The sun was slowly setting behind the sharp silhouettes of the mountains.The crimson light of dusk danced across Ayzek's armor, giving him an appearance that was both peaceful and menacing.
Around him lay the corpses of hobgoblins he had slain only moments ago.Ayzek gazed at the horizon for a long time. The city was far behind — noisy, crowded, filled with shallow smiles and hollow laughter.But before him stretched an endless unknown… and that stirred something within him.
"This world... it's going to be something super," he whispered."Dangerous, but full of possibi
Ayzek decided not to return to the city.Instead, he wanted tonew — to te
He crouched low, focused , and then launched forward.A shockwave erupteshot ahead aThe wi
He realized something astonishing:The same routethree da, hecovered half on foot.
"At this pace... I could reach the city tomorrow if I wanted,"he thought with a f"But..
With that, Ayzek turned away and set off toward the un —
After hours of travel, he stumbled upon a massive volcano. ItsCurious, he climbed to the top with ease, and when he looked down into the crater, his enhanced vision allowed him to see through the heat and magma.
The volcano was active, but it wasn't about to erupt — not yet.What caught his attention, though, was something hidden deeper within:a sealed chamber, embedded in the volcanic walls.
The heat was unbearable for any ordinary being, but Ayzek's endurance and Aras's divine resilience made it trivial for him.He leapt down and entered the chamber.
Inside, he discovered the withered corpse of a chimera, its energy long gone. Deeper still, he found a magic circle — and beyond it, an enormous library.
The place was vast — so vast that even Ayzek, with his heightened senses, couldn't see its end.Row after row of books stretched into darkness, coated in centuries of dust.
He walked between the shelves, his eyes scanning the spines. Even though he could see the titles, he still needed to read and ponder to understand their meaning.
That's when a particular book caught his eye:"The Puppetmaster's Soldier."
He pulled it from the shelf and began to read.
"The soul is a universal essence that exists equally in all living beings.Some are v
Further within the book were details on mind control, soul manipulation, andresist magic.It claimed that the mind and the soul are one — inseparable and intertwi.
The author's name had been deliberately removed — the final page looked to,c,
Ayzek closed the book slowly.Nothing else in the chamber seemedtake every book that might prove useful with him.
When he finally exited the volcano, night had fallen.The sky was dark — and in that darkness, a shadow moved across the stars.
A dragon.
Its scales were black with a crimson sheen, and its wings stretched more than twenty meters each.The body alone spanned over fifty meters, armored with sFrom its head rose two enormous hornlayers of hardened skin, like natural armor platseventh-tier arti, if not more.
Even Ayzek, analyzi
He thought back to the game he once played — In that world, there were no d. There were beasts, yes — lions, crocodiles, magical predatorsnothing like this.
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"So this world really isn't bound by game logic anymore," Ayzek thought."Thi
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With that thought, he swiftly withdrew, vanishing into the trees.Women dragon, o