Chapter 1: Alué
I grew up in a small coastal town located in the southern part of the Ishtar empire.
I spent most of my childhood with my father, a man linked to the sea, in love with the waves and the boats.
Long hours he spent in between tides, sometimes he did not return until very late at night, on some occasions with fish to eat, others with other types of beings from which he dissected and extracted different liquids and tissues.
I watched him in silence, sometimes playing my guitar, which helped him concentrate. Sometimes he took the time to satisfy my curiosity by naming the parts and procedures that he executed, it was for my own benefit, he said, while hiding his enthusiasm for sharing his knowledge.
I used to go out early in the morning, Leaving a fire burning and food on the table, I spent my days reading internal cultivation books, I sometimes wasted hours trapped watching the fire, reading imaginary letters, subtle forms of communication, and the like in its movements.
As I matured, I let myself be absorbed more and more by my mother’s notes, a student of nature, a lover of life, adventure and the sea, she was a free woman, she used to come home intermittently and for me It was customary to see her little, in the same way I accepted her and loved her in the same way as my father
At the age of 15, my father gave me a rowing boat, built by himself, and my mother a black leather bag, with a compass and other navigation tools, as well as giving me a special farming technique and taking me to the Wise Ancestral* nearest, in order to check my energy channels.
With these tools I have ventured to the islands closest to my area, coming face to face with wild creatures and all kinds of plants.
Ancestral Sage: she would be an old woman with vast knowledge that has overcome the barrier of old age, an old woman is considered an ancestral sage when she has lived more than 150 years.
NOWADAYS
While I was doing my favorite activity (author’s note: in case you have any doubts, what activity Alué was doing was cultivating his spiritual energy) my father entered my room, pulling the veil that separated it from the dining room.
-Man, I’m 20, you don’t know that you can see something you don’t want to see, you should be more careful huh- I said wanting to bother him as I used to do
-Come - he told me roughly, leaving the place
I got up and followed him to the door where I found him preparing his things.
- Are you sailing again? Man, you should wait for mom to come back before that, we haven’t seen her in a while, don’t you think she’d feel bad if you’re not there when she gets here?
-It is precisely that Alué– he said without turning around – I must go for your mother, we should have received news from her 3 or 4 days ago, something probably happened that has not allowed her to communicate and if it is something bad this man will not be able to look at her inside yourself and feel calm if you do nothing about it
-Let me come with you –I asked him as he put on his waterproof boots – I can go quickly for the essentials to get out as soon as possible
-Follow me if you want, this time we’ll go on the medium ship – he answered, turning around – hurry up before it’s too late.
While saying that I already found myself in my room gathering the most essential things, after a few minutes I went out to follow my father, who was carrying supplies to our medium-sized ship called “Esmeralda”.
After loading everything necessary and having warmed up the engines, I lifted the ship’s moorings and we began the trip.
Once in deep waters, between the clouds the moon showed itself and the reflection of its brilliance illuminated my face. I turned to see my father, his expressions between concern and hope denoted his love for my mother, when he noticed that she was watching him, he signaled me to enter the cabin.
-Son, this is our last stop, there is something important to do in this place before paying attention to it - he commented to me calmly and casually, he even became a little suspicious, but decided not to pay so much attention.
- And… what would that be? – He knew very well how curious this son of his was, scrutinizing the information was as natural as breathing for me.
-Dear son, your curiosity is a great virtue, try not to abuse it, remember that even the most powerful medicine can become the worst of poisons if you don’t dose it - sometimes he had those outlets, in order to divert My attention to the important thing – when we get to the island we won’t be able to get to the shore in “Esmeralda”, I need you to take this suitcase and the things we brought and transfer them to the boat before we get off.
I got ready to prepare things and after a while we got as close as we could to the island, as it was night it was hard for me to identify which island it was, since I knew most of the nearby islands, but this did not seem familiar. for me
After getting off in the small boat we approached the island when we reached the shore my father asked me to collect what was necessary to start a fire and make a camp, so what we came here to do we will do tomorrow, even so we were both worried for mom, after dividing the roles I got ready to make a fire and went out to collect dry branches, it took me almost half an hour, it was a lousy hour to look for branches, everything was damp, we will have to start this fire with the solar brazier for it to light with desire
When I got back to the shore I laughed ironically, this father of mine was really a troll... in the distance I saw how he was leaving in the boat and not even the small boat had left to return home. Did his actions make any sense? While I was asking myself this question, I noticed a letter held from the wind by a stone fluttering trying to fly.
