Power Rider Royal 1

Episode 2: The Champion's Soul's Journey (Part 3)

Inside the Royal Palace, Mediation Center

Takgo was rolling out a mediation mat in the middle of a ring of scented candles, using his personal favorite flower, the grand lunar lotus, along with a known calming mineral, sparkling lilacite. He then sat down in the center of the mat in a lotus position, slowly closing his eyes while taking long deep breaths to center himself. Eventually, he began to enter his core.

Takgo's Core

Takgo appeared, floating in a greenish void with spots of white in a few sections. He looked around, "This is new…" He began to move in a random direction, deciding to explore his expanded core. Eventually, he found a large temple with his Power Rider Armor standing in the courtyard center. He stepped onto the yard, looking around. He saw it was nearly twelve million miles in length and almost nine million miles in width. The floor of the courtyard was a forest green marble with statues of his Power Rider Armor, along with Power Rider Armor that was not recognized by him, made out of various precious materials from Edenoi and other planets, even some that were utterly unfamiliar to him, placed around the courtyard, clearly guarding entrances to the temple. Some of the statues were posed in martial arts stances while others had weapons in hand, posed in stances based on the weapons in their hands.

He walked up to the nearest statue to him, noticing a large bronze plate with writing on it. As he drew close, he realized it wasn't just a standard statue of a Power Rider. He then looked around and noticed that some of the sculptures were of only people and Power Suits. He was immediately curious, "Why would my core create statues of beings that I have never seen before? What is this temple?"

He looked at the statue again, taking in all of the details of the figure. The figure was clearly female. The figure was wearing what appeared to be a black chocolate body sleeve underneath a pair of Byzantium pants, which were sown to connect to a Byzantium vest with Byzantium sleeves attached to the vest. Her pale face was made paler by her carmine eyes and deep sky blue hair, which reached her waist. Takgo was stuck by the sheer power just erupting from the female's statue; he was amazed by the sheer amount of detail while managing to keep the marble utterly smooth without any signs of breaking in the marble statue. He could practically count the individual strains of hair that stretched down to her waist. The statue's eyes looked like they were life-like, and he could stare into her very soul.

He then looked at the bronze plate, quickly becoming confused by the writing on it. He couldn't even read the plate. It was clearly a natural language with a set of characters and rules that directed how the sentences should be structured, yet… Takgo had never seen or heard of a language that used what appeared to be random strokes of ink in straight lines in such a way(1).

Takgo had to draw himself away from the plate to continue his mission. He wasn't here to learn a new language, although he felt like if he stayed and began to look at the various plates of these statues, he would learn the mysterious language. But, he forced himself to not do so. He only had a limited time to do so, today at least. He was here to discover what about himself on a core level had changed, which appeared to be a more considerable change than even what the alchemists who had helped him had expected.

He decided to leave the temple for the moment, realizing that while he suspected it would have the largest to give him information on the changes. He didn't have all day to explore the large complex and learn the new language, which appeared to have been placed in him. He stepped out of the courtyard and began to head in a new direction.

1) Japanese Kanji