The Secret of the Fire dragon

Before entering the Sofya city, the three of us spent some time together in the forest of death. Since I didn't know about my magical capabilities, I thought it would be safer to start practicing both attack and defensive magic if I wanted to protect Alice.

Thinking that, I went to the river and was surprised to see that Alice and Meril were bathing in it. I quickly faced the other side. Both their faces went red and Alice instinctively attacked me with her water magic. Well, getting hit with the magic was worth seeing their soft and smooth naked bodies.

After that, a few moments of silence passed and then I told them that I wasn't there knowingly and Alice too apologized for her behaviour.

Then I said, "I want to test my magical capabilities." Both Alice and Meril looked like they knew that I was going to ask them that. Well it's not such a surprise seeing how I fought the witch. So I started combining different types of magic. The most offensive magic in my mind was combining the light and fire magic. Not many people were there with both these magic types together. So I kept both the cards in front of me on top of each other and thought of producing a beam. And there it was! An "energy beam" came right through the cards. Even though I tried to keep the output to a minimum, the whole top of the mountain in front of me was obliterated! Not even I suspected that I could be that powerful.

Alice and Meril had their mouths open in shock and I just smiled looking towards them with my right hand on my hair. It was like I changed the landscape of the area.

For defensive magic, I used dark and ice magic cards to form a huge block of ice with high defensive power which is the speciality of the dark magic. Dark magic is the magic that produces something like a black hole that absorbs the magic attack of the enemy. The ice magic was the best type to reflect the stored energy back to the enemy.

Meril and Alice helped me with my practice.

After practicing for some time, we entered Sofya City. We went to the place that witch mentioned i.e. a bar named "Drinking Ducks". Only one person there matched the description of Jay - A man with long black ponytailed hair with a cross shaped scar on his cheek and in a silver armour, just like a knight. We told her how the fire dragon attacked Meril's village and how we met the witch and that she told us to ask him about the fire dragon. Jay then told us to sit there with him and started his story,

"I am from the kingdom of Alkia that lies to the east of this nation. I was a royal magic knight there with the duty to protect the palace from invaders. Me and my allies were successful in doing so for more than twenty years. We fought against thousands of rebels and won too. But this man! He came alone and took out every single one of my allies in a single fell swoop. He was so powerful that even the king surrendered his throne to him.

As each of my allies was being beaten, I stood there frozen and when I came to, I ran for my life. I won't forget that man. I will avenge my allies.

Since you have already proven your power to my friend Rebecca, the witch, I would gladly tell you about the fire dragon in exchange for the promise to overthrow the current ruler of Alkia."

We promised him that we would do so and he continued,

"The current king is an individual with vast magic power. You could already assume that from the way he captured the palace on his own. But the prophet of my kingdom told him that she saw in the magic crystal that the one who will defeat him is coming from the west, bringing "death" as a present for him. The king became extremely mad at the prophet and executed her at the spot.

But his lingering doubts made him attack the kingdom of Magiclus. He released the fire dragon that was kept as a secret weapon when the whole world was war-waged. This is the secret behind the fire dragon you have encountered, my dear elf. I am really sorry I could not protect your family and your village from this horrible fate."

Composing herself, Meril told Jay, "Don't worry I won't blame you for the incident. The only fault is of the devilish king ruling Alkia. We will definitely overthrow him and make Alkia a peaceful country like it was before."

Hearing that Jay said that he was relieved to meet such amazing people and that he would keep us informed about the invasion of the fire dragon through his vast information network. We thanked him and headed towards the capital city of Alkia, where the royal palace was located, Scaro City.