Chapter 2: The Summoning


I was still asleep from my nap when, "IOOM!"

"Ugh...what now..." I talked in my sleep as, "IOOM!"

"Seriously...can't this explorer here have his peace and quiet or whatsoever..." I grumbled in my sleep when, "IOOM! IOOM! IOOM!"

"Dang it! In the middle of my nap, they have to make so much explosive noises that-" I stopped for a moment. "I sense danger...and it's straight ahead." Without hesitation, I stood up and jumped up to a low hanging branch. I swung a bit and threw myself forward and caught another. And then, I did the same thing onto another tree branch and so on...

Meanwhile...

3 Stone Golems were shot by the magic arrows of Mercedes's bowguns as she channelled her powers and fired a barrage at 5 more. Evan and Mir fought the golems together with fusion attacks. Evan used Gale and Mir used Dragon Flash executing a fusion attack on 3 Mixed Golems.

As they got ready, "COWABUNGA!"

"Who was that?" Mir asked and suddenly, I finally arrived as I swung to the last branch and got down. I soon saw the golems and the heroes. "Ah...I thirst for battle and it called me during my nap!" I thought with a smile as I drew out my twin wakizashis and held them in reverse grip. I then charged my way down and once near, I jumped up doing a front flip over a golem and slashed it down as I landed down also and in front of it as it collpased. The heroes soon noticed me, "Who's that guy?" Evan asked. "He looks new here." Mercedes assumed as I wasted no time channelling my powers as a bluish green energy is building up on myself and the weapons and then, I slashed down my weapons in an X pattern forming a bluish green energy X and then, I punched the air with both fists causing the energy to be repelled straight through some golems destroying them!

"Wow! What power master!" Mir exclaimed as I slid down and through a golem between the legs, kept my weapons and engaged them in close combat. I dropkicked a golem, did a handstand and spun myself around with my legs kicking out 4 golems and then, I jumped up doing a backflip over a golem while twisting my body and landed behind him and low kicked it's stone legs. I then shoulder rolled under it and did a handstand while kicking it down. After that, I spent a few minutes doing front flips, backflips and multiple kicking techniques with style.

"Are we just going to stand here and do nothing while this new player does all the fighting?" Mercedes asked as she dashed forward using Rising Rush sending some golems in the air and used Aerial Barrage followed by Leap Tornado chaining her attacks as they dealt massive damage on the golems that are caught and brought up in mid air from her Rising Rush attack. "Let's go Mir!" Evan got onto him as the dragon breathe fire toasting 6 Icy Mixed Golems in a shot. And back to me, I drew my wakizashis and released flying energy slashes as they cut through some golems and then, I executed a dashing strafe attack by dashing through some golems in a line while slashing my weapons rapidly and randomly and once I finished dashing through, the golems that were in my line of attack crumbled and collpased down. "Damn, I'm good!" I thought to myself with a smile as I threw one of my weapons at a Mixed Golem, jumped to it and reclaimed my weapons by driving it down as it cut the golem down. I did the same thing to 3 more golems hurling my weapons to them, flipping myself and reclaiming my weapon while slicing them down. I then threw one of them at a golem that zipped past Evan and Mir and it struck it's head. "Close call." said Mir. "Yeah..." Evan looked at me doing the fighting. "He is something! His power and skills are incredible!" He thought as he used his Thunder Circle attack on 6 golems followed by Mir who used Dragon Dive and in doing so, a fusion attack is activated in the form of Thunder Dive that finished off the 6 golems as electric orbs rolled out and electrocuted them.

The battle continues on as, "Alright, anymore to take down?" I asked while spinning my weapons and as we regrouped. Instantly more showed up. "You really have to say that..." Mercedes groaned as, "Master! There are more of them than just now! It's like as if we took down the first wave and the second one is reserved for the right moment!" Mir calculated. "I can see that Mir. This ain't good. We'll tire ourselves if we keep fighting." said Evan. "Let's hope these golems are all that's left." said Mercedes. "And I'll make this quick and easy because one thing's for sure, we need an army to aid us." I stated.

All were confused by what I said as I stepped forth. Then, "He took out some sort of gimmicks from his pouch." Evan noticed as I clenched them gently and placed my fist on my chest. A few seconds later, I threw them in the air and shouted.

"SOUL DICE SUMMONING!"

