Baron Crimson

"Well, let's get started" I said, getting up from my bed. Yes, I just woke up, I don't know how many hours I must have been asleep, but it sure was too many, even my body felt refreshed.

I stretched my body a few times to be in peak condition for the day, so, after a while, I went downstairs to head to the bathroom to do my basic needs.

I took a quick shower when I finally came out the bathroom, my outfit was a little more casual than yesterday, a white shirt, slightly fitted black jeans and black shoes.

'Plain and simple' I thought before heading towards the dining room, which had covered dishes, next to the dining table was a note.

I raised my eyebrows, curious about the contents of the note. So I quickly opened it and read it carefully.

"Lord Crimson, informed you that all the breakfast is ready for you, when you finish, please go down to "The Training Camp", me and the Baron will be waiting for you" That simple was the content of the note, obviously created by Emerald.

I looked at the plates covered by other plates, so I opened one by one, devouring the whole dining room.

Every food I saw would go straight to my mouth.

There were all kinds of food, from beef stew to salads with all kinds of things, fried chicken and my new favorite food.... Chicken filled with cheese!

"God, when I ate Emerald's food it was so delicious.... But this is another league! Could it be that she improved her culinary skills in these three years?" I said with stars in my eyes from the excitement of eating hundreds of dishes like this in the future.

He had definitely spent his time well while I was gone, his food had improved 300%.

I didn't spend much time in the dining room when I came out, I was heading specifically to the shelves with a variety of books, touched one or another book when a "Click" sound rang throughout the cabin, so that the shelf would still lay to the side, revealing a passageway.

"How nostalgic..." I commented, feeling nostalgic for the moment, about.... Three years ago? I used to stop by here every day to train with Emerald and apparently that's how it's going to be again.

I didn't wait much longer and wandered in, walking down the dark path.

I could now see in the dark thanks to having 4% of the Abyss in me.... What was beyond the darkness? Truth be told, even though I have a very indifferent mind and almost never experienced fear, but right now, my whole body was shivering and I couldn't help but be disturbed by what I saw.

There were corpses of different monsters, each one of a different race, giant Tigers, Goblins, Griffins and.... DRAGONS!

Each of the corpses were nailed to the walls, the room was narrow so I could even brush my body against several corpses.

'How come I couldn't feel that touch before? Or why couldn't I smell the smell of death before?' I thought, feeling uncomfortable for not even being able to know that it was literally in front of my nose back then.

The most disturbing thing was that, each corpse was butchered, all their limbs cut off and you could even see bites from a hungry predator.

Their bodies, once full of vitality, looked at me without even having eyes, because yes, you must of eyes had holes where eyes should be.

"Dragons... Wasn't that one of the most powerful races? Why is it here?' I said to myself mentally as I remembered what dragons were like, beings extremely proud of their great strength, one of the few races in the world that can talk to Gods and even enter their terrain.

But a great many of them, now, had apparently been slowly tortured here helplessly, there were undoubtedly over a thousand dragons, some looked extremely weak for dragons and others looked fierce and intimidating, but all that was forgotten by their lifeless bodies.

'That woman... Yes, I knew it wasn't as simple as it seems' I thought with some irony, I indeed apparently am a being full of mysteries and currently everyone around me as well.

Possibly he used magic, a type that made me unable to see, smell and feel anything beyond.darkness, that was the most logical option I could perceive as to why I couldn't feel anything at that moment. Sure, I was weak, very weak at the time and still am.

'What will be beyond the darkness of the forest...?' I said to myself rather curiously, the truth I could see what was there yesterday, but Emerald and the Baron overloaded me with so much sudden information that I couldn't even think and attach importance to it.

My thoughts continued like that for several minutes, until I got to the "Training Ground", which, before had torches, but not anymore, that made me think that Emerald possibly already knows that I can see in the dark now.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" I shouted loudly surprised and shocked at what I was seeing.

All around the training camp were the corpses of.... Demons? I didn't know exactly, but those things, even deaths and now corpses, had a powerful and dangerous aura.

I didn't know exactly what they were, sure, they had horns which my mind automatically associated with demons, but they also had a dragon skull, which I obviously associated with dragons.

But the most surprising thing was that they seemed to have wings of Angels, sure, they were pure bones now but you could see feathers on the ground of the now dead, plus the skeletal shape of the wings was in no way that of a Dragon let alone a Demon, so I really didn't know what it was from....

"Oh, surprised, aren't you?" A mocking voice full of amusement came to my ears, it was obviously Emerald, who was treating me with respect yesterday before, seemed to be back to his normal state.

"Hey, show Lord Crimson respect if you don't want me to erase you from existence now" Another voice came, this time male full of respect and reverence, it was Baron Crimson.

*Swallow*

Before my eyes, the sound of swallowing saliva was heard all over the field, Emerald's face of mockery filled with fear and anxiety, a cascade of sweat falling from her forehead.

'Wow, I've never seen Emerald like that' I thought in amazement as I saw my Maid - Master, walking slowly towards the training field.

I entered the field, seeing Baron Crimson in the same uniform as yesterday, while Emerald was a bit changed, a ponytail, a light white shirt that didn't hide her shoulders and a grey jeans a bit tight, she wasn't wearing shoes, so you could say she was barefoot in the sand.

At that moment the Baron took a step forward, staring at me, then bowing deeply.

"My Lord, I wish I could train you on this occasion."

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