Chapter 98: Chapter 97: Sleeping darkness 1
The orc in front of Jon had raised its huge axe when it suddenly fell to the ground.
"eh.."
Barb and Gal were now getting quite accustod to seeing Jon’s miracles. Out of curiosity, they asked,
"what did you do to him, master?"
"I froze his heart..."
They were both surprised, freezing his heart without even touching or seeing.
They were amazed.
"how...?"
"Simple... I’m a glazier, not an ice mage..."
Both of their expressions lit up.
"Woh wait..master...glazier?!"
"What’s the big deal?"
"Wait you don’t know...?"
" I don’t "
Gal talked, "Glaziers are like the top of the top high images it would be wrong to call a glazier a mage"
"isn’t it basically the sa thing as a cyromancer "
"Don’t even compare it, master... it’s on a different league"
"Glazier is like a legendary job in the central artic, if the whole central artic were to know they would. treat you like an apostle"
"See Master Jon, a glazier does not obey the rules and laws governing magic and mana, they beca the author of those rules, that ans they could bend the magical world for themself, ah no wonder you could freeze a heart... you really have no idea your capabilities Master"
Jon’s hope was raised, when he first received a ssage from the academy asuring machinery and saw that his mana core had completely gone away but he could still feel the mana, he reported it but the research lab said the last ti sothing like this happened was 400 years ago and all files regarding it had been confiscated after he couldn’t find out further, he accepted the new na his advisor gave him and forgot about it.
’Now that I think about it, he did look unnecessarily happy... I bet he knows sothing’
Jon looked at both of them, they imdiately stopped talking to each other.
"if rumours of this spread, I’ll slit your throat, the one you should be grateful to his the party leader Reinard, rember to spread words of how he cared for you that he risked his trusted comrades to co to save you, I beg you, spread the news"
’He says I beg you, yet it looks like he’s commanding us’ Gal smiled.
Jon looked around,
"It is rather weird that I haven’t found even one fangdorr, from the dungeon up until now."
The wide forest and green landscape could be seen clearly, Jon had gotten out of the dungeon, it was bigger than he thought, and was separate from the Fangdorrs main city.
"Looks like they seclude prisoners"
Jon whistles hard. Before long a large thudding could be heard, the fast and huge bird-type mount arrived.
Jon patted it, "Ou, you are so obedient"
Jon got on, the remaining two gulped and stood humbly as if asking for a ride.
Jon clicked his tongue in an irritated manner.
The axe beak shot off as soon as they climbed on.
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Neza sat comfortably as he patiently waited for the news of the war, he was determined to enter late and shine the most, he was gonna join when they needed him most so they would be appreciative of his help.
Arnette was irritated and annoyed about his plan, even though he wasn’t the type to get reckless and show emotions he felt the urge to punch Neza in the face but held in.
Deffer walked into Neza’s tent, "I think everyone is waiting for an action"
"what do you want?"
"Give
the permission to go out"
"And just why would I do that?"
"You don’t own
Neza, don’t act as you do"
"...." Neza stared at him. His large killing intent began to take a physical manifestation of dark red smoke and began to choke Deffer, but it was all in Deffer’s head.
By the ti Neza let him go he was already drooling and was about to pass out.
Just then Arnette walked in, Neza had tried to mask the killing intent with an illusion, but there was no way a master swordsman like Arnette wouldn’t notice. Now he had to make so silly face because he didn’t wanna lose an ally.
"oh my.... did I disturb you, Arnette, I had to teach my friend here Deffer to know his place"
Arnette looked at Neza and looked down at Deffer who was coughing hard on the floor, then he spoke.
"Sir Deffer is a noble Prince Neza and the son of a Duke as at that... you shouldn’t treat him like a dog"
He did not wait for Neza’s reply and imdiately turned to go out.
’...ahh damnit, why did my forefathers decided to share the power of the empire with dukes... if not because of that the Imperials would be paramount, and these cocky goods for nothings will be dead already, "Reinard, his father is the duke of wealth, Arnette, his father is the Sword Duke, Goldevia, Royal Duchess if Fortitude and all of them like that... down to the unbeatable prodigy whom my mother has always compared
with, Clemon Jon... the first thing I’ll love to do as an Emperor is strip them of their powers and feed them to the dogs’
He looked down at Deffer who was already getting stabled, "You can go out, but don’t you dare cause any nonsense out there... and be back before nightfall, not that I particularly care whatever happens to you."
