《Celestial Journey》[Forest of Gradavur]

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In the middle of nowhere inside the Universe, drifting in the endless void, there lies a gigantic structure, a marble white pyramid, it's size unimaginable.

Within it's depth, a plain yet majestic hall, decorated by simple white pillars and white statues, their size impressive, these... only a build up to

what lies further in. A humongous throne up some monstrously huge stairs, on this throne one cannot miss the figure sitting on it, what seems to be a human being... if not for

the height that this 'human' possess. The figure appears to have been injured yet does not. Lodged inside his body, huge mythical looking artifacts stabbing the figure in the chest.

These artifacts' size being even more noticable by how much space they cover over this figure, this 'human' whose height appear to be in the millions of kilometers, at the very least.

The figure though, seems to be waking up from a deep slumber...

*Groans*

'That was a nice sleep if not for these stupid artifacts... If they are going to seal me, have the decency to give me a freaking pillow... Looking majestic makes my body stiff... not being able to move for two millions years... is probably the biggest factor...' Thought Alexander as he awoke from his forced nap.

Opening his eyes, he took a peek at what lays all around him.

'My hall is intact it seems, if not for my soldiers playing games all around me...'

Alexander looked puzzled at his soldiers of varying heights, playing games in a carefree manner, not paying attention to him, not that he could blame them.

*Weng*

*Rumble !*

As Alexander released a sliver of pressure from his body, enormous mysterious looking arrays started to shine a bright orange, illuminating their surroundings, they seemed to be protecting the infrastructure.

But what was changing even more were the attitude of the figures below, all trying their best to clean their mess and stand at attention near the pillars in a line.

"The Lord woke up !" Said a soldier playing cards. His silver armor making noises to his every moves.

"Quick ! If his majesty gets mad we'll be in trouble !!" Shuffled a tripping soldier, running towards the pillars, his awkward movements not diminishing his golden armor's magnificence.

"What are you doing ! We don't have time to pack, just throw the table in some other dimension !" Yelled a tall man in a shining azure armor, crushing a chair, leaving not even dust behind.

'Well... not that I expected them to stay in position for a couple millions years...' Thought Alexander as he released even more pressure to the despair of the arrays.

Sigh

Alexander could only sigh at his current situation.

'And here I thought I would know what to do after two millions years, I shouldn't expect such things, but what I expected which didn't happen, pissing me off the most, is my cultivation...

Ascension Realm 9th Layer... really now... two millions years... it's not like I am below the 2nd Layer, I am constantly increasing my cultivation base, why is it still stuck there !?

At least my Inner World has grown well, so much must have happened since then, I should check it out later. Now that I think about it, I should be around 16 millions years old now... I'm still quite young fortunately.' Rambled Alexander in his mind, still assessing his current situation.

*Spurt*

Blood spurted out of Alexander's body as he started removing the artifacts inside his chest.

Pssssh

A hissing sound resonated throughout the hall as the wounds caused by the artifacts healed in instants, leaving no trace behind.

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'They didn't lose any power, except for the sealing arrays on them... Still usable.' Thought Alexander, removing the last artifact from his chest.

"Hey take these artifacts and distribute them among yourselves !" Said Alexander to his soldiers, his voice echoing inside their heads.

"Right away sir !" Yelled a bearded man.

By his shining azure armor that appeared to be rarer than the silver and even golden armors, one could tell his important status.

"Alright, while you guys have fun with that, I'll go out a bit."

Alexander then stood up, got down the stairs and left the hall, his every step shaking the entire hall.

"Nice view... we are clearly far from my territory, and this place, how deep down are we, this is clearly an average galaxy, what is this world there... Tier-4 ?"

Alexander raised his brow before shaking his head in disdain.

"Not in the mood to spy on them, don't want to see them masturbate to themselves even though they are what, Nascent Soul Realm dogs ?" Said Alexander, looking at a green colored world some distance away from his balcony.

"Look at me, Nascent Soul Realm talentless garbage, greatest in the Universe, oh yes, I love stroking to my cultivation base in the mirror..." Exagerated Alexader, not paying attention to the soldier behind him.

"Sir, what may you be doing ?" Questioned a soldier in azure armor, quite intrigued by his master's behaviour.

