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We advanced a little further only to find an unpleasant scene in the middle of this heavy rain that made the forest look more gloomy than usual, even though it was already night and it was quite dark it was inevitable not to realize why there was a stench so horrible in the environment, there were a series of massacred bodies scattered around different sides of the forest. At first glance, I noticed that the bodies had a somewhat strange armor along with the magicians' robes, I approached one to inspect it a little better. , his stomach was open, he was missing an arm and he had no jaw, what kind of monster did they fight against to end up like this?

I took a detailed look at his armor, it didn't have any kind of emblem or color, it looked like simple metal, but it didn't feel like that, it's interesting, it should give a good resistance. I don't think a weapon from my world would be able to go through it, maybe a sniper rifle could cause some heavy damage, but I wouldn't be sure if it would be able to go through it, I'm not an expert but most likely that armor has some kind of strange magic, just like the robes.

However, even though it looks like strong armor, all of these people had been killed, I would say that they had been in this state for a few days.

Come to think of it, what kind of camp has the ability to create this type of armor in the middle of nowhere? The only thing I can think of is that they are some type of magicians that I have never seen, in fact they have the robes of magicians.

But I had doubts that they were wizards because I've never seen them wearing armor, although who knows, maybe out of nowhere they evolve and improve their weapons and equipment, but I still think it's not the case. I just remembered that not long ago we saw a group of wizards in that destroyed village, and I remember seeing them wearing their robes as usual, so based on that, I will believe that these people are a different group than the wizards.

I only know for sure that Samantha was with these people at that camp I'm heading to.

Before leaving, like a good scavenger I stole some tunics from the bodies that were not so dismembered and a few other things without going overboard with carrying a lot of equipment.

We continued moving forward, I wanted to find a shelter quickly to rest tonight, the child had gotten tired so I had to carry him on my back.

In general, I was used to carrying some heavy equipment or different things from that time of the war, sometimes I had to carry a wounded comrade for days, but that was years ago, so I have to be quick. We are in the middle of nowhere in this forest and with a heavy rain, I won't last long before I get tired.

We passed several trees that had strange scratches on them, when I took a few steps I heard a horrible howl in the middle of the rain, carefully I quickly hid in a tree, I looked ahead where I had heard the howl, in the distance, I saw something white crashing into a tree. Was it a wolf that crashed into the tree? Then I saw several white wolves running and hiding nearby, close to where the body of their wolf companion lay. What could have thrown a wolf like that with such force?

Out of nowhere appeared the reason why the wolves were hiding.... Oh... That's bad... An animal had appeared... No... I would say that's a monster, it stood on two legs, its body was all black with some kind of purple features glowing on its body... and its body looked horrible, it looks like out of a nightmare that monster, it gave me some stress to see that thing exist in this world, when I was about to quickly run away from where we came from, I saw how the wolves quickly took advantage that the monster was distracted looking at the dead wolf a few meters away and attacked it together.

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As soon as I saw that, I decided to move forward instead of going back the way we came, I ran like crazy, surrounding the strange battle I was witnessing as far as I could to continue running.

I was successful by going as unnoticed as I could.

That thing is clearly not from this world, I highly doubt that the group of wolves will be able to beat that, although I like that the animals of my world still fight for their survival with beings from another world, it gives me some faith and strength to continue fighting for the world too.

I continued running for a while longer, the adrenaline in my body was at its maximum after seeing that thing.

Robert: What the fuck was that Artemis thing?

Artemis: (Whisper) I don't know many animals because I didn't leave the temple much, although because of its power it seems like an animal from our world.

Are you telling me that this thing is something normal in your nature of the gap? My God... the funny thing is that the child was not even scared, he just looked around like nothing, incredible that I am more scared than that child.

After feeling that I was far enough away I stopped running and stopped for a moment, I lowered the child to the ground, I needed to catch my breath.

As I caught my breath, the smell of decomposition intensified.

Artemis: (Whisper) This forest smells horrible...

The boy made a complaining noise and covered his nose.

Robert: Rotting meat is certainly not one of my favorite smells.

