《Chapter#8: Person》

  [Next Day phrase]

  We are standing in front of the river under a huge tree that has golden beautiful leafs. We didn't came this part of the river before.

  I was staring at the river and throwing some pebbles there time to time. There river is fully clean now. The water is not transparent,its kinda pink in colour buy the old man said its edible and safe.

  Old man came walking,

  "Just watch"

  Suddenly something happened and it felt like the area was loosing its colour and every colour got dimmed. It felt like a large shadow has wrapped the whole place. The old man held his hand infront of us and something like gas involved his hands. It was dark but strangely enough it was also glowing.

  We couldn't believe our site. Can darkness glow?. The very concept of glowing and darkness is opposite to eachother. But it was infront of us and we were looking at it. It was shapeless but it was beautiful as if it has its own dignity.

  "It's called shimmering Darkness and its my innate ability."

  It's astonishing. We were staring at that thing.

  Bota asked,

  "Is that why Sir Burza called you King of shimmering Darkness?"

  "Yes, it's the ranking. There are six ranking. They are Person,Knight,King,Saint and Emperor. 'Emperor' being the highest and 'Person' Being the lowest rank. Everyone starts with being a 'Person' than he advances with their progression on knowing and gaining better insight of his abilities and existence"

  "So you are already a King!!! Than you must be crazy strong right?", Stan asked.

  The old man just laughed.

  "To know and use your abilities you will start from being a person. Over time with progression your abilities will evolve and grow more and more."

  There is an excitement on our faces.

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  "Try to inhale the natural energy with your inner roots"

  We closed our eyes and focused our mind. We tried to inhale the natural energy. We could hear the nature, smell the nature and see the nature even though our eyes were closed. We slowly inhaled the energy.

  Suddenly Bota's body started to glow with purple light. Purple smoke was emmiting from his body. Then strange runes started surrounding Bota. They started going inside his brain and some runes started writing over Bota's head. There was a faint eco of inaudible noise. As if it was declaring the born of a new person to the full world. For some point it felt like the runes are understandable.

  "Person of Story,Narration and Fantasy",The old man said with a joyful smile.

  Yes. We could also somehow feel that this was the very thing written.

  Stan started laughing.

  "This fool he is so transparent. We didn't even need to dive deep to understand about his inner self. He is in and out both weeb"

  Suddenly some crowned frogs started popping out from the air. They had various musical instruments. They started singing.

  Bota opened his eyes. He said with a wide smile.

  "I can now live in my fantasies I guess"

  Then Stan started glowing with cyan colour light. Same thing happened for him. His runes were saying,

  "Person of Science,Math and Analysing"

  We burst into laughter again.

  Bota said,

  "Hahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahahha

  Now who talks about transparency. Nerd I could see it coming from miles away"

  Stan grabbed a pebble while his eyes were still closed and they it in the air. At that moment a bird was flying with a stick for some reason who knows what. The pebble hit the bird just when it was right over Bota's head. The bird being shocked let go of the stick and it felt on Bota's head.

  Stan opened his eyes and said with a smirk,

  "Perfect Calculation"

  I and Old man clapped for Stan

  "Nice performance boy"

  Stan bowed,

  "My pleasure "

  Old man looked at me.

  "It's your turn boy. Focus focus"

  I focused every bit of my consciousness in inhaling natural energy strange happened. I closed my eyes. I felt a voice whispering on my ears or more like spiritual ear. My body was glowing with brown light. Same thing happened like Stan and Bota. The runes over my head was saying,

  "Person of Journeys,Adventures and Pathfinders"

  It felt like I just understood something like I never knew. It was like a memory chip got inserted and I just know about so many informations now.

  My basic senses were better that before when I passed the Retsseg. But now, it's like every smell within a range can be differentiated. I could tell that where a thing was without even opening my eyes. I could smell that. Also I can hear more louder. I can tell that where three persons are standing, because I could hear their heartbeats. Also I can differentiate them. By their smells. There were two familiar smells and one distant. Must be Bota, Stan and the old man.

  I opened my eyes.

  "Nothing too crazy or presentable like you guys. Just feels like I got super senses"

  The old man chuckled.

  "That's the most important trait of a Adventurer who is still Alive in this Real World."

  (...)

  We didn't even try using abilities second time. It was so exhausting like we ran for hours and lacking a breather.

  We had some boiled water with some herbs made by the old man. We felt refreshing.

  "Everything has a cost and every positivity has a side effect. Simply we have abilities but we also have side effects that can diminish us."

  (It is kind of scary. What type of side effect old man talking about?)

  There was tension that can be seen on our faces.

  "Every one has inate abilities. They also have one other thing that is inate desire. It steams from the sleeping corruption of our existence. If someone evoke his inate abilities the seal that holds the corruption gets loosened. If the person don't get hold of his inate desire he will gey corrupted and turn into a wretched being. Like the disaster you guys seen before"

  "So we can turn into a disgusting creature like that thing someday" I asked.

  "Only if you give in to your inate desires" the old man said.

  "But how do you know about our inate desire?" Stan asked

  "You will get closer to you subconscious self when you will be sleeping. You will get your existential information that you unlocked through your dreams."

  "So sleeping is the way?" I asked

  "Yes, So sleep now and rest. So that you can know and about your inate desire"

  We did as the old man and went to sleep hoping for the best.