Aiden's Diary: Soul Lamp

It was very dark, and I couldn’t see what was right in front of me. I turned to look around and found pearly black eyes sparkling in the dark. I felt cold scales throbbing around my body and there I knew what situation I was in. I'd just escape the hot rods of doom and land straight in the jaws of death. It was still dark, and I still had no idea of our current location. Seeing the snakes spread her majestic hood out I felt that meant dinner time; for her and I was the meal.

She puffed out a green gas and that knocked me out. I saw a light. Was I dead!? Is this heaven!? I pondered silently as I rose from my deep sleep.

She seemed to have been waiting for my awakening. When I was fully awake, she introduced herself as Willow. I was shocked and dumbfounded to see an animal talking. It seemed like a dream I couldn't seem to wake up from. She told me she chose me because both our realms were colliding and only, I could stop that from happening. She spoke about a prophecy I was supposed to fulfill and that it was my responsibility to take up arms and prepare for a great battle.

Hearing all that scrambled my brain so much that I could only start at her in shock. I told her she was mistaken but she insisted the four main descendants of the first settlers of Rich Coast bared a responsibility we needed to uphold and to do that we each needed our own master and also create our path towards defeating the divine warlord to become one of Rasbonia's Lords.

I told her I had no interest in fighting any divine warlord to become a lord myself and shouldn't the 'divine' be good? This was a trick, I said to her, but she angrily tossed a bag of clothes and told me to make a tent, training starts immediately after I was done.

I was pissed and scared. All my life I've never camped out before, so I didn't know how to put up a tent. I insisted on not staying and try leave where we were but found myself returning to the same location over and over again. She said she had created a pocket dimension to hide my aura from the Divine Warlord and so my movement is restricted to where she permits me.

This serpent was getting on my nerves, but I could only weep internally and accept my fate. She guided me through building a tent and immediately we set off to begin my training. The first was basic survival training. She explained time moved differently in both our worlds and that I shouldn't worry about missing anything because I'd be returned where and when I was taken. I felt relieved to hear this and dived into my training. I was taught tracking and hunting mostly because if I couldn't hunt then I wouldn't eat. This was so frustrating. My training regimen went on like this for six additional weeks up to arrival till she decided it was time to take my training up the notch.

She told me I had a high affinity for mana and in this world that allowed them to perform magic. She said I wasn't ready for any spell yet, but I had to learn to hide my aura. I asked her the reason for doing that and she said once this pocket space dissipates, I will be the target for the Divine Warlord, and it was the main reason for survival training in the first place.

She asked me to close my eyes and dig deep into my soul. I would see a light and that light was my soul lamp. The brighter it was, the more powerful I'd get and the harder it would be to hide my aura. When I found the soul lamp, she whispered that I try to shrink it. My soul lamp was a blazing inferno and I had no idea how to shrink something the sun's size. I practiced aura masking for an additional three days then she said it was time for step two however she was not equipped to train me. We had to find my next master.

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