Hunters And White Lotus

chapter fiveeen

11 July 2020.

"So.., you're like you're in the middle of an incident in a memory?." April asked.

"It feels like that. By the way can you explain that? I really don't understand." My reply was to fly some chunks of rock that blocked our path with basic magic, telekinesis.

"I don't know about it, but I think it's related to your special body." April helped me fly some rocks to the side of the trail.

"Is there someone like me out there?people who quickly mastered life energy?"

"Not much, not even a count of fingers." Reply April.

After moving all the boulders, we were finally able to continue the delayed path. By the way we were in the middle of the fog forest on the way to the green lake. It took a heartwarming struggle to get to this place.

"Radit, don't you ever think that what you saw that day was Amelia's magic to fool you?" April asked.

"No, never at all. Why did you suddenly ask that?" Reply me while wearing a jacket to protect the head from the scorching rays of the sun.

"I'm just surprised by your attitude towards that fact. Your attitude seems to be able to accept reality that is even difficult to accept."

"Why after that, my heart believes that this is the truth, that this is the truth.You know? at that moment in memory I could feel the feelings of Amelia and Liliy, and I was sure Liliy wouldn't do such an instant to trick me." Answer me

The scorching rays of the sun pouring from the shade of trees, various kinds of singing insects decorating the forest, the crisp sound of the dry leaves we stepped on gave its own satisfaction.

"Are you sure you're doing this?" April asked again.

"If not, we won't be here, will we?" My reply.

"Are you sure of that extreme way?"

"Right, there's no other way."

April only answered him with a doubtful nod. Then after that, we walked without talking again until we arrived at the edge of the lake.

"Well, I prepared this from last night. April give me the bread." I said while thrusting my hand at him.

"You know? you're the only man I've ever met." He answered, and he gave me bread from the wooden basket he had set up. I just replied with a slow twitch.

I gripped the bread tightly, then with all my soul threw it into the green lake. At first the bread floated on the surface of the lake but slowly it sank in the water.

"What's human? and April why are you here?." Suddenly the sound was heard. I also looked here and there looking for the source, but nil.

"I'm just delivering this reckless man, he's got an interesting offer for you." Reply April

"Attractive offer?" There was doubt in his tone.

"True lake spirit lord, what if we do a little business. Here I need your golden lotus unt-"

"No, I don't want to take it." Cut the sound fast.

"At least let me finish my conversation. I need your golden lotus and as payment you can use my body."

Silent, the instant the atmosphere became even quieter.

"I know taking the plant puts your life at risk, so as a fair payment you can use my body as a replacement container." Everything still remained silent, only narrating the sound of water ripples and singing competitions of forest insects.

"Look, there are many advantages and you don't have to worry about the transfer of your life energy from the plant to my body, because April is here to reduce the risk."

"Sorry, are you crazy or what?" Ask that voice.

"I prefer to be called reckless." My answer.

"You know what the impact of this is, right?" Ask ensures.

"Endless hunger, extreme increased life energy needs, self-awareness that is prone to being lost. At least this makes my magic stronger."

"Who do you want to protect?" Asked the spirit of the lake, leaving me instantly stunned.

"A lot.a lot." I bowed down and found a shadow of myself in the reflection of the water. A short black-haired teenage boy with brown irises. He was wearing a black jacket with a green sweatshirt behind it, the man was also wearing blue jeans.

"What's your purpose in wanting a golden lotus?" Ask again.

"You must know about the war that is happening soon and you also know that the war only fosters a new hatred that destroys each other. The circle will continue and never end. In the end only suffering, sadness, anger are born." I stopped for a moment to grab the oxygen around.

"And I am determined to stop it after seeing the real reality, the reality of this war, the reality of those wildfires!" I cried steadily, my head looked up again and looked straight ahead.

"But why? It doesn't even benefit yourself."

"You kidding? of course it will benefit me. If you sacrifice for the good then the losses that exist get nothing. Look, if I stop the war, the two sides will reconcile and get back together ! There will be no more casualties, no more fighting!"

