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IGIWS: FIRST DRAFT: Ch.297: Rya, The Time Space Mage and Time Traveling Conundrum
🕑 Added 2024-11-07 20:29:39 +0000 UTCRya's eyes were drawn to this ancient black leather book that kept most of the knowledge about the Time-Space magic. Its pages were yellowed and torn in places, but it still held onto its secrets. Quinus was the one who brought it to her, and she was excited see what it contained inside as she slowly opened its cover.
The old Elven dialect started to became legible within seconds as her Omni Eyes deciphered a language that time has forgotten.
"To whoever is reading this diary, the author's name is Rohas, and I am a time-space mage of the Rylous Empire to the Great High Elven King, Altharion. I am a Time-Space mage of the 13th Order, and this diary will detail my studies into the realm of time and space," Rya whispered to herself as she continued reading the book to herself.
I will record what I learn about the time-space magic with a vision from the Great God of Time, Xandros. The God spoke to me and told me the beginnings of my journey into the realm of time-space, and what I must do.
Rya's brow raised slightly at the knowledge of a possible way that Mages first came to be in the world of Tertius. She kept reading the diary, hoping to find more.
The start of the book was filled with notes and sketches, which seemed to be some sort of experiment. It had detailed drawings of various different types of crystals and other items. Then she read up on the first incantation, which was "Temporal Stasis."
"Huh?... So, a time mage can put someone or something in stasis?... God, it would be so awesome if I could use time magic... Hmm... So, I need to channel my mana into both palms of my hands and eyes. If done correctly, any object or creature with a weaker vein will be slowed down to one-tenth of their original speed..." Rya muttered aloud as she studied the incantation.
She quickly looked around the table and saw a stack of book about three feet away from her. She looked down and the old diary and then back to the stack a books again. Quinus was looking for more books so Rya was alone at the time. She looked behind her to make sure no one was watching her.
"Haah... What the hell... I'll give it a shot..."
Rya closed her eyes and concentrated on her mana, and she visualized the flow of her mana through her body, and then down her arms into her palms. Then she channeled some into her eyes and opened while stretching both arms and whispered.
"Temporal Stasis."
If someone was using Rya's Seer Stone when she was starting the incantation they would have noticed a orangish-red mage vein lighting up in her abdomen where her unborn child was growing. It was the same color as the other half of the yin yang orb in her choker collar.
And when Rya opened her and focused on the one book in the middle of the stack she felt her mana disperse like when she tried casting spells she had no affinity for. She held her arms out for a few seconds before she drop them while making a funny face and sighed, "Yeah... No dice... Well it was fun to dream... Boom."
Rya knocked over the book for fun, but the middle book looked like it was falling at a slower pace. It was like gravity wasn't affecting the book properly. Then, after a moment, the book started to fall faster and faster.
"What the fuck?" Rya said with a surprised look on her face.
Then, the book hit the floor, and the sound echoed throughout the library. Rya looked at her hands and then at the diary in front of her, where the page of the Temporal Stasis incantation was.
"That can't be..." Rya said with a stunned look on her face.
She picked up a different book and held it up and cast the spell. And the book was floating in the air when she let go of it, and then the book slowly fluttered towards the table, and she quickly caught it with both hands.
"Oh... My... GOD!" Rya yelled out as she was staring at the book with a surprised expression.
'I am a fucking time mage!?! Wait!? Did Nebulus share her affinity with me!?... M-Maybe she's not so bad after all... Wait!... I should see if I can cast other spells first.' Rya thought as she quickly paged through the pages of Rohas's diary, looking for another incantation to try. She stumbled across a spell called "Blink," and she looked at the words on the page and memorized the incantation.
"Okay... here goes nothing," Rya whispered to herself as she stood up. Her mana channeled into her eyes and palms again but she needed to add mana into the soles of her feet and her biceps, triceps, and quads. She focused on where she wanted to go, and in a blink of her eys she disappeared. And reappeared on the other side of the table.
"No fucking way!... No! Way!" Rya said with a loud voice. She looked at the top of one of the 20-foot-tall bookshelf and blinked again.
Poof!
