The Immortal Diaries: Part Five

The Path to Immortality was never meant to be easy. Along the Path, pain will be your constant companion; sacrifice the only solution. And among our stories, happy endings are rare, for the river of Time never ceases to flow for those whose days never end.

Here, then, is ColdFlare's story; one of the darkest among our pasts.

ColdFlare, the Immortal of the Merciless Steel

No one knows of his real identity save for that name – ColdFlare. Born in the midst of strife after the demise of the great Emperor ZhuanXu, ColdFlare learned to handle the sword at the tender age of six, having to learn the craft to defend himself after being abandoned by his parents. This was a time of war; everyday literally becoming a dance with death, the citizens of the once peaceful empire now living in fear and chaos. The fighting grew so bad that on certain occasions, the air smelled of rotting corpses and burial grounds grew scarce.

When ColdFlare was drafted as a soldier for the war, he was given special education by a master Fa Shi in the way of handling the elements. There he learned to integrate the power of magic in his sword and thus established the use of the Magic Sword in combat, giving him an extra advantage against his enemies. With his newfound abilities he charged into the battlefield, slaying countless demons and enemy soldiers mercilessly. Later on he became known as the Merciless Steel Mage.

But on one campaign, ColdFlare met his match – a soldier with equal cunning and abilities as he is, but with the dark aura of the Soulless surrounding him. He fought with the best of all the abilities he had learned, fought with so much skill and power that his fellow comrades were in awe for they were the only ones left fighting after the rest had been slain. The two fought with all their might, but the Soulless got ColdFlare first, with a fatal thrust to the chest.

Left for dead by his scared comrades, who all took off when the Soulless soldier lunged for them, ColdFlare, with his dying breath, drew several symbols on his arm with his blood. He then called out to the Ten-Veiled King of the Underworld, offering his soul to his servitude. Black flames then engulfed ColdFlare’s body and he disappeared in an instant.

Taken in by the Ten-Veiled King, ColdFlare was subjected to a tedious cultivation path, almost tearing apart both his soul and emotions in sheer frustration. He emerged several years later as an Immortal, with a black blindfold over his eyes, seeking the Soulless that had cost him his mortal life.