Slowly the day changed and the sun began to emerge from the eastern horizon, the dawn was visible from the glass window in the room near Anko's bed.
Her dark eyes slowly opened, indicating that she had just woken up from her sleep.
She remembered that she had spent the night with Syifa telling a full story about herself who was considered to be from the future world.
For Anko, there is nothing more beautiful than the view from sunrise and sunset (sunset). Now Syifa also woke up, her body writhing from right to left. As soon as he realized that it was morning, she immediately packed up and changed her appearance to that of an unfriendly-looking man again. Likewise, Anko put on her emperor's clothes and took her scabbard that was on the floor, then she tied the rope from the scabbard to her chest and didn't forget to tuck her hair into the knight hat she had worn before.
Anko had no other choice but to go on a journey with Syifa. The reason Syifa called Anko a royal knight was that she also wanted to visit the towering palace that was visible from a distance.
During this time, every time Syifa went around... she only found ruins in certain places. Actually, where is the actual location of the palace that looks magnificent? Even though he wandered far away he hardly ever came close to her.
Syifa started to pack up and Anko helped her, after that, they prepared to go downstairs and return the key to their room, and then they started their journey again.
In the end, what Syifa wanted to go to was where Anko was currently headed.
However, it seemed that it was not enough to just rely on wandering without power if they wanted to make their goal a reality. What Syifa said according to her current experience, if we are getting closer to our destination, we need greater and greater strength. It is said that from some of the people that Syifa has met, in some parts of the world many great people are said to have gathered in the city center. To make this happen, Anko must find her true avatar in this world, and she must start training the powers that exist within her body once she finds it.
What kind of power does Anko have?
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Don't forget that before traveling, Syifa feeds the horses, so they don't break down in the middle of the road. Today, Syifa will take Anko somewhere to find her potential first. They set out and planned to arrive at their current destination before the sun was overhead.
The place is in the middle of the forest where a river mouth is said to have been a lot of an Elf or a descendant of a fairy who stopped by to bathe here. She told Anko to train herself by meditating on a rock in the middle of the river mouth.
"Why should I do it?" Anko asked surprised because in the middle of this forest, the mouth of the river is quite small and there is no one around. Indeed, some places in this world are uninhabited precisely because of that, many unique places have not been touched before.
Syifa herself believes that Anko will eventually become her travel partner. She was trying to make Anko stronger. She wanted to take advantage of the potential within Anko by looking at the mouth of the river but, she hadn't found it yet...
Anko was also curious about what her avatar would look like in this world? Would he get an avatar like the one in the game she played? —Milkyway, she misses that handsome, strong, and brave man.
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The river is not that deep but, when someone with special abilities blends in around the river (whether they are standing or sitting on a rock or bathing directly) then the river immediately changes color and shows the abilities of someone in their body, the river it will change color as the original if the person had left or not put pressure strength. The name of the mouth of this river is, "Water of truth," and the water in the river neutralizes its color again. However, certain powers of a person cannot be neutralized so that the color of the river that was used to awaken his power cannot change to its original color. Some of them are usually blacklisted, people.
That means, these people bear a lot of sins and mistakes and they don't want to fix it so once it is neutralized in this river, the color remains unchanged.
Syifa also gave some pictures that she got from her journey so far, some of the estuaries were yellow, green, blue, red, and even colorless at all.
"If it's colorless at all, does that mean that someone who has thrown himself into the river doesn't have any special powers?" Anko asked to confirm.
"It could be, or it could be that he has a foreign power that the water of truth can't detect," Syifa answers honestly.
Then Syifa took the water in the river from the wooden bucket that she brought for her horse to drink and she sprinkled some of the water on her hands so that her hands were filled with water, and the water in Syifa's hands turned green and brown, meaning she has 2 basic elements. in setting up its power.
"I can control the wood element, the green I get is from plants and this chocolate comes from the earth. If I combine it I will form a wood element, an example is this sculpture of my avatar." Syifa explained by showing her two discolored palms.
"Wow~ amazing!" Anko was amazed by the changes.
"Wait a minute! If you have that element, then from the start you also have a knight armor like me, then you also have the sword?" asked Anko to make sure, because all this time she had never seen Syifa carrying her sword on her back.
Syifa shook her head, "Unfortunately, my weapon doesn't seem to be a sword, because I can also make a sword out of wood." She explained with a slightly disappointed face, it seemed that Syifa wanted to have a sword-like Anko's.
"Oh, yeah, did you who own the sword ever draw it?" Syifa asked to make sure because all this time she had only seen Anko carrying her.
"Never, even I also just realized since we were about to meet, this sword is attached to my body with a knot in my chest," Anko explained with a straight face.
"...." Syifa felt that there was something odd about Anko.
"Where did you arrive earlier? Where did you start? Can you still see your true form?" Syifa asked curiously to make sure that this figure was the real one.
"Yeah, if I take off this armor I'm wearing, it's my true figure. I came here already like this." Anko explained it earnestly.
"Then you haven't found your avatar."
"I arrived at the ancient ruins and I thought there was a lot of barren lands and withered vegetation there… if only this power was given to me, and if I had greater abilities I might have found the origin of my previous powers. Since some of the people I've been meeting with, they must have arrived in the vicinity of the ruins." It was clear that Syifa was back which made Anko even more clueless.
"...." Why was she the only one who arrived at the meadow with colorful flower gardens and she also saw the village where he first arrived uninhabited?
Anko finally concluded, she didn't have time to mingle with the river mouth here, "That means... I can't find my avatar here but, at the beginning where I arrived." Anko explained her conclusion.
"Yes, but you can still detect it here. If the water in the river changes color either a lot or a little it means it is a symbol of your strength and you will find a reflection of your avatar here." Syifa came back casually while sitting near a large rock.
"...."
'Mirror?'
Anko remembered that she had previously looked in the mirror at the old well where she had first arrived...
Is the avatar this time a girl?
Then, before Anko entered the river or she had not yet meditated on the rock, she tried to pull her sword out of the scabbard...
"...." quite difficult!! Anko must need more strength to pull it out, what Syifa said was true. So, at this time Anko tried to meditate on a rock, closed her eyes, and focused her thoughts.
Anko immediately tried it and found the power that resided in her body, she was also curious what kind of Avatar she had? As much as possible Anko did not pollute this river.
She followed the way that was taught by Syifa.
Syifa also said that there is no need to rush because this requires extra precision. 'Blur!' Yes, it's still blurry and it looks like this will take a long time and be tiring.
However, Syifa who was sitting there relaxed thought that Anko did well. '
In the past, Syifa got it for more than a week. Those who can find it in just a few days even just a day or a few hours they are classified as people who have greater abilities. Of course, until Anko got tired of concentrating her thoughts… but she found nothing.
But, Syifa thinks that's not true...!! It seems that Anko is not aware of everything around her, Syifa who is monitoring her smirks lightly at Anko, she seems to know something.
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What kind of power do you think resides in Anko's body?
*To be continued.