Chapter 3 The Cruel World (2)

Amidst this intensifying aura, the land below tremble. It's as if a giant of a corpse knock the above ground. The tremble spread and a complex formation lit up and surround the area where the boy at the center. This area consist of all the dried weeds and the ashes that blows into the highest sky.

At the distance, everything can be seen like a storm wreck this Mountain known for its dreadful remarks: Mountain of Death! People will uttered the same thing in their heart and forever cautious while staring the location of the mountain. 

The dust of a tempest is a sudden and mysterious thing that happen in this location of the mountain. So people in the distance avoid at all cost, abandon everything just to get far from the terrifying presence. 

“Finish! We're all finish!” 

“Who the fool anger the mountain!?”

“That...is the tempest of death!”

Shout of alarm can be heard in all places and far Village. Though the mountain is so far and hundred kilometer away from them, they are as cautious and desperate as ever. Perchance is a myth, and they would rather avoid the avoidable than waiting for the unexpected.

Not all was doing the same as those people who thought it is the end of the world. In the smallest Village, atop the white castle, stood the woman in white dress. There's a smile in her lip, and the way she face the location of the Mountain of Death is full of scorn, she look down the mere sight of the tempest of dust.

“The heaven tell me to bow. But I shut it up with my piercing eyes!” She chuckled, look down upon the highest Mountain. “So you mere of a mountain must strive hard. I, the highly Priestess, will never dread!”

Strangely, other than this woman, there's a young man just stood at the highest trees. At the heart of the forest which cover by the strange formation that surrounded the Bloody Village. In this Village, it is as peaceful as it always been. No one have except this young man in the highest trees notice the tempest, thus the bustling of Festivities is going on at this time.

However, this young man has a strange expression in face as he face the farthest mountain. It can be said that it is the mountain he dreaded the most, and the thing he must overcome to become as high as the heaven!

“Father once said that the death in the Mountain of Death is none other than a mere rumor,” he murmured, a strange light in his eyes, “and that the Mountain of Death is a hope for our bloodline to strive the heaven's will!”

The decisiveness in his eyes appeared, and a smile broke in his lip as the tempest reach the highest sky. “Yet here's mother tell me why father say so. That the Mountain of Death hide the most powerful gem!”

His expression ultimately change, and the viciousness appeared in his eyes. He send a transmission to all the followers scattered in the bustling capital, mainly consist of orders, “Formation, scatter at once! Beastly Army, depart asap! For the rest... hunt the nearest villages!”

Aside by this people of viciousness, there stood at the heart of chaos is the mysterious man atop the tempest. He look down at the boy who's hair flow gentle amidst the harsh gust of winds. He has the expression of gentleness, however his eyes has a focus the mediocre existence wouldn't possibly posses. He bit his lip, poured the blood into the tempest, then he said in a lowly yet clapping of a thunderous voice, “Immortal once suffer a huge defeat. However, you exist amidst the luxurious of their sacrifices. Surely, you leaving now and the disappearances of the path of eternity...is a defying existence!”

The words that uttered barely reach the boy ears. This boy is none other than Eterfinite! The time the words reach him, his entire being tremble and a his eyes lit up with the gold light. In an incense worth of time, just as the light disappear in his eyes, the tempest shattered and reveal the death of all the living things in the mountain!

In an instant, they all turn into dust, leaving nothing but blowing dust to cover the existence of once mountain of green despite its monstrous rumor of death. Now, the eeri and creep presence of death the only thing that one felt just by looking in this mountain!

In the distant, fifty kilometer away from the mountain, the vortex open to reveal a boy. His expression of shock lasted just the moment he reveal by the vortex to the moment it vanish as if a blink of an eye. 

“What...just happens?” He look upon the heart of the mountain, reveal his complex expression of everything that just appear before his eyes. He blink a few times, unable to accept what his memory tells him about just occured.

The moment he step into the outside of the Green Valley to the time the tempest appear, it only takes a single breath. The sky so dark this time, as if everything just don't quitely makes sense. As if everything is just a dream!

“This must be some sort of a spell!” The thought appear in his mind. Though he lack knowledge of the world, inside the Green Valley, his knowledge is on absolute use. He have everything that needed to survive just fine.

“But there's no related spell that makes up this bothering situation,” his mind spun upon the thought of complexity. Though an hour has pass the moment he step outside the Green Valley, the feeling that he just breathe and then appear a distance of several kilometers away from the foot of the mountain. 

Not to mention the distance to the mountaintop!

This time, he sat cross-legged to clear his mind. The feeling that he just forgot everything along the away to this moment is quite a bother. There the feeling of new to him heavy his heart for an instance. His heart that felt like being dried out by some sort of forces, and he would never allow anyone or any entities to erase some traces of his being!

“Come out at once,” his gentle voice broke the silence of the night. One needs the enormous focus to realize what is wrong, but Eterfinite saw through everything. There's...a bit of death that slowly fades away in his heart. This aura of death...is once strong, yet how possible he able to surpass it?

Same situation come across his mind. Now, he's more certain than before. He said, “You are the same person a years ago, shooing the beast that harbor ill intention. I can saw through you, so come out and answer the quedtion... What really you want to keep me alive?” 

Though he said every bit of words with gentleness, the coldest of the night shivered. Eterfinite's heart freeze, yet a heart-throbbing sigh filled the silence, broke the pieces of woods lied into the distance. Then a vicious voice heard, “You dare try to stop the beating of your heart!”