ASTRAL BLOOD

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The legend of the sea monsters were a common folktale for the children who live to see the waving flowing through the sea.

The Astral sea dragon , the king of the Astral race roam around different worlds for centuries , after roaming for a million years , he found the world of Orion and explored its region.

He roam around the entire world and saw everything that no one could imagine.

One day he turn into his human form and wander the floating isle , angel like beauties reside , after spending hundreds of years , he met the one for him, the queen of the Isle , they both felt in love and lived happily together.

A devil god who was furious with the Sea dragon ,the devil god knew he couldn't kill the sea dragon so he set a trap for him and cursed his happiness by poisoning the queen.

The queen soon felt ill and couldn't move her body anymore , the dragon knew something happened and he ask her if she knows anything but she said no.

After a few days , she couldn't even talk or open her eyes anymore , she could only breath slowly as she laid in the bed.

The sea dragon was angry , he knew that it was not normal because the floating isle knows no sickness.

??-"Are you angry? Do you want to cure your wife?"

Dragon-"Who are you! show yourself"

??-"Your wife has been curse ... by a god and the only way to cure her is to make her drink a the blood from the gods"

Dragon-"The gods!?..why would a god do this!?"

??-"You do not know? Even the gods had their eyes on her before you snatch her away HAHAHAHA"

As the devil laugh , his voice faded away.

Dragon-"*The gods.. they are too proud to give someone their blood.. but I have no choice*"

The sea dragon who was blinded by his ill wife , believed in everything that involve her getting better.

With his  tremendous strength he left the world of Orion and to challenge the gods.

After killing a guardian god , he was shackled down by the supreme god of the realm , the shackle took away his freedom and he wasn't allowed to turn into his human form.

The supreme god who was enraged by the sea dragon , condemn him to kill all the trillions of trillions demon gods and devil gods , until he kill the infinity evils , he would not be released from his shackle.

With the king of Astral gone , the Astral realm came into dispute over territories for over a thousands of years until the biggest war happened , the clash of the strongest Astral race shook the earth and teared the sky apart and opening a dimensional portal.

The portal led them into a wide sea that was filled with weak species.

The Astral race ceasefire and explored the sea of Orion , the sea was so vast that they had more than enough territory so then few of the Astral race decides to settle in Orion's sea , while most of them remains inside their realm.

The Astral race are intelligent creatures , when they grow into adulthood their manacore naturally turns red.

They aren't only sea creatures , some live in the clouds , some live on lands and some live in volcanoes.

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Sparkles of lightning everywhere , there were atleast tens of millions sparkling light diving from the sky.

Neo quickly pierced his skin with his needles , Black Armor , and crouched over the hole.

Neo-"I am sorry.. If I had helped your mother.."

Neo reminded of Leila who was protecting Neo when he got into a life situation when he was 3 , he could barely remember what happened but all he could see was the raging ocean waves , a storm and his mother's back yelling *I will protect THIS child*

He was really confident with his weird black armor so he grinds his teeth , the lights were getting brigther and brither.

Booom booom boom

The blue lights came down like spears , pierced the ground than exploded.

Thousands of spear were heading toward Neo .

It pierced his back , instead of exploding , it travels through his body and Neo let out a painful scream.

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRHGGGGG!!!

His muscle were burning , his black armor kept getting small and smaller , retracting from his body and vanishing into his chest.

Steam were coming out of Neo's body , he turned red , as if he was getting cooked , his blood boils and made bubbles into his skins.

The pain gradually felt worst and worst as the rest of the spears kept hitting him spreading through his body.

He screamed until he had no more strength to utter a word.

His teeth were cracked , blood were coming out of his mouth , eyes , ears and nose.

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Guards-"Wh.. what was that.."

Guards-"It looked like a rain of light , we should report this to the captain-"

As the guards open the gates , most of the inner soldiers and captain were already on their way toward the gate , the entire west side of the kingdom could hear the loud sound.

Cyel-"N..Neo!? *Oh no , why is he always gone during the night*"

Cyel woke up and called Ria and May , they all began to search for Neo.

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After 5 minutes , the lightning spears assault left craters everywhere , one would think a meteor shower rain happened in the forest , trees were burnt and blown away , the grasses were all gone and almost all of the wolves died while the Raze escaped by sacrificing all of his pack.

Neo body was skin was burnt , his hair turned white and he lay unconscious on top of the hole.

The blanket wiggles  around , a small white paw appeared and rubbed Neo's head.

...Ahhh... Is it finally over..?..

Neo regain conscious but he felt a burning sensation through his whole body , he tried to move and couldn't even twitch a finger.

He opened his eyes and saw a small paw waving infront of him.

Neo-"G..good.. you are safe.."

The blanket began to shake  around and the white tiger head appeared and it was about the size of a grown cat.

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Neo fainted once again and he had really long dream.

