Author's extra note- The details in the brackets are not known by the protagonist till he experience them later.
Continuation of the previous chapter:
My experience and instincts-screamed at me in this proximity of the beast i sensed-so ancient and with vast magical energy. The energy felt to me with my instincts telling me to scramble away from the side of this labyrinth -like cave, with furthermore highly glowing crystal ,not found as earlier, where I awakened, survived the juvenile beast by luck.
Now, the existence of much powerful beast terrifies me. I fear the danger, yet curious and intrigued, I felt as if it had sensed my sensory probing, yet hadn't taken any action upon it.
I got more alert at its existence it felt like a chasm of a difference in comparison to the juvenile-no even if that was an adult, it wouldn't compare to this beast.
I went on moving by the wall and as touched a crystal for the first time, i felt heavy magical sensory input passing to my brain, it shocked me, making flinch as well as jump back yet miserably falling to the cave floor.
I hear a chuckle as of heaving like a deliberate laugh at my senseless actions.
I stood back up by my hand holding me up from the ground as I used my legs to stand up .As I stood perfectly straight, then a vortex or a swirl- a whirling twister magical energy formed around me overwhelming my energy guided vision that led me to shut it off.as I close and re-opened my eyes to recalibrate my vision.
I saw a swirling cloud around me-yes it was so dense that it became dust-like particle visible as a soft-blue screened dust cloud swirling .It felt warm yet cold, as if filled with millennia of existence had what forged its current presence.
This mist-like cloud had locked my body as if I had become a paralyzed living corpse. It made me feel nervous as if it might my final moments before the beast sees me to fill its curiosity of what had been roaming in the depths.
The cloud made me levitate upwards-enough for me to not touch the rocky spiky ceiling or any crystal .I was levitation and so was pushed forward by the energy as if moving toward the Ancient Beast, like the energy itself was juggling with my body safely to bring to the manipulator, like a priced antique.
After a while of perceiving what felt like wild spatial twister with turns being wriggly with motion as if the crystal formations were far more abundant till i began to hear i light, 'z' very high pitched sound as if something is being broken apart at very small level continuously by sandpaper.
After awhile the sound stopped coming, and the wriggles and turns of my body while being carried stopped as well. When my body sensed floating directly up the ground like how person is perpendicular to flat ground while standing.
The speed slowed down as if finally reaching the final destination. My feet finally touched the ground. the cloud of swirling mist-like energy finally vanished and cleared the view. I saw myself in a cavity with surprisingly no crystal whatsoever and yet there was enough light that I could comfortably see whatever was occupying space in this cavity. After focusing my eyes straight where my face was pointing, I saw pure black as if i am unable to see the beast, yet if I can compare dimensions its large enough to bite through a car and swallow or rather drink it whole if it can melt the car with the energy it holds within itself. Yet the comparison can be wrong since it can obviously obscure much greater that its size probably.
I walked a few steps ,and then I saw a blink of light appearing from the pitch black wall that I perceived as if I am now under the beast's direct observation - in front of its eyes.
I heard a huff from the beast's position.The beast looked at me showing me an image or rather a transconvertable piece of interpretable data- Of the energy i used, percieved and probed the cave with,was called Erlis.
Above it in hierarchy was something that has much different structure and performance on basis.The image twisted into a different image showing me how Erlis could be converted from pure form to its deviated archetypes that are
fire(conversion to imaginary combustion forming heat and light),
water (conversion to a imaginary duplicate to water,yet not the same due to actually being useless for consumption as its just Erlis behaving like water)
Wind (movement by air -not creation of new gases)
Earth (raw movement of the solid ground that can be moved or manipulated by the preciseness or control used,else its useless ,unless you can have and control large amount of Erlis at the same time)
Lightning (large amount of imaginary ionisation that has high entropy and requires extreme control to guide it)
This amount of information was sent to my brain in just two images took time to digest and process completely.Now i had realised,this beast is definitely not a normal one and I am now rather relaxed lightly considering that this beast is probably handling a little sentient visitor -fragile and brittle ,to easy to break or rather here,too easy to die.
I have now understood a bit about this Erlis.