Elric had a mixed reaction from the Elder’s words.
While he does feel confident that he can take on the Shadow Warriors and even if he has to face Kahayag again, there is still this certain feeling of uneasiness with him.
"I know that. That is why I ca here thinking that you might offer so pointers."
"What you did is indeed the right choice." The Head Elder said as he smiled confidently before standing up and walked towards the wall behind him.
He smiled calmly to the rest of the Elders and as if understanding his intention, they all stood up and left the room without any hesitation, leaving only Elric and the Head Elder behind.
Then a mont later, the plain white wall suddenly moved and revealed a passage to a certain brighter area. Curious Elric walked closer to the newly opened passage just before the Head Elder.
By the ti Elric arrived what he saw inside gave him an unexpected shock and amazent.
Inside the small passageway revealed a vast area that stretches to an unknown horizon. He could see weird looking plants of various sizes, mysterious gigantic animals that looked liked winged whales are moving across the yellowish skies, there are different bodies of waters and mountains.
The only question that Elric has is how did such a vast space can fit inside the Guardian Aircraft that is not even wider than two hundred ters in radius?
"What is this place?" Elric mumbled his question while his eyes remained puzzled and in awe at the sa ti.
"It is my offer. A dinsional portal to another realm." The Head Elder said with a confident smile.
Elric, now bound with curiosity, raised his hand and touched the space inside the passage only to feel like as if he was being pulled in.
Seeing this, the Head Elder’s eye revealed an unexpected shock. As if it was his first ti seeing it.
"But just to let you in on the bigger picture on my offer, I just want to ask. Do you ever feel like everything that is happening so far in your life has been under the influence of soone aside from you? As if there is soone pulling the strings from the dark?" The Elder asked after calming himself as if nothing happened.
Hearing the question, Elric gazed at the Head Elder with an interesting look.
"I already know who is behind it," Elric replied with a cold expression in his eyes. Every ti he rembers about Kahayag and the Great Seer Mhata, he could not help but feel an intense surge of resentnt and curiosity.
"Is it perhaps an Elental with a foretelling ability?" The Head Guardian asked with his deduction. Elric nodded in reply as confirmation.
"So that explains all of my unknown variables..." The Head Guardian said with sudden enlightennt in his eyes.
And as if having a sudden information breakthrough, he swiftly sat down and crossed his legs before closing his eyes with unfathomable focus.
"Please excuse for the next 30 seconds."
The Guardian said as his head started to glow. Elric was taken aback at the sudden brightness of the Head Guardian’s head.
Woooooong~
In the next mont, holographic images of numbers, lines, mathematical figures, and symbols of unknown variety whizzed out of the Head Guardian’s temple. His eyes were closed but Elric could see the eyeball moving rapidly inside the lids, while his glowing head continued to project the complex holographic rendering before him- it was their so-called ’calculating’.
~Whooosh~
~Wiiing~
~Whooosh~
~whooosh~
Elric watched as the numbers and symbols flickered into different values and presentation.
The holographic lines created graphics, percentages, nurical values that were unbelievably long and hard to follow. Everything dashes, flicker, disappear and reappear sowhere at a pace more than Elric could keep up.
Before Elric is a being capable of defeating all the supercomputers in the world when it cos to extrely complex calculations and processes.
For so reason, Elric had the urge to touch the tall man before him but he resisted the idea. Who knows it might result in a ntal backlash as the man before he seems to be completely imrsed in his calculation.
Ten seconds later, the rapid eye movent inside the lids hasten. Bluish blood started to fall out of their small nostrils, mouth, and even in their ears. The head-on the other hand started to emit hot steam as if a boiling pot of water.
However, despite all the painful moan and sight, the Head Elder pushed on.
Exactly 30 seconds later, the so-called calculation finished.
The nurical values finally stopped moving and a highlighted number floated in bold before the Head Guardian’s face.
The nurical value is one hundred percent.
"Ten thousand and five hundred sixty-three years." The Head Guardian suddenly said as his eyes finally opened.
The mont Elric saw the eyes, he was shocked to see the extre bloodshot and the pale white pace almost reaching a ghastly level.
