The sky was getting dark.
"You are giving me more worries without proper explanations. Now we have enough food for the night. Explain me the Monster attack first.", Finn asked while lighting a fire.
"Hm, How should I start this...hm, okay", Solon, thought deeply and started to talking again.
"This is a clan secret, only the officials of the great clans know about it. Not even the young patriarches can obtain these info if they were not proved their worth. So no mattar what, you can't let our talk out to anyone. It can spread massive waves to the world."
Finn twiched his eyebrows. What is he talking about? How dengerous is this information anyway? Finn who was just introduced to this world, doesn't even know the continental map properly, can't fathom the dangers lurking around the darkness of this universe.
Whenever a man dies or anyother people dies, there bodies started to rot and slowly become a black mud. And the rest of the life force, the vital energy, Aether, slowly spread towards the environment.
Normal people can't see these phenomenaons. But now that Finn has already awakened his Aether sense, he can see the white dazzling auro leaving the dead bodies and spread through the nature. It's a very beautiful scene.
It's not limited to humans, all living things circulates Aether. Aether is the mysterious life force which flow through the veins, keep the living body alive.
But what is that black mud? No one seems to know anything about it. After a human dies, it's already a tradition to burry the bodies within 2 days or maximum7 days. And after the burrial it slowly becomes a part of the world again.
Millions of years ago, one of Titan clan's 12 descendants, Crius who was went on a journey to to explore the universe, after travelling for few years he stumbled upon the forbidden territory.
At that time, that area was still unexplored and it was not deemed as a forbidden area. The young ancestor had a curious mind. He journeyed deep inside the territory. But The more he entered, he found that the darkness increases exponencially.
Although the 12 descendants chose different skills as their primary, they still know all the abilities of the clans. Crius made a Aether concentrated floating light ball. on the air to use it as a tourch but Sponteneously the surrounding Aether got absorbed in the darkness and once again the unbreakable darkness spread through the area.
Crius's curisity increased, he thought of entering a bit further into that area. BUt as soon as he covered few more steps, he felt, his consciousness draining away. He was on verge of losing his consciousness.
He felt fear and ran backwards until he is out of the darkness. All titan descendants were too powerful, none was their matct. This was the first time he felt feafr. He was loosing control over his limbs. He lost control over Aether, when Aether was the speciality of the Titans.
He went back from that area. Few years later he met his other brothers. He told them about his journey into that dark territory. They also became interested. So there is something whican even sent fear to a unmatched Titan? That's what they thought.
After two years, they stumbled upon that area. The moment they entered in the periphery of that area, they felt a mysterious force is draining their Aether. And it is in a alarming rate. The more deeper the ventured, they started to loose their control over their body.
They only thought one thing, what is inside in there, at the centre of the territory? Which is causing such an effect? Vulcan threw a fired Aether ball into the territory. It was a very big Aether sphere.
But even if it was a concentrated large Aether ball it faded away like a meteor shower into the darkness. All of them got shocked. What caused this phenomenon? How could such a concentrated Aether just dispersed into the darkness like nothing?
They also became a bit curious and started to throw as much Aether they can into the dark well. But even after so long nothing happened. It's like a endless pit, doesn't matter how much you throw the Aether, it just disappears into nothingness.
At that time, Persus was the only one who didn't developped his own unique ability. He was also a genius in absorbing Aether from the nature like his brother Heka. He improved that ability to the max like his brother.
He made a huge Aether sphere, even bigger than a field. He was constantly absorbing Aether from the outer area and pouring into the sphere.
After a while it become very very bigger, almost as bigger as a whole planet. He throw it into the darkness. But this time, it didn't disappear as before. But it was slowly fading away. And after a long passage of time passed, it completely dissipated into the darkness.
The 12 brother were treating the area as their personal training ground. After Persus, Heka was doing the same. Making a huge Aether sphere, but at that time a horrific accident happen. At that moment the last bit of the Aether, the sphere thrown by Persus, was slowly draing away into the darkness.
Everyone was busy making their own uniques Aether Sphere, to throw into the darkness. At that time, a black snake like mud sneakily came out from the darkness attack Persus. It attacked into Persus's Belly, and slowly drained away all of his Aether.
Such a horrific scene never happened before. All of them got scared, slowly a bit byt bit, his hair turned black from usual white. Heka got scared He tried to cut the cord like Dark matter connecting him to the dark territory.
But surprisingly It was easy to cut into two pieces with the help of Aether blade. But persus lose consciousness because of all of his Aether was drained away. Heka tried to cut the rest of the cort attached in under his chest.
But it so perfectly fused into his body that it was kinda impossible. But it wasn't the end. From the darkest part of the territory, a very unique suction force field was applied in a large area.
