Elios : Rebirth Of The Dragon Lord

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The white-robed man frowned as Elios looked surprised to hear him speak of women.

"Did you not see her?"

"No," Elios replied as he looked back at the door.

Mr. Eros let out a long sigh. "Well, then I have something to ask you."

Elios immediately looked back at Mr. Eros who was still standing in front of him holding his bean buns. "Who are you? And when did you ever come here?"

Elios stood up while holding on to the table near the bed. "My name is Elios, and I came here in a previous life."

Mr. Eros was astonished at Elios' answer.

"You told me to bring bean buns when I come back here, but after I left this place, it turned out that I could never come back here," Elios assured Mr. Eros.

Mr. Eros shook his head.

"Looks like he's not lying; he knows clearly that he can never return to Datsim after leaving Datsim," he thought.

"If you still don't believe me, I can show you some names of people who live here, including you, Mr. Eros," Elios said with a serious look.

Mr. Eros rubbed his beard calmly. "Alright, I believe you. If, as you say, it's a sign that you had an accident on purpose so that you could appear here, is my analysis correct?" he asked calmly.

"It is," Elios replied quickly. "I deliberately did not avoid the car accident in order to return to this place."

Once again Mr. Eros nodded his head. "Well, I understand all this."

Then Mr. Eros looked at the bed behind Elios. "Now you can go back to rest; we will talk again after dinner."

"Okay," Elios replied calmly.

After that, Mr. Eros walked quietly towards the door of the room.

"Mr. Eros," Elios called out as he continued to stare at Mr. Eros' back.

Mr. Eros, who was in the middle of the room's entrance, immediately stopped walking.

"I am serious about my arrival this time," Elios said while cupping his hands together.

Mr. Eros did not answer Elios' words and a moment later he walked back out of the room.

After Mr. Eros was no longer visible, the door to the room closed slowly without anyone moving it. Meanwhile, Elios was currently just staring at the door quietly.

"Everything is so different from what happened in the past," Elios muttered.

He clearly remembered that he used to see Datsim as an ordinary place, nothing strange at all. But now everyone seemed to have no qualms about pointing out that the place and everyone in the place were beings different from ordinary humans.

Meanwhile elsewhere, Mr. Eros was currently walking quickly towards one of the buildings in the eastern part of Datsim. Behind him was Wanzo, who was following Mr. Eros while carrying a basket containing Elios' bean buns. They continued walking until they finally arrived at the main door of the building.

Mr. Eros knocked quietly on the door of the room.

"I already know." A woman's voice sounded from inside the building. "I will meet him tonight."

Mr. Eros then glanced at Wanzo. "Let's go," he invited as he turned around.

"But are you sure you don't want to tell her first?" asked Wanzo.

"She's already decided; that's a sign that he's the one we've been looking for," replied Mr. Eros as he walked away from the building.

Wanzo stared at the dragon-carved wooden door in front of him for a few moments before he finally turned to leave the place.

*

Five hours passed; currently, Elios was sitting in a dining room together with Mr. Eros. Wanhi and a few others were busy cleaning the dining table as Elios and Mr. Eros had already finished dinner.

'Does he not intend to respond to what I said this afternoon?' Elios thought, as it had been more than ten minutes since he and Mr. Eros had been silent.

"I'll help clean up—"

"What do you know about this place?" Asked Mr. Eros as he gave Elios a sharp look.

Elios let out a long breath. "I can only confirm that I will never be able to return to this place after leaving it."

Mr. Eros rubbed his beard. "Then is this place the same as your memories of the past?"

"Same place, same people, but with a different atmosphere," Elios replied calmly.

Mr. Eros asked again, "Can you explain what you mean?"

"In the past this place was like an ordinary human place, but today I see one of those powers that cannot be explained scientifically," Elios replied calmly.

Mr. Eros nodded. 'He was talking about my power this afternoon,' he thought.

"Yes, I was a bit rash this afternoon; does that surprise you?" asked Mr. Eros calmly.

'Is he playing a game of tug of war with me?' thought Elios, who tried to remain calm as Mr. Eros did.

"I've honestly never seen such power before, but it seems like my previous deaths were related to people who had supernatural powers like yours," Elios replied seriously.

Mr. Eros nodded slowly while rubbing his beard. "Then what is your purpose in coming here once again? Is it to take revenge?"

"I won't lie to you that I do want revenge against those people, but more than that I also want to save my country and it seems that the person who masterminded my death is not only after my country but he is after this world," Elios replied while clenching his fists.

Then Mr. Eros stood up. "Since you've guessed that the man wants to rule the world, how about I ask you to save the world?"

