Volume 1 Chapter 29 Side Story: The lizard that ate humans

“A Blessed Child part 5.5

-The Blessed Child arrived in the small village he had seen in the distance.

-A woman crying could be seen from the moment the blessed entered the town.

-She said how a lizard had eaten her five years old daughter.

-The Child did not believe her as she was dirty and flies were turning around her head.

-The Child continued walking toward the nearest hotel.

-When he entered he could see the cold atmosphere of the place.

-People did not talk, did not play cards and did not drink.

-The Blessed Child went to the counter and paid for a room using the merchant’s money.

-That merchant really was a good bloke, when it was time to pay up, he paid for the help he had received.

-That merchant had done what every citizen of the Silver Ridge Dynasty should do.

-So the kid got a room for himself and went to sleep.

-When the blessed woke up, the dark clutches of the night had already taken hold of the town.

-He went down the stairs and listened to the travelers’ small talk.

-They said how there was something in the midst of the night that killed even the most hardened warriors.

-The kid proposed a round of cards with one of the travelers.

-The man was not willing at first but once the blessed put a big pouch of coin as a bet the man agreed.

-They played JAQ (Jack, Ace, Queen) for most of the night.

-As the sun was slowly rising in the distance, the kid went out of the hotel.

-In front of the doorstep was lying a dead body.

-Half of the body had been eaten by a large mouth full of teeth.

-The kid walked over the body to go buy some pastries, the corpse was not someone he knew so he didn’t have time to waste.

-The man he had played JAQ with turned out to be a very interesting person to talk to.

-The man was a Scholar and a Thieve, he had talked about some of the robberies he had done before and had been able to captivate the kid’s attention during the whole night.

-The Scholar had said how he had stolen a big diamond a few days back.

-The blessed came back from the bakery with a bag full of yummy pastries.

-He had taken a few more to share with his new acquaintance.

-As he walked back he saw a giant lizard sleeping on its back.

-The kid went up to him and asked what its favorite sleeping position.

-The annoyed lizard yelled at the kid that he had been sleeping on its back and had been very comfortable as it was before being talked to.

-The Blessed Child deducted that the lizard was a Great Sleeping Gecko.

-The kid had heard numerous rumors about the greatness of beds stuffed full of Great Sleeping Gecko’s scales.

-And so the kid took the big lizard by the tail and swung it toward a wall.

-Crack, the house bursted open as the weight of the lizard destroyed the wall.

-The now awake Gecko came out of the broken house, much more angry than before.

-The Great Sleeping Gecko asked the blessed if he was there to slay him as the others had tried before.

-The kid asked in turn why the Gecko was being attacked by those people.

-The lizard answered that he had eaten humans and drank a Klous, because of that numerous “slayers” had come to take his head as a trophy.

-The kid said that he was only fighting because he had heard that mattresses made with Great Sleeping Gecko’s scales were very comfortable and that he wanted one.

-The enraged Gecko rushed mouth wide open toward the kid.

-The strongman that had become the blessed put one hand on the palate mouth and one hand on the lower mouth to hold the Gecko’s bite.

-The kid kicked the giant Gecko’s tummy, the lizard let out a rotten breath as it held its belly in pain.

-It cried out on how the blessed was a monster, the kid had probably destroyed its stomach, now it would not be able to eat anything other than soup.

-The Gecko tried to trip the blessed using its tail as a whip.

-The lizard swung its tail toward the kid’s leg.

-Clunk, the tail stuck an iron wall.

-The Blessed Child’s legs were so strong and firm that the tail swing did not make him fall.

-The Gecko looked at the kid in shock, this kid was something else.

-He was way too strong to fight, so the lizard did the only logical thing to do and started fleeing from the broken street they were in.

-The kid gave chase as he really wanted that new mattress.

-The two of them ran through the city, one running for its life, the other running for a new mattress.

-The kid had an idea, he took a roof and threw it toward the fleeing Great Sleeping Gecko.

-The Gecko barely dodged by ducking at the last second, it entered a house to shield itself from more roof throws.

-The kid arrived on top of the lizard’s shelter and punched with as much strength as he could the roof.

-The entire house broke down under the strength of the blow.

-As the building crumbled, the Gecko threw a man in its mouth to give itself more energy.

-It leaped from the debris toward a fountain in the middle of the town.

-The blessed followed, he arrived in front of the fountain as the Gecko was on the other side.

-The lizard looked at him, time seemed to slow down.

-Both were looking in each other's eyes, the Gecko once again leapt up, trying to flee once again.

-It was a mistake to jump over the kid’s head as the Blessed Child jumped to perform an aerial headbutt.

-Both were in the air, one out of breath from the heavy hit and one ready to kill.

-The kid started punching with so much strength and speed that each of the hits were breaking the sound barrier.

-The sonic booms were able to destroy the witnesses’ eardrum but the kid had a constitution strong enough to handle it.

-The kid took the Great Sleeping Gecko by the tail and swung it toward the pointy tip of the fountain.

-The fountain impaled the Gecko’s heart and put an end to its life.

-The Blessed Child had saved the town from the Gecko and had become the one that had killed the lizard that ate humans.”