Passing through the opening, unsurprisingly, they were in a mine.
At the entrance, a tunnel had been manually excavated, leading straight inside.
Although it was a mine, it didn't feel dark at all. The surrounding blue ice emitted a soft white glow.
Amir closed his eyes and sensed his surroundings. In the pitch-black field of vision, a bright spot appeared, as if calling to him.
"Do I get a Kyber crystal too?" Amir was pleasantly surprised.
This feeling was very similar to the crystal Gulina had given him.
He already had a lightsaber and hadn't planned on getting another one on this trip.
But since a crystal was calling to him, he definitely had to go get it. What if the crystal got sad otherwise?
Milisen was also frowning, trying to sense something, but didn't seem to find anything obvious.
"I'm going, Amir! I feel it just ahead!" Milisen trotted forward and said to Amir.
"Me too..." 32 also followed Milisen, walking forward.
After just a few steps, they reached a fork in the road. Milisen and 32 each chose a direction.
There was no right or wrong path to finding a crystal, only following the guidance of the Force.
Simply put: trust your instincts.
But Amir could roughly sense the location of his crystal, so he didn't need to search blindly. He walked directly in one direction.
After passing through the tunnel, the space inside the mine opened up. The wide ice cave had huge ice platforms, hanging ice stalactites, openings shaped like crossed fangs, and abyssal black pools.
With the aid of the Force, Amir walked as if on flat ground, steadily heading deeper into the mine.
. . .
32 walked forward step by step.
Surrounded by ice, this environment felt novel to him.
He couldn't feel cold.
But what was his surrounding like?
Through his cybernetic eyes, he could see many things: time, temperature, remaining energy to sustain his activity, the status of various parts of his mechanical body.
He liked this state. A controllable body, no pain, no rot.
Although he sometimes felt a little envious watching Amir and the others eat, none of that mattered to him.
What mattered was freedom and peace.
Freedom of the body, peace of perception.
Moreover, he had now learned to sense with the Force, which surprised and excited him.
Compared to touch, Force perception reached the essence of things directly, giving him an unprecedented experience. His only regret was also filled.
Now, only cherishing and gratitude remained.
Looking up, he seemed to see a glimmer of light flickering within the ice.
Looking closely, the light disappeared. Looking away, it appeared again.
32 felt a sense of closeness.
So he walked in the direction of that light.
On the other side, Milisen was much more confused.
Since entering the mine, she had been looking around constantly. Obi-Wan and Amir both said her Kyber crystal would guide her to it, but she had been in here for a long time and still hadn't found anything!
This made her anxious. What if no Kyber crystal chooses me?
No way, no way! Ahhh!
Thinking of this, she walked faster. As long as I walk far enough, I'll definitely find a crystal!
She walked faster and faster, jumping over many high platforms, passing through narrow tunnels. Sweat appeared on her smooth forehead. Until she walked into a wide hall. A sudden breeze made her feel a chill, and she couldn't help but shiver.
But looking at the scene before her, Milisen was mesmerized.
"So beautiful..."
Blue ice crystals hung upside down, forming stalactites that connected with the ground. Countless blue-white fluorescent lights flickered between the ice layers, like dancing ice sprites. The entire hall was crystal clear, like a wonderful dream.
Milisen couldn't help but walk forward. Just two steps in, a cracking sound came from the ice beneath her feet.
A sense of crisis instantly enveloped Milisen's mind. She quickly jumped backward, but the ground beneath her had already shattered, losing its support. Her feet stepped into empty air.
The world spun, and Milisen fell heavily to the ground.
The sudden pain made her hug her body, curling into a ball.
"Good thing I'm wearing thick clothes." Milisen took a moment to recover before slowly standing up.
The scene she saw now was the complete opposite of what it was above. The surrounding light became dim. The previously white fluorescence had turned gaudy, like rust-red mixed into blue sap oozing from a tree wound.
Milisen was scared. She felt an uncomfortable aura. The space she was in felt enclosed, like the small room from before—dark and cold.
"Amir!" Milisen took two steps back, leaned against the wall, and couldn't help but shout.
But she only heard echoes from all around.
Swallowing, Milisen weakly reached out to touch the fluorescence in front of her, but felt nothing.
Taking a deep breath, Milisen walked forward. She saw that in the red, starry sky-like fluorescence, one light was exceptionally bright.
Although puzzled, she still walked toward that light.
. . .
Amir quickly found his Kyber crystal, but it wasn't quite what he had imagined.
He originally thought it would be a small crystal hanging on an ice platform, waiting for him to pick it.
But the "small" crystal he saw wasn't small at all.
The crystal was embedded in the wall, looking no different from other crystals he had seen on the way, but it was the size of a human head.
There was a lot of space left around the crystal, so Amir pried it out without much effort.
"How do I make a lightsaber with this?" Amir felt helpless.
Take it back first.
As he was thinking, Amir felt a strange sensation.
Perhaps because the mine contained many crystals, the Force inside was much stronger than outside, so his Force perception became clearer than before.
At this moment, he discovered a dark Force spreading from a location not far away.
"Milisen?" Amir thought, but quickly rejected the idea. This Force was somewhat different from Milisen's.
Or rather, it was somewhat different from any dark Force he had seen.
It wasn't that tyrannical anger and endless desire, but more like unwillingness and stubbornness.
In this respect, it didn't even feel like the dark Force.
Picking up the huge Kyber crystal, Amir rushed toward the location he sensed.
. . .
Milisen walked to the front of the light. To her surprise, it was a Kyber crystal. It really was guiding her!
Although she didn't quite like the method, she forgave it for having good taste.
Taking down the crystal, the already illusory light on it disappeared, leaving only an ordinary crystal lying in her hand.
Milisen discovered there was a deep crack in the blue crystal, and a red halo spread outward from the crack.
Although this puzzled her, Milisen still liked this crystal very much. Holding it in her hand, she seemed to feel emotions coming from it.
It didn't feel like a crystal, but more like a friend.
"Milisen?" A familiar voice came from above.
Milisen looked up. The scene above became clear.
She smiled happily.
"I found it, Amir! I can make a lightsaber!"
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