Part 1 – After the Escape
Well that plan went well. My hands were soaking with blood and I was dragging a body behind me. Frankly is shouldn't ask me to explain what just happened since it would be too......'hardcore' for some people. You can say that this person I am dragging had a......'bad day'.
“Monster.........”
I continued walking dragging the body behind me like it didn't exist in the first place. However for some reason, it still lived even though I ripped his limbs off and he should've bleed to death if not from the shock.
“You will not get away.......”
“Oh shut it.'
I dropped the body of the man that was more dead than alive and stomped his head, crushing it like a watermelon and thus killing him.
Infamy increased by 100
Domination increased by 1
Well it seems the 'Domination' state directly relates to how cruel I am in killing my enemies. Well I can't exactly use magic or contact llyfr right now thanks to this seal that these bastards placed on me. I can't easily find them thanks to my abilities being sealed as well so I have to hunt them down the old fashion way. During my escape, I gained a couple of things. My equipment that were taking away from me, a journal that has details of where the others will be and finally a couple other stuff that I 'borrowed' from the now dead man behind me.
“Let's see.....the journal said that they were heading west....I think. I can't tell where west is in this forest.......wait don't I have a compass?”
I took out the mana detector which also served as a compass of some sort. The nearest mana fragment as near this place in whatever direction but the next nearest mana fragment was north which meant 'west' was right of me right now. And to think I would've gone left by trusting my instinct.
“Now to find another one of these so called 'hunters'”
Part 2 – Hunters
It has been a couple of days since the 'monster' has been captured and detained in the nearby stronghold under the supervision of one of the younger recruits. Naturally we would kill this creature the moment we saw it but the captain's desire to experiment on the creature suppresses his desire to live apparently. Nothing will come good out of keeping such a creature. It had a human form but that made it more scary since most humanoid creatures are fair more intelligent and dangerous than their beast counter-parts as a general saying.
In total there were a total of 40 people that came in this forest using this 'anti-magic' material to hide us from the gaze of the forest. There was now 16 including the supervise for the 'monster'. Why this happen? We don't know. One by one, people were disappearing in the night and we lived in fear for the last couple of months like this. We were now very familiar with this forest to the point that it could serve as a second home.
“Hey do you think we can go home by the end of the year?” asked one of my trusted companion whom I knew from childhood.
He was a father of 4 and made me his best man during his wedding and joined this group along with me a number of years ago.
“I doubt it. We have had almost no progress in the last couple of months and the captain doesn't want to risk the rest of our lives for reckless advances” I replied.
Both of us were, like everyone else on patrol duty, scouting the forest for any sign of what we were searching for. We had no details of what it looked like but it was of great interest to the folks at home, especially the King and all of his advisors. I don't mean the highest ranking ones but even the military, economic, foreign and internal advisors which were practically trying to rip each others throats off at a moment's glance.
So far we were quite deep in the forest, a couple of kilometres in. As instructed by the captain we were to progress forwards while maintaining patrols in a circular fashion to insure safety first.....or rather make it certain where we were being attacked from. There were four checkpoints on each corner of the formation which included the captain at the front with the second in command. The rest of the unit, namely us patrolled, making each checkpoint when we reached them and continuing forwards while we were walking in circles. If one of us doesn't make it, the people at the checkpoint will alert the rest via magic and the rest of the unit will rush to aid us. If whatever that was attacking us was too powerful then the unit will scatter and regroup later on. We also got a bell to ring if we are attacked.
“So...when are you going to get married. You're a bit older than me and I still haven't seen you with a woman before. I know your not gay but to think that you don't have such an interest is impossible.” said my friend out of nowhere.
I sighed. He always seems to want to get into my affairs as much as he wants me in his affairs. There is such a thing called privacy but I let a slip since he's my very good friend.
“I make sure that people like you don't find out about it.” I replied focusing more on the surroundings than him.
My friend gave a short laugh and patted me on the back.
“If that's the case, then you would've been a good ranger or assassin. I doubt someone like you could pull it off perfectly without me knowing.”
