The Arcane Book

Chapter 6: Her Voice

We had a lot of questions for Sai like what the enemies of the protagonists were like, what were the goals of the antagonists? Sai couldn't answer our questions because like he said, he could only see the past actions of the protagonist and the only one who failed was Xena because her enemy was the love of her life, her husband.

We also asked why he was strong. He's already 62 years old yet he knew how to fight. He told us that one of his powers was having a strong, and healthy body. He can get tired sometimes, though. He also told us that his metallic arm would sometimes ache from punches after fights. He told us that he would only fight when it's needed.

I also asked Dionne how they knew that their world is inside a book; how she knew that the goddess chose me. I also asked how she knew about the goddess granting our wishes after we've done our part for the world. She answered that she knew from the goddess herself when they talked sometime inside her mind. The goddess would visit Dionne once every three months through talking with her telepathically.

"Let's start the plan here, and now." Sai suddenly spoke, breaking me from my thoughts and we all looked at him.

"I will explain how we are going to enter the tower. Since Dionne already used the stone to teleport here, we need to find the stone that teleports right inside the room of the Song of Healing near the place where Dionne sings," he added and we all nodded at him as our answer.

"So there are two stones? Where can we find the second stone," Klein asked and Sai got his book where the history of this world was listed down. He opened the last part of the book and it showed the map of the world.

In this map, we could see clearly how the wall would form a big circle surrounding the tower. Outside the walls were different towns that exists in this world. It also showed forests near other towns.

Each of the towns and forests had their name written below. There was one forest encircled, which is named Juraika. Sai said that this was the forest where we are now inside the wall. In this forest, Sai also said that the old house of Xena still existed here even before the wall was created.

"Xena didn't succeed that's why she was made as the Stone of the Wind by her husband. I don't know the reason why she became a stone but the goddess told me that I also had to protect it because it might be used one day. Maybe now's the time we use it," Sai said as he circled another forest which is a bit far from his house.

The forest that Sai circled was named "Forest of Grief." Sai told us that in this forest, we would hear the voice of Xena calling her husband. She would be also heard crying once in a while, as if she had done something she regretted.

That sent shivers going throughout my body. She sounded like a ghost! Well... maybe she is?

"What is the use of the Stone of the Wind," I asked, shaking my head to forget the sary thought and Sai answered me.

"It has the power to take us to the tower itself, but only at the middlemost part of the tower. If we arrive there, it would already take us a week for us to reach the top," he said and sighed when I realized that the task is more difficult than it seemed.

"We're going in the Forest of Grief tomorrow," Dionne asked and Sai nodded at her as his answer.

"Yes, but before that, we will go to Kixz Xibmp," Sai added and he circled another part of the map which is in the middle of Sai's house, and the Forest of Grief. "In English, we call this land 'Calm Lands.'" Sai said finally and we all looked at him.

It sounded like the world in Final Fantasy X wherein Tidus and Yuna started becoming tired of battling against Yevon. Calm Lands was a place in Final Fantasy X wherein summoners battled Sin, their archenemy.