Everwinters Mountains, underground cave
The five-man team stared at the huge scarlet crystal that was at the end of the cave, it was about four meters high, and about three meters wide, it was deep scarlet red in color, and very opaque.
"Captain, do you recognize this material?"
asked the man with the spear.
"I have never seen it, I do not recognize what it is, but if I can say that it is very old, I think it could be more than 80,000 years old."
"How do you know that, Captain?"
"I studied new geology for a while."
The captain replied indifferently.
"Captain, I'm not too sure but I think I can see something inside this glass."
The shooter with the eye skill suddenly commented.
"You are not seeing things, how can you look through this mineral, it is very opaque."
"That's why I said I'm not sure, let me check further."
The shooter stared into the scarlet crystal with his eyes glowing light green.
"I-I can see it, now that I look closer it looks like a h-human figure."
The green-eyed shooter stammered with some nervousness.
"Are you sure you're not trying to bother us?!!"
The man with the spear asked with an excited tone.
"Now I'm sure it's a human figure, I can see the outline of its limbs and its head."
The rest of the group suddenly became somewhat anxious but at the same time excited by the statement the shooter made.
"It can't be, this is incredible!! hahaha, we found it, we found it hahaha, those damn wolves did us a great favor hahaha!!, WE FOUND IT!!!"
The man with the spear suddenly began to shout excitedly and laughed like mad, almost on the verge of tears.
The captain, the old man and the other shooter were also very excited, if this is what they believed, they will have made the greatest contribution to humanity.
"Okay, we have to calm down a bit, although the probability is high, we will also have to face the consequences if it turns out to be a false alarm."
This statement was like a bucket of cold water that was true, if it really was him, they would be extremely rewarded, but if it was false, they would only await a destination where death would be the greatest of luxuries.
"So, what do we do, do we call the supreme leader or try to open it ourselves?"
"I vote for us to open it, if he's not him, then let's just ignore this and that would be it, what do they say."
The old man with the sword proposed seeing that everyone had doubts.
"Okay, let's do what you propose, it's the safest way."
The captain said after thinking it over carefully.
"Everyone stands aside, I'm going to open this glass."
"Captain you must be careful not to hurt him, if it's really him then we shouldn't attack without discretion, we don't know how his dear body is after being buried in this place for so many years."
The old man with the sword warned.
"Don't worry, I'll act carefully, if I hurt even one of his hairs, I'll commit suicide on the spot to atone for my sin."
It was strange that someone who did everything possible to survive the hunt for a fifth order storm wolf, would utter those kinds of words with such conviction, as if it were fact.
The faces of the other four did not show any kind of expression at these words either, as if what he said was common sense.
The captain raised the greatsword above him to the height above his head covering the sword's edge with faint dark blue Oddo, in the next instant he dropped the greatsword towards the scarlet crystal.
CLANG!!
There was a sharp sound of metal colliding with metal, the captain stepped back and saw that the scarlet crystal was completely intact, that attack did not make the slightest mark on the surface of the crystal.
"He did nothing to him, as expected of something that could protect his dear body for so long."
commented the old man suddenly.
"Did you know this would happen?"
asked the man with the spear.
"I wasn't sure, but I guessed, if this material is strong enough to withstand that attack from the captain without the slightest scratch, then now there aren't so many doubts, it's him."
"We must call the Supreme Leader."
"Okay, we'll call her, this time it's all or nothing."
Said the captain resolutely, as he took out a small silver disc about 30 centimeters in diameter, and two fingers thick, on its surface there were strange, illuminated runes and in the center was embedded a pearl that seemed to contain a nebula inside.
This was the space transmission device, each search team in these mountains had one, but if they were going to use it, they should do it with extreme care, each of these devices cost an exorbitant sum, and above all, getting them was an almost impossible task. unless you had a lot of influence or important contacts to help you get them.
This device allowed you to open a breach in the space that appears in front of the person who has the device marked, in this case the supreme leader.
