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Chapter 5: Elemental Souls
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Isaac and the others all looked at each other in shock and fear. They had not imagined that their hometown, the sacred village assigned to guard Mt. Aleph, was those who had retrieve the stars. But now…each broken puzzles was fit…Arian the Wise One…Nanth and the island.
Nanth
suddenly noticed the odd stare of his prisoner, and he grabbed at Isaac, and
bellowed. "Vale! You know of
this…Vale? Tell me…TELL ME! I…I will
kill that Arian, for entrapping me here on this accursed island!"
Isaac felt immense pain as
Nanth unintentionally gripped his shoulder with shattering force. He could not reveal the name and
whereabouts of his village. Even if
Vale is already destroyed, Nanth would eventually hunt the remaining villagers
down, and probably none would be left alive.
He bit his lips, and closed his mouth stubbornly.
Seeing the
agony Isaac is in, Mia shrilly cried, "Stop! We know no Vale! Leave us be!"
Nanth stared at Mia, and
whispered, "You're lying…YOU'RE LYING!
I…I can see it in his eye. His
eyes revealed the light of my past, a futile attempt to stop what you most
dread… He knew… he knew Vale!"
Nanth suddenly does a cartwheel, and stopped. "But…how can I leave this island? I may have regain part of my power back through the flow of energy on this island, but it is nowhere near enough to teleport to continents! You people…you people have psynergy…I sense it…I sense it! Yes…though you may thought your powers to be strong, it is weak compared to the people of ancient Akelia. But…I sense energies; limitless energies within you…that could help me leave this island. Show me…show me your form!"
At that, 9 lights suddenly erupted from each of person, and as the mist clears, 72 djinn stood hostilely toward Nanth.
Nanth seems to be shocked by the sudden appearance the little critters. He chattered his teeth in joy and awe. "Can…can these be the legendary disciples of element, the Djinn? Legend had said great disasters and gifts had happened wherever these critters appeared. Long had I heard of these intelligent, powerful creatures that dwells within the light of the stone, but I had never seen them before!" Nanth whooped in joy.
"Who you calling critter?" demanded Echo. "You had harm my friend, feel my wrath!"
"HA! Your power is great, but it is truly man who can fully apprehend the limit and grace of psynergy themselves!" Nanth laughed arrogantly and easily deflected Echo's Stone Spire spell. "Watch…and learn!"
With that, Nanth suddenly closes his eyes, and with a sudden wrathful bellow, barrages of mighty, shattering rocks were hurled toward the djinn. Many of the killing missiles were destroyed before impact, but the psynergy was too great to be totally dispelled. Echo lay senseless upon the ground. Of the other 71 djinn, 13 had been knocked unconscious by the spell. The other djinn looked apprehensively at Nanth.
"Ha! Look at my power, and this is but the remaining power I had regained through years of recovering! Now, Djinn, choose your master. If you follow me, I could become all-powerful, and I would relight the lighthouses! Defy me…and your master would lay lifeless on the ground."
The djinn look at Isaac and the others and then look at Nanth. "Don't hurt them! The lighthouses were already relighted!"
Nanth's face suddenly turned white, and he stare at Isaac and grabbed at his shoulder. He began to speak, but his voice was trembling, of fear, or of extreme ecstasy. "It…it is!?"
With a shrilling cry, he suddenly ran into the Heaven Rock. Isaac and the others stared at him with disbelief.
"Flint, help us get out of the rope!" Isaac suddenly whispered.
Flint look at him in revelation, and soon the djinn began gnawing at the rope. However, their hopes and effort were soon dashed into wisp. The ropes that were binding the friends were enforced with magic and toughened hide. They are extremely strong and rough. Even the djinn's amazing power could not distangle the bondage.
"Ha! It is indeed lit again!"
Nanth returned with a smile on his face.
"But…why wasn't I restore to my original power? Eons on this island should have connected my life with the Vlastroling! The light was relit, but the Four Elemental Torches of Brilliance were still dim with darkness! Someone…something must have stolen the power of the Alchemy away from its root!" His face suddenly was filled with anguish.
"It's the djinn…it's you!" He stared at the djinn. "You things are the souls of alchemy! Your absense had delayed the returning of alchemy! Return to your original places! Return…so again the glorious days of the Akelia shall return and rule over Weyard! Once I obtain and rule the Stone of Sages, I shall rule over the world!"
"We and the Wise One will stop you and you Akelians from foully using the forces of Alchemy!" Jenna cried bravely.
"The…Wise One?
He's still alive!? What can he
do to stop me from gaining the Sage Stone?"