"What?" Evan, Mercedes and Mir exclaimed as about 6 die landed around me. "Nothing happened." said Mir. Then, the dies unfolded out and something came out them leaving the heroes and Mir astonished.

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"He summoned a Memory Guardian, a Chief Memory Guardian, a Qualm Guardian, a Chief Qualm Guardian, an Oblivion Guardian and a Chief Oblivion Guardian!" Evan exclaimed as they stood by my side and something interesting happened that rendered the 2 heroes and the onyx dragon more astonished.

"Command us master!" The Chief Oblivion Guardian spoke first.

"What is your will?" The Chief Qualm Guardian spoke next.

"We are ready for anything!" The Chief Memory Guardian spoke last.

"THEY TALKED?!" They exclaimed as I smiled at them. "There's more to their talking. Alright guys, let's have fun." I told the guardians as they cheered and charged with me. The battle has resumed as I attached my wakizashis together forming a one handed weapon with emitters activated around the attached handgrips like a ring(A reference to the lightsaber design from the inquisitors from the Star Wars Rebels show)as I channelled my power to the blade and slashed out a devastating flying energy slash so wide it sliced through 15 golems.

The Chief Memory and Qualm Guardians punched down a golem each and the Qualm one punched it's fists together and launched a spike at a Dark Stone Golem that was about to attack Mercedes from behind. She even noticed it. "Saved by a monster..." She thought when a Stone Golem leapt to attack her. She got ready when fire roasted it. "Evan!" She exclaimed as, "Yeah. I gotta make sure the queen is safe." He replied. She smiled from this as she fired one of her bowguns behind hitting a Flaming Mixed Golem.

Back to me as I first switched one of my wakizashis making the blade face the opposite side and then channelled my power by activating a spinning mechanism on my attached weapon as the weapon spun rapidly forming an energy disc and once ready, I hurled it to my right. At that moment, the heroes watched in awe as my spinning weapon went slicing and dicing around and, "You can see his hand move master." Mir brought. "I see! He's controlling his weapon to move about!" Evan realized as it was recalled back to my hand.

"Nice move master!" The Qualm Guardian commented as he summoned his spear and struck the ground as 2 energy spears appeared above a Flaming Mixed Golem and they pierced through it diagonally. The Memory Guardian summoned his sword and did the same thing as 2 energy swords appeared above an Icy Mixed Golem and they pierced through it diagonally. Evan and Mir then helped the Oblivion Guardian as he's seen being beaten by 4 golems. "Pound me all you like but I don't fall so easily!" The Oblivion Guardian shouted as Mir fired a lightning bolt hitting 2 of them and the other 2 were punched the guardian. After that, "Thanks!" He thanked Evan and Mir as he summoned his battle axe and slammed the axe head on the ground causing a blast of earth to erupt on a golem damaging it. Mir used Dragon Flash while Evan used Wind Circle forming the fusion attack, Wind Flash as sharp blades of wind in the shape of rings struck several golems down. "Cool." The Chief Oblivion Guardian exclaimed as it summoned his axe and struck the ground as a flame burst erupted from the ground destroying a Mixed Golem.

Finally after more fighting...

The last golem was down thanks to Mir. With the battle over, the guardians went to me. "We have done it master!" The Oblivion Guardian spoke. "Agreed." I replied and then, the 6 of them glowed and diminished in size and soon enough, 6 soul dies are on the ground and then, they levitated and in a speed of light, they are recalled back to my hand. I counted them first and kept them in my pouch. "My work here is done." I thought as I got ready to leave when, "Wait!" I looked behind facing the 2 heroes. "Thanks for the help." Evan began. "But there's something we want to ask you. Who are you? Where did you come from? What are your origins and how did you do that summoning of those guardians?"

"This is something new to us and it's quite a surprise that you can do that." Mercedes added. I looked at them for a moment. I then faced the front. "All will be revealed in time. Till we meet again." I walked away back to where I came from as Evan, Mir and Mercedes watched until I'm gone.

In the forest, "A good fight I had and now, I need to go back to my nap." I then decided to clear my mind as I took out a dice and it opened up revealing a flute. I then started playing some music causing some Slimes to follow me and I never noticed.

Back there...

"He is one mysterious explorer. Don't you agree master?

