249 Second Attempt
(Jane’s PoV)
It was the first ti he called my na. It was so heart-warming yet amusing. It was like we were getting closer to each other as a sense of familiarity filled my senses. With that thought it mind, I approached him in big strides.
His eyes were opened but he looked like he was staring so far ahead. They were blank, like a blind person’s eyes. Even so, his right arm waved right at , beckoning to approach him.
“You made it?” I sat in front of him, my heart ached seeing him looked like a blind person. I knew it was just physically temporary, that he could still see even under that situation, but it still saddened pretty much.
“Of course.” His smug smile comforted a bit. He was fine, I told myself.
“Then, let see them.” I sat down cross-legged in front of him. I took his right hand and grabbed it with my own hand. After taking a deep breath, I closed my eyes and channeled myself to follow Putra’s stream of consciousness. He didn’t resist , which made everything went smooth.
It might took several minutes for to drift down his stream of consciousness before I finally stopped in a vast place which looked like an open space between the active volcanoes; minus the dark sky. I couldn’t see the sky at all. It was only darkness as far as I could see. The sources of light ca from so small rivers of lava, extending from one side to another side.
Putra and I were standing in the middle of what seed to be a big piece of flat rock where lava was flowing around us. Not too far away from him stood couples of weird creatures in various shapes but with one similarity; ugly. Well, what did I expect from monsters, anyway?
“Who are they?” I asked Putra who was standing proudly, as if he was waiting for to praise him.
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“They are the spirit from the volcanoes near the portals in the world. I know they don’t look as good looking as I am, but it’s just because I am more powerful than them. If they can nurture themselves well, they can gain a human form like mine.” Putra explained. “Of course, no matter what, I will still be stronger than them by lot.” He added quickly. He didn’t even bother to hide the pride in his voice.
“Ah.” I nodded my head before I patted him on his head. “You did great! Thank you.” I smiled at him genuinely.
Under the illuminating light from the lava around us, his already dark skin turned slightly redder when he blushed. Turning his head away from , he scratched his head in embarrassnt. “It’s nothing for .”
I smirked, but didn’t say anything further. Looking at the creatures in front of , I realized the seriousness of this problem. The amount of portals were being represented by the number of creatures appeared in this room.
How many days would I need to close them all?
I rubbed my forehead, feeling helpless. Asking help from the other geezers would be hard without exposing Putra’s position. Considering their previous attitude towards , I doubted they would not have any ideas towards Putra. The First Master might be powerful enough to hold her ground against the previous Masters, but I didn’t think I could do the sa. I an, I was sure that I could win and overwhelm them, but not without price.
Unless I knew any thod to reduce the losses, I wouldn’t want to act harsh.
I sighed as I realized the complexity of the matters in my hand. If only I were a bit more stronger...
“Woman, what are you doing spacing out like that?” Putra’s voice snapped back to my senses. I smiled wryly hearing him calling like that. He might be feeling awkward calling my na. I should teach him to call my na properly as soon as possible.
“I’ll sort you out later.” I rubbed his head.
Watching as his eyes widened in horror, I guessed he caught on to what I was talking about.
“Now, where should I start?” I instinctively did a series of stretching and warming up, as if I was getting ready for a sport competition. My eyes darted from one to another creature, thinking on which one I should pick first.
“Which one is the worst of all?” I asked them. I didn’t care whether they could understand what I said or not, no... it was more like I had not thought about it at all.
Only after I said all of those that I realized that there was a chance that they didn’t understand at all.
As soon as the realization hit , I heard a soft chuckle behind . Without turning back, I had already known whose voice was that.
“Putra, tell , where should I start?” Ignoring his stifled giggling, I went right to the point.
“Hm? You’re not going to deal with them all in one go?”
“Do you think I can do it?” I turned back to look at him. If he said I could do it, maybe I would give it a try.
“What? You’re not confident with yourself? And here I thought you are invincible.” A mocking smirk appeared on his face.
“Do you want to try ?” I cracked my knuckled with satisfying sounds and approached him with an evil smirk on my face -not that I realized that, though.
“Evil woman! Go away!” He shouted in horror.
I laughed. “I said I would sort you out later. Just wait.” I grinned at him.
Putra shook his head quickly and his whole body was trembling. Serve you right for taunting ! Ignoring him, I turned my sight back to the creatures and randomly picked one among them.
Let’s try one! If it was not as hard as I thought, I would try to work on two or three in one go. My comprehension about the layers of dinsion and portals before was proven to be extrely important in this mission.
I stood in front of the selected creature. After giving it a thorough scanning, I decided to get into business. What should I do, then? Crossing the dinsion to arrive at the specific place of portals? Wouldn’t it be too complicated? How many tis should I cross over then?
“Sit down.” I beckoned at the creature in front of to sit down. Of course, I sat down cross-legged on the spot as well.
After sitting down face to face, I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. “Show .” I commanded it. I felt a slightly cold and slimy thing touched my hand and it was as if I was doing a VR.
There was an image in my head. A lustrous forest with snow on top of it. I was sure I had seen it sowhere but I couldn’t rember. After all, almost all mountain looked the sa, so I just ignored it.
The scenery in front of changed as I was pulled even closer to the mountain. It seed like I was at the foot of the mountain. There was a resort, a luxurious one. However, I couldn’t see any human there. Mist rose from several places of the resort but I couldn’t detect any malicious intent from it. Instead, there was a sense of indolence in the air.
“Huh? Is it an Onsen? Am I in Japan?” I looked around as I realized where I was.
Indeed, this was a hot spring resort located in a foot of a mountain. What mountain it was, I had no idea. The creature brought here which ant the portal was here.
But where?
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