the young lady

two days after

[time remaining : 12h]

"everything is ready we can leave now "she said john took on the armor

[name : vazel armor]

[type : armor]

[rarity : ]

[defense : common]

[requirement : strength g+]

[effect : none ]

it was not what he waited for but it was better than nothing since they where to take a secrete route they abandoned the idea of using horse "i want you to put two of your guards on the horse dress in peasant and make them move from here to the city gate it would distract the Knight giving us some time " she just nodded after that the went in her room john helped her to push the bed to the side revealing a secrete passage they went in with john in front and the lady behind it was not too big it could fit maximum of three people standing side by side it was dark every where John light up a lamp moving forward with the lamp they could not see far in front of them john moved vigilantly to avoid being caught off guard by any surprise attack after moving 1 hour at about 10 meter in front they could see sun rays "we are not far from the exit " he suddenly he jumped to the side swosh.... then dashed forward taking his blade in the right hand and his [pk 22]

in his left hand after reaching his nearly invisible target he brought down his blade the man used his bow to block the attack he took a step backward and aim then shot swosh....john moved to the side but due to the short distance between them the arrow left a wound on his left jaw "how can he see in the dark I could locate him due to the sound of his arrow but I made no sound how can he...." swosh... clang..... he used his blade to parry and ran forward in a zigzag manner swosh... swosh... swosh....the first arrow by the left the second by the right he jumped up and the third under him he activated his skill and his blade became white he performed a vertical slash but his opponent was still more rapid and jumped behind john raised his gun bang...bang...bang.... but he was flabbergasted by what he saw his opponent made a side flip while in the mid air he performed a series of three shot swosh... swosh.... swosh....he roll to the side avoiding the arrows he raised his gun to shoot but when he pulled the trigger nothing came out "shit no more ammunition " this gave the archer the time to aimed again

"you escaped last time but you would die this time for prince Edgar to keep his honor"

but this time it was different he took 3 seconds when the arrow left the bow it moved forward at an incredible speed leaving a yellow trace behind it was like a star as it eliminated the dark passage john made a side flip to the left boom..... the arrow exploded and left a small crater where he first standing he didn't have the time to assimilate what happened when he saw another arrow moving at the same speed still leaving yellow traces behind it he didn't have time to dodge so he used his blade to parry boom....his blade left his hand and he was propelled two meters behind

[explosion arrow inflict 500 damage to target HP target has Simon's amulate and vazel armor damage negate 210]

his 300 HP directly fell to 10 "what a powerful attack if I didn't have the vazel armor I would had die " he took his grudge dagger and activated his skill astral wave the dagger became white and he made a cross slash a dazzling whit cross line moved at high speed to the archer he was taken aback john took his explosive arrow head on and didn't die he raised his bow to counterattack but the cross white line was still faster it collided with the arrow before it could leave the bow boom.....

john took his blade and went to inspect the body he found a white book and the bow

[name : wild fire ]

[type : bow ]

[rarity : magical(damaged)]

[attack : normal]

[requirement : agility g+ , ring of zelos(optional)]

[effect 1 : uses magic to shoot arrows after 3 successful shot deliver an explosive arrow consume 10mp per shot and 80mp for explosive arrow ]

[effect 2 : disable]

[effect 3 : disable]

[remark : this bow was once the best friend of the most powerful archer of the history of valor rarity has been reduced from mystic to magical and effect 2 ,3 have been disable due to absence of ring of zelos]

john was taken aback by that "he had the bow of the most powerful archer of the history of valor" now i have one more weapon that have a normal attack other than my armor killer blade even thou it is damage he then learned the skill

[name : the hunter]

[type : secondary]

[rarity : white]

[requirement : wisdom f+]

[effect active : you can find people using their traces and you can see better than normal people in the dark consume 10 mp per second]

"he surely used this skill to find me so rapidly it was surely due to this bow and skill that he was know as the best hunter of valor "

"let's move " he said to the young lady

after walking for 30 more minute they finally left the passage

after entering the forest they went to the road near the town of Zoll john remarked that there was no Knight in the forest and didn't understood why normally when a princess get missing her father would make anything to find her "unless he doesn't even know... "

he turned to the lady following him behind "how did you know that the princess went missing "

she removed a medialion showing him "before the princess left she handed me this so that we could communicate "

" we communicated every night at noon and I could inform her of every thing that happen in the city but it has already been two days she hasn't contacted and I think she is in danger "

john activated his skill the hunter and his eyes became white he could clearly see some details he couldn't see with his naked eyes he found that there was no trace of resistance it looked like the knights with the princess didn't try to resist and directly ran

following the traces left he arrived 30 meters before the entrance of a gate guarded by two people who had iron lance and simple plate armor "why would the traces suddenly stop they couldn't have just disappear out of thin air " while he was thinking he asked "where are we " "at the town of zoll "

