94 Awakening
After Shen left the arena, he speeds away in a single flash. He stopped near the dream formation and started to mumble to himself.
"Sword King has improved in the last 6 months." he said to himself as he disappeared in a supersonic flash, he appeared in front of Dante's room.
He quietly entered and went to his room of the house, Dante noticed Shen enter but he kept quiet. Shen sat in the center of the room in meditation, then when it was late at night. In his palm flashed multiple restrictions, he threw them throughout the room sealing it.
"Hehehehe.....hahahahahahaha.....AHHAAHHAHAH." Shen started to laugh with it slowly becoming more maniacal.
His forehead seemed to wriggle, and then it shot open with an Eye. From it came a presence of chaos and malice, which suffused the room.
"Drrak, open the gate." Shen said in a joking voice
From Shen's shadow flashed open a pair of omnipotent violet malevolent eyes. The space in front of Shen tore apart in a single moment.
Shen snickered a bit further and then he entered the portal. The space around him quickly made way as he walked through the void. At the other end of the portal was a dark forest, in the forest was various powerful beasts.
When the beasts saw the portal they grew curious and approached. But then they felt a terrifying presence of a single eye of chaos in the portal and they quickly disappeared. When Shen walked through the portal he looked distinctly different His eyes became blue, and his hair with a blonde with a touch of black.
"It seems I can't hide the truth from the formation." It was Lucas! He descended from the portal like a god and landed on the ground.
"This place is uniquely different when I enter with my true body," Lucas said as he took a deep breath of the forest air.
"I still can't believe that I got that lucky....." Lucas said as he remembered the circumstances for the last 6 months.
With the increased strength of becoming a transitioned knight. After I created his avatar art, he sent them out to attack the Silent Swords and steal their herbs. Then completed my summoning and absorbed the tattooed guard's memories.
I saw a vision of Shen and decided to kill and impersonate him. I made then strengthened my bugs using the star herbs I stole they were now on the precipice of becoming stage 1 Starbugs.
"I feel almost invincible as I am now if my plans come to fruition. I might even have capital against peak level knights maybe even grand knights....." Lucas said as flashed away at high speed.
In almost moments he reached deep into the core forest, where he found a bustling republic. In it were varying beast races, and throughout were guards stationed. In the center were 4 statues, one of Dazkieht, one of Graklak, and of one for Pektog. But none of that was impressive compared to the gigantic main statue of me!
It was resplendent as though it were a statue of one of the Divines. A child in the streets looked to the sky almost dumbfounded, he checked the main statue and looked back realizing it was a Divine!
"Divine Dragon God has returned." He yelled at the top of his lungs as he pointed to the sky.
Lucas felt the magical power start to pour into him, Cenir's primal source started to stir. A shadowy and faded aura came from Lucas' body then it formed a massive dragon head.
The dragon's left eye was a frozen end world, and in his right eye was a burning purgatory of golden black flames. On his forehead was a single eye of chaos that supplanted the will of Heaven! It wore a serpentine armor grafted with lightning runes.
Every beast men and women looked to the sky in subservient respect as the dragon landed. In moments everyone in the tribe was on the ground kowtowing, and the leaders departed into the streets doing the same.
From the magnificent palace in the center emerged powerful auras. But they themselves quickly kowtowed in respect as the Dragon god approached.
"It has been a long time, Pektog." Lucas said as the dragon return to him, soon after re-entering his body.
"Divine, I am honored to receive your salutations." Pektog said as his body swayed by the powerful aura coming from Lucas. In the last few months, Pektog had been training intensely.
He overtook everyone becoming the leader with a cultivation base of a mid-stage transitioned knight. Graklak became an early stage transitioned knight, with Dazkieht being half step.
"You've all made good progress." Lucas said as he examined the bustling city.
'This level of improvement surpassed my estimates.' He thought as he walked with Pektog. Pektog proceeded to show him around the village, explaining what happened while he was gone.
"A Hydra?" Lucas asked in a surprised voice
"Yes, we heard from some our newer races that the Hydra is finally awake." Pektog said as his voice quivered from fear.
"It was asleep this entire time in the Cave of Horrors." Lucas asked confused
"We never knew that there were some other powerful races hidden in the cave. But no one knew there was a Hydra until it woke up rather recently. When you left, massive earthquakes started happening and it woke up." Pektog said as he examined Lucas
'Does the First King have anything to do with this?' Lucas thought as he had a revelation.
"I see then I'll have to deal with that soon....." Lucas said as his devilish qi revolved around him.
Pektog couldn't help but edge back in fear, although he had gotten skilled with demonic qi. But a devil is always superior to the most powerful demon.
"Do you have any other matters of key importance?" Lucas asked as his Eye of Chaos flashed open.
"Nothing else, your highness." Pektog said as he bowed himself out.
'Good, it's almost impossible to lie to my eyes.' Lucas thought as he sat in meditation in the center of the throne room.
'The First King gave me his sword memories, I don't believe that was without a price.' Lucas thought as he fiddled with a starbug, it had pitch black wings and demonic eyes. On it's back with a single shining star.
"You were formed from sword memories and other components. What do you know?" Lucas asked as he suppressed the starbug.
It kindly transmitted all the info it had through telepathy, the demon had long realized it stood no chance against Lucas. Lucas sorted through all the memories in moments looking for key points. It's true form was absorbed and altered by Lucas so it accepted it's fate.
He isolated a single event in the memories, it was fractured but it was a ruin excavation! The First King entered the temple, then he met the Wind Divinity. The Wind Dragon and the Ancestor king fought for days unable to overpower each other.
Then the dragon and he made a truce, they even became friends. Later the First King learned of the conspiracy against Sopulla.
"The gods stole her Primordial Essence and made it into the dragon race." Lucas couldn't help but be terrified, in his bag of holding the gem he created shined with a green light.
Later the Wind Divinity made a deal with the sword dragon and the First King. The First King had befriended the sword dragon long before he met the Wind Divinity. They worked together to make the First King ascend to a higher realm.
After that, the memory stopped functioning and Lucas couldn't figure out the rest. Lucas remembered the time he had met the First King, he faded to dust and the realm became a plane of death.
"The Demons found out the truth, they probably made a deal with the gods. Kill the Ancestor King, and they get to keep the spoils." Lucas uttered in further dread
"But they never realized that two Guardian Dragons were involved until it was too late. They fought and killed them but they hid it all."
"Akor the Flame King, and Axion the Pure became the only Dragons to survive." Lucas said as he connected more and more dots.
"Then all the legends it was bullshit, they knew but they thought it was too sensitive." Lucas started to smirk as he stood up.
"Then I know what the First King wants of me. There is no way he gave me all this without a price." Lucas said as his eyes flashed with a black light.
"No one is qualified to compete with me in the path of the eternal. Only I am qualified to ascend to the highest realms, all challenges are welcomed to become the bones of my throne." With his final declaration, he let his consciousness out into the air.
In the sky appeared a single Eye of Chaos. In all matters of governance, and control his Eye of Chaos reigned supreme.
"I have returned my followers, I have heard of this Hydra's offenses against my republic. I shall slay this Hydra for its arrogance against me and my people." Lucas declared as they started to cheer in happiness.
