"Kill them.....Kill....the...m...Kill them....Kill....them....kill...them....all...kill....them kill- KILL THEM KILL THEM KILL THEM KILL THEM ALLL REGAL!"
"Arghhh"
I suddenly woke up while being frightened by my nightmare.
"What was that dream? I saw so many people and they were shouting something like "Kill them"." I thought while unable to handle myself properly.
"..!?"
For some reason, my affinity of Dark Element seemed to be grown stronger than before. I somehow learned new skills.
"Is it because of the nightmare?" I muttered while wondering what happened.
"Am I regaining my memories but by bit?" I had wondered while thinking.
"Ryuji! Did something happened!"
Voila violently rushed into my room (technically it is just a guest room) by kicking the door suddenly.
"No! You will break the door Voila! Don't do that and I got scared by your sudden appearance."
"Ah, I apologise but you screamed so I thought you might be in trouble or something." She said while looking at me with her concerned face.
"Oh yeah, about that..." I lowered my gaze as I started thinking about those voices again.
"Did you had nightmares?" she asked.
"Actually, it doesn't seem like nightmare rather it is like....you know....I may be regaining my memories slowly but surely."
"...!?"
"Even though it might be possible for me to contain two memories, however... According to the ancient sorcerers, one memory will be victorious if the two memories are opposite of each other in terms of personality or other things related to that. It is just like the battle between good vs evil... I am afraid of it a little bit. Anti-Libra, for some reason, are not even trying to pursue me rather they are just ignoring me. It is almost like a calm before the storm." I said.
Voila sat on the bed and held my hands and-
"Don't worry about it, I will not let anyone hurt you and everyone. We will defeat Anti-Libra together and save everyone." she said while smiling.
"....Yeah, thank you for by my side Voila. I will do the same for you and everyone else. I will not allow Anti-Libra to bring choas as they are aiming for..." I said as I was being reminded, that we will have to work together to bring peace.
"Yes let's work together." She replied.
Whatever Anti-Libra is planning to do, I will never let them do things as they like. Libra is also struggling to defeat Anti-Libra despite not knowing that the Ancient Demon is already awakened. They are trying their best, I will also do my best to protect everyone.
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Part 2- Four mages, clad in Black hoodie mage robes, gathered at one place somewhere. Vent is one of them.
"Vent, did you got the information?" asked first mage.
"Yes, they will be heading towards the ancient ruins today..." I replied.
"Are you sure that they will be able to defeat the ancient golem residing their? Furthermore, even if they beat it, there are three more obstacles. Only if we were not cursed by the ancient sorcerers, we would have able to take White Tear." said second mage.
"Don't forget that even if you were able to overcome all trials including Giant Serpant, still there is this last trial that is not possible to overcome- you know what I mean." replied third mage.
"Indeed, that is why we need to wait..." said first mage.
"Vent, you have to take care of it..." said third mage.
"I will, leave it to me." I replied.
"Because of both Libra and Anti-Libra, the retribution on this Kingdom will arrive..." said first mage.
"...."
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Part 3
"Alright then, we are leaving now. Thanks for letting us stay in the village." said Ray.
"We also appreciate your help, I wish you best of luck." said Mayor.
We had started moving towards Viking Ruin.
"....."
"Hm? What happened Chloe?" asked Elena.
"Oh! N-Nothing, I was just lost in thoughts that's all." I replied.
"Um, are you sure?"
"Yes! Yes! Please don't mind me, I am completely fine..." I acted like I was alright while giving a smile to show her.
"I see, that's good. Let's go and search the ruins as our first step Chloe. We need to stop Anti-Libra at all costs after all." She said with a slight trace of sadness.
She thought I couldn't notice it but I knew it what she was thinking.
"So, the mayor told her about it. At dinner, her parents looked a little terrified. It was almost as if a warning was given." I thought.
But it seemed like her parents knew of a way to counter this hectic situation, when it will occur. That is why I am not taking any actions against Elena. Who could have thought that she will be the one.
"Why only Elena? It is like a betrayal." I thought.
"..."
For now, we should focus on finding a way to defeat the Giant Serpent. Nothing will happen until we defeat it.
We had taken the route 10 as we were told and started moving towards Viking Ruin.
"That reminds me, do you guys know why these artifacts are in this Kingdom? Did something happened before or this Kingdom was involved somehow?" asked Ray out of curiosity.
"Now you mention it, I was also wondering it for a while." said Voila.
"Hmm, it is hard to imagine what would have happened before but it seems like Anti-Libra may know something about it. Because they have the Shadow Tear and they seem to know about many things about what happened before." replied Kurt.
"What do you think Ryuji?" asked Reina.
"..." He did not replied.
"Ryuji?"
"Ah! Oh....Yeah I think you are right, Kurt?"
Everyone, including me, looked at Ryuji with some concern.
