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Prologue 5: Flame Expanding.

  "..?" As white flame touched the white glittering sand that filled the endless stretch of ground, like he remembered something, the golden ring in his eyes slowly expanded, expressing his speechless amazement as he slowly and dramatically starts turning 180 degree midair—returning to his orientation before he hit the invisible wall on the horizon.

  "Oooh!" Excited, with the golden ring of his eyes responding in accordance as usual—it widened in surprise—white flame slowly descend onto the ground, and as his glowing white flaming feet touch the ground, an ancient sound like wind chimes echoed all around him, and the air around him also glitter and sparkle in sync with the sound, and he fell in love with it—the golden ring of his eyes that expanded a bit display it—and he starts looking around excitedly, turning his head left and right, until it all gradually ceased—everything returned to how they were before he landed.

  "Pooh..." White flame became clearly unhappy seeing the phenomenon ceased. As the golden ring of his eyes also returned to normal, like he deflated, he lowered his face, looking downcast. It wasn't after about a minute that he lifted his face with a look like he already forgot everything.

  "Hmmm..." White flame like before looked around curiously and was amazed. Everywhere around him, from hills, to ridges, to bumps, and down to plains, were covered in super fine glowing white sand.

  "Oooh!" While still looking curiously around the dark empty space, his eyes caught a glittering particle of this super fine glittering sand flying in the air in a particular direction, though randomly. Then with the golden ring of his eyes widening in amazement and remaining like that, he lifted his feet, trying to catch the particle, and when his outstretched hand fail to catch it, he lifted his other feet, and paused briefly in surprise and from realization.

  "???" Curious like a man that just discovered fire, he resumed what he just did. He lifted one feet first and followed with the other, stamping them on the ground. Though he almost stumbled, he repeated the process a second time, and as he was doing it the third time, his eyes once again caught the flying glittering sand particle, so he forgot what he was doing and instead, he started chasing it by walking fast with his hands stretched towards it.

  All the while chasing the glittering sand particle by walking briskly, the golden ring of his eyes starts spinning rapidly, and at a certain point as he was about to catch the glittering sand particle but failed, his brisk walk naturally and smoothly transitioned into a jog—he became faster.

  "Oooh!" This time, he felt differently, he felt excited, and the golden ring of his eyes widened more, expressing it. Though he is still chasing the sand particle that seems to have also picked up speed mysteriously, he starts looking at his surrounding that is changing along with him as he jog barefoot on the ground of white glittering sand.

  "Hee-hee." All of a sudden, like a light bulb turn up in his head, his jogging speed drastically starts to increase—he practically starts running. However now, he starts running not after the glittering sand particle—maybe he surpassed it. Instead, he starts running freely picking up more speed irresponsibly, running faster each second.

  Save for the glowing white sky and the glittering white sand, the space between them—practically everywhere around White flame was dark. Hence, still running and gaining speed recklessly, he subtly transitioned to look like a white blur in the dark as he cross plains, cross bumps, climb and descend hills, and sometimes even skirts them, repeating this sequence at random for a long time, until he rapidly starts decelerating when a glowing golden stretch of land appear before him.

  "Tch..." Still decelerating at a high rate, White flame rolled on the golden stretch of land that happens to be ground covered with very short and super dense grasses that glow golden. And coming to an unexpected tidy stop, sitting up on the golden ground of glowing grass with legs crossed, White flame looks dazed—and the golden ring of his eyes spinning in circles expressed it.

  "Mmm." Coming to after a while, White flame first look around him at the golden ground of glowing grass, turning his head left and right.

  "Hmm?" He touched his left temple with the forefinger of his left hand, looking like he sensed something in the shimmering arched horizon. So, after a short pause, he rose and starts walking on the golden ground of glowing grass in a straight line for a fairly long time, looking expressionless all the while, until the shimmering view that has been slowly revealing itself, completely come into his view.

  "Oooh!" Amazed—the golden ring of his eyes widening, expressing it—White flame paused on a precipice, because in front of him and below the sharp precipice is the body of immemorial clear water, on top of which he appeared from nothing a while ago, though he his seeing it for the first time. And at the other side of this immemorial body of water, and at a considerable distance from its cliff shore—the sharp precipice he stands on—is an overwhelmingly imposing shimmering wall of fog that subtly bulge outward a bit, also looking like it has no end on all sides, or like it stretch infinity in both sides along the immemorial body of water and its as tall as the eye can see.

  "Heeee..." Smiling like a baby, amazed by the sight, White flame like he forgot what lays below him resumed his march after taking a step that leads him off the sharp cliff, and surprisingly he did not plunge to the depth that is the immemorial water, but he starts walking midair as if on solid ground, heading towards the outward bulging and shimmering wall of fog, crossing the immemorial water to the other side that is the wall of fog.

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  A while later, while still walking midair; like he realized something, the golden ring in his eyes slowly widened and his pace quickened, slowly accelerating until he reached a speed that made him look like a white blur. And after a while, he slowly starts decelerating, and by the time he returned to a walking pace, he just about reached the shimmering wall of fog that fascinated him the more, and a few steps later, he stood before it.

