the middle of the clouds and the endless sky.

"It's incredible, I don't even have to draw magic circles to see them. I wonder if I can do the "Transforming of Spells" here."

Whoosh.

Evan flew over to each magical circle and examined them carefully.

He nodded and said quietly: "This place reminds me some sort of a library, so I`ll call it that way. By the way, where is that chain?"

Evan looked around for the chain, and he didn't have to look long. It was on the opposite side of his magic circles.

He quickly went to it and took another close look at it. When he had seen it for the first time, it seemed to him that there were familiar symbols on the links. He wanted to be sure of his guess.

As he finished examining it, Evan smiled and muttered contentedly, "So, this chain, is it part of one massive magical circle?"