"what are you doing here " asked one of the guard pointing his lance at john

the lady took a badge from her bag and showed it to the soldier who after seeing the badge retracted his Lance "welcome to the town of Zoll young Nobel lady of vazel "

"please follow me to the guest room in the chief house chief zoll is occupy and wouldn't have time to receive you " but the young Lady insisted "i want to meet him now i have some question it is very important " "if you insist but don't Blane me after "while walking in the city for ten minute john remarked that they seemed to have had a battle "have they been a recent battle in the city " the guard didn't responded after another ten minute they arrived near a house not to big but dignified for a town head

entering in the house they went to meet the chief in his office and saw a man with white barb and no hairs on the head he had wrinkles on his face he was dress in luxury outfit "i am currently occupied I have no time for capricious young noble of vazel now please leave " he said without even looking at them two guard came in "please young lady follow me to the guest room the chief has a lot of work for now "

john understood that he was surely angry due to the attack on the city and left to the guest room with the lady

after settling them he took out the map of the forest "who or what do you think could have had enough power and courage to capture the princess in this part of the Forest ". "i think it should be the king Galois his army is the one of the main power in this area even more powerful than the town of Zoll army he hasn't yet attack and conquered it because they are backed by the vazel army "

"no I don't think so you have just said that Galois hasn't yet attack the town of Zoll because it is blacked by the vazel army it means he fears the vazel army and wouldn't be that stupid to kidnap the princess unless he wants his people to be trample to death by the vazel knights and even if he did it the traces would have disappear out of the thin air "

"i think that the princess was coming back of her journey when she was attacked by some sort of flying beast who attack in group the didn't resist because the Knight where surely only equipped with lance and even if they had bows it wouldn't have been enough if the group of flying beast was too large and it also explains the fact that after running 30 meter before they could reach the town their traces suddenly disappear "

the girl looked at him strangely "i don't think there should be flying beast in this part of the forest " john shook his head "only chief Zoll can respond to that question " he then moved to the window it was already dark outside the night had already fallen

[secondary mission : survive for 3 days in the city completed]

while smiling because of the completion of his secondary mission he saw an abnormality in the sky he activated his skill the hunter then his eyes became white he saw a dense group of flying beast rapidly moving to the town

he took his bow and jumped out of the window "inform chief zoll" he ran in the direction of the approaching dense fog

the lady went directly to chief Zoll office without knocking she pushed the door open "the town is under attack "

chief Zoll who was still working was taken aback but quickly reacted following a wave of his hand a loud bell rang in the whole town he then got up and dashed out of the house

due to his early warning all the soldier got up and took bows they had prepared in advance and went to the area where the flying beast where diving down

after chief Zoll arrived he began to chant a spell when the soldier arrived and saw a young man with a blade covered in white fighting like a mad man in the fog of flying beast they where amazes by his courage

john observed the creature he was fighting they had wings resembled humans but had claws instead of hand and legs they had sharp fangs extending from their mouth had long and sharp ears their skin was covered in fur but observing clearly he found that they were all girls he had once play a game which had this type of creature "they are very agile but duslike fire "

"use fire arrows " he shouted to the soldiers behind him

he then jumped backward and activated the effect of his skill inferno punch a fire ball appeared in his hand which he then shot forward

boom...after which a rain of fire arrow was fired at the dense fog of beast swosh.... swosh..... swosh....

they fell to the ground like flies an horrible sound was then heard from the middle of the fog

the beast then began to disperse revealing in the middle a beast slightly larger than the others

the beast then opened his mouth revealing sharp fangs and made a strange sound

the sound was so strong that John began to bleed from the ears

[sound attack inflict 50 damage ignores all week ,common, normal defense]

"concentrate your arrows to that particular beast " he shouted it seems that he had become some sort of captain

the soldiers obey and concentrated their arrows but in vane the other beast where closely protecting it they also took advantage that the soldier concentrated their shot to attack soldiers I individually ahhh.....ahhhh....ahhh.... 10 soldiers where brought in the air and they disappear from sight of the others

john shot an explosive arrow swosh..... it went straight to the beast shouting boom...the explosion disrupted his shout

chief Zoll finally completed his spell he placed his two hand together an orange orb left his hand and went straight for the creature "hide behind me " everybody ran behind him except john

when he found that all the soldiers where running to hide behind chief Zoll and an orange orb was moving to the beast he knew something was off and also ran to hide behind him while taking a tube from under his armor. instant heal it was the potion he obtained from sir Gareth before they went to slain BERMOFET

when he was three steps away from him kaboom...the explosion liberated an orange gas which enveloped him he instantly crushed the tube in his hand before he. was propel 30 meters in front before falling down

[sun blast inflict 1000 damage to target HP target has Simon's amulate and vazel armor damage negate 500 ]

