*Author's Note*
- “text” - is for text spoken by characters
- text - is for thoughts by characters AND (now) telepathy too... (italicized text)
- TEXT - is for emphasized sounds/ noise/ actions
- *text* - is for important stuff/ reader interactive stuff/ change in POV
- ( text ) - is for my thoughts, that you know you love and want more of... right….
Hey there everyone! Looks like, from the polls, that people want chapters with around 5k words rather than faster releases. It suits my style as well. Well, I only promised 1 (2 if I have time) chapter per month guaranteed. Hope you enjoy this chapter. The third chapter and onward will be longer as I have promised.
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* BTW get used to this layout cuz after the 3rd Chapter you won’t see the reminders above again until every volume or so for a refresher…*
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*Sophos*
I enter the forest and stick to the shadows of the trees. My body burns with anger, hatred, bloodlust. I look to the sky and creep closer towards the source of the smoke. In 12 minutes I reach the source. The bastards were there all right. They had camp all set up and were eating the food they pillaged around the campfire. I observe them with my bloodlust suppressed unconsciously. I took deep breaths through my nose and exhaled without making a sound with my mouth. I repeated this until my mind cleared. My vision turned sharp with each breath. My heartbeat slowed down to the point where you wouldn’t think that it should be possible.
Finally, I got into position behind a tree and next to a boulder. I saw that there were 32 bandits but they all went into their tents for the night except for 8 of them (40 bandits total). This took a good 40 minutes of waiting. I then waited for an additional 30 minutes and saw that the ones left out start to drink.
Retards! You NEVER drink on guard duty! ESPECIALLY AFTER you pillage an entire village and kill all the people.
In two hours they were all drunk. One started to walk away towards me. He most likely had to take a piss. Unlucky bastard actually did something helpful… for me anyways.
I waited until he passed my tree and went 60m deeper into the forest. He stood before a small tree and started to take off his belt. Unfortunately he never got to take the pleasure of relieving himself before he died because that was when I took his head off his body from behind him.
His head fell next to him and his body release a pool of blood and piss. I merely walked away and cleaned the sword with some leaves. When I returned I saw that the other bandits were yelling into the forest like complete idiots, most likely to the guy who will never respond them. When they got only silence. 3 got up and left to go take a piss too, under the guise of “checking up on him”.
Oh, they checked up on him alright… As the three went. One was a head by 9m and didn’t even look back. Two who were left behind got a dagger in the side of their neck… courtesy of the people who they killed. I then hid their bodies in a bush, took the daggers and ran quietly after the other guy. Out of amusement I stalked right behind him as soon as I caught up. When he was 10m away and saw the body, before he could make a noise his neck met the fate of the companions he left behind. I cleaned my daggers and left the bodies as is.
I returned once again and to my amusement the other 4 were knocked out drunk. I slowly crept up to them one by one and stabbed them one by one with my sword. I then repeated the process with the people in three of the tents…
-EAAAAAH- (sound of a little girl screaming :P)
Until the third one had a not so heavy sleeper. The wuss actually heard the sound of blade going into a body and the person struggling. So of course the guy screams like a little girl and wakes all the other bastards up as well.
Fuck. Well this is just great~. At least I heard the sound of a guy losing his pride, the bastard screams like a little girl for fuck’s sake!
I chuckle a bit and kill the little girl, I mean poor excuse of a man. Then I dash out the tent to welcome the remaining 20 bandits with an evil grin.
The start shouting but the words just go through one ear and out the other… So I just started killing the guys that surrounded me, it’s not as if they weren’t the ones attacked first… I was just returning the favor these bastards did for all the people that died and suffered. I barely could tell what I was doing.
Then I hear some more shouts and suddenly something hits me in the gut. It is soon followed by something in the throat, then lungs, and finally my heart. I didn’t even get a chance to dodge, let alone scream or anything.
FUCK! I was too careless… I am NOT going to die HERE!
I then turn and see one of the guys who shot me.
