Warlock of Oceans: My Poseidon System

It only took a few seconds before she nodded, allowing me to head toward the elevator.

It opened up automatically, nobody inside, allowing a sense of peace to wash over me, and as I stepped in, the same status flickered in front of me.

Unlike the last time when all of the restricted skills turned into open ones, literally, every single part of this status said [Restricted].

It flickered once, hundreds of different and unfamiliar characters floating through the two brackets before eventually landing on a single number.

[7]

"Okay… so… floor seven, I'm assuming," I shrugged before punching the seventh button going up, and not too long after, I arrived at the seventh floor.

It was… very normal to say the least. It just looked like every other office, no matter how far or even where I walked.

And after a bit of inspection of other floors, I could tell it was obviously the same layout or blueprint as everything else. There was absolutely no difference in the way it was structured.

But, upon riding down to the seventh floor for my eighth time, a strange line of music played in the elevator, leaving chills to erupt across my skin.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Ding

As soon as I arrived at the floor, the door took a bit longer to open as the sound of the music, now erupting with violins, began to fade away.

Just as the song had reached its peak, the sound faded for some reason… until I stepped back onto the seventh floor and found myself amidst an empty office, a single violin strumming away through hidden speakers across the office.

"Why does this sound familiar?" I muttered to myself, but it wasn't long before I connected everything in my mind. "Is it the same violin I used?"

It was a beautiful sound that had been created, and only the greatest of musicians with the greatest of instruments could ever pull off such a sound.

"Hello?" I spoke up, my voice echoing through the room.

The music stopped. Everything stopped. The flickering of the untampered light in the corner of the room stopped. It just shone brightly. Eerily, it shone brightly.

The lamp it was connected to began to distort in the corner of the room, growing larger and larger, but not breaking through the concrete ceiling, and instead filling the space up like a balloon.

A deadly balloon, its glowing hot ball of light, began to spread toward me, attempting to devour me as it shot forward.

I felt a sense of dread wash over me as that enveloping light caught up to me, just barely grazing my foot. And despite it being a slight touch, it was enough to burn through my shoe and tear off a massive chunk of my skin.

"Let yourself go. Relax unless you wish to die," A voice echoed through the nonexistent speakers.

"Easier said than done when this thing hurts like shit. I'm really getting burned alive…." I smirked, wiping the sweat from my forehead and continuing to dodge now tendrils of light that shot towards me. "And how can I even trust you?"

"You can't trust me," The voice now echoed through my mind. "But I can guarantee your safety if you just let yourself get devoured by this light."

"What even is it? You gotta tell me something to make me even slightly believe you."

"It's a light of cleansing used to rid demons from this world. If you die by this light, then that means you are more evil than good. But, if you survive this light, then you are more good than evil, and we can talk."

"Then I don't have a good chance of surviving, do I?"

"That is up to you…." The voice trailed off, and no matter how many times I called out to it, it wouldn't come back, and this dreaded light kept growing closer and closer to me.

"I guess I have no choice…."

VWOOOM

When I awoke from the searing light, I panicked, touching every place on my body to make sure it was still there, and well… to say the least everything was still there… except for my clothes.

Right next to the itchy sheets I was lying in was a comfortable set of white robes that I immediately put on.

They were pretty soft and drooped just a bit larger than I would like, but at least they covered me up neatly, allowing me to move out of bed and take a closer look at the room I was currently in.

It was a stone brick room, polished endlessly until brick nearly looked like marble, and it had the vibe of a prison cell, but it had a gaping exit perpendicular to the bed I had been lying in.

So, I quickly exited the room and found myself in a double hallway, with one end leading to the right and one end leading to the left.

"Hmmmmm? You actually made it through~?"

Suddenly, a head popped up from the stone brick floor beneath me, and a woman with long white hair and a blindfold wrapped around scarred eyes looked up at me.

Her smile was a bit childish, but upon entirely phasing upwards into the long hallway, I saw she was an adult with a very skinny body.

It was hidden well by the long white robes similar to mine, but it was clear she was malnourished or something… she was just really skinny. I don't know.

She had to be at least 6'2 and had slender fingers that slowly wrapped around my right shoulder.

We suddenly began to phase back into the stone brick floor, and as I held my breath, we phased through it, suddenly dropping into a new room with something familiar at the very end of it.

"The violin," I called out, surprising the woman as we fell a few feet onto a circular stone table surrounded by eight chairs.

"Hmmmm~ Who are you~?" The woman asked as I swiveled my head around.