[vazel armor destroyed]

he was saved because he had 300hp plus the 300 HP that instantly heal gave him he could survive while trying to get up he saw that except for his pants every thing on him had been burned and the vazel armor had but been destroyed "if I hadn't left my equipment in the house all of them would had been destroyed" he looked behind him and found that 3 houses had been blasted to pieces by the explosion and all the beast had been killed

chief Zoll ran to him "Mr .... are you okay " he asked helping john to stand up "Evan "

"thank you Mr Evan " all the soldiers said chief Zoll added "if you did not inform me in time the causalities would had been unimaginable thank you very much "he just noded and they left and went back to the chief house while the soldier cleaned the battlefield

after arriving the house he went back to the gust room the lady was already sleeping in the room near by he took a bath and changed dress provided to him by chief Zoll while inspecting his bag he saw a piece of paper which was not suppose to be there

"what is this " he took the paper and read it

" astral energy is the key "

"what does this means the key of what "

while he was still deep in thought "Mr Evan chief Zoll is waiting for you in the dining hall" from behind the door

he placed the paper in his pocket and went to the dinning Hall

chief Zoll was already seated on the table many different types of dishes which had an appealing odor

he sat down it was better for him to wait till the end before he could ask about the origin of the beast

after they ate they went back to his office took their seat chief Zoll took the initiative to speak "my father once told me that to the north on the mountains dragons there was a village the people lived in difficult conditions because the food there was rare and could barely feed them because on that mountain lived a dragon yes a real sragon their chief who was a woman of the name Zaragoza since she couldn't go down the mountain with her people one day summoned all the males adult children old of their village with their approvals made a sacrificial matrix then offered them as sacrifice to fabricate an artificial dragon heart she would had succeeded if the dragon didn't attack them at that moment sensing the immense danger she was disrupted when she had almost succeeded an explosion occurred the remorse and anger from the death of her people caused her and all the females in the village to transform in the creature that you just saw after that incident many people went there to see if she had succeeded in creating the heart but no one never came back""very few people know about that story except the royal family of vazel and the passed chief of this town and some other rare people "

john was amazed by that story he really wanted to know if she succeeded "i will be going to the mountain of dragon thank you for that precious information " he had to be fast very soon every body in the imperial city would now that the princess was captured

chief Zoll looked at him with disbelief "have you not heard what I just said no body never comes back from there it is like a forbidden area to the people of the forest "shaking his head he added "but if you insist that is your decision take this Mr Evan " he handed him a ring

john inspected the ring

[name : shield of gia ]

[type : ring]

[rarity : magical ]

[requirement : wisdom f+ ,strength g+]

[effect 1 : create a round shied of earth to protect you consume 200mp cool down 1min]

[effect 2 : +30%. physical damage resistance]

he was very happy with the effect of the ring "thank you chief zoll" he directly wore the ring and left "we are leaving farewell chief Zoll "

" are not waiting for the sun to rise it may be dangerous outside at this time" he just shook his head and went to take his items in the guest room

after he went to the young Lady room pushed the door open "get up we are leaving "the girl was surprise to see him in her room at this time but still got up and took her things

they left the house a horse was waiting for them "get on the horse " she looked at him "where is your horse "

"we just need a horse where we are going is very dangerous I would be able to protect you more easily this way " he said smiling wearily she just look at him as if he was a pervert but still got on the horse then he also mounted behind her placing his hand behind her to take the reign of the horse their body was really close

feeling her body near his he murmured to himself "this game really give 100% reality " he was even a bit embarrassed it was the first time he was so close to a girl of his age

they galloped in the direction of the dragon mountain

on their way "who asked you to place that piece of paper in my bag " after a bit of thinking he found out the only person who could have time to place it was her simply because during the battle when everybody was fighting she was absent

he stopped the horse and they both dismounted it

"i am very sorry I had no choice " she said while crying

"slowly tell me all what happened "

"after your battle with the knights of prince Ferguson was spread some one came to me one night and ordered me if I wanted my sister to leave I should do all what they asked me "

"i was really confused and did trust them until he showed me a picture of her covered in blood and tie with chains like an animal " she stopped and cried

john placed his hand on her shoulder and comforted her "so it is that mysterious man who kidnapped your sister to threaten you "

she just nodded and added "before we left he told me to hand that paper to you if you survived in the passage "

john reflected on it for some minute "a test ....but why would that person want to test me before handing me this paper of what use is it "while deep in thought the Lady opened her arms and gave him hug "after we rescue the princess I would help you to find your sister "

she gave him a kiss on the jaw "thank you " he was startled by her reaction " is this really a game " he asked himself

they then mounted their horse and continued their way to the dragon mountains "what ...is...your... name..." he asked a bit embarrassed since he started his journey whit her it just now that he asked her name "what a shame " he said to himself "kiela"