Ruis was checking the potions and shaking them while also having the book on his side. Ender and Zack were checking the surroundings.
"Yoo there is nothing here."
Zack snorted while plugging his ear.
"Let's have a sword fight then."
Ender with a exicted tone.
With that wooden swords summon into their hands as they started clashing with each other. Sara was sitting on a sofa, her attention at Ruis who was constantly trying to chant a divination of primordial but can't do it because it was written in a ancient forgetten language.
In the table Mr sherlock and Misha were sitting while Sherlock flipping a coin where as misha was lost in her thoughts.
"You want to become a spechser."
He spoke with slightly warm tone.
"I don't know, haven't decide it yet."
She taps on table gently while saying.
" Becoming a spechser is indeed not easy, but it is also the closet of what you are right now."
He says while continuing,
"Listen to your inner voice. That's the way to eternal."
"What's your trame?"
She intrigued.
"Flow. dimensionality 8."
Misha's eyes got little widen as she glanced at him before giving a warm exaggatered smile and going to Ruis.
"Give me the book."
She ordered him.
"Hold on, let me try this one."
He spoke with a clumsy tone.
"None of your divinations are working so give me that."
She said with slightly irrated but soft tone.
"You have to take it from me then."
As he grin towards her.
As Misha tries her best to take it but Ruis wasn't giving up as he throws it to Sara. She goes to her and asked for it and Sara gave it to her without any hesistation. Misha then opened the spechser's symbol page glaring at it with wide eyes. she subconsciously titled the book and her face stunned. By titling the book to a specife angle, she could see strings holding the flower from the sky.
Meanwhile Ender was tired along with Zack so he leaned to sofa next to Sara.
"By the way ender, have you decided to be a seius?. Just asking causally."
" Not decided yet, anyways have you read other trames?."
" Reaper and flow, just think that Reaper allows good agility and strength along with controlling and manipulating souls of a person with also some other abilities too and drawback is that it requires a sacrifice which can be anything a part of your body or soul or other person and this just in short for the personality and other things ask Ruis because for the flow I'm not explaining it yet."
"Blah blah, I already knew this."
He spoke with easy yet confident tone.
"Really?, you are already on acting stage."
She said with a grin while continuing.
" Looks like you have choose your trame."
Ender didn't rely as he goes to the table where potions were, misha and Ruis reading a specific trame while Mr sherlock was flipping his coin as usual. He takes the seius potion because it was labeled in it with a tape. Mr sherlock attention shifts towards him.
"You have made your decision."
"Yep... I have..."
"Then don't drink it like that."
As a fancy steel type cup appeared in his hand before he gave to Ender. Everyone eyes shifted towards him.
"You sure, you won't get another chance."
"Yes, I'm, some body needs to tried it out if not for me."
He poured the potion to the cup and takes it close to his mouth, his hands slightly shaking.
"If you're scared or show little thing like that, result won't be what you promised to yourself."
Everyone show either worried or not satisfying expressions. Before he drank it.
GULP!
"How does it taste?"
Zack asked curiously, hitting the edge of sofa gently.
"Sparkling water but more concentrated."
He checked himself and said,
"But I'm good."
He scratches his chin. Before he started to feel a burning sensation on his throat. it started to become unbearable in seconds as he fell down as his friends run to him.
"AH! – I can't ... breathe"
" It's being absorbed in body now which is the painful stage but later when it will be absorbed to soul and zon, that will be the most challenging phase for you."
Mr sherlock said calmly, looking at him.
"Will it be same for us too?."
Misha asked, looking at him with worried expression.
"It works differently for different people, if you don't feel pain then you will be have other side effect of it and it is random."
"This idiot is always first in everything."
Ruis said with serious yet silly tone.
"Was this a good decision for him?"
Zack spoke with a pause.
Suddenly Ender's eyes and veins started turning black glowing under his skin.
"Can't we use divination?"
Misha asked Mr sherlock in a worried and high tone while he was calmy sitting in chair near the table watching the scene.
"Divination won't cause zon to be properly awakened and for the other artifacts they will disturb the phase."
He spoke in his usual tone.
Suddenly the eyes and veins became normal as he had went to oblivion.
"Now he's in second phase. The spiritual awakening phase."
Mr sherlock said tiding his hat then wearing it again.
"What now then?"
Sara said curiously looking at Mr sherlock.
"He will meet his inner voice his unconscious mind and his core and have to agree them to awake as a Astran and used his powers."
As Mr sherlock told him to be away from him which they gradually did after he enclosed him in a crystal barrier.
They all got confused as Sherlock turned around to tell them.
"When you are in second phase no one is controlling your body which means any evil entity or spirit can control him not just them even his unconscious mind and core which you don't want to meet or know."
They all can seat to their places having a unsatisfying and worried expression with Misha and Zack frequently glancing at crystallized Ender.
***
~ Where am I?
Ender found himself at a dark place, he can barely saw his hands. He looked around but saw no one like he can, suddenly the room starts to shift and now he was in a park where a kid was swinging on swing, other than him he saw no one in the park so he slowly goes to him.
The kid whose face was back, was murmuring some words. Only Ender can know,
"You're lost."
"I lost you."
"Why?"
"Why should I just die?"
"What is left in the world?"
"For me."
Ender goes to him and sits on the other swing, seeing his face, the kid didn't looked at him.
"Why?"
"You're always moving forward."
"Even though you know it will hurt you more."
The kid murmurs to him without looking at him, his head down looking at grass.
Ender slightly show anger but he sighed as he says with a pause.
"Because I have no choice. This is how world works, this is how universe works. It's vast, it is always moving. It won't heard my screams, my cries, it will only move forward and I have no choice! But to move forward."
In an instant there was a projection of Ender who was slightly young with his sister walking through the streets, smile on their face, but Ender stunned as if something bad was about to happen. He makes a fist and destroyed the projection.
"Why are you destroying it? If you're destroying it, you aren't accepting it."
The kid looks at him.
"I'm not rejecting it. I'm not forgetting it. It doesn't matter if I had powers, if I don't have powers. I will protect my people, the ones who are dear to me. Even if other Astrans, Gods and fate is against me! I will protect them even if it costs my life. I won't let it happen ever again!"
"Why? Why? Were we special from the day we were born then, our parents, our relatives. Everyone considered us as special. Everyone accept a lot from us. Without knowing how we feel, how we're always in guilt over not being a perfect human. "
The kids says while continuing,
"When she was born, we promised ourselves remember."
"I will protect her even if it means facing the world."
They both said it together in low tone.
"But she died in our own hands, her blood in our skin, our clothes, our soul."
***
The crystal started glowing gaining everyone attention.
"What is happening?"
Ruis asked Mr sherlock
"He is fighting and controlling himself."