Ash-boss
A Thousand Stories: Liberation

"There's something important asking us to come by shaking the whole valley like this?!" Aksara and Zara came with her irritated face. Greeted by Eren's relaxed attitude standing in the middle of the red brick walkway at the end of the valley.

"I need that black-bound old book you're holding?" answered Laras who came out from behind Eren's back.

Zara and Aksara looked at each other for a moment. Then prepare to show his anger at Laras.

"You what?" sergeant Zara grew irritated with the smile Laras showed him.

"To find a rainbow lake." Barrel answered carefully.

"The lake is no longer known!" sergeant Zara again.

"It's not like that...!" answer Laras. Wanting to connect his sentence, Laras chose to silently look at Zara's expression as if he did not like the answer he issued.

Zara looked at every expression Laras showed. Circled the girl carefully then looked at the two men with questionable gazes. The two men just shuddered his shoulders and exchanged glances.

"How much did I miss?" The characters began to bring out their curiosity.

"Lumayan!"

"Do you know how many?"

"A little more than you!"

"Why just me?" aksara protest. "Zara?"

Eren did not reply, but directed his gaze at the two other figures before him. Aksara.

"Don't tell me this is what you did?"

"Obviously, my shadow?" Laras gave a stiff smile and Zara's glaring gaze increasingly made Laras shrink. "Can you give me the book?"

Stunned alphabet.

"Formerly, the souls that Zara picked up came from the souls of the rainbow lake. As soon as the chaos ensued, he brought the same worshiped soul with you.." explained Eren to the Aksara residence.

"So big mess!" Aksara sees the four creatures around him. They all have attachments that Aksara cannot find the common thread. An attachment to the changing destiny of many human lives that sinks into the game of darkness.

"But the mess wasn't entirely because of me!" kilah Laras defended himself from the nyolot attitude that Zara showed him.

"You're the most annoying creature I've ever met!" sergeant Zara turned his face so bad. But from the bottom of his heart, there was a joy that he could not understand with something that he had long wanted to know.

"I don't have much time!" Baras was finally upset by the rigidity of Zara's attitude. "Give me the book, or I'll take it by force!" the barrel's eyeballs instantly turned golden blue. From his body came a stifling air. Making Zara look at him carefully.

"The book is held by Eren!" the answer is full of victory. And the gaze of Laras directly pointed at Eren. Eren who was now smiling flatly. Leisurely walked towards Laras with all the stifling air gushing out from within his body.

The black-coated old book with two golden feathers on the front of its cover, floated on Eren's right hand. The book rotated once twice. Seeing that Laras was unaffected by the light from the book on his right hand, Eren chose to hold the book. Grasping it then banging the book on Laras' forehead.

"Stop that silliness of yours!" eren said casually. Instantly, all the suffocating air from Laras' body disappeared. Leave the figure of Laras who seemed to be unaware of the anger he had just done. It shows a plain face that is always seen by anyone who knows him.

"You fucked me!"

"Eat weapon sir!" gerutu Zara and Aksara.

Then in just one turn, they had reached the side of a gray valley surrounded by lake water along its land.

"It's overflowing this deep." murmured Laras.

"We must find the stone door!"

Eren instantly changed to another figure as the supreme guard with a circle of 7 bluish fireballs behind his head. Aksara and Zara with their own wings. Wings in the form of thick black smoke puffs. Then Laras who was in the form of a blue-eyed black shadow with a flash of purple lightning on his entire body.

"I didn't know it was you!" sapa Aksara was so familiar with the figure of the black shadow before him.

"Where was your voice then?" asked Eren's raucous voice beside Laras' figure as a black, blue-eyed shadow with a flash of purple lightning all over his body.

"That's the door?!" Zara pointed at the stone door in front of her. There are two stone doors. One was still floating in position, but one door was already embedded in the part of the cliff more that appeared from behind him.

"How to open..."

Before Aksara could finish his question, Eren scattered the seven bluish fireballs behind his head. It forms a pattern with five halves of the ball arranged downward and the remaining two parallel to the middle of the fireball. It formed a pattern of a rhombus whose center channeled a flash of purple lightning that was transferred by Laras through a fireball that became the form of a thousand-year-old immortal ice flower that he obtained with another figure Eren as the highest guard with a circle of 7 bluish fireballs behind his head.

The black-coated old book floated towards his front. Enter into the rhombus formation and open wide right in the middle of the yard. It raised two golden-colored feathers that formed a key and opened the door seal with just one pass.

The mossy stone door that started to blacken was creaking loudly. Open the door with a little force until finally the door opened wide. A dazzling light of vision shot out from within it. Making the figure of Laras frown his forehead.

"Something is not right!!" his murmur was so barging in without paying attention to his surroundings. Before actually going into the valley, a chain that burst out from behind the back of another figure Eren as the supreme guard without a circle of 7 bluish fireballs behind his head.

"See what you're doing!" Eren calms the impatient Laras with the strangeness from behind the valley door that he has managed to unseal.

The blinding light gradually disappeared. Replaced by millions of dark-eyed souls with green slime dripping as the souls floated before the four of them.

"Did anyone manage to unseal it!!"

"I think the answer is him."

Eren pointed at a black shadow figure with reddish-colored eyes. Flashes of reddish-black lightning burst forth from all over his body. The figure of the black shadow is not unlike how the figure of Laras now. Just with different eyeball colors and lightning flashes.

"We're up against?" Aksara and Zara prepared to dart into the side of the door that had opened.

"They are endless. The more you wish, the more they will appear!" clear Baras. "I'm like him!" Laras pointed at the black shadow that resembled his figure. "He is my wish!"

"Then how?" Aksara began to lower his wings.

"Return all the water here into the valley." he replied, who actually showed a plain face. A face that seemed to say that the thing he said was a very easy thing to do.

"Are you kidding me?!" Zara seemed silly to hear the idea of Laras.

"I just have to have access to it without losing all three of these things!" The barrel showed again the fireball of a thousand-year-old ice flower, the black-coated old book, and the two golden-colored wing feathers he had held.

"Isn't the point we have to fight them!!" answer Zara again.

"Not with desire!" answer Laras. "It's more like playing for a while with them!"

"You think they can play!"

"They will absorb the slightest form of desire. And that desire will raise up more souls on the side of this valley."

"How much?!"

"More than the age of this valley!" answer Zara to the question Aksara asked.

While Aksara, Laras, and Zara were conversing in the midst of circumstances that were out of control, Eren had already floated 7 iron chains from behind his back. Making all the dark-eyed souls inside squirm erratically to avoid the attack.

"How can you do that??!" Aksara floated beside the top of Eren's other figure as the supreme guard without a circle of 7 bluish fireballs behind his head.

"With no desire!" cold answer.

Zara smiled knot. Understand the movements made by Eren. While Aksara who does not know how to attack without wanting to follow the direction Zara drove. Following every move Zara broke the dark-eyed soul group before her.

The figure of Laras preparing to crashing. Find a point where the main goal is to restore the state of the rainbow lake valley.

The figure of Laras darted regardless of how Eren, Aksara, and Zara faced millions of dark-eyed souls who continued to wriggle and give attacks to the three. Laras more than believes in the three creatures that have always been with him all this time. Especially on the figure of Eren who always has to lose a lot of things to be able to save whatever is in his care.

"Thank you." whispered Laras after disappearing behind a dark-eyed soul that increased every time one attack was launched by the three creatures that entered into the valley behind the stone door.

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