Burning Soul

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‘Ah! I have to get even stronger huh,

wait with all this yelling and screaming I can’t’

Theo touched his forehead as he felt a bit of pain building up while Aeneas kept yelling at him.

“Oye, you there?

Can you hear me?

It’s morning already!

Did you get a good night's sleep?

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You there?”

Hearing his cries, he couldn’t bear any longer,

“Yeah!

I’m here and sound, could you not pipe down a little.

It's so early in the morning?”

Hearing him answer Aeneas replied right away,

“Ah finally I got through you,

you up for the first kill today kid,

damn it took me a lot of bribing to get him to agree on this so,

let’s do this,

shall we?

Also, prepare some good food,

I’m coming to see for myself how you fight!”

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Hearing this he was in an awkward state as he had already taken out 4 of the camps, now he wanted to show how he fights, this one’s not going to go smoothly.

Even after knowing this, he let Aeneas come to his place, the problems he would need to deal with, he could deal with later too.

Right now, making both of them suspicious of his actions wasn’t a good thing, and if Aeneas was going to come over, he could deal with him more easily.

‘Well then, let’s see what can be done’ thinking that he got up from the tent.

He hadn’t forgotten what he saw in the dream earlier this morning, though it wasn't just a dream!

‘Get stronger and move to the North-East! Easier said than done huh!’ He had it running in the back of the mind.

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After getting everything ready, he was prepared to welcome Aeneas, it had been a while since they met, it was unclear to Theo what he was up to until now, but it was safe to assume that he was preparing for something that’d help him train.

For now, he could only hope for the best.

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Later that afternoon he prepared everything that he was told to and was now waiting for him to come.

He remembered what the Guardian told him in his dream.

There were certainly many questions on his mind but for now, he could only think, he didn't have answers to everything apparently, he had quite a lot of time.

In this illusionary world of Skadi, he had been there for only a month or so he had a lot of time to train and get stronger as after stepping out of this world there were many hardships that he had to face. Many unknown enemies were lurking around to fight with them. He had to get stronger do not become a burden on anyone else.

As of now, he has been able to take out 4 camps now the things are looking serious as with each camp the number of enemies and their strength will gradually increase.

For now, he had been able to somehow take care of it, but he knew for sure that his skill was not up to his expectations.

He had been only training on the dummies, and the enemy outside of this world was a lot stronger and smarter.

‘From here on how I fight will decide if I live or die, but most importantly what is the reason that everyone is asking me?

Is there really any?

Is fighting for my kin is not enough of a reason?

I think once we get to the ‘Temple of origins’ I'll know for myself.

Until then the only thing I can do is get better at everything, I have to figure out what reason I am going to give to him, I know he's a little bit dumb, but he can be smarter useless things I just hope that he doesn't freak out.’

A lot was goIng on his mind, also he had to prepare for the next journey.

Now that he was assured by The Guardian about his people, he could extend his journey a bit and understand the whole situation in depth.

He was following instructions for now,

Someone said this so let's do this and then someone said that so let’s do that! This wasn't going to work any longer.

After all moving aimlessly wasn't going to cut!

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The only thing that baffled him that he was experiencing events that he had never heard of! May it be Serena or Skadi’s world or now this Guardian thing!

This was all too new for him, and just blindly trusting everyone and following their instructions wasn’t going to lead him anywhere.

But, the fact was, he just wasn't strong enough to challenge their will or wisdom, he lacked information and strength.

If going to Temple of Origins was going to lend him some, he had to take the chance!

“I should ask him as well!

Oddly, he is well informed in this regard!

It's just,

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He's an idiot!” Theo rubbed his forehead as he thought of the person, he was so immersed in thoughts that he almost didn't even sense him closing in!