"So sir, please give it." I lowered my head, a testament to my seriousness.

"What's your reason for doing it?"

"I once felt hatred, and realized how dangerous the impact was. Therefore, I want to break the cycle of vengeance that holds us back, human and spirit. That's my only goal." I said steadily, my eyes staring straight ahead as if the figure that spoke to me was there. Silent, silent for a few seconds.

"I accept your offer, take it."

I smiled broadly, my right hand punching into the air."April provide al-"

"No need, I don't need your body.

Just take the terrace."

"Eh?" I looked towards the lake, my forehead shriveled not understanding

Even April raised her next to her eyebrows.

"Take this as my apology to the humans I once ate. I realized my mistake after seeing you. With selfishness I plunge into the abyss of hatred."

"Do you know that the risk of your decision is death?." April asked seriously, her blue iris staring straight at the lake.

"Take it as a punishment for what I did first."

I was confused as to what to talk about.

"For over a thousand years I have believed that man is a selfish creature.well, I thought so after meeting the fisherman."

"For a thousand years hundreds of people tried to retrieve it after hearing the news of the golden lotus miracle. Many failed and returned with suffering wounds, but not a few also became my meal."

"Your selfishness when competing to take the golden lotus is increasingly becoming. Not a few were willing to kill each other, even if it was his own brother. This shows how biadapnya you guys, even I think at that time animals a thousand times better than you."

"I continue to hate you and continue to defend that belief. Slowly the flower of hatred flourished in my heart without knowing."

"But now you've slapped me, making me sober and ashamed of my own actions."

A current suddenly appeared in the middle of the lake, making the golden lotus floating on it move towards me.

"I'm no different from a selfish human being, when obviously I can break this war, even before it happens."

"I'm sorry for everything. Break that circle of young people and create a world like you said."

I stare at the golden lotus coming stranded in front of me. I didn't expect it to be like this. April exhales slowly, then walks to the edge of the lake. Her cry reached into a glass bottle from inside her basket, then she filled it with lake water.

"First step is complete. Let's go back and finish the potion." April turned and walked through me.

"Thank you very much, lake spirit." Excitingly happy.

"There's no point in you saying that, he's dead. If you want to thank me, do the asking." April cried far behind me.

"Of course, that's not what I want." I replied, then I turned around and ran after him.

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July 13, 2020

Boom!boom!boom!

The successful explosion caused my body to bounce six meters. I wiped the ground on my face, then spat out the grass that accidentally entered.

I got up and put up strong horses. Alan walked out from behind a five-meter puff of smoke in front of me. He held out his right hand which held a golden sword.

"Your energy manipulation is still unstable, but it's better than it was yesterday." Alan in the distance.

"Of course, I just learned to know." Ketti Ketus .

"Fifteen minutes of rest." He lowered his sword and reduced it to fire. I fell to the ground, and I'm inexplicably tired today. A gentle breeze hit the meadow, giving the residents a comfortable feeling, me and Alan.

"Alan, how many basic elemental magic are you good at?" I just got the topic.

"Fire is just one." Answer's flat.

"Eh. I'm five." I answered while looking at the sky.

"But not so strong."

"But I can combine all of them, so the attacks vary. But I don't really care. After all., elementary element magic will be completely defeated by special magic."

"By the way Alan is, what's your magic name?"

"Red coals." Answer's flat.

"You named him? is it on the list of books about magic?"

"No, his name was in the book, on page 1809. In the explanation of magic as special as hybrid."

"I just caught it.."

"You're the one who didn't read it until it's over."

Silent for a moment, only the roar of the wind hit our faces.

"By the way. What did you do with April two days ago?"

Alan suddenly felt something I never expected.

"Well, harvest red jasmine" I replied quickly

"It has to be? until ditching the rehearsal." Alan rose from his sleep to sit down. His eyes are looking at me sharply.

"Why?" I sat up, too, and looked back at him.

"It's weird, since when do you want to help."

"Damn." I also grieved slowly.

"Hey Alan, tomorrow.fourteen days huh?" My toot.

"Yes. As stated in the declaration of war."

