When Tristan woke up, he found himself inside a carriage.
„Hey, look who's awake!", he heard Cornelius say.
He sat up and looked around. They were riding on an opened field, in front of them were giant mountains. The small street they were using lead to a valley entrance.
„Hey, where are we going?", Tristan asked.
„Well, I didn't really know where you wanted to go and Layla proposed that we go to her master, he is in a mountain village in this area. So now we are driving there.", Cornelius explained.
„Hm. I see. Layla's master you say?", he asked.
„Yes, the one who trained her. Apparently he is a legendary warrior. And it is said that he holds the Sword of Destruction.", Cornelius said.
‚The sword of destruction, huh. I guess this goes faster than I thought. If it continues like this, I will have all swords in only a few years! After all, it only took a few months and I'm already here.'
Then Layla, who was driving the carriage, noticed his awakening and stopped at the side of the road.
„Ok. You got an awful lot of explaining to do!", she looks at him.
„What do you mean?", Tristan plays dumb.
„What do I mean? I mean everything about you! Your immense strength, your body, your powers, everything! Who are you? No, no what are you?", she asks, acting like Tristan just commuted a crime.
„Well, you see...
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Velodrov was walking down the big hallway.
„My Lord, is something wrong?", a person asked. He has never seen his Lord awake from his meditating for over tens of thousands of years. Something really wasn't right.
„I want to have an audience."
„An audience? Are you sure? If they deem it not worthy, you'll be replaced my Lord!"
„Yes, I know. I have to do it. Something is coming up."
„I will deliver the message right away, my Lord.", after hesitating a bit, the person left and hurried away.
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Both Layla and Cornelius looked at him.
„This is... a lot. But can you be sure?", Layla asked.
„I'm telling the truth.", Tristan answered. He had told them his true identity. That he wasn't human and he explained his powers. That he got reincarnated into this world, but he let out the system. For now, it would stay secret.
Surprisingly, they didn't really seem to care.
„Whatever your purpose here is, I will support you!", Layla smiled at him.
„And so will I!", Cornelius said.
„Thanks!", Tristan smiled. Though he quickly stopped when he remembered the last times he did. He waited for the message, but nothing happened.
‚Am I not being punished?', he thought.
„The user is not held back in anyway. The happiness that you are currently feeling is because of the support to your cause. This does not influence you into doing bad. Therefor it is allowed.", he heard Nova's voice inside his head.
‚Hey! Now that's good news.', he thought.
Then he remembered, he never checked his body after waking up.
He looked at his arms and legs, his wounds were mostly healed away. There was only a little shadow left.
„Hey, since you're awake now, do you mind taking over the driving seat? I'm pretty tired to be honest. I'd like to rest before we get to the village.", asked Layla.
„Sure.", Tristan said and got to the front.
Then they rode of.
„Oh wow!", They had been driving for about 45 minutes, when they finally entered The Valley. Cornelius looked around in astonishment, but Layla seemed to be on guard against something.
„Be careful! A lot of dangerous monsters live here. They are not used to humans, so they can be very aggressiv. And there might be monsters unknown to mankind living here.", Layla warned them.
After another hour of travelling and driving up a mountain, they found a circular stone edge. They decided to rest there.
„Hey! Look over there!", Cornelius walked to the edge and pointed somewhere. Tristan came over to look.
And behold, there it was, laying in the lonely mountains, the village.
„Finally! I thought we'd never get there.", Layla said. Though she didn't come very close to the edge.
„Wait, rocks are alive?", Tristan was once again surprised by this world.
„What are you Talking about? Rocks don't live.", Layla answered confused.
„Well I think the rock behind you would disagree.", Tristan said, pointing towards a small golem that had appeared behind Layla.
„The Rock...?", Layla slowly turned around, „AH!", she quickly took a few steps back.
„What the hell is That?", she asked.
„Let me check.", Cornelius said, „[Leserio]"
The ring on his finger started glowing again and the book appeared. The pages turned until they landed on one about so called stone-golems.
„Stone golems are considered a half-beast, as they are smarter than most beasts, but still very primitiv. They usually grow up to fifty meters in case of a male and about 48 in case of a female. The children are about 10 meters at the age of twelve. If they are smaller, then the parents shouldn't be far away...", he read, before looking up, to the about 4 meter tall golem.
„Oh oh"
„uhh. I don't want to cause any panic, but... what is that?", Layla pointed at five long rocks laying next to each other.
The rocks looked kind of like... fingers.
The ground began shaking.
„Woah!", Cornelius fell to the ground.
„What's happening?", Layla had a scared look on her face.
Once again, the ground trembled and then... it went up. They got lifted into the air, the platform underneath them.
The fingers they saw before came to life and grabbed the carriage. Then they threw it away, at the next mountain.
„This is the golems Head! We need to get down!", Tristan told the others.
The horses, who were resting before, screeched and tried to get some grip, but they couldn't and fell down the, now standing, 50 meter tall golem.
„Holy shit, This thing is giant!", Cornelius said.
Tristan began planning. He couldn't destroy the golem here now, because the others would be in to much danger. He sprinted towards Layla and put his one hand on her back.
„What are you doing?", she asked confused, a slight blush on her face.
Tristan said nothing and put his second hand on her neck and head.
„What? Why are you doing this?", she asked again, even more confused now.
„Backlash.", Tristan just said, „[Acceleration]!", with that, he boosted down from the golem, Layla in his arms.
After putting her down, he rushed back to do the same thing with Cornelius, but before he could grab him, the golem shook his head and they both fell to the ground.
But Tristan was unlucky, he slid down the head of the golem and fell Into the valley.
„Tristan!", Cornelius screamed.
And then, he heard a slash. The golems body was split in half and he was standing next to Layla. Cornelius looked up, there was an old man standing there.
And in his hands, a powerful sword, emitting the strongest aura he has ever felt.
„It's been a while, Layla."