The entire room is coated in a foot of enchanted copper," Annabel explained what she'd been told as best she could as they approached the last checkpoint. "It absorbs stray magic, spells, whatever touches it really. They get channelled into some sort of magical scrapping spell and passed through into the nexus to help power it. At least, that's how Reyla 'explains it to five-year-olds'."
"Not many Beings can afford to practice their magic at full intensity, so it doesn't see much use these days," Immi added. "It's always been abandoned when we came to practice. No one's fought a real duel here for almost sixty years."
They turned right just before the final portal to the nexus, encountering a heavy metal door. It was old, a swirling, motley mix of brown, red, and blue-green copper, langu
