A Wizards Misadventures

~~World 2-Level One~~

Having a moment of something like inspiration or perhaps fear I stored my body in my soul space and teleported myself far out into space. It was then that I saw the planet clearly. It was NOT Remnant. It wasn't Earth either. It seemed completely random, honestly. So I had no idea where I was, and I couldn't teleport back to Remnant… shit.

Though I doubted it would work, I reached out to the greater void and commanded it to bring me back to my Remnant. I felt it respond and felt my soul compress and twist, but when I was released I was still far above the desert planet.

So Remnant was blocked off… how?! There were a - quite literally - infinite amount of Remnant's just like my own! How am I being…

As my mind came to a conclusion I focused my senses on myself. It didn't even take any effort to find what I was looking for. An anchor of some sort was on me made of an affinity I could clearly recognize and braided through it was another affinity I recalled but couldn't remember at the moment. Mind affinity. Somebody was screwing with my head somehow despite all of my precautions and mental defenses. This was literally my worst fear.

After looking through my memories quickly for discrepancies of any sort, I decided that I was as safe as I could be. Nothing related to my identity was tampered with. or if it was, it was neat enough that I'd never find it. Even so, the anchor of mind magic I could detect was inert. It wasn't doing anything at the moment. But I had a good guess of what it was supposed to do.

I grasped the void. Nothing happened. I reached out to the greater void. Nothing happened. I reached out for Remnant and the anchor jerked, tearing at my mind and through my mind the void. As soon as I sent the impulse to transport myself back to Remnant I sent another command to cancel the command, making the void stop transporting me. The process was instant, though, so I had no way of really stopping it.

So that's what the anchor does. Now for the other stuff…

I looked through my memories again, matching all the affinities I had seen. I looked through a few hundred I had seen in the souls of random people before I moved to ones I had once had and were removed when I found my match.

Fate affinity. The stuff that gave people a destiny. I didn't have one anymore, I was pretty sure. I think I had one before I was brought to Remnant, but now I had the FATE system, or just the system as I called it, because some gods had yanked it out of me. Not that the thing was all that useful. I didn't forget the skills I learned and I learned at what was clearly an abnormal pace, but I would have liked the ability to control fate more than a game interface.

At any rate, I had fate affinity on me. Oh boy, I wonder what that does. Just because I was nearly out of options, I tried to turn my void on the anchor of mind affinity. The violent chill hit me again despite my lack of a body as the fate affinity in the anchor pulsed and I hesitated. I brought my void towards the anchor again and the anchor pulsed much harder.

I felt my senses fade to black and my soul shook. I saw blue windows despite my lack of eyes, each with ominous warnings like 'NO', 'STOP OR DIE', and 'YOU ARE BARRED'. Behind them was a flickering stat window, my stat window actually. The numbers I was used to flickered with symbols, some english and some other languages. A moment later the boxes faded and I felt achey.

So it seemed like I couldn't go to Remnant anymore. For the foreseeable future, at least. I had a few guesses as to who it was. Somebody with magic, control over fate affinity, and a reason to exile me from my home… it's either the brothers of light again, or the siblings if the god of light actually was female like Icmant claimed years ago, or it was an alternate version of me. I've met with at least a dozen versions of myself at this point.