"Yeah he does look and behave mysteriously." Evan agreed with Mir when, "What's that?" Mercedes pointed at something on the grass. Evan went to pick it up and, "It's a dice! Yes, he chanted something and it has the words, soul dice." The dice he's holding is white and it has the picture of the helmet of the Qualm Guardian. "It must have slipped when he's keeping his dice. But now that he's gone, it'll be hard to find him so for now, I'll hold onto this until I see him again." Evan suggested. "Agreed. Your wisdom grows each day I see." Mercedes complimented and she noticed something else. "Wait a minute...Evan! Look at this!" He went to her as she picked it up. "A doll?"

"Not just any ordinary doll..." Evan took it and examined it. "The doll is in the form of a Stone Golem." Mir noticed. "And there are many scattered all over the place." Then it hit Evan. "We've been fighting puppet monsters! The whole time!"

"But why? What's their agenda?" Mercedes asked. "Correction. Who's agenda in sending these puppet monsters to attack us." Evan corrected the queen as he looked around again. After that, "C'mon Merc, let's take you back to Elluel. But first, I need to clean up and we need to collect all the dolls." Evan then went to pack up the stuff back in the picnic basket while Mir and Mercedes collected done. Once done, the heroes got onto Mir as the onyx dragon took flight for Elluel.

Elluel...

The elders are seen chatting among themselves when Mir arrived with his passengers on his back. "We're back!" He called out as Evan and Mercedes disembarked. "So...HOW WAS IT?! HOW WAS THE DATE!?" An overexcited Danika asked. "It's not a date seriously." Evan and Mercedes replied in unison. "But they confessed to each other." Mir stated. "WHAT?" They exclaimed in horror and with the colour red on their faces as, "Don't think I don't know master. Dragons have strong hearing even if they're sleeping." Mir stated as Danika went hyper. "YESSSSSS! It's official!" Danika hugged Mercedes as, "I see you had a good time my queen." Astilda spoke first. "Though we also heard explosions nearby." Philius added. "Ah yes. Golems from Henesys Ruins ambushed us. How they got here is unknown." Evan explained. "Yes I can see that because these monsters can only be found in that area." Philius replied. "But that's not the first time in happened."

"What do you mean?" Evan asked. "Well this month, we've heard that monsters from different regions are attacking other regions. One example is that some Sand Dwarves and Dark Sand Dwarves attacked Kerning City and it's a surprise that they're in that place even though you can find them in the Sahel Deserts." Mercedes brought up. "I thought it was rumours until today when we got ambushed. Furthermore, we brought these." Mercedes pointed at the dolls Mir was carrying with his claws and he dropped all of them. "It also happened that the dolls in the form of the dwarves were found after they're defeated. Not mention they vanished afterwards." Philius stated.

"Wait, vanish?" The heroes asked and the next thing it happened, the dolls glowed and disappeared. "How peculiar." Astilda exclaimed as, "It appears that the vanishing is a way to cover their tracks." Evan is in deep thought now as, "This might be a threat if this keeps up. Soon we may need to report this to the empress." And then, "Evan?"

"Yeah Merc?"

"Thanks for bringing me out. It was wonderful." Mercedes thanked him with a smile as behind them, "Have they kissed?" Danika asked Mir. "Nope." He replied as, "Drat! I was hoping that they did." Danika groaned as Astilda and Philius laughed and after that, they left. Now that they're alone, "Alright, I gotta go. We'll see each other again." Evan spoke. "Yes. We will." Mercedes replied and since no one's looking, she gave Evan a quick smooch on his cheek leaving him speechless. She then smiled at him and went back to her royal chambers.

As for Evan, "Whoa...so this is love..." He thought with a smile when, "Master, are you having naughty thoughts about the queen?"

"Wh-What? No! Absolutely not! Now let's go home." Evan replied as he got onto Mir and they took off. From outside her chambers, Mercedes watched and smiled. "My heart feels it when I did it onto him. So this is love..." She thought as she went in to rest.

Somewhere at an unknown location...

"Ah...they survived the attack." A silhouetted figure noticed via his magic as it shows the fighting between the golems and the heroes including the new player and he's seen holding on to a doll with strings attached and the figure is holding them.

"This is just the beginning. Soon, Maple World will be mine to rule! And as for this new player...he's an interesting type to taken on..." He then let out a laugh.

To Be Continued...