”I can’t believe we managed to escape from this situation”, Yaacov said.
“I’m always running!” Mormo said furiously, “I’m sick and tired from running!”
“We can always go back”, Moshe said confidently.
“FUCK OFF!” Yaacov and Mormo said to Moshe simultaneously.
“We must become stronger, now, that we know that I can help others to get essence and powers, we can start to gather people to work under us”, Mormo said.
“It’s important for my future plans to conquer this forest, and for that, we have to be stronger, bigger, and understand our powers way better!” Mormo declared.
“But first, let’s find a place we can stay in”, Mormo said as he started to walk in the middle region of the forest.
Mormo expended his essence in search of a dense place in the forest that is close to a lake, he didn’t want to go to his previous basement, he wanted to create a new one that looked grander, and that could be occupied by multiple people. It needs to be big enough until they will conquer the inner region.
“What’s our name?” Yaacov asked.
“Don’t fuck with me”, Mormo answered him.
“We surely need a name if we want to open a guild”, Yaacov kept pressing.
“Open a guild?” Mormo looked at them confused.
“Yes, names are very important for guilds”, Moshe agreed.
Mormo looked at them as if both are out of their minds.
“When did we agree upon opening a guild?” Mormo asked them.
“Didn’t you declare that we will start to collect people to work under us?” Moshe said approvingly.
“Whatever … We can be called a guild if that is what you want, and for the name, we are going to kill a bunch of people”, Mormo said with an evil smile, “so we are Assassins, that will be our name”.
“Master your naming sense sucks!” said Yaacov very unenthusiastic.
“Master, we need a good name”, argued Moshe.
“Name it as you would like, I don’t care”, said Mormo.
“It’s your responsibility as the leader of the guild, you can’t run from it”, Moshe said seriously.
Yaacov looked at Mormo as if he absolutely approved of this line of thought.
“Fine, I will think about it and tell you afterward”, Mormo really didn’t want to keep with this conversation any longer.
“And which people will we try to recruit?” asked Moshe.
“Slaves, the people that this world dropped behind, the people that gods and fate are ignoring. We will destroy this world to make a new one!” Mormo responded.
The eyes of Moshe lighted in a colorful light, while the eyes of Yaacov turned completely black.
“As you wish”, both, Yaacov and Moshe, bowed to Mormo.
“What do you want to achieve?” asked Moshe.
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“We want to help, become your sword to achieve your desire”, Yaacov said, while Moshe agreed.
Both of them were pretty serious, Mormo could know it by the state of their essence, he could read them quite well because of their unique connection, and it made a warm feeling swim in his chest.
“I will ask it differently, what is your vision for this world? If you could change whatever you like and rule all the creatures on this continent, how will this world look like?” asked Mormo.
“Everyone will be free!” Moshe answered fast and without any hesitation.
“Free? What if one’s freedom meant hell for another? What if one’s freedom includes the enslavement of all others?” asked Yaacov.
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Both of them thought about the answer for a while before Yaacov said, “I want a place with rules, rules that will forbid people to kill one another. A place where my own family can live enjoyably forever, a place where my family can flourish without the need of a strong individual to protect them”, Yaacov answered, but on his face, you could see that for him it was just wishful thinking.
“A place where no child is separated from his parents?” Moshe said quietly.
“Try to think of an answer, when you will be ready with a complete answer that you will be happy with, tell me”, Mormo said.
As they talked Mormo found a good place to settle in.
The trees in this forest were huge, you could carve a castle inside every one of their trunks.
Mormo and the others started to carve their own individual room inside the same tree, Mormo at the top of the tree, and Yaacov and Moshe below him, at the same height.
They started to talk about some kind of hierarchy, and that both of them were on the same level in the guild, so they will be at the same height or some crap like that, Mormo really couldn’t care less.
After each carve his own room to sleep in, they started to carve a room that will be their meeting room or a room that they will just sit in together.
At the start, Moshe and Yaacov thought that they will just carve one big room for everyone, but Mormo needed his own space, so that is how it ended with 3 personal rooms at the top of the giant tree and one big room at the basement of the trunk.
After they finished, Mormo caught some rats to replenish his life force, and afterward, they ate the corpses.
While they ate Mormo said, “When I wasn’t with you something very strange happened to me …” Mormo told them about the little kid, everything that he said and did, about the devil, and the way that he could command the bats, even after he died.