Bastard… I’ll at least take you with me…
I take a step towards them only to fall face first…
Fuck… Sorry Ana… looks like I won’t be able to make it back
My conscience starts to fade and darkness covers the edges of my vision
Looks like this is the end
No. It’s not the end… This is merely the beginning little one
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(You see… I COULD end the chapter here at this cliffhanger to tease you all… but I was feeling generous. LOL enjoy what is to come next… I sure did out of the three possible drafts of this chapter)
*Bandit Leader’s POV*
We all went to sleep after pillaging a village and killing all it’s people. My men and I had a blast with all the weaklings we kill and the women we raped. It was fun seeing the fear in the eyes of those weaklings and killing the people they cared about before their eyes. Especially the women and little girls… they were fun…(sick bastard… I’m glad I killed him off… well moving on) We are now drinking and eating over the campfire and recounting our… pleasures.
-Wheew (sound of a cold wind blowing)-
Bandit Leader: “Brr. Even though it’s spring, it’s getting cold guys. Hurry up and finish and then get to bed. We’re moving somewhere else at dawn tomorrow. Don’t forget that the first watch and DON’T drink on the job like last time! It’s a bad habit.”
Bandits: “Sure~ Boss~. We’ll finish and go to sleep right away like good little kids.”
Some of the drunk bandits respond the same way with their slurred and stretched words.
Fucking IDIOTS. Never drink to the point of becoming stupid ape with a sword. You’ll get yourself killed!
After that I went into my tent and went to sleep.
-EAAAAAH-
Huh. What was that… Am I still dreaming?
I slowly stir from my slumber to hear shouting and screaming. I jump up and shake my sleep away as I hear louder shouting and a gist of what is being said. Adrenaline pumps through my veins, removing any pretense of sleep in my body.
I dash out of my tent to see that my men have left their tents. No… Only half of my men are out and all of them have their weapons out and circled around something or someone.
I push through to see what all the commotion is about… What I see makes my blood run cold. I see some of my men dead on the ground. and blood oozing out some of the tents. Then I see what my men were anxious about.
What in hell…
It was a man with black hair and golden orange eyes that glowed in the night like a wolf's’ eyes. He had a short sword in his hand and daggers on his belt. His sword was bloody and his eyes… they were that of a demon that was going to reap them of their lives. The were so cold despite their fire-like color. The moonlight gleamed off his bloody sword and his eyes… they just glowed with anger, hate… and huge amount of bloodlust. You could practically feel his desire to kill us all and spare no one.
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While I was observing the situation and the man, I could hear my men question the man. They asked of who he is, did he kill the others, what he wants, and more. They were getting angrier because the man… no, now that I look closer, he looks like a boy.
Aah, Fuck. He must be a kid from the village that we just pillaged. But that’s impossible… I personally went around to check that everyone was dead. Furthermore, I could have sworn I told my men I wanted NO SURVIVORS.
Bandit Leader: “Just kill the boy and get it over with.”
As soon as I said that my men started to attack… No they were one step behind. The boy started first. By the time I spoke my orders two more of my men were dead with their throats sliced by his sword. Another two perished from his dagger when they got too close. He got them right in the heart too.
I signaled for my 4 archers to attack him while he was distracted. They already had their bows ready and just took aim and fired.
-Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud-
The arrows held true to their aim since the boy was so close. I would have been more surprised if they did miss a shot in less than 15m. The boy was shot on both sides of his chest, on the gut, and on his throat. Surprisingly the boy still had some life in him and tried to step towards the closest archer who shot at him but fell face forward.The boy’s body twitched for half a minute before becoming still.
-Hmph-
Well, I guess we will never really know for sure why he attacked now that he’s dead. Fucking retard thought he could attack 40 bandits by himself. AT LEAST think to bring a couple more warriors or soldiers. Arrogant little prick must have gone mad in rage and despair.
I started to walk towards the boy’s corpse to kick it and piss disgrace it, but… before I even took my 4th step towards his body… IT FUCKING TWITCHED!
WHAT THE FUCK!!! That kid’s body just fucking moved. He got shot on his throat, heart, lungs, and fucking gut! He should be fucking DEAD!
