54 The Infamous Musen (1/2)

”What the f.…”

Taku's thoughts were immediately broken by Maka's astonished voice. He looked up only to let out a surprised yelp. What was in front of them was not the ”Outside” they were hoping for. The two looked back and noticed that there was a small vortex behind them.

The vortex was not that big and could only fit about two people at a time. Maka's expression turned solemn. ”This is a transfer gate.”

”A transfer gate...whats that?” Taku asked.

Maka did not reply and began studying the transfer gate. Taku was not bothered by her silence at all and turned around to study their surroundings. Looking around Taku found houses all around and a large temple right at the middle.

He felt like he was looking at an abandoned city. What surprised him the most was that it felt as though they were inside a mountain. The issue was that the whole place had no openings but there was still a source of light. It almost felt as if the sun outside could shine right through the Mountain rock.

He began studying the small city and was constantly surprised as his eyes scanned everywhere. He could not help but think back to all the detailed history about earth. No matter how much he scanned and examined the place he couldn't help but feel familiar with the place.

The setting of the houses was not something you could find in the Gutu Empire. The architecture reminded him more of earth, or at least something recorded in earths history books. He saw the temple which reminded him of an article he once read. Even though the article had images, they were drawn out and not exactly accurate.

The article read:

”Çatalhöyük

In 7,500 BCE, this city in the Mesopotamian region (now Turkey) held thousands of people and is believed by many to be one of the world's earliest urban settlements. But the culture of the people here was unlike anything we know today. First of all, they built the city like a honeycomb, with houses sharing walls. Homes and buildings were accessed by doors cut into the roofs. People would stroll on the streets across these roofs, and climb down ladders to get to their living quarters. Doorways were often marked with bulls' horns, and dead family members were buried in the floor of each home. It's not clear what happened to the culture of the people who lived in this city. Their architectural style seems to be unique, though archaeologists have found many fertility goddess figurines in the city that resemble others found in the region.”

Everything here looked exactly as what was described of the Çatalhöyük city. He could no longer hide his shock as his heart began beating rapidly and his breathing quickened.

Is there some sort of connection between this world and earth. Why is there a city that looks exactly like those recorded in history books?

Taku was so lost in his shock and thoughts, that he couldn't even notice that the space above his head was distorting.

”Move!”

Taku was only woken up by Maka's shout. Before he could even do anything he felt a sharp pain coming from his chest. He looked down only to find nothing there, but his eyes became bloodshot. Taku had a very sensitive soul and could feel that something was attempting to attack it.

Taku quickly sat down cross legged and began meditating. He took a look into his soul and what he saw left him shaken. Initially there were only 3 entities in his body, at the moment there were 4. The three main entities were actually working together to attack the fourth entity. Taku could not hide his shock as he saw that the new entity was actually shaped like a human.

At the moment that human spirit was not having such a good time. Musen had initially thought that possessing someone so weak would be easy. It was something that should have taken less than ten breaths to do, but now he had only been inside Taku's body for ten breaths and all he could think about was escaping.

When he was still alive he only really had one setback and that was when he was trapped in this place. At the moment his expression was really ugly. The moment he tried to leave he would be surrounded by the smoke inside Taku's body.

This left him depressed. He was one of the most powerful people of his generation, also known to be one of the most cunning people to ever live, but on two consecutive situations he had made decisions that left him with regret.

He looked around for an opening only to see Taku staring back at him. A conflicted look appeared on his face. He had just attempted to take over this boy's body, but at the moment he really felt like asking him for help. Be it when he had a body or now with his spirit body, he had never been in such a dire situation before.