《Nihil》 Chapter 1.0 Authershrin/Oathelm ¡°There is no such thing as evil intelecti, they are the embodiment of the Allsper and Ouir, the First. They act like how nature should work. And chaos is one of nature''s prevalences norm¡± - Grand Praist of Haufman Democratic Nation With a dim light that covered by winter clouds, a fast plain tundra stretch out as long as horizon,this tundra is a small part of the Authershrin region, that still untouched for a big part of it, while the plain looks void of life there¡¯s uncontrolled pest that roams that place, at the edge of tundra bordering with a mountain, there''s gate of Oathelm, a center force for guarding Draifsun mountain from a feral creatures and wild smart animus. Some of the mercenaries and soldier looked like on an easy mood and relaxing near a big bonfire, ¡°Where''s provisional corps captain?¡± roar the lady Saurandric, and all the mercenaries and soldier stand straight alike, and lady Drasauran Yusnain chuckled, ¡°at ease soldiers, everyone ready to go? Where¡¯s Maria?¡±, And one of the draifist soldier answers her, ¡°report mam, it seems lady Maria still gathering the mead from the inn for our provision¡±, ¡°that little bitch must be drunk as ogric lord right now, thanks healer, back to your post¡± said lady Yusnain, ¡°everyone, get ready to march after I fetch our ''important¡¯ hidraif¡±, and all thirty soldiers and mercenaries start to check their equipment and weapons, while some of the draif seen to eat a lot of gemstones to fulfill their core power. Meanwhile at ¡°Hage Herald¡± a bar near Oathelm gate, the place that usually packed by merc and soldiers to warm their heart from the mountain¡¯s weather, one woman looks so eager to drink something even though she seems already drunk,¡° One of your finest moonstone mead please my dear bartender¡± said the drunkard hidraif, ¡° sorry lad but ya look pissed as ant already¡± said the Haufman bartender, ¡° oh you fucker I already spend so much here but you never hear me out, Herald, suck off my big vag you flesh ball¡± and Maria throw some glass at the pitifully bartend. ¡°Ya alcoholic dirtbag, eat this!¡± And the bartender throw his magical mixer to Maria''s head, the commotions stirred up a lot of mercenaries guest and they are afraid to join the trouble. One Drasauran lady comes near the bar and see the commotion, ¡° WHAT IN THE NAME OF IMADMUTH HELL ARE YOU DOING MARIA!¡± Shout Yusnain from the outside of the bar, And suddenly Maria froze like a baby ice troll breastfeeding.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. When the bar seems calmer, and a lot of guests already bail out from there, Yusnain start her preach, ¡°Maria, as an expected Hidraif to lead your own race and Draifsun kingdom, you should act your part!, Not this nonsense that you do right now, I shouldn''t have to babysit you every time, I know there¡¯s something that you didn''t tell me about your past, like why you kicked into one of the dangerous exploration filled with amateurs, but please, for the sake of Urehla and Imadmuth, clear your mind right know!¡± the Saurandric command, but the Hidraif talkback ¡° like hell you care, you and your Sauran lizard friend didn''t know.shit about me, I didn''t choose to march into a fucking ice land, and you kn-¡± and Yusnain slapped the hell out the drunk Hidraif, ¡°I am your field commander, and it is my duty to correct my subordinate misdemeanor, so grow the fuck up, you of all people have the Uhrlor core, but you act like Ouirsper owes you something, now go to your post!¡±, and Maria looked down while going out from the bar. ¡°Herald, I am so sorry for that, how much damage should I pay?¡±, ¡°It''s okay lady Yusnain, I could just ask the payment from that lousy gate commander¡± smiles the Haufman barkeep, ¡° Ohh yeah, these 5 mix gems mead barrel and 3 guttural mead for your expeditions are ready, do you need help to bring it?¡±, ¡°It¡¯s okay Herald, I don''t want to inconvenience you anymore¡± said Yusnain while she lifts up the barrel with her hands and telemagic Chapter 1.1 Authershrin tundra "Before everything There is nothing First creation bound to happen From nothing comes everything, two polar contradicted, created Allsper and Ouir. the dualism our God and Goddess, when both meet, Physical Plane created from the first explosion. First Fornification Two sexes fornicated, in 5 days Elemanahil formed, not from within. Beginnings of elementals and mana Elemanahil asks forgiveness. As boredom erected, Allsper frowned, Ouir smiled. From the first intelecti essences, Mana it is called, the first form of everything. As light and darkness from the Mana clashed, The sphere of earth conjured, spinning as the first wind forced, and all transformed into fiery inferno sphere, creation and destruction phasing as the water storm brewing. But everything would be nonexistence for our father Allsper and mother Ouir blessed the cycle Ouirsper will keep spinning in time And Elemanahil plays with the elementals and teach causation Second Fornification For the second time, two sexes fornicated, in 2 days, something formed, Elemanahil meditate and separated the being.