Written by-Silver crown
Ch-15 The lonely one, travelers and explorers
Anhur came out from the book warehouse. He was a little exhausted from socializing. As he expected, he didn't get a definite answer from 'Aster the minstrel'. To create his faction inside a noble circle, he needs a man who can easily enter and exit their house. Unlike other people on his list, Aster already has a distinguished status in this kingdom.
Thinking about how to persuade that free-spirited minstrel, Anhur walked where his toe led. His steps stopped when he smelled a familiar fragrance. When he followed the source of the fragrance, he found a tree with purple bloom in his yard. It was much similar to the Jacaranda tree on earth.
Anhur's next few steps were drawn toward the tree. The boy's hand touched the bark of the tree. It has a mark left by his mother. This tree was used to measure his height every lunar year. He pouted whenever his mother said he became shorter. Anhur's eyes were filled with sadness and melancholy.
He was having a flashback of his mother. A beautiful lady wearing a purple flower crown on her head. He had smelled this familiar fragrance while laying on her bosom.
Every time young Anhur clings to his mother, she sings a lullaby for him while tenderly caressing his hair. She also has a motherly voice that matched perfectly with her beauty.
(Author note: The origin of this song is a sleep song belonging to the 'secret garden')
"Lay down your head. I will sing a lullaby...until you sleep oh lu li lai lay"
"Mother sings for your dreams. Mother sings for your tomorrows."
"Bless you with love for the road that you go."
Anhur sat down under the tree. He kept gazing at the sky getting dark. He thought about various things and events that happened in the future (or his dreams). He sat there and reminisced about his mother and loved ones.
In Anhur's long dreams, he was consumed by vengeance. He hated that person to death for killing his mother before his two eyes. For his young self, his mother was the whole world for him. He was willing to do anything to take his revenge. He trained day and night, waiting for the opportunity to come.
However, a palace isn't a place that shows kindness. They locked Anhur inside a dungeon, knowing the boy's obvious hostile intention toward the sovereign. Yet, numerous harshness, loneliness, and powerlessness he confronted in the confined cell couldn't tame the boy's resentment. Instead, they became fuel for his vengeance. Keeping him alive and overcoming many difficulties with his sheer will.
Anhur's real life started after a secret organization from the empire breakout the dungeon. After he escaped from the dungeon, he encountered many things. He has gained many things and lost many. At some point, He even met someone precious to his life.
However, his extreme resentment makes him unable to cherish them. He lived his entire life solely for his revenge. Only after losing everything, he understood how precious they were.
Just like this tree. He will never appreciate this tree if he is the same Anhur in his dream. Breathing the familiar fragrance, Anhur closed his eyes. He sings the same lullaby his mother sang for him.
The sky was slowly filled with stars and a prominent moon. The patrolling night guards found their disappointing prince sleeping under a purple blossoming tree.
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The astral sun was setting at the horizon. Two men wearing animal hides were making a bonfire before the sunlight completely went out. They were inside a desert land. They are making fire to warm up in the upcoming chilly night. A baby girl was sitting on their luggage watching the two busy men.
They cooked and have their meals. Dance and sing around the bonfire before they sleep. They are merry and carefree travelers wandering throughout the great wilderness. They are journeying toward the northwest direction of the great wilderness where the Onaxx desert is located.
The funny thing is these two men still don't understand each other language even after traveling together for a long time. Where the little girl got fluent in both languages. Undoubtedly, the genius girl becomes a translator between the two men.
Throughout the entire journey, they only have themselves to rely on. Their bonds become stronger day by day. Which intern confused the little girl that the two men were her parents.
They found many settlements and cities along their journey. However, they couldn't approach those places since their party has two unwelcoming individuals. They were trying their luck to reach the rumored city which is located in the Onaxx desert.
If that place doesn't accept them, they will have to continue their journey. Hoping that one day, they will reach a place where they can settle down.
They weren't the only travelers in this world. Many people were traveling through the mountain, seas, and oceans for different purposes. The majority of the travelers stopped their journey and prepared to camp before sunset.
Soon the night came to the great wilderness. It was a thriving time for some animals.
The cricket and bats were singing the background music of the silent city night. There were occasional sounds from the owls making "hoot hu hoot". The squeaking of rats from the dirty gutter became more distinctive in this nighttime of the city.
"Scribble…Scribble."
Using bright moonlight a 5-year-old boy was writing along a wall of an alleyway. It was a neat line of strange alphabets and space with strange code signs. They were written on walls from his left and right. The boy was wearing an item of shabby clothing and his body was wrapped in yellow bandages. After filling up the wall height he could reach, the boy took a few steps back.
He sat down and unblinkingly looked at the article he just wrote. It was Jinn. He was currently living in a city called Serbs located in the great wilderness. The same city will become a city of Grievance in later years. In these past few lunar years, he had been coming to this alleyway very often to calculate and research.
In these 4 lunar years, Jinn accumulated many things. He accumulated information step by step during this period. He has already revised and upgraded his travel plans several times. During this period, Jinn already got a temporary shelter, a stable source of food and water for upcoming travel. However, in his plan to accumulate tools for survival, he found himself stuck at a certain point.
Apart from his newly optimized algorithmic curriculum, Jinn also has a memory log that has basic concepts about automatons, scavenging weapons, and the basic concept of mech and spaceship. He even understood how to reconstruct a homunculus body.
Yet, Jinn found out that this knowledge and application wasn't compatible or applicable with materials in the current universe's physic and material. Fortunately, even though they are different, some areas like density, mass, and energy formulas are still the same.
Unlike any other day, the formula and theory written on the wall were different from Jinn's usual research. He is exploring something significant for himself.