19 Chapter 19

Narrator POV:

The three knights looked at their young master incredulously, they wanted to voice their opinions and refuse his order but... His eyes, they were filled to the brim with malice and the killing intent he was exuding made them tremble.

They through their eyes were deceiving them but when they looked at him, they kept seeing images of a black dragon with crimson eyes. They nodded at his words and each went their own separate ways, they were confused by their own actions but they did as their master ordered and slaughtered all their path.

The long haired knight had fast moves that no one could track. While the scarred knight simply mindlessly destroyed, his sword was far too large to be considered and his movements were like a beasts but they somehow seemed refined and controlled despite how monstrous his physical power was. The female knight was simply punching through all in her path with her bare hands, occasionally shooting out blasts of thunder and fire.

The enemy feared these three knights, but there was a man, no a monster who they feared far more.

Reinhardt POV:

'One inch punch'

I sent a soldier flying into into several Knights, they all spewed blood. I quickly formed 'Edge Of Nightfall' I my hands and beheaded a soldier. I performed a 540° kick on a nearby and kicked his off.

I gut punches the next soldier and he crawled on the ground with tears in his eyes, he seemed to be of a higher rank than those weaklings from before.

"W-what are you?-"

I smiled from ear to ear, my eyes glowing and my bloodlust increasing.

'Let's have some fun with this.'

"Me? I've been called a few things in my life, Devil and I've even been called a God but the one I like the most is..."

"Monster."

And with that I sliced the man's head off without a shred of hesitation.

***

A few hours into the fight, the opponents had lost a large majority of their forces while our forces had suffered minimal casualties.

I moved deeper into the battle shredding through men like butter.

Then I felt something, the world itself slowed and my brain was flooded with information. I saw an image of a man drawing his sword and simply slashing. Then he put his away his sword and everything around him was slashed.

I instinctively knew what it was, every cell in my body yearned for me to perform that action.

I got into an Iai stance and took a deep breath.

"Avalon Swordsmanship Style, First Form: Hazy Moon."

I pulled my sword out at a speed that far surpassed sound. And went back to my original stance.

Then slashes appeared all over the soldiers around me, slicing everything. A slash that's speed was increased with ambient Mana, a feat that should have been impossible but my sword created an impossibility.

The ambient Mana increased its speed and power to the extent where Mana was distorted and created slashes around me. It was essentially a slash which snowballed into more and more slashes.

Then I was charged by a man wearing Gold armour, I quickly moved to block but his blow shattered my arms. I was sent flying away by the knight, rolled on the floor to slow myself down. My sword had dissapeared from the shock of the blow.

By the time I realised it, I was in the middle of a circle of Knights. Knights of House Avalon...

My father was behind me, I looked at him, extremely confused. He just smiled at me.

"Fight and win, become strong enough to survive this. Prove your worth to me as my son."

'That fucking lunatic- He keeps justifying why Reinhardt was never mentally stable and why he was never sane.'

I got into a a karate stance, a fist near my waist and a palm infront of me.

'I must kill that man.'

'Kill' that was the only I had to do.

'Kill'

'Kill'

I erased all signs of my existence, my presence, my Mana and my bloodlust. I became one with nature and I charged forward. I grabbed the man's arm and pulled him towards me, them I delivered a flurry of palm strikes to his armour. I looked at my hand, it was bleeding.

'His armour, it's tough.'

I formed 'Edge Of Nightfall' and charged forth and thrust my sword where I had struck him earlier. I saw the man's eyes glow as he side stepped and kicked my ribs, shattering them in a single strike.

It seemed that he had allowed himself to receive my blows earlier to understand how stronger were. The man formed a spear made of pure lighting in his hand and threw it at me.

It moved at monstrous speeds, I tried to react.

'First Form, Hazy Moon'

"What? Nothing happened?"

I looked at my hand, or rather where my hand used to be. The man had take my arm with a single attack.

He jumped into the sky and dove down at me, he punched me into the ground and got on top of me like I had done to that brat earlier in the night.

He kept punching me, shattering my bones over and over and over. Lucas looked at me with thkse unwavering eyes of his, he was annoying me.

The man kept pounding at my body, crushing every part of me and shattering my bones and turning my muscles into mush.

I felt death nearing, I had experienced it once before so I knew what it was like. If I didn't fight back I was going to die.

'I'm going to die? Again? Fuck...'

I reminisced once more about the conversation I had with Charlotte.

"The monster inside me, it told me that there's a monster inside you too. One far more fearsome than my monster."

I felt something move, it came from the very depths of my soul. I felt every fibre of being burn, my soul and even my life felt like it was all for this moment. I closed my near destroyed eyes and felt a 'seed' in me.

I knew what it was, a Dragon's Seed, or something like that. The seed was the manifestation of my bloodline, i had mistakenly though that the Avalon Bloodline had yet to awaken. But in truth it had awakened, I merely wasn't aware.

I released my killing intent, no this was something completely different. It was 'Draconic Intent', an innate ability of the Dragon race. I felt an overwhelming feeling of sovereignty, my crimson eyes now bore a striking similarity to a Dragon's. My irises resembled them, I could even see the flow of Mana.

My eyes perceived Mana as if it were an everyday object. Yellow particles were around me, they were likely Lightining attribute Mana particles. They were flowing through the man's body.

Then a flurry of ice hit the man and pierced the Golden armoured knight. A potion was fed to me and I felt its effects almost immediately. It was a high class potion, Lucas picked me up and started walking towards where I assumed the tents were.

I looked around at the soldiers, it was difficult to raise my head to so I could only look at the ones I was already facing. They were all pale and some of them were vomiting while others were shaking and the rest were just looking away.

'I guess they all felt uncomfortable watching a child get pummeled into the ground. This was an annoying experience but this level of pain isn't much. I'll use this experience to act more ferocious during battle, and it'll make it easier to explain as to why I'm so comfortable with killing and I'll be able to use this as a way to make people feel some compassion for me.'

Lucas sent the same the three knights as before to escort me home and they did so, before I fell asleep I noticed that their faces were all bearing horribly sad expressions. I didn't understand why they were that sad, maybe some of their comrades died?

Well it probably didn't have anything to do with me.

And with that I fell asleep...