After an unknown period of time.

*CRACK*

A long crack developed in the now hard red cocoon, as a fluid, which looked like blood, came bursting out of that crack. The liquid instead of being absorbed by the ground just remained there, for there was no time for the ground to even absorb it.

The cocoon started breaking into small pieces, those pieces would soon disappear before even falling to the ground. The cocoon slowly disappeared and revealed a naked body of a 16 year old male human. He was completely covered in the red fluid, still the yellow stone on his forehead shone brightly, so bright that even though he was all red covered with that fluid one could still see it. A same type of stone ,but smaller in size, was on both of his hands. The boy had a height of 6 feet, and he had pretty a good built. His hair , dyed red, would be called long for a 16 year old school going kid.

The yellow stone along with those two stones started emitting an even stronger yellow light. That light had a mysterious property, as it made all red fluid on the ground to float, the floating fluid started spinning -it looked like 3 whirlpools, 1 bigger and 2 smaller ones . Those whirlpools were then sucked away by those stones respective of their size, but that was not it, those stones even sucked away the red fluid on Dante, revealing his fair skin and a body dreamed by many. There was a small black mysterious symbol right at the middle of his chest, which gave a mysterious feeling; the stone on his forehead was actually placed on a hand band which was made out of an unknown material, and the stones on his hands were on wristbands, the three bands were wide at the area of the placing while they decreased in width as it moved away from it . The yellow glow in stones turned into a blood red glow, slowly the bands also started turning red from silver, their original colour. The red light became even stronger and covered Dante's entire body, after which with an instant Dante was covered in a red cloak , black trousers, a pair of red boot and underneath the cloak there was a dark luxurious royal blue shirt. Those clothes looked as if they belonged to the medieval period, and were owned by a nobel, who was a magician as well as a martial arts fighter, and was going on a battle. The red light slowly dimmed and the stones and the bands returned to their original state, after a certain amount of time the bangles along with the stones started disappearing, and Dante 's hair who were still red started turning back to their normal black colour, but his eyes were still closed.

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*Swoossshhhh*

" EVERYONE!

PREPARE YOURS ARMS, TACTIC 2, AND FOLLOW THE EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS.

PROTECTING THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESSES IS OUR TOP PRIORITY."

Rob, one of the 10 holy swordsman and the 3rd general of the kingdom of Mandellan, commanded his army - consisting of 50 soldiers , 10 wizards and 5 healers from the church of Prometheus - as he himself drew out his holy sword from its scimitar, which was placed at his waist.

The holy swords belonged to the category of a great sword, a huge sword without any single scratch on it and a huge blue colour orb placed at the joint between the handle and blade.

He let out a deep breath and a faint blue aura covered his entire body, after which he raised his sword and shouted as the orb shone brightly" FOR THE PEOPLE! " After hearing Rob, all the soldiers rose their swords or bow while the wizards rose staff in unison and shouted the same words. Rob was pleased by their reaction and satisfied that he was able to rose the morale of his army, as what they were facing could make even a veteran shiver.

What stood in front of them was 50 metre ice giant, usually an ice giant is nothing against a holy sword bearer but it wasn't just any ice giant it was a cheiftian ice giant, taller than the normal giants by 25 metres, with 4 hands 2 on each sides and each armed with a huge axe. Its skin was all white with a little tone of brown covered by a thick armour which seemed to be enchanted. Its snow white beard was long and almost reached its waist, its eyes were orange with a tone of red added to it.

* ROAARRRRR*

The giant roared in anger, seemingly irritated by these humans which were nothing more than bugs to him. His roar was powerful enough to make the weaker soldiers to guard against the wind, while Rob instinctly came in front of a young boy and a girl , both of 17 years, to protect them from the wind. They could even smell his breath, which definitely wasn't good, but there was only one thing going on Rob's mind and that was how would he save princess Veronica and that boy who stood in front of the princess as a guard against the giant.

Actually, after the time started the old man's image started enlarging and changed itself into this ice giant. This change caused a great panic among all especially true for those 3 kids, and especially especially true for Veronica. After all she was the 2nd most close person to the old man before the time stopped, and after witnessing this sudden change she was in utter despair that she would die today with this unknown person, but at the back of her mind at somewhere deep she had a little hope that the guy who had always protected her siblings and her would protect them again but he wasn't the only person she trusted, she subconsciously had put a little of her faith in that unknown guy in front of her, whose eyes were closed.

