Chapter 46 - 46 : Astrith (2/2)

Just like that, he headed South with speed that may be regarded as godly, you can't see a streak of lightning if he passed near you, only strong winds would be left, that's all.

Arthur really wanted to test his new [Lost magic] and two new lightnings types right now but it would waste time, in seconds he would cross a long distance, his speed already broke the laws of this world, he even thought that maybe in this world there is no match for him, if all dragons were like Yamak, then they would be instantly killed, as for that weapon 'judgment' he was sure as hell that he could withstand a shot from it with no injuries.

'Ah...being the only strong person is sure lonely....'

After 20 minutes of flying through the air whilst running at the same time, he found a small town with a port, the first thing that came to his mind is that this town is indeed 'Lopel', he didn't stay there that much, there was a signboard near the port which indicated the name of the town and it was indeed 'Lopel Town', Arthur didn't linger there that much, he immediately returned where he came from.

....

20 minutes later, he arrived at the half destroyed ship, the nobles went back to their rooms and only Robin, Belic was staying outside a couple of meters near Lucy and Saly.

Arthur appeared out of nowhere, just his sudden appearance scared the shit out of Robin, she even yelled and fell on her butt, she was chatting with her grandfather with what happened and what they should do when Arthur appeared from thin air just like a ghost.

Arthur ignored her and faced Belic while saying

”I found Lopel Town, with your speed, you could reach it in half a day more or less, as for the others, I don't know”

Though he was startled by what just happened, Belic kept a calm demeanor and smile and nodded toward Arthur, however, deep inside him, he was cursing himself for being foolish 'Belic O'Belic, you really screwed yourself right now, this freak is going to use YOU as a punching bag once he discovers you lied to him...those damn geezers probably won't be able to face him.....that freaking arrow...my hand is still shaking!'

Belic brought Robin inside their office and headed to the office to talk things through, only Arthur, Lucy, and Saly were left there.

Arthur sat next to them just like earlier and resumed talking with Saly to cheer her up, though he didn't want to tell her he's going to heal her because he was not a 100% sure about that.

To avoid being heard, he used the dark cloud and jumped on it along with them and went up high the sky, Saly couldn't feel cold or pressure of course thanks to the barrier surrounding her, however, even though Arthur unconsciously created the barrier, this time, it was white, pure white, he saw a light barrier before but it was completely different from it.

He was startled by that, the strongest barrier he had was the dark magic one, so he used that but he quickly remembered that it evolved into [Lost Magic].

With a thought, he created a sword from [Lost Magic] and a white sword was formed, it was as white but it had some orange lines, they looked like veins, quite weird yet satisfying to look at.

Surprisingly, the sword didn't emanate any ominous aura or anything of sort which astonished Arthur, he guessed the sword could be excluding a strong aura, however, this one looked like a normal sword apart from its appearance, albeit his confusion, he never looked down on it and was sure that this [Lost Magic] is better than the chaotic dark magic, it was the fusion of the void and dark magic, so it couldn't be weak right?

Next thing he tried was the Demonic lightning, a black lightning spark appeared in his hand, it was nothing special but from the description it said that it can break curses and seals, which is good, however, he had the cape which made him invulnerable to the curses, but you never know, maybe there are things the cape can't protect him from.

He used the beastly lightning next, as the notification said, this one cannot be used to attack but to summon a lightning beast.

Just as he concentrated and activated the beastly lightning, blue lightning streaks came from the sky non-stop, but there was literally no sound, just blue lightning striking in front of them, high up in the sky.

The blue lightning finally stopped striking, but only after a beast lightning was created, it looked like a huge wolf, probably 3 meters in length and 2 meters in height, with two red eyes and the rest of the body formed of blue lightning, it looked really ferocious and overbearing.

”This one greets master”

”!!!”

Both Arthur and Lucy were stunned by what they heard, normally, a beast shouldn't be able to talk except a few unique monsters or mutated beasts, however, this one just talked after a few seconds of his birth.

Arthur naturally knew the beast was talking about him, who else did create him apart from him?

The beast was flying mid-air, his huge body was bigger than the dark cloud so he couldn't fit it, but it's not like it mattered as he was able to fly.

”Good good, so you are able to talk....and fly”

”Naturally, this one was created by you, this one'master”

The beast spoke with utmost respect which kind of bothered Arthur, so he waved his hand and replied

”Do not call me 'master', my name is Arthur.”

”This one can't do that, you are this one's master.”

Arthur felt hopeless, he knew insisting would only lead to a headache sohe decided to give up on this matter and ask another thing

”Alright, then what's your name?”

The beast remained motionless and stared at Arthur whilst responding

”This one does not have a name...”

”..*Sigh* then your name shall be Astrith!”

The beast's eyes seemed to flash for a second as it heard it's new name, it inclined its front legs as if bowing to Arthur then respectfully replied

”This one thanks master for giving it a name”

Arthur merely nodded at the beast before he began thinking about something, he just wanted to test the blue lightning and had thought a simple beast would be created, just like a skeleton.

”So, you can hide? or go back to the blue lightning and then wait for me summon you? how does it work.”

He felt that it would be troublesome to have him with them all day, just his appearance would scare everyone.

Just as Astrith heard him, master, he dived into Arthur's chest, then after a few seconds, he got out from his chest, the process only took 10 seconds at most.

”This one can enter master's consciousness and wait for your call, this one can only leave your consciousness if master allows me, just now, master unconsciously or consciously let this one out.”

Arthur comprehended everything when Astrith entered his consciousness, as he was going to come out, he felt like he could either block him there or allow him to come out, it seemed complex but it's rather simple.

”I understand, for now just stay here until I re-summon you”

”This one obeys”

Arthur then descended to the ship along with the others. The nobles, Belic and Robin already readied themselves and were going to head to Lopel town, after all, they can't just stay here.

When they saw Astrith, some of them couldn't help but cry out, since it's their first time seeing something like this, even Belic had his eyes wide open and stood there agape with wonder.

Arthur just waved his hand and casually said

”Do not mind him”

Since Astrith now had a name, he felt it would be degrading to call him a beast or 'it', he was indeed a beast, but he just felt like not doing that, there were some humans who deserve to be called 'it' or beasts more than him for what they have done..

”You go at your own pace, we'll arrive before you but we'll wait for you there, I accomplished my end of the deal, time to accomplish yours”

Just as Arthur said that he, Lucy and Saly jumped on Astrith's huge back and they disappeared into a streak of blue lightning.

Since Astrith was considered Arthur's subordinate, more or less, why not ride him? it would be convenient and he wanted to see this beasts' speed and power too, plus Astrith didn't mind so why not do it?

The Lightning didn't hurt either Lucy or Saly as per Arthur's orders, he didn't need to create any barrier as he knew Astrith wouldn't dare hurt them.

Just like that, they made their way toward Lopel Town...