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Chapter 21|| Death of The Dead

As the carts were moved and the undercarriages were blocked with whatever was on board, everyone got into position and it wasn't long before the zombies were upon them.

*ugg groan moan*

Quickly sounds of banging, scratching and moans could be heard on the outside of the perimeter and within a few seconds after soon the first zombies found there way in between those 4 paths.

"Kill them."

Heads fell one by one as well as bodies. The men easily killed the zombies trickling in and as they did sen continued to issue commands without fighting himself. After a while, the dead soon piled up on the outside and the moans soon got louder and louder and as it did the zombies seemed to grow hungrier and hungrier until it happened.

The zombies on one side had piled up so much that a cart fell over and with it they soon started to flood in 5 10 15 it all happened on thomas's side. The guards soon fell into a panic slowly retreating backwards step by step.

"Do not panic, contain them."

Sen seeing thomas's group starting to  get overrun he rushed over to the west side of the encampment. One of the guards stepped back and slipped, tumbling to his back and a zombie was upon him. But before it could bite him sen was already on it. He channeled mana into his hand and formed a wind blade that covered his entire hand and with a quick thrust he pierced the top of the zombies skull killing it instantly. the zombie fell over top the guard dead as a door nail.

"Get up now ."

Sen forced a gush of air under the man throwing him to his feet. The man was dazed by what just happened, he swore that he was at death's door, but right as his life flashed before his eyes this child saved his life. still standing there like a fool sen snarled at the man.

"Fight you fool."

Hearing sens words the man realized he was still in a desperate struggle, but being saved by a child he felt a bit ashamed. This filled the man with a new sense of vigor and determination  he wouldn't let a kid do all the fighting. He then charged forth slicing wildly at an undead.

"That's more like it."

Sen dashed forward decapitating one zombie after another. Thomas regained his composure and slashed out killing a few zombies as well, but soon the other side started to buckle and shouts from the eastern side could be heard.

"Sen the carts are gonna fall what do we do?"

The cogs in sens mind began turning at an alarming rate as he quickly adjusted his plans, he came to a decision.

*sigh*

"This is taking too long I'm gonna have to take this up a lvl."

Thomas hearing him was left confused by his statement.

"Sen what do you mean?"

"Nothing, just listen to me, heres what I want you to do, set a few of the carts on fire."

"What, but what will that do?"

"Just listen, the fire won't do much, but it will distract them long enough for me to go slay them ."

As sen was speaking he lifted the fallen cart back up and fixed it into its original position blocking more zombies from entering.

"Then I want you to guard the inside while I go out there and destroy them."

"What that's nonsense, if you go out there you'll die, I know you're strong but you're still a kid. I can't allow a kid to commit suicide, not on my watch."

Sen was getting very pissed he shouted out.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!"

Everyone in the encampment went silent the only thing that could be heard were the undead, sen settled down and in a calm tone.

"Thomas, I may be a kid, but I am thee strongest here and believe it or not I am your only hope of surviving this night. I am tired of wasting time,  now if you want to stop me good luck, but I warn you now, stand in my way and I will kill you do you understand."

Thomas was shocked, he didn't know how but for a split second it felt like sen's power went up to the 7th rank,  thomas couldn't be sure. But what he was sure of was that sen was absolutely serious. The look in his eyes was simply terrifying, thomas couldn't even speak he just gave a simple nod.

"Good now go."

Thomas quickly told the others and they all looked at sen with shock and confusion. They thought," This boy, he's really gonna go out there that's maddening, is he suicidal, he's simply gonna die."Sen didn't even care about they're looks, he simply dashed back to the east side where the most zombies were and he jumped atop a cart and shouted.

"Light em up."

Everyone looked to thomas and he gave a quick nod, he then grabbed a torch and lit one of the carts on fire setting it ablaze. Soon the others set a few more carts on fire as well. Sen looked out at the horde of the undead he couldn't help but smile and  think.

Sen's POV

"Hehehe this world is so much fun ."

And like that he jumped directly into the middle of the horde. One of the night-watch looked on in horror as sen dove right in the middle of the horde .

"Oh my god ."

"He didn't."

Thomas hearing his friends voices filled with dread shouted out.

"What. what is it what happened?"

"He, he jumped into the middle of them."

Thomas sucked in  a breath of cold air and his face turned completely pale .

"Did I really let him go to his doom?"

As sen landed in the horde his feet landed upon a zombies head and with a blade of air under his feet he split the zombie in half from top to bottom. As he stood up they were already on him, scratching biting clawing towards his flesh, sen simply stood there and laughed.

