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{Black Dragon Base}
In a grand hall, A big round table could be seen at the center of the room with ten chairs surrounding it.
A massive, ancient chandelier hanged from the ceiling as it gave a dim illumination to the entire hall room.
The chairs surrounding the table each had a number inscription on it numbering one to ten.
Chairs seven to ten were unoccupied, but the rest were occupied.
"You mean to tell me, Falkore and the rest were done over by a single man?" The man sitting on the chair with the inscription #3 said.
"Was it one of the Saint?" #1 asked in a calm but fear inciting tone.
"Nah! It was some random old dude with an eye patch covering his purple eye." #4 said in a nonchalant tone despite the obvious tension in the room.
"That was no random old man. That was Ra Azar a BETA class G.A.D.S agent. Be careful around him." #1 said.
"Be careful? There is not a soul I can't beat." #4 said nonchalantly.
"You should mind that mouth of yours." #3 said in a furious tone.
#2, #5 and #6 remained silent, while 3 and 4 bickered back and forth.
"Silence!" #1 said in a calm yet domineering tone. His calm
voice shook the structure down to it's core.
"Shishhhh! Your so up tight Rarkham." #4 said as he got up from his seat and walked away with his hands behind his head.
"Come back here Saturn! We haven't been dismissed." #3 roared.
"Huh!" Saturn turned to face the yelling man.
"If you wanna stop me, come catch me!" Saturn said before sticking out his tongue.
"You bastard!"#3 yelled as he furiously got up from his seat.
"Bye bye." Saturn said as he disappeared on the spot.
"Do I go after him?" #3 turned to face #1, Rarkham.
"No, it's not necessary." Rarkham said.
"You are all dismissed. " He added as he got from his seat.
"Might." Rarkham called.
"Sir."
"Take this." Rarkham stretched out his hand, and place a dragon scale in #3, Might's hand.
"Test this on the students they were able to capture. If it glows it means he is the one." Rarkham concluded before exiting the room.
Rarkham lost his composure immediately he left the hall room. He frowned his face indicating signs of anger.
'You would have been dead if I didn't need you.' Rarkham said in his head, as he took a turn towards a non illuminated pathway.
He continued walking through the dark pathway, until he arrived at a brown wooden door.
*Creak!-creak!-*
The door creaked as he pushed it open.
The sight behind the door looked very different from the rest of this castle like structure.
It had no Victorian era designs like the other parts of the castle. It had torches hanged on the wall, which served as the source of illumination.
An almost non ending series of descending steps were before Rarkham as he took one of the torches from the wall and started his descent.
After approximately two thousand steps, he arrived at a giant black metallic gate. He quenched the torch as he stood before the giant black gate.
Pushing the gates, he walked into an extremely big underground room.
One could fit in five football fields into this place and it wouldn't fill it.
Blue glowing crystals hanged from the roof of the room, serving as illumination.
The room itself, was built in a circular manner and at the centre of it, was a circular platform with weird symbols on it.
Several fifty meter tall statues of different constructs filled the room, as they surrounded the strange circular platform.
Without hesitation, Rarkham walked to the strange circular platform at the center of the room.
Once he got there, a dagger materialized from thin air into his hands.
Slicing his wrist, a few drops of blood fell onto the platform.
*Zwoomm!*
The inscriptions on the platform and the eyes of the statues glowed red.
Suddenly, thick black fog started to come out of the mouth of the statues.
Rarkham closed his eyes as the thick black fog started to swirl around him until it completely engulfed him.
After a few moments, he opened his eyes and found himself on a platform at the center of a raging a volcano.
The clouds and the air around the volcano were chaotic. As purple flashes of Lighting decorated the sky couple with stormy winds blowing across.
'This is where you chose this time.' Rarkham muttered in his head.
Suddenly, the lava around the platform started to rise up, forming a strange inhuman looking head.
"My Lord!"Rarkham said, as he knelt before the giant frightening lava construct.
"Have you found his son?" A domineering voice emanated from the lava construct.
"No my Lord." Rarkham said without raising his head.
"My patience is wearing thin Rarkham." The lava construct said in a furious tone, as each word struck with immense power causing Rarkham to fear for his life.
"Do not fail me or you would face my wrath!!" The lava construct said.
"You have five years and do not fail me!" The lava construct added.
"I will not fail you my Lord." Rarkham said in reply, as he bowed to the giant lava construct.
"Very well then." The lava concluded.
Suddenly, the lava around the platform started to rise, until it was as high a two storey building.
The lava encircled the platform, before crashing into Rarkham like a wave in the sea.
Rarkham closed his eyes ready to beat the brunt of hot lava.
*Boom!!!*
The lava crashed into him, completely engulfing. Rarkharm closed his eyes expecting the heat but the next thing, Rarkham found himself back in the large underground room.
He opened his eyes and looked around him to confirm he had truly returned back to reality.
The statues had reverted back to normal and the thick black fog was non existent. The glowing red symbols had also returned back to normal.
Once he came to terms with his surroundings, he got off he platform.
"I will not fail you my Lord" Rarkham muttered to himself as he walked towards the giant black gates.