The Blood Crown

Part I

It was as if they held the world in their hands and as if they controlled the world and were not afraid of the retribution that would come upon them.

They think that the sign they fear will not come and they think that the sign will appear when people are born while they own the "Mark of True Lord" given when they are adults while the sign "Mark Sun and Moon" also given not when the first emperor was born but the sign he got when he fell on a cliff and found the ancient ruins where there is a special altar where he got that mark.

Things like they sometimes pass by because they think that their sign is given by the king and the sign will indeed appear in every generation or newborn child but "Mark Sun and Moon" is a special sign that can be called "The True Life and Death" the meaning of the sign will appear when life and death are close enough to their owners which means the sign will appear by itself, but what he realized was that the king thought that the sign he got was already there since he was born because after the ritual on the ancient altar he lost his memory and found that he was born as the chosen one and owner of the sign from birth.

It was also the story that the king told to all his comrades in arms who made history knowing the sign could emerge from a newborn baby or sometimes inherited from the owner of the sign, like the king's son who has no sign but still has a genetic smart and strong like his father's support.

That's the blind spot of human history only knowing what they hear and see but they don't know what they don't see and hear.

Over time the darkness grew more dense and further along each place but there was a place called "Bonfire Place" a place where to light the heart of a blue flame as an exorcist of darkness that can only be ignited by an owner of the sign "Mark of Fire and Water" some places or villages in general have every keeper of the fireplace of blue fire, generally blue fire is guarded by one or two people and no more and people who are mandated to guard the fireplace will always be close to the place of fire or live close to the fireplace.

The blazing heart of blue flames can repel the approaching darkness even "The Lord of Darkness and Death" would be injured if he touched that blue flame, but a burning fire can only be ignited at one particular point and place that was once lit by the fire.

Before "The Immortal" or "The Countless Extensions That Create" or "The Lord of Thousand Life" gave a blessing to humans that he wanted he ever to gift humans to "Era Void" holy fire, formerly on "Era Void" or the age of emptiness and before many ancient ruins and before the darkness came they people who first came have lit a fire to drive out the darkness but at that time there was no creature that could kill when the night before the coming of the dark era, when the dark era of humans became stupid and greedy and only selfish.

In the sense that the place of burning is the place where in times of emptiness made by people who worship "The Lord of Thousand Life" and they are awarded "Holy White Fire" the white fire, but the white fire, is extinguished by the greed of man, which creates a cruel side, a cruel side that accumulates and accumulates from thousands of sacrifices, deaths, envy, and death, and hatred gathered into an ego that created "The Lord of Darkness and Death" and therefore the fire that now exists in the age of destruction is the remnant of white fire, the, the age of darkness and destruction is the same age where there is no light.

Because white fire cannot appear and blue fire can only be ignited by those who hold the sign, therefore only the owner of the sign becomes the keeper of the fireplace, the fireplace, the burning of a campfire is where the former spread of a white fire, therefore a blue fire can be lit, while a blue fire can not be lit other than a place where the former white fire does not exist.

To light a blue fire in any other way is to burn the mark they have or burn their souls and make their bones into fire and blood as oil and soul as fire, if the fire in the fireplace cannot be ignited by the owner of the sign due to the corrosion of darkness then they can do the way that is to exchange the soul for fire.

Other than those two ways there was no other way to turn on and light the heart of a blue flame, so why did the first king of the dark ages go to the light age to win because the sign holders made many sacrifices with their souls to light a blue fire with their souls therefore in the midst of the kingdom there was a special monument named "The Final Resting Place of The Soul" or "Sleeping Soul Monument" where the names of those who donate souls to fire fall asleep, their names were carved and became symbols of immortality and given to "The Keeper of The Soul Fire" or the guardian of the fire soul, the guardian of the fire soul was something of an existence created by "The Immortal" to record the fire that has returned to be reborn.

In addition, as for the creatures that approach "The Immortal" who does not take care of the world there are twelve creatures and among them there are seven creatures that interfere other than the twelve creatures that are "The Keeper of The Soul Fire" and "The Lord of Darkness and Death" , who interfered there were seven and neutral there were five, due to "The Lord of Darkness and Death" and "The Keeper of The Soul Fire" is ranked below "The Lord of Thousand Life/The Immortal" and twelve creatures are approaching there in the lower positions of "The Keeper" and "The Death".

They lived in their place and had their own roles before the twelve existed, of which there were only two existences under "The Lord of Thousand Life" but after the twelfth holy fire appeared as a symbol of extraordinary creatures that appeared.

