Roland

Chapter 8 Duty

Ron was now on the scene when the man who found a crystal of god that was fell from the sky. The man who found it placed the crystal inside his small bag and continued his journey. Not long after the man continued his journey he now arrived at a city. It was a big city in the kingdom, first thing first he tried to sell all of his loot. But one thing that could not be sold was the crystal. No one knew what kind of crystal was that. So no one tried to take it.

Not long after he had the first crystal, the same man also received two more crystals on his journey back from big city to his small cabin in the village. The days, weeks, months passed so fast. It was so fast that it took only 12 seconds to reach one year. This time the man finally revealed his true name Armatelo, the legendary blacksmith. Armatelo was holding the grimoire cover, the handle of sword, and a wand that were all created by himself.

Armatelo was a man of legend. It was told that Armatelo was the greatest blacksmith of all ages. He was the only man that was capable of creating the weapons of god. Since he was able to create 3 of 5 weapons, he was so famous that the story of him was told all around the village. Then everyone in the village that inherited the story was also told in the book that contains fairy tales about god and legendary men like Armatelo and other else. Since Ron was a fan of the fairy tale books he noticed at the very first sight that the man was Armatelo because the man was exactly like the one described in the book. An old dwarf, small, macho, bald, his eyes were the ones which made him look different than the others. He was a dwarf with a kind eyes.

Armatelo were now given the weapon to three people who would use them. The first one was Eletensia, a woman who used a sword as her main weapon. Second is an old dude who was wearing thief clothes. And the third is the hero called Shelly Moore. It was a guy, who had the same age as Ron right now. A guy who became a legend in their village. Now once again all of the vision were distorted. It was a blackout now nothing but a single light came right in front of Ron.

This time Ron arrived at a completely blank space and right in front of him stood alone Shelly Moore.

"Hey there!? What is your name?" asked Shelly.

Ron didn't know that the question was directed to him so he looked around if there was any other person she was talking to.

"Yeah it was for you dude!? Will you stop looking around and answer my question?"

"Erm... sorry.... Okay..."

"Okay once again. What is your name?"

"My name is Ron."

"Nice to meet you Ron. It seems like you are the other chosen one to wield this book."

"What do you mean?"

"Well this book choses whomever it wants to wield it. So I was the first one and you were the second one. Everyone that wield it are having a good advantage and disadvantage. So good luck Ron."

"What does that mean? Please tell me more Shelly?"

"Uhm...."

For a second Shelly's face looked like he was annoyed by the question. And not long after that, his face was showing a consideration.

"Okay... Okay... Here is some rules. Everyone that wield this book is given some advantages with a skill that can be used as long as he holds this book. The user also has an advantage of being young as long as he lives. The disadvantage of it is that you must fulfill the duty of protecting this world from the enemy, but first you will lose something or someone that is very precious to you."

"What do you mean someone who is precious to me? You are joking, right?"

"No! Listen carefully, boy! Be prepared for it!"