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Ethereal wish

Grand Tree

Grand Tree

Nov 20, 2023

In the room that he was sleeping, the light portal opened again ripping the air apartand luminating the darkness of the messy room with a fading light that goes for just a few meters.

Slowly, Jang was pulled in with his blanket and a cartoon figurine plushie in his hand.
The sudden thud of his body that fell from the bed, had slowly awaken him and confused as he was, Jang asked himself with sleepy and tired eyes.

"H-...Hm...?"


In-Su was sitting on a case of stone stairs, looking at a piece of paper with many numbers written on it, and and 
many piles of papers near him.

The altar turned upside down; Papers floating all around, with In-Su trying to catch each of them, and agitated as he was, the master of the Star user jumped up and down trying to catch every single paper sheet

"Aaaah, my bets!"

"In-Su... (groans while trying to open his eyes but manages to fall back asleep, holding his plushie even tighter)"

"Please forgive my sudden calling, Jang, but something came up, something worthy of your skills"

Said In-Su tiredly, with sweats dripping of his forehead balancing himself on his stick, holding it with both of his hands

Seeing that he didn't want to wake up, In-Su poked him with his staff, a few times.

On the last poke to his shoulder, Jang woke up screaming and scaring In-Su with it.

"DOOOON'T!"

Jang raised himself down from the floor

In-Su fell down, holding the piece of clothing where his heart was located, gasping loudly.

"Are you good, In-Su?" 

"I-I am (wipes sweat of forehead with forearm). Our main problem remains, the Dimes that controll humans as they wish"

"Is there something that can control... us?"


Asked Jang, confused as he was on the left word said


"Indeed there is, but not me and possibly not you. The civils are the ones tha are in danger from being exposed to them"

"Then we must proceed quickly"

Replied Jang with a slow voice while grunting his eyes.

In-Su turned half of his body to Jang and showed him a gesture with his hand to come after him.

"Come, we have work to do"

The master of the Star User lead him to the exit of the Shan Altar and followed the stone path towards the entrance of a forest where a massive tree was located. 


*Inside the forest*

Jang followed In-Su through an open forest where, behind tens of tree's, you could see a bright-blue sea along with the animalistic voices of the Yellow-leeged Gulls and the wide and warm breeze that was coming from it, in the left side.

In the right side, paralell with the far sea, behind tens of trees, there was a placed that looked like a dessert.
Jang took a few steps towards it out of curiosity and my skin was drying out on it's own. Seeing the results, he passed back a few more meters, and seconds after, his skin was brand new, like nothing happened

"Be careful, Jang, this is how you say... real deal, do not head off the path. The junglers and Sand dusters are the most dangerous tribes from this small accomodation of land"

"Junglers... Landers, what the heck is he talking about?"

Whispered Jang to himself while looking behind him and his left.

They continued the made path that was paved with symetrical shaped flat rocks.

"Where are we going now?"

"The library of the elves. (Stops himself from walking and looks at Jang with a smirk on his face) I will culture you"

"Culture?"

They entered the Grand Tree by simply walking inside it's hard wooden structure which was a gateway for it's interior.

"Welcome... (he keps walking, supporting his weigth on his staff) to the culture of the worlds, the Library of Elves"

While inside in the biggest tree from that land, an immense placing waited them. A placing so big that it was equal to hundred of mansions in it's width and a few churces long in it's length. The insides were decorated with milions of bookshelves that looked more than a few tens of meters tall and which were wide as a house each.
Wooden tables placed at every 10 meters, topped with 4 chairs each table, a long thin and wide red carpet on the wooden parquet and one golden chandelier topped with 10 candles at every 10 meters, warming and lighting heir specific place up. Two  big stature man, one hundred meters away were talking one with the other, but in screaming vocals that could be heard from one hundred meters away, all the way to Jang and In-Su.


"WHAAAT?! ARE YOU TELLING ME SHE LIKED YOU?!
"(Whispering loudly) That was her sister back then, so..."
"INCREDIBLE, JUST INCREDIBLE!"
"(Whispers loudly) Is that In-Su?"
"That really is him!"
"Ryeom, let's go talk to him"

"(Sobs fakely) We can hear every word they say"

Something changed in In-Su's look, it was like his face lightened up after seeing and realizing who those two people are.

"DANKO!"
"RYEOM!"

In-Su hit his staff on the ground and made that the carpet would create a wave that kept both of them up and lead Jang and In-Su directly at Ryeom and Danko.

