Fire Majesty

[Objective][Seven Night in Hell]

[Status: In Progress][Progress: Second Night]

[Goal: Survive the Darkness in Three Hour]

"Yo, young man."

The next mission bar display appears before Rio's eyes.

Cain for the second night sat on the same stone as yesterday.

"No, noo, nooo, noooooooo, naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwww!!"

Like a head family who met with a debt collector who came from a bank, Rio felt very unlucky that night.

"Oi-oi, why do you feel so unlucky? I'm here anyway because I want to see how far you've progressed for one night. Also, it looks like you made it out alive yesterday. "

An hour in hell was an extremely bad experience. If Rio did not move carefully - even though for an hour he had been chased by a bunch of Arcdemon - he would have been split in half or torn apart that night.

"Besides, do I really have to spend seven nights in that hell?!"

"Of course! It aims to train you to become the strongest knight."

There is a slight distrust that Rio feels. He looks like he's being played with and he doesn't like it.

"Besides, if you want to train someone to become the 'strongest knight,' aren't the 5* Aditya more suited to the job?"

Cain smiled a little at Rio's complaint.

"There seems to be a misunderstanding happening here."

Cain got up, walked closer to Rio, and touched Rio's chest with one finger.

"The right to choose here is you. You choose to take that 'power'. You also choose to keep fighting. Otherwise, you won't come to this place, right. "

Rio had just realized, why he was unwittingly in that open field again.

"That's because your soul says that you have to keep fighting."

'Is that really the case?' Of course questions like that ring in Rio's head.

"Try to think about it. The world in which you and your sister live could be destroyed in a year or two. Even if you ask, some of the strong people I admit no longer care about that kind of stuff."

"Some strong people?"

Cain managed to attract RIo's interest.

"Knight of Chronicles. You must know all of them, right?"

Rio's body trembled to hear the legendary group in the history of Aditya's existence.

"Of course they don't care anymore, they are dead after all." Rio tried to deny.

But Cain's smile tried to say something else.

"Do you think so?"

Cain put on a challenging expression on Rio. The challenge was of course to prove whether the 'Knight of Chronicles' they were talking about was still alive or not.

When challenged like that by a creature that has lived for thousands of years, of course makes Rio doubt whether he should go forward or not.

But before Rio could bring out his courage, Cain continued speaking.

"Indeed, one of the four of them is dead. But, the other three are still alive and just waiting for the fate that befalls this world."

Cain paused for a moment to point Rio once more.

"That's where, as a pioneer you have to move to lead them to victory."

Rio is indeed still a little unable to accept Cain's statement. But one thing is certain, "Why are you telling me that now?"

"I don't know, maybe if I say all those things it will attract the ears of the readers."

"Huh?"

Cain keeps talking about things that can make Rio confused.

"More importantly, let's go there, all your friends there must be waiting for your arrival."

The point must be that the Arcdemon who chased Rio yesterday.

"No kidding! You said that those monstrous monsters that could kill me are my friends!? "

After all, who wants to be friends with mindless creatures who only want destruction.

"Plus! What are you throwing me there for if I can't do anything but running away!?"

Cain was a little surprised by Rio's annoyance.

'You, run from all of them? Why don't you fight?"

"I told you! Why would I fight them if I don't have the strength to do it!?"

Rio screamed until his neck constricted. His patience is out of bounds. He doesn't even care who he pointed his finger to.

Cain frowned. He doesn't mind being yelled at like that. It's just that there seems to be a misunderstanding.

"Kid, try holding your sword."

Cain once again forced Rio. But this time Rio did not immediately blow up his anger like that.

Rio took a deep breath. Trying to control his mind again.

"Swear. If I hold that useless sword and nothing happens. Don't disturb my life anymore. "

Rio said that very seriously. Although Cain did not seem to care about his request.

Broken Knight Sword. That's how Rio named his Dignity Weapon. At first glance the sword did look strong and sharp. But the sword fatally lacked something. Element used to eliminate Arcdemon.

The Broken Knight Sword, like yesterday, was stuck in the ground without Rio knowing how the inanimate object had done it itself.

