In the capital city of the most powerful empire called Meriden Empire. On the main street of Xuris city, if anyone was able to notice they would see a petite slightly malnourished girl of 4 or 5 years old, with dirty ragged black hair whipping behind her in the wind as she runs away from the Imperial palace. while continuously looking behind to see if anyone was chasing her and even though she did not notice anyone chasing, she did not stop running and continued to run through the crowds of cultivators of at least stage 5 of the inner core realm towards the city wall.
As the little girl runs through the crowds she accidentally bumps into some of the people causing a few to drop what they hold, or items to fall from pockets of clothes or sleeves of robes. Strangely none of the people notice what happens. Although the little girl is confused by this and the fact that she could even enter the main street because it has formations placed on and around it to stop people below the 5th stage of the 3rd realm from entering she still continues to run, never letting go of the tightly held tattered purple book in her arms. After one hour of continuous running and looking back over her shoulder, she finally makes it three fourths of the way to the city wall where the slums start.
Even though it’s called the slums the houses and shops made of only wood are still orderly and kept clean, Looking more like a town, the girl slows down then starts to walk thru this area going thru all sorts of alleys slowly getting closer to the city wall another hour passes with the girl walking in all sorts of confusing patterns still getting closer to the city wall, the further she walks the less town like the builds looks and more like a village. At this point it is at her pace a 15 minute walk from the city walls, but she keeps walking through alleys and in confusing patterns taking more than 2 hours to reach the actual slums which is right next to the city wall, walking for another 30 minutes the girl finally makes it to her house. The little girl takes another look around her to make sure that no one followed her and when she sees no one she enters the ‘house’ if it could be called that as it is just a crack in the city wall.
After the girl enters her ‘house’ she quickly covers the crack with a rock that is the same reddish green color as the city wall, casting her ‘house’ into complete darkness almost pitch black. Not that the dark has ever bothered her before. as she has always been able to see in the dark. From the outside her ‘house’ looks just like a poorly patched part of the wall. Inside the girl sits down still holding the book and stares at her ‘door’ for 30 minutes before she starts to calm down, only now noticing that she had not made a single sound or had felt the need to breathe while she was going through the city.
She tries to breathe but finds out she can’t, in a panic she looks around her dwelling again looking for anyone because she has heard that powerful people could stop others from breathing or even moving just by looking at them, as she looks around she catches a glimpse of her face in a very reflective piece of glass she had collected before.
It is her eyes that look different than what she remembers, before she had solid purple eyes with pink pupils. But now she had an extremely small black pupil with pink swirling towards the outside of her eye while the purple was swirling towards the inside, looking like a stripped abyss pulling everything into the center of her now black pupil. The longer she looked at her eyes the more it felt like they were going to pull in everything, right as she felt as if she was going to be pulled in. She hears a breaking sound and after she blinks the sound bringing her out of her trance, her eyes now look like they usually do, allowing her to breathe and hear sounds again.
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She fell into thought, I have felt this before… A few times when I was running or hiding from people chasing me. When I think back on it, I’ve noticed the absence of sounds I make and no need to breathe. Does it have to do with my eyes? Most likely it does. She couldn't help but ponder on it. So when my eyes change, then I am able to mask my existence?
Realizing that she had a power like that is very shocking to her. But before she thinks further on it she remembers the old tattered purple book. Looking at the book she feels it even stronger than before as if this book is calling out to her, wondering why she feels like that she starts to look closer at the book first she looks at the covers which is a strange material. That feels like metal and stone but seems to behave as if it is just hard paper as evidenced by the fact that she could bend it a little, finding no words on the cover, she opens the book.
Opening the book she sees the pages are made of paper. The outer edges of the pages are purple but the inside is white or a slightly pinkish white bound by black leather covered rings. On the first page she finds words obviously of a language she does not know but she can somehow understand. Getting a bit excited by this she starts to read what looks to be the title: [Cultivation Method of The Soul Preserving Race], the girl after reading this almost starts to shake in excitement, to calm down so she can focus on reading she closes her eyes and takes a few deep breaths, after calming down she carefully grabs the page and turns it.
Right after she finishes turning the page a wave of soothing gentle power comes out of the book causing the book to start crumbling and, covering the little girl healing and cleansing her body. While making her slip into meditation. The wave continues to flow out crumbling the book even more as the wave forms a sphere around the girl shielding her from the outside world. A ripple of power also flows out from the book almost instantly covering half of the empire bringing a very distinct aura with it and, a bright light shoots into the sky above the city's wall.
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At the same time as the ripple of power flows over the city, inside the castle where the emperor is in a meeting with his subjects, about the beast wave occurring in the north of his empire. He and almost every one in the meeting feel the ripple and the aura it brings with it. The emperor stares in the direction the ripple came from which is the south, while everyone else stares at him because they all recognize the distinct aura as the aura the emperor's wife had before she died.
Faintly the subjects looking at him could see his eyes start to water before he vanished most likely teleporting to the south. After the emperor teleports towards the south just slightly past his city wall, he feels the familiar aura behind him and at a very close distance. Turning around he wonders why the feeling is coming from inside the inner part of the city wall, then as if he might find a clue he looks up and sees the pillar of light.
Flying up to the top of the 450 foot tall wall he can see where the pillar ends at a spot about 5 feet away from the inner side of the 40 foot wide wall. Walking over to the edge in front of the pillar of light on the inner side of the wall he jumps off the wall, landing gently on the ground as if the world would shatter at his touch he slowly turns around to see a very cleverly covered hole in the wall.
Remembering his wife's words about the book she had left to him: “Remember my dear Fael do not in any way disturb the one who opens this book and wait there where they are to stop others from disturbing them. Also you have to adopt the poor kid, it is my only wish to see my race survive and not die out.”. He does just that. Sitting on the dirty ground of the slums to wait for the one who is in the hole to come out.