"This wasn't the victory... It was a signal of final battle."
"The final battle, the piece of Mystery,
The purpose of journey will they be able to uncover?"
What was Gaja hiding and why he wanted to come?
Up until now they have encountered many challenges, but thanks to Limbo and their teamwork they overcome every obstacles.
Let's see what are they doing...
The smoke from the earlier fight slowly fade, leaving behind destruction, stone pillars and iron dust.
They found a safe place near the ruins.
A small moment of peace in the chaos they finally get.
Grrrrr....
The sound of hungry stomach broke the silence.
"I'm hungry... I want food..."
"Hey, how long I have to wait?" Limbo asked.
"If you give hand instead of ordering, it will be prepared sooner than you expect." Rin replied.
"Is there anything that I can help with?" Gaja asked. "Something that I can do?"
"You need to recover your energy and we'll have to talk." Limbo replied, he gave a strange look to Gaja. Gaja didn't say anything just nodded.
Rin finished her cooking, and first serve Limbo which he gave to Gaja, later they both takes for themselves. After a tough and chaotic battle this food is feels like a nector, gaja and Limbo takes more.
Soon they finished their food and cleaned everything.
"Now, let's start speaking..." They said in sync. Limbo and Rin both wanted the answer.
Why are these beasts targeted Gaja? Also why Gaja is acts strange when he comes in contact with something that supposed to be dangerous.
Gaja takes a deep breath, aahhh hoooo...
And began to speak.
"This all begins when I meet one of my old friend," he said finally.
His name was 'Maha'. We both known each other for about four years.
His father was an adventurer, who often visit some adventurer, they returned from strange places with various different stories.
Some of them include the dangerous places.
Rin titled her head. "Go on."
He visited, a day earlier to them with his father.
Next day we plan to meet near towns edge where we usually hangout.
"Hey Maha! any new news."
"No, eveything this as always, same old as old." Maha said.
"What about you..."
"Huh, me?"
"I went to see my uncle, and you won't believe me. There, I was amazed by a marvelous daggers. I was stunned, it was feeling like they where calling me...
"Really?" Maha asked.
"He...hehee," Gaja replied with laugh.
"I can see that," Maha said, he saw expression on Gaja's face.
And you know what, uncle gave that twin daggers to me.
See here, they are.
Aren't they amazing and sharp.
"He said it was only made for the right person to weild and that's me.."
Gaja nose stretch..
Huh!..,
On the topic of dagger, I heard from my adventurer uncle that there's a cave In the jungle, some where around East of the forest... And they're they saw a a magic sword and many bunch of items.
"Magic... Sword!" What did you say. "I wanna see... Do they have it?" Gaja asked eyes full of Sparks, and desire to see.
"No." Maha rejected quickly.
"They didn't take that sword and didn't mention after that."
What?
"But why?" Gaja yelled.
"How should I know?" Maha said.
Gaja didn't say anything, he remain silent.
After they spend some time, talked about here and there, and when it was a time of the sunset they part ways towards their homes.
Before Maha leave I asked him about the location once again.
"Hey, Maha! Which forest did you say?"
"East." Are you planning to go? Maha Asked.
"Are you kidding me?" Gaja said while avoiding eye contact and with small laugh, "Who in their right mind will go to some dangerous place alone."
With that we part away and went out homes. "But that night I couldn't sleep.
The thought of that sword."
"I mean that cave, keep coming in mind."
After long thought I made my mind, and decide to go look for that sword."
He spoke slowly recalling each memory.
The next day I planned to go but, i wasn't able to go. Mother already had decided something for me.
"But, how can I give up that easily?"
So... I went alone.
The forest was quite that morning. The mist hung low, and the deeper I walked, the more I felt something watching me.
After some efforts I have finally reached the cave.
The cave was quite... too quite actually.
The air was thick with blue mist. When I stepped inside I saw symbols on the walls, glowing faintly, just like the marks you see on my arm.
Limbo's eyes sharpened. "What happened inside?"
I found a stone alter. On it... Lay a sword. Silver, faintly emitting aura and surrounded by mist. I reduce the gap between us.
When I touched the handle, something moved inside my head."
He closed his eyes, his breathing was steady but shallow. "I felt like someone or something maybe watching me."
And I heard a strange voice it said, 'The
Key is chosen.'
Rin's tightened her arms one on another. "That's... What started it?"
When I woke up, the sword was gone.
And I was lying outside the cave, I was covered in dirt and faint burnmarks. After that day, as you know, things started to changed.
"I started to hearing strange whispering voices. And you know what sometimes... I see flashes of places I've never been."
The camp felt silent.
Only the faint crackle of fire remained.
Limbo listened quietly without a word. He opened his console, fingers hovering in the air.
Run system.scan(subject.Gaja)
[ Corrupted Data Detected.
Signature match: 41% ]
He tightened his teeth. So the what happened to you that day ...
Probably was they choose you tobe their vessel.
"What?" Rin looked shocked. "You mean..?"
"He's a beast now."
"No, maybe they choose to corrupt him or used his body." Limbo explains, "maybe he's connected with link, like a bridge between them."
Gaja faces expression darken.
"When I touched that place... I think something touched me back."
Suddenly, Limbo's system flicked again.
The glowing lines on the console shifted rapidly.
[ unknown presence detected ]
[ Distance: 1.3km approaching ]
The ground trembled faintly. Rin looked up, "it's coming from the east."
Limbo fixed his eyes on the that direction.
"Then the final sequence has already begun."