500th Time Reborn, A World Only Known By Women: The Karma System

The black stones had no shine and seemed to absorb the light around us. I even found them hard to stare at; it was like looking into the nothingness that wanted to consume and pull me in. it was the same feeling as when I died each life, and I was left to sit in the void until I was spat back out into Yaggisdral.

"Can't do that," Amanda said, and I looked up from the device with a raised eyebrow.

"Can't what? Get to space? Really?" I asked, and Amanda nodded.

"the same reason why you can only head so far south from any island. The world as we know it is surrounded by an invisible opaque shell that heads down for an undetermined distance. Before you ask, yes, I have tried everything that I could think of to try and get through, but nothing has had any effect. Even if we use a drill, there is no friction to even heat the bit up at the tip. It is like the wall doesn't exist," Amanda explained, and both my eyebrows went up.

"Not even magic?!" I asked in surprise as I walked over and set down the dome-shaped gizmo I was holding.

Instead of answering, Amanda opened a porta above open water, facing a milky white wall. "Try yourself. I am not the greatest mage since Magic has never been my passion, but I have tried many things on it. The best way for you to understand is to try it yourself."

I looked at the white wall, but there were slight swirls to it with small streaks and shadows of gray that would briefly appear but then mix back into the white. Walking forward to the portal, I placed my hand on the wall, but it was the strangest feeling. I was touching nothing for my brain to register, but something was stopping me, and I was forced to pull my hand back as my body started to feel weird.

"Don't touch it for too long. I think the sensation of touching but not touching something is too much for our brains. Even with my brain, which I can use much better than most, I start having trouble even processing simple thoughts after only one minute of touching it. When I let go, I collapsed and didn't wake up for three days, and even then, I woke up with a headache that made me think I was dying because I had never had one before. The wall is beyond perplexing," Amanda explained, and I nodded my head with a surprised look.

"That's pretty messed up, but I am going to go through on the other side. Close this port, and then open one about two hundred meters up," I said as I stepped through and onto the surface of the mostly calm water.

"That high up?" Amanda asked, and I nodded as I looked back at her.

"I am sure that you tried everything that you could, but I have a bit more power than you do. Might as well see if I can make a dent in it, but if you can't do it, then I am going to have to really go all out," I said with a smile, getting excited to cut loose.

"Fine, but I don't think you need to worry about it. Just try to cast a spell on the wall, and see what happens," Amanda said without closing the portal.

I shrugged and turned back to the wall, casting a fireball at it to test, but nothing happened, and I frowned. "What the fuck?!" I asked and then tried casting it with words, but nothing happened again.

"You can't even create a spell to cast. Now, try to make a fireball and throw it at the wall," Amanda said from behind me, and I nodded.

I quickly created a ball of fire in my hand, but the moment that I thought about using it on the wall, the magic disappeared like I had never even gathered, but it was more than that. I tried to do it again but focused on the magic this time. When I considered throwing the fire, it vanished, but the Fire Magic converted back into Pure Magic and seemed to return to where I got it from.

"Now that is messed up," I said, but then clenched my fist and covered it with my galactic coating. "So magic and tech don't work, then there really is only one more thing to try!" I shouted and then punched it as hard as I could.

The impact was non-existent, and my astral coating vanished off my hand the moment it hit the wall if you could call it that. I felt no impact, and my fist had just stopped like I had gently pushed it up to a wall; just there was no wall or feeling of one.

"Whatever this thing is, we are either not meant to get through it, or the right conditions have not been met," Amanda said with a sigh as the portal closed, and I turned back around to face her as the Gold Goddess walked back to sit down at her bench.

"Maybe we should just let it be then. If there is something out there, it can wait until we are ready to face the unknown," I said, and Amanda nodded in agreement before looking at me with a smirk.

"Maybe, but don't forget, you have only scratched the surface of my tech. I have no idea what else your powers could do if put to the test. Who knows, maybe one day you will find a way through this wall." Amanda said, and I couldn't help but feel excited about the future, even if I wasn't sure what was on the other side.

"I guess we will see when that time comes," I said as I walked over to stand beside her, admiring the pieces of tech spread across the table.

"Indeed it shall be. That is why I love working with you, you never know what might be around the corner," Amanda said with a smile, and I returned it before pointing down at the table.