Ash-boss
Thousand Stories: Parallel Valley of Tribulations

"Where's Laras?!"

After the grip of the hand grew stronger and hurt, those golden blue eyes flashed once more. A flash that blackens the eyeballs back from its owner. Drown the golden blue eyes of the girl's body before Eren.

The barrel is now fixated by staring one by one of the three of them. But that look only lasted a moment. The barrel suddenly turned from before the three and laid itself on the bed.

Zara and Aksara instantly exchanged glances with the changing response and attitude of Laras. Unlike the young man before them, he was glued with his hands still

"Has he come back as he said?" Zara asked with a slightly annoyed face.

"It seems so.." replied Aksara behind the figure of Eren.

"Then how?" Aksara asked casually.

"How's what?"

"Ice flowers last a thousand years." grumbled Eren who was somehow aimed to respond to whose question. His hands clenched tightly. The shadow of that flower figure flashed across Eren's mind. Flowers filled with deadly cold. The color in the middle of the darkness emanated from the intended flower. Flowers were in the darkest spot and the darkest spot of the darkest valley he had ever been through.

"What kind of flowers are they?" Aksara approached the figure of Eren who seemed pensive in his mind. "Do you know anything about that?"

"A request that instantly kills every soul that wants it!" hiss Eren with his cynical smile. "Is that why he asked me to find the ice flower?"

"He didn't ask you specifically," Zara patted Eren's pensive shoulder and muttered to herself. A murmur that was clearly heard by the two other creatures beside him.

"Didn't he say it in front of the three of us?"

Aksara watched Eren closely. Increasingly looking at the expression with a glittering reddish eye gaze in Eren's eyes, making Aksara believe, there is another meaning of the request of another soul in the body Laras. Soul with golden blue eyes. Who asked them to find a thousand-year-old perennial ice flower. Or the request was not for them, but for a figure among them. And that figure was none other than Eren. The figure who now remains pensive after being scammed with many questions and statements by Zara.

"So..." Aksara try guessing. "That request is really just for you?"

"Why destroy the soul of those who take it? How bad is the flower growing?"

"What is that place, a distant and deadly place?"

"Or is that place not accessible to any creature?"

"More or less like that!" Eren woke up from his protracted thoughts. He turned to the two beings beside him. Throwing a knotty smile then disappeared just like that from before the two.

His body crosses time. Kite over a fragile bridge that has begun to break. Seen from above, the load from the bridge was not balanced so that the rope of the bridge handle began to sting rapidly at the end of his view. The distance of his vision was covered with fog, but Eren faintly saw an illusion that resembled a shadow with a human form had walked closer towards him. The direction of his figure floated right above the wooden board that supported the bridge road.

The shadow was initially seen holding on to the rope handles on his right and left. Make it look like a lidi creature that suddenly becomes volume and then shrinks back like an obscure shadow. Long stunned by the shadow that walked slowly behind the mist before him, Eren was startled by the buzzing sound that deafened his ears. The buzz of a swarm of black butterflies. The same black butterfly, which once attacked him when it bounced on a road that resembled a bridge.

Eren turned his gaze behind him. Given the same place he had been through with Laras. A road is a wooden bridge that is around it covered by fog and like a bridge that floats above the clouds.

Eren is back in focus. Intending to approach the shadow that seemed to be hanging on the rope that became part of the collapsed bridge, Eren was attacked by a group of black butterflies without cues. Slashing every inch of his body passed by a bunch of butterflies.

Eren's body was shaken. A powerful heart beat once and toppled his figure falling along with a bunch of black butterflies that continued to cover every inch of his body. His gaze began to be covered by the butterflies that were shrouded covering part of his face.

Slowly swallowed by the darkness with the many squealing sounds, another figure of Eren slammed into his hand. Stretched out his hand and let his consciousness take over the body that was starting to feel light.

Damnit damnit! he said when the body hit a rock that immediately fell and increasingly brought his body down to the bottom. Not allowing himself to be stuck for too long with the black butterfly that kept slashing the body, Eren turned his figure into a supreme guard figure with a circle of 7 bluish fireballs behind his head. Her robe is flicked. Eliminate all the black butterflies that swarm his body. Leave a small reddish-colored explosion that continues to fall and disappear like a burning paper in the air below.

From the rest of the reddish glowing explosion, Eren found a long-haired creature lying at the end of a mound of rocks on the side of the cliff. Faintly in a fog-covered view, Eren could see the body of the figure was plastered with several black butterflies on the arms, legs, and other side of his face that was not lying completely. The wingspan of the black butterfly looks so slow but covers an important part of the creature's figure.

Slowly after the umpteenth flapping of the wings of the black butterfly, the butterfly vanished. Vanished by the figure of the unconscious creature. Eren approached the figure. Fulfill his figure with the light from the circle of 7 fireballs behind his head.

His eyes stupefied. He found a familiar figure. Even that figure was a figure he had just met with two other death creatures. The figure that momentarily had golden blue eyes. The figure who asked Eren to find a thousand-year-old immortal ice flower that only grew at the bottom of the dark valley, the valley of tribulation. A valley that cannot be measured in depth.

The valley that only showed a dark side and darkness throughout his memory. The valley that obliterated every wing of the guards. Eliminate every memory and soul of whoever is thrown into it.

Eren raised that body using his strength. Making the figure of the body float and get to the direction that is floating on the side of the valley that he is not aware of its existence.

Until before him, Eren positioned the body standing in front of him. Paying good attention to the same figure as the figure who was new a moment ago he met.

"Is this really you?"

"You are too radiant in this dark place." he murmured softly.

In his body wrapped in a black dress in a dark gray robe, long-haired waist with bangs covering up part of his eyebrows, Laras replied as he opened his eyes slowly. The eyes that glow blue gold. The black butterfly that was attached to the left cheek immediately vanished like before.

"Finally,." said Laras again after his body was wrapped in several swamps in blackish red smoke that disappeared along with the disappearance of black butterflies attached to his body.

Barrel smiling knot. He extended his hand to another figure Eren before him.

"I need someone to stand up well!" the figure of Laras smiled again.

Seeing the figure smiling in the same way at him, Eren's other figure as the supreme guard no longer knew what to say. Or reply to how the request was, except to accept the helping hand and pull Laras to his feet.

"Thousand-year-old perennial ice flower is there!"

Laras pointed with certainty. Pointing at a cave that only gave rise to a bluish tinge of light that flickered erratically.

"We don't have much time!" answer the other figure Eren with his voice.

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