Light within the dark 1

Life goes by as they try to adapt to living in the Forgotten Region with no Spirit Essence in the area compare to Silver Sky City that is brimming with Spirit Essence.

Everyone of them seems to be adjusting well in the Spirit Realm taking each day as it comes and looking forward to the next day except Nicos who has completely change and rarely speak since the time they enter the Forgotten Region, he only interact briefly with people if unavoidable and goes on this way.

He leave the place they are staying beside where Nakita stays early in the morning to the nearby forest and return at night. Sometimes he will eat his share of what is suppose to be their dinner which look no more than conjured vegetables with water.

Several time his mother have tried to tell him not to be too hard on himself, Nakita and Alfonso has also tried to convince him, Nakita who was the one who asked him if he is willing to settle for his current situation even become the daily advisor who tell him to take thing easy.

His siblings also make effort but he seems to be getting more withdrawn from everyone. Seeing everyone trying but nothing seems to be working on Nicos, Chloe said to let him be that he will come around when he is ready and this continue for 3 years.

The year they were banished was suppose to be the year Tabitha perform her Spirit Affirmation ceremony and now that three year has passed and she is still not able to enter the Spirit Realm, because there was no connection between the Forgotten Region and the Spirit Realm, she was unable to do the ceremony, this add to the burden on Nicos as he blames himself for his sister not being able to enter the Spirit Realm.

She does not have a decayed Spirit-Root like him and has great prospect so she is entitled to be able to enter the Spirit Realm.

He stepped out of where they are staying one morning like any other days, while walking towards the nearby forest like he always does. He encounter some people he got acquitted to through the effort of Nakita during this 3 years and greet them.

He could see in their eyes that they have accept their fate as it is and just living their last days not trying to look for a way out, though it not like they never tried, but since it never yield any result and some of their loved ones died in the effort, they gave up and just live each day as it comes, he wish he could help them, assure them that there is a way out, but his situation is even more worse than theirs, at least they have their Spirit-Root intact and with some effort they would be able to gain entrance into the Spirit Realm if the connection is ever restored.

His decayed Spirit-Root has already spell doom for him and unless a miracle happens or a supernatural effect take place, it will remain like that.

Entering into the forest, ventured deeper until he arrive at the entrance of a cave. The cave seems like a natural formed cave covered in vegetation which obscure the entrance and makes it look like a bump rather than a cave.

Along the way, the forest got eerily silent and only the howling sounds of beasts could be heard. The only thing that the people in this region live on is the forest mushroom and the vegetables as the beasts in the Forgotten realm are not edible, history record of the Forgotten Region shows that some has tried it in the past and it result to death for them.

The only good part about the forest filled with beast is that, they won't attack if not attacked, like there's a rule binding them from doing that. The whole region really feels like a correctional center to live a life of a monk.

He moved aside the vegetation and entered into the cave with a practiced movement which shows that he has been here many times.

After entry the cave, the entrance of the cave is not as narrow and is wide enough to allow two people to walk side by side without any difficulties. Along the path leading deeper into the cave, there are natural formed crevice on the wall of the cave.

Walking for a while, he got to a clean and well-kept space to sit down in meditation posture. He has been doing this since the age of 5 and it intensify more when he found out that his Spirit-Root is decayed.

The decay of his Spirit-Root might look like a mystery to everyone but he knows the reason and he is sure his mum also knows about it. When he was just 5 years of age, he entered his father study room when he was not around and eat a fruit his father kept in his safe thinking it will give him a head start compare to his mate, he asked his father one time when his father was keeping the fruit in his safe and he told him it a fruit that help purify ones spirit channels which was why he sneaked in to consume it but it backed fire.

It was later discovered that the fruit is something his father got after killing someone from the dark faction when he was at the Empire's border on duty.

He cleared his mind of the distracting thoughts and begins to meditate though it has always been a fruitless one, he kept being persistent about it and it has helped the stability of his mind to keep calm regardless of the result it yields.