The Rising Sun: Episode 5 Read Online Free Page B

approximate region in it, we cannot contact
him.”
     
    “What did he do that for?” asked Ion.
     
    “Nalzes is just as old as I am, Ion.”
explained Mantra. “He fought alongside us through the war. And he
endured all that it came with. But after the war was over, with the
fall of the empire and the grave period that came after it, he
decided to leave the world, losing interest in it. He has lived as
a renunciate for almost eight millennia now. However, I kept a
faint contact with him over the time. And I know he will definitely
help us if need arises. I have been aware of the planet he lives
in,” A faint frown entered his expression. “… although I don’t know
his location in the planet, right now.”
     
    “Then how the heck am I gonna find him?”
asked Ion, dazed. “I can’t search the entire planet to find this
hermit, we don’t have that much time!”
     
    “You don’t have to find him.” said Mantra.
“He’ll find you.”
     
    Ion was starting to feel slightly perplexed.
“What do you mean?”
     
    “He has the same sensing powers that I have,
and more.” Mantra said with a smile. “And his hermit style
lifestyle has led to a further deepening of his mystical sight: he
is well attuned to the aura surrounding his planet, and the
spectrum as well. As I have been sensing chaos rising over the past
few days, so has he.
     
    “By now, he would be well aware of everything
that’s going on. He would be well aware of the rising force of
Mezmeron, and the struggle we’re now undergoing. He has been kept
well aware of everything transpiring within our brotherhood over
the past few days, and he would most certainly be alerted to our
precarious position now.” He nodded. “When you reach the planet,
wherever he is, he would have been alerted to your arrival through
the shifting energy fields. And he would know what you’re carrying
with you.” He pulled out the crystal and held it before Ion. “He’ll
sense the dark force that you land with, and know why you’ve gone
there. When you reach the planet, wait patiently for him to reach
you from wherever he is.”
     
    “Wait patiently?” Ion repeated, feeling his
eyebrows rise. “How long would I have to wait? And how will I know
if he’s aware that I’ve arrived?”
     
    “Patience, young one.” said Mantra.
     
    “He will sense your arrival, through that of
the crystal as well.” said Dantox. “When the crystal enters his
planet, he would be alerted of it through the shift in the aura
around him, and he would reach you as fast as he can, for he well
knows that the gravest threat to the world is the crystal. And he
will want to stomp that threat out as fast as possible.”
     
    “Ok. So I just get there, wait for this
hermit to find me, and then have him destroy the crystal?”
     
    Mantra shook his head. “Let’s not forget the
second part of this entire operation: a mystical tablet. Nalzes
can’t destroy the crystal with performing the necessary spell for
it, with a mystical tablet. A tablet is needed before he can undo
the crystal’s power.”
     
    “And where do we find one?” inquired Ion.
     
    “I know the location of one close to that
planet.” said Mantra. “Very close, in fact. It is in the planet
Garnor, in the star system 385, just one star system away from the
planet where you’ll find the priest.”
     
    “How do you know?”
     
    Mantra let a moment pass in silence, seeming
to consider something, and then said, “Because this tablet is a
rather special one. And I knew it might be handy sometime in the
future. And so I kept my eye on it. Now, listen closely…”
     
     
    He told Ion where to land when having reached
the planet, Velrox. It was at the outskirts of a scarcely inhabited
village the planet had. Once he landed there, Nalzes would reach
him there, having sensed the presence of one of the Nyon. Ion was
then to take the priest to the planet Garnor in the nearing star
system. Mantra gave him the specific