Argo Vesta

I didn't feel like writing so a small chapter.

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Next morning a number of adventurers along with mercenaries and soliders from nearby dwarf and elven kingdoms gathered in the plains just before the valley,

There were already a few small monsters there such as goblins and kobolds,

Riveria had been given the task of leading the high elves mages to defend there home. The king or her father had specifically told them that they are not going to help other but to defend their home.

It meant that every elf here will draw back to defend the Alf forest the moment they start losing.

It made her sick, that was the one of the reasons why she left the life as a princess and chose the life an adventurers. The pride of elves and there disregard for other species.

Since the descend of gods this had mellowed out because God's themselves said that elves were nothing special and were created the same as other species, but still the royal Alf forest and it's residents believed in the old statement of elves being Better mortals than others.

This was the reason why she was afraid when she found 'Destroyer' was here, after all high elves specialises in pissing off other race who they think are inferior,

And that was the one person she did not want to piss off.

Currently inside a large tent, representatives from all the major power in the North were present, Riveria stood behind her father who sat near a round table with the opposite side occupied by the King of Rhondda, behind him stood a high level 2 as a guard.

The other two seats were with the mayor of the Karuna who acted as the mediator in the meeting and the guild master of the Karuna, a level 3.

She could almost see the smug smile on her father's face as he looked at human and dwarfs present in the tent, since he had the highest level adventurer here working for him.

When suddenly a beastman burst inside the tent,

"gui.. Guild master!!!" he shouted.

"what happened?" the level 3 asked,

"the...the scouts are back here" he said after a deep breath.

What is about the scouts that he looks so panicked.

"they saw the One Eyed Black Dragon there"

The whole fell silent, as dread started creeping up there spines.

The "living end" was here.

The situation just took the turn for the worst.

The guild master as well as her father and King of Rhondda stood up and asked for the scouts.

Riveria looked at the shaking trio of weretigers. There names were Rudy, Paul and Jack.

They had returned few hours ago but couldn't say anything out of fear.

"can you explain what you saw?" Riveria took the lead and the group.

"a monster, it was a god damn monster" Paul said shaking.

"this is a very bad situation, we cannot stop the black dragon"

"we need to evacuate quickly"

"what kind of monster is black dragon to put them in that state"

Suddenly the trio started laughing startling Riveria.

"yeah right, the black dragon" Rudy scoffed.

"you people need to realise the real monster that is hiding in human clothing" Paul said said while shivering remembering the night.

"who are you talking about?" Riveria had a feeling she already knew who was mentioned here.

"something is coming here from the valley" someone shouted.

Everyone armed there weapon and prepared for battle only to find the said thing being a carriage which was pulled by a werewolf.

"the damn horses ran away" the said werewolf spitted at the side. It was quite visible he was not in a good mood.

With a body littered with bruises and scratches he had a scowl on his face, which reminded Riveria of Bete.

"Well it's good exercise for you" a head popped out of the carriage. it was a god.

"good exercise my ass, the horses didn't run away because of the monster but because they were terrified of the brat. And he even left a bunch of nearby monster for us to deal with and went to chase the black dragon" the werewolf was not in a good mood.

The carriage stopped in front of there camp.

The god hopped out of the carriage, and the guild master recognised the god and the werewolf.

"Lowe and Lord Shiva?" guild master asked in confusion, he couldn't see the <Destroyer>.

"yo, do you have extra horses?" Shiva asked.

"we will be leaving for the east harbour" Lowe said to the guild master.

Before chasing behind the black dragon flying towards the east, Lio only said one thing,

'both of you go to the east harbour city, I will meet you there'

"Lowe, you are coming from the valley, what about the monsters and the black dragon." Ron asked confused about his friend's behaviour in this grim situation,

Shiva started laughing

"oh boy, may his soul rest in peace" Shiva said while laughing.

Riveria was shocked, did the <Destroyer> lose.

Lowe sighed and said

"he is talking about the dragon"

Huh?. Peace to the dragon. Why?. She looked behind her to find the trio shivering and trying to find something, while muttering 'is he here?' again and again.

After taking two horses both the werewolf and the god left towards the east after saying there goodbyes, while the people found out that the legendary valley had disappeared.

Meanwhile on an large island near the far east.

A giant figure rolled through the forest uprooting the trees along it's way.

The once beautiful scenery was completely unrecognisable and so was the monster,

Gone was his majestic self which struck fear in the heart of any mortal, it's roar shook the hearts of any who heard it,

All that remained was a bloodied figure of it. With it's wings torn apart it could no longer escape and it's leg cut down it was reduced to it's current limping state.

Yet the pride of a dragon was still there as it looked up in the sky towards his attacker.

The human was hanging midair looking down on it as if looking at his prey. While carrying a half dead spirit in his hand.

Lio looked the women he was carrying, using [mana manipulation] he could confirm that she was indeed a spirit,

With golden hairs and an ludicrous amount of mana even in her half dead state, she was indeed the great spirit of wind, aria. The reason why he let the black dragon escape in the first place.

Because he wanted the dragon to go to it's backup plan.

Devouring the spirit to get stronger and heal.

Not that it would have made a difference but I needed a great spirit to sky rocket my mana capacity.

A pained roar brought Lio out of his thoughts.

Lio looked at the dragon who was still limping towards him and was genuinely impressed by the determination it had.

It knows it can't win but it still wants to go down gunning huh?.

"you really are the toughest thing I faced since I reincarnated" Lio said as he descended on the ground.

"it took 3 whole S rank skills to reduce you to that state, it's kinda impressive." Lio said as a golden portal appeared beside him. And a sword came out of it.

"So I will give you a send off, worthy of your legend" he said as he held the sword and pointed it towards the sky.

[combination skills]

[mana manipulation], as mana started gathering around the blade.

[fallen down] the spell brought down a bright flash of light converging on the sword

[sword Saint] as the sword flash in blinding white light,

The dragon let out a final roar as it gathered all his strength and jumped towards the human while roaring,

As Lio brought his sword down,

[Argo Vesta].

The white light covered the whole island including the dragon which was visible even in the far east as people were surprised to see a blinding light in the horizon

Some even said it looked like a second sun.

Once the light dimmers down, the only thing left was a human floating in the sky while carrying a spirit and a melted durandal sword

And a gigantic hole in the ocean where the island was supposed to be.

Lio looked at the falling monster crystal and stuffed it inside the [Gate of Babylon].

"I did not expect the crystal to survive this" lio said to himself.

As water from the surrounding converged to fill the empty area which was evaporated without trace. Yet the crystal survived.

"That was one though monster I will give him That. Well it's done and I got the spirit so let's go home now"

Lio looked around to find ocean on all sides.

"hold on"

Lio finally realised.

"... Which way is the land again?"

He was lost.