Worlds Best- Untouched (A SwordArt Online FanFiction)

Chapter 58

"I.. I .. I'm not sure." Stammered the wizard.

All 6 of us walked through the damaged temple, we found were the huge hole in the temple wall was and found the location of the explosion.

"But this was where we put the bodies of the Rebel group." Said the wizard.
I walked in and heard the crunching of the bones I crushed with my foot...

"I don't understand.. Ooooh, we should have known!!" Yelled the wizard in anger.
We were all confused.
"Should have known what??" Asked Tom.

The wizard walked out of the room. The girls looked at me before we all followed him.
We found him crouched down at the slightly charred body of the wizard that granted me the blessing.
He was a nice guy..

The wizard stood up and turned to me. "There is a spell that some dark casters can put on themselves and others.
It seams that the Rebels have a dark caster strong enough to cast the Dead mans switch spell on 50 people.. That's a lot of mana. What the spell is, is that when someone with that spell cast on themselves dies.. When the people that killed them least expect it, there bodies explode. And due to the fact that there was so many of them, the dark caster wasn't able to make a big explosion but a lot of small explosions because there are so many people...

These.... Monsters have made me the last of my kind."
Said the wizard as he looked around at his dead people half burned on the black floor.

--------2 hours later---------

We had retreated to the lower levels of the temple after the sacred ceremony where we let the bodies of the dead Wizards float down the waterfall at the east side of the mountain top.
Laura had made a small fire and we had cooked some mammoth meat for dinner.

"What will you do now?" I asked the wizard as he stared into the fire.

"I don't know.. Here with my brothers and sisters I was Aronn the last master blacksmith of the ancient race. But now. I am nothing." He said not moving his eyes way from the fire.

I looked at my party. My friends then I looked back at the lonely wizard.
"Help us defeat the Rebel guild, help us get justice.
The alliance I made today with your leader still stands after his death.
Come to my castle and be Aronn the last master blacksmith of the ancient race. Build for the Nights men. Help us make this world a better place without the rebel guild."

Aronn turned away from the fire and looked at me.

"..... I will forge for you, for justice, for my brothers and sisters but why would I go to your castle?" He asked.

I looked confused.
"What do you mean?" I asked

"you think that this is just a temple" said the Aronn
"There used to be hundreds of thousands of my people living here" he said proudly.

"I'm so confused" said Tom.

Aronn stood up and walked over to a large wall. He pulled out his necklace a placed the star pendant into the wall like a key.
The wall split in half and moved to reveal a large set of marble stairs. Sets of torches lit themselves showing more and more stairs.

"Wow, just how far does it go?" I asked.
Aronn laughed "this entire mountain has been hollowed out. There are enough houses in just one level to house 2000 people. And we have the biggest and best blacksmith in the entire world" said Arron boasting.

"Holy shit!" Whispered Tom.