Hope?

Chapter 25

"This is what I'm trying to explain to you, why will you take something which is not of importance forward and put something that is of more important behind. You should learn to understand what is of essence and what you should neglect. The life you have lived should not tampered with the one you have choose to live now. The worries of the past should not hindered the progress you want to attain. I thought the first question you should ask would be, why do you have a change of dream but since you are not interested in it, I will be too lazy to mention it. Let's forget who I am or the relationship between us, let's head to the latter question you asked. Like what you have been told, for you to have your injury healed, you will have to embark on a journey of no return. You can only get the herbs that can help you heal your heart there, if your heart is not healed, you can't heal your soul. You need to find the herbs to heal your heart first before you find the one for your soul. Those herbs are so powerful, powerful that they can't survive here because the energy here is very low. When I said of no return, it doesn't mean that you will not be able to return but the chance you have in returning is close to zero. You might lost your life immediately you get there even if you didn't have any injury, let alone when the injury you have Sustained had made it impossible for you to use your full strength, leaving only 40% at your disposal. The people in the land possessed power that you can never think of. As powerful as my father was when he was alive, he wasn't powerful enough to go there. He tried all his effort so he could empower me to have a chance to be there but....." When the old man made mention of the word 'but' he realized he had been saying too much.

"I understand all what you have said, but how can I reach there. Even if I have no chance of survival. I will like to go there because it's better to die trying than to wait for death. How can I get there and what is the name of those herbs I will be needing?"

"People who are powerful enough could go there whenever they like. People who are powerful enough could go there easily but would find coming back very hard, hard to the point that they might not be able to come back at all. People who are not powerful would find going there very hard, hard to the point that they might not be able to go there at all but if they are able to get there, they would find coming back easy, as easy as moving from one state to another. People who are not powerful enough and were fortunate enough to reach there would find it difficult to survival, an insect that you think is powerless here would pose great danger to them, if they are not careful enough they may lose their life. If they are to be fortunate enough, they would gain power to sustain their life while feeding of dead animals there, or if they were able to survive for a number of days, the energy there that they would breath in would give them power. But after they gain power, coming back would be close to impossible. There are some people who had the record of how to go there, those records are lost because no one knows where it is. According to legend, those who are power enough would be taken away by a powerful forces. Those who are not powerful enough could only reach there if they were carried away by storm, there is 100per cent possibility that they would died immediately they get there because everything in the environment would pose great danger to them. If they are not careful enough, the energy available in the atmosphere, when breath in, 99per cent would explode because their body can't suppress it. It's not that there is a certain way for people who aren't powerful enough to get there, it can only be decided by fate. If you are fated, definitely you will be there. As for the name of the herbs you needed, I don't know the name, it's not that I have been there before." After talking to this point, the old man sighed. "Before my father died, he said this mysterious place where we were told, immortals gathered, might not be real, it might be fantasy developed by people of the ancient time when they were bored. Because he had tried all he could to acquire power, he kept gaining power over power in hope of being taken away by the forced when he becomes powerful enough but no matter the power he gained he was unable to be recognized until he lost hope. He added before his death, "maybe I wasn't powerful enough, or maybe I wasn't fated, or maybe everything was a joke. We never know the name of the place, even one keep calling it there" because of what he said I never put hope in going there." He added.

How will one want to go to a place which had no name or which no one had the idea. Maybe the idea was brought up the the ancient men were bored that they have nothing else to do, or it might be as a result of the palm wine they love to drink, after they have drink themselves to stupor. That result to them talking nonsense. Peter was sure why the old man talked about the thought of his father maybe it was to discouraged him. If that was the case, then he had achieve his aim, because Peter no longer have the hope he was having when the conversation started. "Sir, is there no record of anyone who went there?"

"I can't really say but there was a popular story then that do give my father's hope. They said there was a man who suddenly went missing, he later came back after 30years. When he came back, he became very powerful that no one then could defeat him but he was dead and dumb so people could not communicate with him to ask him where he went to. What made people think that he went there was because he later went missing again but not alone, with his wife and son."