Chapter 69: Fight with courage! Brave warrior! (2/2)
“Let’s set off!”
Moss originally tagged along with Ayrin and wasn’t a formal member of the team, but he could hear the fierce thumping of his heart when such loud roars rumbled. Blood started boiling in every part of him. He unexpectedly, infected by the mood, also let out a tremendous roar.
Ayrin followed behind Carter and walked toward the light outside the tunnel. The shouts were ever louder in his ears, as if he were walking into the center of a storm.
Darkness vanished from his vision. The instant sunlight enveloped him, he heard even louder shouts and cheers, like avalanches and tsunamis.
“Hiss…”
He was long mentally prepared, but he couldn’t help but gasp when he saw the wave-like stands on all sides, several times bigger than in Holy Dawn Academy, the gushing flows of people also many times bigger. He could almost feel his scalp go numb.
This was a real ocean!
He could see all kinds of flags waving about in the stands, representing the colors of different schools. The sight of them fiercely assaulted his vision. All sorts of noise and clamors seemed to take material shapes, forming fiery gusts of air charging to the sky.
“What’s that?”
He suddenly cried out in surprise despite himself.
Because more than a dozen huge shadows loomed over the miserable-looking, potholes-riddled ground surface of the arena.
There were more than a dozen monument-like things towering on top of the stands. They didn’t look like stone, and a hair-raising aura radiated from them.
“Dragon bones!”
“These are dragon bones.”
Carter breathed in deeply. He also lifted his head up and watched the dragon bones radiating with conspicuous malevolence, slowly saying, “Here is a place where arcane masters of the St. Lauren region waged a fierce battle against subordinates of the Evil Dragon, and killed two dragons loyal to the Evil Dragon. Many arcane masters of St. Lauren fell here, so these dragon bones are memorials commemorating them. Here is a grand Dragon-Battling land, a land representing the courage to stand unflinching against formidable strength, the courage to fight for the sake of freedom.”
“Amazing, real dragons! So big.”
Ayrin saw that what looked like mere cranium bones were already several times taller than a grown man. Full of shock, he thought, just how much courage does it take to charge forward when faced with something this big, and then kill it. Not cowering even when facing dragons, these must have been genuine braves!
When the entire city began to burn, when dragons started their wanton rampage, when countless people ran away and cowered in panic, some figures rushed forward without ever looking backwards, charging at the dragons.
Such scenes involuntarily appeared in his mind.
Very soon, his fists clenched on their own. In this instant, he gained some new understanding about the meaning of the word “battlemaster.”
In the stands were two giant, blue square formations.
These two blue square formations were both formed by gatherings of Holy Dawn students.
“Rumble!”
When they noticed their own academy team walk out of the tunnel, formally entering the tournament field, these two areas of the stands suddenly exploded in even louder shouts and cheers.
Singing soon sounded out loud.
First were scattered voices, then everyone from Holy Dawn Academy started singing, their voices becoming one, becoming a voice that shook people to their very core.
When the darkness before dawn twisted and whirled,
The Evil Dragon’s forces gradually unfurled,
A world-destroying crisis, despair uncurled,
The flickering flame of hope on the verge of extinction.
Arise and fight, brave warrior!
Fight with courage! Brave warrior!
For the living and the homeworld!
Strive and struggle! Brave warrior!
For your friends and family, and also for the world.
No matter rains and snowstorms, the ground dyed crimson.
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The darkness will finally out far be hurled,
Dawn’s already nearing closer!
Even though we’re drenched in blood all over,
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Holy Dawn’s glory will last for ever,
The braves’ glory forever etched in the world!
Fight and fight on, you’re our last barrier!
The light of hope pushing you forward!
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Surrounded by the songs, Ayrin also started singing.
“Fight with courage! Brave warrior!”