I watched as Grogvel started to glow a bright brown that was starting to pulse weirdly, but then I realized that it was in sync with my heart.
"What am I supposed to do now?" I asked the glowing rock man, and he laughed, but it didn't have any effect on me.
"Come and place your hand on my chest, and then we will enter into a binding agreement. After that is done, I will become your first Primal Earth Totem, and any Earth elemental Bonds you make will be held within my mark. If you had already made an Earth Bond, then that one would merge into me," Grogvel explained to me, and I nodded as I stepped forward.
I placed my hand on his pulsing chest, and the world around us faded away, and the two of us were left floating in space. I was shocked at first, and my mind started racing to check to make sure that I could breathe, but I didn't need to.
"What is your goal?" Grogvel asked me, but he no longer had a gravelly voice; instead, it was that of a young man.
I looked around, but I couldn't find the creature, but my mind was not working nearly as fast as it was. I could no longer track the creature's movements, so I pulled out my fire saber but left the Loose-Leaf Dagger.I was unsure about this creature, and fighting fire with fire seemed like a fine idea, but Hero didn't feel the same.<Are you a handicapped child with a shiny toy? How can you actually be that stupid? I told you that it breathes fire, and it's called a Hellcat. WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S MADE OUT OF?!>All right, smartypants, what do you, the all-knowing Hero, think I should do?<Use your bare hands and stop acting so stupid. It is painful to watch; just ask for advice if you don't know; stop making ridiculous assumptions! I have offered to help you; make use of it!>True, and I was going to die if I didn't start listening, and I could do fist fighting. So, I can't track him, but then how do I fight him? It's a him, right?
The flower girl had a very sparse grass dress if you could call it that. It didn't do a very good job of covering her up, and this is why I was getting yell at; better start things off a little better."Sorry, you are gorgeous, but I will try not to look at you, but you should cover yourself up if you don't want me to look," I said and turned away, but I was already trying to unsummon her.I didn't have time for this, and I needed to go to my next lesson with Wataluga."Okay, you can turn around now; I am covered. My name is Kali," the girl told me, and I did as told, but then slapped a hand over my face and shook my head.Kali was wearing a pink ski mask made out of flower petals, but she had done nothing to cover herself up."Listen, Kali, we need to get going, so I am going to have to unsummon you, for now, okay?" I asked the girl as she used her hands to cover her face more."But you just did the thing! Why do I have to go away? I could
I wasn't going to be able to finish if Wataluga kept this up."Come on, tough guy! I thought that you would be speedrunning the entire time!" Wataluga teased me, and I started to move faster, using my anger as fuel.I had started off fine; the Water Totem helped me find the easiest path for me to travel through the heavy water. Then Wataluga must have sensed that I was doing too well, and the pressure and roughness of the weather increased tenfold.Now I could barely walk, but I was jogging now and pushing myself to my limits. I had so many things that I needed to get done; that meant that failure was not an option."You can do it!" I heard Kali call out from the back of my mind, and that made me smile a bit, and I pushed forward."You just don't know how to quit, do you?" Wataluga asked after he condensed his body back to his standard water man form.I was panting, but I had completed the training without stopping after what had to have bee
I started to run, and every step felt easy, like I knew exactly where to step and how. It was relaxing, and I was able to focus on Hero and what would be considered the bigger picture.<The other ones like me are on different worlds, in different places; that part isn't easy to explain and is unnecessary. We all have the same goal, we raise up heroes or villains; whichever is the prevailer, but I am sure you can assume that not all gods are like me.>Oh, you mean that the other ones aren't as rude? Just kidding, I'm listening, and that makes sense; keep going; we are almost at Fireden.<Why do we do this? He told us that we needed to complete this task to move on, and He brought us here from the last worlds.>I slowed down as I got closer to the Fire Lake crater's edge, but just how many times have you done this?<four lifetimes ago, one point two billion ascended humans will become energy-based beings and then be offered a choice by
"Don't give up!"I dug my fingernails into my knees and shook my head, fighting through the dizziness and nausea. Kali's voice echoing from the back of my head had brought me back, but not the stress was fading, and so were all the feelings that it brought.I was finally able to sit back up straight and look back at Fireden, whose smile was set to crack his face in half. Now the Fire no longer bothered me, and I was able to sit in peace as I waited for the Fire Elemental to continue."Fire, Water, Earth, Air, these are the four that you have met, but there are three more. The Element of Life is Light, for where there is light, there can be life. The same is true for Death, the Element of Shadow. While some can survive without it, in a place where there is no light, there is no warmth, and nothing can survive. Basic information, I know, but these elements act in the same way as they behave, which is important to know when dealing with them," Fireden explained, an
What made a soul worthy? And what was a soul? Is mine worthy? All questions that I would not be asking this person called Time.I needed to think about this, and I caught myself before asking if there was a time limit. That would be just like me; get all prepared and then mess up without even thinking.Time would have no meaning to a person like this, so I should have as much as I need, but that didn't get me any closer to answering the question that I was asked. I needed to ask him a question, but there was only one thing that I really wanted to know after Hero had talked about the Dragon Nuts Booby-kai tournament, or whatever it was called."If I am chosen, and you deem my soul worthy, what is it all for?" I asked, trying to be specific, but not at the same time.Time was silent, and he did not speak right away. I was left to wonder if I might have offended him or something; considering he was called Time, I thought he might be a faster thinker.
Fireden's mark covered my right arm with flaming tribal lines that were red at first but then faded to black. While this was interesting, my mind was waiting to hear what Hero's response would be, but he wasn't talking.I looked down at my burnt shorts and then shook my head. There was no point in putting those back on, and I needed to get going.My talk with Fireden had lasted a lot longer than I had anticipated, and now the sun was starting to make its arch down. I kept both Water Totems active and then started to run.I no longer felt the heat or cold as things that affect my body. Instead, I could feel the heat and cold around me. I could sense monsters in the area, and I could make out some of them, like the green eyeless lizard things that were staying clear of me, but there was something more significant than the smaller creatures.Whatever it was, it was coming for me, and it was big. I decided that now would be an excellent time to pick up the pa
It was time to face the only one of the four that I considered an opponent. The other three had been my teachers, each one of them preparing me for this, and it was going to be a fight.Each time I had been getting better, but something about this time said he was going to be serious, and I couldn't see him anywhere. I didn't take out any of my weapons. Instead, I prepared myself and opened myself up to the area around me.I could feel him moving around me; Windorf was circling me, looking for an opening. I wasn't going to let him have it, and when he finally made his move, I was ready.Everything happened in slow motion as I turned and slapped the fist away and then drove my own fist into Windorf's solar plexus area.Windorf drove an open palm down onto my fist and pushed it to his stomach, where he absorbed the force and then jumped back, but I could read him now. I followed him, pulling my fist back as the two of us leaped in the air, and the moment th