Garden.. Garden of Eden. It was Heaven. Paradise, standing on the door of the Paradise, it was huge enough to cover the perception of eyes, people were wearing white cloak, standing line by line. Male and female on both sides. Light void was behind them.
It seems like time had stopped, maybe it didn't exist here. Among all the endless line of people. There was Misha, standing with them, she saw behind to saw Sara who was altered. Then her gaze went towards other strangers, their appearance was blurred to her as if she didn't had the access to perceive, puzzled.
Now she started hearing voices, as she turned back, it wasn't enough because behind were anonymous so she broke the pattern, walking steadily as curiosity engulfed her mind. After endlessly pushing her feet forward, she reached it.
Here the light ended and darkness submerged. In the darkness, it was void. Nothing was there. Only a string.. A thin golden strings, thin as human hair. The voices were absurdly loud now. As Misha subconsciously lowered down, which she shouldn't..
It was a pit, endless fire of fire, molten lava, rocks. People were burning here and some giants were slaughtering them, giving them as much pain as they can, Misha horrified, vomited her split. Covering her ears while shaking her head.
"Forgive me.. Forgive me.. Forgive me.."
Amidst her murmurs, she felt something, someone staring at her. It was from the void. She turned her head over there.
It was Ender there, wearing his white coat. He had an unreadable expression, but his eyes told something. Before she could understand and ask anything.. He turned away, to the void, disappearing in it as if he had dissolved.
Then a faint light appeared out of nowhere, on the place where Ender was present moments ago. Now it was a different person, but it doesn't mean it was different for her.
".. Zack?."
In the abyss of darkness. He was standing there wearing his armour, glowing faintly. He had a gentle expression towards her. Baffled now, she blurted.
"Why are you coming with us!?."
He stayed silent for a moment, which felt like piercing her heart. His lips twitches as he quivered. A faint smile appeared over his cheeks.
"I can't.."
Stunned. She exclaimed.
"You don't want to come with us!."
He stayed silent, turning his head down then back at her. Saying with a pause.
"N– No.."
She shook her head, disturbed. As she asked again this time in low tone.
"You?.. Don't want to come.. With us?."
He turned his head down, tired, drowned in despair like engulfed in the void, a faint smile appeared over his cheeks as he turned his head towards her.
"I wanted to.. I want to.."
As he turned around, his armour started to glow as he started to burn.. The burning knight was born.. A star shining in deepest depth of void.
"Why?."
She extended her arm, but the star had already died, it's cosmic ash sparkling like stars in the end..
She lowered her head.
"Why?."
She closed her eyes. Now she felt she was floating in something.. As she opened her eyes again. She was laying in her bed, her eyes rolled, examining the surroundings as they went to Sara who was brushing her hair before the mirror glanced at her.
"Hey!. Get up already!. You forget we have class today."
She blinked thrice, as if she was still questioning dream and reality.
Moments later...
Everyone had arrived on the study hall, sitting on their respective places. Leon was at the center, leaning on podium stand. It seems like everyone had just gathered here.
"So.. What craves your attention right now?. So we can proceed."
Leon asked, having a gentle expression. Everyone stayed silent, looking at each other. Then someone declared.
"Anything that's essential of course."
It was Misha, Leon sighed. As some green cubes appeared, forming his wand.
Suddenly, a portal appeared out of nowhere. As Lisa walked out of it with a box of sweets in her hand. The portal disappeared behind. The others were surprised while Leon clang his forehead.
"Not this time.."
She offered the sweets, only one to each of them. The boys except Ender who was hesitating, others took it with a startled look. On the other hand Sara asked while taking.
"Is this your final day?."
The fact she spoke with a straight face, others couldn't stop giggling. After some seconds when they stopped. Lisa said with a pause.
"Our professor has achieve something special."
Their attention drawned towards him. Puzzled look on each of them, as Lisa declared.
"He's a dad now!."
Terror strucked upon each of them. None of them ever thought about it, not even subconsciously. Now.. Awestruck, Lisa giggling, looked at him.
"Can I go now?."
She spoke with a smirked. A small space aside Leon darkened only for a sweet to come out which he catched. Scratching his chin, nonchalant.
"Well.. You didn't ask me before coming in, but you can go either way."
As a portal appeared with her going through in then, again disappearing to thin air. Leon turned his head over them who were all staring at him, poker face. His lips twitches as he stated.
"Now then.. We'll start."
Instantly, many green cubes appeared from him, engulfing the whole room in as then the place shifted. Now they're in that same dimension, the green sky, the hexagon symbol curved on ground and the walls.
"So first we'll talk about our biological nature.."
A green screen appeared behind him as he spread his arms wide.
"First of all we are Astrans. Higher dimensional beings, as you all know we're living in Raiheart, not your home planet. This world is higher dimensional world, everyone here are higher dimensional beings."
He explained, how many times has this guy clarify. Well everyone had the same expression. As he continues with a pause.