"I'm practicing my Nascent Soul Realm acting ! Or maybe I'm just spitting at their inflated egos..." Answered Alexander.

'Aren't you the same though ?' Was the first thought crossing the soldier's mind.

"You're thinking that I'm the same aren't you ? Well yes I am ! But at least I have the might to back it up !" Confidently spoke Alexander flailing his arms up in the air, clearly aware of his soldier's thoughts, much to the soldier's astonishment.

"Is that so ?" Said a voice booming from above the balcony, drifting in space.

"Oh come on, I fucking jinxed it !" Cried out Alexander, clearly recognizing the voice's owner.

"Mean of you to associate me to such omens..." Whimped the voice in a sarcastic manner.

"Mean of you to barge in here without my invitation ! Do you not take the Heavenly Way's rules to heart ?"

"I do, and that is why you are still unscathed..."

"Alright then, what do you want fuck face ?"

*Crack*

The voice's owner clearly unhappy with what it heard, released pressure on the surroundings, endommaging the balcony, completely ignoring the futile attempts of the arrays protecting it.

"Quite the way you have with words to describle my beauty." Said an obviously irritated man with short spiked hair glowing a fiery orange, dressed in a deep green robe, his height similar to Alexander's.

"Of course, I wouldn't want to anger you, I mean, what can you do, go call for your friends, seal me again and get punished by the Heavenly Way, or beat me up knowing I am immortal." Teasingly said Alexander not bothering to restrain his smirk from showing.

"Then I guess I'll beat you up !" Yelled the man while rushing towards Alexander, exuding his might at the 10th Layer of the Ascension Realm, revealing his identity as a true powerhouse of the Universe !

*Boom !*

With explosions constently reverberating across the galaxy as the fight between two of the strongest entities of the Universe have at it. The shockwaves enough to destroy everything in sight, including entire worlds. Because of this mess multiple worlds end up suffering a terrible fate.

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Though... it didn't take long for Alexander to start losing, his body still stiff from his previously sealed state and of lower cultivation than his opponent.

"Tsk, aren't you too old to bully juniors ?" Spat out Alexander, clearly unafraid of his opponent's downpour of blows on him.

"No, not really..." Rebuked the supposedly old man, his hair fluttering like a flame, as he punched Alexander below him with all his might, crushing both his body and soul.

*Rumble*

"Well then, with this little gift I snuck inside his body... he will probably be pissed." Said the man with an arrogant smirk, clearly aware that his opponent cannot be killed.

-----

Meanwhile, falling down the Universe's beautiful scenery, a lump of flesh, suddenly start to change shape until it looks like the lower half of a human body.

Albeit a 'bit' bigger than most... It doesn't take long before the rest of the body start reforming out of nothing and so does the soul, invisible to the untrained eye.

'Man this bitch really hit me hard, I'm going so fast...'

'Wait, this burned head put a seal on my body !'

'It's not significant enough for the Heavenly Way to care for it... you sly old man !'

Alexander could not help cursing in his heart as he could tell what functions this seal had, ignoring the loud and powerful shockwaves appearing all around him every so often.

'I'll have to stay as stiff as a statue until I can remove it... Also when do I land, I already crashed into so many worlds, everything around me is getting weaker and weaker...'

Thought Alexander, crashing on and destroying some more worlds in the middle of his thoughts.

'I'm so slow now, even though I am heavy, my clothes already regenerated, with their arrays they should be able to manage my weight accordingly, I hope I land soon, it has already been a few weeks...'

'Oh ! I should be able to land on any world now, even the low tier ones ! Just to be sure let's see if I can change my size...'

*Shine*

A bright light suddenly shone from Alexander's body as his previously gigantic body starts to get smaller and smaller each instant, only for it to stop a few minutes later.

'I did it ! The seal still limited it though, I'm what, 30 meters tall now...'

*Boom !*

'Yes ! I land-'

*Weng*

Before Alexander could finish his thought, the seal on his body started to glow an eerie purple before the change could be felt.

'... I can't see... I can't hear... I can't feel..., what kind of vicious seal did he put on me, having a delayed system inside, I can't even use my divine sense...'

