Whether you died right there in the process or after shifting to the Vicha’s dimension, a portal did not dissipate after a shift. That explained the lingering ominous feeling in places where a Vicha had consumed its target — because it persisted, existing in a third dimension beyond the reach of first and second sight. Yves assumed that from this third dimension, the faintest of phantom presences still touched upon the dual reality, not visible, but still perceived by what may be defined as your instinct or intuition, the ominous bad feeling.
Was all of this a terrible idea? Oh yes. But unfortunately, it made more sense than anything else. Yves knew less than the bare minimum about dimensional travel, heck, he did not even understand how exactly his body and energy transitioned from their dimensions to the Mirror Dimension. Yet, whatever link existed between his body and his Rothar, and however his consciousness was defined and connected to both, his mirrors somehow accessed and altered this link. As a wizard, he could draw energy from one dimension and convert it into matter in another. His ethereal mirrors exemplified this interdimensional transfer, shifting his body and Rothar into a mirror world form within the Dimensional Plane of Shards. The moment he entered the Mirror World, his matter and Rothar disappeared from their respective dimensions, just like anyone who fell victim to a Vicha. And as he shifted, the infused Vicha part within him, the gateway key, came with. Yves had sensed it when transforming after closing the lighthouse tunnel.
Now, then, did that not make you wonder, what would happen if the whole Vicha was connected to him, and his ethereal portal were just much, much bigger?
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