Scene 1 - First Eye of Locking

Time passed as two weeks flashed by in a blink of an eye though the time was well spent with Master Mo and Marley lecturing the youths and filling their days with practice. The siblings had information ranging everywhere from cooking to major powers and worldly treasures drilled into them whenever one of the pairs appeared, all in the attempt to prepare them for the upcoming test.

Despite the lack of time on their hands, Master Mo, Marley and their helpers managed to force all the needed information upon the siblings before they arrived in the town where they would drop the nine children off.

With some rarely found free time on their hands, the siblings scattered through the ship with each doing their own things. Yet despite having some down time, Vince sat within a training room, searching for enlightenment on , the magic given to him by the old god, Reveera.

Breathing steadily and closing his eyes, Vince pulled out all nine of his axes, allowing them to float around him in their original sizes while he visualized the scene that Reveera had branded upon his soul. His axes started to spin in an unnatural rhythm as the goddess Reveera appeared within his mind, her eyes closed, breath faint, and arms across her chest. Seconds turned into minutes as Reveera slowly began to move her hands, gradually shaping a complex runic formation.

By the time her hand stopped moving, layers upon layers of runes swirled loosely around her body Obscured by the light the runes gave off, Reveera pointed to the front, gathering the mana within herself to create a small ball above the tip of her index finger that quickly grew to the size of a large hill

With her preparations finished, the God took a deep breath as the runes swirling around her began to wiggle and latched onto her body like chains, crawling around her like snakes before moving towards her arm and converging around her index finger, that then crawled up her body like snakes onto her arm and then finally swirled tightly packed around her finger.

Reveera’s emotionless eyes suddenly opened, and her lips parted ever so slightly, “>.”

The rune snakes on her finger shot straight into the ball of mana above them with loud excited hisses, branding themselves upon the dense ball of gravity mana and causing it to slowly shrink until it reached the size of a fist.

Reveera flicked her hand, sending the ball flying out towards a mountain in the distance. When the ball was a thousand meters away from the target, Reveera snapped her fingers and the runic markings upon the ball slithered like the snakes they were and sunk under its surface, causing the ball of mana to wiggle and distort as its color quickly darken to the extreme, becoming pure black with cracks radiating over its surface.

The stoic as ever Reveera suddenly uttered a single word, “Implode.”

BOOM

The fist-sized ball of mana exploded out into a raging vortex, causing the mountain to shudder even as an inhuman screech rang out from within the newly appeared black hole.

Her head held high, Reveera swung her sleeve and coldly ordered, "Pierce."

The black hole, seeming like a living being, let out a screech as it crashed towards the trembling mountain, tearing into its side and leaving only a small two-meter wide hole behind.

A few seconds passed by with nothing happening, so Reveera spoke yet another domineering word, ‘“Consume!”

Though Vince could only see the mountain shaking and thought nothing was happening, eventually he noticed that the mountain face seemed to be shrinking as if its guts were being sucked out.

Cracks slowly appeared on the mountain, and at this point, it had long lost its previous imposing demeanor and was merely a husk of its former self. Reveera laughed, showing actual emotion for the first time as she made a sign with her hand, "From dust, you came and to dust you go!"

The mountain seemed to seethe in anger at Reveera's remark, but sadly it was dying and couldn't take revenge. The previously tower mountain fell away piece by piece, revealing the insatiable black hole eating it from the inside out.

When the last of the mountain was finally consumed, Reveera gave a small nod and waved her sleeve, causing the black hole to disperse into clumps of mana. She turned to Vince with a smile on her face, walking through him and throwing him out of the scene in the process.

Sweat dripped down Vince's pale face, but a smile appeared on his lips nonetheless, “So gravity magic could be used in such a way? As expected of a God, coming up with such domineering magic!”

Only now did Vince see that gravity magic wasn’t just a magic used for crushing, it could also consume, pierce and implode! Countless pieces of inspiration flashed across his mind, making him eager to test the theories and figure out what those unknown runes meant.

Suddenly, Vince paused, ‘Wait, she said this was the first void: eye of locking? How many levels are in this domineering magic!?’

In the midsts of his thoughts the door to his training room opened up and Saren appeared, “Elder Brother, Master Mo is calling for us. He says he has something important to talk to us about.”

“Eh?”

A few minutes later Vince and his siblings sat in the main training hall, waiting for their master to arrive. Not long after they sat down, Master Mo walked in and took a seat facing them.

The first thing he did was turn to Xue and ask, “How have you been feeling lately, little Xue?”

Xue, who had been absentmindedly scratching her head, flushed in embarrassment and didn't look Master Mo in the eye as she nodded, “Disciple feels better than ever Master!”

Shaking his head with a smile, Master Mo turned his attention to the rest of the siblings, “In a few days we will be landing in the city outside of the sect. Therefore tomorrow we shall hold a mock battle between you siblings.

Now I understand if you don't want to fight one another, but I see that all of you have reached a bottleneck on your first realms... well, with the exception of Nena, who has reached the second realm, and Vine and Rune who have reached the fifth realm's bottleneck. Perhaps if you two fight each other it could allow you to break through that last bit. Now then if you're fine with fighting one another, step forth.”