"You know? Your mind is... curiously resilient. But this is still child's play to me."
Qaxy continued searching for fears among his memories. He saw the village, the training with Allice, Roshia's grateful face, and Elara's smile. These were recent memories, full of intense emotions, but there was nothing of his life as a hero.
"Why is there nothing?"
Suddenly, the mental landscape shifted drastically. Qaxy frowned, confused. The surroundings were no longer the world he knew. He was standing on a hard, gray surface, surrounded by gigantic metallic structures that soared toward the sky. Metal carriages without horses zipped past at incredible speeds, and the people wore strange clothes.
"What... what is this place?" Qaxy murmured, his voice tinged with genuine bewilderment for the first time. There was no magic here. There were no monsters. It was a flat, mechanical world. He saw Kai, but in different clothing, walking among the crowd, looking... normal. Bored, even.
