-Box! Grab! Grab!
Another sleepless night, I whined. Because the soldiers were not too crowded, they chose to take the horse-drawn carriage to save time, and that also meant that everyone would endure the vibrations from this rough, rare road.
Although it is called "everyone", it is probably just me that I cannot like this obnoxious "way". And even if I used both hands to hold my head tightly, I still couldn't stand the tremors, the shakes that kept me from sleeping.
Looking at the two sleeping soldiers in front of me made me feel jealous. And maybe a little uncomfortable, even though they didn't do anything to me.
Just, I wish it didn't go this way.
"I chose you to be the bearer of the destiny of this world", yes, that phrase still echoed in my head, haunting me like a nightmare every day. Not because it was a bad thing, but because I wondered what a weak kid like me could do.
How many big and small ants happened, all of which made my head spin like a pinwheel. And now, I'm here, with a royal army and Gaido-sensei going to get the holy sword for "The Chosen One", which is me, whom Miyuki's grandfather or Bijon chose.
-Heh !?
It was not a feeling of anxiety, much less fear or joy, knowing the whole reason the old man sent me here. My body at that moment seemed to be frozen, partly afraid of giving up this "mission", partly wanting to laugh without reason.
Defeat me? Ridiculous.
His voice sounded again, and I almost said that out loud.
-Father ... are you kidding? It was just a kid.
-Huh? Have you seen me joke before?
-...
-A magic power, I have felt, the flow of magic should no longer exist in this world. Now stay in him.
- Could it be ... you mean ...?
Gaido-sensei, who has remained calm since the beginning of the story, finally spoke up, but what surprised me was the look on his face. This was the first time I saw him worry so much, maybe he realized something.
-You have a good brain, Gaido and definitely more than the old man. Hmm ... hey Gaido.
-Yes?
-I gave the task to protect the other boy, can you do it?
-Yes. I will not disappoint you.
-The other useless guy.
Being "reminded by name" Mr. Shu frantically bowed his head to listen to Mr. Bijon.
-Gather together about 50 of your elite soldiers and let them depart for Motadus.
-But it's night time, it's dangerous to go at this point. I think we should ...
-So you don't understand what "elite" means, but you still dare to disobey me?
-V ... Yes!
I wonder who is really the king here, because Mr. Shu is now no different from a Bijon errand and rushes to call for the soldiers.
After a tumultuous period of preparing the luggage as quickly as possible, Gaido and I were finally asked to leave the hall and get in the car.
-Yes ... please! Mr. Gaido, please let me go!
Yumi's determination at the time made me surprised. Perhaps because today I had to absorb so much information, my brain is now getting overwhelmed, making me feel tired as if I could fall asleep at any time.
-Can not! It's very dangerous there, and even though I have good intentions to help, I only get in the way of everyone.
-But...
For some reason, I turned around and unconsciously placed my hand on Yumi's shoulder to make her blush.
-It's okay. Me and the teacher will be fine.
-Y ... um.
-He's right. Come on, let's go to the bedroom.
Not only her face, but Miyuki's intonation was also different from usual, right, because she was feeling sad because her grandfather was still angry with her father.
Maybe we all went through complicated things tonight.
-Bam!
The strong tremor startled me awake, perhaps because I was thinking about what happened and made me fall asleep at some point.
-Dammit! Good night but ...
The last vibration also awakened the two sleeping soldiers in front of me. They seemed to be very upset, but not only because of being woken up this way, but also because of me. Because I realized, their gaze upon me, the gaze of contempt.
-They're here!
The morning light that hit my eyes almost tripped me as soon as I got off the carriage, and it took a while for me to open my eyes to see the grandeur here. Everything, from the bushes to the trees, seemed to be magnified several times the size of their "cousins" around the kingdom.
This place is huge.
Overcoming the soldiers preparing to enter the cave, I walked to the front of the cave and was immediately overwhelmed by it. I thought that the cave where the black magicians hid was the biggest place, until I saw this place, as if I had lost myself in the land of the giant. The cave gate here is estimated to be up to 40m, double the height of the other cave. Not only is it tall, but at the entrance of the cave, there are also dozens of gems protruding from the rough surface, but with the name of "death cave", no one dared to approach and exploit this place.
-Look, it's the kid we have to escort to see Excalibur. It looks so itchy.
-He ... so the missing holy sword is located in this damn place.
-I heard that the reason we have to do this is for some old man from outside the kingdom and to order the king.
-No way, why is there such an old man on the street leading up such authority?
-Right. Unbelievable.
-Flash! Anyway, I bet a hundred gold men that kid will be scared and run away when he sees monsters in a cave.
-100? That's safe, I'll bet 200.
-Hahaha ...
-Whist! Come on, what if the other kid hears?
-It's okay, it's just a kid.
All these whispers, I heard them all, but sadly, they were right. A kid like me who deserves Excalibur is the dumbest thing in the world.
-Let me give you a little advice.
-U ... Mr. Gaido?
Coming from behind, Gaido-sensei rubbed my head hard, making my hair no different from a black bush.
-Don't ever believe in the baseless judgments of others, you must believe in yourself, and when the time comes, let them see with their own ability.
-Yes...
- I just said it was here. Now let's go.
We were all gasping at the magnitude of the door in front of us, which made me want to confirm the theory that there was a giant living there. Naturally, with a door this big, all 52 of us had to push it to open it at the same time.
-Bam!
Just opening the door is enough to overwhelm us with tons of dust. The unpleasant sensation of being piled up on my nose and mouth made me sneeze non-stop. It was not until a soldier using wind magic blew away the dust that I was able to escape the torture just now. Afterwards, about a group of soldiers with the Quang magic system stepped forward and chanted a spell, lighting the place.
Stepping on this large corridor, I was completely overwhelmed by the strange shapes carved on the sides of the wall. They have the same shape as people with strange shapes, from the shapes like two children to the shape of a creature half human and half horse. After a bit of thinking and trying to analyze the meaning of those "pictures" on the wall, I guessed that it was about 13 mysterious characters, including one who looked like "him".
Suddenly a soldier threw away his cramped helmet and ran up to the front of the party.
-Come on! Why are people so silent. Do not say that people are afraid? As expected of a newcomer like me. Now go ahead, bye to the dead cowards.
-New soldier, stop it!
Ignoring the words of the captain of the elite soldiers, he continued to roam in this scary place as if this was his home.
-There! See, this place has nothing ...
-Flash!
-...scary...
-Clush!
In less than a blink of an eye, his entire upper body was sliced into hundreds of pieces as soon as he hit the stone slab on the ground and activated the trap. The bloody internal organs sticking out from his lower body or rather the rest of his body made me want to vomit.
This place is a nightmare in reality.
-Father.
-Hum?
Mr. Shu approached Mr. Bijon, who was now admiring the beautiful flowers in the royal garden and sipping Lowiz tea.
-While the diary had a few pages torn ... is it your father's doing it?
-... Yes.
-Why? And what's on those pages?
-...
Mr. Bijon just sighed instead of being grumpy with him as usual, maybe because what he was hiding also bothered him.
-Haizz! Alright, we'll say it. At the deepest place in the cave, not only contains the sword of light, Excalibur, but there is also a powerful ancient entity sleeping deep. One of the three remaining TITANs in the world, the great Hezadon snake.