After a long walk they reach the centaurian's village. They are halted by a centaurian gaurd, he asks "Who may you be?". Art introduces himself and Lutin, he then tells the gaurd that they're here for the trial. He looks at them. Puts down his weapon and lets them in, as they're walking away, he tells them the trial's location. The centaurs watch Art and Lutin closely as the two of them walk through the large village. They get to a large temple that's decorated in precious gems and crystals. They see an old centaur at the entrance. The two walk up to him and greet him, they then ask about the trial. The old man informs them that the hero is a statue and he is inside the temple. The two walk in and see the statue, he is on his knees. Covered in ancient armor with a roman centurion helmet. They get close and Art stares into the hollowed eyes. Lutin touches the hero's shoulder. The statue crumbles and reveals the hero with a beautiful gold body hair that was incased inside. The temple falls apart and they end up in a large open field, Art and Lutin suddenly get pushed away.The hero gets up and summons a large lance in his right hand. Art turns Shiftnir into a sword. The hero starts posing with his lance. He raises it next to his face and has it facing diagonally down right. The clouds in the sky shimmer with light. The hero starts galloping towards Art. The two of them start clashing. He then turns around and back kicks Art. He blocks it and jumps on the hero's back. He then stabs him multiple times and gets knocked off. He falls on his back and the hero starts trampling him. Art dodges his hooves and kicks back with his feet. The hero gets pushed back, Art gets up and keeps attacking nonstop. The two kept wailing on each other. The hero backs off and starts galloping in circles. His body starting to shimmer, he stops and starts rearing. He then starts galloping on the air. He poses in the air. He aims his lance at Art. Multiple clones of the hero, three on each of his sides. They start charging down at Art. He keeps dodging them. After dodging all of the six clones. The hero strikes down with his lance. Even after blocking his attack was powerful enough to damage Art's body. With all of his might, Art pushes him back. Snatches the lance from him. Stabs the lance horizontally in the hero's torso. The hero falls to his knees. He tries to reach out to Art. Only for Art to turn Shiftnir into a axe and slice the hero in half. Separating his human half from his horse half. As he's catching his breath. The world around them crumbles and they return to the temple. They both leave the temple. Art looks at the sky "it's night time?! How long have we been in there?". Before Lutin can come up with an answer, multiple loud howls are heard from the woods. The villagers scream and hide inside their homes. Centaur soldiers male and female alike rush towards the village gate. Lutin yells at Art to follow them. He hesitates but runs after them.

  They get there and see the centaurs watching the not very faraway hills. A pack of lycans appear. Long snouts, sharp deadly claws that can form a blade, covered in gray blooded fur, standing on there feet with blood eyes piercing through the centaurs. They let out a loud howl. The lycans jump off of the hill and start speeding towards the village. They clash with the centaurs and start biting and tearing through them. Art decides to join in, he runs towards a lycan and lands a powerful punch, the lycan gets knocked down and as it tries to get up. Art quickly starts stomping on its head until it turned into a pile of flesh. He changes Shiftnir into a greatsword and proceed to slice through them. He then throws Shiftnir at a lycan impaling it in the process. As he is about to recall Shiftnir. A lycan grabs him and pins him in his place, another notices and puts its hands together, it then extends its claws into a spearhead. It charges towards Art, ready to stab him. He struggles to escape, he becomes enraged and screams in anger. He grabs the lycan behind him and slams it into the ground, he pins its head with his foot, he then grabs the charging one's head. There was struggle, but only for a moment. As pure rage envelopes him, he crushes both of the lycan's heads. As he is covered in blood, his ears ring, he stares at his bloodied hands with his mind drifting away.

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  Lutin yells "WATCH OUT!!". Another lycan bites onto his left arm trying to tear it off. Art starts punching it multiple times until it lets go of his arm, it tries to to back off only for Art to grab its jaws with his hands. He starts opening its jaws and proceeds to peel its bottom jaw down to its chest. He tosses its dead body aside. The ground shakes, they all look forward to see an extremely large king lycan. White fur and covered in blood. Art stares at it and recalls Shiftnir he then launches Shiftnir in her spear form into the air, launched so far she practically touched the clouds and switches her into a large hammer. He then rushes towards the lycan and hits its jaw with his elbow. He gets on its head and keeps punching it. It tries to throw Art off, but he slams its head into the ground. He gets off of it and starts walking away, the lycan king gets back up tries to swing at him. Only for Shiftnir to come down and crush its head right off of its body. The lycan's headless twitching body stands for a few seconds before collapsing. Art calls back Shiftnir and she goes back into her ring form. The gaurds are all stunned by what just happened. Art approaches one of the gaurds. The guard says "May i ask, who might yo-". Art cuts him off and says "Next time, train harder". He turns his back on them and leaves, Lutin proceeds to follow him. As the two of them head back to the demi-goblin village.

  While on their way they meet up with Yuuki who was waiting for Art. "Artorais! where have you been?!". He looks at Yuuki and says "I might've taken too long, but i took down the hero". He looks around and asks Yuuki "Have you seen any lycans?". "A few. But they weren't too much". Art asks Yuuki if he wants to come back with them to the village. "No, i'll be checking out some villages. Just to make sure all the races are getting along". They separate, with Art and Lutin heading to the village. And Yuuki leaving in the opposite way.

  END OF CHAPTER.