Free Web NovelChapter 36: The Prophecy
All the memories came pouring into Leo’s brain at once , sending stings of pain through his head like it was about to explode.
Leo started seeing images of what happened years ago, visions of what Gara was before the Meta Humans gave him the title of Lord. But from what Leo could gather, the man had a terrible life. It even made his own life back on Earth look like a stroll in the park.
Before the Humans, Valoria’s ground was covered by huge egg-shaped buildings, the common style of house’s for every Meta Human at that time. Children sparred outside beneath the sunlight, their immature third eyes on their foreheads still closed.
As the sunlight continuously poured on them It made their bodies flourish. Shine bright like some kind of mirrors reflecting the sun’s light.
Among those ordinary children was a sixteen-year-old boy named Gara.
The effects where children under eighteen got abilities in Valoria were already taking place by then, and luckily enough Gara awakened. But unlike humans, the Meta Humans didn’t have system screens that showed them how much they had progressed. They had nothing but themselves. They trained by killing the beings they found on the Floors. No one knew why, but the more beasts they killed, the stronger they became.
As the words of intelligent men say, the stronger you become, the farther you drift away from the people around you. Gara’s technique was the perfect example of that.
No matter what he touched, the object turned to ash.
Not to get it twisted, it was a game-changing ability whenever they fought against the enemies who came to conquer Valoria because of its strange nature of granting abilities. But when all of that was said and done, and they returned home, all the smiles and waves people once gave him turned into frowns and fearful stares.
Gara never said anything about it, nor did he try to change their minds. If he tried to convince them otherwise, it would’ve only made the situation worse.
Among their kind, the only ones who weren’t scared of him were his father and one girl from the village. But unlucky as it was, she died a few weeks later when she forced herself into his bed and he accidentally touched her body.
Broken-hearted, Gara blamed himself, cursing his own name over and over again until, at last, he asked his father to seal him away into never to see the light of day.
Suddenly the whole vision crumbled in Leo’s eyes as endless darkness formed at the end of the memory.
Leo could still feel the sorrow that Gara had carried the whole way, the loneliness, the stares, they all cringed to his heart like glue.
Another light appeared, this time showing him visions of what happened when the Founder came to Valoria. They weren’t lord Gara’s personal memories so the quality had degraded alittle.
The founder was a muscular and simple man. His face had been all over the internet and on TV when he claimed to have discovered a way to transfer people into another world.
Unlike back on earth, their was something different about the version of the Founder he was seeing. He had an ominous look on his face. His hair glowed too, not like expensive hair oil type , but as if he possessed some kind of divine power.
Gara’s father, along with Aisha and Alex, who were just inexperienced teenagers at the time, stepped forward to welcome him.
But all they received in return were flames.
The Founder killed most of them within minutes all over valoria . The Meta Humans tried to fight back, but all their efforts were futile and incomparable to the Founder’s strength.
Just witnessing it all made Leo shed a tear.
To survive, they fled into the Floors with everything they were strong enough to carry. Among those possessions were the keys to unsealing Gara.
After fighting every beast they encountered, they finally stopped on Floor Number Twenty-Five.
It wasn’t the best, but it still had conditions similar to the surface—water, sunlight, and forests that stretched endlessly.
They managed to rest, but only for a short while.
The forest eventually gave up on them. The energy they received from the sun there only made them weaker instead of nourishing their bodies.
At that point, they had no choice. Tired of waiting for the prophecy their divine god, Masa, had given them, they reached out to the most powerful of their kind.
Gara.
The awakening process took about two years to fully work.
When Gara emerged, he was disturbed and saddened by everything that had happened.
But he was a man of action.
He trained the others in the arts of war and selected the most promising among them, including Aisha and Alex, the two subordinates he later took to the surface.
That’s it, right? You were just trying to help your kind.
Swoosh!
An invisible force pulled Leo away from the memories until, at last, he opened his eyes back in Valoria.
Pain still throbbed inside his head, his veins expanding and contracting as blood flowed through them.
Leo gazed around the room.
He wasn’t on the battlefield where he had collapsed.
He was inside a private hospital room.
"You’re awake, Master!"
Vegor’s excited voice echoed inside his mind.
"Vegor!"
"You’re at the Breakers Headquarters, Master. You’ve been asleep for five days!"
Leo’s body tensed instantly.
Shit... the fight.
"It ended, sir. After you killed Lord Gara, you fainted. His subordinates are nowhere to be seen either."
A little comfort settled into Leo’s mind. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
He stayed quiet for a while, reevaluating everything he had seen in Gara’s memories.
Indecisiveness filled his mind.
He didn’t know whether they had all been lies or the truth. But his heart leaned toward the latter, so he didn’t dwell on it for long.
What troubled him now was what to do about the infection.
He thought about it for a few seconds before another headache forced him to stop.
Searching for a fresh pair of clothes, he realized all he had on was a blue hospital uniform.
He searched the drawers until he found his old dirty clothes and quickly put them on.
Just outside his room stood the two Horsemen who had chased him away when he had been suspended indefinitely.
They looked embarrassed, as though they wanted to apologize for their rudeness but didn’t know how.
"The officials are waiting for you, sir."
One of them finally gathered enough courage to speak as he bowed.
Leo didn’t refuse. He followed them until they entered the same massive room where more than a hundred officials were discussing loudly.
But the moment Leo stepped inside, every voice fell silent.
One of the Horsemen quickly pulled out a chair for him.
Every gaze in the room turned toward Leo as if he were some kind of superstar.
"Welcome back, Sir Leo."
The master of ceremonies began once Leo had settled into his seat.
Leo simply nodded back.
"Right now, we were discussing how to proceed with the new information we’ve gathered—that the Meta Humans are on Floor Number Twenty-Five. We couldn’t reach a decision, but now that you’re here, our next move depends on your words."
He paused.
"Should we attack... and finish off the Meta Humans?"
