This is a story about a former adventurer the men who master the swordsman martial arts and soon bestow the title "The Dragon Slayer" after being a witness the man slay the raging dragon that destroying the village.
Ryuken Vermilion is a man with a bright red-haired that lives far away with his Master where he learns his swordsmanship. they... both live on the top of "Eisengard Mountain" far from any bustling city and village. The environment is quiet and the air is fresh suit perfectly for training purposes. Every single day, Ryuken diligently keep up his training until it was time he got approval to carry on his Master Legacy.
After many of years completing his training. Ryuken decides to explore the outside world and be independent while honing his swordsmanship furthermore out there. With his Master's approval and blessing. He sends off his disciple with a heartwarming farewell.
Ryuken's adventure now begins the moment he steps away from the mountain and encounters many challenges in the progress. Survival and knowledge is the key to life. So on his adventure continue. Every day he has to find his food by hunting in the forest, fishing in a river, killing the monster, had to cook on his own, and eventually helping nearby cities or villages on the quest like monster extermination, finding a lost item, escorting quest to get some money of his own. But the most important thing was he never neglect his training day and night to make sure he won't forget his Master's teaching.
One day, an eventful blazing night. Ryuken notices an amber-colored sky at night coming from a nearby village followed by a dark cloud of the smoke trail. He quickly dashed towards the smoke. As he reached the village, he saw a huge dark silhouette in view. Stomping, rampaging and spewing out a hot flame from its mouth. Ryuken was in stiff shock from seeing the huge creature in front of his eye. He saw a lot of houses, agricultural fields, human bodies, and blood splatter, and even the forest near it has completely obliterated. The screaming was all over the place as people fled from the scene.
While still in a shock. Ryuken tried to shake off his anxiety and fear by concentrating on his breathing for a few seconds. After a moment, he regains his composure and analyzes the big creature in front of him. As he began to slowly walk toward the creature, the view came in and the silhouette became clear. It was a big fierce blueish-green dragon. The Dragon had an intimidating expression, the roar it makes can swiftly blow a vicious airwave through the entire village and knockback us, it's eye glaring menacingly it's like you get petrified by just batting eye with it.
Ryuken thoughts there's no chance to beat the dragon with his katana. So he feel like he had to run as well as others but suddenly he heard a girl cry inside the blazing house. She got stuck under a pile of rubble. He looks around and sees there was no one nearby to aid the kids. I got frustrated and stop a couple of people that flee and asked them to help the girl. The panicking villager said I was insane but he scream "Then are you fine letting that girl suffer like that while you run and abandoning that innocent girl dying out there alone" Ryuken's words make way through them. but they questioned Ryuken on how to save the girl.
Ryuken comes up with a plan. he will distract the dragon far away from the girl's place. In the meantime, the villagers will help the girl at that moment. After the plan had being execute. Ryuken dash way around to taunt the dragon. The dragon aggressively chases after Ryuken and attacks him by spewing a flame toward him. The villagers bewildered by Ryuken's action start to rescue the girl under the rubble. Ryuken manages to dodge the flame, his flexibility and skill of many years of training help him in combat. The dragon then flips out its pair of wing and vigorously swing a heavy wind to blow him away. He got knockback a bit but then stick his katana to the ground to stabilize him from getting blown.
After a few clashes with the dragon. the girl that stuck finally gets released. but an unexpected turn of events. the girl shouts to Ryuken to run away. The dragon that was focused fixed on Ryuken now gets attention from the girl shouting and facing toward the villagers and the girl. Ryuken tries to stop the dragon movement from getting near the girl. but it was vain, his katana doesn't do any damage to the dragon. The moment the dragon comes near the girl. it raises its big feet in an attempt to stomp on the girl and the rest of the villagers.
Before it happens, Ryuken runs through the dragon's body and jumps over its head. slashing the dragon's eye. The Dragon squirmed in pain for a moment. Ryuken shouts to the others to escape from here. the girl feels sorry and began to run for safety. Ryuken begins to concentrate on his breathing again and meditates for a second. His katana start to glow an aura as he meditates to boost up his point of attack of his katana. He's started to apply his Master's teaching "HonouKami Kaen Ryu" meaning "Flame Blazing God Dragon Style". The teaching solely inherits a Soul of Flame technique that even matches the God Flame Dragon itself. After a brief moment of concentrating. The dragon starts to retaliate by spewing a big Fire Ball at a point-blank range. Ryuken effortlessly slashes the fireball like a piece of fruit cut a half then sprint behind its leg and starts to slash it. The katana cut through the dragon's flesh and gushed a splash of blood from the slash of the katana. The Dragon lifts its leg in pain. While not giving a moment the dragon relieves its pain. Ryuken mid-jump half body of the dragon and slash multiple strikes on its body.
