"Who are you?" A voice echoed through the place, shattering the silence. "Hey, are you deaf? I asked, who are you?" The first knight shouted, his tone laced with impatience.
"Me?" The guy questioned, his voice calm but unsettling.
"Who else? I think talking won't help, will it?" The knight smirked as he drew his sword. "Maybe cutting off your hands will make you understand?"
"Hey, I don't know who you are but I don't think provoking those knights is a good idea." The young man spoke up, his voice mixed with tension and confusion.
"Are they knights?" The guy questioned with a hint of disbelief in his tone. "If they are, then why are they so weak?" The young man was speechless. "What?" The young asked with confusion.
"You ...you dare to call us weak?" The first knight shouted, his voice full of rage. "I will show the difference between our powers!" With that, the knight dashed towards him. He landed a slash on the man. Everyone including the young man, believed it was his end . But in the blink of an eye, the man vanished, only to reappear behind the knight.
The other knight and the young man stood frozen, their expression a mix of shock and disbelief. As the first knight attempted to turn back, the man delivered a devastating kick to his neck. The force of the blow was enough to make the knight unconscious.
"H-how can you?" The other knight stammered, his words faltering as the shock rendered him unable to finish the sentence. "Even as a High Rank warrior, I couldn't see you. Who... are you?"
"I?" The man looked at the knight, his aura suppressed the knight's aura, forcing him to kneel. "You really don't know who I am?"
"You freak, you think you can escape after causing this much chaos? Lord Askelar will find you and end your life in an instant." The man shouted after sensing the overwhelming power of the man to scare him. But to his surprise, the man, instead of getting scared, became even more angry. His aura now more dense, and his eyes emitating golden energy.
"Who you said your lord is?" The man questioned in anger. Seeing the man, the knight knew that he couldn't escape so he grabbed his sword and used his blazing sword technique. But, the man dodged it with ease and appeared behind the knight. The knight, sensing the danger, turned around and landed a slash. But to his surprise, the man again disappeared. Suddenly a sword went through his heart, ending his life. It was so sudden that he couldn't even realise when he died.
The young man saw everything. He was in disbelief. Even though it was too fast for his eyes to catch up but he managed to see the man picking the sword of the unconscious knight and stabbed it into the other one's heart.
"You there... You don't seem to be with them. I will just ask once. Who are you?" The man pointed the tip of the sword on the young man, releasing his aura.
"I-I am no threat. I am Arwin and I am just a spy of Markis family." Arwin explained to him everything that happened there from the scratch.
"So you mean, Askelar is one of the heroes who saved humanity but he is running some illegal businesses in private and you came here to uncover his secrets?" The man was in rage, releasing more of killing intent.
"I-I don't know what you have to do with Askelar, but please stop releasing your killing intent, calm down." Arwin said, his body exhausted from the battle, unable to resist more of the man's killing intent.
The man, listening to Arwin, stopped releasing his killing intent. "So, can I ask about your identity?" Arwin asked in confusion.
"Hm.. it seems like you really don't know who I am. My name is Leon Vornigar." Leon said him. The room suddenly got tensed and the air became colder.
"W-wait, are you joking? No, you must be joking. Do you even realise whose name are you using? Please tell me your real name." Arwin worriedly told Leon. His throat dry with anxiety.
"Is there any problem using my name?" Leon replied, his face full of confusion. Seeing his face, he again asked "w-wait, who actually you are?"
"Huh, let me introduce myself properly." He planted the sword firmly into the ground and stood tall, his hands resting on the pammel with a knight's unwavering resolve.
"I am the knight who faught against the evil and the one with the blessings. The protector of hope and the butcher of the darkness. I'm the immortal warrior, Leon Vornigar." As he spoke, his body began to glow, his eyes covered with golden light. The once rusty sword in his grasp started emanating divine energy, as if it had been reborn into a sacred weapon.
"W-wait so you are THE IMMORTAL WARRIOR? but was not he?.. I mean aren't you dead?" Arwin nervously asked, the once saviour now feels intimidating.
"That's only what YOU were told." Leon replied, his face darkened with anger and frustration.
"Wh-what do you mean by 'truth'?" Arwin stammered.
Leon fixed his gaze on him and replied coldly, "do you really think the filthy underworld gods would make a contract all of a sudden right after their biggest threat was supposedly gone?"
Arwin felt like a chilling wind went through his spine. Now everything was cleared to him. But still for clarifications, he asked, "w-wait, can you tell, what actually happened?"
Leon sighed, his voice densed. He replied, "it happened when I inveded the-...." Leon explained everything what happened to him and how he got betrayed.
Arwin's throat dried and his body felt numbed. All these years, all he knew were a lie. Arwin's mind could not comprehend what he just heard. "So the heroes are actually betrayers who have sold humanity without anyone knowing?"
"Yes, you are right. I know it's hard to believe. Judging by your reaction, I guess you have many questions." Leon replied. Arwin looked at him and decided not to think about it too much now. "Yes I have, but it's not a good place to talk. We should leave this place"
Leon and Arwin dashed towards the exit of the dungeon. The guards from before were still there, guarding the entrance. Arwin used his mana to infuse it with his daggers and threw those towards the guards. The daggers, now infused with mana, went in such speed that they couldn't even realise when their throats were cut.
"That's a good technique, I can tell that you have trained this technique so much." Leon said. "That's a technique which my father personally taught me." Arwin replied, his voice became soft. "Ah, I see.." Leon replied.
They both continued moving forward. Through the densed forest, they moved like a gust of wind. Arwin was shocked to see Leon's movement. He was trained his whole life to be an assassin, but seeing Leon's speed and movement, he was sure that he had to train more.
What will happen next? What will Leon do now? What will he choose- new life or REVENGE.
To be continued ~