"Urghhhh," Jin groans.
He sees himself on the floor, face down to the ground. He tries to turn his head up, his body felt weak, he couldn't move a muscle. He sees someone in front of him, an unknown person. The person laughed and said,
"You really are weak, you couldn't even save your partner"
As he heard those words, he woke up immediately.
"Hey, hey, are you okay?"
He sees a girl with pastel yellow hair and a very beautiful face, that girl is Mizuki.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just had a weird dream"
"If you say so"
Mizuki shrugged as she walks out of his room,
"Breakfast is at 8 am, get yourself ready," Mizuki says as she leaves the room.
"Alright"
"What was that dream?" He thought, but he shrugged it off and said,
"Eh, I'll figure it out later"
He gets ready and goes to the dining table, where they had breakfast.
"Your cooking really never fails, Mizuki" Hana complimented as she ate the food.
"Thank you," She replied
"Yeah, this food is delicious!" Jin also exclaimed with joy.
Mizuki looked happy that they loved her cooking.
*knock knock* Someone knocked on the door
"Coming!" Mizuki answers the door and found what looked to be treasure hunters.
"Who are you guys?" She asks
"We're *huff* treasure hunters"
"Okay, but why are you here?"
"We were going to the Tomb of Azakratia but,"
"But?"
"We saw a bunch of other treasure hunters running away from a monster"
"And what's that got to do with us?"
"We just want your help with the monsters, please!" They begged
"Sorry but I'm gonna have to decli-"
"What seems to be the problem here?" Jin barges in at the conversation.
"Jin! Mind your own business"
Jin ignored Mizuki. The treasure hunters also explained the situation to Jin,
"Hm, I see"
"So will you help us?"
"I heard the Tomb of Azakratia isn't a spot for you, treasure hunters because it is a dungeon."
"Wait, really?"
Jin had a disappointed look on his face, "Maybe try to read the info, please?"
The treasure hunters were surprised, they didn't know that it was a dungeon.
They went away as they knew this information,
"Come on, guys. Let's find a different location" One of them said.
Jin and Mizuki sighed,
"Idiots," They both said in unison,
"Jinx!" Jin immediately said.
"Huh?"
"Nevermind"
"Although, I do want to go to a dungeon, I mean, I need to craft some equipment too, you know?"
Mizuki sighed,
"Fine, we'll go to a dungeon but we'll go tomorrow so we can ready up, got it?"
"Yes!" Jin said while saluting.
"Don't do that please"
"Ok, ma'am," Jin said while walking away.
"Don't say that too!" Mizuki says as Jin goes back to his room. Mizuki giggled,
"Moron"
Hana was looking at Mizuki with a smug face,
"What's with that smug face, Hana?"
"Oh, nothing," She says while keeping her smug face.
The day passes, nothing really happened except for JIn training with his sword.
The next day, Mizuki and Jin pack up for their exploration in the Tomb of Azakratia,
"We'll be heading out now, Hana"
"Stay safe there, Mizuki!"
"We will!"
Now Mizuki and Jin walks to the nearest carriage station,
"It's gonna take about 20 minutes to go to Azakratia if we take the carriage"
"Okay, let's go then"
After a few moments later, Jin and Mizuki finally arrived at the carriage station, where they got a carriage,
"So where to?" The driver asked
"Tomb of Azakratia, please"
"That would be 200 zeno"
It seems like that this world used a currency known as zeno,
"That's cool to know" Jin thought to himself but he sees that Mizuki is gazing at him, prompting him to pay.
"Wait, what?"
Mizuki sighed,
"Let me guess, you don't have money?"
"Hehe, sorry, I don't have money," Jin said while looking embarrassed.
Mizuki took out her coin pouch and took 2 silver coins from it and gave it to the driver,
"Here, sir"
"Thank you very much"
The driver now made the carriage move to their destination. A few minutes later, they arrive at the entrance of the tomb, where Jin and Mizuki prepare their weapons.
"Huh? You're not using your wind magic?" Jin says as he sees Mizuki sheathing her knife and readies up her what appears to be a shuriken.
"Yeah, can't risk using up all my mana in this dungeon or we're toast"
From the distance, a dark silhouette appears,
"So this is the one they're talking about, I've never seen someone wield the element, Lightning for a long time now."
He grinned,
"Let's see if he's worthy of that element, shall we?"
Then he disappeared into the darkness. Now, Jin and Mizuki head to the entrance of the Tomb of Azakratia, they went in and now are exploring.
"Behind you, Jin!"
Mizuki throws her shuriken at the monster behind Jin and killed the monster. Jin was amazed by how accurate her shot was.
"Woah!" He thought to himself
"Be careful and be alert, okay?"
Jin nodded.
