Arthen: The Man of the East -- Chapter 6

 

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Journey to Seers of Five

 

Sammatha cried all night long.  She received the letter by crow for her son.  She saw the full blood moon in the sky.  It was time for Squaz to seek out the Seers of Five.  Her son patted her back to calm her.  He glanced at the angle of the letter to him.  He saw a symbol on it that was branded on him from birth.

It was official for Squaz.  He would make the trip to the mountain.  His first task for him would be to eliminate the hunter.  He packed three days of rations for his travels.  He wore the cloak to hide his sword.  He would vengeance his animal friend.

Squaz arrived at the end of the spiritual barrier.  He extended his left arm and touched it with his palm.  There it opened a spiritual doorway.  He didn’t look back.  This would officially start his journey.  He crouched down and hid in the bushes for the rest of the night.  He would bait the huntsmen by cooking breakfast.

The sunshine was through the lines of trees.  Squaz wore the cloak to blend in as an older gentleman.  The hunter smelled the boar meat.  He thought he startled the young man.  There Squaz gestured for the hunter to eat breakfast with him.  The hunter accepted the young man’s offer.  The two exchanged their names.

“Axios was what they called me.”

“Squaz.”

Axios was curious in the direction of Squaz.  He didn’t give away his direct location of destination.  Axios warned him these woods were bewitched.  Before the two parted ways Squaz gave Axios a blue jewel for a nice gesture.  Axios didn’t refuse the kind offer.

The blue jewel was a locator gemstone.  Squaz had one of his own tied around his neck in a leather strap.  He wasn’t ready to take an unnecessary life.  He needed to gather knowledge on this individual first.  His mother taught him everything has a nice side and an evil side.  He dowsed his fire from breakfast and cleaned the area of his scent with a purification spell by facing his right palm on the ground.  It dispersed a cleansing form.  Naked to be seen with the eyes. 

He came to the base of the mountain.  Something called him from a faint cry.  He removed his hood and searched slowly for the source.  He thought he dreamed it.  Sleep wasn’t his best friend these days.  He closed his eyes for another second.  A vision appeared with five witches circling a steel pot.  Each one spoke in riddles that only they knew the definition.

Then Squaz opened them with an exhale.  He wondered how he arrived in front of this Dead Entrance.  He examined the crevices with his fingertips.  Something peculiar felt like he should know this place.  Before he entered his eyes caught the brand mark in the corners.

“Someone died here before my time.”

He entered with cautiously.  The spirit weighed Squaz down.  It was like someone pressing on his shoulders.  Then a skeleton snickered with laughter from a far distance.  Squaz peeked over the ledge.  Chains hanging past the entrance passageway tunnel.  His knees trembled in fear.  He could hear agony voices from below him.  Then a kind spirit strolled up to the child.  It placed its arm on his shoulder for prays of the bedevil spirits in these tunnels.

The chains rattled with tense from some massive beast down in the fires.  Squaz looked into the eyes of the kind spirit.  She fed him with her powers.  His eyes glowed with a syringe of a blink within an eye.  He has magically grown taller now.  His physique gained some muscle mass.  His sword glowed from the subchannel of power.  It became a long dual sword.  He could shoot electricity from his fingertips.  His mind was quick on levitating him above open spaces.

 

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