Sowhere in an unknown place where there was nothing but large and tall trees, a small jade temple stood in the silence with doors sealed shut.
The temple was square in shape and with a roof that was akin to a pyramid. Its tiles were wavy and made out of white marble. As for the material that made its sides and pillars, it was sothing similar to gold but sothing way sturdier and shinier than that.
As silence reigned over this small temple and its surroundings, suddenly a handso figure erged from the shadows in the distance and approached the small construction with slow but steady steps.
In his hand, one could easily see a single blue flower, one that looked like a rose but was way more beautiful than that.
"Sorry for being late, it’s just that sothing sudden and unexpected ca up so I have no choice but to co late." after arriving before the small temple and placing the flower right before its doors, the handso man straightened his posture and showed a bittersweet smile.
This man was, surprisingly, Hale, the Emperor of the Seven Realms.
However, in contrast to his calm and smiling figure that he used to show to everyone, especially to the other Lords, currently, his face held a sowhat grave expression while his eyes flashed with a mixture of anger, sorrow, regret, and passion.
A gentle breeze appeared suddenly from the east, making Hale’s long and smooth hair dance behind his back, giving his figure a kind of lonely aura that appeared around only those that lost soone precious to them.
Hale stood before the small temple for several minutes that silently turned into hours through which he did not move nor blink at all, just simply stared at the blue flower with mories together with various emotions flashing through his eyes.
"Sigh... If I would have been as strong at that ti as now..." Hale sighed with regret and a sorrowful expression before his face beca indifferent once more and turned around to leave.
Though, just as he did, suddenly for so unknown reasons his steps halted and simply just stared into empty air.
"Chaos," Hale spoke quietly, but the mont he said that single word the shadow from below his feet moved, and just a single ter away from his feet a black head popped out from the darkness!
"My Lord... Did you call ?"
Hale kept staring at his surroundings for a few seconds and only then did he shift his attention to the head before his face.
"Soone was here, correct?"
"Yes... My Lord... Two rats from the other world ca here again..."
"And?" Hale asked, now with an eerily cold expression that imdiately made the head slightly sink back into the shadow.
"My Lord... As you have ordered I kept my eyes on them and observed everything they have done them. However, as they just ca here to check on the altar as they did so far until now, I decide not to act."
Hale remained silent and after he stared at the head with a piercing glare for several seconds straight he nodded and averted his eyes.
"Good. Now go."
"As you wish, My Lord." Chaos bowed his head slightly forward before he sunk back into the shadow completely and vanished without any trace.
As for Hale, he just nodded softly and without saying a single word walked away, leaving the altar behind in the eternal silence once again.
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Inside the Fourth Realm, inside a small tavern.
Sitting on one side of a table with a ssy hair, a face full of bruises, and a nose that was bleeding scarcely, Liza looked at Khal and Cal with a nonchalant gaze that seed to be a facade as her eyes shone like bright stars on the dark night sky, seemingly because of the sheer excitent she was currently feeling.
Cal, sitting with Khal on the other side of the table, looked at Liza silently with his hands interlocked before his mouth, and remained silent for several minutes before he finally broke the silence;
"Okay, let get this straight. After you have run out of my residence that day when I told you the truth, you ran ho where you cried for several hours before falling asleep. However, when you woke up, not only did you find out that half a month has passed but also that your body has... another soul within? Is that correct?"
"YES!" Liza shouted with excitent, even jumping forward from her seat a little, but her expression quickly changed into a scarcely angered face and hissed, "Why are you shouting? Can’t you just calm down?"
Cal seeing the way Liza acted and talked to herself sighed deeply, which sounded more of a relief than a sign of a headache, and asked, "Also, by the ti you were ready to find and to ask for my help, you found out that I have already ascended quite a long ti ago."
"Un." Liza nodded but with excitent still visible in her eyes, "And exactly because of this why I decided to master the Soul Parting Technique when I have reached the Third Realm, but it seems I have made a mistake as..."
"Because while things have seed to change, in truth, nothing has changed at all." Khal finished Liza’s sentence, earning a slight nod from her.
"We have tried to find a solution for... this, but no matter where we were looking, within this Realm there is nothing useful at all!" Liza said with and sneer, but when her gaze fell on Khal she quickly cald down and a smile even ford on her pretty face.
"However..." then, suddenly Liza’s smile vanished and with a curious look at Cal, she said, "It seems we no longer have to search around for a solution as it is right in front of us. Right, Cal?"
Hearing his na Cal remained nonchalant for quite a while before he sighed and shook his head, "I fear, things won’t be as simple with you as it was with us as your case is a little... special."
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