They were sitting in a triangle-like formation, Nak and The armored one were both sitting on the edge of the tower with a bit of space away in between them, while Preston was sitting in front of them, sitting near the stairs.

"Anyway, how about we introduce ourselves, I'll need to be able to call out to you guys fighting that Titan, I'll go first."

"I go by Nak, the oh-so infamous prisoner of the great and mighty Empire Sternum, I died quite the fun death really."

Nak decided to speak up, introducing himself first in a somewhat sarcastic tone, looking at his group. Giving them a light wave he turned his head towards the Titan waiting for the others to introduce themselves.

"I'll go next, I'm Preston, Guardian of the Cavern of Death. I died defending my people's retreat from the church of the Sun god."

Preston gave a slight bow towards them with the aura expected of a respectable Guardian Knight. Preston turned his head towards the armored person, who was silent.

"....I-I was given the name Rosalynn, that is all I'm willing to share."

Hearing her introduction Nak looked towards her from the corner of his eyes as he squinted his eyes. Taking his eyes off the Titan he started moving towards a small dresser nearby.

"Now that we're all acquainted, I suggest we find a way to deal with that Titan."

"It seems you two know more of that creature called a Titan than I do. That move it just did, do you know what it is, and how we can counter it?"

Preston questioned the both of them, seeing Nak find nothing in the dresser before he kicked it. Turning towards Rosalynn noticed her watching Nak searching for something.

Ah Ha! - pulling his hand from a pile of things at the entrance to the stairs, Nak pulled out a roll of bandages - "I guess this will work."

Pulling his hair up into a ponytail, Nak tied it tightly with a bandage showcasing his uniquely golden eyes, which were not any less beautiful with the bags under his eyes.

Rosalynn - "Yes, well that move is called the Sky Crasher to humans, but it's also known as the Sky Piercer as well as many other names. And the sword, a big accomplice in cracking the sky, Sky Bane, all Titans have a Sky Bane. Meaning all Titans are usually at their strongest."

Nak - "Yes, it's also important to know that that giant thing," - Nak pointed a finger towards the approaching Titan as he sat back down at the edge, - "Is merely just a giant puppet, a doll that's used to convert their power into even larger attacks, the actual Titans aren't even that big, just slightly taller than most humans from my world."

Preston -"So we just need to pull it out of the puppet!?" Hearing what Nak said, Preston felt a bit relieved at the fact that they didn't necessarily need to fight the giant doll and excited about the coming battle.

Rosalynn - "No, that wouldn't be possible. We'd need to take the puppet down and drive the Titan out into a battle with us, the puppets are very powerful even by themselves, so we should take it out first before even trying to take down the actual body."

"That attack can only be used every forty-five minutes, we've been talking for about fifteen minutes. I recommend we hurry and find armaments."

"Great, I can see a sign, with weapon written on it in the distance, let's check it out." - Saying this Nak jumped off the Tower followed by Rosalynn and then Preston.

As they were running through the forest they continuously heard crashing sounds and shaking in the distance. Ignoring it, they continued moving forward.

"There it is, up ahead-"

Suddenly coming to a halt, Nak cut himself off as the two behind him followed after him, stopping as well. A big figure slithered in front of them as it came out of a large hole hidden in the ground.

"Oook, seems a Titan has sniffed us out. You two should go ahead, let me have some fun playing with this big guy." - Nak sighed before a toothy grin made its way on his face, he mouthed something to Rosalynn before nodding.

They nodded as they ran past Nak who kicked the large beast in the face as it tried to snap at them. Getting a good look at the creature in his gaze, he found that it was a large reptilian creature, a large black snake with a mitre on its head. It had sharp protrusions going along its back and spine, and its tail was in the form that of a sharp dagger.

As Nak and the giant creature were analyzing each other the sky began to darken. Nak glanced down at the foot he kicked the creature with and saw the red smoking skin of his foot.

The creature had a killer glare and it was staring him down, yet he kept avoiding meeting its gaze as it continued hissing.

As darkness soon enveloped them as the large creature started slithering around the area - hssss -as the creature was slithering around shrouded in darkness, the sound of something burning and smell of burnt wood and grass protruded Nak's nose, as trees melted and fell.

The grin never left his face, as Nak's eyes lit up in the darkness, turning towards where the creature was Nak cracked his neck.

Hehe - " Never thought I would meet a Basilisk here, let's have some fun shall we."

As Rosalynn and Preston made it to where Nak told them to go, they looked towards the sign hanging above that read, "Weapon Yard: Grave of Warriors."

As they read the sign, they heard trees crashing and loud hissing from the area they just came from.

Preston had a worried look on his face - " Do you think he will be able to hold off against that beast without a weapon?"

"He should be."

Her straight and simple response left Preston perplexed yet he just followed her in without saying more.

As they entered the graveyard they saw many graves, some with weapons stabbed into the dirt, others with no weapons on them. Looking around some more they cold spot that some of the graves have been dug up.

"It seems the other group got here before us, how about we check around for suitable weapons."

Preston kneeled in front of one of the dug-up graves as he read the gravestone. Getting up he moved to another grave as he began searching.

Rosalynn was standing in the same spot, as still as stone for a few minutes before moving straight forward. Arriving at a grave with a black gravestone with withered dirt in front of it, her armor compressed into a much smaller armor that would be easily movable in, her figure got much smaller as well.

She began digging up the grave, hearing more crashing and getting the whiff of something burnt she began quickening her digging speed.

Moving off the rest of the dirt she opened the coffin, revealing a skeleton that was gripping a pitch-black scythe in its hands, seeing the tool in its hand Rosalynn carefully removed the scythe out of its clutches.

"I appreciate your patronage."

