The Wizard

Chapter 12 part 2

Igor was lying down and very relaxed when Ailin lay down next to him, hugging him.

"I thought we had already talked about certain things, my angel," he said, turning his face to her and smiling.

"Well," Ailin laughed, caressing her friend, "let's sleep together as we always did. The rest doesn't need to happen."

"Behaved, huh?" Igor laughed and hugged her, kissing the girl affectionately. "You are too dangerous and I end up faltering because of the resemblance—"

They woke up early and bathed. Igor always missed a good coffee and had no doubt in making one appear. Ailin, who had already tasted and loved it, did not hesitate and used her powers to materialize another one for her. Laughing and very happy for having succeeded, she started drinking. When they finished, she went to take her classes and he returned to the fourth plane, looking for the entrance to the city or whatever that was.

It was already dark, but he had not yet been crowned with success. When he was about to give up, he felt a faint vibration. It was not a physical vibration but something too subtle, which, definitively, was not natural but some kind of machinery. He decided to look a little more, readjusting his equipment for another functionality. Despite the high sensitivity of the device, he had to cross the mountain range twice, taking five days with it, because the formation was about twenty kilometers long and maybe five or six wide. The night of the sixth day was already halfway through when he found the entrance. As in the previous shifts, he decided to sleep there so as not to waste time or orientation.

He woke up at dawn, still tired, and prepared to enter the interior of the mountain accompanied by his friend Gwydion, who was always around. When they reached the first large cave, he felt disappointed because the place did not look much different from a small inland town. Despite the phosphorescence of the walls, he chose to launch a gigantic ball of light and make it float as high as possible. He followed some streets, trying to keep a constant direction towards the center. Gwydion, since he entered there, flew from one side to the other looking for information, which he passed on to Igor and that's how he said:

"There is a larger cave next to this one and inside there is a very large pyramidal building where I feel several vibrations flowing. Further back, a colossal pavilion appears and they are the only buildings that exist."

"Let's go see that," Igor said, rising in the air behind the bird.

They crossed the cave in a little more than a minute and, in another, they were halfway to the pyramid that was visible in the distance. As the dragon said, the building behind it was titanic. It must have been about three or more kilometers on the side and eight hundred meters high. In depth he was not able to calculate the dimension for lack of a reference. The pavilion started about thirty meters after the strange building and occupied the entire cave to the bottom, if it did not continue into the mountain or underground. When they landed at the base of the pyramid, they located a door that faced north. Igor did not expect to find it unlocked and, therefore, found it very strange when it opened effortlessly. They entered the first room, which was empty except for several opaque panels. A quick analysis was enough to find out that they were image screens and that looked like a lobby of some commercial or administrative building of yore, where the panels passed various information to the people who used the building.

There were some corridors with niches closed by sliding doors. Igor opened one and came across something that resembled, and should be, computer consoles. At the end of one of the corridors, he opened the door and saw a room that had everything to do with a huge control room. There were some armchairs very similar to those of the 20th century Earth and he sat down in one of them, looking at the table in front of him. To his surprise, the room lit up, showing several screens that also activated.