2 Holy Mark

"Well, should we get started with the party?"

The king walks down the spiral staircase and grabs a knife.

The king lets the knife drag on the side railing making a horrid noise of metal scraping against itself.

The king walks right up to me and raises his knife up.

He slowly carves a cross onto both of my arms.

"UMMPH UHMMHP" I scream in agony but no one can hear due to my mouth being gagged.

The king dumps the blade in oil then lets it rest in a fireplace.

The king grabs my hand while I scream in pain.

He begins to rip my fingernails off with a small knife he grabbed from his back pocket.

"1" The king begins to count, each number stands for how many nails he has ripped from my finger

"UMMHH UMMHP HELHHP HELLP!"

I begin to try to struggle but the restraints placed on me hold me back.

"2"

"UMMPH"

"3"

"HEMWP MEH UMMH"

I begin to cry uncontrollably due to the pain.

The king finally gets to the last nail.

"Annnd 10" the king has a wide grin on his face

"I'm sure you enjoyed that… right?" the king begins to laugh

"Buahahah"

"JUMPH KIHM MEAH" my vision begins to go dark

"This is barely even the introduction and you're already passing out bwahaha"

The king picks up a bucket of ice-cold water and dumps it all over me.

"We can't have you passing out now can we?"

He picks up the knife he placed in the fire.

The blade is crimson red.

The king places the blade on my stomach.

"UMMHPH UMMHPHMPU HPMUM"

The blade begins to boil my blood.

It slices through my skin like butter.

The blade is maybe only a few centimeters in me but it feels like I'm in hell.

π‘Šβ„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ β„Žπ‘’π‘™π‘™, π‘€β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘“π‘’π‘π‘˜ π‘‘π‘œπ‘’π‘  𝑖𝑑 π‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘› π‘ π‘œ π‘π‘Žπ‘‘.

𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑑 π‘˜π‘–π‘™π‘™ π‘šπ‘’ π‘Žπ‘™π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘Žπ‘‘π‘¦!

π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘Žπ‘–π‘› 𝑖𝑠 π‘’π‘›π‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘π‘™π‘’

KABOOM

The dungeon wall crumbles crushing all of the torture devices.

Outside of the wall stands around 3 squadrons of knights.(36 a squadron is about 12 soldiers give or take)

"CHHHARRRRGEEE"

All of the soldiers begin to charge towards the crumbled wall.

"Royal teleportation magic: Teleport royal castle"

As soon as the king blurts that out of his scummy mouth a flash of pink light strikes the ground and the king has disappeared

π‘†π‘œ π‘π‘œπ‘œπ‘™! 𝑖 π‘π‘Žπ‘› π‘Žπ‘π‘‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘¦ 𝑒𝑠𝑒 π‘šπ‘Žπ‘”π‘–π‘π‘!

"Dammit he got away"

The knight who just spoke was named Tess.

She was the second head knight.. My Underling.

The only reason I knew that was because in the real world the game would make you go through a questline with the knights.

The questline was super fun!

It took you to super cool caves and dungeons.

And at the end, you had to slay an Undead Dragon.

The dragon's name was "Azure Dragon" he looked fucking awsomeeee!

He had neon green outlines and he breathed green fire!

Tessa walked up to me and cut the ropes that held me down with her sword.

"Thank you!" I hugged Tessa with pure happiness!

"Yeah, no problem! I mean that is what the knights are for... But I'm surprised you're so energetic with what's been done about you"

Tessa had long silver hair, in the back her hair was braided she also had a blue ribbon holding the back of her hair together.

She had a petite body, She was about 5'10.

Her chest wasn't small but it certainly wasn't too big.

Her eyes were blue like the sea-

π‘‚β„Ž π‘ β„Žπ‘–π‘‘... 𝑖 π‘šπ‘–π‘”β„Žπ‘‘ β„Žπ‘Žπ‘£π‘’ π‘Ž π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ β„Ž..

My nose began to bleed a little bit but it wiped it up before anyone noticed

On the side of her hips was a sword.

The sword had a curved golden hilt and the sheath of the sword was black and wrapped with leather.

"Ark what shall we do to this castle?"

I had forgotten but I guess my name in the game was ark.

"Raid the villages, take the livestock, burn the houses down, Hold the nobles prisoner, take the civilians as slaves and block the entrance and exit of the castle"

"Why take the civilians?" Tessa looked confused

"First If we burn the villages there will be no place for more civilians to live and without food, they will starve. If we hold the nobles prisoner we will have leverage over the king and we might make a few bucks or get some land. Who knows? And if we take the people as slaves they will have a place to live things to eat and drink and if we block the entrance and exit it will be a struggle for others to get into the castle"

"I see, i will send the 2 squadrons to do that then… SQUADRON ONE AND TWO YOU ARE TO CAPTURE THE NOBLES AS PRISONERS CAPTURE THE CIVILIANS AS SLAVES TAKE THE LIVESTOCK BURN AND RAID THE HOUSES AND BLOCK THE ENTRANCE AND EXIT TO THE CASTLE!"

"Yes ma'am!" 24 soldiers disperse throughout the castle following Tessa's orders

"Let's head back to the castle to get you patched up!" Tessa said

"Sure.." I wrapped my hands and stomach in bandages and Tessa helped me get on her horse

The horse took off at high speeds; it was probably going around 55 mph.

Eventually, we reached the imperial castle.

I was rushed into the medical ward and saint-level healing wizards healed me.

The process was quick and it didn't hurt at all unlike in my other world.

"Sir Ark there seems to be a problem"

𝐴 π‘π‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘π‘™π‘’π‘š.... π‘€β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘π‘œπ‘’π‘™π‘‘ 𝑖𝑑 𝑏𝑒?

"What is it?"

"The crosses marked on both of your hands were engraved with a holy sword, I'm afraid that we will not be able to heal them"

"You won't be able to heal them?!"

"Y-yes sir I'm sorry but no healers in the kingdom will be able to heal them…. Who knows what they could do… the person who engraved them onto you could easily kill you if you don't get it fixed soon!"

"Is there any way that we can bring Asle the divine level healer over here to get them checked out?"

Sweat began to drop from the healers face "Yes sir I will inform her and she will be here right away"

To be continued
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