Move !, you filth, else I would whip you one more time, the guards voice came again accompanied with his menacing look, as a boy of 17 dragged his foot along with the chains, you're lucky you have been assigned to do the searching if not you wouldn't have seen the light of the day in your life again , the guards said pushing mugan along with the rest of the slaves.
Mugan not more that 5ft , looking frail , with his tattered clothes and sunked in eyes, dragged his foot along with the chain that rattled at every step, this has been his life since birth, slaving at the hands of the kora entire, he had always been at the prison working as a slave in charge of clearing the offenders corpes, but suddenly all changed when, they were given new orders to travel into the kora's holy forest to get an item, according to the rumour he has heard the item was called a seeker's eyes, which has suddenly appeared 10 nights ago, but no warrior or cultivator was yet to get the item.
Stop all of you, the guards said after 2 hours of travelling by foot to the holy forest without food or water, whoever retrieves the seeker's eyes would be set free from being a slave, the guards said, that's the emperor's orders, you all have a month to return to back to this point if not , the decree would be reversed.
That is if anyone of you are able to survive, he said laughing wickedly as he stared at the 150 slaves , he pulled out a box of keys and asked the other guards to step forward as he released them. we were given a map that would lead us towards the location of the seeker's eye.
Mugan felt the chains at his feet unclip,he had lived with them on for years, that it felt weird not having them around anymore, off you go beggars!, the guards said pushing them into the forest.
Set up the seal, the head guard said to the other guards, lest anyone one of them foolishly tries to escape or come out before the end of the one month.
I walked into the forest, with my feets walking properly without restriction for the first time, and I paused to look at the sun, something I had never seen before, as I had worked all my life in the prison, the breif feeling of freedom almost bringing me to tears.
They were a lot of other slaves walking besides me, and the mission at hand was a competitive one that required I separated myself from the rest, slaves were never allowed to interact with each other, so I practically knew no one .
The forest looked ordinary with only lush leaves and tall trees filled with animals that hopped from place to place, the sky was soon about to darken and I had to find a place to stay , I separated myself from the rest as I found a cave in the forest to stay, I was hungry as we missed out the food usually served to us once everyday.
I was also thirsty but was also lucky to find a stream to drink from, for the first time I had also drank water to the amount I desired till I couldn't take any in again.
I didn't know when I slept off, till I heard a piercing scream that jotted me up from myself echo with in the forest, and soon more scream followed, I stood up running, as only someone folish would think of searching for the source or cause of the scream, I ran deeper into the holy forest till I sighted what sent chills down my body, a mountain lion, not more than 12 ft tall , with multi coloured fur, was attacking everyone, using it claws to rip them apart, his blood shot eyes, looking at the rest of it's prey.
I continued running not minding the hunger anymore since I needed to survive, according to the little information I had gotten from reading it was a level 3 forest beast, something someone like me that hadn't cultivated for a single day wouldn't be able to handle, they practically sent us to our own deaths.
I heaved as I ran into the forest,with the rest of the slaves that was running, I didn't even want to look back lest I stumbled nor fall, as the screams still continued, I felt blood fall on me, ripped flesh falling onto my face, I still didn't stop to find out where it came from.
I ran till I couldn't again as my legs finally gave out, my knees harshingly stumbling on the hard ground, as it immediately started bleeding, sitting down as I looked at it, with began to stung under seconds, I hissed as I tore my clothes or more to say raggs, and tied it on my knees.
I dragged myself till I found a tree to lay my head on, as I breathed in and out, I had been punished and bullied by the guards back at the prison but I have never felt the kind of fear I felt minutes ago, it was late as the moon was the only thing that illuminated the night, as I soon slept off.
Beneath the tree mugan rested his head on, laid a box that was buried and forgotten, the scroll inside the box stirred like a breathing matter, perceiving the scent of blood, the holy forest was known to have hidden treasures and unhidden ones , just like the seeker's eyes that had unveiled itself, some choose not to.
The cosmic scroll which had been buried for thousands of years , stirred for the first time, as the scent of youthful blood awakened it, and with a powerful outburst , it dug itself from the ground, the box opened and the scroll came out floating in the air before seeing the blood of whom that managed to wake it up.
A young boy, interesting the scroll's spirit guide soloquized to it self, it disappeared into mugan's body, distributing it's energy to various parts of mugan's body, as if doing a physical examination,
Low level spirit force
Low level energy source
But high bloodline domain
What an interesting fellow it said, as it counted out the results of it's search , as it stared at mugan, I would stay with you and find out if you deserve's to be master's successor it said before going back in to mugan's body leaving no trace of it's existence.
A blue glow flowed around mugan's body, as a star sign appeared on his head, just right next to his left eye, his body floating in the air as different spirit and energy source flowed onto his body before settling down, his wounds healing without his knowledge, as he continued to sleep softly without knowing what had occured.