Transmigration Into The Beginning After The End

Chapter 5 -Dilemma-

CHAPTER 5 -DILEMMA-

Mordain, the lost prince of the phoenix race.

This bastard knew about my existence. Everything is going to hell from this point on.

"You, the king's shadow or do you have another name?" The tall phoenix asked, giving who I didn't think was here a motion to leave the room. "You may leave Chul."

Chul gave me this wretched look of disgust before leaving the room with a loud bang from the door, he was still a child in the phoenix's eyes.

But enough about that, I thought.

Looking at the sun's imitations of his eyes told me many things but at the same time it rejected those claims. His mind and thoughts all aligned to trusting or not, the same thing he did with Arthur Leywin when he was looking for the third keystone.

Now I see, the matte cubic object that was in front of him earlier was the third keystone that Arthur needs in the future.

Chul knew, Mordain knew, mostly everyone here knew. Yet, the question still stands whether or not Aldir of the Pantheon clan knew? If he did, why did he stay quiet about it?

Ahh dammit!

Mordain came closer to me, worried. "Are you okay? If not, I can call Rinia for you, the king's shadow–"

I cut him off, annoyed at that moniker or whatever they came up with to irritate me. "Listen lost prince, enough with that name. I am not no king's shadow or whatever you call it or think about it. I am Luke Hodges, a normal child–who is two years old for your information–who barely knows how to walk."

Surprised or not, I really didn't see his reaction since multiple emotions arose from me and I couldn't contain them any longer. Anger, agony, sadness, distrust, confusion. Those were the ones at the surface.

Mordain, who had been glancing me up and down like some crazy child, turned around and pulled out a device, one that I or the novel described. The ring shaped device was bigger than your normal sized ring–enough for him to open his palm fully–emitting mana from it. "Then, Luke Hodges. Tell me does your definition of a normal child consist of a two year old human with an orange solid stage mana core?"

A light—flat enough to be like a paper—appeared from the ring-like object, sending some pictures of something. A place which I haven't seen or read in the novel.

It could mean multiple places. Starting with Epheotus, Alacrya, the djinn's place...the relic tombs.

Like me, Mordain stared long and hard at these places with narrowed eyes. Staying at a solid picture, the lost prince began to speak, saying in a melancholy voice, "These places are bound by something that we asura cannot enter or escape, much less see it. However, only a lesser person can enter and possibly escape from it."

I held my hand up while I sat down, "I know where you're getting at Mordain. But that duty isn't mine to do."

"Why is that?"

I smiled before answering his question. "Because there will be a person who will later on in the future, who could defeat and conquer these trials meant for djinn descendancy."

It was true that after Lady Sylvia's death, she entrusted Arthur with these tasks of the four ruins in the Relic Tombs. Of course retrieving these "Keystones" wasn't easy in any way, people have died or will die if nothing is done.

With Arthur not only entering war as a powerhouse of Dicathen, his only duty at the time being to kill these retainers and scythes but his ability wasn't enough.