The dragon starts to lose its balance and its starts to fall flat agonizing the pain. Ryuken's mind is already completely out of his consciousness as he raises his katana to strike the dragon's head and end its life. His arm start shaking heavily as he couldn't deliver the final blow. but his will is not strong enough against the aura of God Flame Dragon that was inside him. it keeps whispering as it tries to control Ryuken's body. Telling him to "KILL IT" in his mind repeatedly. Fail to resist the whisper. Ryuken's katana slash through the dragon's neck swiftly with just a single strike. The dragon's life end before his eye and Ryuken's aura begins to fade and slowly regain his consciousness. As he watches the dragon head lying near him. He felt shiver all around his body. the blood that flows through from the dragon, he starts to feel disgusted by himself and traumatized by it.
Then suddenly a crowd surrounding begins to cheer for Ryuken for killing the dragon. The villagers feel relief and slowly gather around him to celebrate the event. As he saw the girl that ran before. she feels relief but sad at the same time. he doesn't even know why. he's not feeling happy at all despite killing the dragon and saving the villagers. It's like something makes him guilty.
Watching the behead dragon. it was like he can understand the Dragon's feelings and emotions. even though it's already dead. it's like he's doing something wrong but can't interpret why. From that on, Everyone starts to call Ryuken "The Dragon Slayer".
Ryuken tries to find the girl she saved before. When he met her, he tries to justify his action whether his action is right or wrong. The girl got confused and said "You kill the dragon to save the village right? so what's wrong with that?. But he was not satisfied with the answer and pry by telling why she had a sad face during the incident. She said "because, the dragon that you kill, her baby now probably gonna be dead too. But it's not important, right? if the baby grows up they gonna be like its mother sooner or later and kill the people again." after she said that, she fled away slowly. Ryuken realize after that speech. he began to search for the dragon's lair in a mountain and find the baby dragon.
He tries to get information about the Dragon that he killed where people often see the dragon came from. So he tried asking everywhere and begin his searching countless times. 2 weeks after the incident. he finally found a big cave lie within his homeland "Eisengard Mountain". There was a huge cave entrance that would make sense if it's gonna be a resting place for the dragon. As he ventures inside the cave, he can hear the cry that was not a human being. it's more like a growl. He readily his arm on his katana to measure safety and sneakily pass through the cave until he saw the creature in view. Its size is the same as an adult cat. it has a bluish-green color instead of standing it walks on its four legs. looking at it reminds him of the resemblance of the dragon that was killed. it's cute it makes him want to pet its head. but perish the thought for now. he quietly walked to the baby dragon. The baby dragon notices him but oddly enough. it doesn't scare me after seeing him.
The baby jumps to him unharmed and begins to cuddle with him. Suddenly the guilty in him gush in, finally able to look for his baby. he decides to take care of the baby dragon as a way to get rid of his remorse. Then he took the baby and walk down to his Master's place again to tell the full story.
After having a conversation with the Master. He fully understands what's going on with Ryuken's actions. He begins by explaining the origin of his style "HonouKami Kaen Ryu" which was developed in the ancient historic era for those to evenly match with the Insane Beast called Dragon. the whispering that all the users heard are the words that the "Ancestor of the Dragon Slayer" used to raise or boost the morale, strength, capability, and skills for the users to clash with the dragon. Ryuken still feels guilty even after hearing that. Yes, he might be able to evenly spar with the dragon but without any full control of his mind and body made he is scared of using the technique if he can't even control himself and waver by "Ancestor" whisper.
Yet Master is proud of him. resisting the whispering is already strong enough and yet he realized all that is not a will of his own. Maybe one day. he can fully become full fledge of the style without needing the assistance of the ancestor. Hearing that, Ryuken begins to fully train furthermore to improve not only on swordsman perspective but also his mind and mental. Regarding the baby dragon. Ryuken names it "Sylphid" as a symbol of freedom roaming through the sky and wind.
Therefore, Ryuken Vermilion's journey is about to unravel the mystery of Sylphid's Mother why it's attacking the village, and what is village hiding from the outside world. There's so much mystery that even he can't fathom it. Together with Sylphid. there both are gonna find the truth, and Master said, there's still another Disciple of the "HonouKami Kaen Ryu". His goal is to find them and seek the answer behind the veil of this "Ancestor of the Dragon Slayer". Show more
Malaysia (MY)