White Milk
"I challenged you to duel!" Elya shouted. Both Noah and the old man were taken aback.
"The only way to survive an Armoured Tiger Knighthood was to challenge them to a duel."
"I refused!"
"You will go down in history as the person that has no honour!"
"No one will know!".
"As long as you are alive you will be burdened by guilt and will never feel like a true Knight!"
Elya knew his stuff and Noah was able to infer that, Armoured Tiger must have some code that forced them to accept challenges or something.
"I'm not The Knight, I'm just a Knight Squire. so that doesn't apply to me! Haha!" The old man said.
"But you are older than us. Age matters. You are old enough to be our great-grandfather, that would be shameful!"
"Do you think I care about that, smart boy? Eat them!"
The tiger was about to pounce when he said "Stop! I might as well take you as… slaves!"
Noah sighed and shook his head. This indeed happened to him. To become a knight you have to experience helplessness and then work hard to extricate yourself from that and rise above, failure to do that, means you aren't cut up to be a knight.
The two kids were then guided deeper into the underground tunnel. On their way, Elya almost shit himself numerous times until he saw a chewed head of a hot dumped in a skull trash yard. He pissed himself and hugged Noah while trembling.
Noah himself frowned but inwardly he said, "Good. They aren't stupid! I like it. I hope I will learn something here!"
The old man looked at them with a creepy smile and commented, "Smart Ass you still awake? Good, behave yourself or else that boy still has his body, you won't have that privilege."
Elya gulped as he stared at the mighty beast guiding them. What was more ominous was that in all the other tunnels they passed, they saw red, blue and dark eyes staring at them. This meant that even the old man was actually cautious and his confidence was his Tiger.
A shouting was heard from a distance, an echo of many people roaring and screaming.
'We reached the fighting den!' Noah commented.
"Here you will prove your worth. There are two ways. The first was to earn me 10 Silver and that was fighting 100 opponents. The second was me selling you to serve as a slave and earn a living!"
He then brought a tag and put on his armour before he grabbed the hands of the boys and then moved forward while the tiger entered another tunnel.
The underground arena was vast. About half a kilometre but half of it was a filthy black market that sold a variety of things, including slaves.
They were pulled to a wooden house and forced inside. Which turned out to be another underground tunnel that leads to a well-refined place that has a lot of half-naked people.
"Heals these boys and makes them ready for at least three rounds!" A huge knight was ordered. The guy has more clean armour than the old man but he seemed obedient.
"Okay, Gaggard!"
"Gaggard is the name of the protagonist of that book!" Elya pulled some courage and said. "Yeah yeah. I wrote the book to beautify this place. Happy. Smart Asss. Sadly this is the reality!" He said and then walked away.
Elya and Noah stood watching around. The place was a bathing space. There were streams of warm water in different pools and there were men and children of different ages going up and down, and some were immersed in the warm bath while others were just chilling by the side.
However, they have one thing in common and that was fresh wounds, half-healed wounds, and large scars. few seem okay.
"Follow me. Mr G is not that bad but we are really bad. If you do good we will be compensated. If not, we get nothing. So we force you to do good if you don't, we take two or three of your teeth."
Elya trembled but when they reached another room, he beamed up. The room was filled with kids their age and what was amazing was that there was a pool of White Milk.
"You are to spend 10 minutes there. Any more you are dead!"
Noah didn't know what White Milk was but he knew it was a nurturing liquid. It had turned Elya Roan from mediocre to the elite in just a week.
"What is this White Milk!"
"You don't know. Haha. It's a sacred Milk obtained from White Bison Knighthood. When youal1 bathe in it, not only will you be cleansed of all impurities, but your body will be immune to whatever affected it before and also, your body's Tenacity will be doubled and your comprehension capabilities will be improved exponentially!" Elya excitedly explained as he excitedly looked at the pool.
"Congratulations. And those who won ten matches have a free trip to this place for a bath!" The huge knight announced.
Noah nodded with understanding. "Side effects!"
"It makes people sleep for a long time to relax their minds!" Elya said.
They were ushered in and the moment Noah immersed his head, his body trembled and his mind went off. He fainted or more accurately he fell into a deep sleep.
But suddenly, he was yanked out and thrown to the wall. He woke up with fright.
"Mama. What did I do?!" He shouted almost crying.
"Mama. What did I do? Hahaha haha. Dumpster, who asked you to sleep inside"
"Haha. Mama. We have a crying baby here.!"
"I would like to challenge him. Haha. Hopefully, he will call his mama to help him!"
"Did he really fall asleep!"
Noah regained his senses and looked around. He was surrounded by kids, some with injuries but all with towels and white liquid dripping from them.
The huge knight was the one that threw him out from the White Milk and from his face he was furious.
Noah looked for Elya and he found the boy at the back hiding from the mob. For an unknown reason, he thought if it was Shon the boy would have stood by his side. Not that he wanted that.