Rio was standing in front of it. The memory where Rio first wielded that sword returned to him.

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11th Month, 90th Year

Knighthood Headquarters, Central City Center.

Inside the waiting room of the Unity Training Center Building. Rio waits for his turn to be called to get his Dignity Weapon.

Turn is in the last position somehow. Maybe it's because he gets perfect physical points. Who knows.

In the waiting room he is not alone. There are still at least half of all the 9th Generation Candidate Knights who still accompany him.

One of them was a colleague with silver hair and very sharp eyes. Those two eyes seem like they can judge you just by making eye contact with them.

Another one that attracted all the Candidate Knight's eyes when he appeared. A colleague who wears a helmet that covers his entire head and face. Like a robot head in the human body. But of course, no robot is allowed to become a Knight.

Because the requirement to become a knight is to be able to awaken the power of the Prisma Stone that anyone can do. It's just that Prisma Stone is limited in number and only selected people can get it.

One by one, Rio's colleagues were summoned. Time passed and without realizing he was alone in the waiting room.

"Knight candidate, Rio Nugraha!"

Finally, Rio's turn came.

He was guided by an escort to the Practice Room which was used as the site of baptism.

The practice room is round. In the middle of the room was a round floor as high as five stairs. Around him there is a seat around the room which is one of the mechanisms of the room if such an event is held.

On the round floor awaits an officer, a pastor, and a Dignity Weapon enclosed in a cloth lying on a rectangular steel box.

In front of the round floor, on the podium, sat several high-ranking state officials, one of whom was the King of the King who was on the throne.

Just leave those details aside for now. Rio must focus on his baptism.

Even though he said he must focus, almost all of his colleagues who had been baptized at the time were sitting, watching Rio's baptism process.

That gives Rio a sense of anxiety.

Discarding anxiety, Rio focused on the baptism process.

Rio knelt in the style of a knight in front of the pastor. The pastor went straight into the process of baptism.

After the baptism process is completed, the officer appoints Dignity Weapon and shows it to the Pastor. The Pastor unwrapped the cloth from Dignity Weapon.

A one-edged one-handed sword. Its silver steel blade is shiny, showing its sharpness. The handle that looked sturdy had a rainbow-colored stone above his head.

[Pure Prisma Stone] A Prisma Stone that is still pure shape. A crystal that holds the potential power of someone who will be the user.

The new Dignity Weapon was shown to Rio who was impressed to see it.

Because Prisma Stone is connected directly to Dignity Weapon, before it is held by its users, Dignity Weapon should not be held by others because it will trigger elemental changes.

Rio immediately holds a weapon that will become his partner to eradicate the darkness.

The reaction of changes in the elements ensued. The Prism Stone which was originally rainbow-colored slowly changes to one solid color. That color is a gray color which also affects the color of the whole Dignity Weapon.

"Huh?"

"Gray?"

"What happened?"

"Is there a basic gray element?"

After being analyzed, like the colors in Dignity Weapon, gray is a color that means 'obscurity'. That means Rio or the soul within him that changes the color of the Prisma Stone has 'obscurity'.

Not having clear elements, or even not being able to use elements at all.

It was at this time that Rio was given the nickname as [Defective Knight].

Because Dignity Weapon which has no elements means that Dignity Weapon cannot fulfill its duties, Rio should have been discarded or expelled.

But somehow one of the top brass of the unit defended him and made a suggestion, "Maybe he will find his identity in battle."

Rio didn't know clearly who was defending him at the time. But if he is given a chance, he will take it.

At that time, the nickname of [Zero Star Aditya] was given.

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Back to the present time.

Rio still hesitantly looked at [Broken Knight Sword].

Two days ago, Rio tried to return the sword to unity. But this time he tried to hope, for a miracle to happen.

The handle of the [Broken Knight Sword] is held. Of course nothing special happened.

"See! I told you -!"

Before Rio resolved his anger, Cain pointed in the specific direction of the [Broken Knight Sword].

That direction led Rio's eyes to see the Prisma Stone, which should have been gray, turned a whitish red.

"This?"

"Is that a, Fire Majesty?"