Art and Lutin are resting on a tree log, in front of a campfire.
Art asks Lutin
"Since you're a guiding fairy, i suppose you know something about the fissures appearing in the sky?"
Lutin answers back with
"Well i do, but only a little"
Art tells Lutin to start explaining and he begins too
"You see, a few hundred years back, a strange event started happening everywhere, the sky opening up, as if someone or something is slicing the sky open, every time that happens, monsters emerge from it, these monsters are usually a lot more stronger then wild ones.
That's all i currently know, but why are suddenly asking about these?"
Art tells him
"Well for years, all i have been doing was fighting bandits and slave traders, while also fighting monsters coming from the void fissures"
Art looks at Lutin, only to see his eyes widened and mouth dropped, Lutin then says
"YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING MONSTERS FROM THE FISSURES!!??"
Art replies with yes and Lutin says
"Looks like tagging along with you was the right choice"
Art says to Lutin
"Am gonna introduce you to someone, but don't freak out"
Lutin replies with
"Pfff, you can't make me freak out, i've seen all sorts of crazy shit"
Art then calls a name "Seroph".
Mist appears, Seroph emerges from the mist and lays next to Art.
Lutin, gets frozen in his place.
Art asks him
"Why the hell are you shocked?"
Lutin replies
"Oh, oh, you know when you said "don't freak out", i didn't know that the one am not supposed to freak out from is a DRAGON!!"
Lutin the continues saying
"Also, if you just happen to have a dragon, in what world would you need Eira?"
Art answers him
"I don't fly around with Seroph, it's too dangerous and he might get injured, he's more safe like this"
Lutin thinks to himself
"(That's a dragon, not a puppy)"
Art asks about the next town and why they are heading there, Lutin tells him
"Well there's a cartographer there, we can get maps from there, also if you're wondering the previous town's cartographer was closed, sooo that's are only option"
Art asks about Eira
"I noticed that she doesn't get tired"
Lutin says
"Well, Eira is a spiritual steed, she doesn't need to rest or eat, it's all optional for her"
Lutin looks tired and tells Art, he'll be out for the night.
As Lutin falls asleep, Art grabs a piece of wood and starts carving through the entire night.
Morning arrives and Lutin wakes up, he looks at Art and says good morning.
Art looks at him and asks
"Did you sleep well?"
Lutin replies
"Yep, what about you?"
Art answers
"I didn't sleep"
Lutin shocked asks
"How the hell are you still awake?"
Art replies with
"Wood carving"
Lutin looks next to Art and see miniature yet extremely detailed statues.
Lutin asks
"Whoa, they look amazing, how did you make these?"
Art answers
"My older sister, she used to wood carve, to calm down her nerves, i always watched her and learned from her"
Art gets up and starts packing, he looks at Lutin and says
"Come on, we need to get going before any fissures start appearing"
After a few minutes, Art summons his steed
"Eira!"
Both him and Lutin get on, after that they head to the next town.
AFTER TWO HOURS.
Art and Lutin reach the town and head in on foot.
Art asks one of the town guards
"Excuse me, am looking for a cartographer shop"
The guard looks at him and says
"There ain't any here, but there's a store that sell all sorts of stuff, from maps to spell scrolls"
The guard points Art towards the Store and Art heads there with Lutin.
We they finally reach the shop and their about to go in, suddenly someone comes out of the store, a knight, helmet decorated with small spikes one for each side while also covering his face completely, a dark yet short cape worn down from use, a sheathed bastard sword and finally what looks to be a weird launcher attached to his right Arm and a hook launcher on his left.
He comes out of the store, rolling up scrolls as he passes by Art.
Art and Lutin stare at him as he walks away.
Art decides to ignore him and enters the store, the first thing he sees, multiple musical instruments in the air, playing cheery music.
Two kids dancing in the middle of the store, while humming the music.
Art weirded out, acts like he didn't see anything, with Lutin shaking his head while humming.
Art walks up to the store counter and there's no one there.
Lutin yells
"Hello!, does anyone work here?"
"Wait a minute!"
Coming from the room behind the counter.
A woman busts down the door that's behind the counter and walks to the counter.
Messy blonde hair, tied into a ponytail and broken glasses.
She asks Art
"How can i help you sir?"
Lutin is about to ask but she cuts him off and says
"Not you mimic, him"
As she points to Art.
Lutin, frustrated turns to Art, only to see him looking at him with a smug face.
Art looks at the storekeeper and asks
"I want a map please, with all the continents"
She says
"Oooh, that's gonna cost ya a bit, but for your information, the map only has 6 continents,
The light and sky continents aren't drawn down, okay?"
Art says okay and she hands him the map after he paid.
She then tells him
"You know, there's a medium sized castle, about two days from here"
Art asks, as he's rolling up the map and putting it in his bag
"Why did you need to tell me that?"