And she landed on the top of the bookshelf.
"Holy Shit! I'm a Time Mage!!!" Rya yelled out in excitement and joy.
Then her mind began to wonder about all the possabilities as she blinked in fort of the time sage's diary.
'There has to be portals, or maybe teleportation?... Wait a minute! What about time travel!?! Maybe I can get back to Earth by traveling back in time?!' Rya thought and quickly looked for the time travel incantation.
After several hours and dozens of pages later, Rya found the spells of Portal, Chrono Shift, Teleportation Orb, Quantum Shield, Temporal Echo, Chrono Heal, Gravity Surge, and Singularity Pull.
Portal is exactly what the name implies. The mage can open one 8-foot radius portal to travel in between far distances. But there was a catch. The mage needs to aim the first portal in a direction that almost acts like a telescope, as the first portal needs to be exactly parallel to the second portal. So when Rya tried to see, she watched as the second portal zoomed forward in a straight line, and she could see the world passing by the first portal until the second portal stopped 250 miles away. That was the second limitation of the portal spell. It has a limited range, and it took one minute for the portals to form, so she couldn't spam the portals around like crazy. And she tried opening two portals at the same time, but it gave her massive migraines. So, she was only able to open one portal at a time.
Chrono Shift allows the mage to make everything go in bullet-time, like in the Matrix movies. If a mage had a strong enough mana vein, they could almost make time stop.
Teleportation Orb is similar to portal as the mage can travel great distances in an instant, but there were a few pros to this spell. It was faster and easier to cast, and the mage could grow the orb's radius to 100 feet and teleport everyone and everything in the radius. But the mage has to know where the place is and has to have been there before or seen it before to teleport there. Otherwise, if they didn't know where they wanted to go or were under stress when casting this spell, then they would be teleported to some random spot in the world. It could be 100 feet away or 10,000 miles away from where they cast Teleportation Orb. And the other issue with this spell was that when it says that it teleports everything within the radius of the orb it was not exaggerating. Anything within the orb's radius was teleported to the destination. That meant rocks, trees, animals, people, and even the ground beneath their feet. Hence, everyone had to worry about the ground crumbling or falling away when they teleported to the new location. The best way Time Mages worked around this was using Gravity Surge or Singularity Pull to either stabilize the ground that came with them through the orb or the Mage lift everyone off the ground when they cancel gravity.
Gravity Surge. It makes the gravity in a 5-foot radius circle around a target area increase exponentially or decrease it. This allows the user to control the gravity of the target area and make it heavier or lighter, depending on their needs.
Singularity Pull. The caster can pull in anything around almost like telekinesis but it's not as powerful. Once the target gets pulled then that's it. It moves in one dirctation until the object or person hits a solid surface or a barrier.
Quantum Shield is a magical shield that can create a protective barrier by folding space, deflecting attacks from multiple angles at once, and can also absorb energy, redirecting it elsewhere. This allows the caster to create a multi-layered force field that can withstand almost any kind of attack, including magic, physical, and even mental.
Temporal Echo is a magical technique that allows the caster to summons echoes of the past or future to provide guidance or reveal hidden information. The technique is very useful for foretelling the future and predicting the outcome of decisions.
Chrono Heal can reverts an individual's body to an earlier state, effectively healing wounds and reversing damage. This is a less superior version of a Healer's magic but it's far superior to any potion that a Alchemist can create. What makes it less superior than a healer's magic is that it can only heal an injury within a 12-hour time frame, and if the injury occurred in the past 12 hours, the injury will only partially heal, and it will scar, unlike a healer's magic. The other thing about this healing magic is that it is far more unpleasant than a healer's magic. So, if someone's leg was severed, they used Chrono heal. They would experience the pain all over again, and it would be just as painful as it was the first time until it was fully healed.
'God Damn!... Time Space Mages are scary powerful!...' Rya thought as she studied the grimoire. And when she turned the next page she was greeted by a warning from the Time Sage, himself.
Dear reader. Before you go further into the grimoire know that I am not responsible for your safety with my last discover as a Time Mage... During my time with three over Time Mages, we always thought it was possible to create an incantation for time travel. And after three centuries of researching this theory, we came across a spell that would allow us to travel through time and space. And during our research we found that it is possible but it is impossible to survive the journey.
