Eh? So I was Reincarnated?

Farewell

The fourteenth day has arrived and after this day I shall leave this place where I was raised. The Spirits are pushing me to take the path of a hero, I wish I could met their expectations.. but deep inside I just wanted to travel this whole new world.

Wayback on my previous life, I always dream of an adventure that I wanted to do so that I could see the wonders of the world, and on my journey I shall compile all my experiences into a story that only belongs to me.

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I walked into the grasslands of the Spirit Realm, the sweet scent of the flowers lingered through my senses. I went to the plain where I and my spirit mentors used to train, I will miss it once I'm gone. Deep in the woods I sensed the familiar aura, a creature that watches me at the beginning, a went into the direction where he was hiding and dragged him into the middle of the plain. I smiled to him and offered a hand shake,

"I'm Ruelle. What's your name?"

"..."

He didn't respond to my questions instead he removed the veil of shadows that covered his appearance.

"Why are so shy if you had such a lovely appearance?" I asked him.

His long silky noir hair was sparkling in the daylight, his pale white skin was complementing to his well defined face and red lips. But he suddenly took a step back, he unsheathed the black sword on his right side.

"W-WAIT! I don't mean to harm you!" I said.

I was such a fool to think that he was about to s***h me, my body suddenly responded to the stimulus and created a blade out of sunlight and pointed it to his neck. But he just ignored the thing that I did, he kneeled with his right leg and offered me his blade.

"Are you giving that to me?"

He nodded. As I touched the blade of the black sword, it turned into a mist and merged with my shadow. I looked at him and saw that he was incapable of expressing himself, we sat there for a moment..the silence and the breeze was too loud, it feels like I was all alone but not.

I wanted to break an ice,

"Uhmm.. Can you show me around? I wanted to see the places that you liked the most," I asked him, "Well if you're okay with tha..."

He stood up and dragged me in the middle of the woods, we took the path that I've never been before and together we headed into a house.

"Is this your house?"

"..."

He opened the door and different animals came out from it, they jumped into him just like dogs welcoming their master after a long day of work. The appearances of the animals are somewhat similar to the world where I came from, those creatures looked like hares, fawns and prairie dogs, but I noticed the bandages on some parts of their body.. it looks like they were rescued by this guy. He went inside to gather some clothes and went back to where I was, he was about to replace the bandages but I hindered him to do so.

Instead, I gathered a minimum amount of malach from the ground and healed the wounds of the animals. He was expressionless as usual but I guess he was glad, he hugged me as a sign of his gratitude.

"When I leave this place would you like to come with me?" I asked him

That was foolish of me to expect that he would respond to a stranger like me, but for the first time, he smiled.

We spent the rest of the day wandering through the places where I've never been, we went to a forest where the rain constantly falls. I'm about to reverse the flow of water but he stopped me and casted a barrier instead above our head, then he took me to the boundary and we found a hole from the great barrier that isolates the Spirit Realm from the Surface Realms. He puts a seal calmly to restore the hole, then we went to various places that he liked the most, the wonders that this realm holds was so much for me until I didn't notice that the dusk approaches quickly, I hurriedly opened a gate and let him enter first.

That day.. I made my very first friend.

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The fifteenth day has arrived and Ruelle was summoned by the Queen to her Palace, they held a ceremony of recognition for him wherein the Great Spirits introduced their names formally and after that, they gave him the sigils of their pact that was tattooed on his body.

Ruelle was looking for Ignis for he wasn't around at the middle of the ceremony and he found him at the post on the western side with his friend, but he noticed that the guards are fewer than before.

"I guess they were preparing for us to leave," he whispered.

When Gaia was about to proclaim of being a hero, the thundering screams of the spirits echoed around. The teal mists was slowly disappearing and an army of about a thousands entered the realm, they were clad in shadows.

"Protect the Spirits!" Vedarda shouted.

Terraria and Caridi made a barrier to protect the lesser spirits. Zephyris, Helios, Umbra and Vedarda charged in front line, while Ignis, Ruelle and his friend followed their lead.

Ruelle was observant and he saw that Vedarda and other are avoiding the vital points of the enemies, and at the other hand the spirits that remained on the palace was unusually calm.

Ruelle called Ignis and his friend to buy him some time,

"Listen, drive the enemies to the direction of the great hole where they entered, I shall pull them out!"

Helios launched a thousand missiles of arrows created from light and Ignis ignited the ground, creating a great wall of flame, he pushed the invaders back as far as he could.

Ruelle was at the center pulling out as much of mildei that he can produce, at the center of the boundary's hole he poured his mildei and pushed it outside. It was just a little dot of darkness, he altered the flow of gravity and compressed it into one place.

It started to pull the enemies out but Ruelle forgotten that the gravity on the Spirit Realm was a thousand times more than what a human and other living things can endure.

The black hole grew a little bit and it started to suck the invaders, one of them got unveiled and he recognized them,

"They are the soldiers!" Ruelle exclaimed.

He tried to undo his magic but it was to much for him to handle. Those who had been sucked was obliterated into nothingness, not even a remnant can be retrieved.

"The test is over! Hurry up and rescue the soldiers!" Gaia commanded.

The spirits responded and tried to aid the ones who are about to be sucked but the pulling of the blackhole grew stronger as it gets bigger,

"No way! His source was leaking!" Eros shouted as he was about to aid his son.

The surprise test prepared by Gaia turned into catastrophe that seems impossible the handle, Ruelle's source was fueling the growth of the black hole.

His friend signaled to Ignis and he responded immediately, he told them to stay away from him and covered Ruelle with walls of flame, he then let Ruelle's friend to enter within the walls.

He grabbed Ruelle's chin and kissed him without hesitation,

"I am Nocturne, with this, I am sealing your third source."

The black hole was slowly disappearing, Ignis lifted his walls of flame. Gaia and the Great Spirits excluding Ignis kneeled before Ruelle and offered their apologies.

They felt guilty for the loss of their kin, for they are the ones who plotted the test from the beginning.

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I know how sincere their apologies are but I knew it more than anyone else that it was also my greatest fault to use such dangerous power, I am no longer fitted to become a hero that they desire.

I bow down and also kneeled before everyone,

"I'm so sorry everyone, I'm no more a hero that you wanted me to be.. I'm a murderer now."

I looked at the lesser spirits and saw the fear in their eyes, I know that I can't my sorry cannot bring back the lives that I have taken.

I can't take the weight of my guilt, I have to leave this realm as soon as possible. Nocturne and Ignis bid farewell to others for me and took the same path as me, we are about to exit on the boundary when Mama and Papa clings to me one more time, Papa Eros gave a scroll.

"My son it was our fault." Papa said.

Mama cried and embraced me on last time, "Promise me," she said, "You will come back right?"

"Yes."

"You will always remember us right?!"

"Yes."

That moment brought me to tears as I bid farewell to them, they are the genuine parents that I wished I had for a long time.

Their tears and worries brings me courage and hope, as long as I'm alive I could still help others, not as a hero that they wanted but as a traveller.