Alaric and King were sitting in the same room , exactly opposite to each other and looked at each other eyes , King put his one hand on his cheeks and spoke " So how was your experience? "
" Chaos , Tragedy and Destruction" Alaric spoke bluntly
" Please elaborate" King while grabbing a glass of wine , Reflection of alaric was clearly visible in wine as alaric spoke " At first I was excited....I tried various things but after some years which felt like hours for you....I was lonely"
Before alaric could continue, King asked gulping some wine " How ? "
Alaric wasn't looking frustrated by king's question he answered calmly " Staring at my hands for years , losing track of time or just sitting "
King nodded in acknowledgement while putting more wine in his glass and spoke " please continue "
" Later I converted that loneliness in solitude for other 10 years I only thought about the meaning of life , the purpose of life and who really I am.....other years I only trained and then at last some years I realised the most important thing - training was the thing that I did at the last "
King immediately spoke " They are important thinking about meaning and purpose of life is something valuable and important"
Alaric didn't stopped he simply added one more line " That's the human mindset.... thinking about all unnecessary things except which is really important....I realised I will not get anything by thinking about meaning of life or death or my purpose of life "
" The only thing I should think about was training....almost 50 years of experience was waste for me the online thing I should think about is to survive in a way in my last 20 years of experience I reborned "
Before king could say anything or argue , alaric immediately get up and looked at king and said " There is a question stuck in my mind.....how do you guys came into existence?
The king couldn't help but his lips curled up forming a smile " When there is a place suitable for living creatures automatically came into existence and when there is a creature there is automatically a place suitable for living "
Alaric didn't say anything for a moment or two he wasn't blinking as he was in deep thoughts when he finally came back to his senses he looked around " Where is Sun of West ? "
King looked at alaric and his jaw tightened " In the basement of this damn palace "
Alaric expression didn't changed, his mouth curled up " that's why the palace is golden isn't it "
" You definitely have lived 100 years "
Alaric and king started walking , they strode towards the basement, no one was talking.
Alaric was looking around at his atmosphere, the walls were black in colour which was generally rare in a palace , alaric's jaw clenched.
King was walking quietly , his expression was blank in fact he wasn't blinking at all
He tilted his heads towards alaric " We are almost there " in a calm and controlled tone
Alaric nodded and rushed forward leaving king behind in shock, alaric saw a huge black gate slightly smaller then the gate at the entrance of the kingdom
King also appeared behind alaric , his jaw was clenched.
He touched the black gate through his right hand " Do...you want to go ? " His voice trembling
" Yeah " Alaric without looking towards king , he also touched the black gate.
His hands went numb the temperature of that black gate was insanely cold , alaric eyes widened but soon came back to normal
King inserted the key in the keyhole , the door swung opened alaric entered alone.
King tried to say something but gulped.
Alaric went inside the door , it was all ink-black and dusty , Alaric coughed multiple times as he rushed.
Soon his ears twitched, he heard a voice of people approaching at his direction or we can say approaching towards him !!
Alaric looked around only to notice , skeletons with bone wings coming towards him riding a skull horses with swords.
Alaric fist tightened as he conjured a long and sharp katana , at a certain distance skeletons started making weird sounds " Kewhehehekekehe" .
Alaric wasn't very pleased with this sound , he teleported towards a group of skeletons and stopped mid-way when he started floating in the sky - another use of Conduit of transport.
While hovering, alaric disintegrated his katana " A change of plan " He mumbled under his breath.
He conjured a bow and arror and aimed at skeletons thick skull , as soon as the arrow left the bow.
Alaric teleported back and while teleporting he conjured a katana , the Skeleton was focused on arrow before arror can land on Skeleton's head.
Alaric had already cut the Skeleton , other Skeletons stopped making those noises and jumped on Alaric all together.
Alaric slowly eneveloping in white conduit energy as alaric was completely eneveloped all the Skeleton broke apart bone by bone
" Presence is definitely a useful one " Alaric mumbled without wasting any more time alaric moved forward - The First layer is cleared
The more is move deep the more dark his surroundings become , cold air biting his lungs.
After walking for a while a smell of blood and rotten flesh lingered his mind, he followed the smell.
Once he reach the place from where the disgusting smell was coming, his heartbeat paused for a moment.
Hundreds of dead imperfect and not so big dragons body were rotting, alaric heartbeat started beating very fast like an bird captured in a cage.
Alaric ignoring those rotten bodies of dragon move forward , there was no second layer remaining the last obstacle was Sun of West himself.
Alaric body was sweating it was like the temperature has risen way to much just a moment ago cold was biting alaric's lungs.
Alaric finally reached the source of heat.
A large golden colour dragon with two perfect size wings , his golden red eyes looking at alaric's tiny body compared to dragon.
The dragon exhaled , Alaric's hair and clothes blowed violently
He gulped and meet the dragons eye " You are Sun of West...a suitable name "
The dragon looked at alaric and spoke in a heavy and rough voice " Call...me....Zen"