Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Alicia went forward and stepped on the platform to find herself back at the starting point. She did not continue on right away, she stopped and thought for a moment before taking her sword and marking the set of stairs she had just tried. She then went to the set next to it and stepped on the first step. To her surprise, nothing happened and she could freely climb up them. When she reached the top she was left with three more sets of stairs to choose from. "If I am not wrong. If I choose the wrong path I will be forced to fight. But if I choose the right path I will not need to fight at all."

After figuring out the test to this point, Alicia then looked at each set of stairs closely. She wondered if there was a way to tell which set of stairs you could pass through without needing to choose at random. But after looking for a good while, Alicia frowned when she could not come up with anything. "Since I can't see anything what if I did this."

Waving her hand Alicia sent out three fireballs at each set of stairs. Two smashed into an invisible wall while one smashed into the stairs. "Hehe, well hidden. Seems this is the trick." 

With her path laid out, Alicia quickly moved from level to level. Nothing stopped her as she quickly advanced through the labyrinth-like maze of stairs. It was not until she seemed to reach the end of the maze where she was met with a large metal door that had a large hourglass on it. Inside the hourglass, a sand like substance poured down. It looked like sand but had a more magical glow about it as it swirled down into the bottom half of the hourglass. The red jaded double doors had an arch at the top and golden trim. On the wall next to the door was a set of words: "Reverse time to gain my legacy."contemporary romance

A single sentence that explained what she had to do very well but at the same time confused Alicia. The hourglass was embedded into the door from what she could tell, so it was not like she could just tip it upside down. When she went to touch it there was a barrier around it as well. Stumped and confused Alicia sat down on the floor in front of the hourglass staring at it. 

She was not sure of what to do."I guess I could try wrapping my hands in the law of time and space and see if I can pass the barrier like that but I am not sure if this will work or not." 

With this thought in mind, Alicia stood up and did as she said. She wrapped her hands in the law of time and space and touched the barrier. Sure enough her hand passed through the barrier but she found that the hourglass was truly unturnable. She could tell it was embedded into the door but she did not know if she could pull it out or not until now. 

"Hmmm… It says to reverse the flow of the hourglass. I guess I have to somehow turn time backward just for the hourglass. If I wrap my hands in the law of time and space and then also spread this law to the hourglass and will it to reverse it should work. In a way, this is no different than when I wrapped my law of wind based sword blades with the law of time and space. The only difficulty is actually reversing time." With her plan set, she quickly went to see if it would work. 

Alicia once again wrapped her hands in the law of time and space and pushed them past the barrier. Once she had her hands on the hourglass she put her full concentration into wrapping the hourglass with the law of time and space as well. Once it was fully covered she began the process of reversing time inside the hourglass. This took Alicia's full concentration since it was not an easy task to reverse or move time forward. With her full concentration, she was slowly but surely making progress. After many trials and errors, she finally got the hang of reversing time. The sand within the hourglass slowly began to move backward, from the bottom of the hourglass to the top of the hourglass.

Alicia had no idea how much time passed but she was now finally down to the last grain of sand. She had to do two things simultaneously. She had to keep hold of the sand at the top of the hourglass as well as reverse time for the sand at the bottom of the hourglass. Right as the last grain of sand reached the top of the hourglass a click sound was heard and the barrier blocking Alicia disappeared along with the hourglass itself. The doors to the room slowly opened inwardly. Allowing Alicia to finally pass through.

As Alicia entered the room, the door to the room disappeared in the same manner as it did in the previous room. What surprised Alicia was that standing in the middle of the room was an old man wearing a set of black robes with hourglasses embroidered all over them. "Such a young child was able to pass my tests… You are truly gifted in the law of time and space. In order to gain my legacy, I must ask you to pass one final hurdle."

"Senior what hurdle would that be?" Alicia asked curiously. 

"You must fight me!"

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