Chapter 1

I move so fast to reach the endless darkhole. It was endless due to no one have ever discover there's really the end of it, but I'm sure there's a bottom. How can there's not when I located the location of the awakening?

“I might be the first one to realize the height of this darkhole!” Just as I finish it, my expression change suddenly into one of a dread. 

I gasped and found I lose the ability to direct my flow, as if restraint by some sort of barrier? I was so shock to realize I'm falling so fast, now not at all floating down, but with the force that trying to smash my existence into the bottom of this darkhole with a bang!

I thought my heart will going to explode before that happen. I scream to my heart, “I refuse... to believe I really is nothing but a weak huntress!”

I can felt the bitterness, but I don't dare to show it up. If I dIe here, then atleast no one will know. And this existence here may not dare to reveal it to the world. That if it's in its right mind and think the consequence of doing so!

“I wonder...what Grandma will feel about it?” I laugh lightly, unable to break free from the force. 

It is the moment I suddenly paused, and a howl suddenly exploded out everywhere! 

Not even the roared of awakening existence can achieve such might, and even causing the darkness to push to side, and to replace by stunning blue light!

I felt my heart in chaos by the sudden stop, even my mind spun as if on the brink of collapse.

I barely able to remain my consciousness, even hear the thunderous of voice,

“Who dared harm my luna?!”

I slowly surrounded the darkness, and I thought I starting to make out an illusion and actually smash my head into the solid barrier. 

Just before my eyes though, the blue light surrounded the familiar figure... while its hands support my back.

That's only thing I ssw that so unreal, even though I wanted to see more, it's...no avail.

But I realize the figure and I can't help but ponder... of why everyone fond of that very face?

“Alar...kin...” I mumbled weakly. 

And the event before this very night came to mind. How this man is so mysterious, yet foolish to even had the power I need upon achieving the insight of it. 

“He's nothing...but a fool,” I murmured, looking at his weary eyes. This is night so he don't actually see through me, but everytime he look up, his eyes directly at me. 

That shock me, but then he just look away. I sigh in relief, shrugged the thought and enjoy the boring night without anyone see me. I said, “Everyone is happy despite vulnerable to almost everything. Not even death they can possibly avoid it,” I said, and the foolish stop from what he's doing, and even slowly close the book in his hand. He didn't look up, so I added after I sneered at him, “This foolish is not exception. Why not party with everyone else while he's living on?”

His lip slightly curve, and he open the other book this time. He said to himself, slowly, “This book... is said to contain the eternity. No living on... can ever replace its essence...”

“So foolish,” I commented abruptly, and the curves in his lips only widened. “That's! How can he smile while holding the book? Is it really contain the eternity?!”

Alarkin... is just a foolish. So how can he be the very figure of that night?

The next moment I wake up, the news of losing the class already reach the institution. 

“I'm dead?!” I almost couldn't believe how this world really revolve.

“It's been a month,” the veil-woman inform, “so authority of this place thought you, together with your group, is dead!”

“How I able to survive?” I ask when the shock by the news replace by the familiar figure I barely saw the night. 

“What do you mean, young lady?” The veil-woman ask the same with strange expression in her face. “Have you... in a life-death situ-”

“No!” I cut her off, feel her sudden curiousity. “And don't you dare share this with that old hag!”

She didn't seem to understand who I'm referring to but only nodded when my eyes coldy pierce through the deepest of her. “That I can promise, young lady!”

“Good,” I said, but can't really move on from the strangest I felt. I ask, “You sure you don't save me... or anything of some sort?”

“My lady,” she said, slowly shook her head, “I told you already. The huntress never lie, so believe me!”

“That's...true,” I sigh but suspicious to this veiled-woman. 

She's the one I'm looking at the moment I wake up, so how can she say she doesn't know a thing? And shes there that night!

“But strangely... though you are unconscious, you didn't have any internal wounds,” she added after seeing the suspicious in my eyes. She prove as he added the jade, “That contain our recent activity. The whole association hunts the rumored Lycan who cause chaos in the secluded island beneath the Thousand-Volcanoes-”

I raise my brows upon the heard of it. “So what did you discover, then?” I ask just as I cut her off.

She seems don't mind the cut off and continued with a strange expression, “This is confidential-”

“How can you say it is when you handed me a jade of information?!” 

She craned her neck, lost all the necessary excuses. She sigh after realizing I already frustrated. She ask with a bit of confussion, “How can the young lady realize my lies?”

I sneered. “You really asking that? Really, how can you be a huntress?”

She pondered about it, and it only cause my heart to shook with too much frustration. She said after, “Well, I'm not actually a huntress...”

I groaned and look at the window that view that Yellow-Mountain. I pointed it for reference, not minding the nonsene in her words, “That mountain is filled with the fire element. Do you really think a Lycan live there?” 

