A different fate

Ch15 My Second

Of course, the center of that tornado will be calm,
as it is the eye of the storm.

'I guess it would have been impossible for Taylor
without Cage's help.'

He now understood why the novel said the two of
them had struggled for a whole week. However,
Cale started to smile. It was now going to be a
battle against time.

Cale stepped into the underground area, into the
vicious tornado, without any hesitation. Cale's red hair started to flutter along with his clothes.
At the same time.

"N, no! You will get hurt! You are extremely weak!"

The dragon appeared at the back of the path and
shouted urgently.

Also at the same time

"Huh?"

The dragon could see a large shield with silver
wings appear and surround Cale.

The wings, that were shining so brightly that it
could be called holy, surrounded Cale while the
large shield blocked the wind. The shield and the
wings were keeping Cale safe.

Cale turned around. His eyes opened widely as his gaze landed on the dragon.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

The Black Dragon could not say anything in re-
sponse.

Instead, the Black Dragon just slowly crawled
back into the path. While Cale was watching the
dragon in disbelief, he could hear a quiet voice
piercing through the wind to reach his ear.

"..I was ... just passing by.

"Tsk."

The Black Dragon's back flinched after hearing
Cale click his tongue, but Cale did not have time to pay attention to the dragon. The cave's wind had a cycle of 3 hours of strong wind and 3 hours of weak wind. This was the moment that the wind
started to get weaker. Of course, it would still be-
come stronger the closer he got to the center.

Swilliiiiiiish.

"Quite scary"

The wind was still pretty strong to be called the,
"weak phase. The novel mentioned that the 150
year old man walked through this strong wind to
get to the rock tower.

Cale turned his gaze back to the center of the
cave. The large underground area. In the middle of the tornado was a half-stacked rock tower. It
looked like there were no winds over there. Next
to the half-stacked rock tower were numerous
other rocks.

'I need to stack all of those rocks up.'

The issue was getting to the tower. Stacking the
rocks would not be a problem.

Cale looked over the shield and the wings sur-
rounding him, before taking a step forward.
Tang. Tang. The rough wind clashed against the
shield. Even though the silver shield was transparent, it sounded like the wind was hitting a real metal shield.

That noise made the Black Dragon that was look-
ing away slowly turn around to look at Cale.

"But you are weak."

The Cale that the dragon could see was having a
difficult time, even though the shield and wings
were protecting him. The wind that could not be
blocked by the shield and wings was making his
clothes flutter. The wind that seeped through the
bottom of the shield made him stop moving every
so often as well.

However, Cale continued to step forward one step at a time. Then the dragon saw it.

Cale was smiling. This human, that was nothing
compared to that strong tornado, the same human that was weaker than even the kittens he saw him feed this morning , the human that was the weakest out of everybody he saw until now, was smiling while pushing through this wind.

The dragon had never seen such a silver shield
before. He had never seen such wings either. The
dragon took a look at his own wings. It was very
different from his wings. It was extremely beauti-
ful. The dragon was curious as to what that power might be.

However, the dragon was focused not on the holy
and magnificent shield nor wings. Its full attention was on the smiling Cale.

And the target of the gaze, Cale, was continuing
to smile.

'It's doable. It's comfortable.'

It was a bit difficult and slow because of the wind, but it was actually a breeze. Compared to how Beacrox was almost killed by Ron while being taught his sword art, this was child's play.

This made Cale once again feel like it really was
best to earn something without putting in much
effort.

There were no physical or mental strain endured
when using the Indestructible Shield. There would be a short strain if it was to break, but it was not in any danger of breaking right now.

'It just gets pushed back.'

The shield just got pushed back if the wind was
strong. Honestly speaking, Cale had expected to
be pushed back multiple times. That was why he
had originally lowered the strength of the shield
and enlarged it as much as possible. He had been
planning on slowly shrinking the size of the shield whenever he got pushed back.

However, this shield was working better than Cale had expected. That made Cale a bit smug, but when he had reached about the halfway mark to the center of the tornado, he had to get rid of all side thoughts.

The novel had said that you would hear a voice
once you got close to the center. It was supposed
to be the voice of an old man.

Cale was waiting for that voice. The tornado was
supposed to get stronger once the voice started to
appear.

- I regret it.

He could hear the voice. But it was a bit odd.

- Ahem, I regret it.

It was a sad old man.

"Tsk tsk."

Cale clicked his tongue. None of these ancient
powers were normal. Why did Taylor think the old man's voice was sincere? Cale could not understand Taylor's train of thought.

However, Cale stopped clicking his tongue and
stopped moving.

- The one that has a power that I am familiar with, I am hoping that you do not get this power.

"Hmm?"

The one with a power I am familiar with?'
That phrase had caught Cale's attention. At the
same time, the wind started to get stronger and
swept through the area.

Tang. Tang. Tang. The wind clashed even stronger against the transparent wind and made loud noises. However, Cale's concerned expression was not because of the wind. His hair continued to flutter in the wind.

'Is he talking about the Indestructible Shield?'

The only thing that Cale could deduce about this,
'familiar power,' was the Indestructible Shield. It
had not said anything like that to Taylor in the
novel. Did the owner of this ancient power know
the owner of the Indestructible Shield? Multiple
thoughts flew across Cale's mind at once.

However, Cale still chose to step forward for now.
The wind would only get stronger if he delayed
any longer.

- I pretty much betrayed my comrades! I was a
terrible person! Ahem, I stayed alive on my own
and got old. How shameful am 1?!

Cale could only hear the old man's voice every so
often as he was having difficulty stepping forward one step at a time.

- I was always hoping for everyone to come back
to life. However, my wish was something that
could not be achieved. I could only lament and cry! That was why I could not finish my rock tower.

"How annoying."

Cale found the old man's lamenting voice to be
annoying. Screw sincere, it was like he wanted to
die. It was the style that Cale hated. Epicureans
were so much better.