“Son, for reasons that you will understand with the passage of time I had to take this course of action, I have put you and your mother in great danger and now it is up to me to exchange my luck with yours, in order to ward off evil from you. , your mother was never bad, she sent me letters periodically, I’m sorry that I resorted to such tricks with you, you are a very cunning and clever boy, if you found out my intentions, you probably would have opposed the will of this father of yours! think of this as a give and take, you are in an area rich in spiritual energy, the aether of this island is different from that of our home, which will allow you to stabilize your cultivation and become much stronger than you could become in 10 lives.
Now I will explain why I brought you to this place, the most important thing on this island is the “Orbis”, to understand what the Orbis is, I must have dedicated myself to writing several books, you know that writing is more given to your mother than to me, but in a few words the Orbis is a “Door”, this door guards a domain in which there is arcane technology, this arcane technology is still in operation and is extremely powerful and dangerous, it cannot fall It is not in the possession of people with a bad heart, nor can people who endanger the balance of the world enter, as useful information, I have been guarding this “Door” for a long time, it is of great importance to me, my son, that you take care of this door in the same way as me, for this mission you will have to develop your abilities to a higher level than the current one,I know that I am asking a lot of you and that this is too sorry, but this “Orbis” is not the only gate that exists, in fact, some of the gates that are found around the world have been desecrated and arcane technology has been looted, Simply put, this could spiral out of control and slowly morph into an international war or worse, an interplanetary one.
As I went from word to word my heart raced and confusion seized me. Had they kept that from me all these years? Something so cool? ... This father of mine sure knows how to make me angry
“Look for Elkion, he should be on the island guarding the Orbis, most likely he will find you first, just don’t be so surprised when he talks to you, that would be offensive to him.”
“PS: Elkion is a fox”
“PS2: that suitcase contains some last gifts for you, I hope you accept them and if we meet again, I would like you not to put anger in your heart and find forgiveness for this father of yours, I love you
Sahir.”
I leaned back on a trunk that was drying at the entrance to the forest and contemplated the night, the gentler nearby waves that danced on the shore, the moon that was peeking through the clouds, between this beauty clarity came to me and I understood that the The expression my father wore on his face was not because of my mother, but because of me. She would have all night to read what he had read. Damn! The greed of the human being has endangered his entire species, a sorrow flooded my body, but I did not get drunk on it and instead I began to prepare a small camp, to my luck all the things that my father had loaded were provisions , useful and survival tools for excursions, so you will not have problems to survive, after preparing a spot (author’s note:
The next morning I woke up to a cold wind that caressed my face, after remembering my father’s letter, I moaned and cursed my laziness, but not before recovering my willpower, I stood up, decided to explore the island and find someone. Elkion, so after taking some supplies and hunting tools I went into the forest
As I was advancing through the forest I was startled by a hare that came out of nowhere and disappeared in a heartbeat, dropping some leaves near my path, I took my sling from my bag with some pebbles, if I found another opportunity like this, it would not be so bad. foolish enough to let it escape, while I was preparing my sling another figure came out of the bushes and followed the hare, I couldn’t quite tell that it was because of the speed at which it appeared, but if such a creature were to attack me, I would be in deep trouble. I have to find Elkion soon and start farming!
With that thought hanging around my head I kept going until I came to a big apple tree, I walked close to it and as I tried to take a fruit, a snake approached and quickly sank its fangs into my wrist.
-AHHHHH - I yelled grumpily - Stupid! How dare you bite me? Can’t you see that the tree is full of apples?
To my surprise, the snake stared at me and opened its jaws showing me its fangs, without a doubt it was intimidating me, this was its territory and I was nothing more than an intruder, I began to feel dizzy, the damn thing was poisonous and I He had injected a good dose of his poison
As I walked away from their territory, I checked the bite, which immediately changed color, ripped the bottom front of my shirt and applied a tourniquet with the fabric with what little force I had. Staying on my feet became a difficult task, I looked to the side and saw a blurry animal figure
Shit! …little by little my consciousness faded away, probably the snake will feed on me c once I kicked the bucket (author’s note: to kick the bucket is to die) life slowly left my body
-I’m sorry dad, this son of yours was not able to….
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