Arthen: The Man of the East -- Chapter 10

 

10

 

Reveal in the Spirit World

 

His adult self-appeared in his spiritual realm needed a viral connection to the open spiritual realm.  He read about it in one of his spiritual books.  He recalled that it needed a pierce of his own blood in this realm.  He slit a cut on his right palm and squeezed the drops of blood onto the ground.  That trick was the only way of a viral connection to open the world of the spiritual realm.

Squaz strolled out from under a weeping willow tree.  He saw enormous animals that were stalking as they walked swiftly.  Then he saw a massive fox demon.  It hurled its body in the direction of Squaz.  There it formed a kind woman spirit.  She wanted to know why he came back to these lands.

“I needed to reconnect my inner self with the spiritual world.”

The world was circled by a dragon that made up this outer world.  It formed an older gentleman with a long beard of snow.  He commanded his name to be Zion.  He ordered for Squaz to bring peace to Astorie realm.  The Tyrant four needed to be destroyed by his own hands.

“What if I fail at this quest?”

“Your destiny was already written, my son.”

The gentle woman spirit led Squaz to the gateway between Heaven and Hell.  She explained that this would be for your judgement.  Then he looked upon himself through these two doors.  The Heaven doorframe had the same brand marks that were on his wrists and ankles.  The Hell doorway was calling him out of curiosity.  He could hear a faintish woman calling for help behind this steel door.

His breath was full of ash.  Squaz tipped the door open.  He stood in front of the Gateway Steps.  His eyes caught the pool of souls.  There he saw the gods’ dumping souls.  He didn’t know why he was witnessing this.  Someone in chains being tortured with swords.  He recognized a woman from his dreams.  Someone called out to the young man.

“Squaz, what are you doing here?  Your time wasn’t now.  Get out!”

The Gatekeeper released his connection from the Spirit Realm.

Squaz rose from the ground.  Puggle stood leaning against the wall.  She wanted to know what it was like in the Spiritual Realm.  He couldn’t explain it now.  He wanted to know more about the palace of Jules.  He walked past her without looking at her in the eyes.  He overheard a commotion in the streets of a crowd rioting about food shortage.

Leo and Donnie were surveying the crowd for a guardsman from the main palace.  Squaz made his way down some stairs outside of the warehouse.  He was confronted by two men dressed in black light armor.  Squaz didn’t fight them.  He left with them.  They sat him in the middle of them in a full armor carriage.

“Where are we going?”

Still no answer.  They needed something from Squaz before he met with High Ruler Jules.  They rode up a hilltop in a graveyard.  Squaz could feel something was keeping these souls bound to the real world.

“Free these souls.  This task would be your first out of three.”

Squaz drew a circle with a pentagon inside of it.  He slit his left palm and squeezed drops of his blood into the space.  It instantly released the world of the living and allowed him to enter the spirit world around the graveyard.  He called out to a spirit sitting on a bench.  It was startled by Squaz.

“What are you doing here?”

Squaz asked why keeps the spirits of this graveyard roaming.  The old man looked around and pointed to a tarnished grave.  He hinted that spirit committed an insidious act in this graveyard.