6 Death Game (4)

"Grab your weapons, kids." The red-haired man said while grabbing his axe. "Someone is coming."

Holding her katana firmly, Yuuko thought about all the things that happened after waking in this place.

She would have liked to think of this as a bad dream, but she was sure it was real. After all, dreams do not feel so real.

Being a woman of action, Yuuko immediately moved after calming her feelings. Firstly, she left the base where she woke up and tried to reunite information. She heard the conversation between the group of strangely dressed people and noticed many strange things.

Firstly, everybody was speaking in Japanese. Strange, because she only noticed a few people with Asian features.

Secondly, this place was apparently very dangerous. You needed only to see the strangely dressed people and the ruined buildings to know that this place was not peaceful.

Thirdly, judging from the strangers' conversation, they were here for some kind of mission.

Knowing that the strangers had more information about this place, Yuuko was tempted to leave with one of the strangers when she saw a young man leaving with a woman. But thinking about it, it was probably safer to stay here in the base. After all, there is safety in numbers. Besides, one of the strangely-dressed people was going to stay behind to guard the place. She could try to talk to him.

If there was any danger in this place, it was probably safer with more people.

Such naïve thought only lasted a few minutes.

Because when the axe-wielding man decided that it was not good for the people inside the base to remain without doing anything, hell broke loose.

Do you want to know how to force a group to do your bidding? Easy, kill a few of them.

It was only at that moment that she understood the true terror of this place.

… She learned that numbers do not mean anything against certain monsters.

From then, the axe-wielding man's words became the law.

So, when he told them to choose a weapon, everybody chose one; and when he told them that they were going to fight against enemies, they agreed fearfully.

Yuuko was waiting nervously for the enemy. Holding her katana, she tried to search comfort in the familiar weapon.

"He is there." The red-haired man said. Raising her head, Yuuko tried to search for the enemy.

Then, she saw it.

A green monstrosity appeared in her sight.

The creature, of two meters of height, was of humanoid appearance with green skin and a body filled with muscles. Over its body, a black armor shone with an ominous glow; and its hands were holding a gigantic axe.

If there is a word to describe the creature, it was probably 'Orc'.

The orc was standing fifty meters away from the base, looking to them with a sinister grin. Then, opening its mouth, it spoke.

"Fight me!" Its strong voice resounded.

Then, it disappeared.

When Yuuko saw it again, it was lowering its axe towards the red-haired man.

She was unable to react at all, but the red-haired man did react. With a cry of fury, his entire body glowed red and his arm received the axe's blow. At the same time, his other hand brandished his own axe towards the orc's body.

Immediately, a fight beyond the limits of humans unfolded before Yuuko's eyes.

The clashing sound of the blows resounded through the place, and the shockwaves of their attacks obliterated the surroundings. The ones closest to them ended like nothing more than blood staining the ground, and the others a bit farther were grievously injured. Even Yuuka, twenty meters away from the fight, ended flying for close to five meters before finally landing on the ground wounded.

However, her nightmare was just beginning.

The two monsters didn't care about their lives. Instead, they concentrated on their fight, moving insanely fast from a place to another while trying to overpower their enemy.

With each step they took, a human died. Yuuko could only look in despair while her fellow humans were being massacred as bugs. They were completely unable to participate in a fight at this level.

But at that moment, she heard the red-haired man speak.

"Shot!" He shouted. "Use the crossbows and don't care about me!"

It was then that Yuuko remembered about the crossbows.

There were ten crossbows between the weapons they could choose, but Yuuko doesn't choose any of them. She remembered that some women chose them.

But, how can someone shoot a weapon accurately without any experience?

When the man shouted, most of the women were unable to shoot, too terrified to pay attention to the man's words. A few others shot the crossbows without accuracy. One even shot the crossbows towards a man standing beside her.

"Hahahaha! What useless babies!" The orc laughed.

"Useless fools!" The red-haired man shouted enraged after seeing it.

Holding her katana, Yuuko used it to stand from the ground while looking to the fight with an astonished expression. The fight, overthrowing all her knowledge about individual power, left her without breath.

But after looking for a few seconds, she noticed something.

The red-haired man... was definitively losing.

Though she could not capture most of their movements, her experience as a swordswoman allowed her to notice that the red-haired man was losing ground constantly.

'No! It cannot continue! If the red-haired man dies, we will die too!'

The only reason because some of them were still alive was the red-haired man.

The orc continued attacking with its axe; using it savagely to strike the red-haired man. Yuuka could see him struggling to endure the barrage of attacks.

At that instant, a strange calm took over her.

Holding her sword in her hands, she looked towards the place where the fight was occurring and concentrated her vision.

She could feel it. She could feel that her sword could reach the enemy.

It was a strange certainty, but she knew it was true. It was something hard to explain.

Then, at the instant when the orc was about to end the fight, she moved.

It was definitively the fastest attack in her life. She could feel the wind around her impulsing her movements.

Then, she swung her sword.

"Haaaaaaaa!!"

Putting all her strength in that attack, she cut towards the orc's abdomen.

... But when the sword touched the orc, it broke.

Then, she felt orc hitting her with its arm.

Blood flowed from her mouth, and her bones broke in many places.

An intense feeling of pain filled her mind, stronger than anything she felt before.

Holding on the last remains of her consciousness, she looked towards the place where the two monsters were fighting.

The last thing she saw was a pillar of light piercing the orc.

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