His 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.
Moku shuddered in fear.
With frozen facial muscles and stiff lips.
Moku stamred.
"W...w..what a.a...are yo..o..ou?" His tongue was bitten from forcing it to speak, blood drip out from between his lips.
"You know who I am" Garuda replied.
"G..G..Garuda?!" Moku tried hard to calm himself down but his cold shivering body was still shaking violently.
"Garuda? it's already a long ti soone call with that na." Garuda looked up at the sky.
However, in this place there is no sky, only emptiness.
Garuda took a deep breath, looked back down at Moku and asked "Are you his descendants?"
His gaze and tone of voice showed that he missed eting whoever it was he thought was Moku's ancestor.
"Who?" Moku managed to calm himself down.
"No you are not. If you are, then it's impossible for us to et at this place" Garuda answered his own question.
"Did anyone else call you 'Garuda' before ?" Moku asked.
"Yeah.. He's still very young at that ti. He told that he had sworn not to eat before he ruled the world, so he ca to asking for strength. That kid is so brave and stupid! HAHAHAHAHAHA
I wonder if he has stopped fasting or not. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Garuda's thunderous laughter shook the subconscious realm.
His flapping wings darkened the entire realm.
Even the golden light from the gate beca dim and extinguished.
Moku again shivered in fear. This was the first creature he knew that he had no chance of winning at all if they fought.
Maybe even one breath of his can make Moku's body crumble to dust.
It was natural for Moku's body to shiver in fear.
"Ah! I'm Sorry, that's a good mory of mine always make laugh whenever I rember it. So who are you and what kind are you?" Garuda stopped laughing and closed his wings again.
Suddenly the light re-illuminates the realm.
"I..I..I'm Moku, an orc" Moku replied.
"Alright Moku, I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask. However, you don't have long ti to stay in this place.
So I will only explain it once.
I am known by many nas Wainateya, Suparṇna, Garutmān, Garuda, and so on, but my job from the very beginning was one, naly guarding the gates between worlds." Garuda seems proud of his duty.
"Since the beginning of ti there have been three elents that govern the world. These three elents act in their respective realms and keep it 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 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 realm and I could not enter into that realm. Just as a painting cannot live and beco an astral being.
All beings will remain in their respective realms, not only because your body will be destroyed but also because the path has been blocked.
Since the first astral beings descended to earth, the path connecting the astral and spiritual realms was closed.
But you astral beings are very creative and greedy, you are not satisfied with just the vastness and beauty of your realm. You find another detour to the spiritual realm.
You found us." Garuda looked at Moku with both disgust and admiration.
Like soone who says he is a very brave person, then there is challenged, if he brave enough to bathe in a puddle of feces.
Without thinking the brave threw himself into the puddle of feces. With a body full of feces the brave cheered and proclaid his bravery.
The challenger will look at the brave with both disgust and admiration. So disgusting is the brave that it makes the challenger amazed.
"You have succeeded in making a new path into the spiritual realm, you have nad it by many things, just as you have nad by many nas.
But for you, I know if you know it better with the na Mount Lawu." Garuda stopped and smiled.
Moku gaped, he knew about Mount Lawu and the legends around it. 'Is the legend true?' Moku wanted to ask that but Garuda didn't give him a chance and continued to explain.
"There are three peaks of Mount Lawu, each from a mountain peak, signifying the pinnacle of attainnt of the three realms.
Hargo Dalem, symbolizing the peak of the astral realm.
Hargo Dumiling, symbolizing the peak of the mind realm.
Hargo Dumilah, symbolizing the peak of the spiritual realm.
Now you have successfully climbed to the top of Hargo Dalem. To continue your ascent, you must pass through the gate behind .
The stairs you see are mountain passes and the gates are guard posts for the climbers. We call these climbers Mokhsa.
Every Mokhsa must have a guide, the guide is the first Mokhsa to reach the resting point or reach the top of the mountain.
Guides are those who determine the price for opening the gates and negotiate with the gatekeepers.
You Moku, you are a guide. Guides of all Mokhsa of your kind.
I Garuda, I am a gatekeeper. The guard of the peak of Hargo Dalem and the gate to the peak of Hargo Dumiling" Garuda stopped talking and smiled slyly.
The face of the dashing knight turned into the face of a rchant waiting for a good deal.
"So you're saying that I as a Guide will determine the price that I and all the orcs will have to pay upon crossing the peak of Hargo Dalem and opening the gate to the mind realm?" Moku confird.
"That's Right!" Garuda nodded quickly.
"Why don't I just beat you and enter without paying?" Moku asked.
"Hmm... beat ?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAYHAHAHA" Garuda laughed so loudly, he seed to hear the funniest joke he had ever heard.
A great laughter rumbled throughout the realm.
The light turned dim again, the world was again trapped in the darkness.
"Hah.. hah.. I'm Sorry, I didn't know you had a joke as funny as this. hahahah.. hah.. hah.. well, if you're serious about it, I'll tell you sothing.
You who are now even though there are 1000.. 10,000.. 1,000,000.. hmm... even 1,000,000,000 of you will not be able to scratch my feather.
You're not even as strong as an ant in my eyes, they can still bite, while you?? well.. it's not I bla you, sotis the height of the mountain will look small when viewed from afar.
In conclusion, the current you will not be able to dream of defeating .
So the only way is to pay" Garuda returned to his rchant face.
Moku also knows that his strength and Garuda's are very different, but he never thought it would get that far.
"What do I have to pay?" Moku asked.
"You have to pay for it with sin!" replied Garuda.
"Sin?" Moku is confused.
"Yes a sin. Once you pay for it you will not be able to sin again." replied Garuda.
"Sin? Isn't sin a bad thing? Why do you want to be paid for with sin?" Moku is getting confused.
"..hm.. Sin?.. Bad?.. fufufufuahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
You astral beings are truly ignorant and ungrateful.
You always ask 'if God is all-loving, why did he create evil?'
You astral beings are truly ignorant and ungrateful.
God did not create evil but he allowed it to exist, evil is the result of your inability to control the sins.
They should be a blessing to you. Blessings that make you feel alive, happy, and full of passion.
You astral beings are truly ignorant and ungrateful.
They should be tools for you. A tool to make the world a better place, a world where you are the leader of it.
But instead of you being able to control them, you are being controlled by them.
You astral beings are truly ignorant and ungrateful.
How can you feel love without lust?
How can you feel happy without pride?
How can you feel ownership without envy?
How can you feel like protecting without wrath?
How can you feel like growing without greed?
How can you feel peace without sloths?
How can you feel unique without gluttony?
You astral beings are truly ignorant and ungrateful.
Without all of them you will only be like . Standing in front of this gate since the first astral beings were created." Garuda looked at Moku with both hate and... envy?
"That's why I am very happy with you astral beings, you are never satisfied with God's gifts and always want more.
You create a path to the spiritual realm.
Every ti you pass , I will get sin as paynt, I can finally feel, hungry, sad, hate, excited, love, and happy." Garuda looked up and drooled, as if he couldn't wait to eat the most delicious food in the world.
"But—" Moku wanted to deny Garuda's statent.
However, a feather on Garuda's wing moved and all the air caught in Moku's throat. His lips beca frozen shut and he could no longer speak.
"I told you you don't have much ti in this place. Tell what sin you will pay to pass through this gate.
and rember, every Moksha of your kind who passes through this gate in the future will have to pay the sa sin." Garuda warned.
Moku was silent and thought.
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