Keeping his composure, Elric asked, "What do you an about the ten-thousand-"
"If you enter the dinsional realm before you, you will have an exact ten thousand and five hundred sixty-three years to train before you reach one hundred percent complete control of the Ancestral Black Dragon essence."
The Head Guardian said while gasping in complete exhaustion.
"That long!? Am I even alive after that such ti?" Elric replied with a stupefied face.
"It is possible if you get inside the Kaora’s realm." replied the Head Guardian as he finally stood up while wiping the bluish blood with a subtle wave of his hand, leaving no traces even from a single drop.
"Kaora’s realm..." Elric mumbled the na of the dinsional door before him. For so reason, he gave a faint familiar feeling from such a na. Though he could not clearly trace it back, for so reason, he could feel his soul being called by the mysterious world before him.
Is this still part of their trap? Or could this be actually fate?
"But even if I go inside. A lot could happen here on earth within ten thousand years." Elric said, asking for clarification.
"That’s what makes the dinsion before us right now special. And to tell you the truth, it seems you are fated to this place." The Head Guardian said while his eyes glowed with the utmost admiration.
Elric continued to listen, waiting for the explanation.
"You see, just like the elental realm where the flow of ti is completely different from the Earth’s, ten thousand years of staying in the Kaora’s realm is only three months and ten days here on Earth. I am pretty sure you know what those days an." The Head Guardians said, turning his head to Elric with a confident smile.
"The Total Lunar Eclipse... the ti when the gate to the Realm of Darkness will be opened. The ti when I will get the chance to the Realm of Darkness and et the Emperor." Elric replied with a resolute gaze.
"However, I doubt you will find the Emperor on the Realm of Darkness." The Head Guardian interrupted.
"What do you an?" Elric asked, confused.
"I had been observing them from the past thousands of years. Unfortunately for them, their secretive movents will never be able to escape our eyes. All their actions and motives, we are always ten steps ahead of them, that is why they never get the chance to fully take over as many humans as they wanted. However..." Then the Head Guardian’s face switched from confident to full urgency.
"We made a miscalculation on our part. You ntioned the one who made everything possible. The confirmation itself is proof of our miscalculation. A being that can foresee the future and model it the way they want to be not a part of our calculations since we never accepted such fact without evidence. But now that you ntioned it, things are now completely different."
Now facing Elric with traces of anxiety in his eyes, the Head Guardian said,
"You obtaining the Ancestral Dragon’s blood, Taken to the Elental Realm, Obtaining the Elental abilities of destruction and healing, coming back to the human realm and wiping out the Arkhans and the Dragon clans. My calculations had reached a perfect solution that it was all according to their ticulous planning!"
"Their? Do you an..."
"The Outsiders are coming." The Head Elder replied with a fearful look in its pale face before adding. "Now that the Dragons and Arkhans, who happens to have a great interest in the human realm and in another way helping us protect it from the invaders from the other realm are gone, our overall defensive capacity against an unknown invasion had plumted to the button. The human weapons are far too outdated against the supernatural enemies."
"Then why did you not warned about it?!" Elric asked, irritated.
"We have our own reason." The head Guardian replied with a resolute face. Elric did not pry further. As beings of logic and the human interest always in their book, he gave up questioning further.
"What happens when I get inside? How do I know you are not lying to ?" Elric asked.
"We guardians are not allowed to get inside
The risk for him is just too much. What if the realm before him is just a trap to isolate him and holding him off while the invasion happens? Will he be able to save his family? The Eastern Dragons?
What if? There were just too many doubts for him. However, Elric knew pretty much more about the Guardians when it cos to trust.
"We Guardians do not lie. We value honesty and factual information. What I am doing is trying to help you overco your limitation. It is up to you if you will believe or not. Whatever your choice you will make has consequences that are yours to handle. Don’t bla for not giving you the opportunity." He said as he glanced to the side. Elric felt it too, an incoming aura from a familiar friend.
"Your Elental Turtle friend will arrive in this spot in the next minute. He seems to be in a hurry. It seems the invasion is starting real soon."
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