"After witnessing the fireball disappear Igor repeated the process with a variety of other elemental and non elemental attack spells. He then turned to Alonzo."
Igor: So what did you see?
Alonzo: I saw striking similarity between the reactions of the Great Unknown and this substance, its astral representation absorbs magical energy while its physical representation consumes any physical matter it comes in contact with.
Igor: Well then this makes it easy, until we figure out whats going on we contain it the same way we contain the Great Unknown.
Alonzo: But master, do you think you have enough power to hold the spell for a long time in this form?
Igor: Of course i do, this staff allows me to take energy right out of the upper plane, without any fancy rituals or other such things, it'll be fine. Plus there is always power of the dead, i used to be a necromancer in my previous life, i can channel it as well.
Alonzo: Will you require my help master?
Igor: No i've been doing this for millenia, there is no problem, go report what we already found to the others.
Alonzo: As you wish master.
"Alonzo bowed his head and dissapeared in a flash of light"
Igor: Now that he's gone...
"Igor put stuck his staff in the ground and put the palms of his hands directly behind the silver ball on top of the staff. He looked at the others."
Igor: This might be interesting for all of you, this is how higher magics work. I am going to borrow power from the higher plane, the place there i came from, there are oceans of it just floating around in space. Mortal mages usually need to do rituals that take months if not years to gain small portions of that power, i posses a staff that will act as an open window, i will use it to get the needed power in an instant. There are other sources, most mortal mages use, you can take power from the elements, from some godly being, even from death, but that energy will be altered, less efficient. I am taking pure, magical energy, this is the stuff the astral is made off, this is the stuff that makes up the bonds that connect star dust particles making the very physical existance possible.
"As Igor talked the silver ball began to glow, small streaks of light jumped out of it and into Igor's hands, after few minutes Igor pointed both his hands at the goo."
Igor: Now i will make a spell that will keep this thing from spreading. This is the same way we do it with the Great Unknown, nothing can stop it, atleast nothing we know off. It will consume any matter and energy, the only way to stop it is to give it more food then it can handle at one time. I will bend reality, creating a barrier between the goo and the rest of the world. The barrier will only appear few feet thick, but actually there will be billions of light years between one side of it and the other. I just have to increase the angle at which reality bends around physical particles and twist it in this place creating loads of empty space which i then have to fill with some kind of material, i'll choose rocks. The goo will consume the matter, start growing, but it will never overcome the barrier as long as i keep increasing the space and filling it with matter. It will never consume this world. This takes power, but fortunately for all of us, i have it. And so......
"Igor clapped his hands nothing seemed to have happened"
Igor: Its done, this should keep it occupied as long as i keep holding the spell up, the problem is that i also have to deal with the threat of the Great Unknown, we need to figure something out....fast.
"Igor stood perfectly motionless."
