Vanessa wondered how did she disappeared and appeared like that. Raliz told her about that.
After hearing Raliz's story, her face turned grim.
She knew about this. Vanessa's mother had this book that contains a lot of informations about this forest.
There was a mythl about these pillars. Before mankind appeared in this world, Elves, Dwarves, and Fairies occupied this forest. This forest was the most peaceful land of all. You could totally feel the peaceful atmosphere here before.
But when the Dark Lord came, many Elves, Dwarves, and Fairies had been corrupted. They turned to be violent and scary Creatures.
And then, mankind came. People started to occupied these Forest but they eventually leaved after they knew about these violent Creatures.
A war between Creatures in the Dark Forest, either good and bad battled against humans.
Elders of both sides felt sadness. They don't want a war, they only wanted peace. The Elders made a contract of Peace. After that, the war ended.
The land became peaceful again. But not for long.
Dark Lord made a move. He corrupted some of the sides of humans and some in the Forest. Those corrupted Humans and Creatures battled to death.
Most of the Creatures were Elves, Dwarves, and Fairies. The Elders of the Forest and Humans had a meeting.
They knew that they wouldn't hurt each other. They blamed it on the Dark Lord. The Elders of the Forest and Humans were all Legendary Level.
They made a partnership to deal with this Dark Lord. They knew they can't beat Dark Lord because Dark Lord's Level was beyond the Power of a Legendary Level. His power was like in a God Level.
Creatures and Humans trained together. They became powerful, they became Gods. But some of them ascended and left the World.
Some failed to ascend but still strong as gods.
A great war happened. Dark Lord was beaten to Death and was cursed. He was put to an Eternal Slumber as well as his Kingdom.
But his power of Darkness was still spreading in the world. Many Humans and Creatures became one with the Darkness and also became corrupted.
The Legendary Level Creatures and Humans made a protection barrier in the Forest. These Barriers were the pillars. To kept Creatures and Humans from killing each other.
These pillars also resembled fairness. That's why Creatures with different levels were arranged in layers.
These pillars were not just barriers but also an Artifact that could recover your powers. But it only allows people and Creatures with an ancient blood.
The Dark Forest was one of the hotspots of Dark Lord's power so they made sure to handle the Forest first.
After that, occurrences of the Creatures in the Forest attacking people suddenly depleted. Some of the Elves , Dwarves and Fairies left the Forest but some stayed inside and never been found again.
Raliz hearing the myth felt sadness. All these bad things happening in this world was just the cause of Dark Lord's Power.
But Raliz wondered, 'Where did Dark Lord came from? How did he appeared in this world?'
Raliz felt some energy covering her body. She felt good and relaxed.
After that, they continued their journey. They passed the barrier and teleported directly in the second layer of the Dark Forest.
They began to walk. Raliz gem detected many Creatures along the way but they easily avoided it.
They heard rushing water up ahead.
They looked into each other. " River!" They exclaimed in excitement.
They reached a river, a really really huge one.
Loud noise of rushing water startled them. Thankfully, they weren't going in the water, they will just follow the river.
The map shows that the river flows downstream and passing layer by layer.
Raliz and Vanessa headed downstream.
Raliz and Vanessa felt that the pull of gravity suddenly became stronger but still they can walk normally.
Raliz heard a shriek from a distance. They saw two Vulture like Creatures. Their body were huge additional to their 2-meter wings.
They're flying above from a specific place below.
Raliz and Vanessa with Serpent, they hid themselves in a bush. They saw a nest below the Flying Creatures. And on the nest, there were two big white eggs with some weird yellow markings.
" It looks like they are trying to harm the eggs." Vanessa said.
" Why do you say so?" Raliz asked.
" Because they're not the parents of those eggs." Serpent said.
After Serpent said that, Raliz face became more confused.
" Ok. Those Flying Creatures are called Death Birds. The eggs of those Death Birds are colored in black. And Those Death Birds were only at Elite Level. But still you need to be careful. Their fighting abilities are very strong." Serpent said.
Raliz's face changed into a realization.
Suddenly, the clouds darkened. Lightning and thunder appeared in the dark clouds.
The Death Birds were alarmed. A lightning appeared and hit one of the Death Birds. The Death Bird screamed in agony before its body became charred.
Serpent was more than surprised than Raliz and Vanessa. Serpent knew that there's only one Creature that could do something like that. A Thunder Phoenix.
A Golden Bird came out in the clouds. Lightning and Thunder surrounded the bird. The Golden Bird screeched very loud and it made the Death Bird lost its energy of flight.
Even Raliz and Vanessa came stumbling on the ground. That screeched could totally stunned enemies with weak will.
Raliz saw Serpent that was still floating. Serpent didn't got affected at all.
" Serpent? How? Aren't affected at all?" Raliz asked.
Serpent was starlted. Serpent told Raliz, "Because... I'm a spirit."
" Yeah, you got a point." Raliz said.
Raliz knelt to the ground while watching the Golden Bird killing the Death Bird with its powerful talons.
The Death Bird managed to screeched loudly but after that its head was lopped off.
The Golden Bird screeched again and this time it was the loudest. Raliz was pale. She could still control herself not to get unconscious. She looked at Vanessa. She was starlted.
Vanessa was lying now in the ground and her skin was pale as snow. Raliz touched Vanessa and a sign of relief appeared in her face. Vanessa just fainted.
Serpent was surprised when it saw Raliz that was still holding back from that Will Rummage Screech Attack from the Thunder Phoenix.
Raliz asked Serpent about the bird. Serpent was impressed in Raliz tough will so it told her about the Golden Bird.
" That bird is a Legendary Bird. Thunder Phoenix. And those eggs over there, are its eggs." Serpent explained.
Raliz was surprised. No wonder she was kneeling right now in fear. It was a Legendary Level Creature.
A frightening beast, indeed. Then, Raliz was confused. How on Earth that Legendary Creature could be in the layer where Warrior and Elite Creatures lived?
Then, Raliz's heart stopped beating when the Thunder Phoenix looked at them.
The Thunder Phoenix screeched once again, looking up to the sky. Yellow Lightning struck down on Raliz direction.
It was so fast. There's no time to evade it.
But then, when Raliz thought she would be struck by it, the lightning stopped in the midair near her face.
The Lightning moved itself and turned into a lightning mark. It floated towards Raliz's head and was absorbed.
Raliz felt a tingling sensation in her forehead to her shoulder.
Raliz felt some energy stemmed all across her body. Then, an announcement was played.
" Legend's Approval Seal obtained. ( Approval to have their eggs as your pet. Additional rewards: 10, 000 Spirit Energies.)"
Raliz's jaw dropped. She couldn't believed it, she received 10,000 Spirit Energies!
She only needed to get another half to evolve.
By killing those Shadow Ghouls and Shape-shifting Goblins, she received 1,900 Spirit Energies. Now, she had 11,900 Spirit Energies.
Raliz didn't know about the Legend's Approval Seal. She turned to look at Serpent.
Serpent held the face of amazement and shock. Raliz was very lucky. Serpent knew what Raliz meant when she turned to looked at it.
" Legend's Approval Seal is a very rare blessing from a Legendary Creature. The seal means an approval of the mother of her babies to be owned by the seal's chosen." Serpent excitedly said.
" And... You could do what you want to do with those Thunder Phoenix's Eggs. You could hatch them or kill them so that you will have another spirit." Serpent added.
" What?! I could obtain more spirit by just killing it?!" Raliz shouted in disbelief.