'After we have overcome this hurdle, The Throne of Sovereignty shall be mine. Don't hesitate to lay your life for the cause because I will revive you even if your soul has been wiped out from existence.' As King Azmath entered the portal he spoke to every leader.
Even if he had some way to evolve into Dragon god there was no way for him to revive someone dead, the realm of Dragon god definitely possessed extraordinary power but even after having command over whole universe you can't use that power against living being, otherwise my father would have killed the king with his own hands rather than sealing this non-living universe.
But it was definitely not a lie king do have some way to revive them because he had made a soul contract with all the leaders to revive them, this much information I had received from Lucius memories.
Just what is this method that king had found.
Forcefully opening the space rune of Lucius which was engraved on his hand I retrieved the artifact which he was using during our fight. A trace of electricity left from the ring entering my brain avoiding whatever mental defense I had installed and my instinct stopped me from protesting against the intruder and let it flow into my mind.
While I was stunned not much time has passed outside and the ring in my hand started to emit the blinding light, sensing the danger from ring psyche used his telekinesis ability and threw the ring far away from us. Not even a second has passed and a huge blast could be heard from in the distance.
I was still stunned and was trying to figure out what was that I had seen just now. It was a memory which I was not familiar with but there was me and king fighting. The memory was about ten second long but it contained some instruction for me.
The thing which was happening in the memory I couldn't believe it was me. It could be a trap set by king to confuse me and influence my decision or a warning sent by Emily I couldn't pinpoint.
The voice of psyche brought me back from my thoughts and I looked at my empty hand and a huge explosion in the distance.
'Good work.' I praised him for his awareness and thoughtfulness.
'Thank you lord.' He replied.
'I want you to see the memories I have got from that ring. Try to analyze those memories and tell me what you think of them.' I asked him.
'They don't seem real but derived from ability. I am saying this because they don't contain the emotion which normal memories have but considering it is future memories it would be wrong to say whether they are fake just because they lack emotions.' His hypothesis was same as me.
The only way for me to verify this information is by entering the 100th floor. The only person who had the ability of [Future sight] was Emily, just like how Earl knew that I would enter the abyss; she must have the knowledge about who will win in this fight between us.
"I should not believe on this memory for now and I hope if It is Emilie's attempt to contact me, she better give me some decisive proof." Clearing my mind I looked at psyche.
'Did they discuss something important which I should know during our fight.' I asked.
'Morris was continuously cursing Lucius for using the ring and was saying that he should have died without using the ring but Lucius because of his anger decided to ignore his instructions and disconnected his thoughts with Morris.' Psyche concluded.
'Lord the Notifications.' Psyche brought my attention toward the notification I had received after winning the match.
[Congratulation for winning the match would you like to spectate the next match?]
[Yes or No.]
I selected yes, if I depart now and even if demion win the trial he would be given some other trial and we both would separate. Also demion had spectated my whole fight so it was only natural for tower to give me an opportunity to spectate his match.
[Please unsummon all creatures before living the dome.]
I did as I was told and left the dome outside of which Morris and Demion were staring at each other. I think I have missed some heated debate.
Morris greeted me with a fake smile congratulating me.
"I didn't expect for fight to last this long and guardian to use his ultimate ability." He said in his old aloof manner.
"I too hadn't expected for Lucius to have such a miraculous artifact." I said looking at his space rune which he covered with other hand thinking I might do something.
"We can't venture into such a dangerous place without any preparation, can we?" He tried to dodge the question.
"That is to be expected, well I will be spectating your fight from the sidelines so give me a good show and let me give you one advice, don't underestimate demion, even if he is my 3rd strongest retainer he can be pain in the ass to deal with even for me." I said letting him know that he was the 3rd strongest retainer so that he would underestimate him, depending on his whether he would believe my words or not.
"Ohh you don't have to worry, I will not repeat the same mistake of underestimating him, how I did with his father, so you can expect a good show if your evaluation of demion true." He said.
"And let me give you an advice as well dear guardian, don't underestimate king." He said.
"You can rest assure about what I have said is true, I just had a one small request if Leader Morris could fulfill it, I will be very thankful." I asked him and a frown appeared on the face of Morris.
"If it is within my ability, I would gladly fulfill your request but I have to hear it first." Of you want to hear it.
"Of course I just wanted to know that how was leader Morris able gain an upper hand in the last fight against demion's father, and it should better be truth." I said in the serious tone.
"If you want to hear the truth I am sorry but I can't tell you that, hope you would understand." He said in a polite tone.
"Why you are in so much hurry at least hear my full offer." I said.
"And what would that be?" He asked.
"If you win this fight, I will answer any question you may have, even if it is about what plans I had made to deal with king but if demion wins the fight you will share your true memories with us of that incident." I completed my offer. I knew just by looking at his old sly face what he would be thinking.
If he could just win against demion he would leave alive from this floor and inform king about everything I have planned and earn great merits from him. On the other if he loses, that was practically impossible if he makes use of his time artifact and so there was only one option left and that is to accept the offer.
"Your offer is very tempting but I would like to make a soul contract with you if you don't mind?" He asked me which I would have made even if he doesn't ask me.
This bastard has rigged who knows how many matches in the past even betraying his fellow leader just now, I would have been a fool if I trust his words.
"of course." I agreed and retrieved a memory crystal in which we would store our memories.
Morris forwarded me the soul contract and I read it carefully. Upon signing the contract both our true memories would get stored in the crystal and the winner of the match will get the crystal.
I signed the contract and morris did the same. The white thread left from both our forehead and the crystal stored those threads. After that both the crystal and soul contract vanished into thin air.
"You overestimate that brats ability guardian." Morris said eying demion.
"It is not like I overestimate his ability but underestimates yours but you can prove me wrong anytime." I said smiling.
"It would be interesting to see what makes Guardian Alex the 2nd strongest dragon of dragon realm so confident." He said.
"How can you say I am the 2nd strongest dragon when me and king hasn't fought in the past ever leaving aside that it would be interesting to see whether 1st leader is truly deserving of his title or not." I said and without replying morris turned back and entered the dome.
"You know what to do right?" I said to demion.
"Yes lord, you can rest assured whatever tricks he pulls, he will not leave this dome alive." He said reassuring me and I smiled and handed him my sword [Aurora].
"Make good use of it." I said and disappeared from my place.