I stare at the blue sky, my mind is floating.

I will not forgive you, really even if you bow down to me!!

I don't know why the voice kept haunting me in my mind, even since yesterday.

"Alan, let's continue the training."

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July 13, 2020. At 20:00, at the wooden house near the riverbank.

"Ukh.odor." April complained while pinning her nose with both fingers.

"Again, you have to use jengkol to make an honesty potion?" I was sitting on a wooden chair three meters in front of him.

"The rules are so, there's no other way."

I sighed and closed the novel in my hand. I also resuscitated the back of the wooden chair. My eyes circulated around this all-wood room. Errata, I think this all-wood house.

This house is in April's possession. However, the creature did not use it properly, instead using it as his personal herb labotorium.

And as I said earlier, there are so many potion making tools scattered here and there. Starting from the glass bottles scattered to the things I do not understand.

"Leave a drop of the elixir of life..," carefully April poured a drop of water from inside the glass bottle into the cauldron.

BWOOSH.

Dark blue smoke billowed from within the cauldron along with a pungent smell that pierced the nose. Close my nose a little late, I think I'm gonna throw up.

"The banquet of life already, the potion of honesty already. It's just tomorrow." April understood.

"Oi, how can the fat mill drink this kind of potion?" I asked while pointing at the boiling blue liquid.

"Have explained, well.., directly put into his mouth.if he wants to vomit stay in force so as not to vomit it." Answer lightly. While I just nodded in understanding. What an interesting plan.

April deftly poured the liquid into a glass bottle with a barrel. After the blue liquid filled half the bottle, April immediately closed the bottle tightly with a stopper.then she put the bottle into a shelf hanging on the wooden wall.

"Go home and don't forget to tell Alan that the bread is delicious." Said the creature while wagging his hands, the style of repelling animals.

"Oh yeah, drugs." I immediately turned right and picked up the wooden basket and novel on the wooden table. My eyes stared at the silver moon in the sky as it descended the wooden steps.

I don't know why tonight was so quiet. Not even the night wind was heard.

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POV Author

July 14, 2020, at 07:00 on the border of the fog forest.

The sun had just risen from the horizon, slowly its warm golden light enveloped the earth.The gallant sky overshadowed the sea of humans lined up on this one hectare green field.

Their faces stiffened, their eyes focused on looking straight ahead, towards the forest of fog. It was where the enemy they were going to face today. The sun rises as time rolls on.

"We can't lose!!even though we lack the power of losing is not the answer!!"

Excited Kara who stood gallantly with her silver armor, she was facing the ranks of human bezirah, her combat troops. His brown irises did not emit the slightest bit of hesitation, adding to his charisma as the leader of the troops.

"We have to win! for our beloved village!" Kara raised her sword high into the air and then her movements followed her troops while cheering cheers.

"Win, win, win!!"

The guts that had dimmed were now back in flames, burning the fighting spirit.

And what they were waiting for finally appeared, a girl in a white dress walked out from within the forest of mist. But the girl was not alone, behind her appeared five white tigers as big as a rhinoceros. The tigers roared and bared their fangs to gnaw their enemies.

Kara turned her body, facing the enemy in front of her, and then she pointed her silver sword forward. The troops lined up behind him prepared themselves, clasping more tightly the weapons in their hands.

Kara stared intently at the girl and vice versa, they exchanged glances. The atmosphere was also tense in silence. Kara lowered her weapon, then took a deep breath as she could.

"G-i"

"RUSH"

The screams of someone in the middle of the line stopped Kara's orders while simultaneously breaking the atmosphere around. People look back to find the source of the sound.

"Aragh!! I'm not lying!!" The screams of the voice again coincided with his figure coming out from within the row. The figure painstakingly scratched the body of the gembrot who had been coated with armor. His face radiated how tormented he was.

"I burned it, I burned it!!" I'm Hans.

"I burned the forest ten years ago!!" Hysterical shouting.

"Hey, why Hans?!"

People began to huddle without doing anything. They don't know what to act like.

"Let's just say honesty." April exclaimed as she walked out of the line.

