The Journey of Eternity

Trail 20 - Travel Stories.

All the preparations were done and Eri waved her hand one last time to her father. A new journey begins for Arlo and Eri to determine his destiny. In addition, Arlo also had no thought to return and protect the village. This place will definitely be destroyed into ashes including Mr. Harto himself, it was already in Arlo's mind.

After reaching and passing the border, Arlo stopped and looked back and stared intently at the entire small town. Staring at each end of the place as far as looking at the one in the city. Eri looked at him full of question marks and was about to ask him.

“When I first crossed this border, there was only suspicion and caution in my mind. I didn't expect to stay here much longer then, but. I'm leaving now leaving this village feeling sad and losing” Arlo said looking at the border gate plaque.

“already, just hope we can come back here”

The two of them went back on their way and stepped over the border out of the village. Arlo travels again to leave, but this time he brings a girl beside him whom he has been searching for.

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Step by step through the forest, there was only silence in the forest, the chirping of birds that sometimes sounded and sometimes vanished without a trace, reminding Arlo when his life was just right now. just walk towards the unknown and look for something that doesn't exist, but now he has to return to where his beautiful home in Soul Of Dark is.

“So..why did you choose to leave home and go around the world?” ask Eri.

“You ask now?”

“Already, just answer!”

“I thought with this chance of a longer life I could circle this vast middle of nowhere world and find the tip” Arlo was staring at such a clear sky that day.

“Oh yes, why should my village be protected from demonic attack?” Eri asked and pushed Arlo from behind to tease him because he had only been walking behind Eri.

“Eh.. Miss, don't push. Once upon a time, under your village there was a crack that connected the underworld with this world. And the seal goes back about 200 years, but because the sealer's dead, the seal is also weakened and becomes an opportunity for the devil to open it again and summon his entire reinforcements” Arlo told Eri.

“But isn't it you're also a demon, why block your own friend?”

“Maybe they think so, but there is a story that says there are some greedy and legal demons in the underworld, and you are now called Darksade's inhabitants, while we who can still be forgiven or the like, are given our own place. So you could say not all demons are evil monsters, but I am also not sure about that.”

Eri felt a little strange about what Arlo told me, it sounded like a mere essay. While Arlo just continues his journey without caring about the story as well.

It did not feel like their journey was long enough until they had finished passing through the forest. At the end of the road in the forest, the pesky light of the sun showed the two of them going out of the forest. From far away they came out of the forest, seen a small village that is not so crowded, seen people wandering around carrying out their activities every day.

“Arlo.. where did we go?, isn't that the west village?” Eri pointed towards the village.

“Yeah..we were walking northwest from the village border, would you like to stop by?”

“Bby, let's get there”

The two of them immediately walked over there and looked around. People who are so busy with their activities are no longer concerned with the newcomers or anything passing next to them. They continued to pass on the crowded street and reached a crossroad. At the end of a quiet street, a man was standing on the terrace of an inn.

Then Arlo greeted her from afar and walked up to her. The man smiled broadly at the two people who greeted him.

“Hei.. Arlo, long time no see ya?” a man in a neat, bright red suit in front of an inn.

“Hai Note, do you look healthy always?”

“Your appearance changed a little Arlo?. And now the Arlo I know has brought a beautiful girl huh.?” Nota looked at Eri and greeted her.

“Include, I'm Eri Arlo”'s fiancee Eri smiled and returned the greeting Note.

“Tactualty? So where are you going?” ask Arlo for a note.

“We-“

“Movie only!” eri's sentence was cut off by Arlo who looked suspicious.

“Oh.. honeymoon huh?. Then stay here again huh..? Arlo” haggles Notes while pulling Arlo's hand.

“No, we're just for a minute. In addition, we are also not on a honeymoon, but just happened to pass through”

arlo's reply made Nota look a little disappointed. With a slightly sour face, Nota let go of Arlo's hand and returned smiling at Arlo. He gave Arlo a piece of paper.

“Alright, next time stop by..? Arlo”

The forest is so dense that sunlight cannot enter the forest, only visible shadows of light that enter through the sidelines of tree foliage holes. The atmosphere was very much different from the forest before, not to hear birds chirping or any small animals that were foraging.

“Oh yes Arlo, you promised me to tell me the story of your Father and Mother right?” eri asked to break the silence in the forest.

“So where were we then?, Miss!” Arlo sees Eri with a slightly sinister face for Eri.

“Ee..e when your father tried to propose to your mother. Arlo don't look at me that way!”

“Haha well Miss, are you a coward?”

“Quick tell!”

