Useful dagger

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 99.99%]

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 99.99%]

[Absorbing Pure Fabric Substance, system booting process at 99.99%]

....

The system notification continuously rang in Roland's ears, he kept staring at the progression bar, hoping for it to just finally finish up.

This reminded Roland of those times his computer did the same thing, sadly, here Roland couldn't just minimize it and let it work in the background, or spam refresh.

*sigh*

Roland sighed and decided to take a rest, he sat down and finished the last of the remaining food.

He looked at the thick carpet of black sand and thought of something, he started picking some up before hiding it in the cloak wrapped around his stomach.

'Instead of looking for my master's location, I can try to blast that illusion away. I doubt it's as strong as the walls.' Roland thought as he patted his stomach.

'With the auction being in two days and the monsters attacking, I guess the guards have their hands full.' Roland suddenly took out the dagger from his thigh.

The surface of the dagger was smooth and covered in dirt, the proof of it's experience. But unlike most weapons, it didn't have any dents or scratches.

'I wonder from which animal this tooth came from.' He gripped the dagger and played with it. 

While playing with the dagger, Roland suddenly thought of something, he stood up and entered the tunnel. He arrived in front of the wall and swung the dagger.

He felt resistance coming from the dagger but he still managed to finish his swing. 

Roland looked at the wall and saw a gash indented on the wall. He looked at the dagger in amazement. 

The first time he'd seen the large crystal wall, he had seen a plethora of attacks, mapped out on the wall. All of them were an inch or less deep.

From sharp to blunt, the wall kept count of everything. Roland had speculated that all of that, was from strong people trying to deal damage but failed. He had also seen the annoying guy, who was stronger than him, attack the wall but no visible damage was seen.

If his dagger could do what strong people couldn't do with their weapons, he figured that it was one of a kind or at least special.

'This dagger is Overpowered.' Roland felt slightly better inside, his mood was dampened by the system not working but this made it a little better.

Roland placed the tip of the dagger inside the gash, and used his weight to apply pressure and push the dagger in.

*screech* 

A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, echoed in the tunnel as the dagger slowly moved into the wall. Roland then tried to moved the dagger to the side to try and draw a line but the dagger didn't budge.

"Uh-oh!" Roland's heart suddenly trembled as he realised his mistake.

He tried to pull the dagger out but it was firmly sandwiched between the walls. Roland tried again and even placed both of his feet on the wall to pulled but it was of no use, he just didn't have enough strength.

'Damn it! I just got this!' Roland started panicking.

*Huff*

Roland suddenly took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

"Panicking won't help me." Roland looked at the dagger and thought of something. 

The dagger lodged in the wall point first and the blade facing down.

'Instead of pulling it out, let's push it out! If that fails I'll just use this gunpowder.' He thought as he planted both his feet in the ground and pushed up on the hilt of the dagger, with both hands.

Roland used the wall as a fulcrum and exerted force.

"Ahhh." The Roland screamed out and used all that he could, his feet started to hurt but he kept on pushing.

Suddenly, the dagger started to pivot and turn, Roland felt motivated and pushed even harder. 

"Ahh!"

Roland exclaimed hard, he didn't have any more strength and the dagger was still in the wall. Luckily though it wasn't lodged in anymore and Roland had created a wide enough space for the dagger to move around.

*sigh*

Roland removed the dagger and quickly placed it back in it's place.

'I should never do that again.' He sat back down to rest.

_A few minutes later_

As Roland was resting, the guard came over holding his restraints and placed them on him.

'Let's go.' The guard didn't waste time, he didn't give Roland time to think as he grabbed his arm and disappeared with him.

A while later Roland was returned back to his dark room.

'Tomorrow, is the day, hopefully nothing goes wrong.' Roland thought, his heart was beating quite rapidly as he anticipated what was going to happen tommorrow.

'Damn system!' 

Concerning the troublesome system, Roland thought that he'd deal with it in the future as too many things currently needed his attention, he didn't notice now but his faith in the system was declining.

He closed his eyes and quickly drifted off to god knows where.

_Morning came(like an excited boyfriend)_

Roland woke up early feeling dejected, but he shook his head and got straight to business. 

'First things first, Fifi and master.'

He removed the cloak around his waist, took some of the black powder he gathered and placed in on the spot where the tunnel should have been. He went and stood by the door.

He took a small rock, he had taken yesterday, and threw it at the powder. 

*bang*

The rock hit the powder and bounced away, but there was no explosion and no spark.

