My Beginning After the End

A Visit to the Dungeon

Arthur Leywin

The doors to the cell began to open, Elder Virion was by my side, however, if he didn't mind, I was going to ask to speak with Uto by myself, there were certain things Elder Virion could not here.

The sight before me was horrendous, Veer did this? Uto was against the wall, the Vritra half breed, hornless, eyeless, down a leg and an arm, dirt covering his whole body, bruises everywhere, but a smile on his face.

"Gramps, can I speak with him alone." I turned to Elder Virion and asked, I think my voice intrigued the Retainer, because as I spoke, he tilted his head towards us, trying to figure out who I was.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine, I just have some questions for him." I insisted on him waiting out here for me to be finished, I wanted to speak to Olfred as well, but that was for a later time, he didn't matter at the moment.

"Okay, but we'll have to close the door on you two, so be careful." I nodded my head at the old elf and stepped into the cell.

"Good luck, he loves talking." Gentry, the man who ran this whole dungeon spoke, but he gave me a smile as the door began to close, Elder Virion stared at me in a way that said good luck too.

"Hmm, I don't know who you are, but by the way you speak, with such authority, and calmness, you have to be the wonder boy, Arthur Leywin, brother to the little devil." Uto told me with a tired voice, one I wouldn't expect to hear from a Vritra, but he was in a bad state, from being tortured, and from Veer.

"Retainer Uto, it's nice to finally meet you." I told him, there was no light, everything was dark now, Veer told me he had shadow magic, so that must be why.

"I wish I could say the same." Uto replied to me. "Why have you come here? You want to free me and fight? That would be fun, wouldn't it?"

"No." I answered, even though I knew he was joking. "I came to talk."

"Ohh, the boy wonder wants to talk, actually, are you the boy wonder? I mean, your younger brother was the one who took me down." Uto was trying to make me angry, it wasn't working, I could careless who took him down.

"Speaking of my little brother, that's what I want to talk about." I needed to see something for myself, I've been worried about him ever since I got back, and now that I know he is a reincarnate, I worry even more.

"Haha, you want to talk about that little devil, you know, if he is still around, he's going to be something else in the future." Even in the dark, I could see Uto smirking at me. "That brat is a real monster, one that smiled the whole time we fought, even while being wounded." That is what I wanted to hear, I wanted to know just how bad the Serpent's Will has gotten, I know he was at silver core when he fought him, and supposedly now at white core he can control it better.

"I want to know something, how does the corrupted mana beast work? The virus inside of them, is there a way to remove it." I won't let anything happen to Veer, and if we can't find a cure here, I'll find it myself.

"Corrupted mana beast?" Uto said questioningly, then a lightbulb turned on inside of his head. "Oh my god, the little devil piece of shit has a corrupted beast will, it all makes sense, I thought he was just crazy, but let me guess, that thing is making him go crazy." He hit the ground with his hand and started to laugh a little. "Hahaha." That really pissed me off.

"Uto! Is there a way to cure it?" I asked him, taking another step closer to the Vritra with mana restricters everywhere on his body.

Suddenly he stopped laughing. "And why would I tell you that? You can torture me all you want, break my core, take another arm, or leg, I won't tell you a thing, but I will tell you this, sooner or later Agrona will have him."