“Well then, it looks like you don't know me that well. I always manage to hide things from you.”
“Such as?”
My friend had a mocking face like he wasn't expecting much. Maybe I should tease him a bit.
“For starters, the boyfriend of your daughter.”
My friend stopped in his track. He was pale from my words and then red with fury.
“Who exactly is this boyfriend? Hmm?”
He had his arm over my shoulder to prevent me from escaping. Well, lets go a bit further.
“Well your wife approves of him quite a lot.”
The grip on my shoulder became even stronger.
“Who exactly is this person who managed to trick both my daughter and wife?”
I looked straight at him and said without hesitation, “Me.”
At that moment he loosened his grip on me and fell to the ground face first. Wow.....maybe I took it a bit too far. I mean he did so this quite often in the past and as always he'll get up and laugh it off......any second now.......just any moment......hey you there?
I crouched down and tried moving him. He was.......dead.
“Shit!”
I pulled out the bell and rang it countless times in desperation.
Something was hunting us down.
Something I can't see.
Something just killed my best friend.
And I was next.
I drew my sword out to prepare myself for death. There was no kind of movement I could see and there was definitely no creature nearby. So that means.....
“This creature is invisible?”
“Not exactly invisible but just a bit faster than you could see.” said a voice behind me.
I quickly swung my sword at where the voice came from but I was only cutting air. I was scared, very scared right now. What was that?
Huff Huff Huff
I tried to get my breathing under control and my emotions as well. I tried not to think of what I had to say to his family. The look on their faces when I tell them that I lived while he died and there was nothing I could do about it.
SNAP
“Ah!”
The strength of my legs left me. To be more precise I could no longer feel my left leg as there was only pain there. I know what just happened but I don't want to look. I tried to fall to the right to make sure the pain doesn't make me.....no I have to stay positive. I alerted the others and its just about time that they will come here and kill whatever attacked me.
SNAP
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” I screamed in pain.
My.....other leg was also......
“Now you can't escape.” said the voice where I couldn't see it.
I was lying face first on the ground. I tilted to the right to try and breath. Swinging my sword is no longer an option. As long as that thing kept far away enough then I couldn't touch it no matter how fast or powerful my strikes are. Tears were forming at the sheer overwhelming despair I am feeling right now.
“I believe you can still talk and answer the various questions I have for you.”
So the reason why it didn't kill me was because....it wanted information. For that it killed my friend! Damn you!
“First off is, who exactly are you people. You are not certainly the fairy hunters that foolishly ventures in hopes of obtaining the substance only fairies carry nor do you look like some random group that just happened to past by.”
“What do you care? Its not like we hurt you.”
In that moment I heard a snicker.
“Oh, but you have when you captured me.”
No.......way. It was 'that' thing. The one we were ordered to keep alive for future experiments. Damnit! We told the captain that it would be the death of us if we kept it alive and now this happens!
“That means......”
“Yeah, the one that was keeping an eye on me is dead.”
“Damn monster. The Gods will punish you!”
The creature grabbed my head and pulled me up to look me in the eye. It definitely looked human but it had those tattoos, silver hair and those eyes that looked frightening.
“That is fine. Most of the Gods already notified me that we are enemies through their actions.”
When the creature moved its mouth, I saw that it had sharp fangs. When I looked at the rest of its body, it looked like it had scales on it on closer inspection. However it was skin coloured so it was hard to see it before when I was kinda far away. And what is what this one and saying the Gods are its enemy.
“Are you a demon?” I asked while enduring the pain.
“No. I ask you again. Who are you people? If you can't answer that, tell me why are you in this forest.”
The answer for that question is 'I don't know'. I am serious here, we were recruited for a large amount of money and compensation if we died for reasons unknown to us. The rewards and compensation was large enough to convince us to accept the job. However this was too much. Suffering months of fear to die here right now. Might as well oblight by the contract and not give information.
“I know nothing. And even if I did, I wouldn't tell it to a 'monster' like you!”
