Shatter!
In the massive forgery beneath the Dark Guild HQ, Sebastian and a old dwarf could be see stopping in their tracks and looking back at the hundreds of altars. The old dwarf then fell to his knees as he stared at the altars.
The dwarf watched in horror as all the weapons on the altars were shattered and turned into dust. He then slammed his fists into the ground repetitively and shook the entire forgery. Sebastian watched the angry dwarf and grinned slightly as he found his despair amusing.
"Are you serious!? Why did they break!? He stopped infusing them with energy and they still broke!?"
Thump!
Thump!
"Goddamn it, Brok! Quit slamming your fists on the ground!" A female dwarf said, incoming.
Behind the female dwarf, thirteen other dwarves could be seen running while berating the old dwarf named Brok. They continued to berate Brok until he pointed toward the hundreds of altars and all of them saw the horror. They then each dropped to the ground and began to slam their fists into the ground.
"Who did this?!" The dwarves shouted in unison.
Pointing toward Sebastian, Brok exposed the culprit and every dwarf stared Sebastian with hatred. Feeling their gazes of hatred, Sebastian decided to release his killing intent on them and each of them fell to the ground.
"Sebastian! These dwarves are gonna be responsible for creating your weapons so it will be in your best interest to not anger them." Bastian spoke up.
"Creating his weapons?! Like hell we will! He broke our ancient aptitude tests!" A dwarf refuted.
"Are you going against Ragnar's orders?" Bastian replied in anger.
Upon hearing Ragnar's name, the dwarf immediately bowed and slammed his head on the ground. It was then that Sebastian quickly noticed their change of attitude against him as if Ragnar's name was enough to turn make them submissive.
"Why didn't you say Ragnar requested it? Brok! Why didn't you tell us?!" A female dwarf asked with anger.
"We'll gladly make his weapons." An older dwarf said, smiling and rubbing his hands together.
Running toward their stations, each dwarf picked a weapon mold and began their process of making Sebastian's weapons. Soon, each dwarf pulled out different materials from different types of beasts.
"Alright, we'll be heading back up. This process naturally takes around two weeks to finish since infusing a weapon with a beast's power and material takes a very long time.
If you think that's long, you should know that Ragnar's weapon took nearly five years to make since it was made out of a powerful beast and its core wouldn't fuse with the weapon." Bastian revealed.
"Five years? What kind of beast was his weapon made of?"
"A mythical ranked beast. It nearly took the entire Dark Guild to take it down."
Walking onto the elevator platform, both of them went back up and noticed something important must be going on. As they walked toward the front of HQ, they saw an assembly of a hundred members. Jogging to Ragnar, Bastian noticed the hidden agent by his side.
'If he's here, then something must be going on in the outside world.'
As Bastian and Sebastian approached Ragnar, they arrived in time to hear about the sudden increase in production of weapons. Normally, it would have been ignored but this wasn't any ordinary weapon production.
It was the production of high-grade weapons.
"It's been five years since the vampire and dwarf alliance. I've received news about their sudden increase in production of high-grade weapons. We're talking about B-Ranked and above.
This means something serious might be going down. I called upon you to investigate why and to sabotage their progress. Be careful though. I heard they mobilized their top brass to get the B-Ranked and above crystals and materials. Dismissed!" Ragnar announced
Without a question, every member geared up and left. The agent beside Ragnar stared at the duo before taking his leave but not before whispering into Ragnar's ear..
"Bastian! I want you to be the leader of this operation. If anything goes south, I want you to ensure the survival of our members. It's hard enough to get people born with the potential to reach B-Rank and above." Ragnar instructed.
"What's intel suggest?" Bastian asked.
"There's talk about multiple potential Primordial Werewolves. The vampires have set a bounty on their heads as well. We're talking about a million gold coins per potential Primordial Werewolf killed."
"Those damn idiots..." Sebastian mumbled before disappearing.
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Inside the colosseum…
Bang!
Having slammed his fist into the colosseum wall, Sebastian caused the wall to shatter. It was evident from his action that he was angered as he knew who Ragnar was talking about.
"Those damn idiots! I've taken the sacrifice to hide away and get stronger in order to protect them, but they've gone and gotten themselves recognized by the vampires." Sebastian shouted at the top of his lungs.
Bang!
With a kick, another piece of the colosseum wall shattered and cracked the surrounding connected walls. Bastian, watching this, wasn't surprised by Sebastian's anger as he too would be angered if he knew his friends were being targeted.
Sighing, Bastian appeared in the center of the colosseum and slowly approached Sebastian. As if he knew Bastian was approaching him, Sebastian threw a random kick toward him and released a wave of energy through the air.
Bang!
Unfazed, Bastian withstood the the attack and got closer until he planted his hand on Sebastian's shoulder and spoke.
"I can understand your anger but there's nothing we can do about it. You just have to believe in the Werewolves to protect them but even the main force of the Werewolves can't go against the Primordial Vampires." Bastian said.
"Primordial Vampires?" Sebastian asked.
"Just like how the Primordial Werewolves are the strongest Werewolves. The Primordial Vampires are the strongest Vampires."
Crack!
In front of Bastian's eyes, he saw as Sebastian was transforming into a werewolf. He wasn't too surprised by this as being a Primordial Werewolf evolution, they were more prone to transforming from rage.
His fur dark as midnight, his right eye as white as the moon and his left eye as red as blood. He grew to an astounding height of seven feet and his presence was ever increasing until it filled the entire colosseum.
"Awhooo!" Sebastian howled.