"Wo-hooo!"
Exclaimed Jang, joyfully, falling on his back but he was catched by the softness of the carpet that he was sunk in.


"In-Su, you've got older than last time"

"Time is not my student, there is nothing I can do (chuckles)"

On a closer look, Jang saw the wrinkles on Ryeom and Danko's faces and the mix of white and grey hair from their head and body.

"Interesting boy you got here, In-Su, it really reminds me of-

"(Both In-Su and Ryeom in unison) Just like your own student who is stubborn but is your best kid because he got as far as you"

"(Joyfully) EXACTLY!"

Jang wanted to introduce himself to them, but he was interrupted by the hurry of In-Su

"I-m Ja-"

"Indeed that is enough (pushed Jang with the bottom of his staff, leting Jang lead the way)"

"B-but"

"It's enough, we have things to do"

As they got away by being a few tens of meters away, Jang complained back

"But I wanted to meet them. Are they your friends?"

"(Jokingly) Just go, Jang, no time to talk"

"Always in hurry, we have all the time in this world"

Replied Jang

The masters talked as they were looking at Jang leave

"What a weird kid"

"He sure is"

They  stopped near a shelf filled with brown casket books.

In-Su floated almost until the top of the first shelf by using his powers. He poked his stick between a gap that was between two books and took out a purple bag wih his stick. In-Su flicked his wrist behind him and the bag fell all the way down to Jang. 

"Here, take this, this ought to help you by any means"
Said the master of the Star User as he was slowly getting down from the air with the help of his staff that he placed his legs on and slowly floated down on the ground with it.

Jang opened the pouch, curiously, looking inside it. Inside the leather pouch there were small beads, spheric shaped small beads, Galaxy colored inside's with fine and moving liquid in their interior.

"Oooh, they're shiny, what are these?"
Asked playing with one shiny bead between two of his fingers, jiggling it.

"It contains Sulfur, liquoire and salt, sulfur for purification, salt for the uncomfortant feeling and liquoire for enhancing the other ingredients"

Said In-Su  hiding his papers in a scroll then putting them in a bag, trying to not make noise with it, while Jang wasn't watching.

In-Su took one of the small orbs from inside the bag then showcased it to Jang, eyeing it out.

"You take one of these orbs, break it with your fingers and throw it quickly at them, It can only exorcise one of them at a time, you do this every time with every Dime"

"But how does this "Dime" look like"
Asked Jang shrugging his shoulders while talking his question out.

"You will know (pats Jang's shoulder, then heads to the exit of the Shan Altar) do not worry, you can do it (waves his stick upwards, as a salute to Jang)"

Said Jang looking at him with an odd look as his facial expression

"But In-Su, shouldn't I get like a bad soul detector or somethin-?"

Asked Jang, being interrupted by the light portal, created from the thin air, slowly sucking Jang in

"Oooh maaan (clicks tongue), I (scoffs internally) hate it when he does it"

Jang got sucked in entirely, with the portal closing in behind him, with sparks falling down slowly from the air.

"Ahh... teenagers, so energetic (leaves Altar), they really light the dark places (chuckles slowly)"


Jang found himself woken up in a tight-up alley that was almost closed, near a two big industrial garbage bins. He found himself relaxing on a few filled yellow bags filled with trash, scaring the rats and racoons that live in it. Jang got scared too so he tried to get away quickly from them

"Oooh maaan, not the garbage (looks toward the top of his head and takes off banana peel off of his head)"

He wiped the dust and garbage off his clothing and started looking around for clues, with a slow and detective voice, he told to himself

"Now, should I search for objects, or ghosts, hmmm (confusedly scratches the top of his head with the index finger)"

He closed his eyes in a quick pace and focused on the black part of his brain, where the nothingness was located. Concentrating on that specific part, Jang kept digging more and more into it, trying to see if he can find any clues with an open and empty mind.

His focus started to take shape. From smoke shapes, white, blue, purple, light blue and red, he saw something else, a bright dark-blue, but which glowed brighter than the other ones.

"Found... you"
Whispered deely the voice of the bright shadow towards Jang, like it would've been right into his mind, right in front of him.

The dominant presence woke Jang up from his conscious and sent him back to reality with a tremor in his voice and a slight panick, but a feeling of warmness too, it was a weird feeling.


"Who was that?"
Slowly asked Jang with a slight fear in his voice.






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In-Su calls Jang, for an emergency meeting, what could it be?

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