Chapter 24: Original Rune
"What is lineage?" Tetsuya repeated the question.
Since it was brat that didn't seem to know much, Tetsuya just used simple words, "Your parents, grandparents and so on. That's the lineage." He shrugged as the brat's eyes became filled with anger.
"Don't insult mom! She isn't a criminal!" A kid screamed while feeling exuding a magical aura. This yellowish aura caused the whole underground to shake violently. The beasts far away from the hill shivered and hid theirs heads within the bushes.
As for the game master, he peeked at the ceiling. Some stones fell near him, but it didn't seem like the brat was all ready to burrow him here.
"Then it means I am not a bad human." He spoke to the child with a soft smile, then stepped forth. While Tetsuya's words made the soul contemplate inwardly, his steps caused the brat to raise his voice yet again.
"Don't come any closer!" A small wall emerged out of the ground. It couldn't stop Tetsuya at all as jumping would be enough! From what Ashley told him, this earth soul remnant could be useful for him. That was why Tetsuya took things slowly and peacefully.
"You already know that I am not bad, so take it easy. You can tell me what you are doing here." Tetsuya didn't ask the question, but gave the permission!
This somewhat confused the brat. He didn't know what to say, so he let out one of his secrets just like that, "I am protecting mother's grave." This place happened to be the grave. But why would this brat control and strengthen the beast leader? As this question appeared within Tetsuya's mind, Reyas slowly woke up.
She noticed the soul remnant and began to ponder what the game master's next move will be.
Surprisingly, Tetsuya offered help, "Is that how the grave looks?" It was like a hidden base many brats would like to have. It contained nothing other than its hidden feature.
As the soul remnant heard it, he bit his lips and made a saddened expression, "I can't… make a grave here." He sounded so sad that Ashley let out some tears within Tetsuya's mind. She was the one to send the quest!
[Quest! Make a grave!]
"So you say that you can't move the soil to make a grave?" Tetsuya repeated what the soul told him. Apparently, this kid wanted to make a grave here for a long time, but he failed each time he tried to do so.
Then, he found out that he can invade the beasts! Using his power, he helped one beast to get stronger! To repay everything, the beast promised to protect the hill. It sounded like a cuty story, but the brat was staying here without any way to begin his new life 'as the soul'.
"This world is truly laughable. It doesn't even let the brat make a grave." Tetsuya was angry due to that. He peeked at the quest Ashley gave for the soul, then nodded.
She shared her knowledge and used the bloodline to help the soul. This help was 'written' flow of energy. It would help the soul move the soil to form a grave.
But to get this reward, the soul needed to perform a few smaller quests.
"I have to gather the flowers!" It was pretty ignorant of the brat to just go with Tetsuya flow, but he died so early and had no way to grow mentally. He was truly the kid, so Tetsuya found nothing wrong with this.
At least the soul was clever enough to realize that it was Tetsuya helping with this 'quest'.
After all, the quest appeared just after his invasion, "Flowers… Stones… A tree's seed? I know where they are!"
The soul knew and even used his beast leader for help.
"The last mini quest is to call all the beasts and let me modify them including the beast leader." Tetsuya said while looking at the soul and the beast leader.
"I know." Ashley was not influenced by her emotions to the point where she would forget about their goal. As it would take some time to gather all the stuff, Tetsuya just casually talked with either Reyas, Ashley or the soul.
It was the soul's time, "Mom said we were from a lost clan." The soul mostly talked about his time with mom. She wanted to teach him a lot of stuff, either earth rune's origins or just pure techniques! But the brat just wanted to play! He wanted to play so much that he ran away from the house, then the massacre happened.
"I want to meet mom and apologize to her!" This alone made Ashley cry. She was like those old mommas that cried while watching some show…
"Don't you want to begin a new life and fulfill more of your mother's wishes?" Tetsuya ignored her cries and continued to talk.
"No… I want to apologize…" It was the soul's genuine feelings, but his current form also played a huge role. It was not so easy to be the soul and stay with a clear mind. Tetsuya cursed the world yet again, then his eyes turned up.
A sun began to invade the hill, so it was already quite high up, "Time flies fast. As if it tried to run away from me." Ashley's cries stopped, Reyas just went back to sleep and the soul let out huge laughter as it sounded so stupid!
Nonetheless, he was also happy as the grave was close to completion!
"Thank you for your help! You have nice jokes!" Soul let out these words after all the quests ended!
"Jokes?"
"Time flies fast! Time flies fast!" A spirit laughed as he moved to the grave. As he knelt, the earth aura began to gather around his body. His already transparent one began to slowly pale…
He prayed for the trip to heaven or any other place where his mother would be.
As for Tetsuya and Reyas, they looked at him with different emotions.
Soon the soul stood up and turned around, "I don't want my mother's grave to get destroyed…" He told his intentions, then smiled. The duo let out smiles as well!
"Yes, good bye." Reyas bowed slightly, both to the mother and soul, then left.
As Tetsuya gave the last look, he turned around after farewell, "Since there are demons, there might be the angels. I will visit heaven in the future." A clear laughter escaped the brat's lips as he heard it.
Once outside, Tetsuya looked at the hill closing up its entrance and slowly blending with the surroundings. It now looked like a natural part of this place.
"Mark this place on the minimap. We will pass some quests to take care of this area. You too remember it, Reyas." Tetsuya sighed as he turned around. But it was not the end of today's events! The yellow light escaped through the soil and appeared before his eyes. It materialized itself as an oval stone with engraved mark. This mark looked like a circle with a few 'X' inside.
[You have found the original rune of the lost clan - Sharma]
"How lucky…" Tetsuya reacted as such to this message from the game rune. He then hid the original rune within his inventory. In the meantime, he sent a message to Ashely who already expected the question.
"So there should be an original rune to your bloodline?" His question was just like she expected.
"I am just one of the descendants… I think… There must be someone with the original one and if not…" It was hard to continue as this exceeded Ashley's knowledge. She wanted to provide more means to find the original rune or maybe even create one.
"We will know if we complete the main quests." Tetsuya's words caused Ashley to nod.
It was a fair assumption and she also felt like it was true.
But this just confirmed that there will be more to the game rune than one world. "Those fantasy worlds are all betrayers, aren't they? Hah."