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. The twin intelectis born, Urehla and Imadmuth As Ouirsper spinning, Urehla graced the precious ores spread from the center of the Ouirsper and the first trees growing at the surface of the Ouirsper The ores stabilize, the trees give the warm hugs Therefore Imadmuth danced the Saurangel stands and Dourfrukh pray All in a part of their guidance Now, emotions start brewing All except Elemanahil Intelecti clashes, the after effect Yih and Zermoc Balance and chaos Logic and emotions Last intelectis to conjured Because of Allsper and Ouir Gone to eternity rest" After the Draifist read the first scripture, the exploration begins, with a long march of the soldier and mercenaries, that consist of some Draif soldier, Dourk mercenaries, and one Saurandric, these group looks like some sort of high-level exploration group, unfortunately, these group never had a proper pieces of training and at best has mid-level personnel. ¡° Do you always read those things, healer?¡± Ask lady Yusnain, ¡°yeah my father said it will bring blessing to our activities, and by the way my name is Haest my lady¡± said the draifist who feel forgotten easily, ¡°sorry Haest, it just that this group is really new, and everything seems so suddens, I never do exploration right these if I am not on some stupid mistake I made, and my commander, said to take a free merc and soldiers to fill the quote¡±, ¡°it''s okay lady Yusnain, I also quite surprised to undergo these high level mission at my level, we are going to check some of the shrines from the north of the howling stone right?¡± Ask the healer, ¡°yeah it''s should at least take 2 weeks to get there, from here to the howling stones, usually, there will be small activities from the wild pest, but after that we better prepare¡±. Meanwhile, at the center of the march, riding on some ice armadillo, the Hidraif feels empty, she doesn''t know why she''s here, what''s the plan, and why her. It¡¯s not like she has any more goals in life to do anymore, it¡¯s all downhill from here she thinks. But something still hurt, she still misses her baby child, she missed him, she could only drown her feeling with meads and no more tears left to shed, maybe this exploration to Shrine ruins will cheer her up, but still, now, she just drift by, like the march that going through some empty tundra. Chapter 1.2 Campfire ¡°Draif people are quite unique, they look like living ore and with haufman children features, the things that differentiate us notonly in heights. But as different anatomy, they didn''t have heart, they have the core, that can be upgraded, as long as the host is strong enough, and their veins, beautifully woven on their skin, they seems to love ore so much, and worship Urehla quite humbly. I still fascinated by the base core that could be changed quite easily, you just need a power core to have a lot of acceptable base core. And their women, hmm, so small, cute and adorable just as-¡± At the first day camp, lady Yusnain trying to get to know their subordinate, and she sit between a Dourk mercenaries fire pit, at first the mercenaries looks worried by their leader actions, ¡° do you guys want any drinks?, I know we¡¯re still far from our objective, and sorry for my rudeness, what mercenaries group are you guys from?¡± ask her, ¡° we from Winteradwod merc lady Saurandir, lot of us are from Wodourk and Radourk Clan, as we are good at cold temperature my lady¡± said one of the leader of the mercenaries, ¡° Names Woka my lady, as you can see I am from the Wodourk Clan, if you need anything just tell me¡±, and Yusnain answered ¡° Thanks for joining us Woka and everyone, I know circumstances couldn¡¯t make us knew each other earlier, but I hope we could cooperate well when the times comes. ¡°But my lady, why such hurry, we could only gather some of our clansmen, is it time sensitive? This exploration?¡± ask Woka to the lady, ¡° it seems there¡¯s some abnormal activities detected byDraifeists at Oathelm gate, some mana leaking of some sort form the shrine ruins, but from what I know these things happens a lot, so just don¡¯t panic, we have our own specialist to handle it after all¡± while looking at Maria at the distance.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. After morning come all the soldiers and mercenariesmove again to north, it is stillfar far away from their quest, bt the winds tell different things, at the sixth days of explorations, the group suddenly ambushed by a pack of snow boar, unfortunately, the boars just become added provisionsto the group, and at the seventh day explorations, the group camp near uninhabited cave, and it''s already halfway to the ruins. "Where''s the mead stock?" Maria asked to the lady Yusnain, "you already drank half of our mead, I know Draif loves their mead, but this is too much Maria, we are still on the mission, how about your work? do you already sense what abnormalities happen at the ruins?" sneer the lady Saurandric. "just give me my mead and I''ll tell you" grumps Maria, "no I already know your tricks and bullshit deceptions, tell me!" roar the Drasauran, "okay! okay! I still don''tknow what the abnormalities, we are only halfway there, but the mana and elementals seems disturbeda lot, maybe one of the Shrine activated or something, now where''s my mead!?" and Yusnain sighed and give a half-full barrel of mix stone mead to Maria, "hope youdidn''t finish it in one day, there''s still many Draif that didn''t drink yet, you know the Draifwarsts in our group needed it, if some battle means to happen", and they all gone to do their own work, Maria drinking, and Yusnain comunnicating with soldier and merc to do a guard shift. chapter 1.3 Howling stones Wodrouk are one of the first drouk to form a clan, as they descendants of doufrukh wolves, wolves that ascend by the power of Imadmudth, their instinct to form a pack was still woven through their blood, the difference between a feral wolf and a wodrouk are a lot, they are bipedal and their hand now doesn''t have a claw while in normal conditions, but the claw still manage to stay in their body, but now forming at their sidearm and its retractable, in some unique cases, some pure breed would be born from their group and manage to have full body claw at cost of bald body, and that unique group usually called the ancientwod, they have moderate to high intelligence (as far as I know) but with their different customs, they have they own gestures to form a word, one thing for sure, they have a really cute ears, even when they are happy, it twitching and fluf-¡±. Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.¡°these howls sound creepy a lot, I don''t like it one bit milady¡±, said Woka, now that the group have arrived near the howling stones, formation established by lady Yusnain, at front the lady and the leader of the mercenaries lead the way, behind them some of the Wodourk mercenaries take precautions for the attack, at the middle Maria the hidraif with her ice armadillo stride accompanied by Haest and her two draifist friends, at the back some Radourk merc pulling up provision cart and accompanied by some dairfwarst and some more Wodourk merc. ¡°I¡¯ll fly for a sec to see if there''s any threat near here, I heard many animus loves to reside here, hope it''s not a mating season yet here¡± talk the lady while preparing her wings, ¡°don''t go too far milady, I could sense some wyvern far from here¡± Woka cautions. and the group march slowly and cautiously at the howling stones, ¡°fuuuuuung fung fuuuuuuung¡± howl the stones, ¡°shut it will ya stones¡± said by Woka scaredly, and suddenly the ground shaking for a minutes and it stops, ¡°what the hell is that¡± asked Haest warily, ¡°probably just an earthquake from the abnormalities of the shrine, we must make haste¡± said Maria while holding something inside her strap bag, ¡°WATCH OUT FROM UNDER YOU¡± roar the lady Saurandric from the sky. suddenly the earth split and a lot of animus come from within, and the group now totally in chaos. Chapter 1.4 Animus battle as the ground stop shaking, the animus overflow from within, the group seperated by the splitting earth, now the middle and the front part of the group are seperated from the back part of it, " RUN!" lady saurandric roar, while the back group overwhelmed by the animus, the middle and the front group run for their lives, suddenly the earth shaking again and there''s a wall between the animus and surviving group, and Maria looked a little exhausted by the spell that she has conjured, "I don''t know you had it in you hidraif, a stone tower wall spell, good job" said Woka while running leading the group, and lady Yusnain sit a top of the tower biting his right arm, for the blood magic she wanted to call, by drawing the drasauran blood lady saurandric pose changed, while at the top of the tower she breathed a blue colored flame through her mouth, and the blood that draws intensifies, the fire killing a lot of animus under the stone wall. she looked past the burned animus and see the back group still fighting, using provisional mead the draifwarst slashes at the horde of animus and the radourk one fleeing while trying to break free from the horde, lady saurandric hesitate at first, is it futile to help them or not, there''s too many animus that hold that group, and she doesn''t know what to do, if she use the drasauran breath their companion surely will get burned too. after a lot of thinking and still defending the stone wall from animus, she leap up and fly to the back group, she catch some animus and dropped it from the sky, and with her telemagic she lift some of the animus from the ground too so that there companions could slay the animus, but in the end, one by one the part of the back group fall bitten or clawed by the animus, and one of the back group draifwarst shout at lady Yusnain, "RUN DRASAURIAN, WE CAN HANDLE OURSELF, TAKE CARE THE HIDRAIF WILL YA!" and the lady go back to the stone wall tower, while getting spitted by the animus, killing as many animus as she can, she knows that the back group couldn''t survive, even if she tried to lift group away, they would become a spit target from the animus, and she fly again, with a heavy heart leaving her companions behind.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. after catching up with the front and the middle group, lady Yusnain descent abruptly, and Haerst and their two friend, Coa and Lis, trying to heal Yusnain with their magic, "what happened to the back group?" ask Maria eventough she knew the answers. after their long run the surviving group take a camp at the plain tundra, now their offensive powers has decreased, and no provision to have, the bon fire that had been made, looks gloomier than it should, "what do we do now lady Yusnain, we can''t afford to stay outside of the wall without provision, should we go back?", ask Hearst to lady Yusnain, the saurandric still shaken by her last battle, thanks to the draifist, her wounds has been healed, eventough she doesn''t have many injury to begin with but her stamina replenished, " I don''t know what we should do now, but let''s all take rest for the night, I''ll make new shift for the guard for the rest of tonight, let''s hope tomorrow we will be better" said the saurandric with an empty eyes.