Finding the Sacred Tree

Mysterious Creature

Prologues

There used to be many races and nations in the world, but all of them were slaughtered during the great war that took place 2000 years ago. No one knew what the cause of the war was or how it ended, but clearly, the only remaining races and nations were, Humans, Gems, Mages, and also Demons.

There are still many mysteries in this world that have not been revealed. Even time had passed 2000 years ago and the mystery was still wrapped neatly in the darkness. Someone has to open it and the one who has to do it is me. Rakka the adventurer. While searching for the shards of trees, I will uncover the mysteries of this world to its roots.

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In the land of men, in the interior of the shady forest, stood a magnificent and beautiful kingdom. The kingdom was called the Kingdom of Daman.

This kingdom is very unique. He has a different system than any other kingdom in the land of men.

This kingdom has no soldiers at all. The king of the kingdom deliberately did that because he did not like war.

But even though the kingdom had no soldiers, it was never attacked by anyone. And that's because the kingdom has a very sturdy barrier and can not be impregnable even though there is a meteor shower. That's what they say (the royal officials).

The barier was made by magic, but they did not ask the witches for help. They made the barrier using a magic tool created by humans.

A magic tool is a tool made by humans so that humans can use magic like witches. The magic tool was only discovered 5 years ago by a genius human from the kingdom of Daman.

It used to be that the first magic tool could only emit water, but now the magic tool has become more sophisticated and can issue some elementals. Although the power is still very far from witches, but at least it can make humans not be weak creatures anymore.

Life in the kingdom was very peaceful and safe. Although no soldiers set up security. Sometimes there are thieves or kidnappings, but all that can be overcome because there are monster hunters in the kingdom.

Monster hunter is one of the jobs in this world. Their job is to hunt monsters around the kingdom. And his hunting proceeds are usually given to trade unions for sale.

Each monster has a different selling price depending on the level of difficulty. Although their job is to hunt monsters, but sometimes they also help security in the kingdom.

In addition to monster hunters there are also adventurers who sometimes help maintain order. The adventurers and monsters were very different. If monster hunters are tasked with hunting monsters, but if adventurers usually research new monsters, but actually not only researching monsters, but there are many tasks they have, from researching new rocks, newly discovered ruins, and so on, new place and other.

Anyway, the task of adventurers is to find something new in this world. So most of them often move to one place to another. They don't have, their house huh.natural wild.

And that's actually what it's about to be adventurous. We will be the first to discover something new in this world. And we will be famous everywhere when we find a very rare and also new like my adoptive parents who managed to find a legendary sword called Adamas that supposedly can not be broken.

They're really great. They are strong fighters and smart too. I have admired them a lot since I was a child and actually because they were the ones I wanted to be adventurous with. But unfortunately I am not like those who are strong and also smart.

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In one of the ordinary houses. There was a very disturbing sound, but even so, the neighbors did not care about the sound and instead approached the sound.

That voice was none other than the sound of a swordfight between me and my foster father. Of course we don't use real swords we only use wooden swords.

We fought fiercely, but it really wasn't. My father is holding back right now. I fought hard against him.

Neighbors who saw us cheering cheered on my father. Well, it feels weird. We're training, but somehow it feels like we're in a duel risking our lives.

Actually I was a bit nervous when I saw that, let alone watching the beautiful young ladies.

"Come Rakka. More seriously." Said my father who swung his sword casually.

He's my foster father. Name's Kris. He's a 30-year-old man with a tall, big, muscular body. He had shoulder-length hair, was black, and also had a beard and mustache that was not too thick. He is the dream man of all women.

"Then how about you be serious too, I'll be serious." I said kidding.

I was actually not far from my father, the only difference was that I was not tall, big and muscular like my father. I don't have a mustache and beard like him either, but I have long hair like my father. Actually I don't want to imitate my father's appearance, but because I'm lazy to cut my hair.

"Hoho.so yeah. Okay.then so. Get ready, yeah."

My father put up his horses and was ready to dart at me.

"Eh.wait, I just..." Not finished talking, my father was already ahead and ready to launch his attack. The only thing I panicked about was holding my sword at the side to withstand my father's attack.

But because I didn't put up the horses. I was also knocked away by my father's attack. Even the wooden sword that was supposed to withstand his attack was broken. Which in the end the attack still hit me and it hurt a lot.

"Duh duh duh. Sick knows dad!"

"Lho didn't you just say I had to be serious. I am serious about it."

"Yes, but I'm just kidding.."

In the midst of our dispute. A woman came out of the house with breakfast. She's my foster mother.

"That's it you two. You better come here and eat your breakfast soon." My foster mother sat down while putting breakfast on the porch

My mother is very beautiful. Her name is Sarah. He has pure white skin, but there are also scars on his body, yes. As a woman, she has a very good body. Any man who sees it must be tempted. My mother's hair is long and also deep black.

Seeing my mother calling, we immediately approached her. My father helped me get up and we walked together to the porch.

We sat together on the porch and ate toast with mother-made strawberry jam.

