The Undying Lands Novels & Stories

Anton huffs, offended a my expression, but I just smooth a hand over his head and otherwise ignore him. “No, they’re alive,” Laila says, nodding to me and looking around at all of them. “Some of them for hundreds of years. “The Underworld is a Kingdom in itself; as I told you this morning, all the dead are in the Deadlands, awaiting reincarnation.”

They both vanish in the next split second to Goddess knows where. This place is a whole mess. I do not know which is worse, the barren lands where the undead are residing or here in which thousands and millions of souls are begging for mercy. Barren lands? Undead? Where did that thought come from? I shook my head as if to erase the sudden idea that popped in my head.

"You Leopard Cat Spirit, will you die if you don't boast?" That rubbed Zhiluan the wrong way. He put down the wine up and whined, "Since when am I boasting? Had that monkey not make a mess of the Banquet of Immortality Peaches and cause the Immortal Wood to fall in the Human World... Forget it. What would a little human like you know?" "Immortal Wood? There's an Undying Nation in the Great Desolate where they feed on Immortal Wood. Could it be that the legendary Undying Tree fell from the Heavenly Palace?"

“My family has been here for generations, true, but we have barely explored ten percent of the entire uncharted lands. So I might reside here but there is still a lot of land out there.” “So why did you not just name the lands?” I asked him with one of my brows raised. It just seemed silly to me that they didn’t at least try to give proper names to where they live. “Oh we did,” Adam said with a tiny chuckle, “We named the ones we have been in. Where you first came in, we call that the Desert Lands. The forest we stay in, we call the Forest of Solace and Calm. The icy landscape you are looking at, we call that the Glacier Peaks, and then there is the Rainy Lands.”

Today was one of those days where the scar felt alive again and I made a mental note to visit Granj in the clinic before pursuing my activities for the day. Hopefully, Nerida had gone back home. Sometimes I wondered why her parents named her that. There were three lands of afterlife according to Aspenian legends. There was Merida, the land to loyal and deserving souls. There was Lerida, the land of punishment for the damned. Then there was Nerida, the land of second chances to the ones who never got to the experience life before they were swept into the afterlife. In a clarified summary, the land for babies lost before being born, while being born or during early and toddler years.

After Lucas had found out the location of the Dark Palace, he activated his Hundred Heavenly Steps and vanished from the spot. "Leader!" Lorelei looked at Holden. Holden helplessly let out a bitter smile. "Lorelei, we have no way to stop him." Lorelei silently gritted her teeth and fixed her gaze forward. However, Lucas' outline was nowhere to be seen. … Undead Mountain! The Undead Mountain of the northern lands was the greatest taboo area for all living beings. There laid the Dark Palace that controlled all the Dark Race beings in the northern lands. Lucas arrived in mid-air at the Undead Mountain, and he gazed at the Dark Palace that was below him. Waves of evil aura came rushing at him.

“What is that, is the color changing… to gold? The mummers increases. I was suddenly filled with an urgency to come out and so I shot out of the hole, breathing deep to recover the air which I had lost. “Gwenn.” Arius breathed a sign of relieve and jumped into the hole to reach me. “Your majesty…”Someone called Arius but all Arius intention was, was to hold me. “I don’t like what I saw.” I mumbled to Arius. “I understand. “What happened to the color of the hole, it was purple and now, it is purely gold.” “It signifies next, a new cycle of northerners, a new age. Since you awoke it, I have no idea what we would be expecting.”

“Why is it different? Maybe we used the wrong portal.” “Idiot,” Janshai replied. “This is the northern lands of the Underworld.” “Northern lands?” Arth said, giving a puzzled look. Janshai let out a huge breath. “To put it simply for idiots like you to understand … the Underworld is the mirror of our world in Earthos, only darker and worse. Nonetheless, they have the same geographical lands as ours.” “I see,” Arth said, looking around in amazement. “That portal won’t stay open forever. We have to go now,” Lucas said. “I can feel an immense power coming from that glacier mountain over there,” he pointed at the tallest mountain ahead of them, “I believe that’s where the sword is.”

"Mission failed. You're going to be wiped out. Do you want to restart the mission and keep trying to save the underworld queen, Daniela Falcone?" I shook my head. "Just wipe me out." "Understood. Wipe-out protocol initiated. You have 72 hours left." I closed my eyes. The silence around me felt deafening. A second later, like a man possessed, I tapped open Luca Bianchi's livestream. He was broadcasting from the hilltop villa Daniela had bought for him. On screen, he stood at an easel mixing paints, an oversized shirt hanging off him and a hair tie looped around his wrist.

' Adrian felt like a fool. "You are freezing." His voice was quieter and softer. "I never said I was, leave me alone!" She said stubbornly, while trying to hide the tremor on her body. ' Even now she's still stubborn. What is she? A Dragon?' Adrian regarded her silently. He had met a few sentient dragons on Zaralis and their temper were similar to Estelle's. ( Zaralis is a continent mostly populated by dragons and several other dangerous reptiles like leviathans, basilisks etc.)