"Fiona, how much do you trust on me?"
"How much do you want?"
"Don't trust me, just believe that you are safe when you're around me."
Xen slowly turned his face on the outside. He observed the night sky which is like the sea of stars. There are more than sextillion stars in the sky, all the stars are shining but Xen isn't satisfied with that. Xen is just trying to find out one single Star in that sea. Even though he knows he will die if that star appears once again, even just for a single moment. At the end it doesn't matter, he doesn't care if the entire existence erased or everything collapsed. Xen just wants to see that Star once again.....
'Huh... I won't be able to identify one star twice but I won't forget that particular star presence in my entire life.....'
"Hey, what are you looking at...."
"No, nothing. I'm just hoping for a hopeless thing...."
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At night, there's nothing around not even monsters in the middle of the forest. Because those monsters even know that it's dangerous.
But Two young boys are different, probably they are overconfident with their power. But in the end they end up in same way. Both of them are unconscious on the ground. One of them is Xen, his full body is wounded and his eyes are covered in blood. Is he going to die now?
The other one's hair is white and he isn't wounded like Xen. He just got some cuts on his back. But there's two noticeable vertical wounds on his upper back. But those are too old, and look like he got those wounds many years ago.
Then a person comes in front of them. That person is the one who was fighting with them all the time. But now that person is just calmed down. He slowly checks Xen's pulse and his total condition. Isn't it useless to care for something after breaking it. He smiled with satisfaction while looking at Xen.
".....You still have more to go...."
Then he grabbed his sword and slowly said .."future 4th Emperor...."
Then he raises his sword and cuts his own neck with a smile, which is full of satisfaction. His dead body started to glow, just after that it started cracking and slowly faded away from reality.
At the end everything is just the dust of existence. So it's destined to be mixed with its origin. But what is about the Soul? Isn't it possible that Soul is also part of something which is beyond the reality above the existence of something, that can't be described by something which is made by humans?
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Someone observed all of those things from behind a tree. He slowly comes out from there. Now he is standing in front of Xen.
"Xen and Zyon both of you did well."
It's Kevin who is now laughing uncontrollably after saying that.
"You are the one who trained by master Hewon and on top of that you have the red blood Spear. Even after all of that stuff you lose, what a shame."
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Evening time, inside a small wooden house. Xen is still unconscious in a small bed...
The white hair boy is sitting in the middle of the room because he is cultivating, his strong aura and presence just trying to bend the reality and space. He is wearing a white blindfold.
Due to his aura pressure Xen slowly opens his eyes. And shouted out....
"Bastard I'll kill you!!!"
Xen calmed down and observed the place.
"Zyon!!? Oh I see, You are cultivating."
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Xen comes outside from his small house. The first thing Xen noticed is the Red Spear. The moment he took out the Spear from the ground, small amount of red black aura was released from there.
"Who the hell are you?"
Xen feels someone is inviting him for private dimension conversations. He immediately responded and agreed for it.
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The next moment he opens his eyes on a different type of place. which is totally white due to the cloud, which is covering his entire vision limit and he is standing over water surfaces or something like glass...
"Hey loser over there!"
"Oh I see it's you Kevin."
"Hello, long time no ....."
Kevin is about to pet his head but Xen grabs his collar.
"Now spread out everything. Why did you call me there?"
"Just to see your condition."
"I'm fine, okay then I'll end the conversation there."
"Fool what are you so hurry about?"
"Zyon is cultivating, I have to ensure his safety."
"Oh I see, he already started cultivating. Zyon weren't that much injured compared to you probably that's why he started cultivating after healing."
"Btw how much Time passed away??"
"Total 40 days"
"What!!!"
"Okay now you can leave. I'm trying to find a proper palace to cultivate."
"1 year passed away since you were trying to find a proper palace...."
"I know. I have to go far away from there. Far away from all of you, so that no one can disturb me while on my cultivation.."
With that they end their conversation.
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Xen opens his eyes on the real world and he is still holding the Spear in his hand.
"Man I have to go for some clothes, but he is cultivating."
Xen becomes frustrated, he comes close to a tree and sits under that apple tree. He tried to remember what exactly happened that night. But his memory becomes blurred. He still tried to think about what happened....
'I know I just disturbed that person while on his cultivation. But how can someone defend himself when he is in a deep state of cultivation? He just wakes up back then and down me and Zyon with one punch. I couldn't remember what happened next. He is probably about to kill us.'
