Revenge of the Son of the Nobles

Chapter 9: Hope

On a cliff-edge road, a young man in his twenties was walking slowly, he tried to be very careful and stay focused, due to the slightest misstep, he said, he could end up horribly in the abyss down there.

The young man continued to walk carefully, on his back was seen a basket containing various kinds of foliage and mushrooms, and on his back, on his waist was a machete that he used to cut plants and defend against the attacks of wild animals.

The afternoon sky was brighter than usual, making the current sunset view even more beautiful than usual.

The beautiful scenery that afternoon made the young man's gaze diverted for a moment. Of course, that would be a fatal mistake.

The young man's feet stepped on the fragile edge of the cliff, he instantly lost his balance. Unfortunately, while trying to restore balance, he returned to tread the fragile part of the cliff.

"AAAAAHHHHH!"

The young man plunged freely into the ravine, several times his body hit the cliff wall before finally returning to freefall. Until finally, just before his body hit the bottom of the ravine, he got caught in a tree growing on the cliff wall.

He was not dead, but his body had already been battered by the countless times hitting the cliff wall as it fell, and even though he got stuck in the tree at the last moment, still he had a fatal wound.

Gravity made his body fall back to the bottom of the abyss, this time he was completely helpless, his bones were broken, his body was bruised. There were even some gaping wounds, fresh blood rushing from the wound.

'Am I going to die here? Alone in this dark and cold place?'

As he begins to hallucinate the loss of a lot of blood, images of his past memories begin to appear one by one. His body grew colder, several times he vomited blood, his lips trembled and tears flowed from his eyes which began to lose the light of life.

As his consciousness began to fade, a figure of light appeared before him.

"Are you going to give up here?"

'Then what should I do? Even to speak, I can't.'

"Do you have no hope?"

'Can he hear my heart? Of course I still want to live, but I don't wish on anything impossible.'

"Then that's enough."

His consciousness disappeared completely after that.

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The young man flinched and woke up from his sleep, his breathing gasped, he circulated his gaze around. He was still in the depths of the abyss, so he immediately checked the condition of his body.

He was stunned, there was not a single wound on his body, whereas he clearly remembered that just a moment ago, his body was severely injured, even he was already on the verge of death.

Various questions began to appear in his mind, who was the figure of light that came to him, what was the figure doing until it could make the entire wound on his body as if it had never existed. Also, how do I get out of this place.

The young man began to walk down the bottom of the abyss, he could see the sunlight from the mouth of the ravine above him, but it was certainly very impossible to reach the mouth of that extremely high abyss.

Several times he found the vines growing the fruit, he ate the fruits to replenish his energy, the basket containing the leaves of herbs and mushrooms that he brought was gone somewhere.

He had walked for quite a long time at the bottom of this ravine, but thanks to the fruiting plants and the small stream of water along the bottom of the ravine, he was still able to maintain his composure and continue walking.

Over time he began to realize, that the wall at the bottom of this ravine was not the same as where he had fallen, the walls beside him looked like they were formed by something in such a way as to resemble the hallway of a building. This passageway had carvings along its walls, such carving patterns the young man had never seen before. A unique pattern is like showing the way to a place.

The young man immediately sped up his pace, hoping that at the spot indicated by the wall carving it had a clue that could show it to the exit.

The more he walked further, the carvings on the walls seemed to emit a dim light, his premonition saying that he was getting closer to whatever was at the end of the passage.

Sure enough, at the end of the hall, there was an altar that had been overgrown with moss and wild plants all over it. But the carvings on the altar still emitted a faint light. As expected, all the carvings on the wall of this ravine lead to a point, the altar before him.

He slowly approached the altar, after he noticed, on the altar there was a kind of throne that fused with a sword, as if the altar there was made to store the sword.

After he reached a distance of several meters from the altar, suddenly the entire carving that was in that place emitted a bright light, making the young man narrow his eyes. Faintly, amidst the radiance from all directions, he could see the throne above the altar split open, displaying a sword that emitted the brightest light.

Slowly, the entire light dimmed again, leaving behind the light emitting from the sword. As if he felt himself being summoned, he walked up to the altar and grasped the hilt of the sword hovering in the middle of the altar.

The light emanating from the sword quickly spread out and entered his body, the young man wavered and attempted to release the sword that was clinging so tightly to his hand. But as he shouted and tried to take off the sword, all the light on the sword had entered his body.

For a moment he looked a little confused and was still trying to digest the strange event he had just experienced, the sword in his grasp was no longer stuck like before.

"What the fuck." He did not feel any strangeness on his body, the sword he took off from his grasp and immediately became a hunk of rock that instantly shattered into dust.

