“kraa! Now you know my true might! When I have become the new ruler of this forest you will go and tell the mortal races of my might and then they will sing of my name!” Comrozz said not once having looked down towards Aura.

“why do you calling us mortal races? Magical beasts can also die so why was are we mortal?” Aura dared to ask as her curiosity was eating away at her.

“kraa! Because your kind has only been around for a few thousand years while we the magical beasts were ancient long before that! We saw the birth of all the mortal races and we will see their end as well, that is why we call you mortals! Comrozz explained.

Aura slowly absorbed what she had been told. “where are we heading and how long will the trip take?” Aura asked feeling this was something she should have asked long ago.

“we are going towards my new home the heart of the forest and it will take me around four more months to get there, for a mortal like you it would be impossible to reach the heart even in a hundred lifetimes” Comrozz answered.

“the Heart… this must be where the kings live… I can’t believe I get to enter the domain of the kings themselves. But still for it to take four more months with this speed, the endless forest sure live up to its name.” Aura thought as she looked down onto the forest.

Aura had long ago gotten used to the loud thunder which came whenever Comrozz flapped his large wings. She also didn’t think I was as bad here so close to him as she had expected it to be.

“but still I wonder what I should do in these four months… maybe I should try to cultivate. It might be hard to do while also keeping the winds at bay. But I might as well try I don’t think I have anything else to do” Aura thought to herself. As her bad habit of talking with herself was kept under control by her fear that she might anger Comrozz.

At first, Aura had a large deal of trouble with cultivation as every time she tried, her soul force would retract, this caused her to be knocked unconscious many times. And it was not until she had been trying for more than three weeks she finally began to have some progress.

“BY THE KINGS! The essences is so thick here!” Aura screamed in shock as she for the first time managed to enter the stage of meditation needed to cultivate. Her excitement of doing this had been short lived as the essences here was more than ten times thicker than what it was back at the endless forest sect.

“kraa! You think this is special? Kraa within the deep forest and the heart it is many thousand times higher than out in the mortal lands! Of course, the heart is richer in essences than any other place in the world! And the foolish cowardly so-called kings dare not even enter it! It is wasted on them! Kraa” Comrozz said after Auras outcry.

Hearing this truly shocked Aura, after all, did this not mean she could cultivate more than a thousand times faster if she entered the deep forest.

“more than a thousand times the amount of essences in the deep forest? Forget about entering the sixth realm! Even the tenth realm would not be hard! With this, I can become a grand Elder of the sect when I return!” Aura thought to herself and without even listening to the rest Comrozz was saying went right back to try to cultivate again.

Time quickly went by with Aura spending most of her time in meditation, she did whoever not cultivate as fast as she had hoped to. This was mostly because of the insane flying speed that caused a need for a small soul force barrier at all times, she was not used to this kind of duel soul force and meditation so she would often slip in one or the other.

Three months had passed since Aura had been picked up by Comrozz, and she had just entered the seventh level of the fourth realm. She had however in her excitement lost control of her soul force barrier and fallen unconscious once more, this had happened more times then Aura cared to even try to remember. If it was not the excitement over a breakthrough then it was a shock over the ever increasing amount of essences that ended up as the course of her being knocked out.

Aura slowly woke up with a smile of a face, at first, she was sad that even though the essences was so plentiful here she could not cultivate properly because she was traveling. She had long since come to terms with that and now just waited for the day they would land. She had come up with a few ways to trick Comrozz to let her stay and cultivate for a bit before being sent home.

Satisfied with the breakthrough, Aura once more closed her eyes to cultivate. But only a moment after she did this she was interrupted by Comrozz coming to a sudden stop.

Aura looked towards Comrozz and then followed the thunder crows gaze down towards the ground.

What she saw was no longer a sea of green but instead massive trees, they must have been hundreds of meters tall. Though she could not see whatever Comrozz was seeing, all she saw was massive trees all around her with no end to them.

after a few moments, Comrozz seems to have made a decision and began to fly towards the Center of the forest once more.

Within Auras mind a battle raged between her curiosity and fear, after a few moments her curiosity won the battle and she asked. “what was it you saw down there?”

“it was a Mythic beast, most have been the king of the south. Though I don’t know what she would be doing this far from the heart. None the less I won’t go fight her here, no instead I will go make the heart my nest! Then she will either come and fight me or she will bow before my might!” Cromrozz answered after a few minutes of silence.

“a king here? I kinda wish I could have seen her. But then again I doubt I would have lived for long after meeting her” Aura thought to herself looking towards the ground, but she once more saw nothing but a sea of green.

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so a few words from me. firstly this ended up taking a lot longer than it should have. my plan was to make Lily join the story at around chapter 5. and yeah as you might have guessed by now that didnt really work out for me.

i think i warned people back in chapter 2 or something that it would be a tad slow. so i really didnt fail to deliver on that now did i.

none the less. we will soon meet Lily, and the story will start.

yep i just said it will start. and by that i mean that is still have yet to start.

so somehow or another ended up with an around 20 chapter long prolog...

on other news i went back over all the already posted chapters and did some fixing here and there.