"I don't understand, sir." Jude shook his head and then the king sighed.
"Jid." The king said and Jude was confused as that's not his name.
"Actually, it's ju--"
"Yes, your majesty." A voice from behind cut in and Jude looked back to see a guard in golden armour bowing down.
"Tell the human all he needs to know." The king instructed and Jid looked at Jude with a tranquil expression.
"Right this way, chosen one." Jid said in a polite tone and directed Jude out of the room.
The king's blue reptilian eyes looked at the door with a frown and then he clenched his fists in annoyance.
"Did you sense anything off of him?" The king asked, and in that moment, a naga appeared from beside a cabinet.
She was slim and slender and her clear smooth skin added to her beauty. Her short jaw-length white hair made her very beautiful as a naga and she had curves that couldn't be ignored either.
"Yes, your majesty, unfortunately, he has the mark behind his left ear." The lady said and the king sighed.
"I've waited for the apocalypse to descend to kill the previous king, I killed his children and succeeded the throne of Atlantis for myself. And now a new prophecy is upon us." The king said with a low tone and the Naga lady behind knew where he was going with this.
"Do you want me to kill him now?" She asked the king and the king shook his head.
"I couldn't do it low-key because a lot of guards knew that he was the chosen one as they reread the prophecy. Information could get out so I left it."
"And also, announcing that he was the chosen one couldn't be avoided, word will still get out. I can't have Atlantis against me."
"What we need to do now is to bring him down to secure my place on the throne. When we find the Trident of Poseidon, my position will be unshakeable." The king said and the lady behind him sat on a chair.
"I know what to do. He'll be dead in the next month." The king said with a smirk and turned to look at the beautiful lady on a chair.
...
It has been five days since Hannah, Tracy, Lily, and Kila saw Dexter and they began to get worried, it was night now, going to the sixth day and there were still no signs of him.
"Do we head to the camp without him?" Tracy asked and Hannah shook her head.
"He's never been out for this long before." Hannah said as she was very much concerned about Dexter.
Dexter didn't even stress himself and just summoned grim. The dark horse charged towards the deadly beast up ahead, looking like a shadow.
The large 12 foot tall beast roared loudly and Dexter looked at it with anger in his eyes. The creature charged towards the horse and the horse suddenly jumped towards it. It then swung it's fists downward and the horse just phased through it's hand and vanished into it's body.
Confusion and surprise held the beast as it looked around at the surroundings. It then looked towards Dexter's group who all didn't have happy faces and it banged it's fists on the ground really hard.
*BANG BANG!!*
*ROARRRR!!!*
It roared loudly as it sprinted towards Dexter's group, reaching before them in a matter of seconds and before it could do anything, Dexter furrowed his brows more and the creature stopped in its tracks.
It suddenly began to let out painted screams as it's limbs snapped backwards. And it's stomach bursted open with a tear, it's started bleeding from it's mouth, eyes and ears until it finally collapsed on the ground.
Grim emerged from the body and then faced the minotaur. It opened it's mouth and the minotaur's body was torn and sucked in piece by piece, it's body splitted into a number of pieces before flying into grim's mouth and when grim was done, he vanished into the marking in Dexter's hand.
[You have killed a level 33 minotaur. You have gained 3200 seventh class Spirit points and 20000 heaven's tower points.] Dexter dismissed the notification in front of him and looked down at the pool of blood on the ground.
*"Tell Tracy to close my mom's eyes, Kila. I'm... Thirsty."* Dexter communicated VIA telepathy and Kila walked towards Tracy and told her in her ears.
Dexter didn't want his mom to know right now. First she lost her sons and Dexter couldn't let her find out that he wasn't human anymore. She's a very religious person so there's no way she'll accept the new Dexter.
Tracy walked over to his mom and put a hand over her eyes.
"We need you not to see this." Tracy said and Dexter's mom was just too tired and nodded and Kila walked beside Dexter.
The blood on the ground which was left by the minotaur wasn't very appetizing but it'll help to satiate Dexter's bloodlust for a while.
Dexter knelt down and was bout to bend to drink when Kila stopped him by grabbing his shoulder.
"No, it's all dirty, let me get it." Kila said and Dexter stood up and watched.
She raised her hand and the blood separated from the dirt on the ground and moved towards Dexter.
The blood was firstly condensed into a mug before filling up with liquid blood and Kila did one for herself and Lily and they drank till their hearts content.
They then continued to go towards the camp right after and even Dexter's mom was still lost in thoughts.
...
After more than an hour of walking and slaying all sorts of creatures, they finally found a huge fence in the distance which spread widely to the sides in the middle of the ruined city and Dexter was shocked as it was like all the camps he has been to were added together to form this one. It was just that big.