Beyond The Unknowns

voice from the mountains

The mana allocation takes place for quite a while. And as the clustered mana particles breaks, his bodily functions starts to improve. The bloods in his blood vessel flows more smoothly, his heart starts to pump better, even his muscle tears starts to heal. With all his blood vessels unclogged a layer of mana gets released and coats his body. The surrounding mana gets denser and the whole area around him gets illuminated with mana particles. Fey who's around there could do nothing but stand still in astonishment.
"How could one radiate such strong radiation of mana particles? Is it even possible for one to do such?"
She exclaims as such with a change in her facial expressions which was on the side of being worried rather than being astonished.
And as zan continues with his mana allocation more and more mana particles gather around him. To the point that it felt like looking at sun directly with bare eyes. The sight of that was eye blinding. The bright light around him was so bright that it could be seen from the distant places. Species all around the world noticed the uncanny occurrence of the bright light and hence many began marching towards the light. And as zan finally finished his mana allocation, he opened his eyes which were glowing dark purple. Fey who was noticing from a distance looked at zan with a frightened expression. The scared and lifeless looks on her face depicted someone who has just seen death itself.
Upon seeing such frightened expression, he questions her why she is making such expression.
"Don't you have any idea why I'm looking as such?"
With an worried expression she replies..
Zan who has no idea why she was looking as such. Replies her with a confused expression...
"I really have no idea why you are looking as such. Infact for a moment of time while I was allocating mana it felt like I was lost in void full of stars and darkness. The sight of it was something I couldn't comprehend even if I wanted to"
Even fey who herself have done mana allocation in the past had never felt as such aforementioned by zan. During her moment of mana allocation all she could see was a familiar place filled with trees, shrubs and stuffs that she'd normally see. To the things which she had seen, she intuitively thought that the region of space in her thoughts indicated the nature of her mana. She previously had heard that mana allocation is different for different people. People with different mana nature had seen different places in their thoughts. And those places that they had seen usually indicated their mana nature. But she had never heard of anyone with such thoughts as of zan.
" You were emanating such bright radiance of mana particles that it felt like it'd blind my eyes just by looking at it. And the sheer amount of mana that you were radiating was truly terrifying. That's why I had that frightened expression. Do you get it now?"
Fey exclaims..
"I really had no idea about the things that were happening around me when I was performing mana allocation. I did feel a warm sensation and sense of healing at that time, but besides that I've got no idea about the things that happened around me."
Zan continues..
"Is that so? Then no wonder you couldn't tell why I had that kind of expression. But have I been forgetting something? Why does it feel like I'm forgetting something?
With a look that seemed like that of someone who's lost in their own thought.  Fey keeps on questioning herself. And then she suddenly realises that the bright light which she had seen was probably seen by others too and others must have been as curious as her and they'd be on their way towards them to find the source of light. And it wouldn't look good if they were seen there with all those commotion going around. So fey tells zan to hurry up and run. Zan who's still in the dark doesn't get why fey's trying to tell him to run without any reason, hesitates for a while. But as he trust her he starts to follow her. Fey leads zan out of that place. While on their escape zan asks
"Hmm... Why are we running again? Are the wolves chasing us again?"
"If only if it were as simple as only wolves chasing us"
She replies as such followed by a long sighhhhh~~~
"It's not only the wolves, but the whole world which have seen you emanate such bright light is chasing us. So just keep quiet and follow me if you don't want to die."
She replies with a worried expression.
Zan nods and quietly follows her without asking anymore questions. Without stopping they keep on running as if there's no tomorrow. After running for quite a while they stop at a place. The place feels ghostly-empty with nothing other than a vast sandy piece of land. Not even trees neither animals could be seen there. Even the only thing they could hear there was there own echo.
"How could there be such place in the jungle of giants?"
Fey questions...
"I thought that there would be no other person beside me who'd know jungle of giants as much as I can. But what is this place? In my years and years of exploration, I've never been to this place. I didn't hear about such place in jungle of giants."
Fey continues...
"Huh?? What do you mean that you don't know about this place? I thought that you lived around here and that you'd know everything about here. But even you don't know about this place?"
He questions...
"I had the same thought myself. I thought that I know everything about this place. Well not everything but still I was sure that I'd know about the way around here. But I seriously don't know about this place that we are in currently."
Fey replies...
"Then are we lost?"
Zan questions..
To that question fey couldn't answer anything with certainty. So she tells zan that it'd be better to keep on moving forward to see what this place is and hopefully by moving forward they'd find an exit. Zan agrees with fey and they march ahead. Even as they move forward they find nothing. With an empty sky and dimly lit sun, the atmosphere of that places feels very cold. Even the sand that should be able to absorb heat during the day feels as cold as snow itself. And the blowing wind which sounds like howls of the wolf make it more colder for them to walk. After walking quite a distance they come across a place with nothing but rocks. Even after coming to that place nothing seems to have changed. The environment is the same and the place is still ghostly-empty. But even so, they still continues to move forward. And after a while at a distance they see rocky mountains ahead. Seeing that they hurriedly rushes to there. But to their disappointment neither zan could climb it nor fey could fly over it. It felt as if the mountain range was simply impassable for anyone to actually pass over it.
Upon closer inspection fey finds out that the mountain is being protected by some kind of magic. A magic so mysterious and powerful that she couldn't comprehend even a bit of it. Hearing such zan gets disappointed. With a gloomy he expresses
"Is there really no way to pass over it? Do we have to look for other way? Do we need to go back again?"
"I'm not sure about it. Even though I can't comprehend it, there must be some way for us to pass over it again."
She exclaims...
"Then lets just look around and see if there's a way to pass it"
Zan replies..
And they start looking around. After inspecting for a while they still are clueless and find no any other way to pass it. And just when they both were on the verge of giving up, zan punches the mountain as hard as he can out of frustration. But that changes nothing and only his hands starts to bleed. Seeing such fey tells zan to stop acting rashly. And acting in such a way would change nothing. But just when she was scolding zan, they both hear a voice.
[Who are you? Why have you come here? This is not the place for likes of you to be at. Go away... ASAP..]
Upon hearing the voice they both get terrified. They look around and find nothing. Zan starts yelling out with stuttering voice "whoever it is, come out and show yourself. I'm not afraid of you. Only cowards talk behind the back. show yourself and speak."
[You must have guts to be speaking like that to me, you frail looking child. I could kill you right here right now before you could even blink.]
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