Strife Of The Eclipse

Unknown Dungeon

"Are you full?" Aiden clapped his hands and asked. He and Rena stopped for a while and talked about Sylgarth, Rena then extracted some knowledge about Sylgarth from Aiden’s memory with a unique magic inborn for technomagi golems, Intelligence Sharing. 

"I'm done, my lord," Rena said.

"Let's go then, I hope to find a village or town today and find out where we are..." Aiden sighed.

"Okay sir," Rena replied as she put down the fire and conceal it with some dirt to avoid wildfire since that is the first thing Aiden asked him to do when they entered the forest.

…

Aiden and Rena run for about 100 minutes with some breaks in between to recover their breathing... 

"My lord! We may be in trouble!" Suddenly Rena stopped Aiden's footsteps…

"This is the dung of the Gray Warg!" After scanning and pointing at the dung on the left path behind the stones Rena explained.

"So..." Aiden looked ugly.

"That's right, there is half-humanoid wolf cavalry in the vicinity!" He realized that Intelligence Sharing is amazing… I was not fully adapted to this world again but she is.

"Damn it! Be alert!" Suddenly Aiden raised the heartrazor.

"Break!" An iron arrow was deflected by the dagger.

"Rena! Battle stance!! Move! Quick!" Aiden exclaimed.

Shadows staggered in the woods in the distance, and a half-humanoid wolf ran out among the swirling branches, and there was a steady stream of infantry behind it.

"My lord! We should have entered wolf territory!" Rena said bitterly, while quickly taking out the cataclysmic cannon and starting to aim.

"For the glory of the Atelerix! Slice and Dice!"

The flames of battle raged, urging Aiden, who covered his whole body and started to massacre the humanoid wolf left and right.

"Bang!" Rena bombarded the midsection of the crowd of the wolf as they were tossed in the air due to the explosion.  Half of them are smashed to the ground and whimpered with broken bones.

"Trrrang!!!" After Aiden's dagger blocked the machete that was cut at him, he stabbed it back, and the sharp dagger easily pierced the orc's chest.

The intense battle lasted for 30 minutes.

Rena switched into Night Whisper and started to shoot the humanoid wolf here and there.

The half-humanoid army was obviously sluggish due to Rena’s shot, and Aiden took the opportunity to chop off a few more heads. Rena activated her skill in the next second, and the dozen humanoid wolves were quickly strangled to pieces. 

Aiden felt sick to his stomach due to the intense blood odor in the air. It was different when he fought in Titanoire and Sylgarth…

In Sylgarth, his senses are enhanced multiple times gradually in battles, that’s why the sudden enhancement makes him dizzy and disoriented. Luckily Signet’s Memory passive skill makes his body react instinctively during battles where his mind betrays him for a moment.

Suddenly, The obscure dragon roar that reverberates the whole land sounded. As soon as Aiden heard it, he and Rena ran away in fear while the half-wolf stayed on the ground, holding their heads and shivering in fear with their head on the ground... 

Both of them run and run fast from the battle site until they find a monument and go to it. As they arrived at the monument, it was a building with four pillars standing, Aiden was confused as he didn't know what kind of place it was. 

But since they are running at full speed because they can feel the frightening aura on their back, they just keep running towards the monument. 

There was a body of water in the middle part of the monument, without any more thinking, Aiden just jumped down to it to hide, Rena then followed him.  Aiden found that the water is going down like a tunnel but the surface is like a mirror concealing the world beneath. Using his hand to signal Rena, both of them then swim towards the bottom of the water. 

Splash… a sound of water splashing was heard in the front of the dungeon. Two bodies then emerge from the water one of them is panting for air.

“Uhuuk..huk..huk…” Aiden is coughing out the water from his body as he was dragged out of the water tunnel by Rena at full speed since halfway he was out of breath. 

“Where are we, master? Asked Rena.

“I don’t know either, I never knew that there was this kind of monument in the first place.” 

Aiden then set up a small bonfire to warm up his body. After resting and drying his clothes, he asked Rena to scout the area around the dungeon. 

After a while, Rena came back and informed him about a certain object in the entrance of some sort of opening. 

Later, Aiden stands in front of the glowing mechanism.  There are sylvari texts carved in the mechanism.

“Here, sealed the portion of power from the banished god. Only those who have already chosen their cabal can fight inside the dungeon. For all the unworthy, be gone weaklings!”

Aiden's eyes lit up when he saw the word “banished god”. “So inside there, there is a key to get Vexira’s power. But what is this cabal about? And still, I am still weak at the moment. Maybe I will visit this place again after I get a bit stronger.” Aiden is thinking hard.

“Rena, let’s go out now, but can you mark the location of this place? I feel we need to come back here again later.” He spoke.

“Okay master, I will do that.”

“Let’s get out of this place now, I believe the outside situation has already calmed down.”

“Please lead the way, master.”

No, from now on, just call me Aiden, if anyone asks, just tell them that I am your father, and we have lost our family in some kind of rebellion when you are still a child, just to avoid the suspicion from people when we encounter them. tell them that I am from a reputable family but since that rebellion, I was on the run to find the killer of your mother and siblings, you got a brother and a sister, since we are constantly on the road, you already forget your origin city but all you remember is you are a sylvari and a noble one. 

Can you remember all this? Aiden told her.

Yes, I can Dad.

good. Now just drag me out from this place into the entrance once again and we will continue our journey from there.

Yes, dad. Rena replies to the command without much asking.

“Now, the simple problems are resolved one by one. besides that we need to get to a village or a town as soon as possible, I need to know the exact location of where we are now.”