I looked at the monster straight in the eye, with resolve to be killed by it.
“I see......”
The monster sighed and dragged me to my dead friend.
CRUSH
My mouth.......I had no way of talking anymore. Was this some sort of punishment? I looked over to the corpse of my friend. It kicked him and my friend wasn't exactly dead......no. This is bad. If it is about to do what I'm thinking it would do than I'm.....
STOMP
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
My friend was screaming in pain. His balls.......how cruel! My tears couldn't stop at all right now.
STOMP
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
Next was his arm. I wanted to look away but I had not strength to do so. This was torture for my friend...and for me as well.
STOMP
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
Then his other arm. Please I beg you stop. Please stop.........
STOMP
STOMP
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
Then the legs. He's in pain! No.....please. I'll tell you everything.....
STOMP
And finally the head......
The monster turned its head to me.
The last thing I saw was its smile. In that moment, the monster looked like a demon to me.
STOMP
Part 3 – Bloodstained Day
Infamy increased by 100
Domination increased by 1
The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
Infamy increased by 100
Domination increased by 1
Blood was dripping off my boots. They were completely soaked in blood. I have to wash it off later but first this dead person here rang some sort of bell which means the others will come pretty soon. I have to get somewhere they can't track me but the blood will make it apparent where I went. Or I can set up a trap to take them out in one go.....no, that'll take too much time and I'm sure there are some trackers in the group which is bad for me to handle and I still haven't been able to remove this seal.
“Man having llyfr here would help a lot right now.....”
It seriously sucked that I fell into that kind of trap and because of that I lost the ability to use magic among other things. And I have to think of a plan now......
“Why don't I just wait here and kill whoever comes? Hmm.....that sounds fine.”
I was talking to myself aloud now......I am becoming more and more insane without llyfr. Well I just have to wait until someone comes here so I can torture.....I mean interrogate them.
Several minutes later.....
“Burst Strike!”
I ran towards this unfortunate person and stabbed him in the leg, severing it in one shot. The man few away a couple of metres and went down screaming about his leg forgetting about the fact that I'm going to kill him. After a few moments, he regained some of his senses and managed to think through his situation where he is at my mercy. His face paled at the thought of what I was about to do to him since he saw the corpses of his dead comrades next to me.
I gave an evil smile to him and said in my villain voice, “Well then, do you have some sort of information for me unlike these two?”
The man speechless stared dumbfounded at me. A bit annoyed at this person's brain speed I stomped on the ground next to him making a dent in the ground. The man now sweating nodded his head feverishly in order to live.
“Good, I have a skill that can heal you so talk or bleed to death.” I lied to the man.
Seeing that his chances of living went up dramatically he started spilling the beans of his comrades, however it was only the stuff that I heard already from the other one. It looks like its true that they were hired without much prior knowledge of what they were getting in.
I sighed knowing that the rest of the minions would know only that much.
“DIE!”
I turned around to see 11 people charging straight at me with the intention of killing me. All of them looked more like farmers than soldiers which was convenient for me. However they were still all armed and could potentially kill me. I quickly drew my sword to counter their attacks.
Sluuuuush
The first one swung his sword straight down. I bended down and moved to the left swiftly dodging the attack. The man overshot himself and lunged his sword into the ground. I would take this chance to kill him but another attack came straight away. The second man who was wearing some armour had a heavy axe which was very bad for me if it hit.
Sluuuuush
He swung horizontally at the me that was close to the ground. Seeing that I would be outnumbered and surrounded if I moved forward, I rolled backwards while slashing the arm of the axe wielding man.
“Ahhhh!”
The man made a short scream before retreating to let the others attack me in quick succession. This time 4 of the remaining 9 charged straight at me, intending to do a pincer attack. Without the time to moved my body I tried to parry as many of the attacks as possible.
Slash!
I moved my sword to parry the first slash
Slash!
You took 35 damage
I missed the second attack due to the first but this amount of damage is.....pitiful. The man attacked again seeing the opportunity. I blocked using the same injured arm.