The neighbors saw our fight. I left after my mom came out.

"So how is the practice, is there progress?" Ask mother.

"Ma..." I want to answer but there is doubt in me.

"Nothing, he's the same as before." My father answered him easily.

My mother looked disappointed when she heard that. Well it's natural, I've been training for 3 years but there's no significant change in me.

Actually my parents have used various ways to make me stronger, but the results are still nil. I can't master what they teach, all I really master is setting traps. And it was actually not very useful when fighting an opponent who suddenly appeared.

"Huh.it's okay Rakka. We leave next week. You still have 1 week left."

My mother was very good. He will continue to encourage me even if I continue to fail.

"True your mother said. So tomorrow we're going to do the last exercise as well as the toughest exercise of your life. So be prepared."

I swallowed the bread in my mouth and said.

"I have this bad feeling."

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Next day.

Usually I wake up after sunrise, but this time I was told to get up early because my father and I were going to travel far enough.

I wasn't told what training I was going to do, but I clearly felt that my life would be threatened this time.

My father took me out of the kingdom, strangely he did not bring his weapon as usual and only I brought my weapon.

After walking far enough we finally arrived at a very dense wilderness, to make the sunlight could not penetrate into it.

The aura in the forest was terrible, even there I could not see any animals. There were no birds chirping, but there was a strange sound that kept making the atmosphere in the forest terrible.

"Umm..we won't enter the forest right."

"Of course not..."

"Thank God I thought..."

My father pushed me into the forest so hard that it made me fall.

"But you're the only one who goes in there."

"Why should be pushed anyway, can you use the good way." I woke up patting my dirty ass.

I wanted to get out of that forest, but somehow there was some kind of invisible barrier separating that terrible forest from ordinary forest.

"Eh...? Don't tell me that..."

"Truly.this is your last exercise. What you have to do is easy. You only have to survive in this forest for three days. And if it works, you can come with us on an adventure."

"survive? There's no way I can survive in this forest, let alone here no animals at all, how I'll eat them."

"Who says there are no animals. There's 1 rabbit behind you."

"Err. actually snakes can also be eaten if you can cook them properly."

I stared flat at my father, as if to tell him it was impossible.

"Argh..fine."

My father took out the venison, but it was just a piece.

"This. I give you one venison, and the rest you do yourself okay."

My father threw it and it turned out that the meat could penetrate that invisible wall. I caught it and I'm so happy to get some venison.

"OK fine. Thank you dad."

"Yes yes. Then I'll go home first." My dad walked home.

"good. Be careful on the road."

My father didn't answer and didn't turn around, he just waved his hand at me.

"Alright if I manage to survive here, I can go on an adventure."

I walked deeper into the forest with confidence. I thought, I can get through this exercise easily, because I just need to hide until the day after, but it's not. In this forest if you hide, then you die and if you don't hide then you die too.

In this forest it turns out a lot of monsters that have a sharp smell and also sharp hearing, so if you hide will definitely meet. And the only thing you can do here is just keep fighting until there are no monsters around.

While in the forest I did not have time to cook, because every time I lit a fire, there must always be monsters one by one. And it makes it difficult for me to cook.

To be honest, I have a hard time fighting these monsters here. They are so strong, there is even one of the monsters that is so strong that it makes me scarred and I have to run away from it.

I don't think I'm going to get through this exercise. I was already covered in wounds, had not eaten at all, even the throat was already very dry, as I could not find any clean water I could drink. When I found clean water, it must have been guarded by a horde of monsters and it made me unable to drink it.

When it was night time I tried to rest in a place, I was very tired and wanted to close my eyes, but then in the darkness of the night there appeared a monster that attacked me and it made me lose one hand. Not completely gone anyway I managed to kill the monster, and managed to take back my hand.

I stopped my bleeding by eating some kind of herb, and also tied it to the cut so I wouldn't bleed out and die.

Fortunately my mother once taught me about herbs and how to deal with bleeding. So for now I can survive. Hope so...

Next day.

My father went back to that horrible forest to check on his son. He walked leisurely, as he thought his son could definitely cope with this exercise, but once he was in front of that monstrous forest. He was very surprised to see my critical condition.

He saw me lying in my arms hugging my puffed up. My eye bags blackened because I did not sleep at all, even now my eyes are still glaring. My lips turned blue with cold, I was actually cold not only because of the night wind, but also because of the herbs I ate last night, the effects of the herbs could make your body cold. And it also made my blood freeze that saved me last night.

"God! You're okay, son." My father immediately hugged me who was in critical condition

I looked at my father slowly. When I saw it, there was water coming out of my eyes. Whether it was because I was grateful to still be able to meet my father or because I regret not being able to complete his training. I didn't know that, but obviously I couldn't hold back my tears. I just cried and kept crying in my father's arms without saying anything.

My father, who saw me so, felt guilty for giving me a pretty heavy workout. He hugged me firmly and said.

"It's okay, son. Its alright. Let's go home."

My father took me in his arms and then walked back home. At that moment, I finally fell asleep.

