Dream
Author: Secret Road
last update2023-04-16 19:47:28

"Aaaaaa!"

Lucius woke up with his body drenched in sweat. It felt like after a strenuous physical activity, with his breath coming in gasps.

It seemed that he had a nightmare, making the guard who had been monitoring nearby immediately approach. He was surprised by Lucius' cries that sounded as if he was suffering.

"What happened?" the man asked not out of concern, but because he wanted to get additional information. The general who led them there had given him the task of seeking more information, with the promise of a promotion in return.

"I saw red lightning, red lightning appeared again," Lucius said with a gasp.

"Appeared? Where?" the person asked in surprise, glancing into the dank prison room through the iron bars.

"No, no. I saw it in a dream," Lucius replied.

"In a dream? Are you sure you're not having hallucinations?" the guard asked, and Lucius shook his head quickly. He looked serious now, as evidenced by his frightened face and labored breathing.

"What did you see?" the guard asked.

"I saw the red flashes getting more and more real. And suddenly I heard a voice," said Lucius, deliberately cutting off his explanation to add to the dramatic effect of the story.

"Then?" asked the guard.

"The voice told me how to get it," Lucius replied.

This almost made the guard scream with excitement. Fortunately, he was able to control himself and tried to look normal in front of Lucius.

"This is a pile of gold! I can get a high position if I give this information," he thought.

It was as if these past days were his lucky days. Everything went smoothly, and he was even promised a promotion. He would get out of this prison and have a higher position, and be honored.

"Is what you said true?" asked the general named Nefion impatiently. He had gotten unexpectedly lucky, and now the young man they had captured was claiming to know how to open the treasure.

"..." Lucius just nodded while trying to calm himself down.

"Is this young man the key to retrieving the treasure? I've been waiting for years and still haven't figured out how to get the power of the red lightning," the general thought.

"Your name is Lucius, isn't it?" asked the general politely after Lucius' breathing stabilized.

"Yes, sir," Lucius replied.

"Lucius, I can give you a new life. You don't need to be a government dog anymore, you can be free with a new identity and a new life. But, you have to help me."

"What can I do for you, sir?" asked Lucius innocently. However, the general immediately shook his head slowly.

"That will be difficult. I can only give you a new identity, and you will live with that identity for the rest of your life. You don't have a family, do you? That's not a problem," said the general.

"Very well, I promise to assist the master in retrieving the red lightning artifact."

"Good, call another shadow guard to open his chains and give him a decent meal," the general said as he walked towards the door.

But before reaching the door, he paused as if remembering something important. He turned around and looked at the prison where Lucius was being held.

"We'll leave tomorrow, I hope you don't do anything stupid before then," said the general, both a promise and a threat on how Lucius should behave at least before the day they went to look for the artifact. In other words, the general ordered Lucius to behave himself.

"Sigh..."

"If I knew they would give me such good food, I should have done this from the beginning," thought Lucius whose stomach was full from the food given.

"As I expected, the general is very obsessed with this artifact. There may be a story I don't understand in the future, but certainly in the future the general didn't get any artifacts. I never even heard his name," Lucius muttered quietly. Too quietly, even the few guards behind him did not hear the young man's mutterings.

"They should have come by now," Lucius muttered while calculating the time in his head. Something he had predicted and seemed to be right.

Several people in full gear seemed to be approaching in a hurry. They headed towards Lucius whose clothes were soaked in sweat.

"Are you serious about what you told the guards earlier?" the general named Nefion looked impatient. It was as if they had gotten unexpectedly lucky before, and now the young man they had captured was claiming to know the way to get the artifact.

"..." Lucius just nodded, ready to answer.

"I am ready, sir," he said.

"So, the artifact is not here?" thought Lucius as they arrived at the location. They were standing at the edge of a giant hole that measured tens of kilometers across. The depth of the pit was so great that the people on it looked like a grain of sand when viewed from space.

"This is a government mine, not just a gold mine," the general said suddenly, laughing softly.

"You're not allowed to touch anything here unless you're told to. If you do, I'll have your head smashed in," threatened the general as if to tell Lucius the boundaries that should not be violated.

"Secondly, don't even think about running away. You must know the consequences, and they are far more painful than death."

"Third, do not talk to anyone you will meet under this mine. Understood?" the general asked again, and Lucius nodded slowly as if afraid of the three threats.

Lucius' face looked scared, but in his heart he smiled and felt intrigued. As if there was another secret that he would discover on the way to the bottom of the mine.

"If you have understood, we will leave," said the general as he jumped into the abyss. This made Lucius wide-eyed because he did not expect the general to do something dangerous like that.

"Is he really that strong?" whined Lucius inwardly, who had underestimated the general from the start.

"Damn, it's getting difficult," the young man annoyed inwardly. He didn't have time to say anything because several guards immediately restrained him, strapped on the safety gear and parachute, and pushed him to jump with them.

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