Global Awakening: Monster Taming Necromancer

It took a while before their eyes adjusted to the light, Jael more so than the others and the spirit didn't give them much time because they summoned a glistening gate of light and told the survivor to enter.

Jael blinked several times and avoided looking at the gate made of light as he passed through, feeling the warmth of the it play on his skin. "Where are we?"

The other side was cold and the chilly wind slammed into them without mercy. Jael's eyes widen. They were standing on a beach with red sand. The sea moved in rolling waves in front of them.

Murmuring spread among the Awakeners.

"What are we doing now?"

"I've lost three of my teammates to the goblins, why can't we just start hunting monsters now?"

"What exactly is going on? It's looking more and more like a floor test of some kind! All this because it's a zone that appeared in a ruined palace of an unknown general?"

"Issh! Don't let that spirit hear you!!"

"Maybe the spirit is the main monster of this zone, and we are just playing its games!"

More and more people began to complain and Jael couldn't blame them. He had the same doubts too. And now, looking at the numbers of the Awakeners that have been greatly reduced. He couldn't help but think of the previous floor test.

"This is not looking good," Temur said quietly.

"Well, this is the first time I've heard of spirit in a zone before," Litha frowned. "The only problem I have is I don't know if we are doing this trial to access the zone or we are already in the zone and this is a monster controlling us."

Everyone shared a look. Why hadn't they thought about that? Why did everyone just go along with what the spirit said?

"That... makes a lot of sense," Cele said.

"Yes but who are we to know this isn't legit either?" Tim asked.

Temur made a quick count of the Guild teams gathered. "We should just follow along for now. Like all the other teams are doing. Look at them only The Blazing and us didn't lose at least one member."

Jael swung towards The Blazing team and he saw two people watching him. One was the dwarf assassin and the other...is a lion? A beast-man of the Leo blood that stood the tallest, quiet, majestic dignity clung to his burnt brown fur the same color as his yellow eyes.

"That must be King." Jael gasped. He had never been in front of one but he knew instinctively that royalty was looking at him. He wanted to bow and knee. To throw himself down at his feet and swear his loyalty to him.

Jael took a step forward and he froze. His stomach twisted horribly and green fire flared in his eyes. He blinked. 'What just happened?' He felt as if he had just yanked himself away from something that was holding him. "What the hell."

Dile rested his hand on his shoulder, and Jael jumped; he looked at the canine beastman. "It's a charm, Jael. That's King."

"King? A King?" Litha asked, surprised but not shocked. The Tower is large and big. There are countless words hidden in it and who's to say a king is not climbing in their set?

The others have noted the obvious tension between the two Guilds and the way they looked at each other.

"No. His name is King. That's the name he changed into after his Codex Awakened. I don't know the real thing but I heard he's awake some kind of ruler thing. He can charm, too, and he's powerful.

Dile's hair flickered. "He's beginning to call himself the King of the beast-man. Blasphemy! Even the Sovereign won't dare say such!"

Jael and the others looked at Dile. This was the first time they saw him talk this much. Or even show any other emotions except for disinterest.

The spirit took that time to interrupt them. "So some of you managed to survive! I'm surprised! Maybe I don't make it hard enough but alas! I'm just carrying out the will of my dead master!"

Somehow, Jael doubted that.

"We will continue with the next trial! It's just as simple as the first one. See there? Those ships!"

The spirit pointed to the beach that was now suddenly filled with ships and boats of different sizes and colors of all kinds. From old crumbling ones to those that look like battleships or cruises.

What's surprising, though, is that crews are manning each ship. They wore black robes and cloaks, so only their hands remained but they flickered, like ghost.

"Go and see the captains of the ships and bargain for your way across. What you want is on the other side of the sea! The Captains will ask for payment, and it's the green coins you took previously! Oh, and only ten ships must land on the other side.

"If more than ten should touch the sand of the other beach more than an hour then you'll all be disqualified. Death!"

Jael felt a chill run down his spine. Out of the hundred ships spread out here only ten can land? What will happen to the others?

A male Awakener raised his hand and shouted a question. "Meaning we should destroy each other till ten ships are remaining?"

The spirit giggled. "I don't tell you to destroy each other but the ships should just not be more than ten. It can be less or not. But let me tell you a popular saying– what happens on the sea stays on the sea!"

Awakeners began to talk among themselves. What about those who didn't have the opportunity to get any coins? They had been blind! How would they get coins? This is wrong! Cheating!

Look at those, they must have a lot of coins! But isn't it the spirit's fault? Yes! Yes, it is!

They began to shout and Temur ordered his team to leave the middle quickly. "Things are looking ugly."

Then one of the Awakeners did something– raised his hand and shot a bolt of white-hot energy at the spirit.