After a few hours of walking we finally got back home. My mother was surprised to see my condition so bad.

At that time my mother was cooking, but when she saw me, she instantly turned off the fire to cook and instantly picked up some magic medicine in her room.

It was the magic medicine that I bought back when I was adventuring with my father. The stuffing of the magic medicine was a mixture of various herbal plants and of course all the mixture was magic-given so that its healing power grew stronger and faster.

My mom told my dad to put me on the dinner table. There was still a dinner plate, because honestly soon it was time for breakfast, but then my mother put the plate away until it broke because it was thrown to the ground quite hard.

I was also put on the dining table. At that time I was still sleeping, or maybe I could say fainted. My mother checked my body if there were still any severe injuries other than my broken hand and thankfully nothing. After that she took a needle and thread to sew my broken hand. Of course it was not an ordinary needle and thread. All of these are magic tools.

Before sewing my hand my mother cast a kind of spell and the needle and thread my mother held shone. After that he immediately sewed my hand to re-integrate.

My mom really saw my hand sewing. She was very thorough and very neatly sewed my hands. Before becoming an adventurer. My mother used to be a doctor, but after getting to know my father and marrying him, she followed in my father's footsteps and became an adventurer as well.

A few hours had passed, and finally the operation had been completed. After I managed to put my hand back together. My mother gave me a drink. It was a magic medicine. From its bright red color. It seemed like a high-level magic medicine.

Magic medicine also has levels. The only way to distinguish them is from their color. If the magic medicine with a low level, usually the color of the medicine is black. While the highest is a medicine with a bright red color like the medicine given to me.

The efficacy of a high level medicine was of course very different from that of a low level medicine. High-level magic medicines usually have a powerful healing effect and are also very fast. This drug can heal severe injuries such as broken hands in just a few hours. Of course, this medicine is very rare and expensive. Usually this drug is only given to people who are very badly injured like me.

After a few hours my mother felt tense, she was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief because honestly she had not done this surgery for a long time.

My father, who was next to my mother, saw me in surgery, was confused whether it was finished or not. He did nothing from then on. He just watched without knowing what his wife was doing.

"Umm.have finished this. How's Rakka doing?"

My mother wiped the sweat on her forehead with her hands and said.

"It's okay. I've checked that he's not exposed to any poison or disease that could put his life at risk. And if his hands were, he should have fused again in a few hours."

"Well, thank God, I thought we were gonna lose him."

My father breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why, by the way, did he get to be like this?"

"I don't know either. I only took him to the valley near here for survival training, but when I wanted to see him. He's been like this."

"Valley near here? You mean Borh valley."

"Well that. I deliberately chose that valley because most of the monsters there were only Makupa. And he should be fine because the monster is weak."

Makupa is a tiger-like creature, but has long ears and also has thick white fur around its neck, ankles and also the tip of its tail. Based on the level of danger, Makupa is a monster with a low level of danger. He was stronger than a slime, but weaker than a Goblin. The monster was weak due to its small size. Just as big as a dog.

"Hmm.you're right, but what I'm puzzling about, is why the hand broke. All I know is, Makupa won't be able to do this."

"If you think it's right too. Are there any other powerful creatures in that valley huh. If it could be this danger. I'd better tell the monster hunters to check out the valley first. Otherwise, maybe the novice monster hunters who usually go there will be the next victim."

My father left immediately without saying goodbye to my mother.

"Eh..wait a minute.." My mother wanted to lay off my father, but unfortunately he left first.

"It's gone, but I want to tell him to buy a new plate. Huh yes, I'll tell you later."

After that my mother also cleaned the broken dishes scattered on the floor.Finished cleaning the dishes, she rested and did not continue cooking because surely no one would eat, and after all she was very tired.

It was late afternoon, but I never woke up, not even my father came back. Then shortly thereafter my father finally came back, but he came back with a bracelet.

The bracelet looks ordinary.no decorations, no motifs, he's just plain. The color of the bracelet is deep black, sparkling like gold but black. My mother, who was curious about what my father had brought, asked.

"Where have you been? And what bracelet did you bring?"

"I went with the monster hunters to check out Borh Valley, and that's where I found this bracelet. Maybe it's someone who's fallen, or maybe it's someone who's dead. So instead of being a fossil I'd better take it."

"You were in the valley of Borh, so what was there? Are there any monsters?"

"We had been wandering around the valley for hours and found no strong monsters, there was only Makupa. But there's one thing that to me is a bit awkward, which is that we found a fairly large claw and that's not possible because of Makupa."

"Big claws?"

"Yes, the width of the claw is 1 meter."

"That's so big, what do you think it's a monster that attacked Rakka yesterday."

"I don't know for sure, but clearly if this monster is not found soon, it will endanger many people."

"Hopefully there are no victims for the future.Everything for now we have to take care of our children first okay."

"Yes you're right."

Then in the valley of Borh there was a deer eating fresh grass there. He looked relaxed because he thought it was safe from monsters.then suddenly, without warning someone grabbed the deer until it made the deer's body disappear and only left his head alone.