1 New Beginning

"After observing you for three consecutive months, I am already completely satisfied with your performance for all this period. Therefore, from today, I will leave the task of monitoring and controlling the Arcane Seal of Disruption in your hands until I can finish the preparation. Now it's time for me to leave this place."

"But will you really be able to do it in your current situation?"

"I have no other choice, after thinking a lot about everything that happened recently, I think this is the best way to get rid of everyone's pursuits, and even if I get discovered again, I can always summon you at any time if I need to, since you are still ultimately part of me."

Two figures sat on the highest point of The Arctic Tips, one young man with average looks and the other a handsome young man with otherworldly features. The handsome one emitted an aura that caused the surrounding space to twist and turn, and the other one casually sat beside him, looking as though the heavy atmosphere did not bother him at all.

With no emotions on his handsome face and dangerous crimson eyes that looked like blood, warned with heavy tone: "Even though you need to be very careful."

Shiro "..."

That young man or to be precise the boy of fifteen years old was Shiro, The most wanted person on Lockedonya Continent, labeled by the people of that land with so many alias like the devil boy, butcher, murder, Prince of Death... and why is that? It's because he was the main culprit of what happened five years ago.

And the one next to him who looked like a beggar with his messy short dark hair, half closed black eyes, and the average looking body, rough brown skin like someone who got scorched by the sun in the beach, tattered clothing, was actually the real Shiro. It took him great effort to change his look to what it is right now, especially the color of his eyes and the shape of his facial visage. So now even if by standing next to his clone no one can associate them with each other.

He used an advanced method plus the help of two Mysterious Artifacts and some other ingredients to make identical clone of himself.

Shiro sighed deeply, with regard to his current situation, no one is better than him in knowing how bad the situation is, since that incident a few years ago and his life turned upside down, almost everyone who belongs to Lockedonya Continent wants to catch and kill him in the worst way possible.

Of course, he can't blame them for that, as he is the main cause of the death of more than three and a half million people in just a few hours

Worst of all, most of the victims belong to noble and ruling families, and many of them hail from prestigious blood, making matters worse.

This is not the only reason why Shiro is forced to flee with his life, because not just that what happened, but that the Arcane Seal of Disruption that caused their deaths still threatens the lives of more than seven million other people, and any small mistake means that everyone will end up dead too, and the number of victims may be much more than that.

In spite of all of this, there is nothing that Shiro can do in his current situation to stop it, except for running and enduring all the pain from the spell.

When thinking about all that, he was also a victim, and because of one mistake caused that tragedy, and now he must do everything to stop this Arcane Seal of Disruption even if mean throwing his life to do that.

Anyone may wonder why Shiro cares so much about stopping this Arcane Seal of Disruption and why he must endure all that ordeal to achieve his goal, despite all the attempts he received from the other side to try to kill and take revenge on him, and what will he gain from all this?

Certainly, these thoughts revolved around Shiro's mind too, and in many moments he was thinking of throwing everything behind his back and killing himself or perhaps surrendering to the victims of the accident and letting them do what they wanted, killing or torturing him if they wanted, At least his suffering will end, maybe death is much better than meaningless life.

But because of some people, he decided to change everything and face his unknown fate one last time to finish everything by himself. Shiro is fully aware that achieving this is almost impossible, but despite that he cannot back down now because if he succeeds in that, he can finally be free and liberate all those people who get cursed together with Arcane Seal of Disruption, And if he fails, at least he has done his best.

In order to make this goal come true, Shiro had no other choice but to make a clone of himself and change his look, so he can distract the people who are pursuing him.

Also, the use of Arcane Seal of Disruption or any of his two Mysterious Artifacts anywhere in Lockedonya Continent would direct many eyes into him and if he wanted to move freely, then this considered a necessary step to be able to do so.

After a long silence Shiro sighed again, this time with slight smile on his face he said: "Even after long times gone, but I still feel very strange talking with you, it's like someone lost his mind and started speaking with himself."

With slight change in his head, looking to his clone "Don't you think that I start losing my mind too, Shiro?"

Shiro the clone: "..."

It's not the first time Shiro has stated that comment so like every time the handsome young Shiro chooses to ignore him.

"Just forget about that and help me get out of here to a safe place, as you can see crossing the jungles in my current state is very dangerous, will you?"

"No"

With that he turned around, took some steps and started vanishing like cloud in the wind, leaving behind that one word.

The smile on his face didn't vanish from the cold behavior, instead he felt even better about it. Because even if his clone can think and make its own decision, the lack of emotion prevent him of making any foolish mistake, and he will do his work to the best.

Of course the real Shiro can fully control him at anytime but in his opinion the best outcome is to make his clone take care of this matter so even if Shiro got weakened or lost to his emotions, there is always his non-emotional clone to help him.

"Now the first step is done, it's time for me to start looking for those mysterious artifacts and unseal that monster, but before that I need to be strong enough to make that happen."

Shiro stood from his place and shed his eyesight in the surrounding area from his high location, seeing everything that surrounds him, despite his stay in many areas during the past years to escape with his life, there is no doubt that his stay here is the longest as it reached several months, which made it like a second home for him.

Of course, right now he doesn't have any home to begin with.

Also, thanks to the structure of this mountainous region in being able to give him a lot of safety and a sense of some relief from the pursuit of people, this is not because it is a safe area but on the contrary, it may seem that this region is quiet from his place at the top of the mountain but in fact there is a lot of the dangers spread in the region, especially in the jungles surrounding the mountain, different monsters, areas of an inauspicious nature, poisonous insects scattered in the places even plants can cause you to die if not careful and a lot of other things...

But because of that, the area here is good at providing different places to hide, as Shiro was vigilant from the beginning not to draw attention to this place so that no one would think of looking for him in this region, and this has led to him obtaining a lot of freedom until he completed the first stage of his plan.

After several minutes of contemplation, rumination about the many moments he spent here. Shiro took his first step heading towards the city, from which he wanted to start his new life, where he chose the safest route to lead him out of this place, cause in his current situation facing the dangers of this region is a kind of madness, and doing so may complicate many of the things that he does not need.