Burning Soul

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The floor suddenly got silent, after-all something big was happening.

Aeneas and his opponent also stopped right where they were, it was like they couldn’t even move. Theo still had his eyes shut.

To everyone’s shock the faint figure that had appeared turned around and looked at Theodore, though no one could see her face, so no one had a clue about who it was, but judging by the hairs it looked like a woman.

After patting his head, it vanished.

Theo felt this and opened his eyes only to see a very bright light, so bright he was barely able to see anything. Everyone else there saw this light as well, but from where they were, they could see something that Theo was not able to.

The light was coming from a crack in space!

Out of that bright radiance, two figures walked out. One went to aid the Dragon while others to where the fight was ongoing.

“How despicable!” There was a woman standing with an ordinary-looking stick. She spoke looking at the guy with Hammer as he had a shocked expression.

“Screw you….”

He was about to say something, but the woman suddenly pounced on him, she was so fast that in a split second, she was right in front of him! She jumped almost 40 meters, in just a moment, and as she did such, the stick she held turned into a giant looking hammer, totally unlike what the latter was holding onto.

With a full swing, she struck the hammer directly on him, though he managed to defend his body by taking the hit on the hammer with great efforts.

The hit was so hard, the bang resonated throughout the floor creating a shockwave and shaking the whole floor as a result, but what shocked everyone was that the latter guy was sent flying by that hit.

He literally broke through the walls of the floor and was thrown out of the Dungeon by that slash.

Yeah! He broke through the dungeon walls which were apparently thicker than ordinary castle walls too.

‘Such power’, Theo was shocked by what happened in those 4 seconds.

The enemy that Aeneas was barely able to contend with, was confronted just like that.

…

After a while, everyone was able to see clearly as the brightness of the light faded.

The woman who defeated the enemy was now holding on to a stick again.

It was night time the outside of the dungeon and was a full moon to add beauty to the time. The moon was not high but was just above the horizon and was exactly where the walls had been broken off. She was wearing armor, not full-body, but just enough to defend her body and had a traditional Deep Ocean blue colored Yukata with golden engravings.

Due to the shock, the trees from outside of the walls had shed leaves and now these loose leaves were being drafted by the wind. As she turned and took off her helm, one could see a delicate yet mature and womanly face, hosting amber, red eyes which gave off a feeling of them being on fire. That outfit and those eyes, her attire was screaming she wasn’t any ordinary person.

“Don’t kill them, Val.” This time the voice came from behind Theo.

It was that another person who went to aid the dragon who had transformed, but no one could see what it became as the light interrupted everyone’s vision before that could happen.

“Well, all she needed was just some reverse seal and… Oh! Right, I nearly forgot why we came.”

He had a questioned look.

His attire was exactly opposite to that of the women he called Val. Plain shirt, shorts, and had no visible weapon by his side, yet he had a very frightening aura too.

He walked towards Theo and stood right in front of him, “What is your name?”

“The…Theodore” He replied in a low tone.

“Ah! Nice name! Hey! You are a blessed one! That’s damn cool you know?” He suddenly grabbed both of his hands and relied on sparkling eyes.

Due to his low height, one could mistake him as a mere kid, but that small figure was giving so much pressure that Theo was barely able to standstill.

“Well, our time is over for today, damn her she dares cheat me in my own game. I need to settle the score again I see.” He said looking above with a playful expression,

“Umm, who are you?” Theo gathered all the courage he could at the moment and asked as he saw Val walking towards him.

“I am the goddess of war, Valkyrie. And he is the god of Games, Regis. We came here to settle our score with that guy. He dared to provoke us….” Just as she was explaining she was interrupted by Regis,

“Hya! I wanted to play around with him, you stole all the glory, Val.”

“Is this why you dragged me into your play?” She was clearly looking angry,

“You are my best friend, and friends always stay together right?” Regis was speaking in a bit goofy tone to which Valkyrie was clearly angry.

“Anyways, we can continue this later, first. Theo! I like you; you are quite different, not entirely a human though! Anyways. Show me your hands.” To his request, Theo couldn’t resist pulling his hands forth. As he pulled his arms forth, Regis put a golden sigil on his hands while chanting,

“You are blood rushing down a mountain, Spirit of hate, greed, and anger, dominator of heaven and earth! I in the name of all God, invoke the seal, come forth!”

‘Is this...’ others couldn’t help but just sit tight and watch the scene in awe.

Before he could see it clearly, it began fusing with Theo’s body. This caused him pain and he made a loud hiss sound,

“Chill, it’s done now!” Regis said to which he asked,

“What is it?” Theo was still in a bit of pain.

“You’ll know over time.” As he said so, a crack appeared in the space similar to the one before and they walked past it.

As they did, Regis looked back at Theodore and murmured before turning back and walking in,

“Let’s see what you turn into!”

After the crack closed and the light finally vanished, everyone felt like a great weight was just lifted from their bodies. The pressure of gods was really frightening, only their presence was enough to suppress everyone, even an Ace who was supposedly more powerful.

That being said, ‘why was he so weak?’ was Theo’s thought.

They all suddenly fell on the ground due to a sudden awareness of all the fatigue they had scourged in.

…

As everyone was on the ground groaning, Theo was holding on to his palm and trying to see what that sigil did to him.

To his surprise, there was only a mark but not a sigil mark. It was some kind of tattoo. There were some letters on it, but he couldn’t make any sense out of it. His vision was a bit hazy too due to all that pressure from earlier.

What shook him were Regis’s words, ‘What did he mean by not entirely Human?’

He was thinking over it, also why did he take an interest in him, and most importantly, why did he help them? It seemed like they came only to punch that hammer guy, did they had any grudge against him? Or were they really there to tell something important?

“Do all goddesses look that beautiful?”, Vivian from one corner asked in a very tired tone.

It was arguably true though, for a goddess of war, she looked very beautiful.

“And where did the other women go? Did she just suddenly vanish? Was she even real?” Naomi asked looking at Theo who nodded as a reply.

He clearly had no idea where did that woman go or what voice he heard and what happened, it was all so sudden that everything seemed so hazy, the world before his eyes were swirling.

Suddenly Theodore heard someone’s voice, “Is anybody there?”

He turned around to look from where the voice came and he found the source to be in the same direction as that of the dragon from before.

Naomi and Vivian somehow managed to get close to Theo and now was looking at the scene in disbelief. There was a kid standing where once a dragon lied, a soft glow was surrounding her body.

A seemingly young-looking girl had no clothes on but a single piece of cloth, maybe Regis put it on her.

She looked at Theo who was still on the ground and asked him,

“Are you my master?”