The White Chronicle

Chapter 4 - Family

"Firstly, I don't appreciate how you force me into this. Why don't you bring the others with us?" as Jasmine stares Juan. She feels like this whole thing is a big joke – being dragged from one place to another. She refuses to enter further to the dead tree "I demand answer Juan"

Juan just laughs and proceed to the hallow trunk of the dead tree. "You have no choice Chronicler. Either you stay here in the wilderness or join me." Jasmine realized he is right and reluctantly follows Juan to the depths.

Juan winks at Jasmine. "I will explain my dear, being one of the first guardians born from your ritual; it is my duty to explain everything to you."

As they walk the further to the underground, Juan explains to Jasmine that he was always at the tree. Jasmine argues that Juan was cheating. Juan replies he didn't cheat; he was just using his frogs as proxy. "This is the real Juan walking with the Chronicler towards the depth, no tricks here".

Juan uses is magic to summon fireflies to illuminate their path as they walk. Jasmine asked Juan why didn't he include the other guardians and Juan replied that Leshin won't allow them to go here. The underworld is supposed to be off-limits to the living and entering it might upset the balance. "He is kind old school you know? Plus I stopped time so we can venture the underworld without any intervention from the other guardians and I need you to record any information we got when we return to the inn" Juan retorts.

"Plus time travels differently here at the underworld. We might spend one day here, and returned to the surface 30 cycles later. There was times one time when I visited the underworld and I spent like 30 minutes here and returned at the surface two days later. I dunno, time is weird here. . . . That's why I used this!"

Juan points to his pocket and reveals an hourglass. Jasmine sees this hourglass is tainted with gold linings on its silver surface and no sand inside it. "Weird isn't it? I got it from a Djinn merchant"

"Allows me to stop time when I focus my magic in it" then Juan proceed to point out the green magic in it.

As they walked further, Jasmine tells Juan that she was unsure about this, wouldn't they die if they went to the underworld? "Of course not! I am a guardian and you are the Chronicler. We are exclusive to the rule. "Juan says as he proudly says with confidence.

"I've been there a lot of times from different continents! All of the continents, from the Antrian and all the way to the other side of the world"

Jasmine then remembers hearing the name of this world she is in. She asked what this world Antrian is.

"Pay attention to the magic I project while we walk" Juan claps his hands and a glow of light illuminates and from that magic showed an illusion of the world map to Jasmine. Juan explains there are 7 continents of this world:

Antrian, a place where creatures of different size and origins come together to build a place for them to live. This where Jasmine landed, Antrian. Lush forest and green hills and seen. A lot of food and spices are found here and the ocean is located to the east. A land of color and beauty, this is the simple definition of Antrian. In the western edge of the Antrian is an old mountain border that was made to protect this land against the invasion of the lizard people. Little is known about and why the invasion happened but they used to rule the world and originated from the Ruks-Bel Lands.

To the west of Antrian, the Ruks-Bel Lands are located. A place where creatures like Jasmine lived there, human like beings but they are taller and have white and pale complexion, bush brows, and large built with red hair. There are savage creatures living there, like giant scaly creatures that breathe fire called dragons – descendant of the old lizard race that almost destroy this world long ago. Some are large, some with wings, and some don't. There are also elves there but they deal only with elves and think lowly of other races and creatures.