While floating at extremely fast phase, Regal suddenly land at the floor in the midst of an unknown location in the jungle.
The surrounding is extremely quiet, in Regal's mind flashed the scene where his father Long Tian smiled and being attacked by the massive paw he shouted as loud as he can.
"Father!!! Dodge!!!"
Then an extremely archaic voice that he's familiar with spoke to him again and said, is this the ending that you want? Is this the life that you wish? Being weak and not being able to protect your loveone's?
"No, I don't want to be this weak anymore! I don't want someone I love to be hurt anymore. You said that you can give me power to control my fate, and protect those whom I love dearly right? I accept no matter what condition!"
Regal shouted loudly while tears dripping down his fair cheeks and his fist slamming the ground.
Silence...
He didn't get an answer from the mysterious archaic voice.
"Please no matter how hard I'm willing to, help me please!"
Regal sounded and look extremely pathetic at this moment. He surely look pathetic, tattered clothes lots of scratches and wound. It's a miracle that he was still alive despite this grave injury.
And the archaic voice on his head rang out.
"I whom you seek shall grant you power, but you thy remember, thy path is tedious and desolate. It will be a long lonely journey, you will experience pain, the viscitudes of life will teach you on what you seek.
But remember you shall not forget once self thy drown in the desolation and lose thy path to the answer whom you seek dearly"
For Regal other than understanding that the mysterious voice agreed, the other things that the voice told him is vague, and he's clueless on what does the voice want to imply on him. But he doesn't care, he want to be strong, he wants to control his own fate.
"Thank you, if you have a condition tell me and I will do it to the best of my ability."
Tho regal is only a 16 years old boy, he's not naive enough to think that there's a free meal when it comes to power in this world.
"Seek thy path, stay to yourself if in the future you're strong enough to glance at the mystery at the end of everyone's path, I'll tell you what cost you will pay. Rest well for your journey will be a tiring one"
After the voice fade, Regal body began to shine so bright that it's blinding it shot up to the sky and pierced the azure blue sky. Till the light dim and turned gray and the gray pillar of light fades.
After the light fades regal consciousness drifts away, and his wound began to mend itself.
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In some part of the forest some people saw the gray light and look at that direction began to move towards the light.
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Other parts of the forest where Long Tian and Shizio.
"Just who are you? You're not something that came from this realm" Said Shizio.
"You're right but you don't need to know all you need to know it you'll die today" Replied Long Tian.
Shizio trembled intensely "I'm not the only one who came to this realm, if you kill me they'll know and they will track you and will hunt you down!" He threatened.
"That is true, but you won't be there when that time comes" Long Tian said then he swiped his had forming an azure light sharp aura from his finger directly severing the Lion's head from its body.
Shizio looked at him with bitter resentment and anger before he died without even knowing.
"They now knew this realm, I wonder if they discovered something special about 'That secret' is that why they descend here?" He muttered after a second of contemplating his figure shook and became blury and vanished.
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After an hour a few silhouette arrived at the scene where the bright ray of light located. They saw nothing but a large circular pit and nothing more.
A man cloaked in red robes suddenly speak "Did you find the trace of energy? Can you track it?" While glancing at his other companion cloaked in red also.
The man shook it's head and said "Strange if that huge fluctuation of power if the one who released it by that scale should have left an aura but it didn't, truely strange" Said the other man in cloak.
"Maybe he cloaked himself in the void or teleported somewhere" Said the leader of the red cloaked men.
"Let's go, we have to execute the plan here as per orders of the higher up" Suddenly something shattered in the mind of that leader.
The other men saw the leader trembled and ask "What happen young master?".
The leader of the group replied "Shizio Xion died just at this moment, the link between me and him severed".
The red cloaked group trembled and understood how strong Shizio was and his abilities and special skill and bloodline, yet he died?
Someone suggested from the group "He arrived just now he must have met someone extremely strong from here. He got here a moment ago and died, we must be vigilant. This mission isn't simple after all let's go young master"
The leader of the red group comtemplated and nodded.
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At some mysterious place Regal woke up and when his eyes surveyed his body he was shocked. His body is fully healed and he doesn't feel any internal injury at all.
He then surveyed the surroundings he saw a cave well lit up, at the middle of the cave there's a statue so big the it reach the ceiling of cave. Around the wall there's murals that seemed to be different types of creature clashing while there two massive figure behind each army. While at the middle is the massive statue that seemed to reach the ceiling of the cave but he can't see till the ceiling only seeing till the belly of the enormous statue.