Bounded by the Crystals
Splash, splash, splash....
The water from the little waterfall in front of me splashed into that little stream; the dark surroundings, only illuminated by the crystals above me, crystals which are colored in rainbow and shined brightly and revealing the nearby grass.
cling, cling, cling
The chains wouldn't still got off his arms and legs, the sturdy, durable chains has some kind of magical properties that even a Cavern Dragon has no chance of breaking. He did not remember how long is he bounded inside this dark place, it felt like an eternity for him as he did almost nothing, just watching the little waterfall in front of his spot. But moments later the somehow unbreakable chains had vanished instantly.
Wooooshhhhh.....
He landed perfectly, the figure of his, a Large Muscular Chiseled Body as if his body is made by the god themselves, his hair brown and long that it reaches his back; mostly from the time he is inside the cavern. He has a thick beard and he is quite the tall guy, about 7 feet in height.
After being unbounded from the chains, he then quickly explored the place, first he drank from the little stream and then traveled to the large hole beyond his place.
The Cavern is pretty big and after he left the spot where he was chained, the path is now illuminated by the shining crystals; different colors were bounded on the ceiling of the cavern. After some time walking he then approached a giant hunk of metal, out of curiosity, he touched it and suddenly the metal began to bond into has hand and disappear.
It was very odd, then out of nowhere a light appeared from his hand, it looked like a screen and it says "Inventory". He touched it and inside the inventory was a weapon named "Monstrum", he clicked it and an interface appeared saying "equip?" then he pressed it. Suddenly a Giant Sword appeared, crashing in front of him, it was beautifully designed and has ornate decorations added the strange markings in it. He picked it up but another interface appeared saying "Invalid, cannot equip yet". Seeing that it cannot be used yet he drag the sword back to the inventory mode, a space where infinite amount of matter can be stored.
He then proceeds to walk towards the corridor of the cavern to find the exit of this dark place, after some time walking he immediately felt a rumble in the ground, as if some big creature is walking in the area. Then a cavern wall began to crack as if something is smashing it, seconds later a Giant crystal giant appeared, wielding a crystallized giant club.
Dagggg.... the sound of the club smashing, that hit was directed to him, but as dust cleared it.....
"What the hell, I'am anticipating that smash of yours was so heavy that it would kill me but here I'am catching that attack of yours one handed", He then face-palmed then proceeds to crush the giant crystallized maze one handed.
crkekekekeke....
The crystal club shattered to the surprise of the crystal giant, it then began to roar and smash the man wildly with his hands and feet.
Bag, boom..., Criieeeggggg
Thousands of combo were launched by the giant unto the man but it changes nothing, the man was absorbing the gigantic blows like nothing and hours and hours later the crystal giant began to tire and the man soon erupted in laughter. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA, is that the best you can do?" "For a big un like you to tire like that, pfttttttt...." "Okay I'am getting tired now, I'll end this now"
With a slap at the Giant's leg, the crystal legs instantly broke apart, and the giant screaming in agony, the man then slap the giant's other leg and that is all she wrote. The Giant is now dismembered, but not yet dead, the man then approach the head of the gasping crystal giant and told it, "You poor thing, it must be so hard for you, so alone in this caverns" and with that he struck a blow to the giants head, smashing it to bits, its active torso earlier is now motionless. The man then notice something in his forearm, a bright orange vein has appeared and is emitting an orange light, then it vanished, suddenly he began to feel a surge of power unleashed inside him. The essence of the very monster he defeated was absorbed by him, making him stronger than he already is.
And with that the man continued his journey to find an exit inside the cavern.
*Clang* *Cling* *Dagg*
Hours after his travel finding the exit, the man witnessed a group of men fighting an enormous onyx dragon, and as he observed carefully he saw a 100 strong adventurers clad in intimidating looking heavy armors, bringing with them heavy equipments such as portable artillery and having destruction mages, but despite all of that nearly half of the adventurers where either dead or critically injured and the dragon was nowhere seen to be damaged, as the remaining few fled there is still a man who is clad in a beautifully ornate heavy armor who wields a shield and sword. The muscular man thought to himself "What hes gonna do with that, smash the dragon until it breaks?" "And also that shield of his wont last 2 hits from that Onyx dragon's toughened tail. But still the man stood his ground and strike the enormous dragon's legs with his sword, and obvious it may seem, the sword broke in half and left him only with his shield. The dragon then countered with a tail smash but the man instantly blocked it with his shield only for it to break after the impact, knocking him in the process. As the man lied to the ground wounded from the knock down, the giant dragon proceeds to finish him off, but in that moment the muscular man has seen enough and proceeds to intervene. When the dragon smash its tail to the wounded man, the muscular man then shielded him, in the midst of the impact a mini quake was produced and dusts were produced, as the dust cleared, the man catch the dragon's tail with his arm and proceeded to twist it, breaking it in the process and making the dragon scream that echoes throughout the cavern. The man then produce a straight punch in the dragon's torso, making a bloodied hole which made the dragon collapse and it died.
