Two Worlds at a Time

As Aric continued drawing on his consciousness, there were no sudden or random movements from the two balls of light. He thought that making any kind of movement here might interfere with the balls of light. He was hungry for power, but he had his priorities straight.

Those balls of light were his access to two different worlds, and in no way was he ready to negotiate any kind of deal on this. Thankfully, there were no red flags on the balls and he continued with his drawing.

After the circle came the straight lines and curves inside. Drawing the circle was kind of easy and even the straight lines inside, but the curves required his total attention. Aric didn’t find any problem in the beginning, but once the curve drawing came into play...

Aric didn’t like the power system in the world at all and hoped in the beginning that it would be like any other fantasy novel. But reality was different, and maybe the schools had different ways to implement these models.

While drawing the curves, his concentration suddenly broke off and all the progress he had made starting from the circle vanished like dust. This took Aric by storm. He was sure that he had remembered the drawing well and even drew it multiple times on paper. He actually thought that drawing these on paper might produce some kind of reaction.

But there was none, which made him a bit disappointed.

So after multiple drawings and making sure he remembered every nook and corner to the tee, he started the drawings in his consciousness. He thought the whole process would be a walk in the park, and honestly speaking, he looked down on these ’aboriginals’ from the magical world.

Subconsciously, he put the interstellar world in a higher place since the people in power there could even annihilate galaxies, and the magical world, though powerful, never heard of any such stories. The education level was quite low, and people were struggling to make a better life for themselves. Thus, when he heard that people struggled to draw these runic circles and diagrams, he thought it was because of low knowledge.

But he got smacked in the face with reality.

Of course, Aric wasn’t ready to give up with just one failure. He went to work again and started the same way. And this time too, he suffered. The curves didn’t come right, and he lost his concentration.

"I don’t believe I won’t get it right by tonight," Aric declared as he continued in his struggle to draw a simple yet intricate drawing. But being stubborn wasn’t a solution as he couldn’t do it even when the clock struck 12 am.