'Damn it!' Roland wanted to ignite the powder to form an explosion and destroy the physical illusion. To do that, he used a lot of black powder and in order not to get hurt, he created some distance between him and testing zone.

*Huff*

'Let's calm down first and think of a solution.' Roland was getting frustrated but he calmed himself down.

He looked at the floor and thought of something, he took out the dagger and moved closer.

'Hopefully, it doesn't get stuck like yesterday.' 

Roland took the dagger and swung as hard as he could. 

The dagger ignored the floor and the hilt got fitted into the ground. 

'It worked!' 

Roland exclaimed, with some difficulty he pulled the dagger out and an opening appeared in the ground.

'This might be more trouble then it's worth.' He looked around and saw the stone not far, from him.

He took the rock and dagger, and started chipping away at the floor, like a sculptor would do to a rock.

The illusion Fifi created didn't go very deep and wasn't as sturdy as the actual ground, so it didn't take Roland that long to dig through it.

Quickly the illusion was removed and Roland looked at the familiar tunnel walls. He glanced at the door and entered the tunnel.

He made his was down the tunnel and along the way, he saw the tunnel was covered in a thin layer of frost.

'Did Fifi do this?'Roland continued down the tunnel.

The further he went the more frost was covering the wall. It was getting colder and colder to the point that it was almost unbearable.

'What the hack happened?.' 

Roland's body shivered like crazy. His body was weak, tired and the restraints weren't doing his body any favours, even so he kept going.

Roland climbed until his fingers started to get numb.

'I can't go on like this.' the thing was that Roland was close to reaching the bottom but it was already unbearable.

'I need some heat.' Roland though but just then his eyebrows raised in realisation. He remembered Fifi's sister. 

Roland made it out of the tunnel and heard the door being opened, he quickly hide the cloak and acted naturally.

"Let's go!" The guard's impatient voice sounded, while Roland's vision turned black. 

'I guess I'll have to walk back huh.'Roland lamented at his bad luck.

They arrived in front of the crystal wall and the guard disappeared, saying, "Continue! I'll bring the food."

*sigh*

'I'll wait until he returns before Leaving.' Roland made his way into the hallways and quickly arrived at the wall.

Roland placed his hands on the wall, The prompt rang and Roland accepted....

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....

Like a scratched record, nothing new happened to the system, it kept repeating the same thing over and over again.

_thirty minutes later_

The guard returned with the food and promptly disappeared. 

Roland stopped his work and ate some food, before he made his way outside the cave.

'Hopefully things goes as planned.' He thought.

Roland quickly arrived outside the mountain before he realised that he forgot which direction to take. But luckily he remembered that the prison was in the tallest mountain. 

Roland found the direction of the prison and quickly made his way.

_Ten minutes later_

Roland was frantically running towards the prison, but just then...

*Bang*

He crushed into someone and fell over.

'What the?.' Roland clutched his head, he was bewildered.

He reached out his hand to try and stabilize himself. His hand landed on something curved and hard. Roland looked down and his eyes widened in shock.

_Scene change_

Edward and elder Lu, stood besides Nemisis and stared at the large forest in front of them.

Behind them stood the other board members and behind them, was hundreds of thousand of guards, they all wore their cloaks and equipped with weapons.

They were standing on the platform that connected the forest to the mountain range over a dangerous gorge.

On the ground in front of the group, were large corpses of terrifying monsters and signs of a battle taking place.

"I can't feel their presence any more !" One of the board members said.

"They are still there." Edward replied as he squinted his eyes.

A few days ago, powerful beasts who lived in the Forrest, started appearing in the mountain range. This was uncommon as powerful beasts had their own territory to guard and didn't wonder around.

But it was still not cause for concern and a few guards were dispatched to take care of it. Not even an hour after that beast was killed, an equally powerful one appeared.

This caught everyone off guard and a lot of guards were killed.

Stronger guards were dispatched and the beast was killed but then two more appeared and killed them.

This kept on happening until it caught the attention of the higher-ups, and every guard was dispatched.

When Edward and the other board members arrived at the scene, they felt a very powerful aura coming from the forest.

When they tried to approach, the aura disappeared. They left a powerfull board member to stand guard but they found his corpse later that night.

His corpse was mangled and twisted, they didn't know what beasts would attack a person and not eat him. Till then, they all stood guard.

"What is their purpose for doing this?" Edward wondered out loud.

"It's clear that, they are here to disrupt the auction." Elder Lu infered.

"Let's not be narrow minded shall we." Edward said.