Artemis: (Whisper) I don't see it affecting you much.

Robert: Let's say the custom of the past.

We continue moving forward, in the middle of this forest, from time to time we find bodies and more bodies, although we also begin to see dead beasts, I had never seen that type of hairy beasts.

I passed by a body and saw its armor shining a little in the moonlight...

I was ignoring this thought I had inside me but I couldn't repress it anymore, even I had to be realistic, all these bodies and this forest are close to the camp I'm heading to. It doesn't take a genius to deduce that most probably something happened in the camp.

Robert: Artemis... These gentlemen... They seem to belong to Alicia's sister's camp...

Artemis: (Whisper) The vision I showed you of the camp was from several weeks ago, so it is possible that during that time the camp was attacked for some reason.

Robert: They had to attack the camp when I was on my way to it... What a bummer, I'm starting to think I have something that attracts bad luck.

Artemis: (Whisper) There are things that go beyond magic and understanding things, it is possible that you have some kind of bad energy.

The boy just nodded.

Um... So if you can understand what we're talking about... Wait, can the boy hear Artemis?

Robert: Child, can you hear the spirit that is with me?

Artemis: (Whisper) A little more respect, I am the Priestess of the Moon.

Artemis did something and I started to feel a terrible pain in my head.

Robert: I mean... Can you hear the Moon Priestesses?

Artemis: (Whisper) Much better.

The boy looked at me and shouted happily, apparently he wanted me to pick him up.

Although in the end I don't know whether or not he can listen to Artemis.

I picked him up and he got more excited.

I should certainly treat him more like a child, so maybe he doesn't grow up with trauma or something.

Seeing him, I think I could already be sure of something, or be 99% sure, even though the child can learn everything, he cannot speak, if he learned everything he should have been able to speak for a long time... There is something strange... But I don't know for sure if it was because he was still very young or if it was due to another reason, but at that age my son was already saying somewhat understandable words.

It's very strange that he can learn to hunt just by looking at me but he can't talk just by listening to me, and he clearly understands me, even he can read, since when he made the coats he made them by reading the book.... And now that I think about it, for some strange reason that book was in two languages.... One I couldn't understand, I imagine it's the language of the wizards, and the other language was mine.

Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.

That merchant must be some kind of mad genius if he knows how to speak both languages of both worlds and write them in a book... Although the real question is... Who would be a merchant when the world is in this state...?

Anyway, getting back to the topic, I think I'll teach the boy some army signs, that should be enough for him to communicate with me.

The night began to leave us even more in incredible darkness and we had to look for a place that was not so full of bodies to rest.

We managed to find something halfway decent among some trees, although it was still raining, I had to make a makeshift roof with some materials and clothes of the dead, I had to get down to work and move some bodies as far as I could so that the smell would not affect us so much.

Artemis: (Whisper) I have a question, if the camp you are looking for is one day from where we are, how come there are bodies so far from it?

Robert: Remember that they are still people even if they are from another world, I don't know exactly what happened in their camp but most likely it fell and they could no longer stay there, anyone in their situation would want to survive at all costs, that's why each of them gave their maximum effort to survive, it's sad but sometimes things don't go the way we want them to.

I said this while looking at some bodies in the distance.

The most likely thing is that at the time of the fall of the camp they fled to this forest and were chased by something, and from what I see, it seems that that something was those hairy beasts that began to appear next to the bodies.

Artemis: (Whisper) If the girl you're looking for turns out to be dead, what will you do?

It had left me speechless, I had not imagined that case... It didn't even cross my mind to think that Samantha is dead... I refused to believe that.

Robert: She'll be fine.

Artemis: (Whisper) Hmm... Didn't you say that sometimes nothing goes the way we want?

I know what I just said...

Robert: I want to believe she's still alive...

After that, no one talked about it again. Before we went to sleep, I told Artemis to wake me up if she felt anything strange. It was clear that I didn't like the idea of sleeping in a forest where there is a strange monster, but we needed to rest to recover energy, apparently she doesn't need to sleep, after a while of arguing she reluctantly gave in.

