Journey Of A Legend

In the ice cave, the three looked at their proximity in silence and with awe.

Everything around them looked just like any normal cave, but with the only difference, that the walls, the ground, and the surface above their heads were made out of shining jade.

Putting his palm on the wall to feel the jade-like substance, Greg looked a bit of surprised.

"Its surface is extremely smooth and I can feel that it is also quite durable. Moreover, just by touching it, I feel like my hand will be frozen if I'm not careful enough.", thought Greg as he pulled his hand back hurriedly.

"You don't need to worry about that. Because the whole place had been created by my power, it won't be able to harm you."

Listening to what Alice said, Greg nodded slightly and turned to look at Russ.

"This way. The temple will be a level deeper."

With that said, Greg turned back around and started to lead the way forward.

Russ and Wayne naturally knew that Greg had a better understanding of the whole place than them, because of his Guardian, so without saying anything else, they started to follow him.

Walking inside the cave that looked like it was carved out of jade for more than an hour, the three finally arrived in a huge open space underground.

"And here we are, the Water Temple.", said Greg calmly as he looked at the huge building before him.

It looked exactly like the previous three, but with the only difference that it was not made out of earth or brick, but pure jade-like ice.

On the wall's surface, carvings could be seen next to each other, while right above the gate, a sentence was written, visibly by hand.

'Temple of Calmness'

"Is there any restrictions that we need to be very of?", asked Greg from Alice as he looked at the building.

"There is. I made the interior of the building to be extremely cold, so anyone entering it will die instantly. But, not you. You have my power, so you can easily resist such coldness quite easily. As for those two... I wouldn't risk it if I were them."

Listening to Alice's warning, Greg nodded and turned to look at the two.

"There is a restriction inside there too, so the best thing to do should be if I go inside alone and the two of you wait here."

"Sure.", nodded the two and without hesitation, they sat down onto the ground, and out of nowhere, a pack of cards appeared in Russ's hand.

"..."

Seeing as the two men started to play card games, Greg's eyes flinched slightly and stayed silent.

"Just go. We will stay back and look out for any unwanted danger here."

When Greg heard this he opened his mouth to say something but realized he couldn't. It would be just a waste of time, so he just simply sighed and turned around.

"Well... it's not like anyone will come down here, so I guess we will be alright."

As he thought about this he put his hands on the gate's surface and with a gentle motion pushed it open.

"Activate your Third Flow before entering the Temple.", said suddenly Alice in Greg's head.

Doing as he was told, Greg activated his Third Flow and without hesitation, he made his skin to turn Jade-like.

"You don't need to do that. Simply by activating the Third Flow gives you resistance against coldness. Just give it a try."

Listening to what Alice said Greg trusted her and made his Jade skin to vanish slowly.

As that happened, he exhaled a deep breath and stepped inside the temple.

Instantly as he did, extreme coldness hit his whole body, making him feel like will be frozen to death. However, just before that would have had truly happened, the Third Flow inside his body started to change.

The jade-like cycle that was like a web system inside him slowly lit up with blue light and enveloped Greg's body.

As this happened, Greg felt as the cold temperatures around him got sucked into his body slowly, making the ice-cold feeling vanish instantly.

"Interesting.", said Greg as he looked at his arms, feeling that for some reason his concentration, hearing, vision, and everything else became a lever greater and sharper.

"Water is ice and ice is water. Yet, even though they are from the same element, for some reason they differ from one another. Not only in shape and solidity, but in traits too. While water gives life until then ice ends it. However, if you use them properly, even water can end lives while ice can save them."

As Greg listened to Alice's voice in his head he looked around with keen interest.

The interior of the Temple was quite strange, to tell the truth. Just like any of the previous Temples before, Greg was able to see strange carvings on both the walls and the ground, while on the pillars, kneeling statues could be noticed.

However, what made Greg quite confused were not these things, but the sight before him in the distance.

Not far away from him, what waited for him was a huge wall with 6 doors standing each other. Each door looked exactly like the same, with no indication at all which opened where.

"Those are all fakes. The real one is on your right.", said suddenly Alice, feeling Greg's hesitation.

However, the moment Greg glanced to his right to see another door, what he could only see was a jade wall, just like one on the left.

"Just go there and you will see what I meant.", said Alice, lazy to tell Greg anything else.

With a slightly raised eyebrow, Greg looked at the wall for a small while but knowing he should get going sighed and walked before the wall.

Arriving before the sky blue colored jade wall, Greg examined it in silence.

However, even after looking at it for a small while, Greg was unable to find anything. Not a door or even a small gap that would lead him into a secret room, which made him quite confused.

"Look at the carvings.", said Alice calmly.

Greg did just what she said and looked at the carvings, but still didn't notice anything strange.

Or at least not until he stepped a few meters back.

The moment he did, suddenly he noticed that the symbols on the wall were carved in an ordered manner, giving out a shape similar to that of a gate.

"What should I do now? How can I opened it?", thought Greg with curiosity and touched the carving on the wall.

However, he didn't need to wait for the answer too long, because the moment he touched the carving, it lit up like a lamp.

Like causing a chain reaction, the closest symbol to it lit up too, making all the carvings on the wall to lit up one by one.

"!"

Stepping back instantly, because it was unknown what will happen, Greg watched as the carvings lit up and slowly started to move.

Bit by bit, the carvings started to melt then reshape, and soon enough a door appeared on the wall.

"Woah... But... How?", asked Greg with surprise as he looked at the entrance.

"I created this Temple in a way that only I would be able to open this passage. Or at least that was how the Creator wanted me to make this place, before sealing my memories away."

"And how would have I been able to find this secret entrance without your help? If your memories would be still sealed away, there would have been no way in hell I would have found out this secret on my own.", thought Greg with shock.

"I don't know either, but he said it will be okay. He told me to trust in him, so I did just what he told me."

"So the Creator was a man, I see.", thought Greg with a nod, finally finding out the gender of the Creator.

"Well, not exactly a male. Instead, it was female but liked to change shapes into a male. The last memory about him was still when he was a male, so that is why I said him."

Listening to this, Greg looked a bit stunned, but still nodded and thought, "Well, I don't really care if the Creator was him or her, what truly matters if he was a bad figure or not."

"Trust me, he was the most loyal friend I ever had. He was righteous, fought against what he seemed harmful, and protected the weak. There was never a time when he acted arrogantly or killed someone who didn't deserve it."

"..."

As Greg listened to this, he looked a bit deep in thought, but still tried to believe what Alice said to him.

However, deep inside him, he felt a bit doubtful. To be so 'holy' was something Greg could hardly imagine. No one in existence in the whole universe should be so pure, at least not until the one was God itself.

"Well, talking about the question who is God, if the legends are true, I can call him God no? Or at least he was the one who created the universe.", thought Greg with confusion, but decided to put this question of his to the side for the time being. 

Instead, he put his palm on the door, and without any hesitation, he pushed it wide open, revealing a huge open space at the other side of it.