The wind around him was circling as if it had a mind of its before blasted outwards, pushing Bastian away.
'Just as I had thought, the power of two divine beings within his body couldn't be this easily subdued. The balance between the two powers and Murasama must be unstable... His rage must've triggered the powers to become unstable' Bastian thought.
A single howl shook the entire realm and his presence, uncontrolled, could be felt throughout its entirety. Those who felt it, felt a uncontrollable fear grip their heart.
A couple of brave Dark Guild members rushed into the colosseum to see the unknown attacker. Once they laid their eyes on the black werewolf, who stood in the center of colosseum, they froze in fear from the pseudo B-Ranked pressure.
With a single step, the werewolf appeared beside one of the members and blood splattered on the ground. The other members looked away in fear as they didn't want to see the death of their comrade.
"I think that's enough now."
A familiar voice prompted the member to look back. In front of them, Bastian had caught the werewolf's claws and blood that was splattered on the ground was from his hand.
A red whip formed behind Sebastian and quickly lashed out toward Bastian's head. Dodging the attack, Bastian placed his palm on Sebastian's head and slammed it into the ground.
Blood spurted out of Sebastian's head and his skull was slightly cracked.
Chomp!
The werewolf, in response, had bitten down on Bastian's arm as it was its only to hold its attacker in place. Swinging its claws, it attempted to pierce Bastian's heart but was stopped by an unknown energy.
"I said ENOUGH!" Bastian shouted
With one of his arms free, he revealed a red staff from behind his back and slammed it into Sebastian's side.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The strength behind the staff was so strong that it had sent the werewolf flying through the several walls.
'Hopefully he didn't die. I only used a fraction of my strength after all.' Bastian thought.
Walking through each hole in the colosseum wall, Bastian was slowly getting worried. His staff has a passive ability to multiply his strength and was one of a kind.
There in the wall, Sebastian was back to normal and unconscious. Pulling him out of the wall, Bastian inspected him for injuries but found nothing wrong with him.
"What the hell happened?" Sebastian said, waking up.
Baffled, Bastian stared at Sebastian as he proceeded to stand like he had just taken a nap. Ignoring the holes in the walls, he walked through each wall until he arrived back at the colosseum.
Noticing someone was coming through the hole in the colosseum wall, the Dark Guild members stared and saw Sebastian.
'A kid? What the hell kind of monster is this kid?' One of them said.
Remembering the conversation before, Sebastian started to look around for Bastian.
"I'll help you get stronger but it will come at a cost." Bastian said, coming from the hole.
"I'll do it! I need to be stronger for my friends!" Sebastian responded.
"Very well. Follow me."
Following Bastian, they arrived at HQ. Upon arrival, Bastian spoke an ancient language to Ragnar and they stared at each other before moving the throne at the end of the massive hall.
A hidden entrance was revealed and walking inside, they arrived at a large tube with multiple other tubes connecting to it.
"It's been a while since I last saw this place." Ragnar said.
Inspecting the large tube, Sebastian realized the strange green liquid inside was special. It was constantly emitting a strange energy that even he wondered what it was.
"The liquid inside this tube is a toxin that will enhance your physical capabilities. I've used this in the past when I was young and less tall." Ragnar revealed.
The top of the tube opened and small tendrils formed, and slowly approached Sebastian. Once the tendrils were a few meters away from Sebastian, they shot out and wrapped themselves around him.
"Hey! Let… go!" Sebastian shouted, struggling to escape.
Soon, Sebastian was a cocoon and was dragged into the tube. Both Ragnar and Bastian watched as Sebastian was fully inside the tube.
"How long do you suppose he'll be in there?" Bastian asked.
"I don't really know. I was in there for weeks and only was able to leave once my body started to reject the toxin.
He's strong so he may be in there for weeks, if not months from now." Ragnar replied.
Leaving the hidden room, both Ragnar and Bastian felt a pulse of energy. The disturbance didn't surprise them as it was the realm beginning to shut down.
The realm was only able to exist because of a power source. If the power source was slowly getting low, then the whole realm would slowly crumble.
This outcome was predicted by the Founder of the realm as they implemented a hidden rule, when they were still alive. The hidden rule required the Dark Guild leader to die, so they could transfer the energy they accumulated to the Founder's power source.
"We've got about ten years left before I have to die." Ragnar revealed.
"Who will be your replacement? I can't because I joined not too long ago." Bastian asked.
"What rule says that? There's no rule stating a recent member can't become the leader."
"Even if I become the leader, you already know I can't do what you're about to do in ten years."
"That's right… I always found that strange but maybe it's about time the realm collapses. I mean, it has existed for thousands of years. The outside world is changing so the realm's location may be compromised in the near future."
Walking outside, they looked to the sky and saw a small crack forming in the center of the sky. Looking closer, they saw multiple hands trying to pry open the crack in the realm.
"Those damn realm shadow beasts. They're always looking for the opportunities to feast on those in different realms."
A few seconds later, a small shadowy beast broke through and flew through the air. Leaping through the air, Bastian equipped his katana and quickly drew his blade. In an instant, a wave of energy flew through the air and cut the shadow beast's head off.
Another figure appeared near the realm tear and pulled out a strange device. Waves of electricity connected to the realm tear and began to repair the tear until it was closed.
"Well done." Ragnar said.
"I would've killed the beast but Bastian beat me to it." The hidden agent said, appearing beside Ragnar.
"It's your first time seeing one of those so I doubt you would've killed it. Afterall, it requires a special weapon to kill one." Ragnar revealed.