Book 4 | Agent 34 and the Last Gem

Chapter 31 | The Giant Skeleton

Calvin couldn't get any confirmation on the relocation because of Thad's Awakening—he had locked himself in his newly built throne room with just barely enough time before he switched to a wolf uncontrollably.

Barjual had stated that it'd be better for the Zena to just leave Renya entirely. He said that he had been to another continent that had other civilizations on it. He didn't exactly see what they were, but he just looked at from above the ocean to not disturb their peace. They looked more advanced to him as they seemed to have bigger and better ways of building their cities.

The dragon said there was no point in fighting anymore since Agent 34, their best shot at beating Braunick, had now been killed. He said it'd be good to just leave and retreat to a new continent and restart their civilization over once again and let Renya sort itself out.

Calvin agreed with retreating, but it bothered him to just sit on the sidelines and just let Renya "sort itself out". He had an itch for war and to extract revenge on Braunick for disrupting his kid's lives by ripping their family apart. His storm was the reason his mother went insane and killed their father and tried to kill Calvin. All of this was Braunick's fault. Braunick had probably ruined more families in different and similar ways. Braunick had destroyed Renya and Calvin wanted to fix it all.

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The skeleton landed on the grass, Ar'guals darting out of the way to not be crushed by him.

Sir Paor took in his surroundings. He had landed where construction was currently ongoing, which he assumed was the Zena. And the Zena was where his target was.

The Ar'guals stared at him. They knew he was from Braunick due to him being a giant skeleton, something only Braunick had been able to come up with. He had created giant skeletons by mutating current skeleton and upping their bone sizes.

Even though they knew he was from Braunick, they didn't attack him yet because he hadn't attacked them. It was just their Ar'gualian nature.

"I'm," The giant skeleton choked back his words. "I'm looking for someone,"

"Who might that be," an Ar'gual from the back spoke up. The other Ar'guals cleared a path for their lord, a Lord Grari. Grari walked through the path they had made and stood face to face with Sir Paor.

"Calvin Evilslayer," Paor told him.

"Why do you need him?" The Lord of the Ar'guals asked.

"It is of request by Braunick himself," The giant skeleton explained.

"There's one way Calvin will go with you and one way only," Grari said.

"And that is?"

"You will have to fight him. If he wins, he gets freedom. If he loses, you go back to wherever Braunick's castle is and tell him of your failure,"

The skeleton tried not to laugh at the offer. "Deal," Sir Paor knew he would win. The only way to kill a skeleton is to behead them, and there was no way a simple mortal like Calvin could behead someone as powerful as Paor.

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"Calvin!" Grari knocked on his bedroom door. The gray human slowly opened it, looking down upon the Ar'gual standing outside. "Calvin, a giant skeleton is here and says he wants a fight,"

"A fight?" Calvin stepped out into the corridor, shutting the door behind him. "Why?"

"He said he was here to take you to Braunick," Grari said. "and I said if you could beat him in a fight then you gain your freedom,"

"I was free to begin with," Calvin said. "I am property of no one. And, why would Braunick want me? I'm a normal human with no gems or significance whatsoever,"

"I can't explain Braunick's actions," The Ar'gual said. "The only person that can is Braunick himself. And I'm not even sure Braunick can explain himself anymore,"

"I can't fight a skeleton," Calvin stated. "Especially not a giant skeleton. I'll be killed,"

"No," Grari said. "He wants you alive. Outsmart him and you'll win. He can't harm you that much because Braunick wants you in the flesh,"

Calvin stiffened. He was worried about the fact that Braunick wanted him for whatever reason. There was no logical explanation about how Braunick knew of Calvin's very existence, much less want him in his castle.

"I can try to fight him," The gray human said. "but I need a backup plan in case I lose. I need a way to not get taken to Braunick regardless of winning or losing,"

"I'll work on it while you fight," Grari said.

Calvin began to walk to the entrance of the Zena and Grari waited by his friend's bedroom door with his hands on his hips. "Thad should have never put me in charge of the Zena while he was awakening," He said. "There's no way Calvin can beat him. I don't have a clue how I'm gonna save him. I just didn't want to attack the skeleton because he hadn't done anything to us yet,"

Grari began to walk in the same direction as Calvin did to watch the fight.