Another day for the King's Journey to continue.
"Yaaawn"
Rapier woke up leaving a long yawn, after gathering his thoughts, He saw the unicorn putting different kinds of fruits on a big leaf which he saw as a plate. Then the unicorn carried it towards Rapier.
"Well...I appreciate your thought but... I've eaten the Eternity fruit you know? I can't get hungry even though I want to eat"
The unicorn looked and got furious and grabbed the large leaf with fruits on it then shoved it to his face.
"W-What the- hmphg hmphg"
Rapier realized what he just said and found an opening...
"Okay...okay got it, I just have to eat it right?"
Rapier gave the first fruit a bite. And got shook from what he just tasted.
"This is so delicious! It's like eating a fried chicken from a world-class chef!"
He got delighted and grabbed another fruit then took a bite.
"Wow... And this one is rather unique it's like an orange which is juicer and it's more savory than the other one"
Then Rapier got overjoyed and ate and ate until he got satisfied.
"Phew... What a delicious food you got for me..."
"I guess I have to continue on this journey, Want to come with me?" He asked the unicorn
The unicorn shook its head in disagreement.
"No huh... I guess I have to continue this alone" Rapier said while looking at the sky.
Suddenly, the unicorn is pulling his shirt at the back.
"What's wrong buddy?"
The unicorn is pointing in a direction and Rapier understood that.
"Want me first to go in there?"
The unicorn nodded in agreement. Then he followed the unicorn wondering where they'll go to.
"Wait... Isn't this the way to the cave with lots of dead bodies?"
After realizing that, it's already too late.
He saw a large black dragon eating the corpse of the monster at the entrance of the cave, then he immediately looked for the unicorn and saw it charging towards the dragon.
"Hey! Buddy! It's dangerous there!" Rapier shouted with all his might.
Then he also ran after the unicorn but it's already too late.
The unicorn is using its horn to attack the black Dragon, the dragon saw the unicorn and raised its arm.
"N-No!" Rapier shouted while crying
While running towards the dragon, he thought,
"If only I realized it sooner..."
"If only I was stronger..."
"Then I could protect them and there would be no awful things to happen again"
"Shit!"
Rapier gathered his courage and grit his teeth and charged towards the dragon, only to be dumbfounded.
"W-what?"
The dragon is smiling and laughing at the unicorn trying its hardest to take down the dragon.
"What's happening here?"
Then the unicorn got tired and eventually gave up.
Rapier thought, "What's happening in here? Did I misunderstand something? Am I missing some page of the book?"
The dragon saw Rapier's condition and laughed, "How about coming here, kid?"
"Did it just talk? What the fuck?" He thought while still looking dumbfounded.
The dragon talked again, "Don't worry kid I won't eat you".
" Like hell, I'll believe that!" Rapier shouted
"After many of those corpses, you think I'll believe you?"
"Sigh... If I would eat you then this little one would be long dead, you know?" The dragon said while pointing at the unicorn.
"You're right..." Rapier said while scratching his head
He walked cautiously slow until he reached the dragon.
The dragon talked,
"Do you want to be stronger?"
Suddenly, a large amount of killing intent radiated from Rapier, and him remembering how the Gods just killed them all just for fun, then he closed his eyes, sighed, then said,
"Yes...I want to be stronger... Stronger than those from above" he said while looking at the sky with a grievance.
The dragon looked at him and smiled, "It looks like there's still some hope, Mom...Dad"
"Then let me call some of my friends in here," the dragon said.
"What do you mean by-," Rapier said then got interrupted
The Dragon roared leaving the whole place tremble and birds fly away. Making Rapier quickly cover his ears. After a scream two large-sized figures and three little human-sized figures are to be seen from Rapier's view.
"O-oi...what did you call here?"
As one of the creatures is about to land Rapier covered his eyes from the dust
Then the Griffin landed near Rapier making the ground shake, then the Phoenix came in making the whole place hot like inside a volcano, then the last three came in, and they are small-human-sized fairies.
Rapier looked at them one by one, the Griffin with long wide feathered wings with full golden-brown color and a white featherhead, next is the Phoenix its feature are resembling an Eagle but with rich red and gold plumage, and lastly the Fairies they looked supernaturally beautiful with pointed ear, fair skin and a little gray-colored wings fluttering like confetti, and they have different colored hair, blonde, brown and cyan.
"So yeah these are the ones who will teach you from now on" The dragon said to Rapier
Then the Griffin talked, "Let us introduce ourselves first, I'm Amiera, I live at the southern part of this so-called Kinra Island named The Skyscraper"
"Woah... A real-life griffin and it's talking too!" Rapier shouted making the Griffin look smug.
Then the others continued,
"As you can see, I'm a Phoenix, My name is Eleianore, I live in the western part of the island called Vulcan"
"Woah" Rapier looked at the Phoenix-like a child seeing it the first time.
"Is safe to touch your wings?" Rapier asked
The Phoenix got silenced for a while thinking what is going on through this boy's head then smiled.
"It's okay"
Rapier stepped up and carefully caressed the Phoenix's wing.
"You can feel the flames but it's not that hot", He looked at the Phoenix's wing drooling.
The Phoenix thought, " In all my years I've been living he's the first human to touch my wings willingly and not scared".
"I guess that's enough, kid?" The Phoenix said to Rapier
Rapier came back to his senses and wiped his drool.
"Thank you"
"And we are the Fairies of this Forest, We live in the Eastern Part, The Lights Dwelling. I'm Emma, this one with brown hair is Chloe and the cyan one is Rose"
Rapier thought, "woah...they're amazingly beautiful, they're even comparable to high-class elves in-game"
Then He saw that the Fairies are waiting for Rapier's response making him embarrassed.
