CH 18 DRAGON'S SWORD
'You came late!' Alice shouted towards figures approaching them.
They could see their other half team walking towards them and leading them was liam, who killed thousands of monsters with a single flick.
'HaHa!, sorry we took time more than expected, That place was filled with monsters' said Liam as he stretched his hand to help a hunter to stand up.
There was not even a single bit of sadness for his fallen comrade on his face.
'Well! We had finished work here, let's get going' Liam shouted as he tapped on a band on his wrist, a screen appeared in front of him showing a map of the city.
'Why are monsters stronger than normal here? They are on a completely different level from normal ones, they are bigger and abnormals. Are they mutant?' Liam thought while suppressing the fear he was facing.
Foreign races that emerged in Australia were different from the species that emerged in the past, The more they kill them stronger monsters emerge.
2nd wave of snarlers was way stronger than 1st, Without Liam's intervention, the whole team would have been wiped out.
Liam and his team were fighting for a month continuously, they started with 50 team members, but now they were only 20 and most of them were injured and exhausted.
'I am not fighting anymore, even if Arthur kills me. I am running from here' Liam thought in his mind before tapping a location on the map.
He was terrified for his life, but he was not showing it to others to maintain his ego. He was trembling from just a thought of monsters he had to fight if he continued. He starts walking towards the location he marked. Liam would have never come to Australia but Arthur forcefully dragged him here.
All remaining 20 hunters started walking behind Liam who was walking silently through rubble.
'AAAAA!'
A roar echoed in the sky before the sky filled with screams. Air-filled with a stench and the mist flowing with the rhythm of screams.
'Kyaa!'
'Hyaa!'
'What's that creature, graa!' A hunter screamed before vomiting blood as a claw ripped from his chest.
Soon screams were followed by Silence.
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'Please accept me as your disciple' Jason once again requested politely, looking directly into Tvastha's eyes fearlessly.
Ezek and Tvastha were staring at Jason Dumbfounded, Ezek even forgot to breathe for a second as a cup in his hand fell on the ground.
Tvastha put his Hand on Jason's shoulder and soon tears started flowing from Jason's eye and Jason didn't even try to stop his tears. He let out all his pain, agony, emotions, or regrets he felt till now in his tears as he fell on his knees.
It felt like a stone that was pressuring his heart eroded, a shell in which he contained his emotions finally crumbled.
"This child must be innocent and clean before he entered the void, Life was unfair to this child, But all this is necessary in order to obtain what he wants."
Tvastha said to himself as he stroked Jason's Hair who was crying.
Tvastha sat down to reach Jason's level and hold his chin to move his face towards him.
Jason lifted his eyes towards Tvastha while taking a deep breath.
'As a deal, I accept you as my 2nd disciple but keep this in your mind from this moment your life will be harder and more challenging than ever. From now your life belongs to me, Till now Life was harder for you because you bent yourself according to life but from now on Life will follow your command.' Tvastha said to Jason in an emotionless but godly voice.
Jason hearing this felt as if he was talking to the mist that threw him in the void. Jason nodded in Tvastha's response.
'As your Master, my first teaching is to show your emotion in attack rather than on your face.' Tvastha ordered Jason while firmly holding his shoulders.
What Tvastha said was a piece of pretty good advice to channel his emotion in attacks rather than waste them in crying.
'Forget about your past. Past is just a dream, it is an illusion of images and feeling, Which will hunt you even if it becomes blurred with time but remember it will hunt you till your end so forget your past life today. start anew' Tvastha said calmly as he stood up and lifted his wand.
Jason felt a stream of strange feeling rushing through his veins as a wand of tvastha disappeared, his eye starts glowing he turned his gaze towards Ezek who was dumbfounded looking at them. Jason felt all his tiredness vanish as the glow in his eye increased.
'What's happening to me?'Jason asked Tvastha who was murmuring something, but Jason can't hear it.
Suddenly. He felt as if someone hammered a nail on his head. Pain spread through his whole head, eyes got bloodshot.
'AHH!' Jason screamed while holding his head.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Hundreds of notifications popped up in front of Jason's vision as he throbbed with pain and soon it became unbearable for him to even open his eyes.
'Someone he...' Before Jason could complete his sentence a bolt of pain hit him, and he passed out.
Thud!
Before Jason's lifeless body could hit the ground, Tvastha grabbed him.
'Small pup had to Bear this pain to become a wolf, let's see what is decided for your future. But I must say he fought well.....'
After an unknown time, Jason regains consciousness. He still had a little Headache, His eye took few seconds to adjust themselves to sudden exposure to light. He tried to move his hand to rub his eyes, but his hand didn't move.
'Ahh!' a scream of pain escaped his mouth.
His whole body was numb, and it was painful for him to move even a single muscle, so he gave up and kept lying there.
[SYSTEM REGAINED CONTROL]
[SCANNING HOST FOR UPDATES.....]
[HOST GAINED 20000EXP]
'Huh!, System become normal again. In presence of the Tvastha system didn't even say a single word. Are you scared of him or some other reason?'
'Are you shy?'
The system completely Ignored him, it didn't even show him his stats windows So Jason also ignored the system and started looking around.
He was in a fully furnished room having strange appliances he had never seen before, there was equipment floating above his head, blowing cold air on him. the scenery outside the window was changing rapidly, he was lying on a comfortable bed, but it felt like he was on a cloud. There were lamps in each corner of the room, but they were off. This room was completely different from the room in which he was placed before.