It dawned, the sunlight was nowhere to be seen because it was cloudy and the forest was somewhat thick, it was still raining, even so it could be seen with some clarity, further clarifying what really happened in this forest.

This cold weather is not to my taste.

We had a quick breakfast, took our things and decided to walk for now, I highly doubt that any of us would want to have breakfast in the middle of so many bodies around us for a long time.

Afterwards we were walking for almost half a day, now I could talk to Artemis even during the day, it was an advantage for me, little by little I am adapting to this strange power and somehow I feel a little better.

After a while we arrived at an incredible scene... It looked like something from a movie like the monster in the forest.

In the distance you could see a large camp in ruins, but literally the whole camp had been completely destroyed, I do not know what kind of attack was this but the damage caused is certainly brutal, in the battlefield there was a big mark that something big fell, it was full of bodies and debris everywhere, the rain had not stopped in these 2 or 3 days we had been walking, it was as if a large caliber bomb had fallen in the middle of the field .... Could it be an army thing? I don't think so, we stopped using bombs years ago, we decided it was better to preserve what was left at the time.... Besides, we stopped attacking and decided to go into hiding when we lost the war.

Without really knowing what to do we started walking through the battlefield, my objective remains the same, to find Samantha... But with so much destruction I don't really know how to search or where...

Artemis: (Whisper) Robert I think it's time for you to see the situation better at this very moment, I don't think there is anyone left alive in this camp, if anyone survived they had to leave days ago.

Artemis was right, although I wanted to try to look for her, I knew that it was not something so profitable, but I did not want to leave the idea wandering... I consider myself an open minded person. I trust that the most unexpected can happen, maybe she has been hurt and has been waiting for days for someone to come and help her, that may be a possibility... I can't rule it out.

Robert: Mmm let's just search a little, we still have some time until it gets dark.

Artemis sighed and agreed.

While inspecting the sad battlefield I noticed that there were bodies that were not completely massacred, in fact there were some that were hidden among some rubble, as if they had managed to move.

I approached a man, I touched his face, his face was very cold from the rain, but he was not in a state of decomposition or anything.... I think this man died not long ago, he no longer felt a pulse, possibly he died due to the cold as he couldn't move much.

There were more people like that, well I'll call them knights because I don't know what to call them exactly, they don't really look like wizards despite wearing robes, but apparently they can use magic as. I see some wizard weapons lying around.

I hope they were enemies of the magicians, if they have their things they must have stolen them or made some deal with them.

I kept looking at the battlefield, I only saw corpses and more corpses, the only consolation would be that some died not long ago, at least not all of them, maybe by a miracle someone is still alive, the problem is that with this rain whoever was alive could have died before I arrived due to the cold days ago.

About 2 days ago it started raining.

The only good thing about this whole massacre is that there were tons of weapons scattered all over the place, I'll pick some up later, it's better than my current equipment.

We spent the whole afternoon looking for any survivors, but no luck. I would have liked to scream to see if anyone could hear me, but I didn't want to attract the attention of any animal or person with bad intentions by my scream.

The night caught up with us.

I was about to leave with the child but I saw something that caught my attention in the distance in a part of the field in the middle of the dark night.

It was a sword, it looked a little paler than the others, it had an interesting shine in the middle of the night, it was next to a piece of the camp wall that was crushing a small mass of bodies, those bodies were unlucky to be crushed by the top of the wall.

How did a piece of the great wall reach the field? What kind of machine would do that?

I bent down to take the sword, I took it, when I was getting up to go, I thought I heard something while I was crouching.

I was quiet for a moment, just listening to the heavy rain along with the thunder that could be seen in the distance, nothing more...

I was about to leave, but my legs didn't want to move... More like... I felt like I shouldn't leave.

Artemis: (Whisper) What's wrong Robert? We must move, if you and the child stay too long you will freeze in this rain like all those bodies.

Robert: Can't you happen to feel someone else's magic or something?

Artemis: (Whisper) I could but you have not adapted to my power, when I can release a little more of my power I could feel the different beings that possess it.

I wanted to tell him to release the magic he needed so he could look for someone alive, but it was risky, if I fainted in this situation it would be no good.

