Door noises!

  Quickly but carefully at the same time, I open the door and my mind goes white right after that. My vision was the one that went white that is. A bright white light eats my vision away for brief moments. Once it’s gone and my amazing sight is back, my eyes decide to open wide and for some reason my mouth does the same thing, but just a little bit. I once again was teleported to another place but this time around, it’s far more different than all the previous ones. Yes, the mystic library is different from the living room and bedroom, but this one however takes the cake. But let me explain it to whoever is listening to me. Although I hope no one is…

  The place itself has a mystic feeling to it just like the library from before. The sky is somewhat covered with clouds, but the majority is clean. From this alone you can guess that I am outside but not the real outside of course, otherwise I wouldn’t be saying this. Anyway, the sky has a pinkish colour to it, but with a few shades of what I think it’s a golden colour. It is beautiful and with said mystic vibe to it, it makes a sight to be seen. Behind me I have a wall, one that follows the same colour pattern as the sky; however, the pink colour not only is slightly stronger, said shades of golden are much less noticeable. A soft red is also mixing with said pink, or blending is the better way to describe it. To my right the same happens, a wall that goes all the way down this rather long corridor but one that is not only that. The corridor has a ceiling, but this one is in an arch way, coloured in the same way as in the walls. A few columns along the corridor are present, but that is to be expected as they are helping support the arch ceiling.

  To my left, there is a half wall that only goes up to my waist I would say, making it a meter or so tall. At the top you have a small railing that increases the total height up to my chest level. Right below the ceiling there is another small wall, but looking better at it, it seems to be the beams that help out support the ceiling. Thanks to this half wall I can see the sky that I described before and if I walk up to said wall and lean my face against the railing, I can see the vast empty area. The sky is all around me, from above as normal, from the horizon, something that can also be expected but also from below me. There is no ground and I have no clue how this “building” is being supported. From everything that has happened, it does not surprise me at all if this thing is floating around, although it does make me wonder how everything works.

  “Well, no point in trying to figure out how things work here. Let’s just keep moving.”

  And so, with a new goal in my mind I keep moving forward towards the end of the corridor.

  Step!

  My footsteps somehow are echoing, they are loud and noticeable because of it.

  Step!

  The floor below me, the one that is making my footsteps a bit louder than normal, it is a simple tile floor, with a checker pattern to it. Rather than being black and white, instead it is a soft pink colour, really soft and a golden-ish colour.

  Step!

  “From how it feels I would say that it is made of marble but from its shine maybe it’s a Crystal type of material? Either way, it must be quite cold for the touch.”

  Step!

  After walking from what seems to be 50 meters, I’m at the end of the corridor. This time, it has walls in all directions and the arch ceiling ends, from this point on, it is a normal ceiling. Even though I’m not in that section of the corridor, I’m right at the end of the arch ceiling. I can tell you that the corridor continues to my right. Before proceeding I use my Magic Sense skill, after all, there might be a trap right around the corner. To my relief there isn’t anything of that sort, although there seems to be a door a few meters past said corner. A moment or so later I decide to keep moving, stopping only once I’m in front of said door.

  The door is much different from the previous ones and I can actually sense something behind it, enemies in other words. The door itself is as tall as the ceiling, close to it to be precise, maybe 15 centimetres shorter? It has the same colour pattern as the sky, but now with a snow-white colour around some places. The door has an odd shape to it, a leaf shape. It starts just like a normal door and halfway through it, it starts to curve just like a leaf would do. It’s almost as wide as the wall itself, having only a small distance on each side. But enough of me describing a damn wall, let’s just get in.

  This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

  I open the door as carefully as I can, so much so that I even surround myself with a barrier. I kind of do not want to get blasted with magic the moment I open the door. Though to my surprise my opponents decides to wait for me, allowing me to fully enter the room without too much worry. This is an open room and quite the wide one at that, easily 100 square meters. A nice small arena, making me believe that these monsters are here on purpose.

