The Journey of Eternity

Trail 54 - Northbound.

After a moment of reading the piece of the hack, the paper suddenly burned by itself and vanished from Arlo's grasp. He was stunned not because the paper simply disappeared, but questioned the truth of who exactly this Prince of Verles was. Why he was here and why he also left here by leaving this destruction.

All of that began to envelop Arlo's mind right then and there. Without knowing who Verles really was, he simply followed his orders and left.

From a distance, Eri loudly called out to her, breaking her daydream.

“Arlo, can you help…! just…! this is enough, harh…! Pretty hard!” eri said loudly from a distance.

“Yaa!” sahut Arlo is still thinking the same thing.

Until Arlo follows a fight back with the demons who guard the tree, but in the end they recover intact and come back to life, ready to fight.

“It won't end, Miss! We look for opportunities and escape!” shouting Arlo.

“Good!”

They both attacked and looked for an opportunity to escape, before they could recover and attack. Until a chance to deliver them ran north and back into the forest. Returning into the darkness with a ray of light from the Fire Core hovering in front of the two of them.

“Then where are we going, Arlo?” chirps Eri, open the conversation.

“Listen Miss. I just found a piece of paper that says the real thing is going on here. What is clear, this island is swallowed by its own power, by something that is in the far north,” explained Arlo, looking sharply at the road in front of him.

“Something what is it? What did Verles say yesterday?”

“Maybe it happened, but I'm still not sure about it...”.

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Back in the presence of the Arlo herds in Last Land, they split up to find the whereabouts of Sina who was running away due to Ferdi's possible fault. Because that was what he had been thinking about earlier, while looking for the existence of Sina together with Trisia in the dense forest.

“Do you think the girl will pass through here? It's getting deeper into the woods. When we just keep going ehh!” Trisia has not had time to finish her sentence pulled by Ferdi because of something.

“I heard something, in front!” ferdi said, the two of them are already behind the bushes to hide.

“It, right? that herd of deer just now, but where's the girl?” trisia whispered gently right next to Ferdi's ear, as they were very close together.

“Ehh! Please don't get too close, Trisia. Here very sultry,” said Ferdi, covering his embarrassment.

“Hah! aren't you the one who pulled me! What are you going to do to find that girl!” Trisia turned her face while folding her hands with slightly red cheeks.

“I'll find, that's for sure!” the last words that were heard between the two of them.

They immediately ran to continue their search, while shouting to call out the name of Sina who was out of nowhere. In addition, the two of them got deeper into the forest and almost reached the eastern end. A bad premonition in Trisia's mind began to look through her shocked face as she heard a loud roar not far from them standing.

“A-what's that!” he said, a little trembling.

“Isn't that a lion? Heh!” Ferdi was surprised by the girl beside him who was already trembling at the roar.

“Hei-hei, what is this? Can't you fight? You're taku-mpp!” the man's mouth was instantly silenced by the leg with a cross-section on the girl's foot.

“Close your mouth, Lips Cheap! Do you think I'd be scared of something like that!” the girl pulled her leg back from Ferdi's face.

Ferdi could only sigh while wiping his dirty mouth, or else this monster really had an invincible mouth. Until the roar sounded louder, as if the source of his voice was right in front of the two of them.

“What is a lion?” chirps Ferdi pointed at something in front of the two of them, with a flat face.

Sure enough, two lions were standing staring intently at the two of them.

“Si-lion!” shouted Trisia.

Rebellious because of that, one of the lions immediately jumped towards the two of them with its claws and teeth ready to scratch their flesh.

Reflection or the like, Ferdi directly lunged at the girl to save his life. But the distance was so unfavorable to him this time, the lion was precisely biting on Ferdi's right arm until blood splashed everywhere.

“Cih! You are really repotka-khahk!”

The two of them were thrown behind the bushes shortly before the two lions rediscovered them. When the faces with savage lust were already staring intently at him, the two of them immediately got up and ran as fast as they could. With Ferdi at the front, pulling Trisia's hand that glared in fear behind her.

Until a glimmer of light flashed at the end of the forest, Ferdi immediately pulled the girl's hand to jump out, arriving they were lying limp in a new, very unfamiliar place. While the two lions immediately stopped and even turned around after finding their prey was out of range, as if the place was taboo to step on.

“Hah... hah.. it looks like we... arkkh!” Ferdi groaned into pain with a severe wound that was on his right arm.

“It's very troublesome!” he continued, waking up by holding the blood coming out of his right arm.

While Trisia was still daydreaming with her eyes wide open, never blinking. Until Ferdi patted the girl on the shoulder with his hands full of blood.

“Hei! Why are you?” jerdi's chirps standing behind the girl sat down, propping up her limp body.

“Si-lion! That lion...!”

“Hah?”

“That lion... that ate mother...he ate my mother! Aaa!!” the girl shouted, no shame.

He clasped his disheveled head firmly by constantly staring down. His eyes that were still wide open, slowly let out tears with a rush. Ferdi himself is not out of thought with the condition of this girl, maybe the human world is a little different than the land of death that he knows.

Until in the end, he sat down next to the girl holding his right arm. Then he grabbed the girl's head and leaned on her body. For a moment, the girl sobbed in Ferdi's arms, still enduring the pain in his arms.

“Stop crying, man. This is not the Trisa who... is not the Trisia who is jutek!” ferdi said, a little entertaining effort.

But not at all in the slightest response.

“What…? Is it really that bad a memory?” he continued, staring blankly at the girl.

There was not a word from the girl's mouth, to at least answer Ferdi's words. Until he raised his face and started to calm down. Consciously the man beside her was already covered in blood and smiling towards her.

“Hoi! You are stupid! Your hands are full of blood like this, don't you feel any pain? You're a fool, yes!” said the girl while tearing off her cloth and wrapping the bloody wound of the man in front of her.

“Well, that's exactly what happened..”.

Ferdi just smiled to hide his regret, you know this girl is actually pretending or not. A moment there, the atmosphere suddenly felt a little awkward. Especially when he was wrapping wounds on Ferdi's body, it suddenly felt very embarrassing, even though he did not know each other.

“In your opinion... will the jutek be okay?” chirps Trisia, looking down with her red cheeks while tying the cloth bandage on Ferdi's arm.

“I think she'll be fine, she's Sina loo. Haha...” Laughing like his wounds never existed.

This man's laughter felt very warm. I thought he would be fine, even if the wounds were as severe as anything that would scratch his body. What would happen after Arlo came and took it back?

A little bit of reference, yeah.

Since it might not have been very clear before, Verles and Trisia were pure humans without any mixed blood, they were both purely human.

For that Fire Core, it actually came from Soul Of Dark over one's possession, but it was now taken over by Arlo. The story at another time.

To be clear, the land of death or the demon world was divided into 6 very large regions, one of which was certainly Soul Of Dark. Its territory was divided into large kingdoms located on the Northwest, North, East, South, Southeast, and West sides. With Soul Of Dark in the Southeast.

Power is divided as in general, the famous demon king. Only two kingdoms are led by two queens, which are Queen Alyla Bharat in the southeast and Queen*Filora Alice on the northwest side, then the rest are the mighty demon lords. The division of the region occurred because of the Cores that appeared in the land of death since time immemorial.

~Sekian**.