“I never heard about anything like that, and it will be hard to find anyone with more information on this world than me”, Yaacov said.
“Most of the information on this world is classified, only the real leaders of the clans can know about what I’m about to tell you”, Yaacov said mysteriously.
“First of all, our world is way smaller than what you tend to think. In the middle of the world, there is a school named “Geenom” and there are no other schools except for it. Anyone who is told that he is going to a different school is just transferred out of his clan into the cities, and he will remain there until the end of his life, which, probably, will be short”, Yaacov said.
“More than that, the school “Geenom” isn’t a school to teach the youngsters, in reality, no student ever entered the school building. The school is the basement of the Tirtin family, the strongest and most formidable clan on the continent! The chief of the Tirtin family is the headmaster of the so-called “School”, his name is Eyov and he is my former master”, Yaacov stopped for a moment and closed his eyes, when he opened them they were full of determination ” … and all the other clans will do everything to be able to create any connection with him. That is why people are sending their best cultivators to the so-called school so they will be able to create connections with the Tirtin clan”. Mormo and Moshe stayed silent as they kept listening to Yaacov’s explanations.
“The Tirtin clan is the only clan that can own a name, so all the other clans are nameless. There are 4 clans besides the Tirtin clan, one in the North, they are a weird clan, all the members of the clan can transform into partly shadow human beings, they are quite mysterious, and they mainly live in the desert. At the West, East, and South three ordinary clans are living, they are just competing for strength between one another”.
“Surrounding them there are 10 cities, which are governed by guilds that are not strong enough to create their own clans”.
“Why are there only 4 clans and 10 cities?” Mormo asked.
“It’s because the Tirtin clan will not allow for more. If you want, you can try to take the place of an existing clan or take over an existing city, but you could never create a new one without going into a fight with the Tirtins”, answered Yaacov.
“And around all the cities there is one big forest”, said Yaacov.
“What? How come? Aren’t there supposed to be thousands of forests? How come there is an inner region to the forest?” Mormo asked.
“There isn’t. The real and the big forest is only one, and its a place that you cannot enter at all without the approval of the Tirtin family, and what you called the inner forest is just a small section of the outer area of the forest, and when you crossed it, there is the infinity death desert. The map that you got, just misinformed you about the terrains around you”, concluded Yaacov.
“So, to summarize everything”, Mormo said, “In the middle of the world the Tirtin family is living in the desert. To its North, there is another clan that lives in the desert as well, consisting of shadow-like cultivators. In the East, West, and South there are normal clans that are living in the fields that contain some very small forests, and around all the clans there are 10 cities, and around all the cities there is a giant forest, and when you exit the forest you are in an infinity desert that no living thing can live in. Am I right?” asked Mormo.
“Yes”, said Yaacov.
“So, why do we need so many teleports to move between different areas?” Moshe asked. As a slave, he always moved through so many teleports just to move from one camp to the other.
“It’s like that on purpose. The teleports are moving you between the cities, and sometimes you are taking multiple teleports, but in reality, you are just moving between the different cities without a real reason. If the teleports were set to travel efficiently, you wouldn’t need more than one to travel from anywhere to anywhere. Even when I came to this forest, the map, that guided me here, made me run in circles on purpose until I reached my desired location. I don’t know why, but the Tirtin family is actively trying quite hard to make this world look way bigger than it really is”, said Yaacov.
“So, what is this devil? And what is controllable essence?” asked Mormo.
“That is all I know, and it is way more than what the vast majority of the creatures of the world could ever hope to know!” said Yaacov confidently.
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A portal just opened inside a darkroom in an unknown place, a kid flew out of the portal right into the hands of a troll-like creature. It was the headmaster of the “Geenom” school, Eyov.
The kid was unconscious. Eyov put inside his mouth a sticky liquid, which helped the kid to come back to his sense.
“Why are you here? How dare you hold me like that? Call my father immediately!” the kid started to command Eyov.
“Of course, young master, I will do exactly as you wish”, said Eyov, while a big sadistic smile appeared on Eyov’s face as he inserted his own essence into the kid. The kid started to scream and vibrate in Eyov’s hands for a few seconds before his soul left his body to die.
“There is no road of returning now”, Eyov murmured with a serious face. He waited for hundreds of years for such an opportunity!
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