The Guardian: Legend of Leo

Ch.07 The Funeral of the Grand Elder

Taurus could not hold back his tears as the Great Elder left this world for all eternity. The figure that had always been good to him left him.

Taurus recalled his memories the first time he met the Great Elder. At that time he was very young and had no one with him, his parents threw him away, his family did not look for him, even the people around him did not have the slightest pity on him. Only the Great Elder continued to nurture and care for him like his own biological son.

Starting from he did not have any price in front of the townspeople, to date he holds the highest honor of commanding the Royal Special Forces, and holds the position of Chief of the Kingdom's security, he was always accompanied by the Great Elder, even when he was married even though the Great Elder never forgot him and considered him like his own biological son.

"I promise to keep your expectations of me, and I will make your request happen by breaking through the Spirit Aura stage. Grand Elder— No, Father, I will reach the peak of strength and become the Strongest Guardians in the Kingdom of Euthorea—"

Taurus remembers something.

"Maybe after this monster beside me"

Taurus looked towards Leo who was staring at him flatly.

"What's? I just don't want to lie to my dad"

Teacher Leo laughed loudly at the silly behavior of Taurus, according to him Taurus must have been very respectful of the figure of his father, to the point that he still had time to think in the situation.

"Ah, but first I must thank you sir."

Taurus lowered his head and thanked the old man.

"Don't hesitate, and just call me Zheira"

Zheira did not feel any help, because in the end the Great Elder still could not be saved, but Taurus still insisted on thanking him, so he had to accept a sincere thank you from the big man.

"I'll bring home the Great Elder after this, and for you Leo. Thank you for saving me and giving me the opportunity to develop and train to become stronger from now on."

Leo was confused as to what Taurus should respond to, he could only nod and tell Taurus to stop thanking like that.

After chatting with Leo and his Master Taurus finally decided to return to the Hall of Elders and held a large Funeral in honor of the figure he considered the father.

"Leo, if I'm not mistaken, he mentioned after this monster beside me. Could you be Guardians? and where's Rose?"

Leo fell silent again, knowing clearly that in the end he had to explain everything to the Master.

Zheira was only confused by the change in expression that happened to his student, as long as he trained Leo only this time he showed two things that he had never done. Asking for help from his teacher and showing a very deep facial expression like now.

"Actually, Rose was already dead when we were besieged by many Ashura..."

Leo explained everything that happened from the death of Rose, the Aura of Resurrection, and his meeting with Taurus, everything was explained except the Aura of the Lion King which he thought it better to hide first.

Zheira was surprised to hear the explanation of his student, but he chose to listen to everything until the student finished explaining.

From what Leo said, Zheira can see how hard Leo's journey in recent days. He could understand some significant changes to his student.

"So now you're stronger than Taurus? he deserves to call you a monster. Never before has anyone been as strong as you in such a short time. Maybe something happened to your aura, so you became stronger than the others. This could be referred to as the Aura King, or the abnormal Aura power and develop very quickly."

Leo listened carefully to Zheira's explanation, and concluded that perhaps the Aura he possessed was indeed the Aura King mentioned by his teacher.

Zheira only saw the student leave before taking his cup of tea and returning to his seat which he had occupied before.

"Leo, it seems like you have to live your destiny alone after this. Because I seem to be catching up with the Elder earlier"

A smile was engraved on Zheira's lips before she kicked her chair towards her door.

Laughter filled the silence of the forest where Zheira was.

"As expected of a retired Royal General, your instincts are so strong. But you still don't have the strength to survive your death right now."

A masked man appeared before Zheira. He looks like a man who is 45-50 years old, but the energy he has feels very gripping than Zheira ever felt before.

"What do you want?! What did you get by killing me?!"

Zheira let out a large amount of Power trying to rival the amount emitted by the masked man.

"No, there's nothing I can get if I kill you. But you would be a threat if I didn't end you right now, among all the people in the kingdom, only you and the Great Elder knew about our plans all along, he said, that's why we can't let you live any longer"

Zheira was shocked to hear the man's statement. Zheira has been investigating suspicious events around her.

"So it turns out that it is true that you planned it, then I can't stand still, Fire God! Destruction's flames!"

Zheira breathes fire from the mouth, the fire is very hot and able to burn humans in a short time.

"Hahaha, I thought you couldn't be allowed to live any longer, if you lived any longer, you would be a threat to us.

The man stared coldly at Zheira before swiftly moving in front of Zheira and piercing his heart.

"Where..."

Zheira slowly lost her consciousness and faintly saw the shadow of the masked man going away from her.

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Taurus had already brought back the Great Elder to the Hall of Elders, the atmosphere in the Hall of Elders had suddenly become palpable, many of the residents were originally trying to hold the Hall of Elders accountable, the old man said, it became a grieve to see Taurus carrying the body of the Great Elder with him.

A long road to the Hall of Elders was formed as Taurus tried to pass through the crowd.

The man walked through a long road made by thousands of people.

Slowly the sound of crying filled the silence and the protest held by the residents turned into a joint mourning event.

A figure who always treated his people fairly and always prioritized his people now lies limp in the arms of a great man in their midst.

At once the residents sang farewell songs to usher in the patriot who had fought for them.