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Once Elza woke up, she has tied on a pole above a pot of anacondas. There were four entrances next to her, and a knife above her.
'This must be a test... The problem is, the test is too easy.' she said as she looked at the knife, and her blue es started to glow, and the knife started moving and came down right next to the rope, and started to cut it.
Elza also saw there was a tree trunk on one of the four entrances, and she did just like the knife, and the tree trunk created a bridge for her to access the entrance. Once the life cut the ropes, she walked to the entrance, thanks to the tree trunk.
One she was on the other side of the entrance, there were about 10 guards and a sage in front of her. She didn't want to start a fight against the whole time because it would make Kirito and Shoto's escape as hard as hers. The best option in her opinion was to surrender. She lifted her hands as a sign of defeat and the sage started to laugh.
"You are a funny woman! You passed the test just as we expected it!" the sage cried with a smile on his face.
"I'm happy to know you guys aren't going to throw me in a volcano as a sacrifice to your Gods."
"We only praise one God, the Christian one, he is the only true God in this world." The sage said joining his hands together.
"Alright, do you happen to have a scroll?" she asked directly, "a scroll about the art of kuruashami or something like that?
"You mean the lost are of Kurushami? I believe you came here through a tunnel right? Well if you took the left tunnel, you would have found the scroll." the sage replied
"Great! So my friends surely have it now!" she shouted in relief.
"I'm sorry, but if your friends are there, that means they are already dead. The scroll is protected by the king of fire dragons, Ignir. There is no chance your friend defeats him..."
"Crap... I gotta go now!" she said in a hurry as she started looking for the way out, "don't just stay there, get m out of this place!"
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In the chamber, Kirito found the scroll, and he was heading towards it. The room' walls were made of gravel and the floor was made of silver rock. There were blue flames on torches stocked to the walls which lighted the place.
"Finally, I've got it," he said right in front of the scroll, "umm... oh I levelled up, let me see, Lady System, show me the tab menu." The tab menu appeared right in front of him and said "show me the stats," and he had a visual of it
[Level 3
Exp: 50/200
Strength: 10
Agility: 23
Endurance: 15
Points: 11]
"Hey, lady, why am I level 3, it's supposed to be level 2," he asked in a confused tone.
[For your first mission, you have received a 100% bonus, resulting in you having an award of 300 exp and 6 points]
"Oh right, that's great!" he cried
[You have a new quest
Kill Ignir, the dragon king
Reward: 500 exp, 5 points, cremation flames]
"The dragon king? I don't see any dragon ki-" he said as he was interrupted by big stomps and a strong breeze.
"So the breeze was the dragon breathing, that's why there were moments we wouldn't feel the breeze anymore," he said
Kori didn't dare to turn around but considering how strong he could feel the breathing and that the stomps stopped, the dragon was close to him. Ignir was about 15 meters long, with red coloured scales, a scar on his right eye, and wings that were about 7 meters long and meters large.
"What are you doing here human?" he said with the heaviest and most imposing voice Kirito ever heard.
"Umm.. err I-Uh I was lost, and I started w-w-walking to umm I don't know a place where I-I found this scroll," he said in a terrified tone.
"Tell me human, are you scared," the dragon said before growling.
"W-Well kinda," he said.
"Now, I'm going to eat you, so stay still." the dragon told Kirito as he opened his mouth wide above Kirito.
Before Ignir could even get close to Kirito, the dragon was hit by a gigantic rock. That gave time for Kirito to run to safety behind a big rock. When Ignir looked in the direction he received the rock, he saw Elza and Shoto who were at the entrance.
Ignir roared at them and started running towards them. Elza who still had glowing eyes lifted her hand later and swung right; at the same time, a rock hit the dragon who was at full speed. Ignir fell to the ground and was slightly knocked by the attack.
"Kirito, get the scroll and let's get outta here! she screamed.
Kirito was about to make a run for the entrance until he remembered, he had a quest that would make him level up at least 2 levels.
" I can't, I've got a mission to kill the dragon!" she shouted as he ran for the scroll.
Once he had the scroll, he threw it to Shoto who ran away instantly with it. Elza had the choice between staying or following Shoto.
"Crap, you better pay me back for this Kirito!" she said while coming into the chamber and assembling 15 big rocks around her.
'Telekinesis? Wait, so that means she's a magician!' Kirito thought
Meanwhile, the Dragon seemed to have recovered from the previous attack, and this time levitated in the air because of his powerful wings. In the air, a dragon is the most agile magical creature.
Elza threw two rocks at her, but he dodged it easily and countered why swinging his wings created a strong wind which made Elza fly and hit herself on the gravel wall. Kirito on the other hand took advantage of that attack to launch a fireball towards the dragon. Luckily, it hit the dragon in the neck and it caused him great pain.
'Wait, how is it possible that the dragon felt such a weak attack? Kirito asked himself.
Before he could think further, the dragon inhaled, and when he exhaled, he started breathing blue fire. Elza and Kirito ran away from the fire and took refuge behind separate rocks.
"Lady system! I have a question for you, what is Ignir's weakness?" he asked while the dragon was slowly melting the rock he was hiding behind.
[Ignir' weakness is extortion fire. This is very suitable to you because indeed you have extortion fire.]
"So I am the only one that can kill it?" Korito asked.
[Yes, you are the only one in this room that can kill it]