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A few kilometers away, there were 4 figures standing in the middle of the snow looking towards the main entrance of the forest.

Selene: It's too cold here...

Unknown: You should take more into account the weather conditions.

The boy in armor made a kind of aura around Selene to protect her from the cold.

Selene: Thank you Anshul.

Boss: Is everything ready, Vespera?

Vespera: Yes my lord, It took me several days to collect some materials that I was missing, but I finally have the materials for the spells prepared. although keep in mind that this is the only Luna fragment we have, we will not get one like this again.

Boss: Perfect, Don't worry, if we eliminate the Lunaris clan it will not matter if that fragment is lost, the job will already be done, by the way I forgot to mention it but we have a special guest.

Anshul: Special guest?

Selene: Are we not enough, sir?

Boss: Due to certain circumstances it will help us.

From the shadows of a stone a hooded man appeared, wearing an all black assassin's suit, he did not emanate energy or mana, however they were not able to distinguish why he felt so dangerous.

Assassin: Greetings my dear colleagues...

While the man was talking, the boy in armor took the ax with one hand and attacked him with a horizontal cut towards his neck without warning him, he was so fast that not everyone could follow him with their eyes. It seemed like it would cut off his head due to the surprise attack and its speed, but the ax continued its path in the air...

Selene: What...? But... I'm sure he gave him...

Everyone was stunned, the boy's blow simply continued on its way as if he had never tried to attack him, where before the murderer's head was, in the blink of an eye there was nothing. The reality is that the man had leaned down without them realizing it to greet them and that's why the ax didn't cut anything.

That simple movement of the assassin had been enough to leave uncertainty in the group, it was not simply a matter of having avoided him, it was the reaction of the assassin that bothered them.

Assassin: It is a pleasure to meet you my dear companion, I see that you have a lot of energy.

The assassin was simply smiling through his hood, except for the boss, the others were still somewhat stunned.

Boss: Don't worry everyone, he will only help us this time, don't give him more importance than he deserves.

Everyone tried to ignore the matter and follow orders. However, they were on guard at all times.

Boss: Well now that the presentations are over I will explain the plan again, this extensive forest has 4 entrances, the main one is in front of us, we will divide to cover each entrance, no one must leave this forest alive.

Everyone was paying attention to the boss's every word.

Boss: Anshul, you will go to the western entrance. make your way through and kill everyone who tries to escape.

The boy with the armor and the ax nodded his head.

Boss: Your assassin, You will go through the east door, you already know what you have to do

Assassin: As my lord orders.

Boss: Me and Vespera will go through the southern entrance, when we activate the spell they start moving, everyone remember that our objective is to kill the priestess and the entire Lunaris clan. With our power it shouldn't be a problem to kill them all, but I advise they not to underestimate that clan, they are stronger than you think, we have to finish before the spell ends.

There was silence in the middle of the snow but everyone understood the objective.

Boss: Anshul take this.

The man threw him some kind of potion.

Anshul: What is this?

Boss: Although the Lunaris will temporarily lose some of their power, remember that they are strong at night, they will still retain their power and energy if they don't waste it, in case you need to advance or something, use it and it will give you a recharge.

The armor boy stared at the small position as he thought.

Boss: And lastly, your Selene, you will go to the main door, when the spell is ready you will all know when to start moving. so let's get going.

Each one began to head to his position, when everyone divided up, only the chief and Vespera were left heading their way.

Boss: Is the red moon effect guaranteed?

Vespera: Yes, his power will return and he will lose his consciousness while the effect lasts, even if he does not distinguish between allies or enemies, he will kill every living being he sees boss.

Boss: Perfect, that will be enough, if we are lucky it will leave the way clear for us to kill the priestess. Maybe the only problem would be the guardian but we shouldn't worry too much about her, Selene will be enough to stop her, at the end of the day that entire clan depends on power that is not theirs, therein lies their weakness. We must thank her for revealing the location of the Lunaris clan hahaha.

Vespera: By the way, who is that murderer, really, sir?

The chief looked at the moon as he walked.

Boss: An old friend.

Vespera looked at him somewhat curious.

After walking for a while, they arrived at the southern entrance.

