The Next Morning.

When the last fires had finally died down, he stood up again.

He walked towards one of the burned-down houses, which stood a bit apart from the rest of the village.

Tools were stored there. He searched through the remains and, to his surprise, found a shovel that had survived the blaze.

With it, he set to work digging a large hole near the charred pile of bodies.

"I must at least give them a grave! It's the least I owe them!" he thought continuously while working.

He didn't finish until the evening.

He spent the entire night carrying the burnt bodies into the hole and covering it back up.

As the sun peeked over the horizon the next morning, he placed the final "gravestones," made from the half-burnt remains of the houses.

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Then he waited.

After 54 minutes of silence, one for each deceased, he set off to search the destroyed ship on the coast.

"Don't worry, everyone! I will avenge you! Maybe I'll find some clues in the wreck about who these people were," he thought.

Among the wreckage lay several dead soldiers. Their boss was among them.

His gloves were still smoking, and he had a hole in his stomach from which his organs spilled out.

Everywhere in the debris, he found a specific emblem, depicting a two-headed phoenix. Did they belong to a larger organization?

Later, he also found a map showing part of a large island and a compass.

After his search, he took some intact wooden boards and started building a small boat.

By nightfall, he was almost finished. It should be ready by tomorrow morning.

He entered the burnt remains of his house and lay down with some wooden boards as a bed and a few leaves as a blanket.

Before he fell asleep, he thought about various things.

"I will find the one responsible for this! But what was that strange power I unleashed? That fat guy called it 'Nyd.' I've never heard of it. And those gloves he wore were pretty mysterious too. They were broken after the fight, otherwise, I would have taken a closer look. ... Tomorrow, I will travel to the place beyond the sea from where these barbarians came. I will find the one responsible for this! And I will bring justice for you!"

The next morning, he finished building the boat and set sail, searching for the one who destroyed everything he loved.