  "Mmm..." Like a baby, curious and unsure, he moved closer, and as he slowly and hesitantly moved his finger towards it, he paused—almost touching it—looking like he is debating if to touch it or not, but it didn't take long that he made his decision and touched it, and as he did, a very loud repeated ringing sound like from a bell followed as the wall of fog slowly turned into a completely transparent wall, looking like the fog behind it rolled down rapidly like snow on a sloping wall, clearing up totally, revealing what lays behind it.

  "Oooh!" Excited and amazed, White flame unconcerned about the number of the ringing sound that echoed, watched with the golden ring in his eyes widening, expressing his fascination at the world that revealed behind the wall—a world, if one look closely is the one the immemorial clear water has been faintly reflecting since.

  Furthermore, if one look closer just like White flame did, the world revealed looks like its seated far below the wall that continued curving inward like the sloping surface of a deep pit, even way passed the level of the immemorial clear water. And its edge—where it meets the wall at a point way below the point it contact the body of immemorial water at his side—seeming to stretch infinitely along the wall, looks like its bathed in thick fog, and one wouldn't be wrong to say that the earlier fog that rolled down piled up there.

  "Mmm..." Really fascinated by the world behind the completely transparent wall, White flame once again resuming his march, collided with it and starts pushing it with both hands, trying to walk passed it, but no matter how much he tried, the transparent wall made of a strange material refuse to bulge, stopping him. Then frustrated, he stand akimbo gritting his teeth, and the center of the golden ring of his eyes burned fiercer and brighter—he seems enraged.

  "Oh!" Suddenly, like a light bulb turned up in his head, White flame starts rising higher, accelerating vertically along the surface of the transparent wall like he is seeking its end at the top, later on looking invisible because of his speed. However at one point, he starts decelerating rapidly, looking like he noticed the wall is starting to move far away from him, which is not something he want, and when his figure that went from invisible to a white blur came to a stop, surprised, he found out the wall is no longer in front of him, and curious, he looked down.

  "Eh!!!" White flame became utterly stunned by what he saw. The seeming vertical wall that was in front of him before, now look like its below him and its lying horizontally with a gentle downward curve that goes down below where he is coming from.

  "Mmm.." Looking like he is trying to resolve his confusion, White flame looked back up, and paused, looking like he is thinking.

  "Hee-hee-hee." Like a light bulb turned on his head, White flame, starts flying up, accelerating so greatly that he turned invisible in the next moment, but after a short while and all of a sudden, he collided with the wall that was below him, hitting it because he suddenly changed his direction 180 degree midair, and maybe because of the great speed and acceleration he moved at, he transformed into white flame after hitting the wall.

  A moment later, the white flame White flame turned into starts blazing and flickering intensely, and instantly after what happens to be a count of nine its flickering intensity also counted, it abruptly expanded by countless times, almost reaching the glowing white ceiling far beyond, and after burning intensely for another few seconds, it transformed back into a White flame who has a triumphant grin on his face, but he is now a colossal giant as tall as the burning flame.

  "Hee-hee-hee." White flame—excited after returning super giant—looked down below him, and he noticed the transparent wall has actually been the surface of a sphere that is one-quarter submerged at the center of the immemorial body of water that now looks like a lake of clear water contained by a perfectly circular pit that has a smooth vertical edge that rose higher than it—starting from where it level with it and the precipice on top. And again, seeing the planar world inside the sphere that sits three-fourth down from the transparent sphere top—the place where the immemorial lake level around it—White flame dived down, trying to enter it, but yet again he failed. No matter what he do, the transparent surface of the sphere won't bulge a bit; he couldn't enter.

  "Tch..." After outwardly showing his annoyance by clicking his tongue, White flame rose higher into the sky, slowly accelerating, and once again he looked down at the golden ground of glowing white grass that is actually an outgrowth from the edge of the circular precipice, making it look like a ring that bound the lake of immemorial water. Then he looked at the ground of glittering white sand that likewise surrounds the golden ground ring, and suddenly like he remembered something, he looked at the horizon far away, and he saw identical colossal pillars that sits on the ground of glittering white sand in a circle with the lake at the center, and with wide spaces between them, practically forming a round structure.

  "Oooh!" Once again, fascinated by it; White flame like he has done before, stretched his hand towards the space between two pillars, and in the next instant, he once again collided with an invisible barrier wall between them like earlier, after what seems to be an instant teleportation, just like the first time.

  "Tch..." After he gained his balance midair, he turned to one of the identical pillars that just like the others have a golden base and a glowing white shaft that is inlaid with gold in a meaningful pattern... then like a ram, he accelerated, turning invisible from the speed, and rammed it, recoiling as it didn't bulge—the pillar stands strong.

  "Tch..." Showing his annoyance as usual after regaining his balance midair, he turned around and accelerated towards the lake, turning into a white blur. And decelerating, he paused over the lake, but this time, his interest lay in the lake, so he dived down towards it, and after he paused just above it, he slowly stretched his hands towards it, trying to touch it, but unexpectedly; a whirlpool instantly, suddenly and silently appeared on the surface of the lake; and before he could register it, he was sucked into it—appearing to have apparently left the place of the eternal.

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