By morning he went to the lake and bathed in the blood of the crocodile, unknowingly absorbed some of it nevertheless he then continued with his journey, fighting monsters continuously until he reached the center of the forest. He happens to find himself in a situation he could have never expected a situation most humans would have died out of fear, he was In front of an adult dragon but thankfully it was sleeping,
The beast was painted in red scales, seemingly covered in fearsome scars on it's body showcasing the life and death battles it has faced to probably taking hold of the central forest, Ignas knew that this was a type of beast no awakened humans would want to face in their lifetime but unfortunately for him there was no way he could leave the dragon's territory alive even if he used [Shadow warp] his chances were limited.
He remains stagnant for a while before he thought of the most foolish thing in existence, he wanted to kill the dragon considering the odd in actual win. He then proceeded with this foolish thought by slowly approaching the dragon then stopped to question himself better, had an idea of using his azure dragon form to kill another dragon. Shadows covered his body allowing him to turn into his azure form which had four gold horns the rich would greed on, daggers of teeth filled his mouth, 80 meters in length with a serpentine body that was covered with pristine black scaled and golden fur that stretched from his neck to the tail.
The red dragon was woken up by his majestic presence and let out a loud roar trying to inflict [Dragon fear] on Ignas but it work even the slightest, since it realize that it did not work and so it lunged forward to get a bite but Ignas dodged it easily then coiled his body around the beast's body then bit the dragon on the neck causing it to bleed.
The dragon then used it's claws to deal some damage in order to break free from Ignas's hold, fortunately it managed to free itself then released [Dragon breath] on him but he used [Shadow warp] to dodge the flames so after he reverted back to his human form since this battle was taking too long.
"it was a wonderful experience to fight a beast like you, wait i think i will call you LIZARD WITH WINGS." As he said that he proceeded with a sword technique,
"[Shadow technique Second sword: formless slash]"The dragon tried to evade the slash but it was no use, no barrier or shield including it's scaled body can stop the [formless slash] and so it was cut in half nevertheless blood gushed out from the two sides as the dragon core fell on the ground which allowed Ignas to pick it and store it in his inventory.He continued on finding the hideout where lesser tiger beast would commonly be but he found now, in desperation he hunts other beasts and monsters with the excuse of growth as this when on for months.
11 MONTHS AND 20 Days
After the killing spree he went through he finds himself with no opponent to give him the necessary adversity since he actually killed all the creatures that resided in the death forest and that made him realize that there were no lesser tiger beast but intermediate tiger beast and they were all dead.
"wait, task window…
[First task: Complete Reward: Shadow's sword
Second task: Complete Reward: Shadowy clothes
Third task: Complete Reward: First Trial]
"Hey what does that mean?"
[The legacy has five trial each of them comes with a price, After completing the first trial you will be ranked to your respectable grade.
Your one year deadline is over, you are free to go back to the human civilization only after completing the first trial.]He then looked at the reward he received from the third task and opened it then everything went black, nothing was at sight nor was there noise just stillness.
This was like Deja vu ever since he first met shadow, he knew shadow has called for him again but this is mere a thought he had not the reality…
"This old servant greets the young successor." The word of a strange man in the still darkness sent cold shivers down his spine making his body to remain perfectly still but the voice resounded again.
"ah it seems i caught you by surprise, do forgive this old servant for i meant no harm."
"I-it is okay uh where am i?
"This is your first trial young successor. You are to find what you have lost unknowingly or knowingly…this is a trial of the past. What you seek and do not seek will be shown to you regardless of your disapproval, the rules are simple.
1.Do not look away from what you are show.
2.do not speak or make any slight noise.So young successor rules come with a penalty but i am quite sure you know what it is, nevertheless the trial shall begin…."
A blinding light came out nowhere and in it was a young woman who happened to be holding a baby with she smoked her cigar she looked quite wealthy, knocks on the door of the Azure orphanage then gently placed the infant on the stairway before she dashed away the door creaked open and a nun came out to checked on the guest who rang the doorbell but found no one then she looked around in confusion before looking down after hearing a cry of a baby, in shock she picked up the infant and rocked it to sleep before making here way inside the orphan.
Then another flash of light applied before being distorted into a memory…another unknown memory, a memory of the same woman who abandoned her infant at the orphanage but now she seemed out of place she was mumbling words that where hard to hear, sitting at the corner of the messy room with her hands on her head pulling it out from the scalp over and over again. Then a person entered the room as she rushed to this…crazy woman?She by then called out the mistress by name to catch her attention,
"Lady Ray….Ray Lionhart please stop!"
"Why why why why why why why why why?!?!?!?! WHY DID I ABANDON MY ONE AND ONLY CHILD WHY MICHELLE WHY WHY…did i-" Ray passed out as Michelle kept calling her name in terror….the memory ended, in a daze Ignas was with many questions but no words were to be said due to the rules.
'M-mom?'