Ascent of Hero on the Dragon Throne

Rocky felt heaviness in his head the moment he regained consciousness. It was as if he had been in deep sleep for a long time. He felt his lips were warm and wet, and something was wriggling on them. His body felt stiff. Finally, the evil spiritual power in his body was calming down.

The moment he opened his eyes, a ray of light overwhelmed his vision. He blinked several times, his vision slowly unveiling a beautiful face of a fairy who seemed to be standing in front of him.

The fairy's eyes were closed, her long eyelashes flicking lightly against the light. Her strands of red hair hung on the tip of his high nose. And, to Rocky's surprise, her small and soft lips were resting right on top of his.

"Am I dreaming?" Rocky wanted to say. 'Am I dead?' he thought. When he fully regained his vision, Rocky was overwhelmed by the beauty of the woman. He couldn't believe his eyes. All of it felt like a dream.

Rocky recalled falling from a cliff previously. He must have fallen far from the others. Despite everything feeling dreamy, Rocky also knew that things felt real.

The woman seemed to have felt Rocky stir. She raised her head and opened her eyes, revealing a flash of sliver light that made her eyes look like ripples and made Rocky's heart swoon.

Rocky regained his composure and stood up in a hurry. He was in a dense forest and, in between trees, he saw the cliff where he jumped off from.

"I'm not dead," Rocky realized. Rocky felt his flesh but was caught off-guard by the beautiful woman. He noticed a pair of butterfly wings softly fluttering on her back making her look like a fairy. When his eyes drew to her face, he immediately recognized her. "It's you," Rocky asked.

She was the woman who saved him previously as well.

The woman stood up in front of Rocky who was slowly regaining full consciousness. She smi

cation.

He looked around once more and, once he decided he was clear of danger, he moved forward in the direction where he sensed Uriah to be.

Rocky braced himself for an encounter with a spirit-manipulated beast. However, he did not encounter any despite the fact that he had been walking around for half a day. He did not even meet a four-star animal, nor a two-star one. He sped up until he found himself in a wide plain area, away from the forest.

He walked until after sunset and until he found a slope to build fire on. His plan was to settle in for the night and resume journey tomorrow, in fear of encountering wild spirit-manipulated beasts that lurked at night.

After Rocky had set up the fire, he noticed bright lights flickering through the distant. From where he stood, it looked like fireflies.

Rocky tried not to pay mind to it and sat down cross legged to begin the cultivation of the third stage of Demonic Fire Skill. After which, he felt something strange inside him. The evil spiritual power that had long calmed slowly flowed out of his body. The evil spiritual power danced with the Fire spiritual power completely unaffected by each other's presence. Rocky was convinced that it was all very strange.