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Chapter 5 - The Abyss

The sun rises up and birds chirps as Miya wakes up. She stretches and yawns ans gets dressed. As she leaves the hotel room, signing out, she starts leaving the city of Chronystele.

Miya steps outside of the city gates and jumps upwards, and pushes herself off from air, creating a sonic boom in the sky as she starts flying around.

As she flies around at mach 23, she snaps her fingers summoning a world map which she then holds as she flies through the sky.

"Ok... next place! The Forbidden Forest of the Spirits." says Miya, she smiles and continues flying.

Fragment Crystals and Memories are the two things I have to know and how they give me these abilities... her thoughts remained calm as she soars through the blue sky.

Miya lands on the floor, and walks towards the forest, but notices there's an invisible barrier between her and the forest.

She puts her hand on the invisible barrier, and analyzes the barrier. As she analyzes it, she tries to search for a way to get in.

"This invisible barrier must be here to protect something inside... but what? There's spirits living in this forest... so what could it be so important that it's protecting it in there?" says Miya, unsure about the situation of the invisible barrier.

She then walks around the barrier, trying to find a way in, until her hand had bypassed the barrier at a certain spot of it.

Her eyes widened in surprise as she walks through the barrier.

She notices the environment is much different from how it looked outside. She analyzes her surroundings.

Hm... weird, it looks different than how it was outside. Is this an alternate dimension? The possibility is there... Miya questions about the Forbidden Forest of the Spirits.

She started roaming around the forest, seeing different regular spirits going around the forest. As she walks around, she notices a forest temple in the center. It had vines on it, showing it's abandonment.

"A temple huh? Wonder what's good inside this place." she walks into the temple and searches the place thoroughly.

The Abyss

An infinite sized void is a place that resides at the very boundaries of reality. The void is known to be a place where worlds and 4D space-time continuums fails to exist. It is a higher plane of existence over the Data World, and sees the very world as a fictional story. In other words, it's known to be a seventh dimensional void by other mages.

The dimensional orb appears again, but it seems to be following Miya through the temple. As she leaves the temple finding nothing, she sighs in disappointment, expecting to find something.

"So there was nothing... of course!" she says as bushes rustles and sways due to wind. It had seemed like a tiny spiritual bunny was hopping around.

Wait... spiritual animals exists? Miya was unsure about the existence of spiritual animals.

She then leaves and continues walking through the Forbidden Forest of the Spirits. As she walked around, she notices a hot spring as Miya walks by.

Miya stopped to think about jumping into the hot spring, but shakes her head, refusing to go in.

She then leaves the forbidden forest of the spirits, then started flying around due to boredom.

God... I'm bored as hell.. her thoughts are calm and quiet. She was bored out of her mind, until Miya notices a stall that is selling maps for other worlds.

She descends from the sky and lands in front of the stall.

"Hey. I'd like to check out the maps if that's fine." she says with a smile.

"Sure! Go ahead!" the salesman smiles back at her.

Miya started examining the different maps of the different worlds.

"I got a question." says Miya, confused.

"Yes ma'am?" the salesman glances at her.

"Are there parallel universes?" she asks calmly.

"Hm? Well... no, there's a single universe that has one timeline and countless dimensions and space-time continuum. Although, there are countless timelines that branches off from the original timeline." the salesman explains as he sighs.

"Really?" she asks curiously.

"Yes. There are countless other dimensions (universes) within the multiverse and a few realms outside of the multiverse and within the boundaries of reality. The dimensional barriers are what's keeping hold of everything in existence, like reality. There's also... an unknown void outside of the dimensional barriers though. No beginning and end exist there, no concepts exist. Well, from what I heard that is." the salesman explanation was deep and detailed. It was like he didn't leave any truth behind.

"I see... that's all, thanks!" she says as she smiles and puts down the maps and leaves, waving goodbye.

The salesman nods as he waved goodbye, watching her leave. While Miya left, she felt a weird presence behind her.

The presence weirdness was coming from the salesman, but she hadn't thought much about it.

The salesman had stood there quietly, glaring at her. She felt uncomfortable so she continued walking away.

That guy is starting to weird me out... it was weird enough that he knew about the multiverse, something I didn't know about, not unless one had traveled through the entire multiverse themselves... so who the hell was that salesperson.... her thoughts remained calm as she continued walking.

The salesman had disappeared from his stall and was reappearing few feet away behind Miya.

She immediately felt his odd presence.

Is this guy a demon...? There's no way that this person can randomly disappear and reappear... his aura, I can't sense it. Did he just now started hiding it...? There was questions flowing through her mind.

She started walking faster as the salesperson had continued followijg her through disappearance and reappearance. Whenever he disappears, it was as quiet as someone who has silent footsteps.

Miya wasn't having it, so she went to a secluded like the alleyway.

She stood there, waiting for the salesperson to be gone. That was until the salesperson aura was now different. It was demonic.

Miya felt the impurity of his presence. She can sense the intentions which overwhelmed her. She put her guard up, waiting for him to arrive.

His aura— it's demonic. That just means he's from the Demon Realm. Miya's mind raced a bit, her heart beated quicker than usual.

As she waited patiently, the salesperson finally appeared in front of her, but not as human, but as his demonic form.

"Who are you really?" Miya asks suspiciously.

"Well... I'm a demon of course! a demon from the demon realm. My name is Akira Yamamoto." says Akira as he introduces himself to Miya.

Miya stayed silent, until Akira charged at her 20x at the speed of light. Her eyes widened in surprise as she barely avoids his attacks and kicked him in the stomach affecting the organs in his body.

What the—?! That force is immense! Even at light speed... she avoided me, even if it was just barely! Akira shouts in his head as he is flying through the sky.

Miya had grown stronger through adaptation. While of course, she prepares to jump, creating a crater on the ground and jumped upwards to Akira.

Akira glances at her as she flies by at high speeds.

"Just so you know... you aren't as overwhelming as I thought you'd be..." says Miya with some disappointment in her voice as she kicks him. Her attacks had created sonic booms as he landed on the floor.

Miya descended downwards and landed on the floor safely.

Akira, however, stood up with major injuries. Anger boiled up in him, hatred was piercing in his eyes towards Miya.

"That's enough! You may have beaten me in this form! But you won't beat me in my true for-" mid sentence he was cut off. This was due to Miya's absurd speed which kicked him through buildings.

Smoke had popped up around everywhere due to the collapsed buildings, then as the smoke cleared, it was revealed that Akira had made it to his true form.

His true demon form huh? I see now... Miya's thoughts remained calm.

Akira, now had a tall and large appearance, longer horns, multiple eyes and arms with longer claws. His mana level had increased drastically.

"Hahahaha! What will you do now! This is my true form!" Akira's power level went up massively.

Miya stood there as she sighs and disappeared instantly, causing a large gust of wind towards Akira.

He covered his face from the wind as she appeared in front of him instantly. She had sent him upwards, and a large magic circle underneath him was summoned.

Miya flew upwards at high speeds and gets ready.

[Dark Magic: Endless Destruction of Darkness!]

Dark energy started flickering from the circle as it shoots upwards having a purple-ish black color.

As it shoots upwards, it also extends outwards, not only causing damage to the city, but the entire continent itself.

Akira, in his true form, was then erased physically and spiritually. There wasn't any trace of his existence as Miya descends from the sky.

"Shit... this entire continent is destroyed.." Miya sighs as she snaps her fingers which automatically rebuilds the entire continent.

She stood there, silently as another dimensional orb spawned in, and continued watching her every move.

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