Snow Witch'S Journey
Ruins of Queen Tyrant

Here's my. Back alone, with all the darkness and snowflakes that covered me. The lantern that the old guard gave me started to go out, I traced the mysterious place that once stood majestic.

Indeed the atmosphere here makes my back neck shudder in horror. How not, walking in the middle of a thick forest hallway without any light, makes me always think of bad things.

I was increasingly concerned with the surroundings, even with the sound of friction of a broken branch could make me jump and run in droves. I'm starting to regret myself. I should have come when it was still bright.

I shook my magic wand, immediately triggered by a small fire at the end of the wand. That way I can see more clearly around me. While illuminating the map I brought, I followed along a path that was already faint with this realm. It's just not as difficult as the forest path near my house.

I guess what lies behind the trees or lurks in the shadow of the moon. A beast or a group of bandits could have appeared suddenly before my eyes. It's possible that a snow ghost appeared and flew through my body, like a mother.

If there really is a snow ghost here, then my day will be even worse. Snow ghost and mother have the same characteristics, which I can't touch but they can still make me suffer. Therefore I can categorize them as beings that I cannot and will never disturb. I'd rather die than face something I can't touch. It was as if I had been traumatized within me.

I thought too much about my fear of the snow ghost, until I found another light swaying in the darkness. That light was different from the fire light from my wand. It was blue and moved as if alive. Before, I had never seen a blue flame, it was possible that I had misjudged it due to the difficult environmental conditions. Shortly after, the light shot further into the forest.

“Who's there!?” I shouted spontaneously as the light moved.

Despite the trembling, thrust my wand into the darkness at the end. I forced my feet in the snow to move.

“Hopefully not a snow ghost. I hope it's not a snow ghost. May it not be a snow ghost,” I say continuously, like an expulsion prayer.

As I got closer to him, the light increased the distance between me and continued like that. Then the light stopped. It turned out that it was not a flame light, it was a transparent human that glowed in blue. My heart seemed to want to explode as it became clearer. I want to pinch my cheek immediately and wake up from this nightmare.

The more I forced my legs to escape, the more I couldn't move. “Anyone, help me!” I howled, when it was clear there was no one here but me and the snow ghost.

“Why am I here?”

I heard someone's voice. I'm not wrong, I actually heard someone's voice. The sound came from in front of me. Is that snow ghost talking?

“What happened to me? Why am I here?” The ghost stood in front of a pillar. He stared at the old pillar and muttered, “How did this happen? Am I crazy?”

What the hell happened to him? Did he actually ask me for help? I took a few deep breaths, and I asked myself, “Excuse me, is there anything I can do to help you?”

He didn't answer.

“Halo, sir, sir, are you okay?” ask again. Maybe I look stupid for talking to a snow ghost. But I wonder more than fear.

Suddenly, it disappeared in an instant. Along with the light of my extinguished wand. The wind passing by made me creepy and stiff. Just as, my eyes went around the forest, right behind me came the same little blue light. Then, it got bigger and closer to me. The light ... no, it was the same snow ghost, it pierced through my body and stopped in front of the pillar debris again.

“Did I just penetrate his body?” lirihku can't believe it. The hand I held out, shook incoherently.

I still vividly remembered the ghost's face in an instant before it pierced through me. He was a grown man with a stiff face and a blank look. Walking as bumbling as the first new try walking. But, his words were full of anxiety.

“Why am I here?” he started talking again.

“How can this happen? Am I crazy?”

Now I just remembered, that ghost, or that man is actually an illusion. An illusion from the past trapped in a magic cycle. That cycle records what happened in the past, then turns it back into an illusion that keeps repeating. There is no end and no beginning. This phenomenon will continue to occur until time finally stops.

I just ignored that guy, and I couldn't do anything to him anyway. It was as if we were in a different world. She didn't notice me, I realized her but couldn't make contact with her. Perhaps he would be stuck in that turnaround continuously until the end of the day. The illusion grew more and more, as I stepped forward towards the center of Eliphiar.

