6 The Legend of The Ancient Spirit and The Conqueror Slayer (Prelude)

Once, there is a little baby, lived at the same time as a big war that changes the world’s determination. Known as Raihan Zein, born from Zein family–well known by the people by their strong power to seal, copying skill, elemental materia, magic, and almost every supernatural power that exist.

Born 50 Million years ago, his family were poor not like his other family. His father believe that happiness comes neither from wealth, power, position, nor a women. But it comes within their spirituality, being useful to every living being, useful knowledge and being grateful to anything happens even if it wasn’t good for them.

They proved it right, even though they have nothing. They can still laugh and even gave something to the people where he lives. They lived in a village that is, far far away from the ancient kingdom. This village called, Dravina. It was located at where the two Zeins is right now. They were loved by the people there.

Young Raihan was a shy little boy–always looked out from his window to see the outside world. He was always held his feeling to communicate to another child at his age. His both parents looked at him with a little bit feeling worried about what if their son’s can’t communicate firmly and being always lonely until he died.

One day, his father take him outside to talk with his friends and the elder who was the one and only elf in their village. The one who scared the world outside–was our little boy Raihan, but because his love to his father then he went out together. When they were stepped on the outside ground. His eyes couldn’t bear the sun light, he closed his eyes with his hands.

“Hahaha… this is your first time to feel the sun right into your skin, right? Now come on, put your head down and look slowly look around you.” His father said with a warm voice and laughs.

He did what his father said. He then look straight and slowly opened his eyes, the wind that whispered to his ears, the warm hug from the sun and then the children’s laugh is the first thing that he heard back then. His eyes were amazed by it, petrified by the thing that he never felt. And then slowly he starts to mumbled.

“Wow… I’m really on the outside of my house…”

“How do you feel, to be in the outside?” Said his father looking at him with a smile.

He just stared at the children that were about to went out to play. Looking at his father, while in excitement he said.

“I… like it!” He said, holding his voice.

“Really?! That’s good to hear!” The father said relieved.

They walked a little bit far from the road that filled with the child. Then, a deep voice from a man called his father name.

“Yulao… It’s been awhile you didn’t come out.” Said a man who have a beautiful face, walking with a wand.

“Elder… you seems as good as usual!” Yulao said walking faster towards him and take his hand in excitement.

“Hey… haven’t you forget about me!” A man voice appears behind the elder and a long haired man with his brown and full scratches face appeared.

“Of course not! Übel. By the way, look! He is my son!”

Two of them looked towards Raihan who was running to his father’s back. The two friends of Yulao then look at each other and laugh a bit. The elder then squat, looking warm towards him, and asked him slowly.

“You are Raihan Zein, yes? Don’t worry, your father and I are friends. Just come here and take a high five.” He said, spreading his hand to the air.

Raihan looked at his father. Yulao doesn’t recognize what he was thinking about. He just smile and nod a bit. Raihan then opened his eyes happily, fixing his mask and toss his hand to the elder’s hand. Four of them walking around the village, looking around it. Raihan glances every single things around him, the road, the people, the workers, and the trees. He smiles behind his mask.

He found joy in it. Looking at his son’s excitement, Yulao looks so happy. He then walked towards his son. Grabbing his shoulders softly, he glances his son’s eyes with warmly and said.

“Raihan, we have something to do. Could you play around with the kids over there?”

Raihan, was feeling eager to play with them, but he somehow can’t move his body and want to go with his father anywhere he would go. “B-But…” He said looking at his father in worried.

He chuckles, and said. “Don’t worry, I will be soon looking after you. Now go! At least, make yourself having 3 friends for me, is it hard for me to ask you, son?”

“…Mm! I will try it…” he nods, feeling a gut around his stomach, his heart beating fast slightly.

“Good, that’s my son! Now go.”

He walked away, leaving Raihan and talked to the elders again.

Raihan so confused how to start making a friend. He then just walk to the field looking at the corner with the sun piercing his hand’s skin and the dust flown behind the kids in front of him. He stayed there for around 30 minutes, enjoying the wind breeze and finding a way to make a friend.

“Hey, why are you not playing with us?” A girl came to him, looking close at his face curiously.

“Wha-! U-Uh… I don’t know how to make a friends, This is my first time to be outside of my house…” He answered stepped back to the small wall behind him.

“Hahaha… are a noble or something? Here, take my hand. We are friends from now on, okay?” She said giving her hand to him.

He just looked at her hand, don’t know how to do–looking at her face that looks like the sky with the sunshine on her it. She took his hand and ran towards the kids while she asked another kid to play with him. They are smile and play the hopscotch together, Raihan observe how it works by looking on 2 or 3 kids who played it. When it goes to be his turn, he throws the small stone a square in front of him and jump to the next square after it and going to the end and getting back to where he were while taking the stone. He did it until it’s done perfectly after the girl tell her to throw the stone until he failed. But he just won 3 times in a row that makes the kids amazed by his skill, they come near him and praise him.

“That’s cool!! How you do that?!!” Said a green haired boy with a starry look towards him.

“U-Uh, well… it’s–”

“–Hey, teach me too!”

And they started to be his friends. He made at least 11 friends, his father watched him from afar–smiled in proud while Übel leaning his hand towards Yulao’s shoulder. The day turned into passed, the sun are seems to be sinking. Raihan panted and he saw all his friends going home, they wave their hand with a smile towards Raihan while he did the same. His father came to him and said.

“Having fun, son?”

“Father!” he ran away towards him and hug him tightly.

