I AM AN ATHEIST

The Feast

Xavier felt a sharp pain on his arm for a second, it did not last long but was quite sharp, then he saw new a tattoo on his right arm, the tattoo was " Dragon112".

After getting the tattoo, just like the others, he walked down from the stage, he looked around in the crowd and finally reunited with his cousins Golu and Molu.

But no one left the hall, everyone waited for Mona to complete the task and ask them to leave.

It took some time until the last person got his tattoo.

The final result was

1. 5 Boars

2. 66 Chickens

3. 174 Dragons

It must be noted that when Xavier entered the hall there were more than a thousand people in the room but only 247 members became the trainee.

The sheer number of disqualified people itself states how selective the Gurukul is.

Then Mona walked forward and while standing at the edge of the stadium, turning around, she pointed her finger at the door that was exactly opposite to her and said:" Dragons, Chickens and Boars since this is your first day, I have arranged a feast on the other side of this door, you are free to enjoy it "

She had not even finished her sentence, she saw two people rushing towards the door, they were chicken 20 and chicken 65, they were basically Golu and Molu.

Xavier was also confused by their behaviour but he knew his two cousins, they would never do something like this.

Then he remembered, the conversion about the food, he was actually interested in the food because of his cousins.

They ate that food without blinking an eye while grabbing it from Foen.

Seeing their odd behaviour Xavier had doubts that it might be the side effects of consuming that food.

The reason for his doubts includes the Mojo's anger, the conversation between the two people he was eavesdropping.

" Dragons what hell are you waiting for? Do you want to be left behind by mere chickens?"

Mona shouted.

" No"

The dragons shouted as they charged at the door.

Golu and Molu faced no problem opening the door and entering into the room.

The dragons were next to enter, but they were not pure dragons as chickens mixed in them showing their fighting spirit as the higher-ranked.

The chickens did not want the dragons who were ranked lower than them to trample upon them, at the same time the dragons did not want to be defeated in the hands of mere chickens.

They were pushing and pulling each other, everyone's goal was a single door, the door that leads to the feast.

Everyone moved but the five Boars did not, they felt it was beneath them to compete with the chickens and the dragons for the food.

Of course, our Xavier was also among the crowd competing with the chickens, coincidentally the one whom he was trying to leave behind was Herald.

" prince, finally did you realize the capability of her? "

Herald started a conversation while still trying to overtake Xavier.

" I did not "

Xavier replied as he did not want to get distracted.

" Haha you are lying, you did right, how easily she pushed away all the responsibility of the Gurukul on the individual"

"The Gurukul is hiding the reason behind the attack, are not you tempted to know about it?"

Herald continued chatting as he pulled down Xavier with force.

" If they are hiding the reason, it was definitely not something we mere newbie trainees could interfere"

Xavier replied as he caught the shirt of Herald.

" Yeah, we can not interfere in the world of Gods, but that's what it makes it interesting to know their secrets "

Giving a slight push to Xavier's hand which caught his shirt from the back Herald said.

Xavier lost his grip on Herald's shirt with the push, he paused his steps for a minute, pushing aside other people around him, he began to chase Herald again.

Somehow he caught up to Herald.

" prince I don't believe that you are not interested in knowing the truth if you are really interested then meet me tomorrow evening at 6'0 clock in the hall".

Herald said.

Then Herald shouted: "You damn dragons, know your place " and grabbed a person in front of him and pulled him back.

The person who was being pulled could not resist at all.

Xavier who was at the back of Herald had seen everything, the person was going to crash on to him, he tried to move left but it did only shortened the time required for the crash.

"Ouch"

Xavier heard a woman's sound, but he did not continue to lie down, abruptly he stood up and helped her to stand because he knew if they continued to lie down then soon people coming from back trample upon them with their feet.

" Are you ok? " Xavier asked her.

She was wearing a dress made up of leather with the hood, As her head was covered with the hood, it's hard to look at her face.

" Yes," she replied then she rejoined the crowd.

Xavier did not expect that kind of rude behaviour, according to him at least she should thank him, but she did not, that was odd.

As far as many women he helped, all of them thanked him but this woman did not, so he somehow noted her identity that was on her right arm dragon63.

After pushing and pulling others for a long time, Xavier finally reached the door.

Xavier was not here for the food but he joined the crowd because he was a dragon himself, he could not able to bring himself to watch from the sidelines when other dragons were actively competing.

But still, after reaching the door, he expected to have some food.

However, his expectations shattered when he saw what's inside.

There was no food, but a very large pack of wolves.

The wolves were not seemed to be strong themselves but a large horde is what made them dreadful.

The people who entered before them were fighting them, most of them drenched in blood.

There were even some people who did not carry any weapon with them and desperately fighting with bare hands.

Seeing this most of them who entered the room wanted to exit right away, they turned around to exist but the door which was beside them a few moments ago disappeared.

They could only fight with these wolves, there was no other option.

Xavier unsheathed his sword and began slashing the wolves that charged at him.

Every time he slashed a wolf fell, the wolves were pretty weak but the numbers were not decreasing instead they were kept on increasing.

Xavier was looking for Golu and Molu while slashing the wolves that came at him.

Blood and corpses of wolves were seen everywhere, either it is the dragons or the chickens both were giving out their all.

Time passed,

" Aaaa"

The first casualty to the wolves happened as a wolf bite a man, the other jumped on his shoulder and pulled out a piece of flesh from the shoulder revealing the bones, one by one other wolf began to pierce him with their tooth at his different body parts.

"Aaaaa"

"Aaaaaaa"

"Aaaaaaaaaa"

"Aaaaaaa"

His painful cries echoed as he was being eaten alive.

The people near him shuddered by imagining themselves in his place, they saw it with their own eyes.

They saw how the wolves were pulling out the flesh from his body, they heard his miserable cries, it was quite a terrifying experience for them.

Somehow the fear they felt overwhelmed the exhaustion from before, as a result, they began to kill the wolves again as if they had just begun.

Meanwhile, Xavier finally found Golu and Molu, they were drenched in blood, countless corpses of wolves laid before them.

But still, there were a lot of wolves that were eying them, the number of they were facing were almost 10 times of what Xavier faced till now.

Even tough Golu and Molu seemed to be exhausted they continued to s***h while supporting each other.

Xavier did not know how long they had been doing it but considering that they were the first one to enter the door, they were the longest one that lasted in the assault of the wolves.

Without waiting for more time, Xavier joined them and began facing the wolves.

Time passed, the duo could not fight anymore and fainted due to fatigue leaving their protection to Xavier.

Time continued to pass, Xavier was also exhausted, he felt like closing his eyes but he controlled himself because if he fainted then his two cousins would also die.

He continued to kill the wolves no matter the exhaustion felt, the wolves seemed to increase more and more as if there was no ending to their number.

I can not do it anymore,

I want to close the eyes

Xavier then closed the eyes.

It feels comfortable

But still, I can't give up, I got to protect my cousins"

Thinking to himself, Xavier reopened his eyes and began slashing the wolves again

Xavier continued to kill, he did not know how much time passed but he slashed the wolves to its last number with sheer determination.

After killing the final wolf, Xavier decided to accept the urge and the pulses from his brain, and finally, his eyes began to blur then he saw a blurry figure in front of him and heard Dragon112 well done.

But Xavier currently had no power to ponder about the words, so he finally fainted.

Wish you all a happy new year

~~~your humble author,

Eternal_Crown.