Strange Door

We waited for Robert to wake up while setting up some defense to prevent the monster from attacking us while we were interrogating Robert.

When we are done setting up Robert wakes up.

"Let me go! You damned Akath scum!" Robert woke up then shouted, he was struggling to get out, He was truly mad.

Dave was done with his crap. He walks up to him and he slaps Robert with his hand on his cheek making Robert bleed, and his cheek becomes red from the slap, and then the place becomes silent. A few minutes passed by and Robert didn't speak.

"Listen, My father is already Dead! How the hell can he do that to you!"

"Bu-"

"SHUT IT. Do you think that if Akath was seen by you, the other kingdom won't make a move?! Think about it!"

Dave was outraged, does this guy have a brain?! He looked at Robert with anger.

Then he sighed, "Let him go."

Hadwin then stopped using his mana, Robert then broke the rock easily.

Robert then bowed.

"Sorry, I was blinded with rage, I-i just can't think straight when my family was slaughtered."

Robert was blinded with rage, I know that it must hurt to lose his family.

But he can't let him go easily, he curses his father who is dead.

"Let me punch you once, this time don't block it."

Robert sighed, then he nodded.

He knew it was his fault, and he even cursed his dead father.

With confirmation, he clenched his fist, and then punched Robert as hard as he could in his face.

Robert flew and hit the wall, his face was bleeding, everywhere, and his face was deformed.

Elena walked to Robert's side then healed him, his face returned like before. But he can still feel the pain from Dave punch.

"Now tell me, Who the hell is using my father's name?" Dave clenched his jaw, his face was tense, and his fist was clenched until it bled.

Robert said with an apologetic face "I honestly don't know."

No clue? I guess that's normal since he didn't know much from the beginning.

"So what are you going to do now? You almost killed your employer, how can I trust you? If I can't you would be left behind in this dessert with your team."

Robert fell into silence for a few minutes. Then he looked at Dave with a resolute face and then replied, "I will Sign a slave contract."

When Dave heard him, he was surprised, slave contract?!

Slave contract is a contract made by magic and it would make them unable to disobey, or attack the one they made a contract with.

No normal human would want their freedom to be lost.

"Why? You know that's not a normal contract, right?"

"I fully understand this. I tarnished Akath's name, and then your father... but I only got one wish, please kill the one who killed my family, that's all I ask from you."

" Don't worry, they are probably the one who destroyed Akath kingdom, but after destroying the kingdom, they still want to tarnish my father's name, of course I will kill them."

Roberts sighed in relief as they both had the same goal. And then they tell Hadwin that they want to make a slave contract.

Hadwin was shocked to hear it. As for Elena, she doesn't care, she might already predict this... Wait, I believe her to be a Prophet?

I should stop, I can't trust her yet. Even if she helped me a lot, I'm still afraid that she would suddenly turn on me just like before.

He looked at Elena with suspicion and then returned back to Hadwin who was completing the ritual.

"Robert Franklin do you accept the contract?" Hadwin looked at Robert for confirmation.

"Yes."

Hadwin then chanted a complicated word that he didn't know, and then, a mark on Robert's neck appeared, it was the mark of the slave, it's like a chain that goes around his neck, every slave has one, and people who see it would scorn at it.

"Hadwin, can we hide those marks?" Dave asked him. He knew that it would be humiliating to have those marks around.

Hadwin scratched his head and then replied, "Sorry, I'm not proficient enough at this..."

Hadwin didn't know what to say, He was an earth mage and he only have a basic understanding of this kind of contract magic

"You don't need to worry, I'm fine with this mark." Robert dismissed.

"Well, if you say so... Anyway, we need to continue or the team outside would be worried if we are too long in here."

After retrieving the defense that they set up, they continued their journey.

He got a feeling there was something that pulled him, suddenly when he looked around he was alone.

Robert, Hadwin, and Elena were gone.

Where did they go? They were close to me and then disappeared?!

"Guys? Where are you!" He shouted.

But he can only hear his voice echoes through the mines.

What the hell is happening?

He walked around the mines, but he didn't find anyone.

He then found a door.

The door was enormous, the door takes up all the space of the mine, it's just like if Dave wants to continue he would need to go through here. The door has a picture on it carved into the door.

Is that a dragon?

He found a picture of a dragon with 7 heads, and then a Demon.

He is somehow strangely attached to him.

he touched the door, and then suddenly he was inside a strange place.

in his vision, there is a throne in front of him.

On the throne there was someone who was sitting on it, it's a man with a beard and then scales around his body, with red eyes. He seems to be waiting.

Then the man on the throne was surprised to see Dave, and then he smiled.

"Hello there, my descendant." The guy on the throne spoke.

Descendant?

Wait, the ancestor of the Akath kingdom?!