I slayed an Ice dragon and now I'm King of the dragon slayers
Chapter 53: A calculating mind

Chapter 53: A calculating mind

It looked selenite and the sight of it was above mesmerizing. It looked like something that burned and its lookers noticed that it floated in the air.

They walked over to it, more like sauntered, the hotness of the place not disturbing them anymore.

Rhett and Daxer heard a sibilant noise. They ignored it, they kept walking towards the crystal. Almost to it, Daxer stopped and Rhett didn’t even notice he did so.

A sort of striking force hovered around the gem and Rhett felt its presence. Pestering more and getting closer to the gem. Now, face to face, he stopped and smiled the more. His face showed glee and stretching his hands forward, he slowly reached for it.

KICK!

A leg was into his back, falling him down. Rhett was stupefied as he rolled on the floor, holding his chest. He was thunderstruck to look back. The mere act was something he couldn’t bring himself to do.

He had hit his head on the floor with that kick and now he was hearing effervescent noises. They weren’t actually there and he too knew it, it was just as a result of hitting his head too hard.

Rhett finally turned his head backwards to look at the figure who had kicked him.

Wait!

Why did he have to look? There were only two people in the body of the soul eater, him and...

Daxer!

Daxer smirked, his presence seeming tenebrous to Rhett. Rhett pulled back a bit, in shock.

"You were always weak", Daxer said, coming closer to Rhett, his voice now vicious.

"You fulfilled the prophecy and slayed the Ember dragon and king vongarth but yeah..., that was physical strength", Daxer paused. "I have noticed, throughout the time I’ve been with you and throughout the time that we embarked on this journey that you are not calculating. You seem to trust everyone".

Rhett was very shocked.

"But..., but..., I said that everyone against me should come out, you didn’t".

Daxer smiled and looked at the gem, the stare vicious. He did the act as if to remind himself or to assure himself that the gem was there. Then he turned to Rhett and said in a grim tone.

"I didn’t come out cos’ I suspected you were intending to do something vile and dastardly. If I had come out, I would have been dead by now. One of the knights that came out was even my very good friend and you murdered him".

Rhett made no response again and now, he was trying to suppress his shock, he was trying to get it off his face, he was trying to act unperturbed?

Daxer continued. "I’ve got a calculating mind. I wanted to see if you’d let them go as you had said before I came out and frankly, I was stunned by your act. So I planned a way to murder you without others noticing. And so, I gained your trust, and you trusted me and I acted like I was saving you and now..., I’m gon’ smash you. I’ll rip you apart".

Rhett was stunned that he couldn’t blink, was that normal, was the shock too mighty. How would he get out of this situation?

Daxer continued; "I honestly liked king vongarth, I adored him and you slaying him?, I despise you?".

Daxer raised the sword in his hands up a bit. Rhett looked at it, its shining surface, the gem shining and illuminating the steel surface.

Daxer grinned. "I’ll make it quick. I’ll slay you and harness the power of the soul eater’s shard and then go on to kill the other soul eaters and then become king of the dragon slayers and rule the people".

"What would you tell them happened to me?", Rhett asked.

Daxer laughed. "You sound and look pathetic. Oh, the great king of the dragon slayers, looking at me, asking me questions, about to die in my hands".

Rhett rolled his eyes. "You haven’t answered my question".

"Pfff, I’ll tell them you’re dead, you were killed and eaten by a soul eater, duh!".

Rhett smiled and scratched his head.

"Why are you laughing?", Daxer asked, fuming. "You are about to die and you laugh, pathetic!".

Rhett sighed now and looking beyond Daxer, he burst out laughing. He knew he had been hearing a sibilant noise when they were walking towards the gem.

ROAR!

Daxer, stunned, faced back. A claw was by the side of his cheeks, bruising him. Another was at the other side of his cheeks. He fell down.

It was a demon with a claw. It descended on Daxer immediately and started to rip him apart, eating his face viciously.

Rhett silently stood up and said in his mind, a smile on his face:

’And you say I’m not calculating?’

Then in mockery he added;

’Pathetic’.

Daxer’s sound was on the floor and Rhett slowly walked over and picked it. The demon was done with Daxer now, he had brutally eaten and murdered him. As the demon turned to look at Rhett, it instead looked at a sword go into the side of its neck.

The demon fell down and died, Rhett looked at the gem. He wasn’t taking chances now. He dropped the sword and quickly ran to it, grasping it in his hand.

[HOST!]

A loud spark!

Rhett was in the air. He was stunned at this, hell!, he had always wanted to be superman, it was a dream come true.

Then he heard an angelic voice, the same he had been hearing all this while:

[YOU SLAYED AN ICE DRAGON!]

[YOU SLAYED A SHADOW DRAGON]

[YOU SPARED THE LIFE OF A RAIN DRAGON!]

[YOU SLAYED ANOTHER DRAGON IN BIZARRE EARTH]

[YOU SLAYED A GODSLAYER]

[YOU SLAYED AN EMBER DRAGON]

[YOU SLAYED THE KING OF THE DRAGON HUNTERS]

[YOU MISCHIEVOUSLY SLAYED THREE KNIGHTS AND AN ARCHER]

[YOU SLAYED SEVEN DEMONS TOGETHER WITH A TRAITOR]

[YOU CUNNINGLY GET THE TRAITOR KILLED BY A DEMON]

[YOU SLAYED THE DEMON]

[HELL!]

[NOW YOU’RE HARNESSING A TIER TWO SHADOW MONSTER {SOUL EATER} SOUL GEM]

[YOU ARE BLESSED BY THE GODS, YOU HAVE AWAKENED A RANK, NOT EVEN IN YOUR SLAYER’S HEX. A SPECIAL RANK TO HONOUR YOU FOR YOU HARD WORK SO FAR]

Rhett anticipated something good.

’What is it’, he thought.