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Chapter 3 - The Awakening (3)

A booming call comes from the entrance of the auction house that silences everyone. '5,000 gold' everyone is baffled, who is this man and how could he have this much gold? The mysterious hooded man walks closer to the stage and asks. 'what is my money no good?' the auctioneer snaps out of his stupor and continues but to no surprise no one tries to outbid this man. The auctioneer calls out sold and the auction continues to the last slave. The mysterious man pays the impossibly large amount of gold and Zero gets transfered to him. Zero questions the man with a shaky voice 'what do you plan to do with me?' -Silence- The man gives no response he simply grabs Zero's collar and it rips off as if it were paper. This mysterious man ushers Zero out of the building and into the streets.

The streets are full people going in every direction going about there business. The man leads Zero through the crowd until they get to a alleyway then urges Zero to enter first. Zero feeling he doesn't get a choice does so. after a few seconds they reach a dead-end. When the two of them aproach the wall it suddenly opens revealing a great forest all around them. Behind them the wall closes and then disappears. Zero asks 'where are we?'while looking towards the man. a young feminine voice answers from ahead of them. she is a girl about the same age as zero. 'we are on the other side of the world from where you were.' she then looks towards the man as he removes his hood revealing a golem. 'Gol-Golary you may go I'll take him the rest of the way.' The golem bows and disappears into the ground.

'Nice to meet you I am Lillia or you can call me Lilly. come with me and I'll answer your questions.' Zero hesitates a moment before he gives in. Lilly and Zero walk along a path for about a half hour. Lilly informing him that They are on the continent of Isdep and he came from the continent of Lubbin. Gol-Golary was supposed to get her grandfather but was too late but got him for some reason. Zero asked several more questions but unfortunately Lilly didn't know the answers and so they continued the trip in silence. The silence was finally broken when Lilly said 'we are here.'