"Wait... what!?" Rya said out loud as she read the last sentence. She furrowed her brow as she continued to read on.
We discovered that the time-space conundrum that I fear I won't be able to solve in my last couple hundred years of life. The enigma of traveling back and forth through time isn't the issue, but surviving the trip is. We tested the spell several times, and each attempt either caused us to fail from the sky or become buried in the earth or a building form, only traveling a few seconds in the past or future. What has plagued us is the fact that the time portal stays in the same exact position in the universe from our timeline.
"Huh?... What's the problem with that?" Rya asked as she read the passage.
This is the problem with time travel is the universe seems to be in continuous state of movement. And the old ways of thinking that universe revolves Tertius are wrong. If the universe did revolve around Tertius then time travel would have been successful a century ago. And since it doesn't, that means the portal that we create in our timeline to go back 24 hours will open the second portal in the same exact location in the universe a day before Tertius is there in the same place of the universe. My good friend Jaspen was the first one to try going back into the past by 24 hours. When the portal opened, everything inside our Laboratory began to be sucked into the vacuum of space. I witnessed Jaspen getting sucked into the, and before the portal collapsed, I saw the planet of Tertius in the distance as a beautiful gem in the vast darkness. This was when we understood that our planet was traveling through the cosmos. Mage Hervor was the one to theorize that the portal wasn't traveling with the gravitational pulls of Tertius, which was the cause of the failure. So now I can't help but wonder if it is possible to survive the trip. Even traveling back a second caused my legs to submerge in the city square, which is 43 miles away from our Laboratory. I was lucky enough to cast Chrono Heal on myself before my lower legs were crushed and ripped apart by the cobblestone road.
We've tried everything to move the portal in the correct location of where the planet Tertius would be in the future or past but without the correct formula to calculate Tertius' current velocity through the cosmos we are left with this dilemma. I've tried prayering to the Great God of Time, Xandros, but he refuses to answer me. And so, it seems that time travel will forever be a mystery.
Rya finished the rest of the book and sighed. "It seems the problem with time travel isn't the spell itself... but the destination," Rya muttered.
"What's that, Babe?" Quinus asked as he brought another stack of books to Rya.
"OH! Um... In one of the books you brought me, I discovered a journal entry talking about time space magic. And it seems they figured out how to travel in time but the issue was the location where the portal would open," Rya said as she rubbed her chin.
"Hmm, I don't get it," Quinus replied.
"If the journal entry is correct, and if my hypothesis is correct, then the portal opens in the exact location in the universe from where we stand right now. This means if you tried to go back 24 hours, then the portal will open a 24 hour trip away in this spot here but the planet would be a different spot because the planet hasn't gotten to the same place in the cosmos it was 24 hours ago," Rya explained.
Quinus took in the information and he understood what Rya was talking about. "So, if you go 24 hours back in time and open the portal. The portal would open up to outer space instead of on the ground."
"Precisely. So, they tried fixing the problem by trying to calculate where the planet would be in the past or future but they didn't understand astronomy... Or maybe it's cosmologists? Sadly I don't understand theory of relativity," Rya said.
"So, is there a solution?" Quinus asked.
"Yeah, I think so. But it might be beyond... That a bummer but I guess I can live with that," Rya said as she flipped to the next page an saw the incantation for Time Travel. It wasn't to hard to cast and Rya didn't if it would be useful at all, but she read it anyway.
"So, how much longer do you want to stay here?... It's getting late and I think you are ready for dinner," Quinus said.
"Huh? Quin, I'm not hungry—"
GROAN!
"—I think?" Rya blushed in embarrassment.
Quinus just chuckled at the sound and smiled. "Come on... We'll come back to this Libaray tomorrow. Let's head back home."
"Okay, sounds good," Rya said.
Rya put the books that she wanted to read off to one side and placed the books that didn't have any relevant information about magic back onto the shelves. Quinus gathered the books she placed to the side and took them with him and handled them to Balthazar for safe keeping.
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