Guardian of Exilirs [01]

"You will fight the guradians of elixirs not me.", said Rico.

"Guardians of Elixirs?", John was confused.

"There are a lot of things that you need to understand before even thinking of people you need to go through to prevent Pica from getting killed by one of the three 'Royal Admiral Warriors' and change the timeline.

There are three elixirs scattered in this world, each of which is guarded by a guardian. You have to go through Phantoms; one of the many creatures inhabiting this realm and those guardians to get your hands on those exilirs. Search them, drink few drops of each of three exilirs and come back.", explained Rico in detail.

"What will happen after I drink them?"

"I will tell you after you drink them. Now, go."

John nodded and left for the search of those exilirs. Rico kept looking at him till John was out of sight. After John left, Rico murmured to himself and left for somewhere.

"Go and connect with your true self, John."

Now, John had started his journey for the search of the exilirs. He didn't know how much time it would take for him so he was planing to hunt some edible species of creatures inhabiting this realm and eat them if he ever gets hungry. John kept walking alone in this vast unknown world which he couldn't have even imagined existed.

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Few hours had passed. He was just walking without knowing where his destination was. As he was walking, he saw someone in the distance. Someone who looked like a human. At first he hesitated but afterwards he decided to approach the person. As he walked a little further, he realized that person was his mom, Sarah Vincent. He ran towards her. He ran as fast as he could to the location to find a tall and slender stone.

"What?! It was a stone.", John talked to himself in a relieved but a little disappointed tone.

'I am hallucinating, huh? But then again, it's literally another dimension and my brain hasn't adapted to this realm yet. It doesn't surprise me that I am hallucinating.'

John was lost in his thoughts when he suddenly heard a scream, scream of a little child. He was startled. He ran towards the scream to see some short looking creatures harrasing a smaller female creature like their own. They had similar body features like human with some notable differences.

First, there body was covered with furs like an ape.

Second, they had way longer hands than that of a human.

Third, they had a much smaller nose and wider eyes than human's.

"Are they the phantoms Rico mentioned?"

They were harrasing a female phantom. They hadn't realized that John was behind them. When the female phantom realized, she shouted.

"Help me!!!!!!"

John was shocked. This was literally another dimension and the phantoms were a completely different species who had no connection to earth. In spite of that, that female phantom spoke the language that was spoken in his country in the living realm.

As soon as the other phantoms heard the female phantom calling for help, they turned around.

"Huh, who are you? Go away or you wanna get beaten by us." said one of the phantoms while making his wide eyes even wider trying to look tough.

Mysteriously enough, that phantom spoke human language too. It seemed like every phantom could speak human language.

"Don't you have ears??", the same short looking phantom started approaching John while cracking his fingers.

John had no idea how strong the phantoms are. So, he was a little afraid.

But when the phantom got closer, he suddenly stopped.

"What happened? Why did you stop?", another phantom who was still grabbing the female phantom's hand asked.

"H-he....is giving...o-off the same energy as those.....two m-monsters. Don't tell me...y-you are one of them.", said the first phantom as he was trembling in fear.

"What the hell are you talking about?", asked the second phantom. He left the female phantom's hand and started walking towards John.

"Why are y-

Y-you are right. Is he also the..what you call them..a S-". The second phantom was interrupted by the first phantom.

"Aaaaghh....let's retreat for now."

Those two phantoms escaped from the scene. John watched everything in amazement.

The female phantom approached John.

"Thanks for helping me. My name is Figora. Nice to meet you."

"Umm..we are completely different species living in completely different worlds. Despite that, how are you able to speak our language?", John asked in confusion.

"Let's head to our village. I will explain on the way. Let's go."