The story talks about a young boy known as Cloud who aspired to become the greatest pilgrim warrior in Agaroth (the first warrior realm of mankind) despite his flaws, however there is more that meets the eyes as Agaroth is on the brink of extinction...
In the grey-leafed forest, Ziron held a Ripar male by the throat with one hand, choking him in the act while his irises glowed, and as the Ripar male gave up the ghost and Ziron released his grip, leaving the Ripar to drop on the ground. "They say i'm cool. They say i'm great. They say i am wonderful." A masculine voice said, prompting Ziron to look around, "But most of all…" "They say i'm amazing, because i am the amazing one, Obaru!!!" Obaru said as he rapidly flew down towards Ziron from behind with a wild smile. Ziron quickly turns and blocks Obaru's flying kick but Obaru immediately uses his other leg to knock Ziron away while having both arms behind his back. Ziron leveled himself while Obaru was on one knee grinning, however his demeanor quickly changes as he gapes at Ziron's face. "Ziron?" Obaru said in shock. "Hello, Obaru." Ziron said. "I thought you were a hiveling, and what's with your eyes?" Obaru asked, "I thought i saw-" Obaru paused as he takes notice of the corpse of the Ripar male Ziron killed which led him to quickly return his gaze to Ziron with a bland demeanor. "I thought i saw a hiveling killing one of our own, but it was you, wasn't it?" Obaru asked, "Ziron, what do you think you are doing?" "What exactly do you mean?" Ziron asked. "You know exactly what i mean." Obaru said, "We are fighting for our lives but here you are, killing your friends and comrades, when we should be having each other's backs! And what's with your eyes?!" "You know, i am starting to get tired of these friends and comrades crap." Ziron said, "We were never friends, neither were we comrades." "Nonsense!" Obaru replied, "How can you say that with all the times we all shared together? If we were never your friends or comrades, then what were we to you?" "My mission." Ziron answered. "Huh?" Obaru said in confusion. "I was sent by my master to infiltrate the academy and gather information about the next generation of elite warriors." Ziron said, "Everything you saw me doing was an act… A cover up, and now i have come to my final mission which is…" "To kill you humans before the sand runs out." Ziron said with a cold stare as his irises glowed. For a moment, Obaru stared at Ziron in a speechless manner and had a quick recollection of Balog's speech concerning the insiders (chapter 68) which made him bend his head down in an unhappy manner. "I see. So you are the one that horned guy talked about. You're the insider." Obaru said. "Yes. Now you understand the picture." Ziron said, "Me and my true comrades are the insiders." "True comrades, huh."Obaru said while still facing the ground, "Your eyes, they are just like his… The black scleras. Tell me…" "Is Sting one of you?" Obaru asked as he raised his head, "Is he part of your true comrades? "That's what i thought initially, until i decided to test him with these words." Ziron said. A flashback takes place at the streets of Keigra as Killer bee and Sting were walking and discussing with each and during that moment, Ziron stood in their front while smiling at them with closed eyes. "Hey there, Ziron." Sting said with a smile. "Can we help you?" Killer bee asked. "Congratulations on your win against Gorn. I never thought I'd see someone like him being beaten to that level." Ziron said, "This goes to show how strong you really are, but it makes me wonder why you were playing your strength in the first place." "Well, it's… A long story." Sting said while scratching the back of his head, "But you shouldn't sleep on Gorn. He's pretty strong too and-" "I'm not talking about Gorn. I'm talking about you." Ziron interrupts. The tone behind Ziron's words made Killer bee and Sting to stare at him in a slightly confused manner. "Anyway, i just wanted to know if you by any chance found this book: The emperor welcomes you to the black skies." Ziron said as he opens his eyes with his irises glowing. "Huh?" Killer bee said with a puzzled face. "No, i haven't. But that book sounds interesting. What's it all about?" Sting asked with a slight grin. "It is my favorite book and i thought you would by any chance know about it, but i was wrong." Ziron replied, "Oh well, i better go back to looking for it." Ziron turns his back to walk away, leaving Killer bee to stare at him in suspicion. "Ziron was acting really strange." Killer bee said to Sting, "And there was this odd feeling i was receiving from him." "Yeah, he was." Sting said as he placed his finger on his chin while facing the ground with a smile, "The emperor welcomes you to the black skies. I wonder if i can get a book like that here in Keigra." "He didn't know anything." Current Ziron said after recalling that incident, "I first thought he was a secret comrade of us until i told him that code, then i knew he wasn't. Whatever it was that made his scleras that color, it didn't come from my master." "The emperor welcomes you to the black skies… What does that even mean?" Obaru asked. "Why ask for something you won't live to talk about?" Ziron asked with a smile, "The real question you should ask is how long will you last before you die at my hands?" "Ziron, we don't have to do this." Obaru said. "Still looking at me as your friend, even with what i have revealed to you?" Ziron asked with a grin, "You really are stupid, Obaru." "If we fight now, i might not spare you." Obaru said. "You might not? I won't spare you." Ziron said while smiling with a raised brow, "If you are going to keep insisting on not fighting, then you will end up like Enida and the others." "Enida?" Obaru asked in shock, "What have you-?" "I killed her, obviously." Ziron cuts in, while still smiling "I crushed her skull with my foot. She thought she could get to me; she thought she could reach me as a friend, but we were never friends and she paid the ultimate price for thinking such, just like you are going to pay the price, too." "Look at you." Ziron said as Obaru frowned at him, "So pathetic. So useless." "Always calling yourself amazing but