Chapter 340 - The End Of Book 1
Author Note: I'm really excited about finishing my first book of the novel. I usually write my own novels in trilogy, and the first book just received its final chapter.
It was such a long and interesting journey, and I hope the final twists of book 1 appeal to you.
I would love to hear your own thoughts here or in reviews. And thanks for supporting my book :D
Book 2 will start from tomorrow, in Volume 4.
ranmaro.
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"Ding! You have nothing to do, after all this fight is way beyond your comprehension and it lies in another plane, different from here."
Arthur gritted his sharp teeth while trying to squeeze his mind, searching for a solution.
He felt there was one, yet somehow he missed it. He kept squeezing his claws nervously before he suddenly relaxed them after a couple of stressful minutes. "No, I have the second best solution here."
Then he turned to look at the giant beauty. "Ding! Her? She can't replace your guardian, especially after you already met your destined one."
"Hehehe, yes, she isn't my destined guardian, but she can be one."
Arthur didn't waste anymore time as he hurriedly shouted at Zilia. "Can you entrust another one with the authority to be my guardian?"
The two pillars now had thousands of interlinking knots together that they looked like a giant whole rope! "I can't do this to anyone!" her faint, distressed, frustrated and depressed tone came to his mind.
"She is a failed person, a person like me but way older and far more experienced than me."
The answer this time came from the sly soul as he laughed loudly, enjoying this amusing fight with Zilia while feeling more joy in ruining her plans already.
"Hahaha, she can't! once you fail your pathetic tests, you can't become guardians at all! Only candidates can be entrusted with such a role, and can have that useless glory of yours. Give it up, boy, you won't get a guardian this day, hahaha!"
Arthur wanted to just punch that annoying mouth of his with his claws right now! He glanced at the distant girl before he softly muttered, "can't you make her reapply again?"
"What?!!" this scream came from the dark soul, and this gave Arthur some hope. This time he expressed his thoughts out loud and crystal clear. "Can you make her enter the trial again?"
"I can, but that won't make her your guardian!"
"She will!" Arthur hurried to say, as the vortex started to shake and for a moment there the scene blurred in front of his eyes. "Sh*t, it's almost time so soon," he inwardly cursed before rushing to say:
"She can be assigned a trial to guide me to succeed in my trial. She won't literally be my guardian, but in fact she is."
"This… this is a twist in rules! You are a pure light side, you can't dirty your hands after all these dead years by playing by the rules!"
The sound of the dark soul seemed urgent and distressed, making Arthur believe in his own success and victory already. "Hehehe, who told you that playing with rules is dirty? It's totally legal!"
"Don't dare do it!"
"Watch me, you filthy little worm!"
The next moment the light pillar sent a thin arrow that instantly traveled the distance between the two worlds in a blink of an eye. The arrow landed on the giant girl, creating a giant oval-shaped cocoon of opaque white matter.
"Rumble!"
Just as the arrow landed, and the cocoon appeared, the world rumbled around Arthur. He turned to look at the Golam, which was already taking its last breaths.
"Damn you light seed! I won't let this matter go untouched! I vow on my name to kill you and ruin all this! I won't let you succeed, ever, even if I used all my strength to do that!"
These screams and empty threats and more were launched from the dark soul, yet Arthur was unfazed by these. "I have little time, my dear brave Arthur. I just wanted to tell you this isn't the last time we will see each other. Until we meet again, be prosperous and strong. Always keep your head high!"
Arthur felt a great gush of emotions welling up inside him; yet he perfectly controlled them. "I will," he simply said that before the Golam's body crashed and its energy finally got depleted.
"Boom!"
The next second the vortex exploded and the link between the two worlds shattered. The last scene Arthur saw was the fight was still raging between the two rivals, as for him he had nothing to occur at his world; except for this giant cocoon and that gigantic skeleton of the Golam.
"Sigh! It finally ended!" he felt greatly tired after all these stressful events. He glanced at the Golam skeleton. Despite its owner's soul being gone, the bones itself kept pulsating a green light, with each pulse a quake occurred in his city.
"It seems this isn't suited to be left here in the open," he moved his wings and then went to the bones and took them inside his garden.
He was also worried that his garden wouldn't hold the bones, yet when he entered there he was quite relieved. All the changes that occurred after the appearance of the bones were the rise in the rumbling intensity in the garden to be like deafening cannons.
As for the ground around the bones, where he laid them in the center of his garden, they were now indented strangely around the bones.
The giant Golam's skeleton was already gigantic, and so the surrounding ground got deeper. Arthur first thought it was because of the immense weight and strength of that skeleton, yet later on he realized it was an act from his garden.
He waved his hand to retrieve his sword, which was now covered in strange thick green smoke. "Are you alright?" he asked as he felt the sword was moving strangely away from the skeleton.
"I'm tired daddy, I will sleep daddy," the sword then yawned before it fell like a rock on the ground, midway between Arthur and the skeleton, leaving Arthur quite speechless there.
"At least here is safe and beneficial to your growth," he didn't know if he should laugh or cry. "I think the garden is planning to eat these bones away," he muttered before reopening his eyes as he returned to the actual world.
"Is it safe for my garden to consume the bones?"
"Ding! It's not to consume them, it's merging the bones with its own source, making it grow stronger and faster. It's very beneficial, and I'm quite sure you will be amazed by the final result."
"If you say so," Arthur trusted his system and took his words for granted.He smiled in content after hearing this answer as he turned to examine the giant girl again.. "Don't tell me she will turn to a butterfly!" he joked, trying to bring his body forward towards the giant cocoon, fighting the pain with plain humor.