Summoning the Holy Sword

Frank had never felt so unlucky before.

He was an ambitious man and always wanted to be successful. After working so hard, he finally reached the final stage of his plan but was completely ruined at the most crucial point.

Frank couldn’t believe how a person could hold such a power.

When Frank first saw Rhode, he didn’t put him in his eyes at all. While he still bothered to investigate on Starlight when it had first established, he didn’t think that this man who ‘appeared out of nowhere’ would pose a threat to him. Still, he was rather surprised when he found out from Clinton about Rhode being a survivor of the floating ship attack who also escaped the assassins sent by the Country of Light.

However, he was only — just surprised — and that was it. He believed that Rhode wouldn’t be able to guess the series of events that was going happen.

When Clinton failed to assassinate Rhode, Frank didn’t seem to care. On the contrary, he felt happy. After all, Clinton was a traitor — even if his reason was for money, women or authority, betraying one’s country was considered something despicable.

Alas, Frank had no idea that he would fall into the same hole as Clinton.

Holy Soul!!

He swore to the Five Dragon Creators that he had never seen Rhode before. Even until now he didn’t know why Rhode was hostile to him when they first met. If it wasn’t because of that mage who saved him, perhaps he would’ve already died.

Frank walked forward.

As if responding to his movement, the thick fog split into two, revealing a path to a ladder and something… stranger.

A circular stone fountain.

Towering in the middle of the fountain was a ferocious beast with a pair of wings. A clear stream of water trickled down from its opened mouth into the basin. But what was odd was that the water produced no sound when it dripped down, instead, a wisp of white fog emitted from the basin whenever the water touched the stone floor.

Frank didn’t appear to be surprised. His whole year had been a living hell for him, but that didn’t mean that he sat down and twiddled his thumbs doing nothing but sulk. When was scouring the underground cave, he coincidentally found out this secret place.

He walked towards the fountain slowly and bowed his head. Then, he stretched his head to touch the clear water and drank it.

At the same time, he began to feel some kind of power burning inside his body — just like a volcano that was about to erupt.

Frank shut his mouth tight and clenched his teeth. The powerful force spread throughout his body, and when he couldn’t bear it any longer, a deep roar escaped from his throat.

“Kekekeke…”

It felt as if something was hammering his head. Frank bent his waist and appeared to dip his head into the water. However, he managed to stop and slowly straightened his body.

When he turned around, Frank returned to his usual cold self.

“It’s done, now it’s your turn.”

He said to the mercenaries behind him.

Suddenly, a trace of red flashed in his irises.

No one answered him.

No one asked anything. They behaved like souless puppets. The mercenaries followed Frank’s order unconditionally and queued before the fountain.

Each mercenary extended their tongue and licked the clear water.

At this moment, the mercenaries who drank the water repeated the same roar as Frank, and a similar red light appeared in their eyes.

“Yes, just like this…”

Frank smiled coldly as he stared at the mercenaries before him. He clenched his fists and felt an immense power surging inside his body.

“I will not fail this time.”