Valley is alive

Shiva was enraged now. He was not going to kill the middle aged man before but now the situation had changed. Middle aged man attacked the already injured person who was incapable of fighting. Shiva was witnessing the fickleness of the world. "Strong prey on the weaks."

He was a kid who had already gone through a lot but he still couldn't accept the cruel human nature.

"Human is capable of both the progression and regression, world doesn't work under you, it gives choices and the dicisions are made by us. One can choose whatever he wants but he should do so without regrets."thought shiva.

Shiva looked towards the middle aged man and thought," Even though I respect life but I won't regret killing him."

He didn't speak a single word as he put his hand on the Prince's heart, he was using his recently learned skill- transferring the life force.

Middle aged man was also not wasting time as he took out some precious earth element herbs and ate them. He was recovering his energy. Now he could use 30% of his original power. He didn't want to prolong the fight as he roared," earth spike."

But this time he had used most of his remaining power into the strike and was not like the previous one.

thud ...thud...thud...

Soon the rocky spikes started protruding from the ground. Whole are converted into the spiky hell as the spike surrounded the shiva and prince and were moving towards them.

Spike had almost reached both of them but shiva was still calm providing the life force to prince. In Middle aged man's eyes the boy had accepted his fate and was going to die beside prince. When the spikes reached within arm length the prince breathing came to normal.

He stood up, but now his eyes that were calm a second ago were burning with rage.

A thick aura of life came from him creating a protective layer around the prince.

Shiva slowly spoke....

"Earthquake"

"Boom"

The earth trembled. Whole valley started shaking. The spikes that had just reached him crumbled into pieces. Except the area where shiva and prince were, the whole valley was in chaos. It was like Shiva's rage was feeling the landslide, more angry he was the more ferocious the earthquake became.

"Oh my god ! who is this boy ?", middle aged man panicked.

"This boy can use a very high tier earth magic", middle aged man had started to regret his decision to make enemy out of this boy.

There was only one thought in his mind now.

"I have awakened a monster"

"I have awakened a monster"

"Earth Escape"

He vanished into the ground.

"It is the first time I have used this skill since I became a mystic, no one can catch me if I want to escape",he smirked.

Shiva saw him vanishing into the ground but shiva had already made up his mind," this man will die today."

He looked at the green ring in his finger.

Swoosh...

The ring transformed into the green bow. It was the first time he was going to use the green bow after obtaining it from the spirit of the forest. A arrow appeared on the bow , this bow had only 10 arrows and he was going to use one here. He closed his eyes and his awareness, his senses started spreading. After some time he sensed a life moving away from the valley at a very fast speed.

"Thud"

An arrow was released from the green bow and penetrated the ground, it transformed into the green root that was moving towards the target into the ground. Middle aged man was about to exit the valley and was going to come up but before he could do so a green root pierced his heart and he was consumed by the root. Finally a green stem came out from the ground transforming into a beautiful tree.

What an irony...

A mystic of Earth magic had died inside the earth and no one would know about it.

After that shiva calmed down again and closed his eyes as he murmured,"Thank you."

There was a mysterious life force inside the valley that gave the valley it's rich earth essense. It was a very high consciousness and when shiva got enraged he felt that the whole valley was alive. He could sense

life force, it was a consciousness that was born from the earth. He had just used the power of that life force to perform a high level earth magic even though he knew nothing about the earth magic. The connection was very short and it disrupted after he calmed down.

Shiva just had a breakthrough in the understanding of the life.

People worship trees, rivers, mountains and other inanimate objects and treat them as they are living. It seems like a very childish idea, very idiotic indeed but our ancestors have been doing so from ancient time. Were our ancestors idiots or there is something that they could see but we can't. We don't know the real essence of it.

"What is life" - we can say that it is the consciousness, if the consciousness is not there you are dead in a certain way.

"And how did the life originated"- Everyone knows that first there were no living beings only the dead universe and then the consciousness originated and many other life forms evolved. We may say that life came from the deads, they were originally dead that gained consciousness and hence life began. But our ancestors took it to another level as they thought why can't a river, a mountain have consciousness. Consciousness is a very ethernal concept, you can't see it and can't catch it but a comatose person is still considered alive even if he is not moving an inch because he is consciousness of something within him atleast. You can see a holy river and think of it just as the water body but to see its true form you need high awareness or very keen sense. You can empty it's water, you can pollute it but you still won't touch the consciousness that is ethernal and exists in a different plane. Same goes for this valley, it has existed for thousands of years and due to the higher awareness of the sage that might have lived here it gained sentience and consciousness.

So what our ancestors worshipped is not the river but the life itself, the life that is sustaing the thousands lives.

So according to the cycle of the life the non living things also are potential lives. If you can't appreciate them atleat you should not detest them.