Between his departure and now, Mephisto had covered a considerable amount of distance or so he thought. When he referenced the fact that it took them half a day to reach to the border from 

a place near it, it made him think twice about his achievements.

Still the path that he had taken, though had dangers but was still very direct to the capital.

As warned earlier, Mephisto was almost always on the lookout for any kind of dangers.

What he did to those beasts earlier while saving the women could very well happen to him.

While traveling he kept thinking about all the things that had happened till now. On the realm of the moderators and here. The thoughts of the situation here and the the regions that he hadn’t discovered kept bubbling inside his mind. The humans and the beasts have very tense situation. But that alone should not call for a purge to happen. There was something far worse going on than a simple power struggle.

For now, he decided to keep himself on the ground. He had to get stronger. The purge aside, he really wanted to fulfil the wish of Mellisa.

It was almost night now. Mephisto decided to camp up in the forest. Although camping in a forest known to house some of the most vicious animals is never good. But he had no choice. He decided to hang a hammock made of leaves of the plants high up the tree. Knowing that he wasn’t safe up the tree but, at least it was better than down under.

Before he knew it, he was asleep. He was probably tired from the journey. In this case it can be dangerous because being in a deep sleep can be fatal.

The Next Day

Mephisto woke up early. He had a good night’s sleep. For some reason the wilderness didn’t bother him. But he was safe and that’s what mattered.

He wandered around for a bit in the region nearby. He found some fruits, on the trees that looked tasty enough. He looked into a book that Mellisa had given to him. It contained info. about various plants and their qualities. He quickly found out that the fruit he was about to nonchalantly eat was poisonous enough to kill him before he could take another step.

Along the way one thing kept bugging him was unavailability of any public transport to the capital. It appeared very strange to him. Usually the progress of development would have allowed for such facilities at a very earlier stage. He thought to enquire about it once he reached the capital.

After looking for a while he found some non-poisonous fruits and filled his stomach and his bag for the journey.

At this point he had nothing to do so he decided to set off once again.

Surprisingly enough he didn’t face any of the so called beasts of the forest. Just because you enter a forest doesn’t mean that you’ll get attacked.

As the time passed on Mephisto moved closer towards Moren.  If all went well, he would reach the capital very quickly. Completing the journey in 2 days seemed very achievable. But at the same time, it would mean that the country of the humans doesn’t have much land left to begin with.

But his wish seemed to be too much for ask. It seemed that it was night time again. As it was difficult seeing in the dark and was dangerous in night, Mephisto decided to rest at a suitable place he finds on the way.

Just when he was thinking of these things. Mephisto saw cave in a distance. That place was a God send for him.

There was one strange thing though. Mephisto got a strange feeling from inside the cave.

It was not unpleasant, but more like mysterious.

He decided to check it out anyway after resting a while. The entrance was big enough to let him in but not so big to let the wild beasts inside. It was the perfect place to spend the night, aside from the strange feeling that he got.

Once he properly went inside, he saw that the cave’s mouth was connected to a tunnel that was descending underground. It was really a rare find. The inside of the cave did not seem used. It might have been because the mouth of the cave being too small to notice easily. Also the bigger reason was almost everyone avoided the forest rout.

Mephisto kept moving inside the cave. That unpleasant feeling kept getting more and more intense. The path swivelled here and there. Uncertain as to where it may lead, Mephisto kept moving on.

He was surprised as to how long these paths were. Just while he was thinking about these things, he stopped near a dead end.

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That’s it!!! I came here all the way for this??!!

Mephisto was very frustrated. Angrily he kicked a stone lying on the ground. It flew towards the wall, but to his surprise the stone did not hit the wall.

Instead the stone vanished from his sight. More than vanishing, it was more like the rock got sucked into the air.

At first Mephisto could not believe it. But then he tried it again with another rock and the same thing happened.

Suddenly something popped in his head. His confusion seemed to be gone. As if knowing what he was doing he dived forward. Again instead hitting the wall ahead, he got sucked inside the air.

What happened next was something very unexpected….

What seemed like minutes, Mephisto kept falling down. Still he could not see the ground.

Everything surrounding was white. He could feel air hitting his body but was unable to do anything, preparing himself for when he reaches the ground.

But this falling continued forever…..

Seeing no end to this Mephisto instead of falling horizontally started to move his legs.

To his surprise he started to walk on thin air.

It was then that Mephisto realised that he was not actually falling for hours but actually it was an illusion, a realistic illusion. He remembered that while he was creating the planet, he created something known as a void area. This was a type of a portal to another realm. This was in another plane entirely and its only connection to the planet was through the portal he came through.

While creating the void he set it as a variable. Ever changing its location and ever changing its own world.

That’s not to say that it would appear anywhere. Instead of random it was more pseudorandom.

As Mephisto walked on he could see no end to the path, not that he could see the path itself. One of the great disadvantages of a variable in an equation is that its value could change.

Also, just because Mephisto had created the world didn’t mean that he remembered all of it.

Now that he was no longer a moderator, not only his body but also his mind was limited.

He moved ahead. It seemed that he had no other choice, seeing that he had no way of getting out of the void.

One thing that he could not understand was the reason why he got that uneasy feeling. He was weary of not losing focus.

Mephisto moved forward at a brisk pace. On an unending path it was very difficult to predict anything…. Specially what happened in the next few moments.

As Mephisto walked on it seemed that he was sucked into the air like before from inside the void.

For a second, Mephisto thought that he was safe now that he could finally return to the other side, but it seemed that he did not teleport back to where he was before inside the cave. Instead where he was now looked quite like the interior of a castle.

Due to falling on the ground from above, Mephisto felt a little dizzy, but he shook his head and opened his eyes. He could see about fifty or so soldiers surrounding him. All had their swords aimed at his neck.

“Spy….. assassin…..be careful, he managed to infiltrate the inner castle up to the Majesty’s room” the soldiers were murmuring among themselves when one of the higher ups shouted at them.

“Quiet all of you. This is how you behave when a person manages to infiltrate his Majesty’s room. He slipped by under your noses. Somebody better have an explanation, or everybody’s in for the worst days of their lives”

“Calm down Rick, you saw that didn’t you? The man suddenly appeared in front of us, the soldiers are not at fault. Now let the man up and stop pointing your swords at him.” Majesty Klaus said without an ounce of hesitation.

“But your majesty…”

“Its OK Rick, I know you were guarding me”

One of the few soldiers helped Mephisto up. He was too confused to listen to anything.

“Welcome stranger. My name is Klaus and I am the king of this country and the leader of the humans.”

“Why don’t you rest for a bit and then try to explain what’s going on” Klaus said.

“Y.. You are the king???!!!”