The whole world was white , the sky , the clouds , the sun , the ground , everything was completely white .

Neo walks around without a single clue.

After walking a while , he heard a munching sound

*crunch crunch crunch*

He walk toward the sound and saw who or what was making them.

It was a black figure that had a weird disfigured human figure , the creature was so dark that you couldn't see any details on him.

He had spikes on his elbows , head , fingers and toes.

The black figure was munching on nothing but yet sound could be heard everytimes it closes its fangs.

He..he look as black as my sphere ... or should I say magic..

As Neo got a step closer , the black figure stop and turns around , he see a small figure , white hair and white glowing eyes.

Neo's eyes began to glow brighter and he had to cover his own eyes without know what is happening.

The black figure abruptly turns in Neo opposite direction and ran like a animal on 4 limbs.

As he ran , the ground cracked open , white chain appeared from the holes and the sky , wrapping around the creature the figure scream in agony as it tried to effortlessly struggle  as the shackles pulls his body toward every direction.

The black figure split into 2 pieces , one went in the hole while the other half went toward the sky.

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Cyel-"NEOOOOO!"

Ria-"Neo!! Are you here!?"

As Cyel and Ria  were  searching through the house , they couldn't Neo.

May came back inside

May-"I have searched the yard and around the house , I couldn't find Neo but.. the people are saying that they heard a loud noise outside the walls toward the forest"

Cyel and Ria put on their sandal and left their house while May accompanied them.

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Captain-"Alright soldiers , we will split into 30 groups of 5 , all groups will head toward the forest and split up when we get deeper"

Soldiers-"Yes Captain!"

150 soldiers and the captain venture into the forest.

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Neo opens his eyes and tried to move again.

With a slight difficulty , he turns his body around and look toward the sky.

Neo-"The stars.. are so bright.. while sparkling in the darkness"

The white tiger cub jumped on Neo and stood on his chest while licking his face

Neo-"Hahahaha stop it .. it tickles haha"

Neo didn't felt any heavy pain anymore as he move his arms around , his skin turn back into normal and his long hair were black again.

G..good I am back to normal..

He held the tiger cub and lift him up

Neo-"You are now my family! Let's see.. I always wanted a younger sibling .. your name will be .. hmmm *blue eyes..* Ao?... no.. too simple .. Oh! that's it! since you are a boy , your name will be Sven , okay!?"

The cub tilt its head and wiggles his paws toward Neo.

Neo held the cub onto his chest and held it , he then look toward the big white tiger body.

He was surprised , the white tiger body remained the same .

Neo-"Silly me.. If the tiger protected her child with her life , why would she take the child away with her own spells.."

Neo let out a sigh and stood up and he pats the big tiger while Sven legs were on his shoulder and his upper body were laying on Neo's head.

Neo-" I am sorry.. I couldn't help you in times.. But I will take care of your child like he is my own little brother , I promise"

The baby cub rubbed Neo's head and shed some tears.

A branch cracked , Neo could hear many people heading toward his direction , he turns around , held the big tiger upper arms and pulled the tiger with  him.

He was expecting the tiger to be heavy but it felt really light so he decided to go under the body and lift it up with his whole body , while the cub was on top of his dead mother.

Neo began to run toward the mountain with ease, deeper into the forest.

After running for a while he notice he gotten faster than usual with just a slight release of his strength , he slowed down because he didn't want to cub fall down.

Neo-"It's the same as before... when I fainted .. But.. the forest didn't turn black or all dried out... the trees and grasses were blown into pieces.. It was like.. this times .. It had nothing to turn black.."

Neo quickly reach the foot of the mountain and he look up the top , the mountain was atleast 2000m tall but Neo had a goal in his mind.

The top of this mountain , will be a suitable place for your remainings.

While Neo was standing around , the blood of the tiger attracted animals and birds who lived in the deep forest.

Neo looks around , he could atleast see a dozens of hungry wild animals , bears , dogs , crows , snakes .. etc..

Neo was for once very angry , his body temperature quickly began to rise as his pores started to release a heat wave , Neo body was covered in a dark red aura and he stares angrily at the animals.

Neo-"DON'T YOU DARE!!"

Neo let out  a angry shout

His shout resonated through the entire forest , the soldiers legs began to tremble and look around in every direction , as they feared for their lives the hungry animals all ran away without a single hesitation.

Neo calmed down his dark red aura went away , his temperature went back to normal but he didn't even notice it what he did.

All he knew it that he angrily shouted at the animals.

Neo turns back and began to climb the mountains.

Neo-"Maybe I should just use magic"

With a single though of the flat circle , Neo tries to use his magic under his feet but nothing happened , he tries to make spikes appear in his legs but be couldn't bring out his magic.

Neo-"*My magic.. is not working..? Why.... Maybe I spent too much mana.. yea when I was protecting my self , that must be it"