Into The Enemy Territory
We encountered some guards on our way to the Scaro City. They didn't ask why we were there or where did we come from, they simply let us enter the city.
The only reason I could think that explains their behaviour would be that the king is overconfident of himself and thinks that nobody can bring any harm to him.
Scaro city was as ordinary as any other city. There were stores selling magical items, weapons, food and various other things. We went to a magical store whose shopkeeper was an old person with long white beard and a short stature. I asked the shopkeeper about his views on the king. He remained silent. The look on his face was entirely composed of fear. As I turned around, I understood why he was so scared. Some people were coming this way who looked like knights. They came directly to the shop we were in and forcefully opened the door. One of them shouted, " This is the royal order of knights, Restle and we have come to collect the tax of this month, old man. Either give us the money or sell the shop." The shopkeeper requested them to grant some more days to pay the tax but the knights started rampaging inside the shop. They didn't listen to a word the old man said. As I was about to move to teach them a lesson, Meril attacked one of the soldiers with her sand magic. He started shouting that he can't see. The other knights became ferocious on seeing this. I moved forward with my confidence on its maximum level. Seeing this, the one who seemed to be the leader of this troop said, "Back off everybody. I will personally deal with this matter from here onwards." Facing us, he said, "You little bunch of shrimps look like you are new here. I will make you understand how the rules of this city work. Nobody opposes us, nobody!" He quickly drew his sword and attacked me. His sword was a magical weapon that was previously engraved with a fire card, making it a fire sword. I used my water magic on his weapon and his sword became useless. He said, "Oh, so you can defend yourselves against tiny magical weapons. I will show you something better then." I told him to bring it on. We went outside the store to continue our brawl. Meanwhile, Alice and Meril took care of the other knights with their combined water magic. I told them to let me fight alone with him. Before the fight continued, he said, "I am the vice captain of the Restle. My name is Theo. Those who disobey his majesty will die by my hands." He created a big tornado and trapped me inside it using wind magic. The tornado's base was fastly closing in so as to kill me. Then, he used his fire magic to produce a giant flame from the top of the tornado while flying using wind magic. "You cannot escape the flaming tornado", he said with an evil laugh on his face. As the fire approached towards me, I used my full power water magic on that flame and quickly used my void magic to bring a fighter plane to this world. I didn't know how to operate a plane before, but as I jumped on its seat, it was like I instantly gained the knowledge of a pilot and flew upwards towards the smoke of the extinguished fire. I used energy beam on Theo and he barely dodged it. His left shoulder was seriously injured by my beam. He then ran away from there. I went to Alice and Meril. They both looked relieved and said, "Thank God. You seem alright." Inside the shop, the old man was surprised and thanked us for standing up to the knights to save him. We said that we just did what we thought was the right thing to do. The old man then proposed to give me a magical item free of cost as a reward for helping him. I gladly took him up on his offer. He then took me to the basement of the shop. It looked very old and there were many boxes there. It seemed like a storage room. He then opened one of the boxes and took out a rectangular box. He said that this was the property of the previous hero and that he was a close friend of him. He was told to safeguard it until the one comes who is best suited to have it. Seeing how I fought the knights, he told me to open the box. I opened the box. A brilliant flash of light came from the box. Inside the box was a ring, a silver ring with a green diamond attached to it. I asked him what was its ability but he replied that I will soon understand that myself. We then went upwards to the main shop. He told me the way to the castle. I wore the ring and the three of us started moving towards the castle.