"Are you able to bear the responsibility of the sword?" The young man turned back, it was a voice he was very familiar with because he had just heard it a moment ago.

All these events made his head dizzy, but he still responded to the words of the figure. "What responsibility should I take?" The young man asked back.

"As you should know, the world is under threat due to the presence of a mysterious entity. Your task, O wanderer of the sword of light, is to protect mankind from the destruction that the creature will cause."

"In other words, this sword gave me the power to save humanity, right?"

"You receive the power of light, of light that is capable of wiping out darkness, you are the hero that bears the fate of man."

"Isn't that too heavy? I can't protect all humans alone." Of course the young man felt pessimistic, where could he possibly take care of all the humans in this vast world.

"You are not alone, there are many chosen to be wanderers of the power of light, they will be your companions and together, you will spread the light of hope throughout the world."

The young man was silent for a moment, his eyes burning, his soul of justice roaring. The appearance of the creature that threatened mankind was indeed furious because he could not do anything, but now he had a chance to fight the threat.

"Then I will accept the burden of that responsibility, I will protect mankind from them." He answered firmly.

"We'll be waiting for you. Oh, the savior of mankind."

After the sentence of the figure was finished, a radiance appeared and blinded the young man's gaze, he closed his eyes with his dazzling hands.The moment the light disappeared, the young man was startled as he opened his eyes, because he was already on the path of the forest that led to his residence.

He immediately ran towards the mountain foot village in front of him, several times he passed by the citizens who were looking at him with strange gazes. Arriving at home, he immediately opened the door and entered the house in a hurry.

The entire family who saw him came gasping as he entered, they were like pecking for a while, the mother whose eyes were swollen like a weeping person approached him with a look of disbelief.

Even his younger siblings were visibly shocked by his presence. "lex ... You Alex?" Mother touched the cheek of the young man who was apparently named Alex, then she cried so much, the neighbors gathered to Alex's house full of wonder.

Alex looked puzzled by the reaction of very strange people, he asked one of his friends who also looked at Alex with a face of disbelief.

"What's going on?"

Alex's friend shook his head, then he looked back at Alex's face before finally saying in a quivering voice. "Friends ... You ... You ... We're looking for you everywhere, but ... We just found your basket stuck in the cliff wall." Alex's friend pointed to a basket placed on a table. No doubt, it was his basket.

Alex felt everyone's overreaction, "Oh, I just fell into the abyss and lost consciousness for a while, there's no need to cry like this."

His friend shook his head, "Alex ... Actually ... You've been missing for two weeks, it's day fifteen, everyone's given up looking for you."

Alex's heart stopped beating hearing his friend say, "What? Two weeks? Not funny, Andre." Alex and Andre looked at each other, there was no sign of Andre lying, the sad and hit face was not at all contrived.

Alex rolled his gaze around, only then did he realize what Andre said was true, his mother and sisters hugged him with loud cries, people exclaiming around his house 'Alex is back!' He kept hearing those words from the people around him.

He could not hold back his tears and returned the embrace of his mother and sisters. "I'm sorry ... I'm making you all worry."

For some time to come, weeping and cries of relief continued to be heard from the village.

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After the atmosphere got back under control, everyone dispersed after they greeted Alex, they did not ask at length because his family was the one most entitled to hear his story first.

Andre cried long enough in Alex's arms, to the point that his snot was splattered on Alex's tattered shirt. It takes some adult energy to take off Andre's arms.

"UWOOHH! YOU JERK! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW WORRIED I AM! GODDAMNIT! YOU FUCKING ALEX! UWOOOHHH!"

Even when he was dragged away from Alex he was still roaring like a baby while cursing Alex, he looked really relieved because Alex was back home.

Now that his family was left staring at him with question marks, Alex understood their concerns and he immediately told him what had happened to him over the past two weeks, which Alex said just a few hours ago.

He did not say the part where he was injured to the point of death, saying he only had minor injuries and abrasions in some places.

His mother and sisters were distrustful of Alex's stories, but they knew Alex wasn't the one who lied and made up stories, but Alex's stories were hard to believe.

"I wouldn't believe it if I didn't experience it firsthand, it's all really like what I said, and it happened just a few hours ago."

All speechless to hear Alex's story, Alex's two younger brothers aged 17 and 13 look at each other, although it is hard to believe, their brother's story sounds really cool.

His 13-year-old sister asked, "So, big brother can now bring out that power of light? Or so you have super cool magic? Or maybe big brother's fist could crush a rock?" Alex just laughed at the enthusiastic question of his sister.

But his sister's question made Alex think 'Yes, too, yes, what do I have?'