She gasped, slowly shook her head in shock. She said, “Of course none. Is young lady not know the Lycan dread the people in that Mountain?”

“What?” I arc my brows. “How can the lycan dread the mere army of...” I cough and sigh. “Let's not talk about that mountain and that spieces!”

She smiled, as if something cross her mind. She said, the respect strangely deepened, “The young Lady is good. You must know too much to think highly of that spieces.”

I smiled proudly, stood to show how I grow up so knowledgeable under heaven. “Of course! Well, the heaven favored me greatly so that's understandable,” I said.

Her expression is those of amuse behid the veil. She ask, “Have you meet the heaven, young lady?”

My mind spun to the question. “You think I'm a fool? How can I ask to die?”

“No, that's...not what I mean!” She said, hurrily explain just the frustration that never seen before appeared in my face. She added, “It's just that the young Lady said the heaven... I thought you see it yourself-”

“Tsk!” I wailed and shut my eyes tightly. I felt like I'll explode in no time but I able to remain my calm as I keep my eyes shut.

“The heaven... is cruel,” I said as I open my eyes, remember something in the distance. “It may favor me, but will never let itself to show up before my eyes. That will be the end of me if ever!”

“I understand, young lady!” Though her expression under the veil tell me she wondered and ultimately confuse of who this heaven I really reference about, she don't dare to ask!

The lost of the class is a lost of my chance for more observations. It should not be a problem, but the unexpected just happened. I didn't acquire the insight brought that existence to awakened!

“How can I not thought of this when I let the class partied there?” I blurted out as I open the door of my room. The veiled-woman startled by my sudden shout, and she's shaken that I able to see behind me. “Misty!” I called her.

“Yes, young lady!” 

“What do you think of migrating-”

“Don't you ever thought, young lady!” Her expression suddenly numb and she make out a difficult expression. She added, “If you do that, your Grandma will be so sad! Do you want that?”

“Grandma,” I murmured and even more felt the dread. “That old had! She's the one who cause me this way!”

“Young lady,” the veil-woman blink a few times and couldn't come up for more excuses to stop me. She seems to remember something though, she added, “Your grandma let you go because you're just in the capital. But how can she be in peace if you're so far away from her reach?”

“Far away...” I sigh and abandon the thought of migration. I look at her, pitiful as I ask, “Well, then! What do you suggest, Misty?”

Her eyes lit up and seems like the finally meet the heaven for the first time, she said dreamly, “There's a place I know that is backing with mystery of the moon. Haven't you like it, young lady, the mystery?”

“Mystery!” I said in excitement. “So tell me, Misty! What's more are there to expect? How can you know I'll enjoy the stay there?” I expectantly look at her, and she seems contented upon it.

She said, now with reminisce, “You may not know it, but I am native of that place. There, you can expect love in the air. And that's without trying hard to find it!”

I almost couldn't believe it. My excitement drop and my heart thrown into chaos. “What the heck are you talking just now?”

Misty's veil blown by the wind and reveal the expression of shock. “Young lady...”

“That's so boring!” The thought of the people of the place, waiting for the love to befall in them estrange her. “What a strange order of things! How can that be a mystery?”

“But expecting is mystery, young lady,” Misty prove the point, but not so passionate as before. “It may not like the awakening, but you can actually like the idea of guessing and dreaming who's the person fate to you!”

“That's not what I want!” I storm out, only to meet the lined up of the figure with veils!

“Young...lady,” Misty bowed just as she realize the coldness in my face. 

She haven't said anything about it, but I already have the idea that these army is with her. But seeing they fill the entire mountain cause the disappointment in my heart to intensified. I gritted my teeth, said as my eyes gaze through the Yellow Mountain, “So you think lowly of me, Grandma...”

It's been a hundred years... yet she thought I still need these army to guard me? 

I laughed in my heart. This cause the silence that never been felt in this world for much more longer. When I look away from that mountain, I look Misty with a knowing eyes and her eyes lit up, though contain the excitement of it.

I face the lined-up of the veil figure, said with coldness shaken even these trained army for countless years, “I may failed to observe all the mystey of this place, but it's only the beginning, it's only the starts of proving myself!” 

To the Yellow Mountain, I murmured but cause a clap of thunder to ring in all direction, “I, Encrinch Muadinch, will be the army of herself...”

This echoed throughout the capital, reach the Yellow Mountain, and even... at the world so peaceful that everyone may thought it's safe to stay. There... a figure slowly open his eyes and meet my words that has the eyes of its own. But have no ears to make out the words that came out in this familiar figure's mouth. 

But this alone cause my heart to boom, as if my words... meet a person who see through its curse. I said, now with clarity in my eyes, “He's there... mysterious than ever...”