You took 258 damage
This time the damage was higher due to me literally using my arm to block it instead of letting it cut me. The other two the were about to attack me smiled seeing that their friend managed to wound me. However based on the damage they dealt me, they were no more than level 70 right now. Well at least the one that attacked me since he managed to only cut my arm and not anything else more vital.
“Burst Strike.”
My body moved partly by the system charged forward into the man that wounded me.
Critical Hit!
You gain 100 Infamy
My sword was impaled into his gut and his blood spayed over my face. However such strike would not kill him so easily. I pulled out my sword using my high agility and prepared for the next attack. In the moment I attacked this one, the rest of the group of 11 was determined to kill me even if it meant stabbing through each other.
KICK
I kicked the man I stabbed into the 2 behind him rendering 3 people out of the next couple of seconds. I then turned to the nearest person who happened to be the one that I blocked the attack of.
“Burst Strike.”
I quickly moved in for the kill this time and stabbed him through the neck.
Critical Hit!
You gained 100 Infamy
Even more blood poured out due to this attack then the other one. I removed my sword by moving my arm to the right cutting through the right of his neck allowing me to block the next attack behind me.
Clang~
Some health was reduced to the attack and another was about to hit me but I did something out of my consciousness. Using the injured arm, I grabbed the head of the man that was going to attack me and crushed it in one go.
Critical Hit!
You gained 100 Infamy
Domination increased by 1
The swishy content of his head stained my hand. And with this act the others hesitated for a moment.
KICK
I kicked the person in front of me. Right now there were 2 dead and 9 remaining. The 3 that I managed to stopped in the beginning got up and were to me right a couple of metres away. In front of them was the axe wielding guy who was about to charge at me again. In front of me was the man I kicked and the other 4 that was behind him. This was not a good situation to be in but I feel.......alive.
Kicking off the ground I ran to the man I kicked and stabbed him through the chest.
Fatal Hit!
You gained 100 Infamy
I then jumped in the air doing a front flip to pulled out my sword from his corpse and ran to the 4 in front of me slashing wildly at them. The one nearest to me unable to take the blows died after I stabbed him in the knee.
You gained 100 Infamy
You gained 100 Infamy
You gained 100 Infamy
The other three quickly followed him.
SLASH!
You took a Critical Hit!
You took 2518 damage
My back was in pain right now. The axe wielding guy hit me and I can't regenerate my mana quickly right now so he kinda pissed off. That means if I don't finish this carefully then I'm screwed for the next couple of battles. The axe wielder prepared for his next attack but since he was pretty slow I managed to dive away before he hit me again. However there were 2 more to greet me when I did that. One of them was in front of the other.
“Burst Strike.”
I stabbed forward into the body of the first one.
“Burst Strike.”
I used the skill for a second time boosting our bodies forwards towards the second one. However my blade could only touch him at the tip.
“Burst Strike.”
Third times the charm, I managed to pierced through the second one's body through the first one in one go.
You gained 100 Infamy
You gained 100 Infamy
Now there was only the axe wielder which was behind me.......wait, where did he go? I scanned around to find no trace of him at all.....
“Damn, he ran away.”
I was considering hitting myself but the though of losing more mana without the ability to regenerate was quite frightening. I checked how much mana I had left to find that it was only a bit over 10000 even with the slight torture they gave me.
Groan
“Hmm? Oh yeah, I almost forgot about you.”
I walked up to the remaining live person in this area and killed him.
You gained 100 Infamy
“Well then......where now?”
Continue Misfortune?PreviousExitNext
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author's Notes:
- 3600~ words
- To be honest, it was too much of a pain to write an escape plan scene so I just skipped it all. You can just imagine how Eden escaped out of there.
- Wanted to write about the perspective of another person being hunted down by Eden. You can see how powerful he is already >_>, plus he's that strong without magic. Well the enemies aren't that high level as well though....
- I shouldn't spoil what's going to happen next chapter.
- I'm half considering to post the next chapter immediately....maybe I will in a couple of hours.