58 A past. (1/2)
”...”
A small room lit up by bright lights glimmered in a strange atmosphere. Two people, both wearing white robes, sat opposite each other as they played chess.
Their eyes contained a strange profundity and their bodies a bizarre etherealness. It was as if they weren't really there; like they could simply fade away from time and reality...
They had young appearances, young like youths. But, it was clear that they had lived far longer than any youth.
”...”
No voice broke the peculiar silence in this room, even the chess pieces invoked no dull thud when they moved. Nevertheless, in a certain second, the both of them paused.
Their white pupils shone with a glint of something inexplicable, then without a word, they dissipated out of existence from the simple seats their figures sat on.
The table and everything around them also faded away like fog, and within a slow but startling time frame, the whole room dispersed as well.
A couple of white trees and a tranquil pond unveiled from the now absent building, and in an alarming array of whites, massive clouds blazed past the scenery at a constant rate.
They were clouds!
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...
”Form the dispersing array!”
With a mighty roar, a tired man bellowed outwards toward a large crowd of 3rd circle mages in front of him. A cave and a small forest stood far in the distance, and whenever the man looked at such a place, he would frown.
”Quick!”
Everyone around him looked rather confused, but they continued without question due to the intense waves of energy that rolled out of this man. It was terrifying to the degree that anyone who dared look at him would go weak in the knees.
These cultivators ran around with surreal movements on a plain piece of ground a hundred meters wide where a frightening array began to form. It took the shape of a simple figure, one who held an orb of blinding white light.
This figure had only been partially formed, yet the ground was already quivering and the sky already thrumming.
The sky was already drowned in dark clouds that stretched far in the distance. Some with a keen eye even saw a dense collection of such clouds above that small cave a couple of kilometres away.
*CRACKLE* *CATCHAAA*
The atmosphere was unusually tense but nobody knew why. They already had their guessed, and most pinpointed that the target was in that cave far away.
”Sir.”
With a sudden whoosh of cold wind, a blue-haired black-robed man formed behind the solemn eyes of that tired man. He bowed, then looking on, he frowned.
”You reported it, sir?”
He had a questioning gaze, but the tired man only sighed.
”When you reach the 5th, you begin to see things most can't see. And what I saw...”
His eyes narrowed as his vision pierced right onto that cave that silently stood there, but he quickly removed it.
”This thing that has broken in, it is something near the level of that... King.”
As he spoke such words, especially at the end, he seemed to growl them out. It was a tremble, a fearfulness; a fury.
”You don't mean...”
The blue haired figure took a step back as he went wide-eyed, but the sheer pressure that was being emitted out of the white-eyed man displayed a seriousness he hasn't seen for a long time.
”Although I was only weak back then, even now, I feel like an ant before that beast.”
His eyes glimmered with a subtle ancientness as he looked in the far past. In fact, he couldn't help but get lost in such a... frightful past.
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*MMMMMM*
With a strange shockwave, a sudden wind tinged with gold swept through the atmosphere and into the horizon. The rubble of broken down houses and strewn wood thumped and disintegrated like dust, and in this pile of limitless rubble, a single boy stood.
”M-Master?”
His eyes shined with a magnificent white, but they were teary.He was frozen in place, and his as pale as paper.
*MMMMMM*
Another shockwave swept by him, but it instigated no reaction to his listless eyes. He just stared ahead, ahead and ahead.
*MMMMMM*
The scattered whistling of golden air continued, but he only kneeled down and grabbed a broken piece of wood. Yet, before he could even hold it up, it dissipated into fine dust and merged with the endless wind.
The boy trembled, but he didn't even utter a single groan as he stood back up and stared at the sky. This sky was different from what the boy remembered. It contained a colour he had never seen before, but to his dismay, it felt like he was born to see such a colour.