He is thinking about all of that stuff but on the other hand, Zyon is reaching on different levels of power. Not long after, Xen also realised that Zyon is about to wake up. But suddenly Zyon's aura is recklessly devouring the entire area. That much of Aura is enough to crush a normal soul. Xen highly releases his aura to protect himself. Xen is just shocked and terrified....
'bastard I hope you aren't infected by dark Aura, I can tolerate this all day long but if you get infected by dark aura then I won't be able to stop you.'
Xen is hoping for the best and safe outcome but at the next moment the ground surface of the entire area starts to break. Xen realised that something is coming out from there. Instead of protecting himself he immediately left the area as first as he could. If he is safe then everything is okay.
'I have to find Kevin or master Hewon, I won't be able to stop him alone.'
His is too fast, probably he is faster than the speed of sound, he runway in a far distance under the blink of an eye.
But Xen becomes shocked. Instead of running he stopped and looked behind at the palace where he just ran out. His eyes are now shining like diamonds, because lights are reflecting on his eyes. But at the next moment his eyes become dark and reflectionless. He started running back in the direction....
Because with the last rays of sun light A Gigantic metal Castle just created there under the blink of an eye. The day time ends there with the sun set from behind the castle. But still the castle is shining like a star.
The night sky is full of stars And there's a castle under that sea of stars. It's like this castle was one of those stars but fell down on the ground. That's the point of the time when one of the symbols of the future 4th Emperor created.
Xen is just impressed by that Great level of creation. Then he noticed someone in front of the castle. Xen's face is now full of satisfaction, that can't be described in words.
"Fool you almost killed me by fear."
Zyon's entire body is glowing while floating in front of the castle. Zyon fixed his white blindfold properly. He feels the aura of Xen there and looks in his direction.
"Hey Xen!! Now I'm stronger than you."
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-[Name: Zyon
Understanding: Metal
Age: Around 17
Hair colour: silver white
Skin colour: deep]-
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Xen is exploring the entire castle like a kid. He is full of joy and excitement. He observed every single wall.
Zyon becomes annoyed because Xen is too fast and over that his behaviour is like a kid.
"Oi fool stop now!!"
"I'll explore. You can go and sleep."
But Zyon kicked him off on wall. And started to leave from there.
"Hey Zyon you just completed Ultimate cultivation in under 40 days, it's so impressive."
When Zyon Heard that from Xen he became shocked and curious at the same time...
"Hey what's the difference between cultivation. Isn't everything same?"
With a smile Xen started to explain to him in depth...
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Actually there's two types of cultivation. First is normal cultivation. There are many steps of it like cultivate to healing body wound, cultivate to regain Aura, cultivate to gain stamina, cultivate to increase Aura etc.
But there's a cultivation which is on beyond level. Which is Ultimate or absolute Cultivation which is to recreate Body construction and breakthrough another level of power. And Zyon just completed that ultimate cultivation. But he won't be able to create another castle like that.
Zyon also understands what he explained but he didn't get why Xen said that at last.
"Why not?"
Xen again explained to him more deeply..
"Because after completing the Ultimate cultivation subject get the access of the aura of creation which is infinite. You refined your aura and reach that level. That's why you get infinite Aura or aura of creation, but just for single moments. It's less than a second. If you were cultivated for more than a year then you will probably be able to use the creation aura for 4 to 5 seconds."
"Oh I see. Btw Xen, since you know too much about this world. So can you tell me about my understanding level?"
"Obviously your understanding of metal is more than 85%. That's why you are able to get the power of metal. But I don't exactly know the percentage."
"What about you then?..."
Before Xen can reply, both of them are just stunned.
The entire sky is filled with dark clouds and thunder Strom. Is it because even the reality doesn't want to reveal that or everything is destined for it?
But in the end it doesn't matter, because they are not ready for the next moment. But still they are ready to observe it. They immediately run out from the castle as fast as they can.
"Hurry up Zyon! Just one strike will be enough to give me a critical injury!!!!"
"I'm not as fast as you!!!"
The moment Xen arrived at the ground he became freez, he wasn't able to move, not even a little bit. His hand is just shaking. He feels like he will just collapse now. He just looked at something in the sky for a moment... No, that thing looks at that entire existence.
At an instant every single wound in his body reopened and started to bleed again. Blood is coming out uncontrollably, but on the other hand Zyon just collapses down on the ground.