Kara walks in to see what happened to her eldest son. After arriving he was greeted with two figures that he knew. His son was scratching like a madman on the ground and April was standing next to his son.

"So tell me everything, the real culprit." April crouched down in front of Hans and looked at him lightly.

"I burned the forest, everything I told lies! the truth you believe lies!" Hans roaring.

Everyone was surprised to hear it. Many of them were silent at a loss for words.

"Hey, Hans was magic by someone! we have to help him!" Excited one of the in line. The surrounding people nodded in understanding and started to approach Hans body.

"No, he wasn't exposed to magic at all." Denied Kara, making the others frown. Kara was silent for a moment then looked at April sharply .

"Well, I think you already know the answer." April waved casually "So, who was wrong in being tempted ten years ago, Hans?"

"I-I, b-not the spirit of fog." Hans answered in a stammer.

Silent, no one was able to let out words, the atmosphere was pressing down on the atmosphere around. Kara fell silent and looked at her son.

"Hans, confess all your lies." Kara ordered

"I set fire to the forest ten years ago to get the position of family leader, I was also the one who injured Amelia, and the fog spirit was completely innocent! I am the real culprit!!" Hans is hysterical.

Amelia was glued to her place, her eyes staring in disbelief at the sea of humans far ahead of her.

"Wah-wah! the atmosphere is so tense!" The cry of a young man standing before people, suddenly made him the center of attention. The young man smiled faintly and then turned his back.

"Hi Amelia's over there! here is what I want to give you!!" The young man shouted while brandishing a glass bottle with the contents of a clear liquid. The owner of the name widened his eyes towards the bottle in the young man's grasp.

"Some thing I want to talk about!" Excited again

"It's a trap, right? how could you possibly concoct that potion. You just want to trap me!"

"Remove that bad thought, you've been listening to it Hans said, you should know it's not a trap!" This time it was April who called out next to the young man.

"April..," muttered Amelia.

Amelia was silent for a moment then exhaled slowly. Slowly his feet stepped towards them along with his five days. He arrived and was greeted with a glass bottle that was given by the young man. Amelia just raised her eyebrows.

"Friends! from what you heard from Hans you must know that this war is a mistake.!" The young man exclaimed "Therefore, I from the human side declare peace and apology to the spirit of mist" he said.

"Drink, your suffering will be gone today." The young man smiled gently, Amelia could only be glued to her place, not understanding the phenomenon that was happening. He nodded and shook his head

"Why did you get the golden lotus?"

"The spirit of the lake gave it as a form of apology for his former actions." April answered quickly.

"You have forgiven us, demons. Radit?" this time Amelia looked at the young man before her.

"Obviously not so fast, but you're not a demon, and I'm aware that revenge just destroys everything. So I decided to leave him and try to get better." Radit replied

"Deciding the cycle of vengeance in order to create a better world? really since when do you care this way." Sela April elbowing her friend.

"Everything wrong? I'm still human, I have empathy. Caring for yourself will only backfire." Radit just put his shoulder out. Amelia smiles and grabs a glass bottle in Radit's hand. With one gulp of liquid in a toilet bottle.

"I ame-I mean Liliy. Accept Radit's request.The camp of mist spirits and humans from today we coexist!" Amelia exclaimed in spirit. Before long a white mist gushed from his entire body. Within seconds the white mist engulfed his body yet it did not last long as the wind swept clean. Amelia's body staggered and in the end her body collapsed, fortunately April had caught it.

"At least think of her body." Gerutu April while holding Amelia's body to her shoulder, then turned and walked towards the line, Radit also followed next to her.

"So, what are you doing next?" Ask Radit

"Of course take care of the fat factory, I swear to make a fuss. You alone?"

"Open it clear? of course practice."

"Ah, forgot. Sana be the hunter you want." April says lazy

"Sure, thank you."

"Excite then."

"Yes," Radit nodded.

The two teenagers walked together under the blue sky. This morning will be historic for those who are witnesses. A history of proof ten years ago.

CHAPTER B: the circle of revenge and forgiveness. END

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