Boku opened his eyes and saw the sa gate he saw during the first evolution. But this ti there was a large creature standing in front of the gate.
The creature had a golden body, a white face, and red wings. Its beak is like that of an eagle, but its body is like that of a human. Every inch of his body displayed an unimaginable power.
With his sharp eyes, he looked at Boku.
Boku knew who this celestial being in front of him was, the ruler of the Mind Realm, Garuda.
"Congratulations on successfully opening the second evolutionary gate and reviving your stabilizer room"
Before Boku could collect his voice, Garuda's great voice rumbled.
The echo vibrates every cell in the body of the person who hears it. Making the flowing blood swish, they churned at the voice of an extraordinary being. The hairs on his neck stood up as if it was afraid to look lazy in front of the ruler of the sky.
Boku shuddered in fear.
With frozen facial muscles and stiff lips. Boku stamred.
"T...Than...Thank you!"
Garuda examined Boku from head to toe. Even though Boku couldn't read the expression on the bird's face, for so reason he felt Garuda was satisfied with what he saw.
"Do you want to ask sothing?" kata Garuda.
"N..No" Boku stamred.
He still couldn't control his body which was shivering with fear. Even though he knew that Garuda did not intend to harm him, his body's natural reaction could not be stopped like he saw the creature at the top of the food chain.
*gulp!
Boku swallowed his saliva harshly.
He can see the movent in Garuda's facial muscles that pulls the corners of his lips upwards. It looked like he was smiling but once again, Boku couldn't read the expression on his bird's face.
"Okay then... As agreed by Moku, every orc race that arrives at Hargo Dalem must pay sin of sloth to ..." Garuda stopped here and squinted at Boku "Did you already know this?"
Boku's face turned pale and his body shivered with fear. Every movent made by Garuda made his heart beat so fast that it wanted to co out of his chest. If it weren't for the cold sweat running down the back of his neck, Boku would have thought that he was deeply in love with Garuda.
"y...ye...yes....M...Mo...Moku already explained it to us" Boku struggled to answer.
"Good... I don't need to explain anymore. Then let's start the paynt process." After saying that, Garuda's wings flapped. Boku saw one of its thousands of red feathers vibrate violently.
"Wa..wait a minute!" Boku pushed his voice out so it sounded squeaky.
"What is it?" Garuda stopped.
"Huft.. huft.. huft... I evolved and climbed Mount Lawu together with my brother. But when I got here I didn't see my brother anymore" Boku said quickly before his courage disappeared.
Boku and Goku did their second evolution together and they managed to activate the stabilizer room at the sa ti. But at this ti Boku was alone with Garuda at the top of Hargo Dalem.
He didn't see Goku at all and there was no way Goku had opened the second evolutionary gate before him.
"Your brother? Oh, do you an a big orc with a lecherous face?" said Garuda lightly.
"Y.. No? uh... yes" Boku hesitated because he thought Goku's face was not lecherous.
"He's also asking the sa thing as you! Hee... he has the sa worried expression as you" Garuda chuckled.
"What do you an?"
"What do I an? What I an is the brother you're talking about is standing in the sa place as you".
"hah?" Boku gasped and looked right, left, and behind him but he found nothing but a white floor and darkness around them.
His body got goosebumps not understanding what Garuda ant. Did Goku get killed and beco a ghost?
Before he scread and made himself a laughing stock, Garuda explained what he ant,
"Hmm... You don't seem to really understand the concept of the Mind Realm. Didn't Moku explain it to you? Well... That kid doesn't seem like soone who can explain sothing complicated well..."
"Since the beginning of ti, there have been three elents that govern the world. These three elents act in their respective realms and keep them in balance.
The three elents are Astral, Mind, and Spiritual.
The Astral Elent maintains the world you've been living in, where all things are balanced, every ti there is an action there will be a reaction. All things beco visible with your five senses and can be closely observed.
The Mind Elent is and I am the Mind Elent, we guard the world of shadows, ideas, fiction, illusions, and dreams.
We take care of all the things the astral being can imagine and put them together and then throw them back into the astral realm.
You will find it in the form of ideas and thoughts that you will later process and think about so that you can make a booster for the progress of your civilization.
The Spiritual Elent is where we all co from.
I was not given knowledge of that elent and I could not enter into that realm. Just as a painting cannot live and beco a third dinsion being."
"So, what you see and feel right now is not the original form of the actual form. All of this is only what you imagine as the true form.
The perception of space cannot be separated from the law of ti.
Soone can be in a place because he is at the sa ti. So it could be that soone is sowhere and we don't see him because he is not at the sa ti.
It is ti and place that govern the laws of existence in the Astral Realm, but the sa laws do not apply in the Mind Realm. As I said before, Mind Realm is a collection of ideas and thoughts.
Everyone's ideas and thoughts are different, even the sa body doesn't necessarily have the sa mind. Therefore two individuals with different thought waves could not possibly et in the Mind Realm.
The only way to be able to et each other in the Mind Realm is to beco a Mind being or create a place in the Mind Realm and then connect with the thought waves of the person you want to et. Hargo Dalem is my place and Mind Realm is my ho, that's why we can et in this place.
Do you understand now why even though you and your brother are in the sa place you can't see each other?"
Garuda looked at Boku with great anticipation, he was like a child waiting for a gift from his parents after answering a difficult question. However, Boku could not understand what Garuda was saying at all.
He felt himself to be one of the smartest orcs but right now he felt like he was talking to Luna as she explained so really complicated stuff. All of Garuda's words only entered from his left ear and left his right ear without leaving the slightest trace.
"aa..errr... No?"
"...."
"Okay, forget it. Your brother is fine, you will see him again when you guys return to the Astral Realm. Now it's ti for to collect my paynt"
This ti Garuda, who was frustrated, didn't take long to pull out a feather on his wing. The feather flew into the air and dived quickly to stab Boku's body. Boku felt as if his intestines were being pulled out of his stomach but the pain only lasted for a mont before disappearing.
Along with that, he lost sothing of himself but he didn't know what it was. Rembering Moku's previous stories, Boku knows that he has lost the Sin of Sloth. In the future, he will no longer be able to sleep and feel peace.
Garuda's feathers that had turned gray stuck back into his red wing. If you look closely, there are two gray feathers all over Garuda's red feathers indicating that Goku has also lost his Sin of Sloth.
"Open the gate," said Garuda in a commanding tone. He took a step to the side and made way for Boku to open the gate.
Boku, still feeling weak, limped towards the evolution gate, and with both hands, he pushed it open. The bright light shining on his body made him feel refreshed again.
Sothing had changed inside Boku but he didn't have the chance to feel what was different before his consciousness faded away.
Garuda's faint voice was heard from behind,
"Welco to the Mind Realm"
User Comments
0 comments from readers