Chapter 16 Sadness

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nArcher made his way towards the eastern gate after buying a water skin from a vendor near the old man’s stall, he’s barely drunk anything and only survived by eating hearts.

nBut he still wanted to eat and drink normal food.

nSpeaking of normal food he pulled out two wrapped meats and scoffed them down.

nWhen he finished he licked the juice off his fingers while exiting the gate after telling the guards he was going on a quest.

nTurning north he started walking, an hour into his journey a pack of wild dogs came across him.

nArcher and the dogs stopped walking and stared at each other.

nQuickly casting cosmic sword and thunder stepping to each dog slicing their heads off.

nKilling all six dogs, he pulled out their hearts but didn’t eat them, he stored them alongside the bodies.

nCarrying on with his walk until he came across a creepy-looking lake.

nTall trees darkened the area.

nThe water is flat, empty, devoid of life and there was no movement whatsoever, no birds singing or beasts howling.

nA dark forest grew right up to the river bank, branches hanging over the dark waters.

nStanding on the bank of the river, he stared into the void-looking water, he got a shiver as he did.

nHe felt like something was watching him from the river, like a predator waiting to attack.

nArcher shook his head and started to look around for any wolf clues.

nLooking around he found tuffs of wolf fur, picking it up and smelling it.

nHis head quickly jerked back as he did.

nThe nasty smell coming from the fur was that of blood, wet dog, and rubbish that’s been sitting in the sun for a year.

nBut he still sniffed it to see if he could track the wolves, once he took in the nasty smell he threw away the fur and then started smelling the air.

nAfter 10 minutes of sniffing, he smelt the same foul smell coming from a mile away.

nHe ran towards the smell, it didn’t take him long to reach the source of it.

nThere was a pack of 10 wolves relaxing at the edge of the river, a couple of them were keeping watch, making sure nothing can sneak up on the pack.

nHe smiled as he saw the challenge sitting in front of him.

nSummoning a cosmic sword as Archer Thunder Stepped into the middle of the pack and startled all the wolves.

nHe started slashing at the dog’s bodies as he danced around, they were scared and tried to bolt away in different directions.

n”HAHAHAHAHAHA.”

nArcher was laughing as he was killing the wolves with his dance of death, but as he spun around to attack another wolf, his senses tried to warn him but it was too late as a wolf surprised the boy as it pounced on him.

nHis cosmic sword vanished when it fell from his hand after getting taken down.

nThe wolf was biting down on Archer’s right arm but the white scales blocked most of the teeth, but some teeth from the wolf’s lower jaw stabbed into his inner arm making him scream out.

n”Ahhhhh.”

nThe wolf was yanking on his arm, as it used its claws to slash at Archer’s chest and stomach, slicing into the areas that didn’t have scales protecting them.

nBlood squirted all over both of them, as Archer’s adrenaline kicked in so he couldn’t feel the pain much.

nHe put his hand on the beast’s neck and cast Fire Missile at it.

nThe beast yelped as it let go of the boy’s arm and went to run away but before it got the chance to.

nIt was struck by a purple beam that tore clean through its body.

nThe beast dropped to the floor as Archer’s hand that was held up fell to the floor.

nHe had three slashes going down his chest, the blood started to slow down and clot, and he felt a skill level up all of a sudden.

nRegeneration: 1>2

nArcher was laying injured on the floor, as he felt them slowly start to stitch together.

nThe puncture marks on his inner arm have already closed up and felt better, but the pain didn’t go away though.

nIt felt like someone was pushing hot pokers into his body, after an hour of excruciating pain he felt better.

nAfter recovering for a little while he slowly got up off the ground and cast Cleanse on himself.

nIt cleaned his whole body and clothes but the spell doesn’t repair them.

nHis sleeve was torn and the chest area was sliced up.

nHe decided not to change as he only has two pairs of shirts and pants left until he could buy more.

nLooking around he saw seven wolf bodies laying around, so three escaped. 𝑖𝘦.𝒸𝘰𝘮

nArcher looked around and caught the same foul smell coming from the north.

nQuickly taking out his knife, he cut out the hearts and stored them along with the wolf bodies.

