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Zephyr's started recalling his most memorable memory
"Son let's go. We gonna catch some fish today" A man says who's face can't be seen.
"Dear, lunch is ready. Call your father and little brother" A loving woman that filled his heart with warmth, the feeling he can't explain.
"Take this!! Hahaha now I can defeat you! ." A delicate voice he remembered deeply, a loving younger brother that he can't recall, yet the feeling of missing something is gawking in his heart.
' Why...am..I.... remembering... this now...' Zephyr look up yet the only thing he can see is end. Yet...
" If... only..I'm powerful... enough...maybe... this... won't... happen...." Zephyr still stood, wiping the blood tears with his remaining hand.
The defiance and burning desire are radiating on Zephyr's eyes like a divine sun.
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Deepest Part of the Freezing World, a fragment being that can't be explained by a mere word, is laughing maniacally.
"HAHA???HAHA, TH??E DE?S??PAIR, G??RIEF AND HOP???ELES????SNESS, BU??T S!TI???LL THE D?????FIANCE IN YOU?R EY??ES IS COMM???ENDA??BLE. A WORT???HY SE??ED TO BE NURT???URED, SHO???W ME MO??RE INTE???RES???TING STU???FF, HU????MAN??."
With a flick with it's finger. Countless eyes opened within the massive trees. With a blink of an eye, all of them bloated the whole sky and all the beings who got thrown to the whole trial got massacred.
Everyone, died just like that. They didn't even know how they died, just a dog death for everyone.
This is one of the horror that a being might experience, a death with a flick. A whim just to satisfy what the horror wanted.
The whole existence of being an insect infront of them, they just kept looking down. The hopeless endeavor everyone's trying to conquer. The Ascent for power, wealth and fame.
But... for other's it is just a whim.
This is the reality.
They just blown up for unknown reason, blood splattered everywhere but within seconds all those remains vanished just like a mist in a thin air.
Zephyr watched his final moments when suddenly the minotaur got blown up. He don't know what happened.
Suddenly the surroundings changed. He is now kneeling in front of a grandiose castle with massive spires surrounding it.
The architecture was so mesmerizing, the intricate designs carved, collosal columns, some images that depicted great secrets, the regal statues that are standing with different kind of weapons,and above all, the massive throne at the center.
The throne was made of material that absorbs light, so intricate that one can say that it is made of the hands of Gods.
So massive that it reaches to the sky, and in that throne... A being with countless maws
sat, together with it's crown, so regal, glorifying, malevolent and the same time the despair, carnage and horror one might feel infront of His presence.
Zephyr tried opening his eyes after knowing he got teleported, but within those seconds his eyes burst out, blood splattered everywhere.
No one must look upon to the being.
"H????... YOU G??OT SO??ME B???ALLS, I GI???VE Y??U TH???AT, B??UT O?NE M??T K??W T??T B?I?G WE??AK IS A ??N."
The pressure Zephyr felt was suffocating.
The hopelessness Zepy felt while facing the minotaur was replaced by dread.
The dread Zephyr felt just from standing in front of the being.
Ahhhhhhhhhggggg!!!!!" Zephyr screamed on top of his lungs, his voice echoed yet at the same time no voice can be heard. 'Whats.... happening... to.. me....?!, I don't...want.. to.. dieee.. yettt.... I need...to save my only brother. I need..revenge.....' these are the thoughts that circulating his mind again and again and again.
"HAH???AHAHA, DO Y??OU W??ANT REV???ENGE, HU???MAN? DO Y???OU WA??NT PO??WER? BUT THE QU????ESTIO?N IS... D?O YO??U HA??VE W??HAT IT TA??KES?.
'I.... Wanttt... Power....., I want.. power...!, I want....power!!, I..don't...care... If... I... diee.. just.. give.. it..to...me.!!!' Zephyr can't really speak now because of the dread but he can still think with his muddled mind
"H??H??H??HA, A?S Y??OU WI??SH." With a flick, a mysterious wisp flew and entered on Zephyr's forehead.
Zephyr don't know what happened after the mysterious wisp entered his body because after it entered his consciousness crumbled.
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" Arggghh!!!" Zephyr screamed, the feeling of having your head split into two is really hard to miss. "Hah.. hah.. hah.. where am I?"
Zephyr was shocked because his eyes that burst out, got restored! his hand that got mutilated is now completely new!! But the question still linger in his mind, what happened after he lost consciousness. He can't remember anything what happened.
Trials are mysterious, but it is widely known that every trial are remnants from the past.
Lucky ones who are chosen are put into trials, they are teleported to another world or maybe a remnants world, no one really knows...they will undergo challenges the trials given to them and if they are lucky enough, they live.
If not,then they will die. Just like that, it may sound cruel but that's the rule of the world. Strong live to tell the tale while weak are left behind to rot.
Looking left and right, he concluded that he survived on his first trial and now he is back to the real world.
He is really back to the real world. Zephyr can't believe it. He knows that he is bound to die but for unknown reason he survived.
He tried recalling that being, the one who helped him but to no avail. Really nothing... everything that happened feels like mirage.