'Where am I?, am I still in the forest?' Jason asked himself while looking around astonished.
'This room is the same as hotel rooms designed for VVIP back on earth, but they are hella expensive. Jason was Intern his salary was not as high enough in which he could afford a single day stay in these kinds of rooms however Alice as a high ranked hunter earn many times more than Jason so on earth whenever Jason and Alice went on Vacations Alice was the one that paid bills, but Jason never thought about these kinds of things. But now whenever Jason thinks about those days, they seemed realistic Illusions in which he was trapped for years. These memories reminded him of Tvastha's words.
'Yes. He is right, the past is an illusion. Thinking about that what must be his age to have this much life experience, maybe 47-48 something'
Jason couldn't even count the miracles he had seen in this void, Jason never thought his life would become so much adventurous. Everything happened so quickly in his life that he didn't even get time to calm himself, In the forest, he had to remain alert every second but at this moment he could drop his guards and rest. He didn't even know when his eyes closed, and he went into a deep sleep.
Ding!
[SCAN COMPLETE]
Jason's eye shot open at the sound and dived out of the bed while looking around as if someone attacked him.
'What's that sound?' Jason thought as Hela appeared in his hands.
Jason was in so much deep sleep he didn't even recognize the sound of the system notification.
Ding!
'Oh that was System, Hope no one saw that. It was too embarrassing' Jason murmured scratching his forehead and looking around to see if anyone saw his actions.
'Thank god, no one saw me. This damn System would have killed me by heart attack or embarrassment.'
As Jason opened the notification tab his eyes widened and his body stiffened as if a bolt of current passed through his body.
'Is this Joke system sama? Am I still asleep? This must be a dream.'
Jason asked for the system while rubbing his eyes and looking at the screen floating in front of him.
'Ahh!' He pinched his cheeks to make sure it wasn't a dream.
'Its reality! So this is also true. F***' Jason said rubbing his red cheeks.
'This is fu***** true'
Jason was sweating buckets though his body was cold as ice, his heart was pounding so loud it seemed like it was going to explode next movement.
Due to shock and surprise.
'HaHaha...' Jason erupted into maniacal laughter and sat on the bed staring at the words floating in front of him.
[QUEST COMPLETED: FIND HIM]
[QUEST COMPLETED: PROVE YOURSELF OR DIE]
["ASTRAL BEING" HAVE GAINED INTEREST IN YOU]
[YOU HAVE GAINED THE TITLE "DEATHLESS]
And many more but the interesting notification was.
["ASTRAL BEING: DRAGON" ACCEPTED YOU AS A DISCIPLE]
[DRAGON'S 2ND DISCIPLE]
'HUH!, Dragon?. Tvastha is a real dragon, aren't these creatures just a myth but Tvastha is a real deal.' Jason thought when he saw this notification.
'That's why he is unbelievably strong, those bonded beasts can't be even compared to him.' Jason said to himself while nodding.
But soon this shock converted into panic and confusion, various thoughts flooded his mind, whether he should run or stay, should he believe them or not, but soon all became clear.
'He will become my ladder to the top, A master that will make me stronger and teach me how to use these powers' Jason thought before he starts laughing maniacally.
He opened the stats window to know his progress.
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[HOST DETAILS
NAME — JASON WHITE
Alias: Dragon's 2nd Sword
RACE- HUMAN
RANK- B
EXP- 20000/1000000
Ascension: I stage
STATS
STRENGTH-245
AGILITY- 215
STAMINA-205
HP- 800/800
MANA- 1600/1600
INTELLIGENCE: A+
ATR POINTS: 129
10 POINTS FOR 1 STAT POINTS
STORED ENERGY: 40000/1000
EON CHARGE- 26%
COMPATIBILITY- 6%
SPEAR: Hela STAGE 4]
[SYSTEM:
COMPLETE DISCIPLE CEREMONY
REWARD:?
]
[REWARDS FOR COMPLETED QUEST: CORE OF LIFE
: SKILLS LEVEL UP
: CHAKRA OF DEATH- Activate this skill once and the chakra will rip him or shred him.
Single large chakra for defense
Many Chakras for all attack
>Cost: 400 Mana for 1min.
TERRITORY [RANGE: 150M]
-Area under 150M will be under your control]
'Woah, All skills are awesome. My stats have increased, and I even leveled UPP., F*** what's this, I need hella a lot of experience for the next rank.'
Tvastha said correct, Life is going to be more troublesome.'
STEP! STEP! STEP! STEP!
Knock! Knock!
Someone knocked on the door twice.
'Hey! It is me Ezek' Ezek shouted while knocking on the door.
Jason panicked and stood up next to the bed in a hurry.
'Wait! I didn't do anything wrong so why I am scared, he-he' Jason murmured to himself as he cleaned sweat from his forehead before opening the door.
'Oh, please come in.' Jason said to Ezek with a smile.
Ezek was just like a child, On getting Jason's permission he ran into the room and dived on the bed like a small child.
'HeHE' Seeing the action of Ezek Jason chuckled and walked to a chair before sitting on it.
'Hope you got good sleep, Brother' Ezek said while sitting cross-legged on the bed.
Jason was looking at him with interest until the "Brother" word attracted his attention. Jason never heard someone calling him brother, so it is acceptable why he was shocked and hesitating.
'Huh, Brother?' Jason exclaimed on hearing Ezek calling him brother.