“Oh! Seems like you having fun, don’t you?”

“Yes!” Said Raihan in a joyous tone looking at his father.

Then they went back while talking about Raihan’s activity.

When they arrive in front of their house, Raihan found his mother looks mad at a big figure in a black robe–bowing down while crying.

“Please, Madam Augnere, lend us your family’s power, if we don’t, this country will be vanished!”

No words came out from her mouth, the father and son just standing behind, his father put the burning face that even Raihan never known he could make that face. The man he adored walk swiftly towards that man who then prostrated before her beautiful wife–took his neck and make him flow in the sky, he look at him as if he were about to kill him and said.

“you forgot about your agreement with us… DON’T you?!”

“N-No! How could I… but this is an urgent order from the king. I do not want to ask you if he does not ordering us to do this…” He said gulping his own throat with his hand shaking by the force of Yulao.

Yulao look at his son–dropping the man to the ground and makes him lying on it, he then take a deep breath and walking towards him. He bend his knees, looking at Raihan and said.

“Son, could you do me a favor…?”

His son looks trembles, his fear about what he saw makes him frozen and his head as if screaming to his father to not come. He steps back a bit and said. “W-What is it?”

“It’s okay son… I know what you feel right now. I wanna ask you to go take a bath alone and go sleep, can you?”

He nods and walked away to his house.

The father walked towards his wife taking her waist and look at her deeply in sorrow. They both nods, and look at the guy.

“Rendi, we’ll talking at the bar. Now, come!”

They walked to the west from their house–along with Rendi who walks behind a bit slow. Raihan looked at the window as if waiting for them to leave. He runs away to the third floor and looking for a golden bold book. He opened the chapter that is near to the end of the book–reading it in a fast pace.

“Alright… so this is how it’s done, right?” he said closing his eyes and meditate.

A white, yellow, and orange fire suddenly appear on and covering Zein’s body. A golden particle starts to emerged and fused in the middle of his chest creating a star-like ball that slowly absorbing the aura and completely covered Zein’s body. He exhales while slowly growling–making it louder, louder, and even more louder.

“And here… I don’t know what would going on yet.” Said the present Raihan to Faried that sipping a water that Raihan created from his magic–Both of them taking a snack and then Faried says.

“Okay.” He gulped his food and then continued. “Lemme guess, you blown up your house, or even whole Dravina?”

“Now now, let’s continue our story.” And… where was I? Ah yes, Raihan got the elemental power.

Yes, he got all the elemental power without he even realized by only reading a book. When he opened his eyes, the light that envelope him then slowly disappear, emerged within his body. He felt as if he were a light feather falling down to the floor–the dark teak wood floor. A shockwave blasted when the tip of his big toe touched the floor. Caused an earthquake all around the world, stopped the war that occurred on that day. Making landslides, large tsunamis in the eastern continent, and storms in the western, and eastern parts of the continent.

“What was that?” Said his father in the middle on the way to the bar.

His wife holding his shoulder, Rendi stand on his staggered feet, they are all looking to the sky. The feel of pressure as if pushed their soul outside from their body for a second. They looked at each other–but it does not make them stop towards their destination. They kept walking towards a multi-storey house with wooden carvings that resemble banners with the carving of a mattress and a bowl of salad.

Three hours passed since that phenomenon, finally they are all agree to help the king using their power.

“We will go there when we finished teaching our son to live his own way. It wouldn’t be long because there’s only one thing that we had to teach them.”

“Alright then, we will wait both of you in the castle. I am really sorry to make you participate again on a war like this…”

“Enough! There’s no use to apologies right now. Go!”

“Fersh! (Sure!)” He disappeared along with the people that also walked out from the bar as if he blown by the wind.

A hand took Augnere’s waist once again while the father eating the bread that is still remaining with the soup. Her wife look at him with a cynical look and slap his shoulder. Raihan, walked outside of his house to the back yard. The wind whispered to his ears beneath his hair that covered it when he closed his eyes. He opened it and then flow the energy under his feet–making a ball with a high tense.

“Whoa!” He said when jumped off because the wind ball he made. A spiral wind surrounded each of his feet and his hand. Looked at a supermassive snowy mountain, shone by the moonlight and radiates it. Not long, he saw a yellow eyes that directly looked at him. He started to think whether he was hallucinating yet it felt so real.

“Raihan?” A soft but harsh voice from a man shouted his name from the ground.

Raihan turned his body.

He saw his parents in front of the small fences around his house–slowly flow down towards them. His heart beating fast–glanced both of their eyes.

“Father, mother! What are you doing here? What about the big guy earlier??” Both of them scream in silent, looking at each other with the face of sadness shown to their beloved son.

The man grab his shoulders, the woman put her hand on his chick. The man said.

“Son… listen. You will go to the north, start a new life there, You will find a man who can break a rock, and block the river. Obey him, learn from him, and love him as you love us.” The man sobbed–hugged tight his son.

“Honey, I know it will be hard for you. So we decided to make you go there after you reach 13 years old.” The woman cried, she took his head putting her forehead on his.

The kid just standing there, not knowing what will happen in the future. He touched both of their head, looking at the face of the moon. The wind shared their sorrow, it makes them felt so low. The kid suddenly cry because–heard their cry, sky also cried while the howl of the werewolf follow this moment of sadness. On that night, all of the people in there heard their conversation, they closed their eyes. The feeling of frustration, sadness flow with the sorrow o

f Zein family. The girl walked towards them all, said.

“I’m going with him!”