The Beast had then used erlis to create a soft-blue luminous, human hand. Its action confused me as I believed erlis to only have those deviations.....no, that human hand is probably a construct made of pure erlis.
The hand moved as if scrutinizing me, pointing to my heart and then my head and then it made a fist just to reopen it to an open palm with each finger showing a swirling like glowing orbs of energies of varying colours.
I believed the bright-soft red coloured erlis swirling on the phantom to be a fire archetype that was right above the thumb.The orb above the ringfinger had a sapphire with wave swirl glow,something that I consider to represent the water archetype.
Then my focus went to an erratic looking orb above the forefinger that seemed to have that erratic blueish-white branching rays,that branched off in multiples of random arcs to reach the outermost shell-like part of the transparent orb,which resulted in a pulse like glow around the orb.
Above the central finger ,I see the orb with internally moving grain-like white of varying hues,as if they are some sort of dust moving by the wind,...uhhh in this orb it's more like dust trapped in a whirlwind simulation.
Above the little finger,was a brown coloured orb with varying tints of random? Colours and with common its obviously the earth archetype,certainly since the crust has many minerals and of varying colours.some are black colour like magnetite,some are yellow,some are silver grey.
The Beast after observing the little sentient being to be observing and analysing the colour-coded understanding of archetypal essences.It believed that it can continue controlling the phantom hand to demonstrate further.
The phantom hand suddenly erased all the orbs in my sight and then pulsed back the fire orb.The orb representing the fire archetype levitated in front of the palm of the phantom hand.The orb lit up and turned into wisp of fire.the wisp of fire was as big as that hand. That fire felt real with the warm ,hot glow and its fluidity like movement as it burns in air. The phantom hand itself drew closer to me as I began to come closer to it,with my arm extending forward but not in touch with that fire.I knew that it would sting real well if i touch it for a bit and even get burns.
The phantom then switched the wisp of fire with the sapphire orb with wavy animate swirl,,the one representing the water archetype.That orb then was replaced with a sphere of water which had the diameter to span the phantom hand.As the water is obviously safe to touch than fire.I touched it.That feeling was really like actual water.As it is water,I believe I can drink that .I scooped water from that sphere ,and that scooped up part directly upon losing contact from that sphere .The scooped water was now unaffected by the erlis manipulating it..So, some of it got spilt on the ground.When I took a sip of the scooped water.It was drastically worse than that sour water I had tasted back when I had found that large stalagmite.
This water I tasted now is nothing but a fake wannabe!I want to cry.Its taste is so bad,I feel spicy,sweet,sour,and bitter at same time and so crudely that it feels like someone is scratching multiple forks at the same time on both my ears.Its disorienting.
The beast upon observing the internal monologue and the reaction of the sentient creature made it ,heave a desperate chuckle.While our protagonist is desperately rubbing his tongue with the roof of the mouth,to try to not focus on the taste but fails to ignore it and spat the 'water' out.
As I heard the beast chuckle at my miserable action,which made me mentally note a self-advice "to never consume anything without knowledge".All the 'water' began to glow and collect back to the orb that it originally was returning to it original shape,even the water that I sipped somehow went back to the sphere.
The orb then was replaced by a different orb that represented the wind archetype.The appearance of this orb confuses me, How can the beast demonstrate wind without going high power?
The appearance of this doubt made the beast assume indignant toward the sentient being,it is teaching.Similar to how a teacher would get ticked off if a student tries to cut them off repeatedly for a mistake that was corrected still.
And that was the mistake of our protagonist who faces a light 'stand where you should' probably metaphorically or literally?What happens next? Find out in the Next Part!