Book One – Chapter 3

Yves would not leave their next encounter to chance. He decided to block and hide the path that led to the lighthouse area. However, he had needed three years to learn how to enter and navigate his mirror world existence and had never succeeded to use his energy for anything beyond that. The rules were different, the energies more elusive and capricious. In this world, reality was twisted, warped, creating a partial reflection of the elemental world that was both strange and perilous, while harbouring unknown beings and energies that Yves could hardly grasp.

To cast magic, a wizard had to connect with the essence of the world itself, absorbing the energies that flowed through it and then channelling them through himself. Yves was a Lightshifter. His core disposition was glass magic. All other skills that he developed in casting lights and illusions also belonged to the Lightshifter spectrum. The spectral division of magical potential meant that he was unable to realise abilities that wizards from the two other spectra possessed naturally, such as influencing and utilising the elements, but it gave him the unique ability to enter this world as a fractured shadow of his physical self, a being that was both physical and incorporeal, caught between two dimensions.

Even though Yves did not originate from this plane, existing in the mirror world was proof that he could use magic in this dimension. He utilised the energy that he brought with him to uphold his form, to see and to move. Now he needed to extend this influence from his body to his surroundings.

In any dimension, casting magic exhausted a wizard’s magical energy. To manipulate the mirror world would demand more of his energy. The Tome of the Ethereal Plaine had warned him of exhausting his innate energy to a point where he needed to absorb that of another plane that was not his. Yves had translated the riddled words as a process of consuming while being consumed. This would be his first time altering the mirror plane. However, everything Yves had done within the last ten years, from obtaining the tome and all necessary pieces to creating the ethereal mirrors up to mastering basic control of his mirror world form, would have eventually lead to him casting magic in the mirror plane. It was necessary to fulfil his agreement with the witch mother, so he might as well start now.