Chapter 10 Myth and Duality?

"What the hell just happened" Zhāng yelled so loudly that everyone had to cover their ears, and in reaction, even Zhāng recoiled at how loudly he yelled.

"That is why!!, The wand chooses the wizard, how the hell does an inanimate object choose anything?".

"Simple they have a basic level of sentience, nothing that would be beyond something like basic instinct for us but they have it, that abomination is beyond normal sentience! it has the ability to react to its wielder in ways never seen before" he hissed "it reacted to your demand for knowledge and it cast magic for you, being the Sonorus charm".

"And that alone makes it an abomination, let alone what it's made of".

"What is it made of?" Liu Carefully asked.

"The Woods are Dubbed 'Devils wood' and 'Clarity Pine' and the only reason we know that is because of the scriptures next to of which it was found!" the old man Giggled "Would you like to know why they are called that".

"Devils wood was stated to be made with the blood of five pure creatures killed in odious ways".

"The other wood is much better being a tree grown on the graves of evil killed in purity".

"These woods have never been found anywhere other than that stave, they have never been mentioned anywhere other than those scriptures and their copies, along with its core, center stone, and braces everyone that has studied it has said the same tale".

"The creator is either lying or is pure evil or pure good, and whatever it is, it doesn't walk the earth like you and me".

"Zhāng get that out of your hand!" Liu Yelled.

"I can't open my hand" Zhāng replied in horror.

"What?".

"It won't let you" The old man sighed "You are going to have to accept the fact that is your stave til you die!".

"Al-alright then if it is my stave then I must know everything about it, what is it made of" Zhāng nervously said while looking at the stave glued into his hand.

"Like hell my son will be cursed with such a thing" pulling out her wand she pointed it at his hand until the old man grabbed her forearm from behind "I wouldn't do that if I were you, his hand would shatter under the pressure of your magic and the Staves will".

"And for your question, I dare not speak of it, instead you will read about it," the old man said before tossing a book and when Zhāng caught the book, the old man, the shelves, the staves everything faded into the bustling street before they entered the tower.

"Where is that stave," Liu asked due to Zhāng's very much empty hand.

"I think it's in my ring," he said while looking at his middle finger, after being mesmerized at the perfectly cut jade he turned to look at the book still in his hand "A drop of blood of a demon, a drop of blood from the Yourgerath, a drop of blood from a dybbuk" he read from a random page before closing it.

"They are evil creatures, one of them I have never heard of" Liu listened before thinking.

"Ayy excuse us" A middle man yelled behind them.

"Sorry sir" Zhāng apologized while moving out of the way and bowing a little.

'To think he would get my old stave, brat will you be cursed with it or blessed. Regardless you will make your way to world's end and learn the truth'

It was only after sunset that Zhāng opened the book again, this time it was from page one.

"

It is believed that the crypt that holds the stave was not made by the stave's creator. there are 14 different stones slotted into the walls, each more than three humans tall and two humans wide.

Mekkah, 422, April 4

Upon the scriptures on the left wall, in the room holding the artifact

"And it's upon these scriptures that the holy recipes for the first core are found

The bone of a Unicorn given in Grace

The bone of an Airavata given in Grace

The bone of an Alkuanast given in Grace

The bone….

"

"The page describes hundreds of different creatures, all of them mentioned with a bone, all Given in Grace" Zhāng whispered, "so only when the bone is gained purely Hmm".

"

Mekkah 423, June 13

Upon the scriptures on the back wall, in the room holding the artifact

"

And it's upon this final scripture that the holy and Unholy recipes are combined to create 'Duality'

The wood soaked in the blood of five

The wood grown on the holy ground

The blood of all Evil

The bone of all Saints

The Ash of all impartiality

One piece of every legion at the behest of evil

One Piece of every legion at the behest of good

the seven creatures, the seven sins

The antenna of Lou carcolh

The tooth of the Nemean lion

The horn of Sæhrímnir

The tongue of the feathered serpent

The skin of Tiddalik

The sperm of a faun

The end of the ouroboros

These are the scriptures inscribed on world's end

"

"The bone of hundreds of creatures? the ash of hundreds more? the blood of even more? mythical creatures? legions of good?" Zhāng questioned.

"Yeah right, good bedtime story though" he laughed while throwing the book out the window behind him before going to bed.

Unbeknownst to him when he said that the stave named Duality vibrated a little.