Elios' eyes widened at Mr. Eros' words.

"Are you afraid?" asked Mr. Eros as he walked calmly towards Elios.

Elios stood up from his chair. "I lead twelve thousand troops, I will not back down if I have to fight to save the world, I am sure that eighty percent of my men will have no problem helping you to save the world," he replied firmly.

Mr. Eros remained silent until he finally stood right in front of Elios. Then he calmly pointed at Elios' chest. "I'm not talking about your men, but I am talking about you."

"Just me?" Elios furrowed his brow.

Elios knew clearly that to defend a country, he needed the right tactics and soldiers. No matter how strong he was, if he was just an ordinary man like he was at the moment, then he would still die when he had to fight thousands of enemies, let alone now when he was asked to save the world alone. Wasn't this an unreasonable thing?

"Yes, only you," replied Mr. Eros.

"If you weren't the one who asked me about this, then I would have thought it was a trap, but since you are the one who asked me, then I believe that there is an explanation behind your question," Elios said calmly.

"A man who is not impetuous. No wonder she believes in you," replied Mr. Eros and turned around with a laugh.

"Believe me?" muttered Elios as he continued to stare at Mr. Eros' back.

Suddenly Mr. Eros turned his head to the right. "Wanzo!"

A moment later, Wanzo ran into the room.

"Take Mr. Elios to the East building!" Mr. Eros ordered in a calm tone.

"Yes," Wanzo replied as he nodded his head. Then he turned to Elios. "Come with me," Wanzo calmly invited.

Elios nodded his head and walked out of the dining room with Wanzo.

"Do you think he can do all the work?" Mr. Eros said as he continued to stare ahead.

A moment later, a pigeon flew out of the window and landed on Mr. Eros' shoulder. "I think he's good enough. She has also chosen him; I think there must be something special about him that we don't know about yet," the pigeon replied casually.

Then Mr. Eros stepped quietly towards the window on one side of the room. "Do you think he's lying to us?"

"I've been watching him since he woke up; it seems like the boy really doesn't know anything," the pigeon replied and let out a long sigh.

Mr. Eros rubbed his beard lightly. "If he doesn't know anything, then it will take quite a lot of time to teach him."

"And that will be your job," replied the pigeon and laughed loudly.

Lord Eros then turned to look at the pigeon on his back. "Do not speak as if it will not be your duty, for my duty is your duty as well."

*

Meanwhile, at this time, Elios and Wanzo were walking in the courtyard of the place; they were walking quickly towards the East building. But suddenly Wanzo stopped walking when they almost reached the East building.

"What's wrong?" Asked Elios while directing his gaze around the place, he saw five buildings around them.

'Do I have to find the building myself?' thought Elios, who thought that maybe he was about to undergo a test.

Wanzo turned around and asked, "Is it true that you have died and have come here?"

"That's right, that's what happened," Elios replied as he returned his attention to Wanzo.

"I wanted to ask, did I—" Wanzo stopped talking when suddenly there was the sound of a flute coming from the direction of one of the buildings not far from where they were currently standing.

Now Elios' attention turned towards the sound of the flute.

"Cover your ears!" Wanzo's panicked order.

Elios looked back at Wanzo. "Why do I have to cover my ears?"

Wanzo wrinkled his forehead. "Don't your ears hurt?"

"No, this melodious music certainly won't hurt the ears," replied Elios, who was now also frowning because he felt strange about Wanzo's question.

Wanzo fell silent at Elios' answer. 'Is he one of them? If he's an ordinary human like me and hasn't learned anything here, then his ears should feel pain when listening to the sound of this flute.' Wanzo thought.

Meanwhile, Elios, who didn't understand anything, also just silently waited for Wanzo's next reaction.

Finally, Wanzo let out a long sigh. "Please go to that building," said Wanzo while pointing towards a building that had a large dragon carved on the door.

Elios nodded his head, then he walked past Wanzo towards the building Wanzo had pointed to.

'It turns out that the sound of the flute came from this building,' thought Elios who was currently standing in front of the door that had the dragon carved.

"Come in!"

Elios' eyes widened at the sound of a female voice coming from inside the room in front of him. "Who is this woman?" He muttered because he felt familiar with the female voice in the room in front of him.

After that Elios pushed the door in front of him with both hands. There was a white-haired woman with waist-length hair and wearing a white dress who was currently standing in the middle of the room with her back to Elios so that Elios could not see the woman's face.

A moment later Elios stepped into the room, and at the same time the woman turned around.

"Long time no see, Elios," the woman said as she looked at Elios coldly.

Elios' eyes rounded, "You...