Chapter 150: Chapter 150
After a little incident back on the bath, an attendant invited Eru for dinner with Duncan and his family. Being polite, Eru accepted the invite before changing to a fancy outfit that was given to him earlier today. The dinner went by like what Eru had imagined it to be. It was like those scenes in the movies, with Duncan and his family sitting close to each other with a long and luxurious table separating them, Eru and Long. Eru laughed, particularly when Long asked about the table.
“Isn’t it an inconvenience having dinner with a long table like this?”
Duncan let out a small chuckle, “It is, yes. But it wouldn’t be proper etiquette having dinner with our guest on our usual dinner table.”
After that, Duncan and his family began to chat with Eru and Long. As the dinner ensued, Duncan kept bringing more food to the table, making Eru feel sick even though the food all tasted delicious. Long did not mind, however, since he was a dragon and had a dragon-like appetite. “Hahaha”, Duncan laughed, “Mister Long is a big eater like always.” Hearing Duncan’s word, Diane and Damian chuckled. Long ignored Duncan and his family while Eru stared at Long in disbelief. ‘Are all dragons ate like him?’ Eru thought as he watched Long eat like a savage.
Feeling Eru’s gaze, Long stopped eating with a slice of meat in his hands, “What? You’re not eating, brother Eru? It’s delicious, you know”, he said before continuing to eat his food. Eru shook his head and proceeded to eat the food before him at his own pace. Then, Duncan and his family began to chat with Eru and Long. However, before long, Damian yawned. “Oh dear, looks like we made little Damian stay up after his bedtime”, Diane said. “But, mom, I don’t want to sleep yet….” Damian said, yawning before falling asleep.
That signalled the end of the dinner, and Eru bid farewell to Duncan, his family and Long. Eru hadn’t decided that he was going to stay here and wanted to look around more. “Is it alright? Eru asked. Duncan smiled and nodded, “It’s fine. Look around as much as you want, mister Eru. After all, we trust you.” After saying that, Duncan left the dining room with his wife and his son. Feeling tired also, Long bid farewell to Eru, and he proceeded to head to his room.
As Eru walked down the garden by the entrance, suddenly the lights around him went off briefly. When the lights lit up again, Eru found that he was surrounded by multiple figures clad entirely in black. They surrounded Eru, circling around him, all of them holding a scimitar, a sword curved like a reversed crescent moon.
“Who are you? Where did you come from?” Eru frowned. Even if he was tired, for these five men to completely avoided his senses until they revealed themselves proved that they were a threat to him. “You don’t need to know. Dead men tell no tale”, said one of them as they lined up and got into a formation.
“Prepare to die!” they yelled in unison as one of them rushed Eru with their scimitar held high. “Tch”, Eru clicked his tongue; he extended his right hand. With an open palm, Eru willed it, calling his black sword, Buddy, to his side. As the black figure with a scimitar was closing in on him, Eru’s black sword, Buddy, flew towards his hand. “You’re on time, Buddy”, Eru cheered as he used his black sword to block the black figure’s scimitar. “What? How!?” the black figure exclaimed. Eru snickered, “Pondered about that in hell”, he said as he swatted away the scimitar and slashed.
“Heh”, the black figure smirked, however. Seeing Eru was slashing towards him, another figure clad in black pulled his comrade from the front, dodging Eru’s slash entirely. “Got you!” one of the figures covered in black said as he used the scimitar in his hand to slash at Eru. Eru pursed his lips. Although the manoeuvre from the figures covered in black surprised him, Eru did not panic. Trusting his body in experience and skill, Eru managed to dodge the scimitar that flew towards him.
“Who’s got who!?” Eru retorted as he swung his sword up. Although Eru’s slash did not manage to kill one of the figures clad in complete black, it grazed him slightly, leaving a small cut mark on his right arm. The group of people covered in black jumped back a little, collecting themselves and getting back into a different formation. This time, Eru was encircled by them as they moved one by one, forming a six-pronged star formation. Eru widened his stance, “What now?” Eru grunted as the multiple black figures were still moving around him.
“Hehe”, the multiple figures clad in black chuckled at the same time. “Time to die, boy”, said one of the various figures clad in black before he broke off from their formation. Eru frowned as he looked that the six-pronged star formation turned into a five-pronged star formation. While Eru was observing the formation, the guy who broke from the formation quickly approached him with ferocious momentum.”Urgh”, Eru grunted as the figure clad in black struck with such force that Eru struggled to contain it.
After that, the guy who broke from the formation quickly rejoined the formation back, forming the six-pronged star shape again. Then, the figures clad in black continued to encircle Eru faster. Every few seconds, one of the figures clad in black broke free from the formation, attacking Eru with such speed and momentum that Eru struggled to defend it. “Hahaha, you’ll never get out of this alive”, said one of the figures clad in black as they continued to attack Eru with their formation.
All of this had been going on for a while as Eru finally buckled down his knee, “Damn it!” Eru cursed, “This formation is troublesome. The fight with Jon earlier must have been sapping my strength more than I realized”, he muttered. As the barrage of attacks continued, Eru began to lose hope dealing with the figures clad in black’s formation. “If only I could use the Dragon Force Technique right now…..” Eru mumbled. But then, he remembered something in his arsenal. “Oh, yeah, I have that”, Eru said while simultaneously blocking a scimitar that flew on his way.
“I have to find a chance to do this. If I miss, I would be in trouble”, Eru said to himself as he observed the six-pronged star formation. Then, as one of the figures clad in black broke off from the six-pronged star formation, the moment that the formation was about to change into the fife-pronged star formation, Eru’s eyes flashed. He extended his hand up front and chanted, “Explosions!” Eru shouted. That’s right, Eru remembered that he still had the system by his side.
Eru had, for the most part, forgotten about the system as it was more fun for him to learn new stuff by training and learning about it on his own. And there’s something that the sleazy old man, the Demon King, told Eru before that the system, the power of Fate Master, was not fully his. Not willing to become stronger, to grow stronger from a borrowed power due to Eru’s experience from his previous life, he chose to continuously ignore the Fate Master system within him. Although Eru wanted to use magic so much, as the first thing he did after obtaining the system was learn a spell, he refused to use it since then.
However, Eru was not shortsighted enough that he did not use the thing that he learned earlier in his life. Eru had used his only spell, Explosion, multiple times in his life. With a bang, Eru’s spell exploded in the air, breaking the six-pronged star formation. As it exploded, Eru saw cracks appear in the air. “What is that? A barrier?” Eru pondered before the cracks broke completely.
The explosion spell Eru used was quite powerful as it engulfed both Eru and the multiple figures clad in complete back. The explosion also caused a crater to form on that spot, injuring both Eru and the multiple figures clad in black. With what Eru presumed was a barrier broken from Eru’s attack, the sound from the explosion spell Eru used resounded widely, attracting Duncan and his family and guards attention along with waking a sleeping red-haired dragon.
“What the hell was that!?” exclaimed one of the figures clad in black. “We have to get back into the formation”, said the other figures clad in black as he noticed that Eru was beginning to recover. Although the explosion was powerful, Eru and the multiple figures clad in black injuries were not so fatal that they prevented both Eru and the multiple figures clad in black to fight each other.
Eru hurriedly willed Buddy, that was sent flying back from the explosion into his hand. Eru prepared himself to fight, with a body full of injuries, facing against the multiple figures clad in black. However, just as the figures clad in black approached Eru, sounds of footsteps could be heard along with a shout from two people, one male and one female.
“Brother Eru/ Teacher!”
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