I woke up late at night the remaining camp was preparing for departure as the reconnaissance unit took too long to return as they departed to confirm the status of operation a day before I gained consciousness.
My body still ached but then seriousness of the current situation sinked in. What happened to the unit 192 whose attackpower could run a coup and still win the coup by themselves. If the trouble was too serious then the consequences of such developed battle status could result in heavy loss of innocent lives. The life innocent people can go to heaven for good. But what about poor me who was just cleaning windows till yesterday.
I got up, got ready and steeled myself for the upcoming action or would it be one sided massacre. All remaining troops gathered every eye was looking at me. Even the new special recruits and non combat staff too. I got uncomfortable so I paid little to no attention to gazes of masses. But there was still an unsettling gaze that followed me which came straight from little wooden stage on which our officer at final chain of command were present. The beholder of the gaze was none other than pervy killer herself. After knowing the fact that she is woman that gaze made me even more uncomfortable.
The officer under pervy killer started addressing the remaining troops even during training that same officer had the role of conveying the teachings of pervy killer via word of mouth. Thanks to him along with pervy killer. I survived my first life threatening hurdle.
The address began
Soldiers attention you may have guessed why we have gathered here equipped fully in our battle gear. Yesterday the reconnaissance unit which departed has yet to contact back to us either physically or through letters. The duration has gotten too long in which we have close to no contact with the unit. Grasping the seriousness of the situation Lord White Smile has decided we march tonight which is right now as more delay could possibly reduce the chances of survival of all other units. So soldiers Haldir
A loud reply Haldir was thundered as in response of battle cry by soldiers was made in unison. So everybody marched in the darkness of night. Normally it would have been dangerous but luckily Master mirror Demonk was left behind as the moment all unit decided to depart he had his remorseful self Edgar in control. As a result he and his troops were the reason that it was decided to advanced in errily dark night.
Mirror Demonk is a blind Man so his unit too was made up off blind individuals. The fact of losing sight was never a handicap for them as this was a mutual barter while practicing technique Polaris luminousity. This technique opens a new world of perception and along with it their eyes gains the dormant ability the sight of embers which allows them to to harm metaphysical entities and ability to see in dark. But after mastering it this advances into sight of absolute immolation which literally translates as whatever the see will be incinerate. Whether it be physical, metaphysical or intangible opponents. This sight isn't attained even by the Mirror Demonk. Due to his dual personality gaining enlightenment is considerably hard but this gets compensated by his other natures fighting instinct. The Sartus final god level combat method 12 Twilight strikes. The selling point of this technique is the fact it was used by Sartus and he was a god no additional feature is needed. The one who practices this technique is blessed with Pinac a state in which fighting is most efficient as in this state. The senses and mystique are combined together allowing close to none wastage of mystique energy. The most common mystique energies are aura, mana, will to kill, ether, soul power,etc.
Blindfolded troops, removed their blindfolds, the socket of skull which was a dark cavity at first started to glow bright red. When the mirror Demonk removed a wave of energy emitted it was so heavy that all the soldiers in close to him collapsed. Now the blind guys led the way. This guys had their inbuilt luminous stone which made them seem like walking lamp. After just a minute of advancement we were greeted with some monsters which were green equipped with armour which reflected silver glints of light which emitted from our human lamps made them visible partially. As soon as they appeared the walking torches torched them alive by using a blazing yavka. A metal weapon with pointy head generally which in this version is replaced by fire posion which burnt on flesh. If the weapon is striked at an opponent with fleshy body he immediately gets lit up with fire. Due to flesh consuming fire posion.
We all marched with no stops for about 2 hours into the 2nd layer of Gaspel forest. According to the intel this layer of forest contains the habitat of Hobgoblin. The soldiers of unit 192 made camp at first layers as that layer is plenty of life supporting resources. The condition of 1st layer can easily sustain humans till night of red moon which falls every 5 years. On that day each and every monster of Gaspel forest goes Berserk. Even the old bastards residing at core of Gaspel forest. Every night of red moon is recorded in the records of red moon in imperial library of Orachulum as on that very day 5 kingdoms sharing border with gaspel forest station ther every available personal and every master they can deploy recruit. Because the failure in action of containing berserk monster on red moon will result in complete annihilation of every habitat surrounding that forest.
Every soldier marched cautiously after entering 2nd layer. The light from dormant eyes of ember falls upon corpse wearing uniform of black bear. The discovered corpse was mutilated beyond recognition the ember eyes which discovered the corpse had strong stomach as they work under Mirror Demonk. On the other hand the other soldiers who seen that mutilated corpse had a common response of throwing up but except me and pervy killer. Due to repeated throwing up I covered the corpse with a sheet used to build tent.
Upon close examination of corpse the assailant of that body was a monster known necrocanis a dog like monster with habit of digging up corpse as he is creature of cold energy. But the monster in discussion shouldn't be able to kill a battle hardened soldier of Black bear. This felt omnious my senses were warning even when I am not someone who had many face-offs with deadly situation. If a guy like me could sense this discrepancy then surely the superior would have felt it too. The clueless sight of commanding officers left me speechless.
At that instance I wanted grab them by collar and stuff the dead body in front of their eyes. If in case their button like eyes couldn't see the signs of an surefire foreboding but to my disappointment they commanded the troop to proceed with advance.
Cherry on the top the pervy killer commanded me to head to vanguard as to assist the blind guys with nocturnal lamp vision. In case of an surprise attack I was supposed to assist them. This seemingly ticked me off as this was basically a go and die and disobey and die order. Hesitatingly my sorry ass stepped forward and the advancement continued-
For five minutes the path was smooth in this case it means the path was void of any unidentified body. As I finished that thought we stumbled on a horrific scene which made my feet cold.
