Chapter Sixty, Vera and Sun Wukong.
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"I am... A human." Vera spoke, making eye contact with Wu. The monkey examined her thoroughly, a piercing gaze reaching her.
"Take off your coverings." He demanded, crawling to all fours.
Vera was quite taken a back, tilting her head. Wu only crawled off of the behemoths body, dropping down to the ground.
"Now why would I do that?" She questioned, still holding her dagger in hand.
"You do not have much of a choice... I have never seen your kind before, some sort of hairless Beastkin. But I have read the prophecies... I need to see if you are truly a furless man." He approached, tugging at her clothes.
She looked down at him, her eyebrows scrunched.
"I am not furred like you, but I indeed have hair along my body." She said, rolling up her sleeve and showing the little hair on her arm.
The ape stared in confusion for a few moments, nodding before rising to his full stature.
"You are not of demon blood it seems... The Sacred Ones spoke of creatures with no hair on their body... Only some residing atop of their head." He explained, circling around her.
"So... If you are not of demon blood, why are you.... Bald?" He questioned, Vera watching as he circled her.
"You may not know of my kind... But I know of yours." She spoke, "My people have watched yours from afar for countless decades... I did not know I had stepped into enemy territory..." She frowned.
"You have watched?" Wu paused, standing in front of her.
"Yes. Your people are a fair bit stronger and more barbaric than ours. We have vowed to avoid all contact, in fear of starting wars... Our people are not always the smartest, and we may indeed be prideful at times." She explained.
"We avoid contact so that we may also avoid war. It would be a mass loss for both sides. Despite not being physically as strong on average, from what we have seen we have more blessed people." Wu just stared, hearing her words.
He seemed to be understanding, but she couldn't exactly tell.
"You are well spoken... Not many of my people have that quality." Wu said, nodding his head.
"You will come back to my home. You will not be able to navigate these woods in this darkness." He said, turning towards the right and walking off.
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Vera blankly looked around, not knowing exactly what to do... But she followed.
She wasn't aware, but this act would mark the beginning of the story of the rise of two of the most powerful kings in history.
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Deep beneath the earth, below the corpse of a mountainous creature...
A group of people mingled, all of them sharing the same attributes. They were tall people, the shortest of which standing at nine feet. They had pale white skin, and there was hair only on their heads, nowhere else.
Some of them had rough and wild nests atop of their heads, and some of them displayed short and tamed hair.
There were fifty four of them, and they all stood silently before an elevated platform.
They all stared into the visage of their king, pledging the utmost respect.
He sat in a lotus pose, his lower body submerged in a blood red pool. His hair was white, the exact opposite of the majority of those present.
Despite being motionless, the Vitarian god was emitting high masses of energy. His body was in a stasis, but it curdled energies before him, his sorcery forming a magical orb.
Slowly, his eyes opened, and a voice escaped him.
Though his lips did not move.
"We will make one last effort to thin the ranks of the Sacred ones, and then we will hide away once more." He transmitted.
"I have foreseen a land far from this one. It will take two generations, but we will soon find ourselves entangled in a war for the world itself." Eerily, a smile creeped up on his face, the surrounding area becoming much more turbulent.
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Kieron and Lokreum examined the happenings in the world.
"Vera and Sun Wukong..." Kieron muttered. "I did not think I would see such a mythical creature in this realm." He noted.
"Neither did I, but it makes enough sense. Sun Wukong's bloodline is rather powerful... It's no surprise that it is just now birthing another descendant. I just didn't expect it to be born within my reality of all those within the infinite existence." Lokreum explained, nodding his head.
"As for Sirft... His power is rather... frightening." He said.
Alexandria had divided firmaments of power even further.
There were a total of five stages.
The seven lesser realms within the zeroth level, technically the first stage.
The Mortal realm, the real stage one, levels one through four.
Then there was the Cosmic realm, levels five through nine.
Following that came the God realm, levels ten through fifteen.
Then finally, after that was the Aeonic realm, from level sixteen and onwards. The fifth and final stage in the firmaments on power!
Each realm differed drastically in power, but that did not mean any of them were to be underestimated.
Compared to normal, natural mortals, even the first minor level in the zeroth stage was a big difference.
As for Sirft? The Vitarian God? He was already in the seventh level!
There was no other creature in the world of Pandora that stood on par with him! Well... Besides for the cheater... Alacor didn't count.
"Sirft has been in the seventh level for quite some time... I wonder when he will bridge the gap between the zeroth stage and the first." Kieron muttered, Lokreum turning towards him.
"He may seem close, but he is far, far from it." He said. "I give it at best two thousand years... At worst? Another fifty thousand..." He predicted, Kieron nodding in understanding.
"If it wasn't for his churning Ignotovian blood, he would surely have reached the first stage by now." Lokreum nodding hearing Kieron.
He was right after all...
He was unconsciously following his bloodline, pushing the boundaries of laws, and not the ceiling of level zero.
He continued to gather kreus beyond the known limit of level zero, completely ignoring the destined resonance required for level one.
It would take a long while, but Lokreum quietly anticipated the day Sirft would step into the first level.
But, alongside that, he was anticipating the events that would be spurred on by the human woman and Sun Wukong.
"Vera and Wu..." He mumbled, turning his eyes away from Kieron.
"Let's see how you change the world..."
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