Boss: Well, let's get started.

The forest guards are always hidden in the trees in the middle of all the darkness, it would be impossible to get them out without knowing the forest or in some other way, they attack from a distance with bows and the occasional spell from a distance.

A man walked calmly towards the south entrance with his hands behind his back as if it were something normal. He barely set foot on the edge of the forest, an arrow came out and shot towards his head.

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However, he only moved his head a little and avoided it, he continued walking as if nothing had happened.

After that a rain of arrows came from many sides that went directly towards the man, but the arrows hit the ground, each and every one of the arrows hit the ground.

Even through the thick forest you could feel and hear the surprise of the archers, where was the man?

When they were looking for her they realized that the man was simply standing where he was at the beginning... The archers were puzzled.

Several warriors with swords came out of the trees and surrounded the man, instantly attacking him as fast as they could.

But the man with all the tranquility in the world dodged each of the attacks, at one point he touched one of the warriors and he began to age so much until he died, his corpse fell.

The other warriors were shocked and stopped around the man.

He stayed still for several seconds, out of nowhere they saw that his silhouette moved, everyone got ready to defend themselves, but in the blink of an eye he was back in his normal position with his arms behind his back.

The warriors were confused, they did not understand what was happening, out of nowhere each and every one of them aged until they died.

Vespera: Thanks for buying some time sir.

The dark sorcerer utters some strange words within a ritual near the entrance.

The bodies of the warriors began to rise.

A group of warriors had arrived to support their companions, but the bodies of the dead began to attack them, they were just as fast as when they were alive, the warriors were fighting against their dead companions.

Out of nowhere, several screams were also heard within the forest in the trees.

Boss: They should learn that it is not a good idea to make the forest a cemetery.

Apparently all the ancient warriors of the clan were buried within the forests as a way to make them rest in peace. However, this was information that only the Lunari clan should know.

Boss: Vespera, everything is ready, prepare to activate it.

Vespera: Yes sir.

The Dark Sorcerer stood beside the boss, and began to create an incredibly large ritual circle.

After preparing everything, he began to utter a series of words while concentrating his energy. She had placed an artifact in the middle of the ritual as a catalyst. The moon fragment.

Out of nowhere a red ray of light shot towards the moon, this ray began to change the color of the moon.

Boss: Perfect, with the Blood Moon they will not be able to resist our attack for long. We will stay here to take care of the catalyst. send warriors to continue advancing.

Vespera: Yes sir.

while Vespera ordered his dead to continue advancing, out of nowhere, the watchman of the south entrance appeared among the shadows, he was about to cut off the dark sorcerer's head with his sickle, but the Boss blocked the blow with a sword from one of the fallen warriors, then tried to touch him but the watchman quickly moved away.

Boss: Oh... I didn't know that the vigilants could move away from their door, although... You were taking a while to appear, I was beginning to think that the Lunaris had become weaker over the years.

While saying this the man began to smile as if mocking him and his clan.

The Watcher looked at him with great anger and readied his sickle.

(Robert's perspective)

We were waiting for Artemis to prepare the ritual and call us, Alice was required to be there in order to find Samantha, apparently she would use a blood connection to find her.

While we are in our room a guard enters.

Guard: Outsiders, the Priestess requests you at the main temple.

Robert: Thank you, we will go immediately.

The guard left the room.

Alicia: Finally... I feel like the road has been long in some way.

Bella: They've been fun days.

Danny: We saw a lot of monsters along the way...I doubt that would be fun.

Robert: Depending on how you look at it, it can be a good or bad thing.

The boy was apparently playing with some decorations in the room.

Robert: Well, let's go then.

This time I decided to leave the child in the room, I didn't want him to start touching things in the ritual.

We got ready and left for the main temple.

While walking I realized that the night was quite quiet, we could see the temple in the distance, after a while we started to climb the thousand stairs that the temple had... Just seeing those stairs exhausted me mentally.

When we were halfway up the stairs, I noticed how some guards were running from one side to the other, how strange, in all these days I have never seen anyone from this clan be nervous or agitated, Could something have happened?

We reached the top and the guards let us into the temple.