"I'll call her now."
Said the captain with a solemn face, he raised the device and pressed the sphere in the center, immediately after throwing it to the ground two meters away.
When the space transmission device fell to the ground, the sphere in the center shattered into countless pieces. almost immediately a kind of dark vortex was formed.
After a few seconds, a figure came out of the vortex, completely dressed in black, with a loose dress but even so her lush curves were still displayed for the world to admire, it was clearly a woman, she wore a silver mask that prevented her face from being seen completely, a beautiful dark purple hair fell over her back and shoulders, she had a height of around 1.75 meters, even with the mask she gave the air that she was an extremely beautiful woman.
"HIS SUBORDINATES SALUTE THE SUPREME LEADER!!"
All five men shouted at the same time, kneeling on one knee.
"You summoned me, you better not have used the device in vain, because you already know what awaits you"?
A cold and authoritative voice emitted from the woman, but even so, she was a very sweet and charming voice, you wouldn't mind continuing to listen to her for a while.
"His subordinate informs him that we did not use the device in vain, although we are not 100% sure, we really believe that we have found it, please look at the bottom of the cave."
The captain replied calmly, but the emotion in his voice was evident.
The woman's body jerked for a moment, and immediately she turned around, the next moment she was paralyzed.
They couldn't feel it because of her low level of power, but she could, inside that scarlet crystal, she could feel a tremendous energy totally repressed.
After calming down for a moment she raised her hand, on her palm began to form a sphere of purplish black energy that rotated on itself.
The five behind her felt the enormous amount of Oddo in the woman's hand, although it was much smaller than the ice attack that the fifth order storm wolf threw at them earlier, the power that it carried within it did not I had no point of comparison.
The woman threw the purplish black sphere of Oddo into the scarlet crystal.
Seeing this action, the five behind her lost all color in her face and her limbs went limp.
("WE ARE DEAD!!")
If that sphere of Oddo were to explode here, they wouldn't even have a single bone left.
When the purplish black sphere touched the scarlet crystal, it unexpectedly didn't explode, instead it spread around the crystal.
After a while the purplish black layer that surrounded the crystal disappeared, the scarlet crystal was visible to everyone again.
It looked exactly the same as they found it, without the slightest scratch.
("Not even the leader can do anything to him?")
The captain thought to himself.
CRACK!! CRACK!! CRACK!! CRACK!!
After a few seconds cracking sounds were heard.
That's right, that scarlet crystal began to break and crumble.
The hearts of the five men began to beat wildly, somewhat from fear as well as anticipation.
They weren't the only ones, the woman's heart was also beating erratically, and it wasn't out of fear or anticipation, it was out of pure emotion, happiness, adoration, and a bit of fanaticism, if someone could see under her mask, they could see her lavender eyes, shining dangerously in a haunting and crazy way.
The scarlet glass continued to crumble until a human figure came out from inside, falling to the ground.
FOOSHH!!
Immediately the woman ran to catch him in her slender arms, she did not want him to get hurt in the slightest, or touch that hard and cold floor.
Already having him in her arms, the woman could clearly see the appearance of the human figure that came out of the scarlet crystal.
They were a young man, he looked about 18 years old, with skin as fair as the snow that covered the mountains outside the cave but he didn't look sickly, he also had a healthy pink hue, he was completely naked, from what he could see his body. slender and muscular, each line seemed to be carved in the finest marble, he looked like a body carved by the gods, on his face there were a pair of dark and defined eyebrows, his nose was refined lustrous, under that perfect nose were lips Fine and rosy, she had an angular and elegant face, the most striking thing was her long and dazzling snow-white hair that fell to her waist.
The woman was entranced admiring this work of art with a light of madness and obsession in her eyes.
At that moment his eyelashes trembled, and the man opened his eyes, they were a very beautiful ruby scarlet color, but he had a lost focus.
He opened his mouth and uttered the following words:
"Forgive me Éli."