Flash! Akira was spat out into a somewhat familiar small mirror world. The only difference from the previous mirror world was that here the floor, ceiling, and walls were all mirrors.
“Ugh, my head hurts just looking around…” said Akira as he scanned his surroundings.
The mirrors were positioned at different angles making him have a headache looking at the thousands of different reflections of himself coming from every direction.
Ding!
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You have entered the Underground Palace Trial grounds! Complete each trial to advance to the final stage!
If you prove your valor and strength you will receive the ultimate reward!
With all the reflections it was hard to see how many paths led out of the large room he was standing in. One had to have good eyesight, a sense of direction, and trust their gut feeling in situations like this.
“Judging from all the exits… this should be a maze…” said Akira as he continued to look around.
The complete leather map that had been inside his pack popped out and floated in the air around Akira for a few seconds before moving toward one of the numerous exits.
“Or I could just follow this…” muttered Akira.
Since he had no other ideas about how to get through the maze just shrugged his shoulders and followed the floating map.
He spent several hours walking through thousands of similarly mirrored passageways that went up, down, left, and right.
In the beginning, Akira tried to remember the path he was taking but he had long given up as the paths they were taking seemed to be utterly random without rhyme or reason. He was walking at such a quick pace to keep up with the floating map that he was unable to take out paper to try and draw the directions.
After three hours of walking behind the floating map, it came to a halt at a dead end.
Akira looked around and saw no other exits nor was there anything special about the dead end he found himself in.
“No… don’t tell me this map led me on some wild goose chase? I spent all that time walking about for nothing?”
As Akira was muttering to himself a gray portal appeared on the wall in front of the floating map. The map which had stopped in front of the wall moved once again to float back over to Akira.
With a sigh of relief, Akira grabbed onto the map before walking up to the portal and touching it.
He felt no discomfort as he was moved to a large mirror room that looked just like the first one… minus all the exits…
Ding!
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You have completed the first trial stage!
The second trial starts now!
Lead your mirrored self through the several obstacles and tasks set out for you to reach the portal.
“Which reflection? There are thousands of them…” said Akira, his voice slowly stopping as he looked up from the system message and looked at the mirrored room.
Even though he stood in the middle of the room it was as if he was not there because there were no reflections wherever he looked.
He continued to search through all the mirrors until he found a single reflection on the right side of the room looking back at him.
Akira watched his reflection for several seconds as he moved about and found that it was just a normal reflection and there was nothing special about it.
“I have to lead this reflection to the portal? Just where is the portal?” asked Akira while scanning the entire room of mirrors.
A short time later after turning round and round, he found the gray portal near the ceiling and it was inside the mirrored world.
‘How am I supposed to get my reflection up there?’
With a shrug of his shoulders, he started to experiment with moving around to see how well his reflection responded.
While walking forward in the direction of the portal he ran into his first problem and it was a large one.
A huge wall was blocking the shortest path to the portal. It was completely smooth with no handholds or any other walls nearby to help jump up or climb.
Akira was a little confused as he looked at the wall in the mirrored world and then looked back to the area in front of him and saw no wall…
“Alright then… I’ll go the other way…”
Only a short walk in the opposite direction was a waist-high wall that appeared in front of his reflection forcing him to have to mirror the action of jumping over the nonexistent wall in front of him so that his mirrored self was able to hop over the wall.
After several more steps, another wall appeared, this time it was a chest-high wall and Akira had to go through the motions of pulling himself up over it.
Akira was glad he was the only one here as he felt very foolish doing these types of actions miming in thin air for the mirrored self to get through several wall obstacles. One of these obstacles forced him to get on his belly and crawl like a snake for a good distance before being able to stand back up.
Further down the wall, there were several odd holes cut into the walls blocking his path that forced him to bend his body in several odd postures to be able to squeeze his mirrored body to the other side.
To Akira’s surprise, there was even a monster inside the mirror world.
“This will be interesting,” said Akira as he squared up his arms and started shadowboxing the air in front of him to fight the monster blocking his mirrored reflection path.
It was quite a new experience and was actually rather fun.
“This feels like some type of magical game,” said Akira as he punched out with his clawed fist to pierce the monster’s head, defeating it and clearing the path forward.
When he reached the opposite side of the large wall that had blocked his path to the portal Akira saw there was a rope hanging from the large wall in front of his mirrored reflection just waiting for him to climb up and that’s just what he did.
“What the?” muttered Akira as he saw the rope did not take him all the way up to the portal but instead to a ledge that was only a level higher than the last…
Akira was forced to go through even more levels of obstacles and back braking postures that were making Akira break into a sweat before he was able to reach the portal.
When his mirrored reflection’s hand touched the portal…
Flash! Akira was teleported out of the mirrored room and into another room that was just like the previous two.
Ding!
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You have completed the second trial!
The third trial starts now!
Capture the hidden Crystal guide!
Akira looked around the room which was once again reflecting thousands of his own body. With a quick look around the mirrored room, he was able to find the crystal guardian. The floating crystal guardian was a deep green and was in the form of an old man who was only the size of an adult head.
The crystal guardian noticed him looking at him so it raised a crystal hand and waved at him.
“Hey! Over here! This way!” shouted the crystal guide in a sharp gravelly voice.
The only problem was… there were over a thousand reflections all waving at him with over a dozen exits out of this room.
Akira stared at his bag hoping that the map would help him but… it did not pop out to help guide him and so Akira was forced to spend several hours chasing reflections of the Crystal guide.
His ears and brain were growing numb to the only words the Crystal guide knew how to say.
“Hey! Over here! This way!”
It would say this every few seconds.
“When I get my hands on you I’m going to…” said an agitated Akira only to be interrupted by the crystal guide once again.
“Hey! Over here! This way!”
Akira was sure that it was mocking him this entire time!
Another hour of torture ensued before he reached a dead end that held the Crystal guide.
“Heh heh heh. Found you!” said Akira as he pounced and grabbed the Crystal guide.
“DAMN IT!” shouted Akira as he felt his body being teleported.
He was unable to take out his frustrations on the crystal guide that had mocked him for several hours!