"Now, let's test this," The dark figure said, and he cast a summoning spell.
"Hyenas!" Mizuki yelled
Jin unsheathes his sword and rushes in at the hyenas while Mizuki had to take care of the other hyenas.
"HAAAAA!" Jin yelled as he swung his sword multiple times, hitting the hyenas, killing them one by one but, the hyenas kept spawning and spawning because a certain someone is summoning them. Jin was getting tired from swinging his sword, meanwhile, Mizuki was throwing shurikens at the hyenas, dodging their rush attacks. Jin thought he had only one option to use, his lightning element, so he focuses his mana on his hand, charges of lightning start to appear on his hand.
"Hey! I said to not use your lightning!" Mizuki says as she sees Jin using his lightning, again.
Jin holds his sword up and lightning appears on his sword, and slashes it to the ground, causing a lightning slash, hitting a large group of hyenas. Jin falls down again to the ground but this time he doesn't pass out, he's just exhausted. Mizuki runs to his side, once again, scolding him that to not use his lightning but then after that, Mizuki opened her bag and gave Jin rations.
"Thank you," Jin said
"No worries" She replied.
Jin was now feeling a bit better so he got up.
"Wow, you're really weaker than I thought," An unknown figure said in the distance.
He had caught Jin and Mizuki's attention, Mizuki quickly stances and Jin also stances, the unknown figure rushed in at Jin really fast but Jin managed to block the attack at the last second then Mizuki threw one of her shurikens at the figure but the figure managed to dodge it.
"Who are you?" Jin asked,
"Kratia, the one who tests someone's worthiness. You shall remember these words, YOU. ARE. NOT. WORTHY!" Kratia replied and again quickly rushed at Jin but Mizuki hit him with wind magic,
"This wind sorcerer pest needs to go!" Kratia yells with an annoyed face and prisoned her into a magic cage and sent her a little away from them.
Now it was only between Jin and Kratia, Kratia disappears from Jin's sight and Jin started to hear his voice in his head,
"You are a failure, you are weak, you're not worthy of wielding that power, you're pathetic, you have no purpose." Those words are repeating in his head, Jin fell down and started to lose his consciousness,
"Now sleep and never wake up!" The words that he heard while he was losing consciousness but a dimmed light appear in the dark sea, full of hatred.
"No, I can't die this way."
Jin gets up slowly as he said those words. Kratia looks at him, surprised that he still woke up.
"I may be weak, I may be a failure, but I know I have a purpose, even though I may not know what purpose is that, I may be pathetic, there is a reason why this power chose me"
"I'll let you see the reason why!"
After saying those words, Jin gets his sword and rushes at Kratia,
"Speed!" He yelled.
He swings his sword at Kratia but Kratia blocks it but Jin kept on and on, slashing Kratia but Kratia keeps blocking it,
"Good speech, however, that doesn't change the fact that you're weak against me!" Kratia said as he kicks Jin in the stomach then punches him in the chest, blowing him away. As Jin was blown away, he backflips back up to his feet and runs to the side, getting Mizuki's shuriken and throws it at Kratia, Kratia parries the shuriken away but Jin was coming in for a strike, he tries to hit Kratia but still, he blocked it.
"Is that it?" He asked then again, he kicked Jin away.
Meanwhile, in the cage,
"Well, at least I prepared this,"
Mizuki does a hand sign and seems to be casting a spell, a teleportation spell, she traded positions with one of her shurikens and herself, she arrives at the battle.
"What?" Kratia says while looking surprised.
Jin was down, he was quite exhausted but he still stood up.
"Mizuki, give me an opening.." He mouthed at Mizuki. Mizuki seemed to understand what he said and throws her remaining shurikens at Kratia while unsheathing her knife and attack Kratia.
"Thank you," Jin said on his mind.
Now Jin starts to focus his remaining mana,
Kratia kept on dodging and dodging, blocking the shurikens and her knife swings until Mizuki shot a wind blade at Kratia, which was surprising for him since he didn't see that coming, now he was open.
"Thunderclap!" Jin yelled as he curls his hand into a fist and pulls his fist down, causing a large lightning strike on Kratia. Jin thought he had won so he goes down, faced down on the ground, tired as hell.
"Oh, I won't go down with a single strike, you know?"
Kratia survived, Mizuki tried to attack him but he used magic to put Mizuki again in a cage.
"Oh, no you don't" He said then he looked at Jin,
"Heh, weakling"
"You can't even protect your own partner."
"Oh but don't worry, I play fair so I'm gonna let you try again" He said and teleports Jin away.
"What did you do?" Mizuki asked angrily
"Oh, nothing, you're the perfect bait actually" He murmured to himself.
"I play fair, Jin Reshiro, I'll give you a second chance" He said while he grinned evily.