The army spread out and positioned themselves according to the tactic number 2, the soldiers were divided into a group of 3, the wizards stayed behind them and started preparing bind spells , distraction spells and even destructive spells even though those two would be hit by them while the healers positioned themselves at the end of line and spread out such that every single person was in their healing range.

Rob took a last deep breath before he could dash out to rescue those two, suddenly he was grabbed by a gentle soft hand, the hand belonged to the first princess , Jenny Mandellan, as she said " you have to save them Rob." Rob nodded and felt relieved that princess Jenny, who was a muscle headed, didn't asked him to let her fight alone, after which he glanced at the prince, the prince had a face full of worry and fear, the prince looked at Rob in the eyes and said " as the future king, I won't accept any failure , Rob. " Rob smilled and bowed after which he again turned back as he observed the battlefeild carefully , looking for an opening.

The battle was definitely not going in their favour.

The soldiers tried to approach the giant from an opposite direction to that of Veronica in a group of 3, but whenever they approached it, they were either smashed by the blunt side of the axe or disorderly cut down or destroyed ( as the axe was way too large for a human, therefore after a single strike more than half of their body was just destroyed) from the blade side in an instant. Just in an instant the battlefeild was covered in red with broken bones, disfigured bodies and even bodies in which half of it was crushed and the eyeballs and intestines were all popped out of the bodies.

They were losing troops way too quickly and the injured ones were in such a bad shape that healing was useless , so instead of healing them, the healers focused their powers in healing the stamina of the wizards.

Relatively, the wizards were doing a really good job,

their fire ball, wind strikes , water ball weren't all that effective but for the giant it was getting frustrating, to him it felt like he was being bitten mosquitoes, and just like the time when we are irritated by that humming sound coming from their wings as they fly, the giant was irritated by the sound which came during the incantations and the sound of the spells when they travelled through the air. The giant turned around towards the direction of the wizards and started walking towards them.

* ROARRRR!"

The giant walked at a normal speed and it just didn't cared about the ground, as he stepped upon many soldiers as he walked, and those poor soldiers died in an instant but their body was definitely not worth seeing. Seeing the giant move from that position, Rob got himself ready for the move as he said in his mind ' just a little more. The wizards would use flight to get away from it, which will cause the giant to go even further away. At the end, I would rescue them and would even make it in time to save those wizards before it grabs them." The reason why he cared for the wizards so much and didn't wanted to use them as sacrificial pawns was because even though he had a holy sword he still highly doubted if he could go against that giant one on one and the other reason was the fact that these wizards were an integral part of the Kingdom of Mandellan and he was under strict orders of his majesty to protect the wizards. But what happened next changed destroyed his entire strategy.

The Kingdom of Mandellan along with the other 3 states believe that the Gelderen empire, which is the strongest, would indefinitely attack those 4 states, as a result of this cold war each one of those states highly valued any soldier even the smallest soldier was now cared and loved, let alone these wizards;

And for the holy sword, the holy sword which is being used by Rob actually belonged to one of the heroes who fought 300 years ago. After the heroes disappeared they left behind their arms for the younger generations to use them in time of need. Rob actually won a tournament and had various qualifications and even had the blood of a hero!

For these reasons , the church of Prometheus along with the king of Mandellan empire gave the holy sword to Rob, but at the end of the day, the sword wasn't Rob's, thus he can't draw out all of its powers.

Just like Rob predicted, the wizards used the flight magic but just before they could take off something happened.

*swooooosssshhhhh*

Something really big came piercing through the wind and hit the ground on which the wizards were standing. This sudden scene caused Rob's eyes to wide open as he could clearly see what have transpired right now. The giant actually threw one of his axe at the wizards. This was totally unexpected, as a beast would never leave its weapon, but unknowingly Rob made a grave mistake, he mistook a giant for a beast!

The axe hit the ground and some of the wizards died instantly while the rest were seriously injured. Even though the healers were at quite a distance from the impact, but due to the fact that ground crumbled , all of them fell along with the ground resulting in the death of two, and rest who were injured along with the injured wizards and dead ones fell and were trapped under debris.

And just like that, the army was annhilated.