The sight in front was a dozens of corpses fallen randomly on the ground. It would have been less traumatizing if I hadn't seen the seperated hand of Gnarl the viper. The state in which his body was would have been a spectacle. If the red blood had been psilum (tomoto like fruit but colour like beet) juice and the body would have been made of mouldable slime mix (advanced playdough made with magic crystal and slime core dust in it). The sight was terrifying the master level warrior and spokesperson of unit 192 was shredded without being able to fight back. Even Mirror Demonk was frozen, the knees of pervy killer gave in upon seeing the corpse of her friends Eta, Seta and Fusa stomped as if like an ant beneath a human feet. The other few troop soldiers which looked after every conscripted had their guts spilled out. The human corpses were fallen like flies. The gamy smell of blood was masked by the thick humid air of Gaspel forest. After seeing the scene every soldiers hands gave in as everybody unanimously dropped their weapon.
Sensing feeling of ambiguity in the act of dropping weapon. My senses raised themselves to maximum. My extremely tenacious body for survival alerted master Mirror Demonk. Sensing my unrest master took notice opened his eyes half immolation herd of an metaphysical monster Varka was lit up assisting him the other blind guys too started fighting by Polaris luminarity in whic he generated bright flashes of light. My senses saved me sweat still trickling down my neck I subconsciously lifted the crouched pervy killer on my back and made a run for it. The bright flashes in a peak of midnight would definitely have invited monstrosistes which committed this mass genocide.
I ran as fast as I could with heavy weighted crazy di*vk collected grandma on my back on the other hand I am barely seventeen years old conscripted young soldier. I could have ran alone or much better motivated everybody else these options surely do make sense. But let me explain through pure luck I cleared the cave survival test. Even if I know the basic form of swordsmanship. I still am an awakened coward who took things in his hands when he chanced upon a way out. So me running alone and surviving is a no. So as a safe bet I grabbed the only person who can increase chances of my survival was her so that's why I am running with her on my back. And for the later option of motivating everybody and fighting.
Come on this poor me only has one life can't end it too idiotically that grim reapers could have a laugh before collecting my soul. Pervy killer showed no sign of resistance. So I kept running along the way I saw Commander Scald fighting even when his head is neary decapitated and is dangling like fruit with spinal cord as his stalk. The figure he was fighting against seemed humanoid monster but with marks apostle of Zerxeus the Gold Dragon.
Among monster humanoid monster are doom and even among them if its an apostle level high species hybrid form. Then just smash your respective heads on a nearby rock till you bleed enough to hear calls of your ancestors or see visions of Gods.
Scald was fighting a draconic humanoid apostle of Drangonking Gold Dragon Zerxeus while shielding the soon to be dead Zack and already dead Hound. Which shows commander Scald not only broken limit of classes but also human. His mystical energy was aura which evolved into its higher form Will granting him the Title Zenith Master. He truly was a person worthy to be addressed as 'Liege of Lunacy'
The shockwaves of battle uprooted nearby giant trees evening them to flat ground. Suddenly I felt tingling sensation at my back a stare from high in the sky I glanced out of reflex and what I saw four floating figure in the sky. Their power was so dark and fierce it shredded clouds and engulfed sunlight. The sense of fear overwhelmed my body. For the first time my tenacity to survive seemed to be overpowered what left in me was a question.
Why the hell am I even here and what the hell am I doing ?
The despair was so overwhelming that I felt as if my current conscious self didn't belong in that world. I would have died if I hadn't pervy killer at my back as she seemed to have blocked the excessive killing intent with her body unconsciously to protect me. She faintly gathered up her self esteem and with a shivering hand she asked me to leave her here and save myself.
I never expected that this pervert would be the one I would be paying my last and most precious gratitude as this act of sacrificing saved my sorry and weak self.
Then I carefully placed on her ground like placing a ephermal flower in the middle of an flower decoration art. But the place I dropped that flower was not a beautiful art piece. Instead it was in the clutch of beasts who will eventually gonna maul her so bad. That every petal of her flower would result being shredded.
For final goodbye she lifted her mask a little gave me a gentle kiss on my forehead and said
Goodbye my kid
After her farewell I ran from there as fast as I could not having a tough stomach to lookback at the corpse of an once which was an beautiful flower. If I had to remember her as flower I would like to remember as a Hangbai Ju.
I ran till my legs started to bleed because the situation was that dreadful as the silhouette which I managed to glimpse while risking my eyes. There were three beings all of them were humanoids and unlucky all of them were draconic humanoids which meant zero chance of survival.
With the little strength I had I was running with my all might then a sudden cry was ringed in a fearsome manner which caused my heart to ache as the scream was full of pain and the throat which shouted is of my only true benefactor.
After a delay of about five seconds a huge shockwave spread in all direction as if something was smashed brutally on the ground then I blanked out. Then when I tried to wake up my breath moved soil with its force as the breaths of wounded animal carry the weight of its life but without a further ado I mustered what the remaining strength I had. I got up I started to ran my brain ringing heavily. But still I ran and now my tired breath echoed in the skull of the me who breaths as I am gasping for the little air I can breath. I guess this lethargical body still shows tenacity for the only thing which is life.
I continued running in that state somehow maintaining a blurry site due to blood burst due to my fall and the soil which adhered to it. Through those I saw an fissure like thing appearing right in the middle of road. This sudden appearance of what seemed to be otherworldly phenomenon as the fissure wasn't on any surface but fabric of that space itself. It had a sense of danger to it but along with it. It also had a mystical force of pull to it. Regardless of pull my body couldn't afford take a detour as the fissure on the middle of an road which had rotting ground on either side of it. Having a no choice I continued treading that path of unknown with fear and excitement of a gambler in my heart. As I entered the fissure.
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