My World Traveling System: The Harbinger of Death

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Frank was told some details about The Walker, the strongest of the Four Shogun, however, there were many more, three more to be exact. These three other Shoguns kept order in certain regions of Japan, while the Walker kept order all around, these other three limited themselves to a certain region, west, east, and center.

"The second Shogun is… rather well known around the underground. She's a temperamental woman with a knack for destruction." Sighed Matsuo.

"D-Destruction? Wait, isn't she a good person? Why would… she likes destruction?" asked Frank.

"Then again, I am speaking it out of just rumors I've heard, but it is said she got a bad temperament and tends to explode into rage fits that may completely destroy a small town…" sighed Matsuo.

"W-Who is she even?" asked Frank.

"The Flame. I don't know her name, but she's not affiliated with my Clan nor my grandmother… She's someone completely different, but that is said to have the power of the Ancient Vermillion Bird, or well, the Phoenix, as it is more well known." Said Kaguya.

"You've meet her before?" asked Frank.

"I've meet her twice… Our exchanges were brief, but she seems to dislike god descendants, she's not an enemy or something, but thinks that we are privileged or something…" sighed Kaguya.

"Huh, she's quite the handful then." Sighed Frank.

"Yes, the Flame is said to be the second strongest, but the strength different between the other three after The Walker is very small, so they're often seen as equals in power, with the big guy being The Walker, which all three of them know and meet routinely." Said Clementine.

"You know any of them, Clementine?" asked Frank.

"Yes, I've meet them all. The Flame tried to kill me back then but when she discovered my body was indestructible, she cut it out… and well, Kaguya's family had interfered a bit." said Clementine.

"W-Wow… She was actually just going to kill you?!" asked Frank.

"Yes… I don't like to remember this." sighed Clementine.

"She sounds like a punk to me." Said Kamei at the side of Frank.

"Well she is!" said Clementine.

"Ah…" sighed Kamei.

"Anyways, after The Flame comes The White Claw… And you guessed it right, just like her, this guy is blessed by the White Tiger… or well, has its powers or something weird like that. I can't completely tell." Said Matsuo.

"He's a wild kid and likes to be in the wilderness… He has a wild temperament and often acts like  as if he were really a wild animal." Said Clementine.

"…Really?" asked Frank.

"Yes." Sighed Kaguya.

"After him comes the last one… The Black Shell, a mature woman who is said to have the power of the Black Turtle… her defenses are impenetrable, but she's said to be a family mother, so she doesn't have much time for anything… I don't know much about her, when I meet her, she acted gentle, but she had a strong aura around her as if she were always prepared for battle." Said Clementine.

"Interesting… I guess all Shoguns are particularly interesting people of their own, but to think three of them are four of the legendary beasts… what about the Azure Dragon, is The Walker…?" asked Frank.

"No, the Azure Dragon has yet to awaken. It is said that when all four of the divine beasts awaken, a new era will begin… I don't know the details about that, but that's what my grandmother once told me long ago in an oracle." Said Kaguya.

"With three of them being the Shoguns, we had been waiting for the fourth to one day emerge, we would call it the fifth shogun…" said Clementine.

"But that's… yet to happen. So we have been waiting for years now for anything, but it had yet to awaken. We are unaware when will it emerge, and how… But if it could emerge, it would be very helpful so it could help us protect Japan from the Chaos Gate." Sighed Kaguya.

"Indeed…" said Clementine.

"I see… I guess I understand more about it now." Sighed Frank.

"I have a question… How is this little dragon so important? Isn't Japan being fine even when that god died? What's so important about it?" asked Kamei.

"You really don't know a bit about how Gods work, right?" asked Matsuo.

"No? That's why I asked." said Kamei.

"Well, although the Gods were made from Humanity's wishes, they became stronger and stronger as time went on, embodying the elements of nature… Ryujin was the element of water, our guardian of the oceans, and the one that kept the beasts of the sea away from our shores…" said Matsuo.

"The beasts of the sea…?" asked Frank.

"As you might had already heard, in the past the world was infested by Mana and Miasma everywhere, pouring wild monsters into he world occasionally. Due to that many innocent people died down. But this was resolved when the ancient Gods and other powerful beings gathered all the overflowing mana of the world into Domains. The Domains kept the mana concentrated and constantly produce monsters, but the rest of the world is mostly at peace due to that." Said Kaguya.

"Well, mostly. The oceans were barely cleansed because not many could reach them, so around 90% of all oceans still possess ridiculous quantities of mana and there are monsters literally everywhere…" said Clementine.

"Because of that, the threat of an invasion from the oceans has always been present, and in the past, old civilizations fell before the might of these abominations that had been growing and nurturing within these wild waters for eons… You know the tale of Atlantis, Frank?" asked Kaguya.

"Yes…?" asked Frank.

"Well, Atlantis was sunk because the King was not able to protect the entire place completely… And the Great Abominations of the Sea devoured everything…" said Kaguya.

Frank's eyes opened wide. He finally realized why protecting each country with the gods were important, and why this dragon was also even more important! All Gods were constantly protecting their land from the sea too, even more Japan, that was an island country, surrounded by sea!

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