Arlo stops at a large, lush tree, under which the breeze blows and Arlo pulls Eri's hand to sit next to him. He began to open the provisions and eat them together while telling a little story.

“So after Dad had resolved to propose to Mom, he met her and gave her a ring made from a tree splice made in such a way as to resemble a ring. Then Dad said what he thought to Mom, but unfortunately she refused and asked for time to think about it.

Because that's Dad's story so he doesn't know what happened to Mom. After two days of waiting for an answer, Mom finally went to see Dad and called out his proposal. The marriage of the two of them went smoothly until the blood drinking ceremony I was referring to back then. You remember right? At that time I said you would drink my blood so that your life could be longer because you would be half demon.” Arlo was a little worried about the sentence he just said.

“Yes, I get your point. I also don't want to rush to death and leave you. Then what happened?”

“Then they were officially married until after one month, my mother was declared pregnant with me. But you have to go to continue the power of the grandfather who was king at that time. Because of feeling too anxious grandfather died after 2 months the father was declared missing. In the third month the father had to completely return to the kingdom because of the condition of the kingdom which became chaotic due to the absence of leader” continued Arlo while chewing his bread.

“Then how did you become a prince at the job?. You will be an orphan, hihi” god Eri.

“After one year Dad left Mother's house, he was forced into marriage because someone had to bequeath the kingdom from him. Then he tried to explain that he actually had a baby to inherit it. But after knowing the fact that the baby is the son of a Devil, the father was rejected outright by the family and he already had no reason to avoid.

Father married a beautiful princess from the southern kingdom of the noble family ‘Birdnigth named Noits Birst, but people call it Nita. They had a baby named Yiury Voltar. Yes he is my half-sister, he is a very handsome boy and also very kind-hearted, but he is so innocent that he is very easily deceived by his own opponents.

After my sister was about 15 years old, at that time there was a raid in the kingdom and unfortunately my stepmother died because she was killed by the assassin” Arlo stood up and pulled Eri's hand to continue the journey because lunch was over, spent by Eri himself.

“Do you also love stepmom?” Eri's face looks so curious considering how the reality of a stepmother in the stories.

Arlo looked at Eri with a confused face and then he started to smile because he understood the purpose of Eri's question.

“Nona, not all stepmom is evil. I also consider her my mother because she took care of me for 10 years there.

After the death of the mother, the father was quite hit and his nature was a little cold with the people around him, the only people he still believes just me a. Then I reminded Dad that he still had a wife in another country.

Then I went to Soul Of Dark to meet my mother and talk to her. Because the mother is also a child of a great leader who must forward his parents, then the mother can not be taken away by his royal father. Since then my father realized something for him, but he did not want to tell me” explained Arlo then he went to climb a tree to pick fruit.

“There Arlo!

Then how can you gain to your immortality?”

“Actually this is not an eternity, but just a gift. After I met my mother again, I asked to stay there for a while with her and ask a lot of questions"

Arlo held out one piece and still held two pieces in his hand. Eri looks a little cynical with it, but Arlo doesn't care to remember before.

“At that time I was 19 years old, but people said my fighting art was already very good beyond the average. Mother told me to try to improve my abilities there, for 2 years my ability can be said to the maximum. I heard a story about a tree that bears the fruit of immortality. I became interested in the fruit and tried to find information about it.

Until after 1 year of searching for information, I resolved to obtain the fruit. The long struggle towards the location of the fruit, and once it arrived, I instead had to fight with the hundreds of demons guarding there. Until I was about to die, I felt like there was a girl calling me and giving me hope. At that time it felt like my strength had recovered completely and was able to return to fighting”

“Who is the girl? Do you know him?” Eri asked after swallowing her slag bite.

“Entalah, all I remember is a light ahead when I lay down and he said something. Look Miss, we've reached” Arlo pointing at the end of the forest that only visible sunlight in the afternoon and a view of the vast prairie.

When not out of the forest, Eri was only confused by the one pointed by Arlo. But at the end of the forest, so surprised Eri. The scenery is very beautiful in the middle of the green safana and in the middle there is a lush tree that is very old, but the size is not too big.

“You said up, but where?” Eri was confused looking for something.

Arlo just smiled and pulled Eri running towards the tree. The two of them ran towards the tree and stopped right under it. Although it looks close, but in fact it is also far enough for Eri to go to the tree. Underneath it was really cool, the wind that suddenly blew hard and hit Eri's long hair.

“This is the portal tree of the world, here you can move anywhere freely. But there are conditions too. All right let's go see my family, miss.” the light shines from that tree and all just looks glare. Until that time, Eri still did not realize its existence.