Even the first king could not kill any of the twelve creatures because he did not have the power to do so even though he was accompanied by another sign holder, for those who have the mark they will release their souls and be reborn like a holy baby when they die.

In addition, there is a dark place in the North there is a very wide canyon and in there are some mysterious creatures who live in that place besides humans, the fireplace keeper is the chieftain of the clan, the clan, every child born does not all get the name of a given sign or blessing but those born remain strong humans with natural survival abilities and instincts like a lion it is impossible to forget being him.

There is a life that is quite complex although unlike in the western area which is close to the forest of darkness which in the western part more dark beasts and at least fireplace guard, which is more, while near the canyon a little safer with a slightly steep place as a natural fortress for some tribes to guard themselves from the attack of dark creatures.

The life of the blue flame guard just sits and remains waiting and keeping the fire from extinguishing but that does not mean they must always remain with the fire but their souls have been connected directly that is when they feeling something unusual they had to go back to the fireplace of the blue fire to keep it burning.

But fire guards have abilities depending on the sign they have "Mark Fire and Water" divided into two, namely "Mark of True fire" and "Mark of True Water".

Those who have a fire sign will have abilities beyond the limits of humans, namely a strong and healthy body and can control fire while those who have water marks will be awarded the ability to treat and heal some wounds, disease, and control fire.

At all times the chieftain would check and give instructions and teach the people and children about the meaning of the sign and teach them how to use it, if they had it as the owner of the sign the children would live close to the fireplace.

The night that comes is not too gripping because they are protected from creatures that attack them children do not come out and women too, because they are protected from creatures that attack them, the tribal knights will guard the mountain and the area that is wary will appear dark creature attacks.

Somewhere close to the end of the canyon far from the group of humans and tribes there is a fortress that is quite large and magnificent there are many dark creatures in it even though the fortress is large and wide but it is the abandoned fort's name is "Hansenburg Castel", they are locked inside the fort strangely the creatures did not come out as if they were confined.

On the other hand a child from a distance in the forest where the fireplace had been extinguished because the tribe had no sign, he ran from his village a little girl in a dress made of animal skin ran in a torn shirt and barefooted, when the rain made the wolves walk slower when the child's rain could also remove the scent trail from the smell of the wolves, he ran as if he would die if he stopped.

The little girl was a little different she was found in the middle of the forest by the head of her tribe and was seen around a horse carriage that had never been seen by the people of the tribe and many corpses of knights and night wolves at that time, as a sign of the chieftain bringing home the white-haired and silver-colored girl and raising as she grew up her child, she was considered a child of her own.

He still ran until sometimes he fell but he still tried to run from the pursuit of wolves to where he saw a large magnificent castle even though he had to come down from the canyon to get to the castle, he was near the ravine and he carried a deep canyon and water down below, he stood close to the end of the ravine the wolves were near and stood and looked sharply at the girl.

"God help your little servant I have been protected by those I love and they give me a way to live but I will die today", his hands held each other tightly he prayed as he stared at the torrential rain sky also drenching his face with raindrops.

The wolf began to run and pounce on the girl, the boy took off his body and threw himself into the canyon followed by the wolves who wanted to wear it, they all fell into the canyon together.

He looked left and right and raised his weak body to survive the girl ate the drowned wolf carcass, although dark creatures are evil creatures, some parts of their bodies can still be consumed like creatures that have not been contaminated.

After eating he walked slowly because of his weak body he looked back and looked up and saw the upper side of the canyon that was high enough even the fog had closed the end, he walked back to the front and continued to walk into the forest he walked through each creature slowly before that he wet or rubbed his body with mud so that the scent of his body was not smelled by wild creatures, after a while he finally reached the front of the giant gate that loomed where there was a large castle above him he only reached the bottom he looked for a way in and finally found a gap to enter because of the left and right of the door there is a gap deep enough or maybe very deep even the end is not visible.

he entered and found a ladder that led up there also seen many bones of dark creatures and knights with symbols of the sun and moon, and, he walked past the bones until suddenly the bones got up and walked with his sword after the boy, the creature called the "Bone Knight" he chased after the boy, the boy ran up the stairs he also threw some new ones that made the bone knights fall but they still got up because the bone knight would not die unless his head was crushed.

He continued running until he was tired he turned towards some building in the fort, and, he looked there and there was clearly a ladder to climb up the stairs and some other creatures also followed the girl, he climbed the stairs quickly fortunately his body is not too heavy because the ladder also looks fragile and easily broken, when the skull troops go up using the stairs, the ladder was smashed and made the skull knight fell the girl was still panicking and ran until she fell from the top of the building because the top of the building was fragile.

