I slayed an Ice dragon and now I'm King of the dragon slayers
Chapter 59: Sacrifice

Chapter 59: Sacrifice

It sounded like the most ridiculous thing he had heard his whole life. That was to Rhett by the way.

They all exchanged glances, shocked with the voice. Rhett was glad he wasn’t the only one that had heard the noise, at least they all just did.

’Why must we die?’, Rhett thought. ’Why must there be a damn obstacle,!, why can’t we pass in peace’.

Rhett was now thinking of stopping the dragons, could he actually stop them to just hang on the air.

Well,he gave it a chance. He snapped his fingers and clapped his hands and the dragons all stopped. Ash looked around, trying to find where the noise came from but he saw nothing. He squinted his eyes, looking left and right but he still saw nothing.

Rhett was wondering the same and after seeing no one, he came to the conclusion that it was one of those voices that spoke without you actually seeing them. He realized it was similar to the angelic voice he had been hearing in his head all this while.

[KINDLY SELECT WHO YOU WISH TO BE SACRIFICED]

Rhett and Haicor exchanged puzzled glances.

Was this actually necessary?, this seemed to be clearly a waste of time. They didn’t need all this, couldn’t they just pass normally?

The place grew tense with the wind and Rhett sighed. Was he going to fight again, he was already exhausted from the previous one. His hands felt weak and now, thinking about another fight, his head was already throbbing.

They couldn’t see the voice. That was the problem. If they could do so, they would be having a better chance in slaying the force or monster saying it.

"No one will die", Rhett finally shouted. "We’ve already lost many people back when we fought the soul eaters, we don’t want to lose another".

[YOU MUST]

Rhett seriously felt pissed off. What was all this!, why couldn’t he just pass in peace.

[LEADERS, WARRIORS, FACE MANY CHALLENGES, AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. CHOOSE ONE PERSON OR ALL OF YOU DIES]

Rhett felt dazed , hearing the words. Who would he sacrifice? We would even want to volunteer to die?

"Let me die", the old knight finally blurted. "Yes, I wish to die for our sake".

Rhett was stunned with the words. So the old knight would want to die because of everyone? Rhett dismissed it as mere bluffing. Why would he do that, it was unlike his nature.

Rhett stared at the old knight, looking into his eyes.

"You sure you want to die?. To me there seems to be no need for this, this is just-".

The old knight interrupted Rhett:

"No, I will do it".

[WELL, ONE OF YOU HAS VOLUNTEERED. GOOD]

The wind had now jerked the old knight up in the air, he didn’t struggle. He just complied. His face calm and cool. Rhett, looking at him flying upwards, felt sick. How could he watch one of his subjects being taken up in the air, to be murdered. He couldn’t and wouldn’t support that.

"Stop!", He shouted.

All the dragon slayers looked at him. Dhamsel squinting her eyes as she did so.

"I will die!" Rhett said bravely.

Ash turned to him. "M’lord, you don’t know what you’re doing. You can’t possibly die, you can’t. You are king, you will lead us, your death is like a thousand deaths to us. And his death. Well, it’s not that-".

"Stop Ash!", I volunteered. "When I’m dead, lead them".

Ash was infuriated. "Bullshit!".

With the anger in him, he almost fell off his horse.

"This is rubbish!", he said out loud.

The old knight who was almost kissing the sky now fell. He didn’t land on a dragon but was instead drifting downwards.

The rider of the dragon Haicor was suddenly held the neck of the dragon and sent it downwards, after the falling knight. In a loop and then, the knight landed on the dragon, in the middle of Haicor who almost fell herself.

The rider controlled the dragon and directed it to where the other dragon lined upwards, towards the sky.

Rhett was up now, almost in the sky. Ash cursed loudly, damning and abusing the voice.

"To hell with this place!", he shouted. "To hell with all of you voices, to hell with this cursed world, to hell with-", he stuttered now. "To hell with the ghost slayers and their king, for putting us in this state in the first place. To hell with Slayerious, who can only watch us suffer, to hell with the Seer, who sees but I wish would just go blind. To hell with-".

"It’s okay Ash", Haicor finally interrupted his rants. She wasn’t on the dragon he was but the one she was in was closer to his.

"I’m sure Rhett knows what he’s doing", she said.

Ash grunted. "Seems he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s driving me crazy with his stupidness!"

Rhett wasn’t hearing what they were saying, he was just up. The dragon slayers could see him but he seemed to not be seeing them. That might be due to the fact that his eyes were closed.

[WHY WILL YOU DIE]

The voice asked Rhett.

Rhett felt angered and yet amused by the question. He found it stupid. Didn’t the voice want a sacrifice. Why was it asking such a daft question?

"Didn’t you say one of us must die. I’m doing that and yet you’re asking why. I’m seriously amazed".

[YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO SURVIVE]

Rhett furrowed his eyebrows.

"How?".

[YOU’LL BE TAKEN TO REALM. THINGS HAPPEN FAST THERE. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE SECOND HERE IS AN HOUR THERE]

Rhett was stunned.

"Really?", he asked.

[IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE I CAN SEND YOU THERE TO BATTLE A MONSTER. IF YOU DIE, YOU DIE IN THE REALM, IF YOU WIN, YOU COME BACK HERE]

"What’s the name of the realm?".

[THE TIME REALM OF MONSTERS]

[DO YOU WISH TO GO OR DO YOU WISH TO JUST DIE?]

"But why must I do this?".

[EVERYONE THAT HAD TREAD THIS PATH HAD DONE. SOME DIED AND ONLY ONE SURVIVED. SO IT’S QUITE IMPOSSIBLE. SO YOU MIGHT JUST SURVIVE]

’So this is compulsory?’, Rhett thought.

He nodded in the affirmative and as he turned backwards, he saw Haicor blink, she was just closing her eyes to do that act.

Rhett heard nothing. And when he opened his eyes again, he was now hearing noises.