The Abandoned City
As we continued our journey to overthrow the king of Alkia, we reached a city that seemed like a town of ghosts. There was nobody on the streets and all the houses were in such a bad shape that they looked over a thousand years old.
The shops were open but no shopkeeper was there!
We were so scared that we didn't even notice that somebody was behind us. We turned back slowly, only to be scared to death. It was a ghost! A ghost of a beautiful woman dressed in white with no legs at all. Without a moment of hesitation, we ran away from her but she was following us. She was saying, "Stop, Stop!" but there was no way in hell we would stop after listening to a ghost say so.
We continued running but the ghost suddenly popped up in front of us and we froze. Since we knew we couldn't run away from her, we listened to what she was saying. She told us that this is the town of El Scaro, one which was blooming with happiness just recently but due to a huge monster suddenly appearing on the snowy hill adjacent to the city, we have to sacrifice one person everyday as a meal for the monster. Our fear of the ghost was gone after hearing that. So I asked, "Who are you? Are you a ghost?" She replied, "I am Mina, and yes indeed I am a ghost but it's not like I wanted to be one. I was also sacrificed to the monster but I had a special type of magic power that allowed me to remain as a ghost until the monster who has killed me is defeated. Call it a curse or a blessing, that's how I became a ghost and am able to convey this information to you. I beg you please defeat the monster so that the town of El Scaro is safe once more."
We carefully listened to her story and told her about our journey till now and told her that we would help her free the town of the evil monster.
Then we started climbing up the snowy hill. At the top of the hill, we found a huge monster sleeping and making a very loud snoring sound.
It was like a giant gorilla with white fur and blackish face.
As soon as I approached the monster, as though it sensed me, it woke up and roared, "Who goes there?" As he sees me he begins laughing and says, "A puny little human? You dare disturb my sleep or is it lunchtime already?"
I gathered my courage and shouted at him, "Monster, you will not be able to eat any other human as I am going to obliterate you here and now!" The monster laughed loudly and started attacking me. He produced an ice beam from his mouth. Instinctively, I used my minimum power energy beam on him and both the attacks cancelled each other. The monster was surprised and said that no human has ever been capable of deflecting his ice beam and I replied that this was nothing as I could do much more than that. The monster became angry and said, "How about this then?" and he suddenly lifted both his hands in the sky and in no time a gigantic ice ball had formed!
I didn't even fear the ice ball, instead I used my dark-ice magic. As soon as the ice ball hit my magical block of ice coated with dark magic, it vanished and after a moment it was reflected back on the monster.
The monster died and his last words were, "I, the mighty snow monster being defeated by a human! It's unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable!" and after that there was no sign of the monster left. He was utterly defeated by my magic. Just how in the world did I get this power?
Just then, the ghost of Mina started disappearing. She thanked us for defeating the monster and releasing her spirit and the village from the huge monster. She then told us that there is a shortcut to the capital city, Scaro City and that we wouldn't be found out by the king if we went there from that way. But she warned us that that way was full of dangers and no human being has ever survived after going there.
After we told her that we would go there and reach Scaro City, no matter what, she told us the way and disappeared. Believe it or not, it was an underground dungeon!
