"Wait where am I" Drakoni mumbled to himself while lying in the palace of the juggernauts. "What is this place? Where is this place? And this place, I never saw it in my whole life. But it feels so familiar. The scent of musk floating in the air is so familiar like it has been memorized by my nostrils."
A bright yellow moon cascaded its radiance in front of Drakoni while he was lying in the ground. The majestic pillars of the palace stood like a guardian embodied in ancient language and held in place by four statues pushing the pillars. Red Rose petals lying in the floor that was white beautifully contrasting the red rose petals. Red particles were floating everywhere like fireflies. A cold breeze blew past Drakoni as he stood up in this world.
Drakoni rised up. "I should explore this place and try to find an exit". Drakoni saw a huge broad staircase im the distant. "Maybe I can see this place a bit before finding an exit."
He tried to get up from that position but his legs got stuck to the ground like a super glue.
"Dammit I can't move from this place"
Suddenly he hears footsteps.
"Someone is coming here? Dammit I need to get out of here asap I can't afford to be seen in a place about which I don't know anything."
A shadow appears on the stairs.
"Oh no here it comes. Now I don't have a choice but to put on a fight" Saying this he gathers tries to gather some mana on his palms to try to create that ball of destruction. But nothing happened
Previously when he tired to gather mana in his palms to create that ball, he felt like his arm muscles were twisting like a whirlpool. But he didn't feel pain or anything except a tickling and grappling sensation in his bones. Even when he used the flame jets, his muscles would feel like they were mildly moving around as mana coursed through his body with a spinning motion. This was the result of his special type of mana. It allowed Drakoni to unleash magic spells with a miniscule amount of mana. Because his mana was special, it was set to flow in twisting streams with him using two streams currently. As the streams flowed along with each other, it was made to repel one another at certain points to increase the speed of the flow and thus allowing some additional force to gather before it was converted into flames. This small change in the way how mana flowed from his spiritual core to his fists and legs massively improved efficiency and allowed Drakoni to fight a frost knight even after he released that destruction ball.
This time he wasn't able to draw a single drop of power from his spiritual core. "Shit am I going to be fucked up right here?"
"Why do you think you would be in trouble young man" said the person who came down the stairs and looked at Drakoni's angry expression. That person had red smooth hair with a spiky ponytail in the back. But he had a kind face judging by which Drakoni assumed he was in his 50s.
"You are the 13th king of this palace why would you be in trouble in your homeland"
"13th king? Palace? What nonsense is this. Let me out of here."
"This isn't nonsense. Where did you get your magic when you were born magicless?"
"Uh I don't know but wait how do you know that I was magicless from the beginning?"
"I won't answer that question now. You will come to know everything about me and about this palace. You will definitely know just have the patience"
"But why am I even here in the first place?"
"Because you were the only one in thousands of years that didn't immediately die upon coming into contact with the halls of the juggernaut. Each full moon night the halls of the juggernaut would chose a random human whose heart isn't polluted with evilness. But up until now every single human has died when it came into contact with the halls of the juggernaut. Empty without it's kings, the the kingdom of each juggernaut has either been reduced to ashes or conquered by other nations that were jealous of the juggernaut emperors. You are the emperor of the juggernaut of purgatory. You have the second strongest of the four juggernaut dragon spirits and your kingdom is now ruled by the Crystia empire after it's massive defeat 231 years ago. Your citizens are suffering under the cruel and greedy rule of the Crystia empire. They take away all the resources , all the wealth from your kingdom and use it to develop the parts of the original Crystia empire but they never used a penny for your kingdom. They exploited your kingdom for hundreds of years but even after hundreds of years of exploitation they couldn't access the most valuable ore in the world that was lying in the mountain range of your kingdom, the crimsteel ore. They killed many people of your kingdom to acquire this ore, not to mention they have also caused massive damage to the environment while doing so but even after all these atrocities, they failed to break through the mountains and extract the ores. Truly frustrated, the king of Crystia ordered to burn the remnants of your kingdom, killing the last few residents of your capital city. All of these must be stopped at once and to stop them your citizens need a strong leader, a ruler who would stand up against oppression amd you are the ruler that survived the power of the juggernaut dragon"
"Wait so now I am an emperor and I have to go to Crystia kingdom and fight it? Isn't this too far-fetched?" And why should I even believe you?"
"I think you don't have a choice except believing me."
He paused for a moment and then continued
"You will find a downward facing arrow sign beside you status bar. These are all new ideas that have been implemented by the 10th empress who died at an unfortunate age of 15. She is one of the 5 emperors and empresses that weren't blinded by the lust of power. Because her soul is pure she can still live inside this palace, the purgatory's palace of origins. Very soon you will wake up from this dream. And as soon as you wake up, just want that arrow to go down. After that arrow goes down, you will find what you need to do before you are prepared to rule the empire"
"But who are you? Why are you even telling this to me and what do I have to do with you?"
"Who am I?" The man gave a pleasant smile. "You don't need to know who am I" said the man.
Drakoni's vision started becoming blurry again. He took a final glimpse of that palace before waking up in reality again.
It was the night time when he woke up from his wierd dream. He felt the embrace of the hospital bed and looked at the moon that wasn't nearly as bright as the moon of his dream. He looked around hoping Amy would be there, but he found no one
"It was stupid of me to think that parents would let a 16 years old girl go to the hospital and stay there day and night to see her friend" Drakoni gave a slight laugh before becoming serious about the dream.
"That person in my dream, he said that I am chosen by the halls of the juggernaut and is the emperor of a kingdom. Now I have to follow what he said about the arrow."
Drakoni's status bar was still present at the left corner of his vision along with the arrow.
"Is that bar even working? It read hp 70/70 before I became unconscious and now it's reading as 160/160. Whoah the mana bar has changed a bit. It was 30/unknown and now it's 130/130/unknown. Then there is also a red box with a star in the bottom of my status bar. Let's see what it is." Drakoni wanted to see what that box is and immediately a text appeared in a foreign language but he was able to understand each and every word.
"Wait I can read this language? But I have never seen this language in my entire life. You know what never mind that. Let's see what do we have here."
It read as: "The juggernaut dragon's blessing:
The juggernaut dragon's blessing allows the user to recover from any type of disease or curses within 24 hours. It also gives the user tier 2 pain resistance"
"Wow that's impressive. No diseases or curses, definitely something handy"
Drakoni opened the arrow and the list of quests appeared in front of him
"The rise of the juggernaut dragon of purgatory.
Daily quest : complete 100 push ups 0/100
complete 100 squats 0/100
complete 15km long run with
consistent strides 0/15
complete 200 flame kicks 0/200
complete 200 flame punch 0/200
Special quest: join the military academy