Bowing towards the grave Rosalynn began moving towards another one. - "This place had a high aura signature, and its shape is what he asked for."

She placed the scythe down on the ground, she began digging up the dirt, revealing what looked like a big humanoid doll, its hands were some type of gauntlets that went up to its entire forearm.

"Of course he wanted this."

Thud! - Nak jumped back as the Basilisk knocked another tree over, as it hit the snake it immediately started to melt.

Nak lifted his right arm, at least what was left of it. His sleeve was almost completely gone, most of the skin covering his forearm was melted off revealing his muscles. As blood continued to spill from his arm, the smile never left his face.

"I just got these clothes. So hey, how about we just talk? I don't see any reason to keep fighting."

The Basilisk opened its mouth revealing its large fangs as it snapped its head quickly at Nak, he quickly slid to the side as he barely dodged it. Deciding to make a small counter attack, he lightly punched the side of its head with his left hand.

The light attack not bothering it one bit, the Basilisk moved its head toward Nak once again.

"Yeah, I expected that to do nothing." - He observed the unfazed Basilisk and his slightly red hand as he prepared himself for another exchange.

Analyzing the surrounding arena Nak spotted a tree that had been broken and fallen, forming a plan he began moving around the trees as the Basilisk quickly slithered after him.

Punching a nearby tree, Nak caused it to fall down the Basilisk, though it melted almost right away it did slightly slow the snake down.

Getting to the tree he saw earlier, he quickly examined the broken part of it, - "This should be sharp enough." - Lifting the giant tree, he watched as the Basilisk got closer, then he threw the tree in the air.

After throwing it, Nak ran up a nearby tree as the Basilisk lunged at the spot where he was just standing.

Jumping high in the air, as the tree was falling back to the ground, Nak kicked the tree with all his strength towards the Basilisk, due to the force applied from his kick the tree broke into contact as hundreds of differently sized splinters made their way towards the snake.

Seeing the many splinters coming towards it, the Basilisk continued towards Nak as it didn't bother with the wood coming its way. As it continued slithering towards Nak who just land on the ground, the splinters began hitting its head, followed by the wood melting, but then.

Tchuk! - One of the splinters pierced one of the Basilisk's eyes. The Basilisk began freaking out, it was bashing its body around smashing itself into everything around it destroying the surroundings even more as it writhed in pain.

Watching the Basilisk lose one of its eyes, Nak punched the air as he accomplished what he was trying to do, backing up from the snake to avoid its random bashing, he noticed Rosalynn and Preston coming back from the direction of the graveyard.

As they entered the messy and destroyed area they could see the large snake bashing around, then they spotted Nak standing somewhat away from the serpent, Preston and Rosalynn ran towards him, as they spotted his leg that was covered in burns and the skin was bright red.

They took their eyes from his leg and moved it up towards his arm, which was by far in a much, much worse situation. The skin was almost all nonexistent, the muscles of his arm were present for all to see.

Seeing his arm Preston quickly ran up to him with a worried expression on his face as he was checking out Nak's arm. While Rosalynn just stood there as if in a daze, looking at his battered appearance.

"How is thi- no, are you good, Argh! I knew we shouldn't have left you here to fight alone." - Preston was frantically checking out his body as he examined his wounds.

"It should be fine. It practically destroyed my clothes, and I just got these too! How annoying."

"That's what you're worried about!?"

Preston was seriously dumbfounded, he's on the brink of death, yet the thing he's worried about is his clothes?

"I was able to take care of one of its eyes, though that lessens the risk you should still be careful of its other eye, less you die." - Nak turned back towards the Basilisk, " You've at least fought a Basilisk before right Preston?"

"Indeed, one has tried attacking my village before." - Brandishing a longsword he found at the graveyard, Preston prepared to face the reptile that was beginning to calm down. As he was preparing to charge he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"No need. I'll finish dealing with this. Here," - Rosalynn tossed two heavy black gauntlets to Nake. "I got you what you asked for."

"Thanks."

Nodding towards him Rosalynn began spinning her Scythe as she pinned her gaze on the Basilisk. Seeing the two new appearances added with the fact that it just lost an eye, the Basilisk grew wary as it watched only one of them approach it.

As Rosalynn approached the Basilisk Nak turned towards Preston - "Hey Preston, did she shrink? Or is it just me?"

"No, I noticed it as well. I asked her about it, and she just answered with, 'More efficient.'."

"Oh, makes sense."

Noticing the one that took its eye out was standing back and it was instead approached by this feminine figure wielding a tool used for farming the snake growled at the lack of respect.

"How dare you!! You insufferable insects dare to face me with farming tools!!? You!" - The booming voice of the Basilisk echoed all around them as it turned its glare towards Nak.

"Come face me once again, for we shall end this! I will reap your life, then the others!"

"Haaaa, sorry about that, it's out of my hands now, you'll have to deal with her if you wish to continue." - Nak just shrugged at the Basilisk's comment and wishes, pointing his finger towards Rosalynn who stopped to listen to it's rambling.

Grrrrr - "Very well, I shall devour you then deal with the boy, I hope you can match his ability."

Hehehehe - "I'll apologize ahead of time in case I don't meet your expectations, but right now," - Rosalynn swiped her scythe horizontally, cutting off one of the Basilisk's spikes protruding from its back, "You'll have to pay for what you've done."

If only it could see the grin that had come across her face.

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The basilisk is called "king" because it is reputed to have on its head a mitre, or crown-shaped crest.

Mitre/Miter - The mitre (British English) (/ˈmaɪtər/; Greek: μίτρα, "headband" or "turban") or miter (American English; see spelling differences), is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops and certain abbots in traditional Christianity.

A/N - Sorry about the late chapter, but allow me to say this. When it comes to chapter release rates I don't make promises, I make suggestions.

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