Chapter 54: Chapter 54
A Cart suddenly stops “We are here. The king of the seal” Roland said!
The duo jumping down from the cart with their eyes roaming in front of a colossal mountain with 138meters of two tall sculptures of a king on decoarated heavy robes in front of the mountain. The face of the two sculpture king Oregon in front of it. In the midst of these two sculptures is a gigantic silver door with magical engravings in them. Arslan and Roland climbs the staircase of the mountain leading to the front of the door. They were tiny before their massiveness. Arslan
“How do we open the door? This door is way too big for us. Did king Oregon turns into a giant before he could open the door” Questioned Arslan
“The door is open by magic key” Roland cuts in
“Any ideas about the key of magic” questioned Roland
“Yes, there is a key” Arslan's voice cuts in. The duo roams their eyes around the searching for a door. Arslan walking closer to the huge door spots an hexagonal key hole. He lifts his necklace and puts it into the key hole. A glow of green flashes and the Door opens. Why all this was going on. Vermilion's men watching hidden in the trees.
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“From here on Arslan. You are to journey alone. This journey will make you stronger even if you don’t succeed. Your sister and i can’t help you. It’s for you, and you're alone if you are worthy to wield the sword of magic.”
Arslan nods his head looking where he stood in front of a towering door
“OK then, lets us begin”. Roland touches and pushes his shoulders with his palm into the structure, and he speaks.
“Lesson one: learn to use your environment to your advantage in dodging and escaping obstacles and even in fights”.
“Lesson two: intelligence analysis, learn to use your adrenaline and intelligence to work together, think and create a way through tough situation using your intelligence analytical abilities after all.
Arslan walking into the door and he turns back look. The mountain doors begin to close behind him and he was shock to see knights of Qing on horses swiftly racing towards them. Roland draws out his sword. Arslan tries to turn back but the giant door shut closed.
I felt a chill. The weather temperature inside the mountain was cold, and a freezing hail stung my face as I made my way forward several hours on slippery ice
. “Savannah it's now you and I buddy. No one is around to touch or look at us and i hope Roland is alright and manage to escape. well, Feel free to go wide” I wonder why a mountain that shot out a hot meteorite atop of it was cold. I reached the center of the icy tundra. From the tundra, an ice frost giant rose to standing 10 meters tall with an a-handed sword embedded in the ground.
It is two times the size of Arslan and its icy body was smooth as if it was made of mirrors. Its green glowing eyes opened staring at me. He has a shinning core in place in the center of his head. He lifts his giant foot as it thuds to the ground.
Savannah voice rang out.
“It’s the gatekeeper. DEFEAT THE gatekeeper and we win.” Arslan's fingers begins to grow out long claws transforming to a semi human wolf.
The ice giant dashes out at me swinging his sword aiming for my face. I duck to the ground taking a few steps back. A sheer force of wind from his strike violently crashes a nearby crystal shard pillars with snow dust clouding the view of my vision. From the cloud of snow without hesitation, he sprints as he leaped into the air diving with his foot aiming for me simultaneously ax spinning its body as his icy sword swung in the rotation down at me. I leaped into the air directly above him clawing my right hand as I leaped. I bolted in speed while in midair. I clawed the air aiming for the giant frost face.
The frost giant swings open his white icy palm. It was too late for me to evade him as his wide palm catches me like a human holding a toy. He slams my body to the snowy ground. Torrent of blood splattering from my mouth as I could feel intense pain all over my body. He did not let go. He swings my body slamming it against the ice floor while holding my leg. Left and right before he swung me a distance into the snow. I could feel my body arch and rattle in pain. My head down to my eyes covered in blood. This is my first fight. I manage to stand staggering to my feet. My eyes widen as he was already standing in front of me holding high his sword in his hand. The frost giant brought down his giant sword aiming towards my head. The edge of the sharpened steel caught in the illuminated light like some holy weapon from heaven.
It crashes down ready to slice my face as his weight shifted, brought on by instinct. I shift my head to the side hoping to dodge in time however its weapon delivered the most powerful strike as its sword crashes down around me slicing into the flesh of my arms by the skin of my teeth. I just barely avoided a deep wound, but the sword had dug deep and left my left shoulder effectively useless. It would not be a surprise to me to find out that the bone had been fractured as well. If not for the adrenaline running through my veins. I likely would have passed out from the sudden jot of pain. I managed to stumble to my feet only because he lets me. My clothes of leather stained with my own blood that runs down my arms and threatens to worm its ways into my fingers. I stare back at him as he brings his hand down and re-affixes his gaze unto me.
Apparently, my right arm was left as the only means of weapon. I claw my hand ready to fight during the time he caught me. I noticed his agility, strength, and speed are quite high, but his stamina is a lackey. His hand crumbles to snow easily and that glowing core in the center of his head might be his weakness, that’s why he caught me while I was in midair.
An idea caught my mind. I have just one shot at these. Luckily, it seems I can leap while in midair.
"Savannah" I shape shifted into my white blue wolf and I swiftly sprint encircling the frost giant provoking him to deliberately swing his sword around me as I ran. The giant begins to swing his sword with intents of crushing me. I waited for snow dust to saturate around him until his view was covered in snow dust. I swiftly leaped two stories into the air in the dust above the ice giant and I swing my clawed hand. Like a diving jet. I aim my body ramming clawing dangerously and Swift into the air accompanied by a gust of wind at the trajectory of the giant.
I clawed the giant face crumbling it grabbing his glowing core off his forehead. It instantly crumbles in snow dust on the tundra ground.
“Good, we defeated the gatekeeper partner". I said to Savannah "Good work. It seems we were given a keystone of recovering and magic. We will need it”.
“What is a keystone? Savannah questions as I transform back to our human form
IT IS AN EXCLUSIVE ITEM. IF YOU BREAK THE KEY RHINESTONE, YOU WILL INSTANTLY LEAVE THE DUNGEON, ESCAPING DANGER. CAN BE USED ONLY ONCE.