Kim Yong Pov
The knight commander grabbed my hand moreover chanted a spell for teleportation. We arrived at the arena of the castle, that is on the mountains path up in addition to be in between the castle and some wood buildings a bit higher the mountain.
"Don't look so much around foreigner"
A rough voice emerged on my right, as I look to the direction I see a man about 2 metres tall full clad in armor. He emits mana and Aura at the same time, pulling his sword out of its sheath.
"You are really eager to fight"
"HAHAHA-"
The knight burst out laughing for a good minute before his face turned serious.
"You foreigner forgot that no one does the knight exams at your age"
I inspected the arena, it is built like a colosseum which is open to the mountain path in addition is the mountain path filled by raptors or similiar looking creatures to it. The people on the creatures have an aura of draconians around them... with three of them having the aura of a dragon.
'So it really is the same village from the world filled in darkness'
I know these two children who have auras of dragons since I fought them before... however the elders eyes seem to hold a lot of wisdom as well as strength.
"Foreigner that are the guardians of the cursed two artifacts-"
I snap out of my daze and stare right at him, making him flinch and taking a stance with his sword.
"The mask of Sealing and the Coat of one's shadow"
He added this with so much confidence that his information is reliable, the problem is I need to fight the old dragon there or assassinate him. The third Artifact is already obvious where that is but to be sure I asked about a scythe.
"Oh so you also know about the curse scythe in the kings museum"
'bingo'
"Yeah lets fi-"
^swoosh^
His sword is fast and precise, whistling through the air, closing the distance between us in a span of a second. The sword is aimed at my throat ready to kill me.
^Clang^
"Sorry but I don't plan to die anytime soon"
I summoned my moonlight scythe out of my space ring as well as instantly coating it in mana, crossing my scythe hilt with his sword blade.
He pushed even more with his aura against the hilt of my scythe... not sure why he does that. His expression turned from arrogance to a wary expression.
"How?"
I feel my eyebrow twitching up, as our little contest of strength continues. He puts more emotions in his Aura, mostly anger, to lose my footing nonetheless I stand there without moving an inch away.
'If that continues-'
"The foreigner is losing!"
"You can do it Kruger!"
'This Kruger will lose without me doing anything'
I don't know his full name and don't want to know it either, my goal are the three set items... but if I beat him without much effort.
'They will think I cheated somehow'
^Sigh^
the entire colosseum as well as the village stopped to cheer for Kruger. Why? Well.... I was the one who sighed loud moreover is Kruger more enraged than before.
"YOU DARE!"
He swings his second sword, almost identical to the Gladius apart from the bit longer blade plus the mana stone in the guard, meanwhile is his first sword in his right hand starting to glow.
^Clang^
I block his sword with my blade furthermore swing my scythe a bit more to the left
^Clang^ "Kgh" ^Boom^
'Okay that was unexpected'
The Knight has swung his glowing sword down however do to me pushing his Gladius in the way... it crossed blades with it and exploded. Dust started to restrict my vision moreover is the dust cloud smelling like iron as well as being red.
"AAAAAAAAAA!!"
'Why the hell are you screaming when you attack me?'
^Clang^
His gladius crossed path with my scythe, giving me a chance to see his entire right arm. It is badly damaged, his fingers are all gone plus the entire hand besides that did it look relatively okay... if you ignore the blood shooting out of his biceps and it simple swinging with his body motion.
His Gladius and my Scythe crossed path a few more times, then he uses his limp right arm to punch me... I don't know How someone is so stupid.
^Swoosh^ ^Splurt^
I severed his right arm from the shoulder, meanwhile is he swinging his Gladius towards my leg. I kick against the blade of the Gladius, changing its path to the ground.
^Clang^
"Bleurgh"
'ok now it gets ridiculous'
He vomited his blood towards my eyes, as he is gathering his entire Aura in the Gladius that starts to break moreover starts squeaking too. His gaze concentrates on cutting me in two parts as he swings his sword up and...
^Splurt^ ^Crack^
He unfortunately lost another arm along with his helmet which almost crushed his nose.
"I... can... still... fight"
He somehow gets back on his feet, leaving me no choice but to kick him in the stomach.
The entire colosseum is silent plus all have a frightened expression except a few people.
"Don't you want to heal him!"
I suggested to the referees and healers on the side. They wanted to move however someone denies them to do it.
'It is obvious who of the two is doing this'
I turn my back to the king of the land or the puppet for the real king, staring at the old guy with his white hair and crytsal green eyes. His demeanor is not normal for someone who should only guard something.
"I greet the King of this land-"
I greeted him with a bit respect to see his reaction.
"- or should I say the owner of this land and your perfect acts of attacking your own city"
His eyes for a split second lost the serene state in them and showed everything I wanted to know.
"So Dragon what is your purpose behind attacking your own city"
I fix my eyes at his eyes who does the same, the stare contest continued for a minute as he slowly smiled.
"I don't know what you ar-"
"Oh come on spare me your acting"
His body starts to release his mana, putting pressure on everyone in the colosseum. He starts to smile and raises his hand a bit till he reached the perfect height to grab the puppet.
"You want to see a dragon-"
The puppet gathers a large amount of mana out of the atmosphere.
^Crack^ ^Crack^
The cracking of the puppet gets louder and louder.
"Then I will show you one"
^Boom^
I activated Mana sense and see the colosseum crumbling beneath the Golden Dragonette, it has a Bipedal body with small fore limbs, a Long tail and broad wings of ten metres each side. Bright green and tan markings are visible with closer observation.
'I don't know if you can call that a pure Dragon but it will be enough to run amok in the city'
Besides it killing all other people who are on the colosseum, it is killing even the village people with a breath of acid. The people slowly realise the danger of the Dragonette and try to run away... with no success.
'It really is weird to look at this mix of different species'
It wreaked havoc and is currently on a killing spree, killing villagers and the citizens of the kingdom in a matter of seconds.
Why doesn't it attack me?
This question didn't even enter my head because I already hid my presence.
"Watching is cool and everything but it is to easy"
I muttered under my breath as the Dragonette cleared the way to the top of the mountain... the survivor can be counted on one hand now.
"Why did you do this?"
The old man smiled at me with his eyes that turned into black diamonds. He rushed to fight against the dragonette and fullfilling his duty... even though he created this mess to begin with.
'The dungeon holds the past of a world of the records... walk down the same path as a certain individual'
I realised that I am already on the path of this individual moreover that he knows why I am here and lent me a helping hand.
"So I should wait on the edge of the mountain until nights falls upon the kingdom and grab the coat as well as the mask-"
My mind returned to the encounter with these two children.
"How come you dont remember what you did to us!!"
A bitter smile spread across my face as I now know what he meant, the part of this world and everything here is a part someone created to guide me here. I am a pawn in the game of probably gods, this realisation made it even more clear what will happen after I collected everything.
"Haaaaa so I really will be unable to help them for a few months"
The Shadow of the ancient warrior who hates his god... now it makes sense from what I guess happened to this world and his proxy.
"So i am going to consume the world out of hate or loyalty"
If it is out of loyalty to save someone or bring people back to life but was betrayed by his god... it would make me feel a lot better... however from what I heard from these children and saw in the library of their memories.
it happened out of hatred or powerlessness either way his hate won't disappear over all these years.
"Haaa guess this life will be a bit better than my last one"