"Such power", the wounded man mumbled before fainting from his wounds while watching the fight.
The muscular man noticed the wounded man fainted from his wounds, and he approached him then carried him single handed and made him lie near the grass. He left him there because the muscular man will have to make some clothing himself as he is buck naked, so he proceeded to skin the rock hardened skin of the dragon then mined some metallic ores in the back of the dragon so that he may melt it and forge himself some armor with his sophisticated interface. It took only minutes to forge himself an armor as the interface he had just made him put the materials inside it then an armor will be created. It is a beautiful armor, the work of a highly technological interface crafting machine, its creation is likened to that of the godly being's work itself. He then wore the armor, it was a bulky armor but it easily adapted to the man's hulking body; in the interface it weighs about 300 tons, the man just wore it like he was wearing a normal clothing. The armor description said "An Armor made from the skin and metal ores that was mined and skinned from the enormous legendary onyx dragon, the armor is very resistant to physical attacks and is scratch proof and dent proof, but the main drawback is that it is very heavy".
"This should be fine", "This ain't gonna slow me down hehehehe" the man laughs while donning his newly created armor.
Meanwhile the armored adventurer wakes up and is surprised when he saw the big man wearing the onyx armor.
"How did you get that armor?"
The armored adventurer asked.
"From that"
The big man said while pointing to the dead onyx dragon.
"What?? But that is impossible, how could you do it in such a short span of time, even the best smiths from the empire will take months to create that armor, hell even the skinning and mining on that thing will require lots of work"
The armored adventurer replied.
"I did what I could do hehehehe"
The big man laughingly told the armored adventurer.
The Big man then paused and asked the armored adventurer where he came from.
"So where'd you come from?"
"I came from the outside of course, the empire specifically"
The armored adventurer replied
"We are one of the five hundred adventurers send to eliminate the onyx dragon as we were told by the Arch Wizard that the Onyx dragon has grown big enough and strong enough to burst out of the cavern and will then head straight for the empire's capital because it is drawn to the Fusion power plants because of its large energy content, and when it tries to eat that energy it will cause a colossal explosion that will annihilate half of the continent"
"So that's where we come in, but unfortunately the other 400 died on the way traversing this dangerous cavern, the creatures and the environment have taken their lives, and after that facing the Onyx dragon with our mere 100 prove to be suicidal, and so here I am, the only one left"
"You bring only 500 men to fight the thing you called a threat to the whole continent?"
The Big man replied
"I just one shot it, and you called it a threat, that is basically one of the grubs here in this cavern HAHAHAHA"
"Well I'm quite surprised myself to see a man killed it with one hit by just using their hands, you must be a god right?"
"To be honest, aside from the Military Elites and the Royal Guards, we are the only force that fields a large quantity of people without sacrificing quality, hell the pay for us is very very high; the contract pay's stated that its around 500,000,000 Aurons"
The armored adventurer replied
The Big man is silent then proceed to talk
"I'm not a god, I don't know what am I, i just remember that I'am called Kaiser"
The Big man replied.
The Armored Adventurer reaches out his hands
"The name is Frederick, Frederick of House Resturk, I'am a Platinum rank adventurer"
"Its nice meeting you Frederick, Now let us get out of here"
Both men shakes their hands
Frederick nods again
"Sure thing!"
The two then heads out to find the exit of the cavern, moments later they see a light and a gentle breeze of wind touches them. The view of the mountains, forest, plains, lakes are all seen from the very entrance of the cavern as the cavern is also situated in one of the high mountains. Frederick then pointed to the west, the direction of the Royal Capital of the Auron Empire, Prachtig.
"That's where the Empire is, and that is the destination that we will go"
Frederick told Kaiser
"You said you are an adventurer right?"
Kaiser asked
"Yes I'am, for what reasons you asked?"
Frederick replied
"It makes me excited to fight very strong beings, and the very purpose of you being an adventurer is to hunt them down correct?"
"It is correct, the Federation of Adventurers or simply called the Federation handles most of the request forms and there a lot of request going on"
"Frederick replied"
"Then I'm going to join"
Kaiser replied
Frederick eyes became wide open, as if he were very very surprised, then he immediately yells to the wilderness
"I'am going to be rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
And that is a story for another day......