"What?? Wh..at?" Aldric looked up at the golden ball, "Why??"
'What the f I am going to do now??? If she is dead then, what can I do to kill them...' Aldric thought, ' On the other hand, if she is dead... hehehe... I wouldn't have to follow her orders... Maybe I can explain everything again to Parikshit and makeup with him and then I will become the king of Unheard boundaries, perhaps I will be the only king in this world, again...'
"Everything has to end sooner or later," after dropping a fragment of drama, the great mother said, "All of the heavens are with you... Even the lord of heaven wants you to kill that Dreadbane... You just have to kill him"
'Do it yourself... I am not... I am out... What about my feeling??? What about my opinion???" He grabbed his head and looked down like some kind of mental hospital patient, ' Just give a break... why do I have to do what heavens want???'
He could yap all he wants but he couldn't say anything out loud or he is doomed.
"Heavenly announcement will also work as a judgement on that demon" Heavenly announcements are something when all over the world a voice comes from the sky giving people instructions or just some information. It is considered divine and there is also some propaganda of some specific groups like Primordials that if somebody doesn't obey the commands from the Heavenly announcement then they will die or they will go to hell. In short, it is a very big deal for the people of Solarith.
"I won't be there to guide you and in my place, someone else will guide you... You just have to keep going after that demon and kill him", the great mother tried to give a great motivation, " You are the only pure soul left in your world if you kill him, the lord of heaven will grant you a wish... you can ask for anything my son... Remember everything I told you... Mother has to go now"
'Yeah... leave before I lose my mind and say something to you and that heaven and that heaven lord... Can't I just rebel against them... As much as I can remember there are always stories that some king rebelled against the deities and got instant kill... Then why can't they just kill Dreadbane...hmm... Maybe I can pitch the idea.'
The second he looked up, the great mother was gone.
With a sign, " I can only kill him I guess"
He made his way back to the squad and they continued their journey. Their first town was Sliverwell, it took them exactly 2 hours less than the expected time, all thanks to the legendary Mukesh, well according to him in this town was the house of his grandmother, so he knew and he wanted to meet her but Aldric made it clear that they can't stay at one place for too long.
The next day they reached the next town and they even left a few villages in the way. They kept moving like this for almost 6 days when they had to cross Eboncrest mountain or they could take the long road and reach safely at least. They were at least 1000 km away from the capital.
"According to this map, we can either go around the mountain and reach that town in a day or we have to take a turn from this intersection but still we can reach there in three days." Mohan explained," Which way captain?"
Everyone had eyes on Aldric, he was afraid of Wairthlord of Eboncrest but the thing was how would Wairthlord know that Aldric was a Prince, he should have no idea and Wairthlord had no problem if no one disturbed his peace, he just let anybody leave.
With a stone crushing on the chest of Aldric, he said, "Let's go from the mountain, what can go wrong?" with a soft laugh they started moving towards the Eboncrest mountain.
The mountain was as tall as Mount Everest except that is the normal height of mountains in this world. The atmosphere around the mountain changed completely, a few kilometres back there was not much cold and no snow, a few kilometres later it was snowing, almost like a blizzard. The closer they moved the better the view of the mountain they got, it looked like a volcano more than a mountain. The top of the mountain still looked covered in clouds it was more like a blizzard, like everywhere.
There was a trail at an intersection that was marked with stones to make directions in case someone wanted to go to the top of the mountain. This trail was more challenging than the weather, it was so uneven that only and only people who wanted to challenge the Wairthlord go up this path. This way wasn't even marked on the map, only a cross was there, to make sure no one climbed it.
Winding around the mountain was another path that hugged the base of Eboncrest. It was covered in snow, but not so much that travel was impossible. It seemed a lot safer path but the eerie stillness and the silence could make anyone afraid, the path went darker and darker, and soon due to vi-shakti-tejas of the mountain the whole path started shining in dark blue colour. It was enough to make many scared. The heaviness in the air was increasing with every step their horses made.
They just needed to go 17 km around the mountain, and after that, they would be really close to the town of Mugstone. After going 9 km in peace, they finally found another life. It was none other than the Primordials. They had a troop of soldiers, and they were coming from the direction where Aldric and his party were moving.
There were almost 11 soldiers on top of horses, they all had weapons, and they were members of Primordials rather they were the part of the army under Primordials.
"Look rookie you get your first kill right here... These travellers don't even have weapons to protect them, " One of the Soldiers said while looking at the weak body of Aldric.
"I would rather kill that muscle head," Mathew, the rookie, said while pointing at Mukesh.
"What did you say, Migit," Mukesh looked directly into the eyes of Mathew the rookie.
"Yeah... Yeah... You heard it right... I going to kill you"
"I would love to see you try..." Mukesh was nodding and making direct eye contact with Mathew the noob.
While Mathew the noob had 3 grade C artefacts of lower class, Mukesh at this point could fight all 11 of them at the same time and they would still lose.
"Stop it... and keep moving don't say anything" Aldric tried to calm things down because he knew the only rule on the Eboncrest was that nothing related to war or fight happens on the grounds of the mountain, which means that no one could march an army from the mountains and also no fight on the grounds of Mountain and they were about to break this golden rule.
"Yeah get him Mathew..."
"Get him..."
"Time to claim your first blood"
The Primordials soldiers started adding fuel to the fire, making the conflict more and more intense.
Mathew the noob jumped down from his horse and in a hundred percent confidence he said, " I can skin you in a second mucsle head"
Inside he was not so brave but he wanted to be part of the group, so he started yapping.
Mukesh might have already started the conflict if not for Aldric.
Aldric looked at the leader of the troops and said, " Sir, we are part of the Primordials how can we fight our own army that has sworn to protect us."
Anyone can be part of Primordials, it is more like a religious group in the name of an independent organisation.
"You are right... Hmm... on the second thought kill'em all... HaHaHa..." He started laughing like a manic.
"I give one last chance to back off" Aldric said with a different intensity, it was as if he was threatening them. Silence was there for a few seconds and then their leader started laughing as hard as he could and all the others as well.
Aldric didn't want to make any mistake that could make Warithlord come to kill him. He just wanted to cross the way but now there was no other way. He had to silently kill all eleven of them in a second and then get the hell out of the mountain grounds as fast as he could.
There were laughing and then, eleven phantom hands came with the help of a Pinpoint artefact, Aldric made every single hand pointy to an extent that it could peer through their hearts.
They didn't even have time to react when his eleven Phantom hands stabbed through their hearts, the only thing that was visible to them was the green colour coming right at them at a very high speed, except for two all the other fell on the ground and blood dripped slowly from there body.
"First blood captain" Mukesh spoke, he was also looking around if anybody was remaining.
"So, fast"
"Wow, instant kill"
The three idiots were having it easy while Mohan was making faces.
"Let's us leave before tha-" A sword came flying cutting air so fast, that if not for Aldric's reflexes he could have been dead, he caught the sword with his Phantom hands still the sword was 6 cm away from his neck.
"What the-" They looked up and the only thing they saw was a little blizzard and a man standing on a snowy cliff in the centre of that blizzard, only his silhouette was visible.