She was experiencing the feeling of being as light as a feather floating in the air for the second time since she came to the lands of the Holy Blood Sect, and the places where she was granted this were secret locations each time. This time she wasn't swaying in the void; although she felt she was moving very fast, this situation didn't create pressure on her, giving a feeling as if this was the most natural thing.
When she tried to open her eyes, the wind answered so harshly that she had to close them back immediately to protect her eyeballs, which hurt as if small cuts were formed. This continued for a while; Nafız, waiting thinking it would end any moment, forced herself and opened her eyes a bit when the situation didn't come to an end.
"What is this, where am I?"
Seeing the lands stretching as far as the eye could see in front of her, Nafız's eyes opened involuntarily, and she felt that the hitting wind no longer disturbed her. When she wanted to scout around by turning her head left and right, she saw she couldn't do this, but after a while, this happened without her wanting it.
"What is happening again; what have I fallen into like this?"
Although her first astonishment was due to the environment, the subject of the second was completely related to herself; the things Nafız saw when she turned her head were dragging her into this situation.
"I have wings and I am flying. I see but I cannot feel; it's as if I can only watch!"
This was exactly what was happening; although Nafız saw everything, she could neither feel her body nor control her movements. She was trapped in the body of an entity with a wingspan of meters; there was nothing she could do except examine the surroundings.
The giant entity was flying so high that the objects in its field of view looked tiny; it could see mountain ranges, vast forests, and long rivers all in a single picture. Then suddenly the entity focused on a certain point; Nafız's breath almost stopped because the image had zoomed in so much that she could see down to the smallest detail of the clothes of the people who opened their hands.
Together with the entity going into a dive, Nafız also approached the earth moment by moment; although she closed her eyes meters before they met the ground, the view when she opened them again was impressive. People who had closed their heads as if burying them in the soil were prostrated on the ground in front of it, and the winds created by the giant wings were licking over all of them.
When the entity landed on a rock at the top, it turned its gaze to the people near its feet; Nafız carefully examined these people she saw for the first time. In an incomprehensible way, she felt familiar with them; they had a familiar air.
"Great God of Orcs, Bürküt, welcome to our lands!"
When a woman stepping forward from among the people greeted the entity, the others bowed their heads to the ground once more, while the entity did not break its upright stance.
"Is your offering ready?"
A full voice came out vibrating from the entity's throat and echoed inside the wide clearing among the tall trees; while the trees leaned back from the intensity of the sound, the people couldn't lift their heads from the ground.
"We will do what we committed; we have prepared our share for the rebirth ceremony!"
When the woman finished speaking, four people in white emerging from the forest came up to the entity with calm steps and knelt there.
"God Bürküt, accept the soul of our sacred trees!"
People calling out in unison at the same time collapsed to the ground a breath later, but the white light rising from their bodies united in the air and proceeded towards the entity's chest. Nafız then saw the body covered with long feathers and the claws covered with sharp nails fixing it to the rock.
"Wings, claws, this is a bird, but how can it be so big?"
While she was thinking to herself, the giant entity took off again; rising to the sky in seconds, it started to advance. Nafız, watching what happened like a movie, finally understood who the people they were next to just a moment ago were; judging by the trees of life coming out of them, these people were none other than druids.
"The God of Orcs, Bürküt, is taking the power of life trees from druids. Those sacrificed didn't look like normal people either; it could be seen even with the naked eye that their life forces were higher than others!"
While thoughts slipped away from her mind like clouds passing in front of the blue sky, the landforms and vegetation began to change. The soil turned reddish; tree groups consisting of dense groves left their place to short vegetation.
"Wow, so this is how you look from a bird's eye view?"
Nafız immediately recognized this new place; when the giant entity turned its head to the right, there were ice-covered lands in its view, and while a part of the lake bordering there was frozen, the other part was burning fiercely. She saw the huge rift; there was no one on the Great Mountain and the lands of the tribe she was born in.
She couldn't see the trade cities either; when the entity took a tour over the continent and went into a landing, she didn't close her eyes this time. While descending to the ground with a mad speed, she engraved every moment into her brain; this was one of those moments where she could witness the might of a supreme entity called god by others.
A few meters before hitting the earth, the entity flapped its giant wings once, and the created wind allowed it to glide slightly in the air and land comfortably with its steel claws.
"God Bürküt!"
"God Bürküt!"
"God Bürküt!"
Green-colored and hulking creatures were shouting by opening their huge mouths to the end, while also beating their chests with their fists resembling the head of a war hammer.
"God Bürküt, you brought honor to our tribe!"
Someone surrounded by hulking orcs stepped forward and greeted the entity. This person was a head taller than the others; his appearance reminded Nafız of someone she knew very well.
"Orc Lord, have you prepared your offering?"
When the entity spoke, just like the druids did, the orcs also prostrated on the ground; only the Orc Lord could stand in front of the entity. The entity met this situation with calmness; grasping the emerald green crystal the size of a human extended by the Orc Lord with its claws, it started flying.
"This is him, the same one I saw before. The traitor is here, drop the crystal!"
Nafız was screaming at the top of her lungs, but since no sound came out, even she couldn't hear it. While the entity scanned the whole orc tribe, she focused only on one person. She was looking at the human standing at the very end of the row to the right of the Orc Lord.
"Scumbag, is it you again?"
When the entity mingled among the clouds, other scenes were passing through Nafız's mind. She saw the person who came to their tent after the great war, then what they experienced in the dungeon they entered on the Wild Swamp came to her mind.
After the conversation she had with the party led by an orc, she had sat with the man looking like a beggar standing aside. Meanwhile, she had seen the same person in the caravan belonging to the Orc Prince passing by, and now, fate was crossing their paths for the third time.
"God Bürküt, don't use that crystal. There is a traitor among the Orcs; don't fall into the trap of this traitor who will destroy everything!"
No matter how much she shouted, it was futile; Nafız, whose role here was only to watch, was struggling desperately. Even when the entity named Bürküt went into a dive again, she didn't shut up; saying maybe there is hope, she tried to reach him. The entity came to a rocky area and entered a hollow closed on three sides.
This place looked as if it was formed by carving out the inside of a mountain; although its dimensions became a bit smaller when its wings were closed, it was really necessary to hollow out the inside of a huge mountain for the entity to fit. After entering the hollow, the giant entity waited silently; tried to harmonize its own energy with nature's energy.
Days chased days; meanwhile, Nafız slowly started to first feel the entity's energy, then understand how it integrated with nature. She didn't know how much time passed; she had stopped counting the days a while ago, but when the entity opened its eyes, she also returned to the moment.