Suddenly the boy’s body started glowing red, like the blood that FUCKING OOZED out of his damn body! In 3 seconds his body is encircled in a deep crimson glow and couldn’t be seen anymore. Red markings started appearing on the ground below and they started glowing as well. Soon everything went still. Then the crimson orb started to FUCKING PULSE. Weirdest shit was that the markings below it pulsed in the EXACT same rhythm, almost like… a heartbeat.
-Bdthump-
-Bdthump, Bdthump-
-Bdthump, Bdthump, Bdthump-
Is that my heartbeat? …Or is it my men? …Don’t tell me… Oh, God… It can’t be that fucking orb can it? …The fucking boy is DEAD! I saw it, we all did! What the…
My thoughts were broken when the orb just stopped pulsing and started to dim. We all stared at it for half a minute. What we got was half a minute of staring at a orb like a retard. Suddenly, not being able to take the tension any longer I order one my men to poke it with his sword.
Bandit Leader: “Oi! You there! Poke that thing and see what happens!”
Unlucky Bandit: “M-me? Noo~ I don’t wanna~.”
Bandit Leader: “Do it NOW!... Unless you wanna get poked instead…”
Scared Bandit: “Kii! Okay I’ll do it boss! DON’T poke me please… I don’t wanna die.”
The poor, unfortunate bandit hurries to poke the orb before I killpoke him first. Just as his sword came in contact the orb glowed brighter than before. We were all enveloped in a bright red light and were unable to see anything.
Fuck! What’s happening now?! God damn it!
As the light dimmed, my men and I could see the light taking shape of a man. He was taller than the boy who was just there previously. He taller than 6’ tall and as the light faded into the night, we could see his features. He was tall, had the same skin tone if not a bit paler that the boy who was here previously in his place, and he had sapphire blue eyes. No… the pupils of the eyes were sharp like a beast, a snake and the irises glowed malevolently in the night. What surprised me the most was that the arrows that were embedded into the boy earlier now littered the ground at his feet. his upper half of his body was also void of clothing as well.
What the hell is this?...
???: “Hmm~, looks like the boy is beginning to awaken~. Looks like things are about to start becoming more fun as well… But first things first...”
What is this guy even talking about? What happened to the boy we just killed too? WHAT THE FUCK is going on right now?!
While I was thinking these thoughts, judging by their faces, my men were frozen from confusion, horror, and many other things. The man just had his eyes closed in concentration while we just stood here…
Suddenly the shadows get thicker and the night gets darker… It was as if the moonlight and starlight just dimmed for a few moments over us. Then the shadows around the man started move slightly. It was the only signal I got and needed to know that I needed to run...
Bandit Leader: “Run!”
I shouted trusting my gut that said we were in danger. My men who were closest to me turned and fled. For the ones who were close to the man, they couldn’t move. It was as if the earth below them had grabbed their legs but the shadows just hid everything below their feet. That’s how thick they were.
My men and I that fled quickly jumped on our horses and galloped away. We left everything except what was on our person behind. We got as far as 70m in a minute. Even the horses could feel the urgency to run. We soon found out why.
After that minute the answer could be seen in the sky. A pillar of flames shot out from where we had our camp and devoured everything around. It started from the ground and went to the heavens too.
God. What the hell just happened?... What did we just witness
12 of us survived to witness that horror. Not one of the few magicians in the Ortus were capable of what just happened. We fled that night and the horses didn’t complain. We left Baratrum that night and went to the territories the west. We fled to the outskirts of the Kingdom of Novus.
We will forget what happened today. It is better not to play with fire that you will burn yourself with… Besides there are villages and towns in Novus for us… to have fun with.
Thus I concluded with my men that that day never happened and that we should try to forget it. We should also be more careful. I don’t want something like this to happen again. We also need to get new comrades now too…
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*Author's Note*
What we learned today:
Bandit leader is an asshole...
Something happened to Sophos...
Don’t play with fire...
What was not mentioned:
Bandit leader and others pissed themselves while riding horses…
Horses don’t like to get pissed on while they run for their lives… even if they didn’t notice until later...
Mages around the world feeling the influx of tremendous mana and started panicking to find the source…
Well hope you guys enjoyed this. Obviously you already know what’s going to happen to the bandit leader… but that happens later. What he does to end up in that situation… well you will have to wait to find out… and it will be a long~ wait.
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