"Oh inhabitant of this stream, here my words about our master, our leader, our Creator that will become a god! He grew up with nothing but grabbed the first chance he got to walk the road of power. On his road to power he found a dead end, to old to be a creator, but as he followed another road he broke it and took the path of everything. He tamed a beast, he opened his body and created a universe! And all of this out of the goodness from his heart.. A goodness that I or anyone else don't truly deserve.
This goodness inspired us, his potential inspired us, and from this inspiration I promise you, oh snake of the stream, that if you follow Gosamu and dedicate yourself to the Haven that we will make sure that you will find a true body!"
I hear Goba from quite far away, his preaching sounds through the forest. It's kind of embarrassing to hear him speaking about me like that, but as it is only facts and opinions he isn't lying about anything. I do think that we need to be honest when we try to make anyone join us.
I walk closer to Goba and let him feel my presence, he turns around and bows to me after stopping mid sentence. "Master! You're here!" he was still talking about all the good things one should do for the world when one would be dedicated to the Haven.
"Yes Goba, how are things going here? I heard you calling it a snake?"
"Yes Gosamu, I figured out his race and wish. It's something I learned while I was preaching to it, I get a bit of information about the ond I'm preaching to. This makes it so I can make it more direct and effective!
It's a very special snake, it's entire body is made from water! It's almost an elemental, but not quite, almost a slime but also not quite! But what it'd truly want is a body of flesh and blood. And I thought it's probably possible to make him like me, a soul with its memories inside a new body!"
That does sound like it should be doable, I'd really like to grand its wish as the body it has sounds impressive! What if I made it with something else? Could I make it a body made entirely from air? That would be impressive too!
I walk towards the waters edge, "I am Gosamu, Creator of the Haven. I promise you that if you'll dedicate yourself to the Haven I'll grand you a new body! A body that'll be a similar grade to your soul, this way you can show your greatest potential!"
There's a ripple in the waters surface, and from the middle of this circle a pillar of water emerges from the surface. This pillar bends towards me and I see the shape of a snake, a snake made of water.
He looks at me and I look at him, I am amazed by its body the water just floats there whereas it disappears where it touches the water. It's truly invisible under water! I have no idea what the snake thinks though, recognising its expressions is hard, for one it's a snake, for two it is made of water. Not the most defining material!
Then it just nods at me before disappearing into the water again. "Goba, you take care of some things. See if you can find about 200kg of flesh that has a high water affinity and just talk with the snake from time to time, answer its questions as long as you can and make sure it trusts you. You know what you'll need to do to take its soul out."
And like that I walk away, Vothe appearing on my shoulders. "Let's go find what we came for."
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"Vothe, do you have an idea which way we should go to find nice things? We need flightless birds and great wood." Vothe seems to ponder on my question, even sniffing the air... Before shaking his head. I guess it won't be so easy.
"Let's just walk further away from the city and the road, further into the forest helps most of the time."
And like that we went deeper into the forest, as we ran further and further there were less and less paths. The trees became thicker and there were more and more plants I needed to avoid while running.
Even though the sun should be about at its highest point it was slightly dark here, the trees stopped the light and prevented the wind from blowing. It's warm and humid, and it feels like there's a pressure that I can't truly place. Vothe also seems like he doesn't really want to go deeper.
A few minutes further in the forest looks ancient, the trees are so thick that if they were hollowed out I could lay down in there comfortably. Vines wind around the trees like thick snakes strangling their pray, and the only thing I hear is bugs in the distance. I feel watched, but I don't notice anything around me. The pressure I felt is also more intense, but it actually feels that it's more intense where I came from, it's pushing me further in. And so I do go further in.
I saw some bigger animals as we moved further in, we don't run anymore. The bigger animals noticed us too, but they ignored us. The pressure in my back is getting more and more intense, something is pushing us in. But is it luring us or calling us? There's a big difference, but I'm ready to summon everyone if something doesn't seem to be right.
I just saw a big black and green shadow jumping away as I came closer, from the tracks it left behind it definitely wasn't something that would eat vegetables. It's nails dug into the ground and I could put my fingers in the holes they left behind. But from the left to the right nail... my head easily fit between them. It's paws are bigger then my head.
The pressure pushing me in isn't just behind me anymore, it's concentrating. But I'm not sure on what yet. If it keeps going like this it'll be mostly pushing on my lower dantian or on where my world is. I feel like it'll be pushing on my world.
The further I go in the more sure I become, it's pushing on Haven, calling me in because of my world. Am I the only Creator who came into this forest so far, am I the only Creator crazy enough to actually follow this push, or is my world truly special for it to call me?
The pressure is definitely getting more concentrated on Haven, everything from my shoulders up and waist down doesn't feel pressure anymore.
By now I can feel that with every step I take the pressure gets more and more concentrated, I'm getting closer. I feel like if it is truly luring me in I won't have any chance to survive, but something tells me it'll be alright.
There's a circle of 10 trees, massive trees! Each one of them is about 5 meters in diameter and if I'd take a guess about 50 meters high!
There's a clearing inside of the circle, the clearing is about 10 meters in diameter. A single ray of light shines into the clearing, but there's nothing there. The ray of light gives me an idea though, so I sit down and meditate, imagining the light flowing through me.
Like that time passes, it feels like it has been long ago that I did this. It's relaxing and it makes me feel in contact with the world, even more so than it did in the shed.
The ray of light doesn't seem to move, even as it's slowly getting darker there's still a ray of light, but from the golden light of day it turned into a silver light. It feels different, the chill of night flows through me.
When I open my eyes again it's morning, Astonax will be pissed for being gone for so long. But after standing up I look at where I sat and I see something light brown in the grass that was pushed down from sitting on it. I bend over and pick it up and it is a small, perfectly round, wooden ball.
It's about a centimeter in diameter and it has a line in the centre, but it feels perfectly smooth. I don't feel anything from it, but I like it. And so I take it with me. It's time to go back.
"Vothe?" I whisper his name and he appears behind a tree, but he doesn't enter the clearing. "Let's go."
And like that we returned, nothing much happened. The pressure wasn't there anymore and I didn't see a living creature. What I did see was a black tree, and as I can't return with nothing I made Vothe cut of a branch that had a two meter long piece that was as think as my wrist. And with that I returned to the house. It was heavy and inconvenient, but doable. The sun was high in the sky again and my stomach was growling at me, but I returned.
"Astonax! I'm back!" I yelled from outside, but there was no response. Once inside I heard something, hammering.
It's coming from the basement, but once I'm there the fairy is flying in front of the door. Making sure I won't enter.
I return to the kitchen to make myself something simple to eat. Oh right, let's go summon that dodo!