"Hahaha."

None of the zombies got within an inch of sen, as their teeth gnashed towards his neck to bite  and hands towards his chest and arms to grab.  All of them were stopped within an inch by an invisible wall of compressed air, nothing so weak could touch him if he didn't allow it.

"Hahaha, what weak ghouls you are."

Sen's eyes returned to their crimson red and they began to glow slightly.

"Time to destroy."

He then flung out his wrist and with him at the epicenter a force of compressed air exploded forth from him. Sending the zombies closest to him flying while dozens of others were knocked to the ground.

Sen then made another blade of wind on his other arm while putting a bit under his feet as well and like that his body disappeared. Weaving in and out of the zombies, the only thing to be seen was head after head fall to the ground followed by the zombies body.

"Oh my god ."

"What, is he dead what happened?"

"No, it's not that he's, he's actually doing it."

"What."

Thomas wanted to look as well, but he was still killing the slow zombies that were trickling in one at a time.

"Damn, I must hurry so I can help little sen, I don't care what he says he's just a child."

Thomas began to speed up, killing the zombies left and right. None of them we're getting a foot within the encampment before they were killed. Meanwhile on the outside, sen kept dashing to and fro between the zombies.

"Damn, this is still not quick enough ."

Sen just stopped killing the zombies and let them gather around his body. As they gnawed and scratched at him  he just simply stood there waiting.

"Oh no the zombies surrounded him again I don't think he can get away this time, he must have used all of his magic."

Thomas was now frantic.

"No, i can't let him die ."

Once more thomas's pace sped up he was now dashing to each side killing zombies just as they entered stealing kills from the others.

"Must go faster, must go faster."

Even though he said that he was quickly running out of breath as the zombies continued to gather.It was then that sen finally acted.

"The perfect amount."

His eyes shone brighter as he absorbed mana faster and faster. He took his two wind blades and combined them together, as he did an ear piercing high pitched sound emanated from the blade and everyone in the encampment quickly covered their ears. After a few seconds, the noise finally settled down.

The new wind blade was now slightly over 30 feet long and there was so much wind essence contained within it that a faint light green color could be seen.

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When there's too much mana essence its color can be seen and wind essence color is light green. The 30-foot sword of wind could actually be seen with the naked eye. The only person witnessing this though was the one night watch on top of the cart watching sens fight. With his eyes and mouth wide open in shock and with a trembling tone, he whispered.

"Oh my god."

Sen infused mana into his voice once more and bellowed.

"EVERYBODY DUCK!!"

Hearing this everybody instinctively fell to the ground while the man atop the cart dove to the dirt, and with one big swing, sen's huge sword howled  through the wind like a hurricane. It struck out against the undead, doing a 360 spin he aimed towards their necks and everything in his swords path was simply cleaved apart.

The zombies, the tops of the carts and a few trees that were close by. Anything this blade touched simply fell to the ground and like that over a hundred zombies were finished in an instant. But sen didn't stop there, he jumped around the outside of the perimeter and swung 3 more times and 3 more times the wind howled like a hurricane.

Afterwards, there was only silence, no more wind gushing, the fires atop the carts were extinguished as well as all the torches and no more zombie groans just complete silence, thomas quickly shouted out.

"Torches, light some torches quickly this isn't over yet."

And then something jumped over the wall and landed near thomas, he instinctively swung out, but his blade stopped. Not by his hand but by this creature in front of him, he could only see red eyes.

"What are you?"

One of the night-watch ran over with a lit torch and thomas quickly saw that it was sen his blade wass on .

"Oh my god I'm so sorry are you hurt sen?"

Thomas looked sen up and down and not only was there not a single wound but thomas's sword as well left no mark upon him. He also noticed that sens eyes weren't red but were black. He could have sworn the eyes were red, he quickly thought that he must have just imagined it.

"I'm fine, now can you not point your blade at me."

Snapping out of it he realized he still had his sword pointed at sen. He quickly withdrew it, he then remembered the real problem, the zombies.

"Quickly sen we have to keep fighting."

"That won't be necessary."

"Won't be necessary, what are you talking about. Any minute and we'll be over run, can't you hear them out there?"

"Hear what?"

It was then that thomas realized it was quiet and not just quiet but eerily quiet .

"The zombies."

Thomas grabbed the torch from the night-watches hand and rushed to the east side, jumping onto a cart easily he then looked out and what he saw left him truly disturbed. In front of him was nothing but corpses all laid out on the ground not a one was moving.