Seeing this destruction Rob gritted his teeth and due to the fact that his loyalty to the king is greater than his love for Veronica his priorities changed. Right now, he had to protect the wizards and the healers and if wasn't able to , then not only they will loose magic power but their relationship with the church of Prometheus will worsen and with that he also had to make an opening for the prince and the princess to leave.

He ordered the left soldiers , who were guarding the royalty, to escort the prince and the princess back to the castle and send the information about the giant at the outer region of the abysl forest.

He tightly gripped his sword and dashed towards the giant , who was still facing the area where it just caused havoc, thinking to take an advantage by attacking from the behind. The giant raised its right arms to again attack the wounded wizards, seeing this Rob quickened his steps and jumped at the giant. He raised his sword as the orb became even brighter and he attacked it.

*CLANK *Before Rob hit its back, his sword collided with a huge axe. His eyes widened but being fought in a battlefield he quickly gained his calm and pushed the axe back, which was being held by another which just rose from its back. Just as he pushed it back another one came from his left .

* CLANK *

Rob blocked it again but was pushed back and landed hard on the ground, even though there was not even a single scratch on the sword but his hands were all bleeding and shaking after the impact, and he realised that this giant is a mutated being.

Seeing this everyone's expression darkened, after all Rob was a holy swordsman and they have never seen him to be cornered just like that, except in front of other holy swordsmen. Veronica and Jenny couldn't believe what they had just witnessed, but Veronica being soft , tears started coming out of her eyes and she was just on the edge of crying, while Jenny being the muscle headed instead drew out her sword and was about to jump in the battlefeild before the soldiers caught her and refused to let go of her while she said that she would punish them when they returned to the capital . But the prince , Ryan Claisen Mandellan, was a person who was always full of schemes; after witnessing it instead of running away he started thinking about various ideas, it didn't took him long before a smile came on his face.

Ryan took out a stone from his pocket and as he held that stone , he released his magic power amplified and hidden by that stone, he quickly transported his magic in front of Dante. The magic gathered and formed a ball which was stronger than any of the magic the wizards had used until now. Seeing the ball Rob's expression changed and he quickly understood who was doing this and why.

The giant was approaching Rob slowly, when suddenly a magic ball hit it, because of this stealth attack it seemed to be lost for a second. Taking the advantage of this situation, Rob dashed towards them and picked up Veronica without any care for Dante. He didn't picked Dante because he wouldn't have been able to run fast with a lot of weight.

The giant turned around and looked at Dante, thinking that he was the one who dared to irritate him. Rob quickly got out of there and reached the group, but after reaching them he didn't put down Veronica as he knew how kind hearted she was and she wouldn't definitely leave without that kid, he was able to get her here was all thanks to his quickness, that he got her here before she could even realise that she was being carried away.

Everyone in the group except for Ryan were shocked to see what just happened. Jenny straight away went to Veronica with a worried and relief expression after she struggled her way out the soldier's hold. She gave her a healing pill and thanked god that she was safe.

" Let's get going! That thing will attack us after him, " Ryan exclaimed.

Hearing him everyone started leaving but Veronica who was being held by Rob was crying and saying " No, no, no we can't leave without him."

Sob

Sob

Hearing her, Jenny had a complicated face, then suddenly her face was filled with determination as if she just made the decision. Jenny stopped and said

" I agree with Veronica.

We are the proud and righteous people of the kingdom of Mandellan, we definitely can't leave him behind and do this injustice to a civilian."

She declared.

" Sister Jenny " Veronica said with hope.

Ryan, Rob and everyone else except for Veronica were absolutely irritated by her attitude, Ryan and Rob were feeling disappointed upon themselves for always protecting her from the outside world.

" Carry her." Ryan commanded and the soldiers approached Jenny to pick her up, seeing this Jenny made a serious face and kicked one of the soldiers in his balls. She was wearing steel boots therefore, the soldier just passed out. Veronica gave Rob trouble by fidgeting that's why he couldnt do anything as Jenny ran away towards the giant. Seeing her Ryan and Rob shouted, and being exhausted of all of their options, they ran behind her, but they were too late.

The giant had already raised his right arms and was aiming at Dante who stood there still with his eyes closed, * ROARRRR * with a roar the giant swung down its hands at full force.

"" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"" Veronica and Jenny shouted.

BBBANGGGGGGGGG

When the strike landed, Dante opened his red dyed eyes.