11 A Journey, A Village, A Death...

It has been a few weeks since the time where I was introduced to the clearing. In this small amount of time I have learned how to passively become better with magic by making an automatic magical cycle. It was quite hard at first but I was soon able to do it without thinking. It was just like instinct.

But right now I am currently travelling back to my village. I needed to see Ronald's grave. It has already been so long since the last time I communicated with other humans or even the villagers. So when I saw the market and all the people in this town my eyes were sparkling. But for some reason the people looked starved as of they hadn't eaten for days. It was as if something terrifying had happened.

I walked over to a small shop and asked, "Hey, why is everyone so down?"

He looked at me and his face became white. "You, you are "him". You are the one who "he" is after. That monster who became the new ruler of The Empire." He then took a piece of fruit that was on his stand and then threw it at me. "Never come back." He growled and walked into the back of his shop.

Then people ran over to the fruit and actually fought over it until one of them won the bloody battle for the fruit.

I sighed and left to continue on my journey home. But everyone on the road, towns, and villages, were acting weird. It was as if they were terrified of something or someone.

Finally I arrived in my village after a few days of travelling. I smiled as I entered but noticed that it was barren. I looked around and then I heard a scream in the east side of the village. I immediately ran to see what happened.

Then I saw "him". "Where. Is. He." The man who was standing in the air and was around my age asked with a dark expression on his face while he was clutching a small girls throat.

"We, we don't know sir. He, he hasn't returned to the village at all." The elder of the village said with a desperate look on his face.

"Oh? Well guess what. I. Don't. Care. So bring him to me now or you are all going to die in what is going to be a burning heap of wood in about a minute if you don't bring him to me." He had a crazy and wicked look on his face as he said this. It was like something was possessing him.

He wasn't like this before. "Luciel." When I said his name he reacted and looked at me with a surprised expression.

He smiled gently and dropped the small girl and then she fell hard down onto the ground. "There you are Kalum. I was waiting for you. You see, I want back what was mine. I want the girl. So tell me, where is she?" He said while his eyes began to narrow and a small growl was released from his mouth.

"It doesn't matter. Now go before I kill you Luciel." I said confidently and he smiled in response.

"Kill me? You? Hahaha. That is the funniest thing I have heard all day. Now Kalum, since you won't speak I guess I will have to pry open that mouth of yours." Suddenly he appeared right in front of me and before I knew what was happening he grabbed my neck and I couldn't move for some reason. "So. Do you feel like talking now?"

It took me a while but I said, "F,f*ck... y,you."

Rage filled his eyes and suddenly I felt my whole body burning for a second but there wasn't any fire at all. What was happening?

"Kalum. Don't talk like that. Be polite." He said in a forceful tone as I saw him trying to calm himself down.

I smiled and said with a slight laugh, "Go... to hell..."

Then I felt the burning feeling again. "What do you mean? HUH? DO YOU THINK I AM A PUSHOVER!?" He tightened his grip around my neck and I nearly couldn't breathe anymore. Then he said in a serious tone, "Last chance Kalum. If you don't answer me this time I will kill all of these people right in front of you and then I will torture you till I have had enough. Then you will simply die a coward's death as you had lead your people to die a miserable death."

I smiled and stared him right in the eyes. I was not a coward. "Try me."

The next few minutes were the most painful in my life. I had never seen such horrors before. He raped the women. Slaughtered the men. Tortured the children. And after that he threw them all into the gigantic inferno which was previously the village.

Then he looked at me with the coldest look I had ever seen. "Now it is finally your turn." He walked over slowly and began cutting my right arm off first. Then it was my left. Then it was my left leg. Then my right. Then it was my tongue. Then my ears. And then he cut off my nose. And lastly he ripped out both of my eyes.

And there I was laying as I felt my whole body fly into a very hot place. I couldn't do anything at all. Those were the last moment of this life...