Astra slowly opened her eyes to the beating of drums and a chorus humming of people surrounding her. She tried to recall what happened last before she passed out and Adriel came to her mind. ‘That is right, I was with Adriel and the guard Claria, we went past the forest fighting the venomous apes and I used an aether blast to clear a way for us but I was bitten by a flying severed ape head. But where am I? We were in the canyon or something last I checked. What is that sound?’ Astra murmured to herself and tried to roll around but was met with a pain unlike she has ever felt in her life. As the pain surges from her arm, through her neck and all the way down her spine, she let out a loud grunt that made all of the persons humming around her to stop for a second, maintained the silence for a while before bursting into loud chants in a language she has never heard of before. With a fresh sweat breaking on her forehead, Astra turned her head and realized that she was bound hands and leg
Astra open her eyes once again and found herself in yet again another unfamiliar place. They have covered her entire hand in what looks like a green paste of plant leaves and stem. The first thing she noticed was that her pain has subsided to almost none. She could no longer feel the throbbing headache that was making her dizzy before and she could feel all of the fingers on her right arm, which were numb before. Immediately she stood up, the two men from before walked into the room and stood before her. She immediately took a fight stance that made the two of them immediately take some steps back and raised both hands with fists in position for blocking her attacks. Astra immediately stood back up properly and the two men started laughing hysterically at her, each of shaking his head and talking in a language she still has no idea what they are saying. They each put a bright smile on their faces and approached her with an arm in a gesture to show her that they were not there to hu
Some hours earlier, house Estelona’s five shadow assassins have crossed the desert and arrived at the forest, as usual they kept their caution and staying hidden in the shadows as they move, they followed Adriel’s location using their tracking device. Knowing fully well that Dula the barbarian is not the cooperative type of soldier, although they know fully well that he is very familiar with the abandoned plains of Centauri, they did not waste their time to wait for him and proceeded with their mission even without meeting him at the edge of the forest as they have agreed in the mountain ranges. “They are about to cross the forest into the great pyramidal plain. There is no sign of the barbarian so we will keep moving after the prince. There are numerous dangers in the forest including the venomous apes, stay sharp and hide as much of your presence as you can, let’s go!” the red reaper said as he warps into the shadows of the trees and surrounding plants. The five of them begin to m
“If that is the case, we need to chase after your friend immediately because the shadow assassins of the Estelona house would be catching up to his party very soon!” Dula said as they climb out of the cavern whose room Astra has blown off just a couple of minutes earlier. He pulled out a large horn from his dimensional ring and placed the slimmer tip of the horn in his mouth. With a long gasp of air, he blew the horn so loud that the entire forest echoed the sound of the horn. Dula placed the horn down and made some scribbling on the ground with a dagger and placed a burning torch near the place. “This is so my people will know what is going on. I have also given the elders the directives to start preparing for the day we will need to migrate when the time is ripe.” He said. Astra turned around and looked at him. “Ask them to harvest all the emerald crystals in the nest. There may be larger ones underneath the floor of the cavern as well. Ask them to dig well and pack as much of the
**(EARTH, HELION TOWER ON THE NORTH AMERICAN CIONTINENT)** Having failed to establish a connection with the Global human federation and failed to identify the leader of the humans, and disgracefully getting injured by the Carter and the emerald ghosts squad when he intruded into the presidential council meeting of the federation after using a very rare and expensive consumable artifact, Mammon has decided that there could not any further embarrassment and dishonor for the Agnus knights than that. He has already ordered the waking of the Rexa twins, who have been in the hibernation chamber since the arrival of the unit through the ring gate. The guards dragged Evor to the tower’s infantry, activated the neural helion puppet unit linker, a large pool of spinal fluid that lubricates the gears of a machine that even the empire’s finest researchers still have no idea how it works. With agonizing pain from the injection he was given before, the soldiers stripped him naked and threw him
“For many years we have feared now what will happen to the structure of the empire's power balance if we were to stand up against the tyranny of the Agnus house. Our forefathers have bent to the will of Agnus house all their lives because they so not have any other alternative to the power of helion that the Agnus house control and monopolize. But fellow kings of our proud empire, the time is ripe for us to change that tradition of disgrace and dishonor.” Skar said. Akaris stood up and pointed a finger at Skar with a facial expression that shows he is not swayed at all by the statement that Skar has just made. “Cut the patronizing act Skar, if the Tyra house gets the kind of opportunity and relics that the Agnus house got from the ancestral race, our houses would have been destroyed! So, I would appreciate it if you cut the condescension and just get straight to the point of why you have gathered us here today.” He said. “Calm down Akaris, not that I don’t understand what you are sa
Astra immediately sat down near Adriel and calmed her mind down, she activated her helion energy and placed her hands on his head. With a gentle tap, she strike him in the forehead twice and like a miracle, he woke up. She stood up and explained to him what was going on and went to where Claria was lying down unconscious on the floor. She did the same thing for her and woke her up, also explaining the situation to her. Adriel and Claria followed Astra’s orders and climbed the top of the tallest nearby tree just like Dula had initially explained to Astra before she woke the two of them up. Claria and Adriel have their distrust for Dula, but since Astra told them that he is on their side and helped a lot in both saving her and them from the assassins of the Estelona house, both of the chose to go with the flow for the time being. From the distance, a strong wind started blowing, causing a large sandstorm in the desert that Astra and the rest of her party can see even though they were
Frozen in place with surprise that the drake is talking to her, Astra stopped short with the attack she was about to launch on the drake. “This is not the first time an alien beast is talking to me through my mind, but still that does not change how surprising it is when it happens every time.” She said in her mind and the voice suddenly answered. “So this is not the first time you have conversed with an awakened. Then that means you can understand what I am saying. I will ask one last time girl, who are you and why do you have Jada’s aether essence all over you?” “Can he read my mind? But if that is so, he will not need to be asking me why I have her aether essence or whatever it is he is talking about. This means he can only read my current thoughts or something like that.” She thought. The drake was getting serious this time around and on its body, was about to attack her when she said, “Jada is my mother, she raised me and thought me all that I know as a person, who are you an