They got scared. Heka took Persus in his arms and started to ran away from there. Others also started to do the same. But the suction force was too intense to avoid.
They looked back into the darkness. there was a slick black dark parpendicular line can be scene. It was so lengthy not to notice. It started to slide in both side horizontally.
A terrifying scene was unfolding in front of them, A black dark sphere was forming in front of there eyes. It was so conscentrated that it as bending the light even outside the periphery. The spherical outline slowly took a shape of an eye. A dengerous snake like Eye.
Even the holiest saint would've lost their sanity watching it. The 11 brother's eyes were started bleed on it's own. Their bodies started to damage. White blood was pouring out of everywhere.
Vulcan became too short-tempered after practicing the Fire element. He threw a Aether sphere into the darkness. Everyone knew it was unlike that it will work.
But surprisingly, the suction force started to reduce and focused on the Aether sphere. They ran away from there using that chance. After covering a certain distance they looked back at that area.
After absorbing the fire sphere, the eye started to close and after a while it faded away into the dark.
They felt relief. After they returned, they made that area off limits. Thus naming it the forbidden territoy.
Persus was in a suspended state for a long time. The black mud started to integrate into his flesh. After a year, he regained cosciousness. But his physic became very weak. It was like a curse.
No one except the Heka clan was able to go near him. His body was draing away the Aether rapidly to heal. He lost his ability to control Aether as before. But he was a descendant of the great Titan clan.
How can that make his strong mentality weak. He started to comprehend this mysterious force. Shezmu helped him too. After 5 years he was able to control the Aether erotion. Shezmu got interested in this ability.
After 5 more years of research, he was abled to minimize the erosion effects. Persus's blood became pure black. But in the meanwhile, using this effects, they abled to understand the errosion property of Aether-matter. And how that black derritory was related to the living body.
And finally, after 10 more years of human experimentations using that black dark matter they abled to control the lithality of the erosion skill. And now, anyone who can use Aether, can learn this secret bloodline ability, but Persus clan became the sole user of this forbidden ability.
After all such a lethal thing cannot be exposed to the outside world. During those 20 years, the 11 Titan descendants feared about Persus's upcoming death and used humans to experiment the Dark Matter in the forbbiden territory.
Of course such a record cannot be exposed to the outside world. They slowly found out how, every mortal body is made of that black mud. Without the Aether which is also the life force, the body rot away to become a mud again.
And the planets are made of that mud but there are Aether veins flowing under deep into the soil. Which balancing out ther dark nature. But slowly, that unknown dark thing is waking up in the forbbiden territoy.
After the remaining Aether of a dead body scattered into the nature, the splitted consciousness can be awaken into the dead bodies. The more time passes, the more the forbidden territory regain it's consciousnrss these matter will become intense, and later there's a chance that fresh dead bodies can force out the extra Aether inside the body to faste the process.
And when it completely awakens, there's a chance that, the dark matter will force out the Aether of a living body and take over. But of course, the 13 great clans are the exception of this except Persus Clan. They are now a hidden time bomb which can blast any moments.
12 Titan descendants named it dark consciousness. This consciusness is actually the splitted part of the Forbidden territory. In reality the forbidden territory is trying to recover it's splitted parts. The mortal bodies of us living things. and the planets-stars...But they have too much Aether in them t repel the force control. But the small living bodies are easy to take over.
The speed of this matter hastened once before, when Shezmu clan was abled to integrate all the bloodlines for the first time, and Finn's ancestor born. And this is the second time when such an attack has started, after Finn awakened his bloodline.
The dark matter can sense the Aether. It sensed Finn's awakening through Finn's body, which was also a mortal body before. And now the dark matter is Awakening again. And most probably in hundred years it will completely awaken.
So this is the story behind Galliyan's village's destruction. Solon explained the last part to Finn, when Galliyan wasn't near. Finn's pupils were started vibrate.
"Does that mean, it was because of me? Utokai died, the villagers died, all because of me?", Finn asked while gazing at Solon without blinking.
Solon was also watching his face through the bon fire. He didn't answer anything. Not answering is already a answer.
"Then what is the purpose of my living? people will die because of me.", Finn asked without blinking. There's no life in his eyes. It was empty.
"Even if you die now, people will die because the awakening has already happened. And even if your bloodline didn't awake at that time, this apocalypse was bound to happen in near future.", Solon said while throwing sticks into the fire to keep it lit.
The fire was on it's end, but the sticks gave it new life. Finn started to think rationally again. Right. It was bound to happen, today or tomorrow. And now that it already happened there's no way to reverse it now.
Finn's body fell on it's back on the ground. He was gazing at the stars. This will be a very long night.