【Mask】Section 1 Luna (II)

Dan behind Randolph opens the huge water balloon with both hands, but instead of Luna, he aims at Randolph. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but before his move could hit Randolph, Randolph's exchange power was already in effect, and all the damage he caused by his tentacles piercing his body had been transferred, and Luna's white dress was splashed with blood in an instant, but the blood was not hers.

At the final moment when Randolph glared at Luna to deflect damage, a silver-haired figure descended from the sky and stood in front of Luna. There were no enemies in front of him, no weapons, but the wounds on his body appeared out of thin air, as if air had pierced his body. His blood splattered all over Luna behind him, and he lost the strength to stand and collapsed, falling into Luna's arms.

"You...... Who are you, why did you save me?" Luna looked at the man who had fallen in her arms, he was wearing a black mask on his face, covering his entire face so tightly that he couldn't see his face at all, and he was wearing a black glove on his left hand, which was very strangely shaped, not like a normal person's hand, but more like a miniature version of a dragon's claw.

"Oka Sreel, weren't you captured by the dragon squad, how could you have run to the other world and die to save this little girl?" Randolph pulled out the tentacles that had pierced his body, stopping his next move, and Dan behind him was able to retract the water balls he had made.

"Are you okay Luna?" Vorrell belatedly looked at Luna sitting on the ground covered in blood with the masked man in her arms, "Third Warrior Oka Sreel, why are you ......?"

"I ...... I'm not Oka Sreel. His voice was very strange, like the voices of two people in one, half like a man in the prime of life, and half like a hoarse old man with a trill. The energetic half of the voices were familiar to Luna, and though they weren't easy to tell, Luna thought she must have heard them. He slowly raised his normally shaped right hand, placed it on his mask, and took it off tremblingly. The face under the mask shocked Luna, and Warrell, for they had both seen it before, and it was the face of Luna's father, Warrell's benefactor, Cavo Muen. "Luna, I am your father. ”

"Father, how could it be you, how could it be you!" Luna panicked, tears welling up in her eyes, and Vorrell sat down beside her, putting his arm around her shoulders. Randolph on one side was about to take advantage of the opportunity, but Dan could easily hold it down with one hand.

"I ...... I always thought you were dead, and I saw you ...... by the dragon."

"I always thought my daughter was gone, ahem...... I did die once that day, and my soul was devoured by the dragon, but I devoured it in turn, and took possession of its body, and I lost my human body and became a beast. The memories I had lost when I had been devoured by the dragon, and when I came back to my senses, I found myself the blue-eyed white dragon, and all I saw was the corpses of the generals and the burnt remains. I thought you had been burned by the dragon, and I was in great pain and regretted that I had harmed you. If it weren't for my crazy obsession with studying dragons and taking you into danger, you wouldn't have been killed by them......"

"It was Mar who saved me. Luna sobbed and said, "Father, it's not your fault......"

"No, it's my fault. I'm just a megalomaniacal maniac!The first time I looked for the dragon, I ran into that guy, this is God's punishment for me, just punishing me, my daughter is innocent!" Cavo went on to tell his story, "After you 'die', my heart is like ashes, I want to go underground to accompany you immediately, but I don't want to be this monster dragon, I want to turn myself back into a human being, and then go to the afterlife to meet you." It took me a year and a half to transform myself back into a human form, using the information I had left in my head when I was researching our family's treasures, and our family's methods of dealing with dragons were all based on it. But I wasn't perfect when I changed back into my human form, my hair turned white, my left hand kept the appearance of a dragon's claw no matter what I did, my voice became weird, and I could feel that my body was still a dragon, but it looked like it had changed into human form. Aside from my face, there is no place in my body that is the same Kavo Munn I once was, and I am still a complete monster.

"I left Vasilian and returned to St. Lucas, and after merging with the Soul Eater, I felt a tremendous power within me, and I believed that this power would be able to be used by the country, so I wanted to serve the country as much as I could until I found a way to turn myself back into a human. In order to prevent people who knew me before from recognizing me, I put on a mask, reversed my name Kavo to Oka, and gave me the surname 'Slayer', which means murderer and slaughterer in the ancient language, meaning that I myself was the murderer who killed my daughter and killed the former Kavo Munn. Nine years ago, I found His Majesty, took off my mask, told him what I was capable of, and he immediately reused me, and a few years later I was ranked among the four great warriors of St. Lucas. ”

"Father, I am not dead, I have been in Vasilyan for the past twelve years. I was ...... I've been doing well......" Luna concealed the inhumane treatment she had suffered at the Pearl Courtyard, having just been reunited with her father, who was nearing the end of his life, and she could no longer grieve his father.

Cavo smiled weakly and raised his right hand to gently caress Luna's smooth left cheek, and he saw the shocking scar on Luna's right cheek, "I caused this wound on your face...... I received an order from His Majesty to go to our old house in the east of the city to investigate the invasion, and you were among those who fled......"

"I noticed you at the time, I should have felt it, why didn't I feel it! If I hadn't run away and stayed, I would have recognized you earlier, and maybe you wouldn't be like ......this today."

