CHAPTER 13 - A HEART OF CHAOS

I was overwhelmed by the sudden influx of information, the pearl given to me by my parents being about royalty and I was the chosen one.

As I clenched my hands tightly, I experienced a mix of emotions. On one hand, I felt relieved and happy that the pearl was not destroyed or lost, but was still with me, or rather within me. However, on the other hand, I was filled with fear and confusion. The unknown consequences of having the pearl inside me loomed over me, and I couldn't help but wonder how it would affect me. Despite my confusion, I couldn't help but marvel at the fact that the pearl was inside my heart, and yet I was still alive. The sheer power and energy contained within the pearl was overwhelming, yet here I was, standing and breathing, with the pearl nestled within me.

"So you are a very lucky person, or you and your tribe and anyone connected to you by blood or not would be killed," she said calmly,

Even the transcendent waiting for you outside the temple would kill you and demolish your tribe to keep any news from spreading out.

The realization hit me hard - the pearl I possessed posed a threat not only to my own life but also to the welfare of my tribe.

"Right now your heart is in chaos, the mixture of the venom, the curse of crystallization, and the pearl caused it." If it was only the pearl merged into your heart this problem wouldn't be bothering you, so I'm giving you what you came here for, what the transcendent asked you to collect.

She brought out a box and opened it, inside was an emerald-colored heart, transparent and shining with a breath of life, just bringing it out of the box made the grass around it grow longer, it made me feel energized just from one breath, while it gave off the scent of honey.

"This is the heart of the forest, what the transcendent has tasked you to bring for him," she said with a hint of pity in her voice, I'll extract a part of the essence in the heart, and combine it with yours, this would make the chaos in your heart seize for some period of time, but once it erupts again it might be dangerous for you."

I didn't understand what she was saying, there was no chaos in my heart, if it was there I would be able to feel it because it's my own heart I would be able to notice it.

That's not it, "The chaos in your heart is both physical and emotional, in the physical sense your body will be filled with internal injuries like chest pain, neck pain, back pain, jaw pain, and swelling around the body, and in the emotional sense you wouldn't be able to stay sane, you would be getting angry at every little thing, not being able to control yourself and more.

The situation really caught me off guard, and I ended up following the instructions obediently. But now I can't help but wonder - what if I wasn't in my right mind when I was part of the tribe? What if I unintentionally hurt someone while I was there? The thought of it is haunting, and I don't think I could ever forgive myself.

She held the heart in her hands and poked a hole in the middle with her nails, a gold liquid came flowing out which she kept in a small cup. After she had removed close to half of the liquid she removed her nails and the heart healed quickly on its own and stopped leaking out the gold liquid.

She told me to get ready, I went back to the place where I woke up and layed down on the stone bed, and she came next to me with the cup filled with golden liquid.

I was nervous, this was the first time I'd be awake and someone was cutting into my heart, as I saw her nails going there my heart rate sped up.

It didn't even make any sound, her nails cut through my chest like butter, although it hurt it didn't hurt that much because my tolerance for pain was much higher and I've crossed the threshold of pain.

Then she cut open a blood vessels leading directly to my heart and poured the forest heart essence into it.

It was weird watching someone do all that to me, it felt unreal but the pain told me otherwise.

When she finished pouring the cup of essence into the vessel and it reached my heart, I felt it. I felt the pain, now I understood when she said my heart was in chaos, it was literally in chaos. It was the pearl that had been keeping me safe all this time, if the pearl hadn't been there I would have been dead already.

But now a new substance was added to the formation it had before it became total chaos, his heart wrenched, and his head hurt he felt like he had been thinking too much that his brain was about to explode, it persisted just for a brief moment but seconds passing felts like hours then suddenly it stopped.

My heart was balanced, I looked at my chest, the large cut on it, and the vessels in my heart were already being healed, barely ten seconds passed and I couldn't even see a scar there anymore.

A few more minutes passed, and it felt like my body was overloaded if I took in any more energy I would burst like a bubble,

[ Oh, you've gotten to this part already, this is the most painful part and it would occur every time you try to balance your heart with energy you'll have to get hurt continuously for the latent energy to heal those wounds and you'll have to keep doing it till the latent energy has finished]

Sigh

I dropped my head downcast, ever since I began the hunt I've been put to many trials where I almost lost my life, almost crippled or more and it just kept coming, I was getting tired of it already.

But thinking about how my parents died mysteriously, I prepared myself for the incoming pain, I lifted my spirits high for the pain I was about to face I would come out even stronger.