He then ran to each side quickly confirming that they were all slain, he looked closely at the bodies and once more he was disturbed. Not because there were so many, but because nearly all of them were cleanly decapitated only a few had died sloppily, sen appeared next to him.

"537, that's how many were out there. It seems my calculations were slightly off and there were a few more than I had anticipated. Oh well, it happens I guess."

Thomas could only stare at sen in absolute confusion he whispered.

"What are you?"

And in a clear commanding tone sen retorted.

"SEN."

Sen again used his mana infused voice and shouted out.

"We did it we won."

Everyone just looked at each other and for  a moment they were all shell shocked it didn't quite set in until finally one of the woman shouted out.

"We did it, we did it, thank god."

The woman then started to cry as she embraced her child, immediately a huge uproar came about, the people were cheering in joy .

"Everyone listen up."

Again sen shouted and when they heard him they all looked at him attentively.

"We need to remove the bodies from the encampment and quickly burn them lest something more sinister happens. All the children stay here everyone else able-bodied start removing the bodies. Carry them 20 yards to the south of here and we'll burn them, lets get a move on people,go."

Hearing this everyone did exactly as they were told and as they started to remove the bodies everyone was frightened at the scene outside the encampment. Body after body laid out, it was like a war zone and everyone knew that it was sen alone that did it.

Within the encampment only around 60 zombies had actually made it inside that meant that sen alone had killed nearly 500 of them. Some couldn't help but think that sen was a monster. While others thought him to be a genius mage the world has neve before seen, but one thing they all agreed on, sen was absolutely strong.

After they removed all of the corpses and burned them after all was said and done most of the night was gone. Everyone came back to the encampment exhausted both physically and mentally.

"Now I want 40 people on round the clock guard duty if anything happens call upon me immediately and."

Before sen could finish his sentence he passed out, claire was the first to rush up to him and in a panic.

"Dad what's wrong with him we have to help him."

Thomas as well as many others gathered around and thomas soon checked him, he sighed.

"Claire it's alright he must have used too much mana and exhausted himself, he's fine."

"What are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm positive, who else could do what he did and not be tired afterward's. Everyone has a limit he simply reached his, so let's let him rest he's already done more than enough."

As thomas said that he picked sen up and carried him to one of the carts and gently laid him down to sleep. Everyone seeing this let out sighs of relief. The thought of him being a monster quickly vanished from their minds and they simply thought him to be a genius. Even though sen had passed out everyone still listened to him, 40 people did indeed stay on guard duty and sen simply slept.  A while later sen could faintly hear someone calling his name.

"Sen sen wake up."

Sen could hear a soft voice and he immediately thought of ryyla. All the days she had snuck into his bed in the mornings to wake him up, he groggily replied.

"Ryyla, leave me alone and you better not touch it."

"What, who's ryyla and touch what?"

Hearing this sen instantly came to his senses and as he opened his eyes claire's face was directly in front of his, no further than an inch away.

"Like I said touch what hahaha."

Claire began to laugh hysterically as sen sat up.

"Nothing I was merely having a weird dream that's all ."

"A weird dream huh, about a girl and she was touching what I wonder."

"Do not tease me ."

"So do you like this girl?"

"Of course not ."

"Hmm someone's in denial ."

"What, and what about you, you can't even use magic properly and you make fun of me."

"What I can to I, I just have a little trouble is all."

"Hmm, whos in denial now ?"

Claire's face blushed red with embarrassment and she climbed to the front of the cart. Sen just now realizing he was moving  he followed suit. He climbed onto the front as well where thomas smiled at greeted him.

"Morning sleepy some of us thought you might be dead."

"What, how long was I out?"

"Oh, nearly  3 days ."

"What!  3 days how is that possible?"

"Oh you know you must have exhausted your mana."

Sen started to ponder the events of the night, there was no way he exhausted his mana. At this point in his life, it was nearly impossible for him to do so, especially at night where so many stars can be seen. The only other thing must be his body. He was indeed exhausted not mana wise but physically. Every time he moved around at that speed his body was just getting more and more hammered by the toll it was taking to maintain that fight, sen immediately came to a decision.

Sen's POV

"Because of my body I passed out, my body is simply too weak. Damn, why does my father have to be right I really do need to train myself. Physically if I were alone and there were more opponents and I passed out death would soon follow. That's it, I must strengthen my physical prowess or next time I won't be so lucky."

End of Chapter 21