TEASER CHAPTER 8 PART 1
In a dimly lit forest.
Two figures were facing each other in front of the wreckage of a collapsed and
burned hut.
One was Nozomu
Bountis, a young man with katana at his waist.
He was dressed in a
white Solminati Academy uniform and was taking a deep breath with a tense
expression on his face.
The other was Zonne,
an old man with a white beard, wearing a robe.
He had come to the
city as Tiamat's observer and was staring intently and seriously at the young
man in front of him with his wrinkled arms folded.
A tense atmosphere
filled the air between them.
Eventually, Nozomu put
his hand on his chest and clenched his palm as if grabbing something.
Then, as soon as he
shook off his clenched hand, an enormous torrent of power became scattered out
in all directions.
"Guu!"
Nozomu let out a cry
of anguish.
Perhaps Tiamat's power
was running through his body along with intense pain, his face tensed up, and
his palms were clenched until they turned white.
Nevertheless, Nozomu
desperately tried to control the rampaging power.
With his eyes tightly
closed, he kept focusing his consciousness within himself.
The power that was
being scattered around him like a storm gradually subsided.
However, Nozomu's
expression became more distorted than before, and soon his skin began to tear
with a tearing sound. Facing Tiamat's immense power, the self-inflicted wounds
had begun.
Even so, Nozomu
refused to be subdued by this power.
He kept consolidating
his mind, not caring about his own blood dripping.
(Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!)
Some of the leaked
power roared vindictively, blowing away the pebbles and sand in the area.
Then, part of the
overflowing power entangled Zonne as if to strangle him. It was as if it were
speaking for the will of the master of the power.
Zonne, however, showed
no particular sign of trying to stop the light of chaos that was entwining
around him, and he watched the scene before him with a fixed gaze.
After a few minutes,
there was a loud *snap!* sound. Along with that reverberating sound, the blood
flowing from Nozomu's laceration increased all at once.
At that moment, Zonne
opened his mouth.
"That's
enough."
At exactly the same
time as he said those words, the power that Nozomu had released subsided.
The raging power
subsided as soon as the invisible chains wrapped around Nozomu's body. At the
same time, Nozomu fell to his knees, crumpling to the ground.
"Haa, haa,
haa..."
Rough breathing leaked
from Nozomu's mouth, and blood dripped down from the open wound, smearing the
ground with a red color.
Zonne quickly deployed
magic to heal the wounds on Nozomu's body and at the same time washed away the
blood and smell that had seeped into his uniform.
The purpose of the two
of them being in this forest was to control Tiamat's power.
It was to learn how to
control the spirit, the main source of the dragon's power, and the power of the
element.
However, as far as
Nozomu was concerned, the results were not good.
