Determined to go back, Darius turns the pages of his empty dairy. But he didn't find any stain of blood.
"I don't even remember which page was that. Maybe any page would work. It's worth a try."
He grabbed I sharp stone from the ground of dungeon, and pricked his finger. Shiny red drops appear. He drops his blood on the page. A shiny golden light appeared from the book, and a writing appeared through the pages. Lifting in the air like a transparent screen. He didn't recognise a word.
"what language is it?" He was thinking about how to read the text, that the text went into the centre of his forehead.
"You have awakened the dragon den through the blood sacrifice." A hoarse voice echoes in his head.
"Analysing"
"The passage is granted, You can enter"
A golden arch, with hollow space appeared. Darius entered in curiosity. The hallway was dark for a few steps, and then opened in a hall room. There were seven doors around the walls of hall room. All having different appearances. Darius walked the granite floor, he tried to reach for other doors, but find them restricted to him. A granit stone henge was present in the middle of the hall room. Darius walked towards it. There was a zodiac sign on stone henge, which he was unable to decipher. Darius haven't seen any such zodiac before in his life. He placed his hands on the sign, to feel the carving, and felt himself draining. Something was flowing from him inside the stone.
"Dragon scroll awakened" the same hoarse voice called out.
"If you succeed in cultivating the dragon scroll, you will be the dragon warrior."
Suddenly, again a glowing golden translucent slate appeared over the stone. There was a script on it. In an unknown language.
As Darius stares the script in order to understand it, The writing again entered in his head through the middle of his forehead. This time he felt hot fever and shivers through his body.
As soon as Darius got control of his body back, he realises that he could understand in his mind what the scripture was about.
It was a cultivation technique. The sacred cultivation technique of A Dragon Warrior. The cultivation is divided into fourteen stages. But he can only feel excess to the first stage. The next stage will unlock when he masters the present stage. So he started to focus on the first stage of cultivation.
The first stage of cultivation was to regulate and balance the energy of mind and body, and drive the force from within your self. Darius decided to follow the cultivation. If he have to run out from the dungeon, sealed with somekind of magic, he also have to attain similar sort of powers to fight it.He moved around to find a proper place to start practice, but it was just plain leveled granite floor all over. After few steps around, he felt an earthquake. When earthquack stopped, he found a milk white stone carved into a shallow bowl type structure, perfect for sitting cross-legged, magically appeared beside the granite stone. He walked towards the bowl. A sense of energy went through him. He stepped inside and felt some shivers. After a few moments the shivers settled and he sat inside the bowl.
He focuses on the scripture in his mind to access the cultivation technique and started cultivating. First the cold shivers moved from the bottom of his body towards the head. The hot fever started travelling from the depth of his heart, towards his skin. He started feeling every pulse of his body. Then he felt the movement of his diaphragm and lungs, the flow of air going in and out. Then he felt an electrifying shrug running from the back of his head, going down the spine, and then coming back to the head. The hit gave him flashes of memories.
He had a vivid vision. A chubby teen, sitting on the grass, deeply focused on his some sort of science project. A group of four boys approached him.
"Awww,,, what our nerdy baby is doing?"
One of them picked his project, "oh look brothers,, our nerdy baby is again trying to create something." Following his sentence, he deliberately dropped the project.
"Oh,, that dropped from my hand!" The other guy smashed the project with his feet. "Our nerdy baby can make another, no problem."
The chubby teen tried to reach for the broken parts of his project, as his heart gets heavy and throat choked. "No! Our nerdy genius baby, you are going to do this science project to submit under our name, and you better do it soon." The tallest ordered in a bossy gesture. "Or, you know the drill."
The cute chubby teen, having no option except of following the command, just grieved over his loss. As he knows the DRILL, which is always targeted towards bringing public shaming. And the boy had always been week and coward, never been able to stand up for himself.
Darius lost in his vivid vision, tears dropping from his closed eyes, trailing from his apple cheeks, to the muscles of his neck. The pain of his loss, all his struggles and intelligence going in vain. His project being stolen. He started having difficulty in breathing. After few paces, when his body starts getting out of oxygen, he realises that he is not breathing. He forces himself to breathe. He told himself, he can't die like this, not without taking his revenge, not without giving those boys the taste of their own medicine. He can't die a coward. No! He needs to get stronger, it's time he should learn to fight for himself, or how he will be able to defend his loved ones. He should be a support, not a burden.
As Darius was trying to tell himself these things, he tried so hard to continue his breathing. Within a friction of second, he started feeling the intense rush of blood in his veins. His breath returns. Now he was feeling his blood moving in his veins and arteries, but he felt something else to. Some other essence, it's with blood, but not the blood, not the part of blood, but it's following the same path. It's warm in nature. And have energy. Not the kind of he gets after eating food or after exercise, this one was more powerful than any usual human energy he have ever felt.
"You have achieved the first stage of dragon warrior cultivation." The same hoarse voice called out.
"Potential dragon warrior, practice your cultivation strength"
Darius opened his eyes, and watched his surroundings. Nothing new. He started getting up from the bowl, to find out the way, to practice his newly gained energy, which he doesn't know what is it meant...
"Ouch!." His head bangs, and he dropped back to the bowl. But where, there is nothing around, then where did he hit. He extended his arms out, and found out that there is an invisible shield.
"So this is the first task of practicing." He mummered to himself.
He moved his arm around the shield, and felt it with his hands.