"So now, coming to the main topic. This is just our avatar you can say to interact with worlds. Yet for Marums, this is reality, but for us, this is chosen reality. Now coming to Marums, in your perception they are just humans.. But in lower dimension like your world. They interact as ghosts you can say."
Everything was going pretty steady now. Pretty logical to them. As Leon took a pause before explaining.
"Now something like the seals will be intriguing you, so keep in mind. There are different types of seals. The seals around us which are concealed are called Resin. They absorbs almost all our energy to prevent destruction of this world. Because if not having control, a weakest kind of us can destroy realities without knowing what it had just done."
They were shocked, hearing this fact as Misha's hand twitches as she glanced at Ender, then at Zack. Her dream.. It was still replaying in her head. She couldn't get over it. Her breath hitched as she coughed. Meanwhile, Leon just explained like a machine.
"Now.. Our Avatars don't follow aging concepts like humans and Marums. Yes, Marums can live for thousand but they do age. We don't.. Basically when we awaken as Astrans. We transcend time and many concepts so our bodies are just freeze in time.. But, we can still age if we want for ourselves."
Misha raised her arm, asking a question, others were unfazed while Leon nods at her to say.
"Then how do..."
She stuttered. Shy..
"Oh.. I get it.."
Leon chuckled as he goes on.
"Basically because of our complex nature, it's almost impossible for an awaken Astran to give birth, because it doesn't demands biology rather spirituality and dimensionality. It's very rare but it can happen.."
Leon shrugged off causally. Silence shrouded them for some moments.. Uneasiness until..
"So the child will be a Marum or Astran?."
Sara inquired. Curious..
"Good one.. It'll be a Marum but with higher spirituality. Now, I think it's enough for today.. So we should begin next step.."
They nodded off subconsciously, still wondering about the things he told them. As Leon snapped his fingers, grabbing their attention.
"Now, it's been a time since you all have awaken. You all must be strong enough up till now.."
He said with his usual smirked.
"Look.. Our spirituality is mainly reserved in our soul. Our dimensionality in our true form. So together they're balance, one you'll go higher in shifts, your spirituality will increased, unlocking some special moves but your dimensionality will stay same. You need to have balance over both of them. Or else you'll have well.. You get it."
Suddenly some small green cubes from Leon's hand formed a concrete wall. As he slammed his fist, shattering all of it on impact. All of this, while looking at them with gentle expression.
"Naturally Marums are 50 times stronger than average human on every stats. Then coming to us, our spirituality which is reserved in soul, is gradually transfered in small amounts to our physical bodies. Thus, we're always in continuous state of suppression. It makes our bodies adapt each second to the spirituality so the output increases as well and thanks to the regenerative factor. You don't need to go to Gym or exercise, just laying all day can do the work."
Hearing these words, a memory flash in Zack's mind.
~ Oh that's why her punch hit so hard..
Meanwhile others were blabbering with each other, as Ender asked amidst discussing with Zack.
"What if we shut off the spirituality reserve or regenerate factor?."
"Try it by imagining."
Leon said with a teasing smirked. Ender closed his eyes as everyone were eager to see what'll happen next, in next second. He fell to the ground, collapsing to his knees, his eyes widened, veins popping.
"Aghh!."
He could feel his whole body burning, his muscles stiffen so hard that his bones were about to cracked, but surprisingly they didn't, maybe they're strong enough to handle 100% of human body.
Suddenly a blue energy emerged from him as his regenerative factor activates subconsciously.
– You bitch!.
Coughing.. Some blood.. He turned his head towards Leon who was smiling lively.
"So you all get it now?.."
Some nodded while some were lost. Leon snapped his fingers to bring their attention.
"Now.. We'll start training to use your raw strength."
Zack got excited as usual, Ruis was just him. Ender was neutral.. Along with girls..
"Not you three, you have shown enough feats like killing that Vemorus. You can rest.. But for you two.."
His gaze fixed over the girls.
"You'll do some training, don't worry it's light work. It's a way of testing is your body adapting to your spirituality."
He shrugged off causally.
"Well.. Ladies first so I get it."
Ender spoke with a smirked, just a joke but..
THUD!
In an instant, someone slammed him onto wall, grabbing his neck. It was fast enough to not been seen by naked eye. He opened his eyes to saw Misha, she was grabbing him, slowly clenching her hand on his neck.
"Just a joke!. C– Come on!."
He started coughing, but she clenched harder. It wasn't the main reason, the dream she had saw today, what did it meant?. Was it something Ruis said to her?. Something strange, different.. That intuition, feeling she felt yesterday.. Dots were connecting.. But still afar..
Everyone looked, it seems like she was about to kill him. Her friends were flabbergasted seeing her strength, holding Ender only on one hand.
"S– S– Soorry.."
THUMP!
He fell down, as she walked towards others.
"We should start."
Sara said gracefully to her Professor.
"Of course."