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998 - The ALMOST Perfect Prison
🕑 Added 2025-10-10 03:34:34 +0000 UTC“AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!” Rina shouted amidst rapid acceleration as she tried to reach him. Multiple magic circles appeared around her as she injected them with as much mana as possible from her dedicated reactor, which was connected to her through an accessory with a miniature wormhole. However, by the time they were ready, Aron had already retreated, and the doppelgänger had gone through the wormhole shortly after, causing a pit to form in her stomach.
“Nova, tell me he is safe,” she said as she was landing, constantly adjusting her magic circle's output as Lee had just canceled his black-hole-esque ability. The sudden return to normal gravity caused quite a few disturbances in the surrounding area.
The short silence before she received an answer felt like an eternity to her. Just as she was about to ask again, her worries on the verge of doubling, a response finally came: {He is fine, and the doppelgänger is captured.}
“Thank God,” Rina said as she found herself falling to her knees while releasing a sigh of relief, realizing she was shaking from worry.
“Where is he?” she followed up immediately.
{In a medical pod undergoing treatment,} Nova answered as a wormhole opened next to Rina.
“Thank you,” Rina said once again, feeling thankful that they had Nova on their side, who would do everything in her power to make sure they were fine. She walked through the wormhole, appearing on the other side inside one of the imperial palace’s medical rooms, with Aron currently submerged inside a medical pod filled with mana.
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“Hello, what about us? What the fuck has happened? Why are we not being updated on whether we fucked up or not?” Lee shouted when a wormhole had just opened to take Ayaka after the previous one had taken the Empress, leaving the rest of them stranded as they wondered what the heck was going on.
{The doppelgänger has been caught, so please return to your bases and wait for an update on the Emperor’s situation when we have a clue,} Nova’s voice was heard in all of their ears, followed by a wormhole opening a short distance in front of them.
“At least give us a summary of what happened. I’m very curious, and I’m sure all the rest are feeling the same,” Lee asked, wondering how the situation that seemed to have gone to shit had turned out to the Emperor's benefit.
{Sure,} Nova said before a 3D rendering of what had just happened appeared in front of them, starting from when the Emperor was pushed into the wormhole.
When the wormhole opened, it was connected to the stargate inside the imperial palace, which welcomed the Emperor. But the moment the Emperor finished going through, Nova used a move that the empire had perfected during the deployment of the Avatars and switched the connecting endpoint to somewhere specifically prepared by the Emperor for a situation where they needed to imprison a strong individual equal to or more powerful than Seraphina, the Xor’Vak’s exiled princess.
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Inside the Sun
BANG!!!!!!!!!! BANG!!!!!!! BANG!!!! BANG!!!! The doppelgänger punched the transparent wall using all of his strength, but the wall didn’t so much as shake or wobble through the entire sequence.
After a full minute of punching did nothing, he decided to move on to using his magic. But the moment he gathered mana and materialized a magic circle, the circle crumbled under pressure as the mana he had invested in it entered a very weird state from the massive pressure in its surroundings.
If someone zoomed out from the small, hundred-meter-wide cube, they would see a hundred-kilometer-thick cube of shield with a small open space on the inside, located inside the sun. It was designed to act as the final line of defense; should the tools in place to keep the prisoner inside fail, the perfect fusion reactor—the sun—would deal with the problem.
Other than that, the environment inside the cube itself was brutal. Although most of the pressure was kept at bay by the thick shields that fed from the pressure to sustain themselves, it was still enough that it required anyone inside to use all of their mana to sustain their body and prevent it from succumbing, which practically acted as a constraint cuff in itself. Most of the mana would be dedicated to surviving the pressure, leaving none aside for anything else.
However, if they had enough mana to both protect their body and still do something else, the mana-inverting runes would come into effect and send the mana back where it came from, if the pressure didn't disrupt the mana before that.
It was an almost perfect prison, made with specifications that should be able to hold even the Emperor for some time due to the limit of how much of his endless mana he could deploy at once. But that is all it was: ALMOST perfect, as the Emperor hadn’t considered poisoned mana to be part of the equation. The doppelgänger, who now carried the mana poisoning that had been troubling the Emperor, realized that all the bits of tainted mana now being used to protect its body were slowly corroding the shield.
Upon this discovery, a cruel smile appeared on its face as it started trying to release as much mana as possible in its current situation to try and corrode a large part of the shield. But even after hours, it found itself in the same position. Although it was not a perfect prison, it was one of the few that got close to perfection, as it seemed the safety measures set for something else had come in clutch. The side effects of that system being active accidentally countered the corrosion effect.
It was a system designed to ensure that the cube was always the same size, mass, and weight, and for it to do everything in its power to make that possible. In turn, it constantly used the pressure in its surroundings to generate mana and sustain the shield at its designed specifications, no matter how much the doppelgänger tried to corrode it. He only managed to corrode the shield a few inches deep into the hundred-kilometer-thick walls before it was restored.
Comments
Norito Menteval
Damn your writing has gotten really good, TYFTC🙏❤️❤️
ismail hamisi salum
In the middle of writing the second chapter to make up for it
Zabulus
TYFTC, I hope the updates will be more regular and often :)
