The Ancient Genes

Sky Piercing Peak, Hell Volcanic Ranges, Crimson Spatial Pouch.

Three days had passed in the blink of an eye.

Max and Blinken were still present at the peak of the mountain observing the Magma in the crated slowly receding deeper and deeper.

Blinken initially was feeling that there was no hope left as even with the passing of time, there was nothing much of a change. But, a day ago, he too had realized that the Magma in the crater receding.

And, from that point, he too began to hope that it would reveal something to them.

Even now both he and Max were calmly seated on the ground.

"It's time.." Max suddenly muttered and Blinken too immediately realized what he meant and turned his gaze towards the crater.

In front of their eyes, something suddenly poked out of the magma as its level fell. Initially, it seemed like some pointy object, but the next second they realised it was not. With each passing minute, more and more of the objects were revealed, and they slowly started to realise that it was not a pointed object by a wide one.

"Is it a rock?" Blinken muttered with a little frown on his face.

"How does that make sense? It's a vent…it should be a deep hole no matter how you see it.." Max shook his head. He didn't think it was a rock, not to mention, even from the looks, it didn't seem like a rock.

"Let's wait for it..we will eventually see what it is.." Max further spoke with a serious look on his face, and Blinken nodded.

And, with that, three more days passed..

The magma had indeed receded, and there wasn't much of it left which could be seen from their position. And, the object which they were waiting to discover was finally in front of them.

"Are you kidding me?" Blinken spoke with a serious look on his face as he looked down below.

"Yeah, it's no joke." Max smiled, "Finally, found you.."

There stood a gigantic gate inside the crater. Its height stood almost half of the entire crater from the base that was visible to them. It indeed looked like something from fantasy, a gate to another world maybe.

"What in god's name is this?" Blinken asked as he looked at Max, because from what it looked like, Max indeed had come here looking for this particular thing.

"It's exactly a god's thing.." Max smiled with a little excitement, and the next second he spread his wings, "Let's go, we will check it out.."

"Whoosh!"

With that Max leaped off, and Blinken immediately chased after him as a gale pushed him off of his feets as well.

The two of them circled around the huge gate which was still radiating heat from being submerged in the Magma for so long.

"It really is amazing, I can't believe something like this exists.." Blinken couldn't help but speak in amazement.

'I couldn't check the gates properly last time due to my limited abilities..but this is really amazing looking up close..' Max muttered inwardly as he scanned the gates with interest. He couldn't identify just what kind of metal the gate was made of. But, it definitely wasn't something that he had heard of.

He even tried to attack and see what would happen. But, even his full powered attack didn't leave a scratch on the humongous thing

"We can't go all the way below..it's still a red hot sea there.." Blinken spoke as he looked at Max as the two levitated in mid air.

The huge gate was actually hovering in the air as well, and the lava was just a little below it. Hence, even if the gate was entirely out, it was still very tough all the way below with that extreme heat.

"Yeah, you are right.." Max nodded looking at Blinken.

"What now? I don't think it would open if we use all our strength.." Blinken spoke as he gave Max a look. Even Max's full power attack couldn't scratch the gate much less move it, in such a situation, it was almost an impossible task for them to push it open.

"There must be a way.." Max whispered to himself as he sank into his thoughts. He clearly had heard that voice earlier. If he was not wrong, it was probably a part of consciousness of the God who had left his trial behind.

It was obvious that the person wanted to help him. So, it didn't make sense he would make it impossible for them to go through the door.

"It's impossible for you to enter the trial with the normal method.."

Suddenly, a voice rang inside Max's ear, and it surprised him a little.

'May I dare to ask why is that so?' Max politely asked in his mind hoping the person would hear it as well, and it indeed worked.

'A person who already has inherited one legacy can't bear another one..' the voice calmly replied.

A frown immediately emerged on Max's face for a second, but he immediately calmed down remembering the words of this person.

'I don't think my reaching here is all a coincidence, I'm sure I have a purpose here..' Max asked with a polite tone, remembering that the voice had mentioned that Max couldn't enter the trial in a normal way. It obviously meant that there was another way to enter.

'You are smart, not a bad kid. No wonder, you managed to get the recognition of that picky guy..hahaha!!'

'I thank you for the praise..'

'Enough a cheeky brat..I get it. There is no use talking about useless things. Let me get to the point, I need your help..' the voice finally seemed to get serious at this point.

'My help?' Max frowned. He knew that the owner of the voice was not an ordinary person, and such a person asking for help was nothing to joke about.

'Yes, there is a reason that I have kept this Cemetery hidden for so long until today..' The voice said with a sigh.