I AM AN ATHEIST

Peculiar Statue

" Molu, could brother Xavier win ?"

a man running on an uneven track with barefoot asked.

"Golu, Are you doubting brother Xavier? don't forget that brother Xavier withstood the pressure from the Guru without using the trick"

the man beside him replied. This man is none other than Molu, the trick Molu talked about is nothing special, it was just holding off the breath.

it was announced the day before the orientation that to withstand Guru's selection, they had to hold their breath, Xavier was not there when it was announced as he was unconscious as a result he faced the invisible pressure without holding his breath while all others did hold their breath.

It was Golu and Molu, who forgot to tell him about it, that's how Xavier ended up as a dragon, Molu believed that their brother was no lesser than the boars, maybe his talent even surpass them as he was the only one who withstood the Guru's pressure without the trick.

In the eyes of everyone Dragon112 was just another low ranked dragon, but in reality, he could be compared to the boars.

"Chicken20 and Chicken65, what the hell are you blabbering? stop wasting the time and speed up your legs "

At that moment, a female's voice was heard,

Hearing it, the duo seemed to be panicked and began running with more energy, and why were they panicked it was well known.

Occasionally the trainees who were running on the track would face traps hidden inside the ground, they were covered under the smooth looking sand, at the same time the so-called track did not look like a racing track either, it was covered with a wide variety of pebbles and sharp objects such as broken glass in between.

When the trainees thought of avoiding the sharp objects and pebbles, they would find a smooth looking part on the ground, usually, there would be either grass or sand on this part, but when they put their leg onto this part, they unknowingly activate the traps.

The traps that duo had seen till now were quite dangerous, the first trap was triggered when they began running, it was a foothold trap in the shape of a mouth having sharp sawtooth jaws inside it, a young woman had fallen to this trap as her leg was riddled with the sawtooth trap as she bled and cried out in pain.

And the second trap that they saw was an instant explosion, a group trainee fell victim to it and one among them lost his life. After having observed the second trap, not only Golu and Molu but also other trainee did not dare to escape the uneven track, they would intentionally run through the pebbles while bearing the pain after all this pain was much smaller than triggering unknown life-threatening traps.

This scene was not gruesome as yesterday's, but still, it gave chills in other's heart, they expected it to just a normal run when the instructor announced it.

Every trainee now understood that they should not view the training they were taking with normal eyes and running away from it was not an option either as they saw the instructor Mona was behind them, and she was attacking whoever was not running with her sword, a couple of trainees already fell under her sword, she did not look like an instructor at all, she was more like a devil.

Meanwhile, when Xavier entered the room, he found himself in a forest. The forest was green and had a good number of trees, Xavier had long prepared for any attack that he would face by holding his sword Ivar with both of his arms.

Despite waiting for the enemy for a long time, he did not see anyone. So, he decided to look for the enemy by himself, Xavier decided to go in a straight direction, he walked through the trees until he found a building the forest, the building was made up of grey coloured marbles, it looked more like an abandoned church.

Xavier walked around the building and inspected it, he did not find any abnormalities or enemies outside, still, he waited outside for about two hours to confirm that there was not anyone waiting to hit him from the back.

Since there were no signs of anyone around even after waiting for a long time, Xavier decided to enter this building.

The first thing that Xavier saw after entering into the building was a group of benches placed in rows and columns just like other churches, And on the stage, there was a statue of a young man holding three swords, two were in his hand and the other was in his mouth, there was also a piece clothing covered on his head, the statue seemed to be carved from black coloured rock.

As Xavier was looking at the statue, all of a sudden he saw his vision blurred then he felt pain in his abdomen, and when he placed his hands on his abdomen, he saw his hands turning into crimson red colour, it was blood.

When?

Xavier thought as he understood that he was stabbed. Even though he was on guard all the time, he did not even see the enemy that stabbed him, he knew that he was going to die, there was not much time left to his death.

So he decided to gather as much data as possible for his next visit while looking around but the throbbing pain he felt distracted him, the pain subsided as he closed his eyes.

When Xavier opened his eyes again, he found himself back into the hall, he knew what he had to do it, without waiting for instructions he walked towards the door 6, opened it and walked in.

Xavier was sent back to the same place where he was sent when he entered the room the first time, As Xavier knew the way, it did not take him long to reach back to the abandoned church but he did not enter it.

Xavier knew if he enters into it right away, he would die just like the last time, so he decided to inspect the building from the outside again, his goal was to find who is the one that stabbed him last time, and how he did it.

His efforts waiting outside and inspecting the building turned out to be useless as he did not find any clue even after 5 hours of waiting. Understanding it was just wasting the time to wait outside, he rushed in, he saw the statue again, there was no change to it.

At the same time, his vision blurred again along with sharp pain in the abdomen, Xavier knew he was stabbed again and was going to die, this time he firmly looked at the statue of the young man holding the three swords hoping to find any clues before he died.

After being resurrected, Xavier did not enter into the room again instead, he sat on the ground.

I was stabbed to death twice, I did not even feel it until I was bleeding, it's peculiar. If something is suspicious it would be the statue, the statue of the damn god must be responsible for it, this time I would be the one who would attack it first, Xavier thought.

Then Xavier stood up to enter the room again.

However, he halted his steps as he found boar4 appearing next to him.

"You damn dragon, did you realize? how tough it is, heed my advice and accept your defeat, you can never clear it"

Boar4 spouted as soon as he found Xavier, he had full confidence that this dragon112 can not clear the room because he was not able to do it even after resurrecting for five times.

Xavier did not stay silent this time as he replied: " No, I don't because I knew I can clear it", he walked towards the door and entered it.

what a fool, he was overestimating himself, Boar4 thought.

similarly, he walked towards the same door and entered it.

This time Xavier after reaching the building entered inside without a second thought.

He threw his sword at the statue as soon as he entered the church, the sword crashed to the statue's head but nothing happened except his vision blurred again and died just like the previous time.

Xavier did not give up, he came back again and this time while holding his sword, he ran towards the statue as soon as he entered the church, but before he reached the statue his vision got blur along with pain in the abdomen, he closed his eyes.

Xavier continued to persist, every time he died, he came back and tried to hit the statue and damage it in various ways, but he failed every time.

After dying more than 30 times, Xavier was back again to the abandoned church and stood at outside.

Am I wrong? The statue did not seem to be the culprit if the statue is not the culprit then who is it?.

After all, there was me and only the statue here, wait if it is not the statue then the culprit must be me.

The sudden realization kicked open a new door of thought in Xavier's mind.

If the culprit and victim are both me and myself then everything could be explained.

Every time I enter the church, I died in a similar manner that is stabbed to death at my abdomen.

What if the death tried to tell me what should I do?.

If I am not wrong, then I must stab myself in the abdomen before entering the church.

with this crazy thought in his mind, Xavier lifted his sword and stabbed himself with it in the abdomen.

" Aaaaaaaa"

Xavier cried out in pain, in previous encounters he did not feel pain until he could not talk, but this time it was different as he stabbed himself.

His clothes died red with the blood but he did not care. After stabbing himself, he took the sword out with another cry.

This time when Xavier entered the church, he knew he was right as He did not die right away.

At the same time, the statue was not there, in its place a young man carrying three swords stood, he looked exactly like the statue from before.