nAfter that he followed the smell for a few hours, the afternoon sun cooled him down as he found the last three wolves.

nHe quickly kills them with a Plasma Shot and started to loot them as notices something behind the three wolves.

nDense fog gathered in the center of the terrain.

nSurrounded by rolling hills on each side, a desolate and ruined temple stood isolated and abandoned, the fog slowly creeping towards it.

nTendril-like fingers clawed their way closer, slowly smothering the open pathway that lead to the entrance of the temple.

nThe hazel frame of the door had a corner missing, all splintered and fractured from where the mites had been chewing for decades.

nGravestones that surround the temple outside from all four sides were standing stationary, helpless, and crippled from age.

nEach symbolized its life through the gentle glimmer of light that was shining softly from above.

nThe wind was howling, almost creating sounds like the whispers of those who lay beneath.

nNo other sounds except those of Archer’s footsteps could be heard.

nAll around, the dead were kept company with statues of mythical dragons, and dragon-kin statues perched comfortably against the old black, wrought fencing covered with old vines.

nStone dragons peering at you as if to keep you away, or perhaps to invite you in.

nThe temple looked like it was ransacked, statues lay broken on the floor covered by growing plants.

nArcher could see through the broken wall that there were burnt tapestries still hanging on the walls.

nHe approached the building with slow steps, when he arrived at the broken doors he pushed them open with a creak.

nEntering the large hall, he saw a massive western dragon statue with four massive limbs, but its head missing.

nGetting closer he saw the dragon’s head laying on the floor further away from the statue.

nLooking at this scene, old memories flooded back to him from the previous Archer.

nThis is one of the temples of the Dragon Goddess Tiamat, she was the protector of all dragon kind

nDecades ago the last Draconic-Human war ended, and the dragons were defeated and vanished from Thrylos.

n‘Makes sense that Mother was in the Avalon Empire, they are a mixed empire and the people don’t care what race you are.

nHe shifted through all the memories he had filed away in his brain and learned that the God of light Darikha, had hated Tiamat with a passion for some unknown reason and encouraged his followers to go on crusades against all dragon kind.

nOver five millennia ago, a catastrophic conflict ravaged the world when the knights of a kingdom, long lost to history committed a heinous act against the dragons.

nDeep in the heart of a human kingdom, a group of powerful knights conspired to forcibly take a prized possession of the dragons – the dragon princess.

nThey believed that the young and innocent princess held magical powers that could help them to take over the kingdom.

nThe knights kidnapped the princess, taking her away from her family and kingdom.

nWhen the news reached the dragon king, he was consumed with fury and heartbreak.

nThe princess was his only child and heir to his throne.

nHe saw it as a direct attack on him.

nOverwhelmed with rage, he summoned his mighty dragon armies and set out on a rampage, obliterating everything in his path.

nThe sky turned red as the dragon king’s army burnt and destroyed every human kingdom they came across and burned any human army that dared to challenge them.

nThe humans soon realized that they had awoken a terrible wrath in the dragons with their actions.

nAs the rampage continued, the church began to fear that the end was near and soon realized that the abduction had been a great mistake.

nThis calamitous event marked the beginning of the Draconic-Human wars, a brutal and prolonged struggle that would pit fiery dragons against valiant knights, plunging entire societies into chaos and upheaval.

nYears after the kidnapping, many human kingdoms and empires joined the church in their prosecution of dragon kind.

nAll types of dragons fell in the 1000s over the decades until the dragon race came out victorious.

nThe Followers Of The Light went into hiding alongside the knights who fled for their kingdoms until 5000 years passed.

nWhen they enacted their revenge and brought the infamous dragons to their knees by raising crusades against them until they finally fell. .𝒎

nThe surviving dragon kind fled to the northern wilds to roam as nomads, some adventurous dragon-kin managed to make a place for themselves in different kingdoms thanks to their fighting prowess.

nArcher thought that religion was rather simple in this world, there are many gods and goddesses, all representing different things such as love, war, home, and conquest.

nThere are loads of temples all over the world, where worshippers can pray to their chosen God

/Goddesses.

nWhen the war was raging, the God of light ordered all of his followers to destroy the dragon temples.

nArcher left the temple with a deep sense of sadness spreading within him.

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