Goodbye

The words being spoken the honor and glory that the deceased achieved were nothing to those who lost their family members for them, they just wanted their loved ones back nothing more nothing less and no amount of consolation is enough for them.

Long Yu stared at the funeral procession, his mind flashed back to all those years ago, if Second Mistress hadn't found them his mother and him would be dead, but unlike them they would be dead on an unmarked grave, the corpses being food for animals, he held himself as he took a deep breath he still has nightmare from that time sometimes. His aunt, no matter how much he was angry with her deep down he knew something happened with her that is also the reason why she is not there with them anymore, his mother his masters even his elder sisters are lying something must have happened to her. How he missed those days when his entire world was enveloped by his mother and aunt, how would he love to lead the carefree life again. 'tch, I am depressed again, if big sis Sylvana was here she would make tease me and make fun of me calling me 'cry baby'.'

The funeral was an odd one, the beasts unlike their counterpart the humans cried for their deceased but at the same time put up a brave front as they were laughing and dancing which according to them was a way to tell the departed spirits to move on to after life without any worry as they are well, what a strange custom. 'Mommy was right, when you travel you see and learn many interesting things.', Long Yu aka Ryuu idly thought.

The next day, some of the humans were all ready to move towards the next challenge the next biome. "So this is it then.", Cheeta said as he gave a sad smile, the last couple of days were like a roller coaster ride for all of them, if Long Yu had not been present they might not have won, because of him curing others the made it out of the crisis.

Long Yu: "Sorry brother Cheeta we would have loved to stay but we are currently short of time we need to move soon."

Chamelie: "Oh well it was nice meeting you child, stay safe grow strong and more importantly grow into a great person.", a she gave Long Yu a motherly hug.

Cheema came forward and hugged and gave a small kiss on his cheeks.

Soon, the beasts came and wished them good luck and good life some even giving them gifts in the form of precious herbs and various medicinal plants to foods and drinks.

Some of the humans stayed behind as they were either injured or lost their will to advance hence they would wait for the time limit to expire upon which they would be teleported out.

Chamelie spoke in the language of the apes as she took Long Yu a little further from the rest of his teammates, 'Long Yu, no I shall address you by your real name, Ryuu, thank you for everything the invasion destroyed many of our treasures and some are missing, but I was able to find something special for you, take this it is 'Ape God's wine', it takes a hundred years to brew even a mouthful of it, it is only available to the royal family, when you step into Wanxiang Adept realm ypu should drink it as it will be very good for you but till then hide it keep it safe people will harm you if they know you possess it, including your teammates tell no one about it, please take it do not hesitate or I will feel deeply insulted.', as she gave a small sealed urn to Long Yu who quickly put it inside his backpack for safe keeping.

Long Yu replied back to Chamelie in her language, 'Thank you for the gift your majesty, I will surely use it when the time is right and keep it hidden from others. It was nice getting acquainted with you all.'

Soon they were led to the teleported station, the shadow wolves waved back as they were engulfed in bright light before teleporting to a new biome.

Couple of days later, the beasts tribes along with few humans who stayed back stood near a giant tree their head bowed down in sorrow, under the tree a woman was sitting surrounded by her two children with tear streaming their eyes, some of her closest ally and friends standing around them making a circle.

Chamelie, 'Child this place is very special for me, because under this tree a young foolish prince your father proposed to me, every year on our anniversary no matter what we used to visit here, today I am present but you father is not.'

Cheeta with tears in his eyes, 'Mother please save your breath do not speak to much.'

Chamelie just gave a short laugh followed by more violent cough, 'It is fine son, you and Cheema have grow so big and beautiful, my life is fulfilled now let me return to your father's side, but promise me you two would take care of each other and all our people no our children as their King their ruler.'

Cheeta and Cheema, 'Mother we promise but do not say such ominous things please do not leave us.'

Chamelie, 'I am so happy and blessed to have you two as my child, remember no matter what your father and I will always love you, my precious darling.'

Cheema, 'Mother, we know but ….. Mother please open your eyes please.'

Their loud soul wrenching cry announced every one that the Empress of the Apes, a mother and a woman of indomitable will and a fine warrior, Chamelie had passed away. Anyone who saw her could have sworn that she had a satisfied smile on her face.

Meanwhile the Shadow Wolves were in their 5th biome, the Ice biome, suddenly Long Yu looked up at the sky while a lone tear escaped his eyes, ' huh why do I feel sad.', he shook his head in order to clear the feeling.

Jack: "It is good that the system has become faulty, the points gets carried over and is recognized and calculated as the amount earned in the next biome, we only had to kill a few beasts then we can move into the next biome, otherwise we would be in a serious pinch now."

Ruth: "So true brother so true.", as they finished killing a rank 7th Zifu Disciple, Iron armored Bear, with which they will be moving to next and last biome.

Jessie: "BRRrrr this cold is unbearable please hurry up I cannot stand it."

"Oh is my widdle sister feeling cold.", teased Jack only to get his face full of Snow ball.

He grumbled and retaliated by throwing a snow ball towards Jessie, who ducked and poor Ruth was the next victim and very soon it escalated to an all out snow ball fight.

An hour later, all of them were lying on the snow, tired from playing and laughing, as Long Yu tried to regain his breath he idly wondered, 'did those old man back in eastern headquarters managed to kill the 'Void Beasts', aww I wanted to see their faces when they returned.'

Meanwhile a group of injured old men were kneeling in front of the throne for almost the entire day waiting patiently for their Empress to arrive, in front of them lay the corpse of a Void beast, thinking of the fight where some of them nearly lost their lives they shivered and swore in their name, their father, their grandfather even their ancestor's name to never ever to incur her Majesty's wrath.