"E-Ehem, N-Nice to m-meet tyou," Rapier said it while blushing and bit his tongue at the end making him embarrassed more in front of them
The Fairies giggled at each other.
Rapier then looked back to the Dragon and said,
"I guess you have a name too, right?"
"Hmph... I'm Diana an Abyssal Dragon and this Unicorn is Sophia" Diana said while pouting
Diana thought, " I'm the first one to talk to him and I'm the last one he asked?! So shameless"
"O-okay" Rapier said awkwardly
"But, Why is Sophia not talking?" He asked the dragon
"Well... She's still in the infancy stage she also needs to learn like humans do" Diana responded
"Now that I think about it why are there no humans here beside me?" He asked
"Cause this is the beginning of time," said the dragon.
"What do you mean?" He asked
"This is the time where Humans, like you, don't exist yet. As you can see Mythical Creatures like us and Historical Creatures like the dinosaur you saw back then are the ones who exist on this plane of time"
"Then this place...?"
"This place is called the Kinra Island. This is the only land on this planet, We tried searching for other landmasses all ending in naught" Diana answered
Rapier got silent for a while arranging his thoughts on what he just heard.
"So do you have any more questions?"
"I guess that will do for now, Then when will my Training start?" Rapier asked
"Right now" Diana immediately responded
"Right now?" Rapier asked looking hesitant
"Right now"
"Okay, let's start," Rapier said while he nodded to the Dragon.
"First, Eat the Time-Physique Fruit"
Rapier opened his storage and ate one.
He felt his senses are doubled and his muscles are tingling
"Next is Life-Extension Fruit"
Rapier silently followed Diana's command and ate one.
Diana said, "There are two stages of your training. First, Training your instinct, and Second, Pressure Endurance. The first one is we'll test your instinct, I'll send you a strike which is equivalent to the speed of light and you must avoid that, Second is I'll pressure you Physically and Mentally only if you can last for 1 year that's where the training is finished and if you fail we'll do it for another year"
"And for this training to be more effective we'll seal your mana and qi", Diana added
"Got it", Rapier said while his eyes are full of energy
Everyone thought of how determined Rapier Is, He didn't even question why they must seal his mana and Qi all he understand is this is a must to become stronger and Although Rapier didn't tell them, they knew why he wants to get stronger.
Diana's eyes lit up and they all are teleported to a dark space where you can't see anything, everyone is there except for Sophia and the three fairies.
Diana spoke, " This is the first stage, you must evade my attacks in this complete darkness when you evade 1000 consecutive strikes from me you pass, every day you can only rest for an hour"
"Okay, Let's do this", Rapier responded
Everyone thought,
" He didn't have any second thought after all that, what a tough person"
"Then, let us begin," Diana announced
Diana launched her blow swinging her large tail from the left making Rapier flew away.
"Kid! You have to focus!" Diana shouted
"Tsk", Rapier clicked his tongue
Diana launched another strike in the same direction.
"Left!"
Rapier crouched until his head can reach his feet.
"Too much movement!"
Diana swung her tail from above.
"Top!"
Rapier looked above but it's too late to dodge.
"Argh!"
"Again!", Diana shouted
Diana went wild and strict in her training with Rapier, Every fail move he does, she criticizes them. Even though Rapier always falls and falls again from time to time he never gave up thinking about what his objectives are and what his mentor is expecting from him, although he thinks too much he never thought of that as something stressful enough for him to give up.
They continued for 10 years while the Phoenix and Griffin observed and adjusted Rapier's Lesson for his upcoming training to them.
In that 10 years, Sophia visits Rapier from time to time giving him Time-Physique Fruit and some Fruits that can be found on the other part of the forest which leaves his stock in his storage to remain unchanged.
In the 11th year, Rapier successfully dodged 1000 consecutive strikes from Diana.
" Looks like you've done well to remain until now, Kid," Diana said while looking proud of what Rapier achieved.
"Finally...Ha...Ha...Ha", Rapier falls to his butt while panting hard.
Rapier thought, " What's scarier is most of Diana's strikes are like the speed of light, although I can't see them that much you can feel them like passing through you and not knowing that you're already attacked"
"Rest for a Month, Heal your remaining injuries and we'll continue the second part of your training", Diana spoke
Rapier's eyes were filled with courage and responded,
" Yes!"
"Go and find Sophia at the Garden", Diana said
" Huh?...Okay..." Rapier responded confused but didn't ask any more questions.
Rapier saw Sophia and the three fairies heating a bath.
"Is that for me?" Rapier asked with his hopes up.
"Yeah...Take your clothes and soak hereafter", Emma said
Rapier immediately took all his clothes and rushed towards the pot of water, the water was filled with flowers.
" This looks expensive and there are many flowers too", Rapier said
"These flowers have a great effect on your body one is they can temper your bones and muscle the other one is it can clear your mind from any malicious thoughts, now have a dip already" Emma responded
Rapier slowly stepped into the bath only when his whole body is soaked when he noticed something.
"Argh!" Rapier shouted shortly but clenched his teeth after
He thought, "What the heck is this? It's like acids are entering the pores of my skin and burning my innards, It hurts like hell but at the same time it has a soothing effect"
"Close your eyes and absorb the effects of the medicine" Emma screamed
Rapier closed his eyes then silently absorbs the effects of the medicine.
[1 month have passed]
Rapier opened his eyes and realized something big, his muscles are more sturdy and firm. He is also shocked that the water on the pot where he took a bath was completely dry.
"I absorbed all of that?" Rapier questioned himself
"Congratulations!"
A voice came from behind, it's the Griffin with all his companions.
"Thank you!", Rapier responded
Then the dragon came and spoke,
"Now, Let's continue your Second part of the training"
>Chapter 3: Journey's Continuation End<
Next Chapter 4: Getting Stronger