"Thank you, sir"
Deffer bowed and left, he gritted his teeth as he walked out of Neza’s tent.
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Kroft’s Raid team began to move out, five tanker-type, thirteen ranged-type, seventeen damage dealer-type, amongst them outstanding fighters like Nonek and many others existed, Kroft felt like it was complete, nothing could stop this raid, it’s bound to be perfect.
On getting into the forest, it was just like every other calm and silent entry, the night was befalling upon them and creatures of the dark were beginning to reveal themselves, monsters, beast, rare animals, common animals, with monsters and beast having a tug of war as to who will lead the food chain, the animals were at the bottom, even the fiercest of them all were prey to the least amidst the beast. For example, a tiger could get eaten by a giant lizard which is often tad for transportation, giants lizard and Giant subterranean lizard are the two breeds of mythical lizard, due to their unique skill swallow, they can consu anything they have in their grasp to nothing, in less than 30 seconds, they might boost huge size comparable to that of a tiger but among the society of mythical beast, they are not much, they are probably at the bottom of the food chain and hence most of them have been tad by humans as mounts. The forest was brimming with mysticality. They journeyed carefully with Kroft leading the way.
Monts later they were getting to the heart of the mont by this ti night had completely fallen.
"I think we should stop here"
"What do you an Nonek we haven’t even seen what we ca here for and you want us to stop? to do what make camping amidst this dangerous forest?"
"I don’t want to ignore the fact that you have been deliberately ignoring that thing that has been following us, if you don’t know them perhaps you are not even worthy for the job"
"....ah that... is a low class Fey-type mythical beast, a Satyr"
Nonek looked at him, "why did you not say anything about it?"
"it won’t harm us, they are known for their curiosity, they are not particularly good at fighting or have any powerful unique skill"
The whole party got their guards up as it seed sothing was approaching them. A goat-legged being ca out, with horns of goat and beards of goat, its leg was that of the hind limb of a goat, the creature looked shy at first as it lowered its head and ears but then Kroft spoke nicely,
"How may we help you, sire?"
".... I was just..." It stopped because of the surprised look on everyone’s face including Nonek, everyone except Kroft was surprised to see a mythical beast speak human language, of course, mythical beast could speak, mostly in abyssal language, ancient language, draconic language, and many other types but to hear a beast speak the human language was surprising, not for Kroft though.
Kroft spoke to calm him down again, "don’t worry they are just marvelled"
"are you sires going to hunt it?"
"and just what may you be talking about?" Kroft began to get wary.
"The sleeping darkness"
Kroft pretended not to understand, "what do you an...?"
"Are you not here for it, many sires like you all co over and over again but none returns" The Satyr talked gently and softly as it begins to move around them take note of their faces.
"For the past 900 years no one has been able to co back, please leave it alone...I beg not for your sake but for the sake of this forest, every ti it is disturbed the forest is left in ruins and we all have to temporarily leave our ho. I am the oldest beast in this forest and that is why I took it upon myself to guard the calamity of this place, I will warn you all... even if your ego won’t let you back down, think of our precious lives?"
Kroft exhaled and drew out his sword, upon sheathing it the head of the satyr rolled on the floor. It caught everyone by surprise. They were about to murmur when Kroft raised his voice.
"I am the leader of the raid team, not so goat-legged creature, it is up to
to decide when to stop and when to continue, when to retreat and when to attack. You all get that? And we all ca here knowing the impending danger, so you all wanna consider leaving after we have co this far, what am I supposed to tell the alliance...We move forward"
What he said was the truth, Nonek’s gaze sharpened as he stared at the head of the gentle satyr on the floor.
He turned and followed.
’I will kill you when I have the chance, just you wait’
They continued deeper where the voice of the night had subsided or rather a loud, large vibrating snore had dominated the entire area they were at.
"We are here"
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