  Only two- no, at least five monsters are here to tango with me, while only two are ready to go. There is a reason for why I say this, but first, the two in front of me are the main targets. Nothing out of this world, but they are at least B rank. They are the humanoid Crystal monsters, Crystal Knights in other words. They are a bit bigger than I am in all ways and with a sword and shield ready to take me on. Of course, said sword and shield are also made from the same “materials” as themselves. Opah, getting a little distracted with my descriptions, here they come!

  I ready up my hands as they run up to me. I'm not cocky or anything like that (I am), but with the barrier that I deployed earlier, there’s nothing that they can do to hurt me, so I don’t see any point in summoning my trusty sword for example.

  Swoosh! Swoosh!

  I did mention before that these monsters work really well together and that’s exactly what they are currently doing. One of them runs up directly at me while the other tried to get behind me. The moment my eyes are on the one getting around me, the one in front of me does a thrust attack, he’s nowhere near me to do a normal swing, and with a thrust swing he will easily cover the remaining distance, even with a sword. However, he is rather slow so I easily dodge it by moving my body sideways. Then with an upper swing and directed at me, he quickly tires to cut me in half, but I also dodge it quite easily and form there-

  Bam!

  With a clean straight punch on its chest, I easily crack its upper body, so much so that my hand went right through it. He couldn’t do anything about it and since he still was recovering from his previous attack, he ended up in a good position to get hit as his shield was a bit to the side leaving its upper body exposed. Here comes the other one.

  Swoosh!

  This time it was a simple down swing, he got behind me as expected and from there he tried to cut me down. With Magic Sense I could easily tell where he is, allowing me to dodge his simple attack without much effort.

  Pam!

  Before he could recover, I did the exact same thing as before, but this time I hit his shield right in the middle. It did crack a bit of it and it also sent him backwards a few meters thanks to the impact. Another thing about them that I didn’t mention is how well they seem to learn. As you just saw he was able to defend himself from my punch simply because he knew it was coming, and he knew that because he saw me do it to his friend. In a sense it’s amazing but it’s also terrifying, a monster that can adapt this quickly is more than dangerous. This time I decide to wait for him instead of pursuing, just like I said there are more of them but they still have yet to come out of their spots. Three of them on each wall, though I still can’t tell you what they are waiting for. Something that the monster in front of me does not do once he was fully recovered from the recoil, he quickly dashes towards me with all of his might.

  Clink! Bam!

  Instead of a thrust or down swing, this time around he did a diagonal one, from left to right and mind you, his sword is on his right hand. If the first two missed, try a different way, I guess. I didn’t dodge it, I parried it with my hand, with the palm of it I hit the “smooth” part of the blade sending it upwards and alongside it, his arm, leaving himself wide open for another clean straight punch. Just like before, my fist easily goes right through his chest, defeating him in the process.

  “Well then, three more to go. I’m ready whenever you are!”

  I decide to say this out loud as the monster in front of me crumbles into small pieces and mere moments later, disappearing into small magic particles that go with the wind. Though, maybe 10 seconds later, said opponents do appear and they do so in a rather interesting way. I mentioned that, on each wall there is a monster there, the only one that does not have is the one that I came from. On each said wall there is a rather badly placed mirror, a fancy looking one that has quite the decorations at the bottom of it. This mirror then transforms itself into a monster, one that I have never seen before, but from its magic energy I would rank them at the same level as the previous two, B rank.

  They are weird looking; their face is similar to one of a turtle but with sharp teeth. They also only have their upper body and towards the end it’s filled with sharp Crystals, one big in the middle, surrounded by smaller ones, but they all seem equally sharp. They have arms that for some reason are disconnected from the main body, but they do seem to be working as if they are connected. With hands that are for the big size and claws that are even bigger however, each one of them is carrying a weapon, one has a great harmer, other a damn club while the last one has a halberd. As you can see a nice variety of them. Since they don’t have legs, they are floating around and to be honest, they are rather slow not only that, they don’t seem to know how to work together as they are hitting each other as they come towards me. Yes, hitting each other as they move sideways, up and down, back and forth, almost as if they have poor balance or something like that. Maybe they are drunk on power? Who knows? Either way, they will take a while until they are near me, so I guess I have to take the lead and see how they fair one on one. With this in mind I dash towards the one to my left, as anyone can expect, the moment he saw me coming he got ready to intercept me.