Arthen: The Man of the East -- Chapter 3

 

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Evolving Oneself

 

The orbs dissolved as Jules was healed.  He noticed there was a view looking up at a golden statue.  He would make the climb to the top.  He felt something as he strolled to the statue.  In his pocket was a uniocular from viewing through it.  This golden statue felt different for some kind.  He started climbing up.  It took him some time to be careful climbing.  There were three different suns setting at different levels in the sky.

“What was this place?” 

He took out his uniocular for viewing.  In front of him lay an ultimate power source.  Then behind him was complete darkness.  Two different kingdoms in Istric.  He still couldn’t find a way out of this dimension.  There were no other different kinds of living beings present.  He parachuted down from the statue.  The light source was east from here, and the darkness was west.

“Hello!  Anyone out there!” 

He got no answer.  He decided to investigate the abandoned buildings for some supplies.  He found some rations of food in a store like place, but there was no name on the building.  Inside another building was treated for injuries and still there were no people.  Jules gathered some bandages and ointments for his travels to the light source.

He used a compass for his guidance to the light source.  It just displayed the two directions east and west.  His mind wasn’t on the distractions of the two directions.  His curiosity drove his ambitions to wanting to know about the two in this kingdom.  As he made his way east there were just rock formations and night skies.  Another thought was the three suns.  He wondered what they meant to this Kingdom of Istric.

Then he noticed a shrine with a circle with a crest inside of it.  He never thought of anything by the engravement of the symbol.  Behind it was a downward passageway with steps.  Jules didn’t want to waste time on the distraction.  He kept his mind of the white light from the east.  It was just in the ravine up ahead over the hilltop.

There was an electric noise from the light source.  It was drawing Jules closer to it.  Then he extended his right arm.  He placed his palm against it, but it was shocking his hand.  He shoved it into the magical light and afterwards something pulled him into the light.

Inside there was a flashing orb a few yards ahead of him.  He examined his black and white self.  He heard a woman’s voice faintly from the orb.  It wanted him to follow it in this alternate world.  It asked, “why did you sacrifice yourself?”

He knew this statement wasn’t in the now.  He started sprinting after the orb, but it led him to a lagoon of neon pink liquid.  He didn’t hesitate to think of the outcome of diving into the pink water.

It twirled him in a semicircle down a drain.  Jules was at the bottom of the ravine.  He stood next to a steep hill.  He sat cross-legged for a moment.  He breathed and exhaled as he closed his eyes for a few moments.

He opened his eyes and rose to his feet.  He started the mountain climbing up the steep hill.  There wasn’t a single star in the sky as Jules glanced up.  His heart wanted to head west into the darkness location.  The trip would last for three full days.

There was an impulse from a second ravine.  Jules couldn’t see it with his uniocular because it blended in with the darkness.  He woke up facing a purple slender woman with black hair.  She had neon purple fingernails.  She reached her hand out to welcome this visitor.  There were no words exchanged during the greeting.

Jules was interrupted by the Seers of Five.  Each one frightened him from his dream like state of mind.

“What did you see your majesty?”

Each one wanted a description of the dream to decode it for him.  He explained it as it was to them.  Then the pale white Seer of Five summoned their crystal ball for the explanation for the High Ruler.

What they feared for him was the same a slave would rise to be an Ancient One.  They opened a portal to transport Jules back to his personal chambers.