in the end, you show that you are nothing more than a worthless loud mouth." Ziron said with a slight grin, "You've never beaten any of the big ones. You've always been humiliated in most of your fights with them, but you still run your mouth like one who is on top." "Is it a one-shot attack that damaged your brain?" Ziron asked as he recalls Karma striking Obaru with her tail of carnage kick. "Or is it the flick of finger from the daughter of Iminko and Jian?" Ziron asked as he had a recollection of Jagami in her evolyed form knocking out Obaru with a flick of her finger. "Is it the time you fought the monster?" Ziron asked as he remembers the time Onak viciously stepped on Obaru's back, thereby creating a large craters while Obaru coughed out blood. "Or the time you lost to Gorn too quickly?" Ziron asked as a flashback takes place when Obaru was coiled up with golden glowing vines and during the time he was coiled up, Gorn was standing in his front with a bland demeanor. "Say, you were in forest Arkelix during the rumble, right?" Ziron asked, "I guess you must have fought Grei and his younger sister Dunen. I expected Grei to come out of the forest with a flag but it was his sister, instead. Did you lose to her? I wouldn't be surprised if you did. After all, even the ones that others considered to be extremely strong, though they are not part of the big ones, you still lost disgracefully to them…." "Just like the time you were almost beaten to death by the underworld fiend." Ziron said as he recalls the time Van was aggressively punching Obaru with his eyes completely glowing. "And the time you let your teammates down in your fight with Raen." Ziron said as he recalls another moment of Obaru laying on the ground while Raen stood with an outstretched arm as smoke was seeping out of her fist. "Do you remember the moment where you, Raen, Juni and Kardolac were paired against Jagami's team and she beat you all with no efforts and decided to use that insulting diamond driver on you and your teammates?" Ziron asked as a flashback takes place at the time a battered Obaru's head was stuck in-between Jagami's thighs while Idjra was on her knees begging. "If it weren't for the fact that Idjra was her teammate and was begging her not to drive you next, you would have ended up like Raen and Juni." Ziron said, "Crawling under your opponent is a huge insult to a warrior's pride but having your head forced under your opponent is also insulting." "You have let down your teammates because you have the intelligence of a nut, and yet you have the gulls to walk around and call yourself amazing when there is nothing amazing about you?" Ziron asked at the time Obaru was gazing at the ground with his upper face overshadowed, "I have never met anyone that hypes himself like you, only to fall short of it. If it wasn't for Idjra and Van's former friends, Van would have left you in the soil because you went to fight him when he was in a bad mood. If it wasn't for Idjra, Onak would have beaten you further. In fact, if it wasn't for Idjra, i wonder where you have been now, and somehow someone like you managed to become an A ranking candidate. You're pathetic, and i need you to open your eyes to reality…" "Idjra isn't here, anymore." Ziron said with a smirk, "And now, you are going to receive what you should have gotten a long time ago." "Your death!" Ziron said as he sent a blue crescent aura attack towards Obaru with a swipe of his arm. However as the attack closed in on Obaru (while he was still gazing at the ground with an overshadowed upper face) Obaru casually slapped the attack away, thereby causing it to cut multiple trees and some hivelings, leaving Ziron in shock. "Huh?" Ziron said. "You're right. I am a loud mouth." Obaru said while still gazing at the ground, "And it is true i have called myself amazing while taking a lot of humiliating defeats. But being amazing…" "Doesn't mean you are unbeatable." Obaru said as he raised his head with glowing irises. As this happened, Ziron slightly bent his side sideways while scowling. "I have taken defeats, after defeats, after defeats. And humiliations, after humiliations, after humiliations, but do you know why i still walk with my head high? Do you know why i don't let them bother me?" Obaru asked, "Because i learn from my defeats. I learn from my mistakes to become better and that's what makes me me. I am not the strongest. I am not the fastest, and i definitely am not the smartest, but i am the best at what i do and that's what make me unique!" "And what part is that?" Ziron asked. "You're about to find out." Obaru answered. "And you are about to learn that i am Obaru…!" Obaru said as glowing markings appeared round his arms, "And i…" "Am amazing!" Obaru said as he discharged a strong aura that destroyed his top. Glowing markings were all over Obaru's chest and arms at the time he was emitting his aura with glowing irises while Ziron was frowning at him. "He easily knocked away an attack of my gale force kan ability." Ziron said within himself, "If it was the Obaru of before, he would have been cut in half in an instant. He has gotten stronger, but i wonder how strong exactly." "Very well. Show me what you've got." Ziron said with a smile while discharging his aura as his irises glowed. "You've got it." Obaru said with a smile as he responds in the same manner. Meanwhile in the red-leafed forest, Sting was laying on the ground near a tree in a relaxed manner while having his eyes closed and during the time he laid there, Gorn walks towards his direction and stared down at him with crossed arms. "Are you going to keep laying down there?" Gorn asked, "We still got a lot of hivelings to get rid off and our comrades are still out there fighting." "I have already set a couple of traps with my gaaruda skills and they should have fallen into them by now." Sting replied with a smile while still closing his eyes, "But you're right, our comrades are still fighting for their lives. So let's go." "Wait, you set traps?" Gorn asked with a raised brow, "What kind of traps?" "The good kind." Sting answered with a dark smile as he opened his eyes (which were darkened).
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