Derkile searched for the weapon he felt was suitable for him, there were so many of them on the walls.
Clubs, swords, hammers, scythes, guanlets,axes, clawed boots, clawed gloves and many other weapons of different kinds surrounded him, he was a little bit picky at first but later something came across his eyes that seemed eye catching.
It was a clawed glove that had a special mechanism that allows the iron claws to be released whenever the hand was clenched and when the hand was released the claws would be retracted.
It had a small purple magic stone on the top and the light glowed softly to show that it was still a low class level stone .
Derkile didn't know why he seemed to be attracted to this weapon but he knew that maybe it was a sign showing that he had found his chosen weapon. He took his pair of clawed gloves and headed to where Bane was.
Meanwhile
A man was staring at Derkile as he took the weapon.
" Hmm, guess I finally found the perfect one for that weapon" the man said.
" Now, it remains to see how he will activate the weapon , lets go on shall we ?" The man said and walked towards where the people were ...
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While Derkile had found his own weapon, he waited for Bane who was busy rampaging through all the weapons trying to decide which one he would choose.
The two had formed a little friendship between themselves as their rooms were located not far from each other so the other night they had talked about their experience before coming to the king palace and that seemed to have formed a little bond between them.
" I think I have found the perfect one!!!!" Bane screamed excitedly .
" Then let's take a look, shall we??".
He looked at the weapon Bane held. It was a sword, but the top blade of the sword was shaped like a scythe and it had a green magic stone fixed on the handle.
Derkile quickly dragged Bane to the gathering were the person who was supposed to teach them would be , he didn't want Bane to change his mind.
At the same time, Drew continued .
"It seems like all of you have found your perfect weapons, so I think I can begin now.
" These weapons are called magical weapons why??, Because they were made from special stones called magical stones..." The man continued without minding the mumurs.
" As you can all see, there is a magic stone fixed on each of the weapons all of you are holding" he demonstrated by showing his own sword, it had a red magic stone fixed on the edge of the sword.
" So now I shall teach you how to use the magic in these weapons" he said and took out the blade from the scabbard.
"All what you have to do is very simple, focus on nothing else and lock in your mind with the energy of the weapon. If you're able to do that then you will be able to activate the power of the weapon and use either as an enhancement or raw energy, I shall show you now"
The man closed his eyes and held his sword out .
Immediately, a bright red light emitted from the stone on the sword and the whole blade started to glow red as fiercely as ever.
A cold breeze broke out and everyone felt a chill down their spines .
Then the red light seemed to be spinning around the blade forming what seemed to be a spinning vortex around the sword and suddenly, the man thrust out his sword allowing the spinning vortex of light to fly out.
Bang!!!! , A loud exploding sound was heard and the wall at the back of gathering was no more.
The wall had been totally destroyed almost not leaving a trace that there was once a wall there, but thank goodness there was no more weapons on the wall or else there wouldn't be a trace of it anymore. Everyone were surprised .
" Whoa!!, How did that happen?" Bane said shocked.
" I think that is the power of a legend " Derkile replied equally shocked.
" Can you all see that?, That could be what any of you can do someday if you can master the art of magic" he said, his words sounding quite cool and everyone started to suddenly admire his strength, even Derkile.
Suddenly, a pair of familiar eyes peirced at Derkile. It was the ' Hada' guy he had beaten up the other day. It seems like he was going to burst down from the platform and attack him at anytime but Derkile didn't care, and returned the gaze before coolly looking away. The man soon continued.
" Now all of you too, should start learning how to unleash the power of your weapons now before the selection, or else you may not be qualified to become a soilder"
Being reminded of this sent a cold feeling into everyone's hearts. The man noticed this and wanted to speak.
" I know all of you will be thinking, all of you would love to become soilders. Something similar had happened to me once before ...and I thought the same thing you thought but when I realized that me and everyone other person I loved was in danger. I began to train to be chosen andd I became stronger, and this is who I am today". He said trying to encourage them.
Everyone calmed down a little but each one of them knew that the case was different. During his time, any one could become a soilder willingly. But now only little amount of people could be accepted a year.
"Now let's try to practice unleasing the magic in your weapons, do exactly as I say" Tyler said.
" Take a deep breath in and out and close your eyes and begin to feel the energy flow from your weapon and then harness it"
Everyone began to do exactly what he said.
Derkile too had put on the iron gloves and was busy breathing, but he didn't feel anything else apart from disappointment.
He opened his eyes and took a peak, he saw that everyone apart from him had their weapon glowing just like how Tyler's sword had glowed.
He looked at Bane and saw that his sword too was glowing and he was completely seriously focused.
Derkile tried again but didn't feel a thing.
' how are they able to do it and I can't??!!', Derkile thought frustrated and annoyed , maybe the weapon was broken , he thought.
Just then someone appeared beside him, Tyler??, Derkile felt scared, had he noticed him and came to reprimand him, he thought.
" I told you to keep all thoughts away and focus on nothing else"
The man scolded .
Derkile did as he was told, he removed all the memories, fair, suffering away from his brain and focused as hard as he could, suddenly he felt a zap of energy from the glove he wearing.
He focused harder and in his head, he saw a purple orb of flowing energy and at that time he felt as if the iron gloves were alive and ready to burst . He immediately knew that he had activated the weapon.....
" Now everyone , you have successfully unleashed the magic of your weapons, but it is still in enhancement stage so you may not be able to do what I did earlier, but you will be able to enhance your body power" he said looking at the tired people, activating their weapons might have taking a lot out of them.
He decided they go and rest, he announced that there was nothing left to do, and that they go back and wait for tommorow's event.
... The next thing they were doing was to now was to go inside and wait for the D day to come.
Derkile felt excited, and somehow he also felt scared. He knew with his new abilities, he would surely pass the test, but he also thought, what is his powers couldn't help him. He wished silently that whatever activity they would do tommorow would contain what his abilities could easily work out.....
They all walked silently to the building. Derkile and Bane we're discussing about other matters, when the guy with the round face whom Derkile had taken Care of before, walked furiously towards them.
Derkile had noticed him coming, due to his enhanced senses but didn't want to act out immediately. He wanted to see what the guy would do first.
When he approached them, he shoved Bane aside, who was Shocked st the sudden arrival of the unknown person. Til grabbed the collar of the cloth Derkile was wearing and yelled at him.
"This is for the other time, you bastard!!"
He then threw a fist towards him face. The blow hit Derkile face, but to him it felt like someone patting his head. Still he tried acting like a normal person, so as not to raise suspicion and threw himself to the ground.
People had stopped walking, and were looking towards where the incident had happened.
Even though Til punched Derkile and he was now lying on the ground, he still held on to the arm like as if it was broken. Derkile knew how the guy would be feeling now, so he didn't bother himself to do any thing now.
Til quickly walked away, his head down due to embarrassment. Bane quickly pulled Derkile up.
"Do you know each other before?, or have you two had a quarrel ?"
Bane asked, cleaning the back of derkile's cloth with his hand.
" Uhmm, well I guess we might have"
Derkile said, with a little smirk on his face.
People were still staring at them, and when Derkile realized he was at the center of it, his face turned red. He quickly made his way to the building,Bane trying to catch up.
Meanwhile, a figure was on top of the building staring at the incident all the while.
" Uhmm, quite interesting, let's see how it goes"
The figure said, and dispersed into the dark.....
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Derkile was in his room, staring up towards the ceiling. Tommorow was the selection, and Derkile was a bit nervous. He couldn't sleep.
" I just hope this powers will help me tommorow"
He sighed, after a while and started to fall asleep....
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End of chapter 7