"Looking at ya, you might need the treasure there but hey, am just recommending"
Art then asks for directions to the castle and she tells him, he thanks her and leaves the store with Lutin.
He then asks Lutin if they should go to the castle, Lutin replies with
"You know, we should go there, we might find something useful"
Art says
"Then it's settled, let's get going"
It took them only a day, thanks to Eira.
They reach the outside of the castle around noon.
The castle is surrounded by undead gaurds.
Art asks Lutin.
"How can we get in with out alerting them?"
Lutin says
"How strong is your grip?"
Art turns to him and just stares at him.
A few minutes later, Art is climbing one of the watchtowers and is able to reach the top.
Him and Lutin slowly move around the castle, taking out any gaurds in their way.
Eventually they reach a large opened gate and as Art and Lutin look inside, a huge graveyard with a large person in the middle, the person is deformed, flesh melted, swords and spears stuck in his body.
Art hears that strange man, mumbling to himself while digging through the graves.
Art and Lutin look at each other and Art decides to step in, as he walks in, the gate shuts down making it impossible to leave.
The strange man, turns around and sees Art.
He smiles while stretching his deformed right Arm and garbs a Large two sided, double headed axe and says
"Ohhh, lost one, you come to take what's my right, may this axe be kind to you….but i won't"
As Art draws his sword and takes a battle stance, he comes face to face with
[Morgrin, King of the undead]
Morgrin leaps into the air and slams his axe down at Art, Art quickly dodges and tries to counter attack but Morgrin turns around and quickly twirls his axe in front of Art and deflecting his sword, he then pulls his axe back and uppercuts Art, Art blocks it with his sword but is sent into the Air, Art tries to adjust himself only for morgrin to jump in the air and punche's Art, sending him crashing into the ground, Art quickly gets up and sees morgrin charging towards him, Art dodges and strikes him in the back but Morgrin stomps the ground causing Art to back off, Lutin decides to blind Morgrin with a light spell, causing him to stumble back, Art sees the opportunity and runs towards him, he then jumps into the air to get behind him, he grabs Morgrin's shoulder while facing his back, Art starts stabbing Morgrin in the back nonstop, morgrin flailing around in pain, Art pulls back his sword and lands the final blow, stabbing through Morgrin's neck, he then uses his feet to backflip off Morgrin's back causing him to fall face forward into the ground.
Art tries to catch his breath and says
"Thanks for the assist back there"
Lutin says
"No problem. come on now, i think that room is where the treasure is at"
As both of them start walking towards the room, they start hearing something from the back.
Art turns around, only to see Morgrin getting back up.
Morgrin's body starts shaking, suddenly his left side starts to get ripped apart.
He screams in pain, blood spilling everywhere and a giant rotten arm emerges.
He the says
"Ohh, father's before me, witness….WITNESS ME SUCCEED, WHERE YOU FAILED"
Art runs towards Morgrin and tries to strike him, only for him to get sent flying to the right from Morgrin's left arm, Art keeps dodging the incoming punches and axe strikes, landing attacks whenever he could, Art quickly starts charging a fire spell called [Flame spear], while still dodging Morgrin's attacks, Morgrin lands a punch knocking Art back, but that's all the distance he needs, he winds his left hand and throws the spear at high speed and it hits Morgrin's head causing his axe to fall out of his hand, as it hits the ground, the old and worn down axe breaks into two.
Art quickly runs at Morgrin, throwing his sword into Morgrin's left arm and grabs half of the broken axe with both of his hands and starts slashing Morgrin, ripping him piece by piece,
Morgrin falls on his back and Art gets on his chest, lifting the heavy axe in the air and bringing it down cutting Morgrin's face in half, finally putting an end to this king.
Art, gets off of Morgrin's chest and grabs his sword that's lodged in Morgrin's arm.
He then starts walking towards the treasure room, with Lutin saying
"That was crazy!, you were so cool back there"
Art replies
"Yeah, you know what's more cooler?"
Lutin looks at Art with a confused face, Art looks at him and says
"the treasure, after this bullshit of a fight"
They enter the treasure room and it's filled with jewelry, gold, fancy weapons and armor.
Lutin puts on some of the jewelry and starts showing off.
Art ignores him and starts looking around, he ends up finding a map, that lead a blacksmith, Art asks Lutin about and Lutin replies with
"*gasp*, that's one of the five master dwarves!"
Art asks
"Who the hell are they?"
Lutin answers
"You see, there's five dwarves, each one specializing in something, weapons, armor and sheilds, cartography, magic and finally soul manipulation, but for the one in the map, that's the weapon smith and just looking at you, you really need a new weapon"
Art looks at his chipped sword and say
"You know what, you're right, let's go"
As both of them leave the castle and start heading towards the weapon smith.
END OF CHAPTER