"Is something bothering you?" asked Ray.
"No, it's nothing. Anyway it seems like we reached our destination, look!" replied Ryuji.
"Yeah I guess."
We had arrived at the location, we all had to ignore Ryuji as we wanted to avoid wasting time for a while since this mission is important. We saw a huge ancient ruins known as Viking Ruin. We head to the entrance but-
"The gate is magically sealed. It won't budge an inch." said Ray.
"We came here all for nothing?"
"Don't be like that Reina, there must be something like a switch or-"
"Hey the magic item is glowing." said Voila.
Ray took out the item and the item suddenly moved in air on its own. It disabled the sealed as it produces the strange light towards it.
"Should we try now?"
After saying that, Ray tried to open the gate and it was easily moved.
"Nice! We can enter now!" said Elena.
"I am genius after all." said Ray jokingly.
"Let's go inside everyone, I am sorry that our guildmaster acted like a spoiled child." said Voila.
"Rude! Have some respect, I am your guild master!"
Everyone started laughing, including me, and then we entered the ruin. The walls were designed with ancient designs and the walls were painted in white colour.
"So, this is the Viking Ruin huh? I muttered.
"Everyone, let's start searching. We will meet at the end part of this ruin and see whether someone got any information." said Ray.
"Alright."
Everyone agreed.
"We will divide into three teams with two people per team to avoid getting in trouble. It is usually dangerous to go alone."
I was going to search the area with Elena, Voila and Ryuji teamed up. Lastly Kurt-
"Hey don't drag me like this..." said Kurt.
"Let's venture into this ruin, Kurt." said Ray with a carefree attitude.
"I feel bad for Kurt somehow." said Elena.
"Y-yeah, I think." I said while smiling awkwardly, looking at helpless Kurt dragged by Ray.
"Ray! You idiot, you forgot me again!"
"Oh, I thought there were six people in total."
"The nerves! You forgot me last time too when assigning us in teams at the village!" she said.
"Well, go with Chloe and Elena then."
"..." She was pouting in annoyance.
We had started started searching the area as we were heading towards the deepest area of this ruin. There were about three paths leadito the deepest part of this ruin according to what Mayor had told us. Ray took the initiative and divided the group into three.
"Hey, Elena. Can I ask you a question?"
"Yes, what is it?"
"How come Orion knew that your village was in danger, I mean he was not from your village, right?"
"I don't know maybe he was passing by so he had came to rescue the village."
"But there is no nearby city or town around Kraken village and it would take so much time to call for help." asked Reina.
"I don't know what was he doing around my village and how he noticed that the village was in danger but all he had told me that he was lucky to ran into so many S ranked guild members who were hunting a giant monster nearby the village. I already believed him and I also knew that there was really a giant monster that was strong so..."
"I see, alright...but maybe Orion was..."
"What is it? You look troubled? Are you saying that Orion was somehow involved in the incident?" I asked.
"To be honest, I don't know but it might be possible that Orion had to do something."
"Please don't speak like that, I don't think Orion had some evil intentions or something. He helped me." Elena looked upset when the question was raised on Orion.
"Reina!" I said with a little anger.
"I am sorry Elena. I think you are right. He would not have helped you if he wanted something else. Besides he helped you instead to make you stronger."
"It's okay but please don't say such things again. Orion is not that kind of person. He maybe introvert and seems enigmatic sometimes however, he is a kind person."
I also agreed with her and didn't deny this fact. Orion would never do anything to hurt anyone after all. It was okay to raise questions like that just to be cautious but Orion had already proved us that he was not that kind of person to do something evil.
According to what information I got last night from Elena's parents and the fact that Orion trained her to make her grow stronger while he never wanted anything from Elena shows that Orion genuinely helped Elena and he was worried about her. He even let her join Libra after teaching her so that she could live a good life while helping others and express herself.
"Alright, I apologise again. I will never do that. Geez, you two are charmed by him." When she spoke the last sentence she grinned again just like last time.
"You are grinning again!"
We had closed the topic and started with fresh topics as we were searching the area.
"Hey Chloe, this document..." said Reina.
"It is about the golem....and it's weaknesses." I said.
"We will have to depend on Ryuji in this battle..." remarked Elena.
"It's good that we were divided in three groups or else we would have missed this information."
"Even though this information is not related to any answers regarding Giant Serpent however, it is still important..." I thought.
"Alright, let's search remaining areas to see if we can get other informations or not." I said.
"Yes, let's do that." replied Reina.
As we started searching the areas as we had planned, we were reaching the deepest part of this ruin.
"So far so good. We had searched the area completely on our way. Let's meet up with everyone up ahead because I can sense that they reached the deepest part as they are waiting for us."
"Yes lets go, I am sure they must be wondering whether we got some useful information or not." said Elena.
We had arrived at the deepest part but-
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To be continued...