He fell in a dark prison, the light from where he fell shone all around the place where he fell and the rain that fell through the hole where he fell, he fainted and was unconscious.

When he woke up from a fainting spell he looked around the place he realized he was in a cage or prison, he looked up right he fell but there was no way to go up, the girl looked around and there was only a chained skull she was afraid that it would move but the skull in the prison did not move, he checked the prison where he was locked and made sure there was a key to open the prison door, at that time he accidentally found a cloth that covered something and he was curious about what was behind the cloth.

"Must I open this cloth" he said in his heart he ventured to open the cloth and found the bound undead, whose hands were handcuffed and whose feet were also handcuffed, the eyes of the dried corpse lit up in blue, he was a "wandering Soul", the corpse moved making the girl startled and fell down.

"Don't be afraid boy, I won't eat you think again, I'm chained in the hands and feet how I eat you, hahahaha", the corpse said in a somewhat sinister voice that scared the girl.

"Who are you, why are you still alive?", the girl was afraid but she kept asking the corpse a question.

"I'm a lost soul, I waited for The Keeper of The Soul Fire to take my soul but it never came as if I was destined to be between life and death", he said to the girl but her mouth and chin did not move at all.

"So how do I get out of this castle?" said the girl as she slowly got up from where she was sitting.

"I've forgotten how long I've been here and I've forgotten who I am or where I know only the names of the gods, but I remember a few things, try you little girl help me collect something, you see there's a wall that's a little fragile try you hit with something maybe you'll find what you need, then come back here"

Upon hearing the undead's words, the girl followed the corpse's orders because she knew only the corpse knew enough about the castle and how to get out, and how to get out, since there was nothing to ask other than the girl, the girl went towards a cracked and fragile wall where the man pointed, she moved in search of a hard object to hit the wall.

"Nothing is hard enough" said the girl.

"Are you stupid?, just take this imprisoned skull that's all around you and smash it against the wall" said the corpse, seeing the confused little girl.

"I'm sorry sir but I'll borrow your head for a minute", said the girl and took the skull from a bone and directly smashed the skull into the wall until the wall was destroyed and dust came out of the shattered crack and a bright light appeared from the broken wall.

"The fireplace of the heart of blue fire", the girl was shocked because she found the fireplace of blue fire, the fireplace of blue fire, after that he realized that the room from the prison was connected to a blue fire room but saw many doors around it covered by large building debris that made no way out.

"Hey, did you find anything there, little boy, you could check the drawer or whatever was there and help me get this chain off" said the corpse from behind another wall.

"Uncle the corpse I found the heart of the blue fire here, I'll find the key to unlock you", the girl looked for padlocks everywhere in the fireplace and finally found two keys and rushed back into the prison through the cracks of the wall she made, he immediately went to the place of the corpse but he stopped and thought back to what he was doing was the right or wrong thing because he did not know what the intention of the corpse was.

But since this was only his only option he went to open the handcuffs attached to the feet and hands of the corpse, after the handcuffs were removed the corpse said "Can you help me to the fireplace?", said it.

The girl nodded and pulled the body through the hole, fortunately the hole was big enough to pass by the two of them after until the corpse said back "OK good work, son, let it move on its own".

The body set out for the fireplace and the boy tried to find a way out because he might have missed a place or a road, but a tremor occurred in that space and they realized that the vibration was coming from behind the hole where they passed through the prison hole, the vibration was getting stronger.

"Nak quickly hid wherever I knew and remembered a creature that ate a living creature, he smelled you", after saying the corpse the girl immediately rushed to hide because she realized that the place she had come from the beginning was a very strange place.

The creature behind the wall moved quickly and hit the wall until it was destroyed by the rubble of the building scattered due to the blow of a big enough tomorrow, the creature was humanoid with a horse's legs and a large human body and two bull heads and had long horns and tails, it sniffed in search of the source of the human smell, but he was also surprised because in front of there was a blue fireplace that made him reluctant to move.

The corpse kept trying to get closer to the fire while the creature walked past the edge of the place so that it was not exposed by the aura emitted from the heart of the blue flame, slowly he walked and approached in a large box the creature inhaled air from the box, behind the box the little girl was holding her breath but because she could not stand it she finally exhaled.

"Nggraaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh...., heeeeeeeerrggg....", The voice of the creature after that he directly hit the box with a large iron towards the box, the girl who was aware of being caught ran out of the box before the blow from the creature just smashed the box.

"Little girl goes closer to the fire she won't dare to go closer to the fire", said the skull but because of panic and did not hear the girl instead ran to a different place and instead away from the fireplace while the creature was chasing the little girl.