Artemis: (Whisper) When the time comes I will teach you how to use my power, so that is why you must cover your eye at night.

What Artemis was saying made sense, I'll use my instinct then.

I looked around me, there was nothing in sight that could make that noise, I heard it when I picked up the sword, I crouched down again on the ground and started to look again. I saw that the fallen wall as such did not touch the ground at all, in fact due to the terrain that has unevenness, the wall is supported somewhat diagonally, but does not touch the ground because the bodies above prevent it, I looked under the piece of wall, I only saw darkness, I peeked a little more the head, I saw what looked like two bodies but I saw no signs of life.

Could it be that I'm crazy? Mmm.... It would certainly be difficult to hear anything in the midst of all the noise of the rain, I sincerely hope that none of these bodies are Samantha's.

When I was about to get up I heard a slight noise again in the middle of the rain, I looked under the debris again, I was almost sure that the noise came from there.

I couldn't see anything but I was sure I heard something, I could only see darkness but I managed to distinguish two bodies, I tried to get a better look, one was being crushed diagonally by the debris and the other was under that same body.

After hearing that sound I was sure that one of those two bodies was still alive.

I stopped looking under the wall and looked a little further over the piece of wall, I saw that the top was crushing a mass of bodies of what looked like hairy beasts, I think I understand what happened, if any of the knights that are under the rubble are alive, they were lucky that the mass of flesh of the beasts is retaining part of the wall, if not they would have been crushed long ago.

I told the boy to come and help me move the wall a little.

we made force but we didn't move it even a little bit, shit... It's too heavy... I need something else... I grabbed the first sword I saw lying around and also grabbed a piece of rubble to pry up the top of the wall, I just needed some space for the boy to try to pull the bodies.

I explained to the boy that I was going to use all my strength to lift the piece of wall as long as I could and that he had to remove those bodies as fast as he could.

He looked at me strangely but nodded.

I prepared the lever I made with a sword and a piece of wall, when I was ready I gave the signal, I did all the force I could but I couldn't move an inch of the wall, shit.... I wasn't going to leave that person there...

Robert: Artemis give me your power.

Artemis: (Whisper) You can't use it yet Robert, it would be crazy for you to expose yourself right now.

Robert: I need to get that person out of there.

Artemis: (Whisper) I can't allow you to put yourself at risk just for a stranger...

I didn't let her finish speaking, I took off my eye patch and threw it near the child, Artemis shouted worriedly for me to stop.

I had a little theory on how her power worked, clearly it's like Mizuki's, it only works at night, so it should be more or less the same.

I started to feel one of the worst pains of my life, I tried to ignore the pain and lifted the wall, I was starting to manage to move it a little, the boy took advantage and got under it.... I had to buy as much time as I could.

Robert: Quick!

The boy with all his might was trying to get some of the gentlemen out.

I put even more force on the lever I made and managed to lift it a little higher, the child managed to start moving one of the bodies outward little by little.

I tried to breathe as best I could, I started to lose strength, the pain in my eye only increased, my head hurt horribly.

When I looked back at the boy, he was pulling out the second body, out of nowhere the sword broke and the wall fell sharply, because of that I fell to the ground a little hard.

I looked quickly to see if the child was okay.

I approached the boy, apparently he had managed to pull them out successfully, I could see that the last body he pulled out, apparently it looked like a girl.

I leaned the girl's body against a piece of rubble to see her better.

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I looked at her vital signs... But the girl showed no signs of life, who knows how long ago she died... I could see in her eyes that she had given everything of herself to continue with my life and not close her eyes... I closed his eyes so he could rest in peace.

How strange his armor has an emblem...

I was about to check the other body when out of nowhere a strong pain attacked me.

I quickly looked for my patch and put it on but that didn't stop the pain from continuing.

I fell to the ground, the pain was too much and I couldn't stand up or stop the pain.

I told the boy before I fainted to save the other knight if he was still alive...

While I was telling him that, I thought about how irresponsible I am as an adult for giving the child so much work.

After that I fainted...