-----

In a dense and ominous forest somewhere... two men, a young and an old, in ragged clothes, are collecting herbs.

"Hey ! D-Did you see that ?" Said a mudded young man.

"About that falling thing ? We better leave it, probably a rock, and we both know that something so big is not easy to miss !" Answered the old man with dirty rags for clothes as he kept picking up some more herbs.

"B-But this is the middle of the forest of Gradavur ! Isn't it known for it's size and lack of population ? There is probably no one in a ten kilometers radius ! What if it's something valuable ! We could become rich ! Then we won't need to live like this ! All we do is search for edible plants just to survive another day, I'm sick of this !"

"And so am I ! But is it worth the trouble, going so far ..? Look how far it is !"

"Can't we at least try ?! We don't have anything else to do !" Pleaded the young man.

"Are you crazy ?! It's the middle of the day ! Going so far then coming back, it will be night midway ! I don't want to end up in a monster's stomach ! Do you want to see a wraith ?!"

"An old thing like you... did you already give up ? If you don't go, I'll go myself !"

"H-Hey ! Come back young man ! Ahhh... screw this !"

The young man being so stubborn, the old man could only give up, forcing himself to run after him.

"Hey ! Wait for me !"

-----5 hours later-----

"We're here..." Shushed the young man. Standing near the end of a cliff.

"Seriously... If I die tonight, I'll haunt you till' you can't fall sleep !" Strongly said the old man, following right behind the young man.

The old man was already annoyed to begin with, following the young man deep into the forest of Gradavur, known for it's lethal dangers at night, when the distance to the 'rock' seemed so far away.

Let alone the fact that passing through such a dangerous place meant taking detours and walking slowly, avoiding dangers, as it clearly meant it would be night by then !

Shuffle

"Alright we should be able to see better here."

After the excited young man pushed some bushes to the side, he could finally take in the view behind. But much to his surprise, the 'rock' was not what it seemed.

"Yes well, seeing a stupid rock sure is-"

"L-Look !! What i-i-is this ?!!" Screamed the young man in shock, not caring in the slightest about interrupting his elder, as he pointed his finger forward.

"You scared me ! What's wrong with you all of a sudden ?"

"Look ! Just look !!"

"Alright, alright, what could've made-"

"..."

"..."

The two men looked at each other speechless, as the view was strange and unexpected to say the least...

Further down the two men could see, in a gigantic crater, what appeared to be a young man with long silver hair, lying still on his back, his eyes closed.

How could they not be surprised, as all they expected were either treasures or... rocks...

"What do we do now ? Let me tell you straight that there is simply no way for me to get closer to 'that' !!" The old man said, being the first to have recovered from his shock.

The old man's outburst awoke the young man from his blank look as he realised that there didn't seem to be any free treasures up for the taking, after some thoughts the young man suddenly started going back.

"Are you going back ?" Curiously ask the old man, his voice possessing a tinge of excitement and relief upon seeing the young calamity finally getting back to his senses.

Unfortunately, his fiery happiness was soon extinguished by the young man's next words.

"No ? Do you really expect me to go down that cliff by jumping down ? I'm just looking for a path downwards."

With some incredulity in his eyes, the old man could not help roaring out loud.

"You brat ! Is that not enough, I even went with you, without me how can you get back ! Give some relief to my old heart and let's go back home ! I refuse to stay here any longer ! I'm going back and you better come with me !"

The young man's expression quickly turned sour.

"Then why did you follow me here in the first place ?" The young man's anger could clearly be felt in his words along with some confusion.

'If you want to stay home, then stay home ! Why follow me here then ?! You dont make any sense old man !'

"Brat ! Why would I let you die in this forest, I don't want to stay alone in the forest of Gradavur, and I doubt you want to as well, let alone how boring it would be, it would not be safe even if we were a group of 15 let alone just the two of us !"

"If you die I might as well be doomed even if I go back !"

"Then follow me down !" Shouted the young man further down the cliff.

Hearing this response, the old man had a look of disbelief on his face as he stared down towards the young man's direction, only seeing dense vegetation blocking his path.

"..."

'Screw you !'

With a red face and veins popping at the edge of his forhead, the old man simply walked back home, cursing in his heart at the young man's foolishness.

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