"Silly boy, I'm already very satisfied to see that you're still alive! I was captured by the high elves after a fierce battle with the human who could turn into a dragon, and they used mental magic to keep me outside the castle, but when it was dark, the moon turned red, something strange happened inside the castle, and the high elves who were guarding me were dead, so I broke free, changed back into human form, and sneaked back into the castle. I saw His Majesty turn into a key and open the door to the forbidden area of the corridor, and I saw the man over there called Heartless come out of the door and take two people with him, one of the same human who had fought with me, and the other Randolph Sulem, the second warrior who had betrayed my country. The Heartless spoke to the human and mentioned killing several people, and in it I heard 'Luna Munn', your name. I believed that this was not a coincidence, so I sneaked in a moment before they walked back and the gate closed, only to find myself in this red-covered otherworld. I don't know where you are, but I'm sure I'll see you if I follow them who want to kill you. I didn't wait long, and the breath of the Heartless Man always appeared and disappeared from time to time, and every time he came back, the aura emanating from his body was different, but suddenly I lost them, and during this time I could only fly around aimlessly in this other world, looking for their footprints, until a black light appeared just now, and I knew that it must be here, so I accelerated and flew over. I saw you in the air, I saw my daughter, she wasn't dead! she was really alive! I was overjoyed, but you were in deep danger, and as a father, there was nothing you couldn't do for your children, even if it was to give your life......" Kavo said, spitting up a large pool of blood.

"Father, don't say it...... Don't talk about it......" Luna buried her head in Cavo's shoulder, tears merging with his blood. Vorrell gently patted her on the shoulder beside her, comforting her.

"Son, have you found someone you can trust for life?" asked Kavo, holding back the pain and forcing a smile.

"Well, she's right next to me. Luna managed to squeeze out a smile, but the tears on her face didn't match her smile.

"It's Vorrell...... Do you remember when you were a kid and I brought you home?" asked Cavor to Vorrell.

"I remember that it was you who accommodated me, who was disliked by the world, and healed my giant arm so that I could live a normal life. Vorrell replied calmly and gratefully.

"I can entrust my daughter to you, right?"

"I'll give my life to keep Luna safe!

"Then I'm relieved......" Carvo breathed a sigh of relief, then turned back to Luna, "Luna, do you remember that golden heirloom from our family?

"Hmm. Luna nodded.

"I haven't mentioned that to you because I don't want you to be involved in this force. The power of our family legend comes from it, and the box was specially created by the ancestors of the family to prevent those who have bad intentions against it from detecting its existence. He said and turned to Vorrell, "I used it to treat your arm more than twenty years ago, do you remember?"

"It seems like that's the case. Huh?" Vorrell was a little unsure, after all, the memory was too long.

"This box contains a white stone that can stabilize everything, and our family has used its stabilizing power many times throughout history, including against dragons. Later, I investigated more legends, this thing is said to have existed long before the birth of the world, before the existence of the gods, it has not only the power to stabilize everything, but also the power to create everything, but this power of creation I have never been able to discover. It's called Daytime Crystal!"

"Daytime Crystal ?!!"

"Ahem......" Kavo vomited another mouthful of blood, and the trembling of his body intensified, "You must protect this thing, and you can't let the bad guys take it away, this is also our family's mission...... As for how to open the box, you need to- ah!!" Cavo's eyes suddenly widened in the middle of his words, and his eyes were bloodshot and a little terrifying. His limbs were straight, his right hand was raised high, as if trying to grasp something, but he couldn't, and then he held that position and didn't move again.

"Father, what's wrong with you, speak! Father!" Luna shook Cavo's body desperately, but Cavo didn't say a word.

"Luna, Luna!" Warrell grabbed Luna's waist from behind and took her into his arms, "Luna, he's gone......" At this moment, Cavo's body suddenly changed, and Warrell jumped away with Luna in his arms. His corpse began to swell and grow, wings grew on his back, and his hands turned into dragon claws, once again into the white Soul Eater that gave Luna nightmares. This time, however, the dragon was no longer a threat to them, for he had fallen asleep forever.

"This dragon is!" Regulus was startled at the sight of the dragon that Cavo had become.

"Why! he just wanted to die as a human, why would he be allowed to change back to his form!" Luna cried out to the red sky. The corpse of Kavo, who had turned into a dragon, began to glow, then shattered, and a white light rose into the sky, then turned around and pierced through a small crack in the otherworldly sky, and disappeared. Kavo's body was reduced to ashes, but in the ashes, a pale golden heart was left behind. Regulus, who had seen this scene, slumped to the ground.

Luna stood up with Vorrell's help and walked over to the heart. She held the heart in her hands, and the tears on her face had dried up: "Thank you, father. The heart suddenly changed in Luna's hand, then turned into a golden light into the bracelet she was wearing on her right hand, and under the influence of Kyales's power, the bracelet turned from grass to silver and then pale gold, the same color as the heart, the same color as her father's hair. Luna remembered that Alyssa had asked her to name her artifact in a dream, and now she had the answer: her artifact was called the Nexus of Cavo.