Xarth ran towards the direction where he had thrown the sword he was breathing heavily as he looked through the surroundings. Luckily enough it seems like no one got hurt.
Xarth let out a sigh of relief.
'That's Great no one got hurt...But where did the sword go?'
Xarth hurriedly looked around for one specific person who supposedly has ties with the sword from the start before my interference obviously it was 'Park Min Ah' or better known as the main character of the Novel ZERO.
Someone spoke from the back into Xarth's head with an angry tone.
'CoNtARCtoR, Why'd you leave me? huh!?
"Oh, Light Elemental... Something came up."
Xarth replied with an annoyed look on his face.
'Zero he definitely has the sword. I'm sure of it, But where the hell is he?'
'Contractor, what's your name?'
"it's Xarth."
'Then I'll call you Art.'
"Suit yourself. So what is it you're going to say?"
'Oh, I need you to not lose that bracelet or else you'll Die. And I'll be hanging out with you until the Contract breaks so please take care of me.'
"Likewise, Then could you help me find a person."
'Huh?.....
'I should rely on this Elemental to find him, But what should I do when I've found him..do I take the sword? Or just leave it be but that sword was acquired by me but maybe he'll choose him over me...Not really that I care he can get it... it's his from the very beginning anyway, but I need his help for the upcoming event...So let's talk to him and make a deal.'
Xarth followed the light Elemental to a deeper part of the forest.
So this is where you were
...
Xarth looked at the large entrance of an underground dungeon.
'Don't tell me he... he's inside!?'
'The man your looking for is inside.'
"Yeah, I can see that."
'Well, this is an opportunity to test Xarth's strength. And all the thing I've done was kill two people tied up so I didn't see any results of his training. I need to test my strengths so I can know if I can take out my opponents in dangerous times so that I could make the right decision.'
"Alright, I'm going in."
'Okay, I'll follow you, just call me Soleis.'
"Alright."
Xarth took a deep breath before taking out the spare sword he had in his Spatial bag.
He held it with one arm and started to walk through the entrance of the Underground Dungeon.
Suddenly...
"Hyung-nim!!"
'Huh!?'
Xarth looked behind him he saw a man running towards him with his Red Hair glowing fiery under the Bright Sun.
'Ernoul!? What...Oh, I told him to come find me cause I have some explaining to do...But now's not the time for that.'
"Ernoul Not now there's something I need to do," Xarth replied with a cold looked on his face.
"Huh!?
Xarth continued to walk through the entrance of the underground dungeon.
Ernoul hurriedly ran towards him and yanked his arms.
"Hyung-nim! Why are you going inside that!? It's dangerous!" he implied
"Zero's inside I need to talk to him."
"Then I'll go with you... Don't worry I have your back."
"Fine let's go."
Ernoul and Xarth walked through the entrance of the underground dungeon.
It was dark but luckily the Light Elemental or Soleis lit up the path while they were going through the entrance after walking for about a minute, they came at a dead end but saw a set of stone stairs heading downwards there were also torches going down so it was pretty bright enough to go thru.
'Did Zero really gone through here?...this place looks like it had been here for a long time. but I gotta say I'm pretty naive to be doing this, exploring a place I've never heard of and I also don't know what lies down there, Did my curiosity got the best of me?..should I just not follow him? No, I'm determined it's beneficial to me anyway.'
Xarth walked down the stairs Ernoul walked alongside Xarth while Soleis was inside Xarth's pocket.
They descended safely...he saw a long hallway leading to darkness Ernoul gulped before he continued walking.
On the way to the hallway, they saw corpses of dead Large Centipedes on the ground they had their heads laying coldly at the cold ground.
'Seriously Zero is so Strong he left the pathway like this...I guess it's caused his the Mc...Nonetheless, This is amazing and this is the first time I've seen a Centipede that large then it's bound that there's a lot of different types of monsters here in the Southern continent as well as the other continents.'
Soon after walking down the hallway, they saw a large door it was made of iron which is pretty expensive if it wore sold at a Merchant Guild.
'Now that's a Boss Room. This looks like one of those Boss Room on any RPG games I've played. So Zero's here fighting the Boss?'
"Hyung-nim are we going in?"
"Yes, Zero's on the other side of this door let us ready ourselves."
"Alright, Hyung-nim. I have your back."
Xarth properly postured himself he was holding a spare sword that he had stolen from the Red Claws members. Ernoul also positioned himself at the front acting as the Shield for Xarth.
Ernoul pushed the large iron door with all his strength but it was futile. It did not even move an inch.
Xarth steps up he also pushed the door it slowly opened revealing a humongous arena it was in ruins on the side of the room has 3 different kinds of a statue in place forming a triangle.
Each statue has a specific weapon, in the middle was A young man holding a sword and on the left corner A girl holding a Staff while on the right corner A young man holding a spear.
They were pointed at the middle of the ground, The ground has writings in it that can't be described.
'What's this!? Where's Zero I thought he was supposed to be here? Well, this is turning really different from the main plot. Zero wasn't supposed to be here in the first place it's just the Sword I guess he wanted to check its capabilities...These statues what even are these?'
Xarth walked over to the middle of the arena he looked at each statue one by one.
'These statues....what are they!? From my perspective, they look like those Heroes in every fantasy type setting.'
"Hyung-nim!"
Xarth looked over Ernoul who was coming closer to him.
"Hyung-nim Why do you think a dungeon has statues of The three Heroes?"
"Heroes?"
"Do you not know?"
Xarth nodded his head.
"They are The three Heroes of the Southern continent."
"Heroes? Could you tell me more about them?"
"Of course Hyung-nim leave it to me."
"The three Heroes Arslan The Swordmaster born from a remote Village in the west border of the Messiah Kingdom. it is said that he was a fine young man he had White hair and Red eyes beautiful enough to rival that of a precious Gem, He was a Commoner that is the pride and joy of every citizen of the Messiah Kingdom.
Leina Clofor The Archmage was born from the prestigious Duke Clofor household the eldest daughter of Duke Franog from the Asphad Kingdom she was the most beautiful girl in the Asphad Kingdom she makes elves who was known as the most Beautiful Race like squid in her presence.
Gareth The Spearmaster no one knows where he was born or where he came from we only know that he suddenly emerge in the Southern continent and shown his overwhelming strength in the arts of Spearmanship at the great Continental war. That is all I know about them the Southern emerges victorious because of these three people but I don't know what are they doing here in this Dungeon."
"Thank you Ernoul, it seems like Zero's not here."
Xarth looked over behind the statue of Arslan The Swordmaster there was a door small enough that it cannot be seen by the large statue overshadowing it but it's also large enough to be able to enter by Humans.
'That must be where Zero is, I hope.'