There's something.... There's something from beyond existence, from beyond reality... There's just a new star that appears in the sea of stars, which weren't there until a moment ago. That star is present far away from the vision of reality. And that presence is looking at that existence from beyond the concept of existence and reality. Due to the interference of something like that. The entire existence started shaking, countless stars started to explode and planets just faded away.
But at the next moment that strong presence disappeared like nothing. Both of them managed themselves somehow. Xen is still shocked, he couldn't believe that something can be that strong. Countless souls have just disappeared from reality.
Xen slowly looks at the sky, he is so scared but he slowly raises his head. But the thing he noticed at the next moment is unimaginable for him.
The sky is full of thunder storms and dark clouds. But a kid is falling down from there, in the far distance.
Xen and Zyon immediately run to reach the spot where the kid is going to fall.
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Xen reaches out that spot as fast as he can. But he failed to catch the kid. Xen is now standing in front of the kid.
Even though he knows that the kid is still alive.
But Xen feels hopeless now. Not because he wasn't able to catch the kid because he wasn't able to identify the source of that presence.
Then Zyon also arrived there.
"Was that the presence of this kid??"
"No his presence is different but I don't know why his aura is ripping? His aura is way different, and his presence is continuously rejecting the environment."
Xen thinks for a moment, he slowly holds the hand of that kid. Xen couldn't believe what he just figured out.
Xen grabbed his spear and was about to kill that kid. But Zyon immediately kicked him.
"Yeah, you lost your mind Xen."
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Now the kid is laying down on the bed. And Zyon is present on his side. But Xen is laying down on the ground. The kid slowly opened his eyes.
"...Hey kid, I'm Zyon. Are you okay? You really fall from the sky."
The kid observed the room. He noticed Xen, who is just waiting for a chance to cut out his head.
"I'm.... My name is Fray. And I.."
Instead of him it's Xen who continue his words. "You came from the future. That's the reason why this reality is continuously rejecting you. You don't belong to this time of existence."
"Oh I see, you are smarter than you look."
Xen is about to kill him but Zyon stops him.
"Don't mind, he is mentally ill."
"Why are you mixing someone's fears with his mindset? The person over there, he is just afraid of myself. Because I came from the future. Since this world is continuously rejecting me so I can go farther to the future, without the age limit."
Xen slowly calms down after observing the words of that kid. He understands this kid is older than he looks. He slowly comes in front of him. Now his anger has changed into curiosity, he is now curious about Fray.
If someone is just able to understand Xen's mindset then it would be a blessing for Xen. Because sometimes being the smartest one feels like a curse. Xen also knows that, now he wants to tell many things to Fray...
"You were reincarnated in the future, then you transmigrate into this Timeline with your own physical body. That means the presence of the existence I feel, that existence threw you in that past."
"Yeah my memory and mind is older than my physics body, and that existence who sent me back in time, he is my so called father. And the marks on my left side face and eye, are due to him or I say for his presence."
Xen observed his words for a long time and reached a conclusion, 'Since that kid is from the future but still his aura and presence are completely different. That means this existence or entire reality will destroy in the future.'
Then he closely observed his left eye, it's totally black but at the same time realising too much strong presence. His left face has some black damage marks. Xen also understands his body is shaking or vibrating at an atomic level.
"You can't live normally because this reality will reject you all the time. But there's some way I can fixed this..."
"By reincarnated into the body of someone who already belongs to this time, by sacrificing this body and shifting my consciousness to another body or recreating the atoms of that body by an ultimate cultivation. I already know about all the possible ways."
Both Xen and Zyon are stunned by his intelligence. Fray doesn't stop there, he continues his words normally....
"But I rejected all of those ideas. I would like to stay as like I'm. Even though this existence is rejecting me, I'm not very uncomfortable with that. I can stay like that."
Xen took out a metal pipe on his hand from nowhere.
"Hey boy, what did you say your name was?"
"I'm Fray. The Smartest one possible there."
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-[Name: Fray
Understanding: not available
Age: 14 (body age)
Hair colour: Yellow]-
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Xen becomes annoyed by the way Fray introduced himself. But he is still silent and just slowly preparing his tobacco. while light up that black metal smoking pipe he slowly takes a deep breath.
"I'm Xen. That's enough for my introduction. Let's create a new world together."
With those words Fray looks at the window which is behind Xen. He noticed something very interesting. Four suns are rising from the Horizon, while breaking the imagination limit for Fray.