“…I’ve travelled across numerous worlds, seen many bizarre and strange things. Some of them beautiful beyond words convey and others looked like monstrosities from the deepest depths of hell, but never have I seen a world quite like a Kiri Dumo…”
Ibaeran flew over the vast Kiri Dumoian sea, watching from many creatures of the deep emerged out of the waters, leaping and jumping out of the waters like majestic they were, and now that she was no longer gripped by her fears she was able to see and appreciate the majestic beauty of the creatures. She flew further above the waters she found…
“….Giants of the seas, creatures whose bodies are so large they are home to vast green forests and different works of life. As big as a nation they float and swim above the water’s surface majestic, elegant, and beautiful, I called them, Manjikirinama, the living water lands…”
Ibaeran found herself staring with eyes filled with wonder and awe at the gigantean beast that were the Manjikirinama, massive and colossal beasts that swam on the water’s surface with bodies being so large that it was enough house an entire forest which home creatures just as astonishing and breath taking.
“….The Manjikirinama’s came in different forms, shapes, and sizes, some familiar while so outright bizarre marvels life and nature like the one that resembles a turtle with its massive back that resemble a turtles shell and on it a protruding mountains that were great enough to graze the skies and large forest filled with creatures of all kind, and its head which rested on the water’s surface along with the back while the rest of its body remained submerged in the waters down below with a thick patch of forest green on it where birds and other creatures perched and rousted down on the trees. Then there was the Manjikirinama whose entire body was almost completely submerged in water except for its massive fin like appendages who systematically emerge out and in to the waters, propelling and keeping the massive creature afloat along with large back which rested on the water’s surface with a large patch of forest, green, and vegetation that stretched as far as the eyes could see, it was so large that if one was step foot on it and look out in to the horizon, they would think that living creatures they stood up was the entire world….”
Ibaeran watched the creature with eyes filled with awe and amaze before flying past them, moving at forwarder in to the world and flying high in to the sky. Once there she greeted by even more breathtaking sight.
“….the sky above was just as alive and magnificent as the earth and seas below. Brim with creatures and life I never thought nor could I ever comprehend to ever exist before I witnessed it for myself. From strange birds with six to eight pairs of wings, to strange creature with root like appendages that resembled a tree but was as white as snow, it’s massive body staying afloat high above the Kiri Dumoian sky thanks massive puffs of air it release from underneath it roots. I was really a marvel to behold, a Sky Tree that stood firmly on the sky above with roots spread across the clouds…”
Ibaeran at the wonders the Kiri Dumoian skies had to offer, spotting the birds that flew across the sky with their colorful feather and numerous wings along with the elegant Sky Trees that seemed to have defied all logic, being so massive and yet was able to stand firmly on something as delicate as a cloud. Ibaeran then sensed something moving below her, hidden away by the white clouds underneath her feet. She could sense it drawing nearer, moving closer and closer until it was right underneath her. It then immerged, a massive mouth wide open with filled to the brim with razor sharp teeth, ready to chump, tear apart, and devour anything it catches in between its jaws.
The jaws of the clamped shut, trapping an entire flock of birds with it and turning them in to the meal of the massive creature that just emerged out from the clouds. Ibaeran let out a sigh of relief, thankful that she managed to fly out of the massive creature’s jaws. She then watched as it devoured the float of birds, clamping its mouth shut before swallowing in them whole. Looking at how those poor birds met their within the jaws of the massive creatures, Ibaeran help but feel sorry of them.
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Ibaeran was entirely sure why she felt bad for those birds after all their death came as consequence of a single law that seemed to universal across all worlds, all those born small, frail, weak, and powerless are destined to meet their end, fall, or submit to those bigger, stronger, and for more powerful than them. It was savage law but that seemed not just to be true in her world but in Kiri Dumo as well, weak would always be destined to devoured by the strong. But even though that seemed to be a fundamental law that reigned true over world outside hers, some without her couldn’t bring herself to accept it. It felt wrong even though seemed right to world she came from and was law she obeyed her entire life, and even after gained the immense of the Su Baera, she still couldn’t bring herself to break that one law.
Ibaeran then let out a deep sigh, before extended out her steel wings and flying away while thinking about her she was no different from those birds, a small, weak, and powerless little thing, consumed by something bigger, stronger, and more powerful than her or at the very least, that was how she felt any way .
Ibaeran flew further and further in to Kiri Dumo, ignoring her surrounding and only focusing on her mission, to get to the center of Kiri Dumo and retrieve the Dumo Stone. But as she flew across the vast world of Kiri Dumo, feeling the breeze blowing around her, she couldn’t stop herself from pondering to herself, ‘Just what exactly am I doing’.
It wasn’t like she didn’t know the answer to her question but something in her just couldn’t accept it. There she was, flying across a foreign world on a mission to free her people but was that really what she was doing. Thinking back to her time in the palace, recalling the king, his ruthless and savagery even to his own, she couldn’t help but ponder to herself on if there was truly any guaranty that such a mad man, drunk of his own pride and power would truly keep his promise and let her people go. But even with this lingering doubt in her mind, Ibaeran couldn’t help but cling on to the belief that there was no other way, she had to obey his king for her people’s sake, for her sake, that was she kept telling herself, again and again as she continued soaring through the Kiri Dumoian skies in an attempt to push away the lingering doubt in her heart hold on tightly to a hope that felt more false than true.
Ibaeran, after flying for what felt like forever, found, seated on the waters down below, a small patch of green. Ibaeran then, with a curious look on her face, wondering if she had finally made it to the center of Kiri Dumo, descended down to patch of green down below.
Her feet slowly made contact with green ground before they stood firmly on it and upon doing so the steel wings on her back vanish. Ibaeran then looked at the strange land that surrounded her with her eyes immediately fixed on a single point. It was single large tree, the only tree on the island, towering over her, whose roots were spread out, tangling and intersecting form the island’s earth, and at the very center of the tree was a small green stone that glowed bright with a radiant emerald green light. Ibaeran then looked at the ground below her feet, seeing that tangled roots that formed it before recalling what happened in the forest a while after she released the power of the Su Baera to protect herself from the Balayifribos and the chasm she formed that seemed almost as though it was bottomless. Recalling how roots sprouted out from the sides of the chasm, sealing it shut and restoring the forest back to it normal state. Recall that, Ibaeran couldn’t help but wonder if everything in the entirety of Kiri Dumo was connected and held together by the roots from that single tree.
Ibaeran snapped out of her thoughts, recalling why had traveled Kiri Dumo, to save her people. Ibaeran then spotted the glowing emerald green stone and upon laying her eyes on it felt something strange but yet familiar flow through. It was a primal and innate feeling, one which words could not do justice to descried, Ibaeran felt it flow through her entire body, making her pound like never before and filling her with a drive she had never felt before. It was an intimate feeling that felt familiar but yet strange at the same time, it was feeling she could vaguely recall from the very moment she was conceived in her mother’s womb. Like a breath of fresh air, racing through an open field, or even soaring through the sky, an intense feeling shared by every single living thing from plants, to wild beasts, and even people, everything lived across not just Kiri Dumo but all worlds, including hers, it was life itself.
Ibaeran then took a step forward, her gaze still lock on the green stone, wondering if what she was feeling emanating from the stone was truly the essence of life itself, if that single small little green glowing stone was truly what she sought after, the Dumo stone, the source of the ultimate power of life. But as Ibaeran was about to reach out and grab hold of the stone, roots and vines sprout out from the tree and attached themselves to the stone before beginning to twist, tangle, and merge to together to form a human like body, a body that Ibaeran recognized immediately upon seeing it.