Another Extraordinary Meeting

Suddenly, as he was already beginning to think that he may become food for the spiders after obtaining so much and finally having a good start in this new life, though it would be more prudent to say that this life was far better than his old one as well...

Even though he had to admit that he missed some luxuries of his old life and the relative peace and comfort of the Earth's 21st century, he had to admit that this was finally the time when he was really feeling alive and that everything had some reason.

Out of nowhere, everything just froze in place. 

Valkorion could see that the Giant Spiders were panicking as well as the Ettercaps that were mixed within the lines of tens or hundreds of Giant Spiders all around the area, and if he had to guess, then down there should be a few thousand of them.

It wouldn't be surprising if the Giant Spiders had some huge nests in this place or the ruins of the city down there, below the altar, because it was a perfect spot for the subterranean species of the Giant Spiders.

Valkorion observed that the hundreds or thousands of eyes of the Giant Spiders were wandering here and there, and many of them seemed like they were struggling to move, but they could move an inch.

Not even one millimeter like they were frozen in the space itself.

The silence was rather uncomfortable because he was rather okey and could move. 

Just as another few sconces have passed, he only saw fire appear in the middle of the air above the ruins of the ruined city and a voice coming from the fiery figure.

"Burn the ashes."

The voice was full of authority and fiery like the hottest flame as under Valkorion's shocked sight, every single one of the spider monsters started combusting out of nowhere and burning down. 

Screeching and vailing of despair resounded through the entire cavern in thousands as countless of the spider monsters were burned down until not even their ashes remained, as they were too burned down by the flames of the fiery figure before him.

The previously dark and gloomy subterranean was turned into a place where fire danced in the air, and everything was burning, yet to Valkorion's surprise, he could breathe as fine as before, and he didn't have many problems even with thoughts of spider monsters being burned.

And yet the wave of flames didn't stop there, as it continued to the depths of the ruins of the city, illuminating everything in the subterranean cavern and also burning everything in its path, leaving only the stone alone as the being most probably controlled the power and intensity of its flames.

Everything that was in these wretched ruins was purged under the waves of the fire, though, when the flames of the fire waves touched Valkorion, they instead recovered his stamina and healed him to a perfect state.

When he was nursed to full health, he stood up and looked around him; he noticed that almost nothing remained from the several hundreds or thousands of Spider Monsters that were converting around his location.

After he looked at the location where the fiery being was floating in the air, observing everything with a certain degree of indifference, before his sight in the end turned on him

Valkorion knew that this should be the future Lord of Light that Astral talked about, even though he didn't know why Sequence 1 Angel was here, but it was most possible that it was related to the mission that Astral entrusted to him.

Valkorion looked at the being in front of him verily as he was aware that the Angel was scrutinizing... not only Angel but also Great Wyrm...

Some Great Wyrms were far more dangerous than any Angel could be; for certain, the Great Wyrms were calamities of nature able to overrun the continents if they wished. Unfortunately, nowadays, they have become nothing more than just legends, mostly forgotten by the modern world, with only a few ancient Angels remembering their terror.

According to the legends of the Valyrian Freehold, some of the Great Wyrm resisted within the Freehold and helped the fledging Valyrian Freehold to establish itself as supreme power within the Essos.

"Champion of the Lord Bahamuth... you indeed look like Tenebrae in his youth, aside from the Noxii traits in your eyes..."

The fiery figure came closer as it then stated calmly while looking at him, as Valkorion frowned a little because he knew that he wasn't a pure-blooded Valyrian. That much was clear as he lacked one of the characteristic traits of their race, which were their purple-violet eyes.

Violet eyes of conqueror.

'Noxii, what is that? I swear that I already heard it somewhere...'

Decided to not dwell on the issue any longer.

"You did rather well against these wretched creatures of the Underdark for someone so weak... unfortunately, your pathway is rather subpar at the Lowest Sequence, but still... your combat instincts are good."

Valkorion listened to 'Him' as the arrogance of the Great Wyrm couldn't be hidden at all... most of the Great Wyrms indeed saw themselves above the Beyonder of the other intelligent species, especially the Great Wyrms that became Beyonder themselves.

It was indeed true that his Pathway was rather inferior in Sequence 7, even compared to the other Pathways, because everything that it provided was the Physical Enhancement and Combat Mastery in two disciples of combat.

For many, this would be considered as weak, but for Valkorion; this was considered as perfect because as his talent in the aspect of combat was very high from the start, and he was rather a prodigy in swordsmanship and martial arts even before he drank the Potion, after the enhancement he was sure that his talent was on the level of Legends.

Though it was expected from ancient Great Wyrm and Angel to be able to tell his Pathway after a short observation, He was rather sure that the being in front of him had lived at least for several thousand years, if the indicator of what happened to the Astral, then just like Astral, even 'He' was from the 1st Epoch or so...

"As Lord Bahamuth has stated, your quest would be to aid me, so I came here personally to judge if you were worthy... but it seems that the sword has done its job."

Valkorion shifted in place rather nervously when he realized how 'He' was looking at the sword that he was holding in his right hand. 

It seems that Excalibur, the Sword of Promised Victory, was even tempting for the being in front of him to a certain degree.

"Nevertheless, you shall depart to the depths of the Orange Shore together with my Apostle and retrieve an item of utmost importance."

'He' didn't say anything else and just vanished into a burst of flames like he was never here in the first place, as Valkorion a little bit marveled at the eccentricities of the most powerful entities in the world.

But if you were so powerful you could flatten continent to ground, then perhaps you could be eccentric as much as you want. 

Or at least something like that went through his head.