One night at the middle of a mysterious forest, the fog is so thick even the moonlight can't be seen across, where the sound of silence ringing to the ears of a white-haired man with a giant sword in his back who walks to the area for almost 3 days, walking to the path where he didn't know where to go,
But suddenly…
The place becomes darker followed by a cracking sound from the sky,
seconds passed…
A path shows up, the fog blown by strong winds after an unknown phenomenon happened,
the man follows the breach of fog until he reaches the small village and felt something wrong,
he runs toward to see what happens, as the ashes from burning houses and trees circling to the area.
*Sounds like something thrown*
“Oh, a tail of a monst--, no a dragon,” he thinks as he approaching slowly from a blindspot.
The dragon seems ready to devour the body of a young boy crashed to the well,
the man draws a sword from his back and swings immediately,
the horn shattered and the blood burst from the left side face of the dragon.
*growled in agony*
The dragon reacts thru pain and answered with a massive ball of fire and fly away to escape,
the man starts to chant a magic spell,
his sword becomes bright surrounds with a blue aura on it and swings it towards,
as the fireball instantly disappears.
The man runs to the kid who got hit by a dragon and checks his vitals,
then he puts out all of his healing potions but the damage is too serious and has no effect.
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he thought the boy was on the brink of death and there's no chance to make him alive,
suddenly a door from his back opens and two women come out and took over the unconscious body,
he stands up, watches them crying knowing that the boy is from an orphanage nearby to the incident,
and accidentally saw blood from a bucket beside the well, he thought it was from the dragon.
* There is a rumor that the dragon’s blood has a healing effect or negative effect depends on the one who consumed but not proven yet because it is rare to have contact with a dragon
* Only 5 dragons living on this world and none of them being caught or killed.
The man took a mana potion from his pocket and poured it to the ground
and dipped the bottle to the bucket of blood before it goes dry,
then tells to the women that this is the only hope and the two of them agreed,
he opens the mouth and spills the blood into it.
2 days later…
The kid is still unconscious,
The man checking out his condition thinking that it is fault for taking too long to rescue the village.
As he talks to the head of the orphanage,
“I will take responsibility and will find a way to make him survive,” he said,
“You mean you will get him out here and adopt him? Oh no, we can't give that responsibility to a stranger” head of the orphanage said,
“Actually I'm not a stranger, I'm an adventurer, my name is Scottfiend Nearthspear” he answered,
The bald man becomes look pale and nervous trying to confirm but interrupted by showing his adventurers badge, the head rushed to make a meeting with the workers of the orphanage and take out the papers that need to sign an hour later.
After the agreement, Scottfiend bought a horse with a small cart and take the body of a 4-year-old boy with a black hair named Emilian, he leaves immediately and decides to go to the place known as Wellspring a forest of fairies that has a waterfall where can cure various kind of diseases and injuries if you try to drink the water from it.
Ten days later they arrived at the forest of Wellspring, the kid is still on the coma state but the condition of his body stays maintained because of Scott’s strength buffs that he used to him daily.
Scottfiend carried Emilian to his back and walk around finding the healing falls, after-hours pass and the night has come, there are no signs that the forest has a waterfall, they found a cave and decides to stay there for the meantime he puts down Emilian and Scottfiend sits beside him until he feels dizzy and falls asleep, he starts to dream weird that he is alone in the complete darkness.
a moment later,
Something whispered to him.