This kingdom became the only human kingdom in the Second Dark Era led by a queen, her name is Selenia. Unfortunately she was a woman, so the citizens underestimated her and did not want to obey her. Selenia asked the Great Witch for help to overcome the problem. The Great Witch gave her a magic jewel like mother's, capable of controlling people's minds. Queen Selenia used the power of the jewel to control her people to continue to obey it.

Like the man earlier, he subconsciously walked to a place, because his mind was currently being controlled. As he detached from the power of Queen Selenia, he was confused by what had happened and instead considered himself to be insane.

The country is under the control of the queen. There are no bad stains at all, if there is a queen will immediately remove it. All life here is governed by him. Wake up, eat, work, trade, play not even do anything. Dreams and cheerfulness are limited to the falsity that the queen messes with like a board game. They can't get out of town, nor can they be in close contact with outsiders. It's like in a prison. But therefore, there is no disability, no deviant behavior in every movement of the citizens. Perfect, until this country became one of the famous in its time.

However, behind that perfection, there are still those who do not agree with the queen. The king of the Tyrannian Kingdom back then realized this oddity. When reality hit him like a landslide, he growled. He was angry at the queen's actions that did not put freedom on the lives of her people. The love that the queen gives is as fake as the life she gives. As a king, he thought that a land without freedom and only restraint was a mistake. The attack ensued, and the queen was eventually killed. The queen's bridle was released and the citizens were free to do whatever they wanted.

The next reality will only make this country destroyed. After the death of the queen, no one was able and willing to take her vacant position. Tyrannia and other kingdoms were also not interested in a small country that only had ice and snow. After defeating the queen, the Tyrannical King let it go. He was not responsible for the chaos that followed the attack. As a result, Elifhiar became what I now see. A ruin of the past.

The buildings that once belonged to the citizens have become one with the mother of nature. Some of the buildings were shapeless, making it difficult to guess the shape before. There were also walls that had collapsed and rubble scattered everywhere. Wild animals such as deer and rabbits use these ruins to shelter them from the blizzard.

“Stolen!” shouted one of the citizens - which became an illusion. The man pointed to a small child who was clutching a bag of bread. He ran very fast towards me.

A moment after piercing through my body, the little boy turned around and walked stiffly. His gaze was empty just like the man before. With a strange smile, the boy handed back the bread he gave to the man who appeared to be a baker. And it happened again, the boy took a bag of bread and ran again to turn around later, then handed back the bread.

On a road now covered with snow and trees, I saw two people fighting each other. As I approached them, they immediately turned around and walked in different directions. Ignoring what has happened before. Before long, they come back and things keep repeating.

While in a cornered and dimly lit alley of the city, I was seen a pair of teenagers talking about something. They glowed like lights and instantly caught my attention as they passed by.

“Hey, do you know the rumors about the queen circulating? Said the queen was in a contract with the devil to get her powers.”

“Devil? What a crazy queen! It's good we still want to stay here. But the woman wants to draw us to her own problems. He intends to destroy our lives.”

“Crazy. He said that the devil also makes the queen always look beautiful without wrinkles on her face, even though the queen is older than my grandfather.”

“What if we just go from here? This place cannot guarantee our lives. The queen with her demons could have subverted us for sheer beauty.”

“You're right ...” Suddenly the man fell silent and his eyes widened, as if surprised but there was nothing he was looking at. “Sorry, I go first.” The two men immediately left after anxiously gossiping about their own queen. Like everyone else, they repeated it again.

All the citizens don't seem to like their queen. They said all the bad things about the queen and spread it quickly, whether it was true or fake. Even worse, they are happy to talk about it. Sayings like ‘woman devil’, ‘fake beauty’, or ‘a woman is not fit to be the leader’ out of their proud mouth. It was as if they would get an appreciation for the most horrifying remark they had made.

Those words were already very clear not because of the control of the queen. What was the reason the queen controlled her people just to vilify her own name? They really sincerely say it. There were no lies in any of their tones and gazes. Maybe it's the only real thing in this country full of falsehoods.