Artemis: Greetings, foreigns.

Near the Priestess was Mizuki.

Priestess: Well, I will explain a little about the function of the spell, the ritual is not that difficult, however it depends on how far away the person in question is, so it may take a while, and the real problem is that it consumes a lot of my energy.

We all nodded, Alice took a step and approached the Priestess, she sat on her knees like the Priestess.

Artemis took a small dagger and cut off the tip of Alice's finger and then cut off the tip of her own finger.

She gave him her hand and they immersed both hands in a small crystal filled with water, it was around a blue circle.

Artemis entered a trance-like state, something like unconsciousness.

While we waited, out of nowhere the light reflected by the Moon turned red, What was happening?

We looked out the balcony and the Moon was red... there was a red ray pointing directly at it and it was coming from somewhere in the forest.

In the distance you could hear screams and fights.

Were they attacking this forest? What kind of crazy would do that?

A guard entered the temple.

Guard: Priestess, they are attacking us!

But the priestess was still in a trance.

Mizuki: What's happening?

Guard: They are attacking the 4 entrances to the forest at the same time!

Mizuki: All 4 entries at the same time? Is it a large group?

Guard: Not exactly, the informants say that at the eastern entrance there is a person hooded completely in black, in the west there is a guy in armor and with a large axe, in the south there are some kind of undead, and at the main entrance there is a strange girl...

Mizuki: Hmm... send reinforcements to each of the secondary gates, the main force will stay here in the temple to take care of the Priestess, tell the guards that if they need more help, to send a report immediately.

Guard: Yes ma'am!

What a situation, I didn't really know what to do, I highly doubt that someone who attacks a very protected place doesn't have a plan... Mmm I shouldn't have such selfish thoughts... but I'm ready to leave here with the girls, we don't have a way to defend this place and we don't have the power to help either. However, we have Mizuki, and the Lunari clan are invincible in the night.

There should be no problem...

Mizuki looked at me and walked away to tell me something.

Mizuki: Boy, I have something to tell you, most likely whoever is attacking us has everything very planned, and there is something that I did not tell you. When I managed to communicate with my sister I felt an energy foreign to hers at that moment, most likely the owner of that energy managed to discover the location of the clan, and most likely it belonged to to our clan, I'm not going to ask them to stay, it's not their battle, it's our clan's.

Robert: I don't think girls think the same.

I told him this while looking at them.

Mizuki: They don't have to die for this...

Robert: I understand what you mean, and believe me that if it were up to me I wouldn't take risks, but the problem is them, and if I force them to leave I'll probably have problems in the future, so for now let us help you a little, if I see that the situation It gets out of our hands, I'll get them out of here.

Mizuki looked at me relieved, I understood her feeling, but we do not rule over the feelings and thoughts of others, it was that simple, we knew that they were not going to leave without wanting to help her.

So I'm going to make them at least satisfied that they gave their best and then we'll leave, so they won't have any regrets later.

I walked away from Mizuki and asked the girls.

I'm not stupid, I knew that they had managed to listen to us, but I still wanted to know their opinions.

Robert: Girls you've heard the situation before, do you want us to continue on our way? Or do they want to help?

Alicia: We have to help Mizuki, she has done a lot for us.

Already knew.

Bella: It's true, without her we wouldn't be alive.

You don't have to remind me.

Danny: It's not good to abandon someone when they need us...

You're right.

I have to keep everyone safe in this situation, despite not having the power to do so.

Well, everything was ready. We didn't have all our weapons but there are some weapons in this room as decoration, maybe they will be useful, I looked at Mizuki and she nodded, she understood the situation.

Robert: Well we will do a little strategy to protect this place.

Everyone shouted with joy, even though they were very excited, I didn't like this situation, it's inevitable but most likely many people will die tonight... Maybe... this is a bad decision... deep down, I feel that this is not the best decision to survive, but their feelings are stronger than my own will... I am aware at this moment of my decision, if we fail I will have no regrets... I am doing the best I can at this moment, every second that is passing now...

While I was thinking this, I looked at the Moon, which was completely red... Could it be that this time I will lose more than just an eye? I hope not...

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