Chapter 7

(May 13)

A bit of time has passed but not much has happened though.

I continued training with William and Briggs, honing my skills further.

That does remind me that I did meet this noble knight. She was an A rank like Briggs and she was beautiful (Not as beautiful as my wife of course).

Her name is Cornelia, she's one of the knights who once trained under Briggs and she taught us a lot of things, and not gonna lie, she and Briggs seem.... like a nice "fit" if ya know what I'm saying.

She's interested in Briggs; she frequently sneaks glances at him from time to time. She also blushes when Briggs touches or compliments her.

It seemed like everyone around them knew she liked Briggs except Briggs himself.

That aside, she trained under Brigg's command for over 10 years! She's good with using the rapier and she's fast.

I couldn't beat her in a sparring match, and I still can't beat Briggs either. But, they're A rankers so that's to be expected.

William is still making me meditate every couple days and making me control my dragon essence, and I think it's going well.

In fact, the other day I made a fireball!

And if I added dragon essence into the fireball, it became bigger too!

It's about the size of an apple but when it blows up right in front of your face it packs quite the punch if I do say so myself. I could toss it and do long range damage, or I could punch someone and shove it into their face for extra damage.

On May 6th, Briggs and Cornelia and I (along with a couple solders who are kind of irrelevant to be honest) went outside the city walls to train and hunt wild monsters.

I practiced my fireball against some devil horn boars, which were E - D rank, in one or two shots. When my Chakra ran out, I would then use my dragon essence so I could train both my human Chakra energy and my dragon essence.

All was going well until a roar was heard throughout the forest we were in, and then an ogre appeared.

Although it was unexpected and some of us panicked, it wasn't too much of a problem with Briggs and Cornelia backing us up.

Briggs told us to try and defeat the ogre ourselves while they would watch and step in if they saw that we need help.

Although ogres are C ranked monsters, it would normally take several C ranked knights to beat a single ogre, but I've gotten stronger and I've watched knights take down ogres before.

They are very unpredictable and have no set pattern, so how do you fight it? You create a pattern or an opening by distracting it.

There were 4 other knights with me then, one of them was C ranked while the others were D ranked.

We surrounded the ogre but with quite a bit of distance in between us and the ogre.

The ogre roared as it grabbed a tree and ripped it straight out of the ground. It charged at one of the D ranked solders causing him to panic.

Quickly, I signaled the attack and we struck at the ogre's back with all of our attacks; I used my fireballs and the others used their weapons.

The ogre turned around and swung its tree, hitting the other C ranker and sent him flying back. He was a bit hurt, but he was fine.

The ogre was at least twice the height of a normal man and its body was massive. He wasn't slow but he wasn't good at quick turns, so I charged at him as he swung the tree down at me.

I rolled out of the way and slid under him and stabbed a knife I had on me right into the ogre's "private area." Let's just say he's probably never gonna have kids again... that is, if he survived.

Since he wasn't good at quick turns due to his size, he wasn't able to reach and attack me.

My attack had distracted him enough for the other solders to approach the ogre unnoticed and chopped at its knees causing it to drop onto one leg.

The ogre was in pain, and it was mad. It threw the tree he had in its hand as hard as it could towards the grouped-up solders.

The other C ranked dude rushed out and collided with the tree mid air, barely changing its trajectory a bit and grazed the faces of the solders. The solders flinched, but they knew that this was battle, and you couldn't stop until it was over.

The ogre's hand flew out in attempts to grab me. I tried dodging out of the way, but he got my arm. Using my other hand, I created an instant fireball and detonated it right into the ogre's arm.

Since the blast was directly next to the ogre, a chunk of its arm flew out and burnt meat splattered.

Its bones were visible through the blown-out hole in its arm.

During this time, the other solders had run around to the ogre back and stabbed at its legs again in hopes of stopping it from moving.

The ogre obviously didn't just sit there and let its leg get sawed off, so it kicked the solders away.

While it turned towards the solders, it had forgotten about me for a second which allowed me to run up its arm and chuck a couple fireballs at its head. At that moment, the other C ranked reached the ogre, leaped up into the air and shoved his sword straight through the ogre's head.

However, the ogre didn't die even after that.

It suddenly roared again and swung its arm at me which knocked me away. The other C ranked soldier managed to dodge the ogre's attack and with the sword that was already lodged into the ogre's skull, he ripped it out and continuous stabbed into the ogre's skull.

He stabbed it in and out, in and out with all his might, and blood squirted out like a fountain until the ogre finally dropped dead.

The other C ranked solder, his name is Kevin by the way (forgot to mention), dropped onto his back and panted heavily as well.

Well, that was fun. Briggs and Cornelia congratulated us and that night we had a small party.

We drank beer and we partied and sang.

Cornelia and Briggs even got drunk together.... the ship is sailing boys!

We left the two alone as the other soldiers and I went outside for some fresh air.

Kevin was pretty cheerful, he and I talked quite a bit about our wives and our family. The other solders, Brian was there too, goofed around and just had fun. We split off at around mid night and headed home.

The next couple of days were normal training, killing monsters and defending the city, meditating and learning with William. Nothing special.

However yesterday I heard a rumor about the Flame Witch and that she was going to hold a festival. The Flame Witch was one of the only 8 SS ranked beings in the world, and she was the most publicly known. She was also the only one who occasionally appeared in the world while all the other 7 SS ranks have all gone missing and had not been seen for a long time.

All the cities in her territory are going to hold a festival, and this is my first time experiencing it so I don't know what to expect. This festival is supposed to be held once every 50 years by the Flame Witch and she might even publicly appear!

Wow, meeting one of the 8 strongest people in the whole world in person...

I can't wait for this festival!