Eaters

The monster hit by the arrow fell and after sliding a couple of meters on the ground stopped right next to the teenager, showing no signs of life.

The teenager, opening his eyes, looked at the dead monster uncomprehendingly, after which he barely raised himself on his hands and looked around. He saw flashes of weak light flash on the wall and heard a lot of popping sounds.

Immediately after the sound, a streak of light at a speed barely noticeable to the human eye, flying across the sky, hit the monster exactly. Some monsters could survive an arrow hit, but their lives ended when the next arrow arrived.

The teenager, having risen on trembling legs together with the child helping him, wandered towards the gate. Arrows flew past them at an incredible speed, under this continuous fire they were able to hobble to the gate, after which they fell wearily to the ground, leaning their backs against the gate.

Their actions were watched by a slightly surprised Urug. He saw how a skinny teenager was able to apply rashu for a moment. This surprised him because, in order to use rashu, a person must have a trained body and soul.

But the teenager in front of him definitely did not have the first one, from this he concluded that the teenager's soul was unusual. Although this is a rarity, there are a lot of people in the world, so Urug was not very surprised, rather joy slipped inside him.

He jumped off the wall and approached the teenager and squatted down after examining his body. When he finished his examination, a watery, faintly glowing mist of yellow light enveloped his right arm.

Urug stretched out a hand covered with energy to the heart of a teenager who was looking at the person in front of him with fear. Touching his chest, the energy on his arm began to seep into the teenager's body.

A teenager who celebrated incredible weakness and fear, after the penetration of strange energy into him, began to celebrate himself better. After a few minutes, Urug withdrew his hand and dissipated the yellow energy.

- What's your name? Urug asked in a calm voice.

After hesitating for a moment, the teenager replied in a weak and trembling voice.

- M-my name is Nor, sir.

- Well, if I help you and the boy become stronger, will you swear allegiance to my family? - Urug asked again in a serious voice.

After hearing the question, Nor fell into a stupor, a few tens of minutes ago he was trying to survive with all his might, and now someone from the external troops is making offers to him. But after gathering himself and thinking a little, he hesitantly said.

- I-I-agree.

He was afraid to refuse the person in front of him, since he and the child could easily be killed. If this offer had come to him earlier, he would have agreed without question. Nor always dreamed of becoming as strong as the people from the inner patrol and the outer troops who defended the settlement. Now, having experienced these atrocities, he has changed his mind a little.

Although Urug noticed his inner fluctuations, he did not pay attention to them. He grabbed Nora and the child, who had lost consciousness from fatigue and worries, under his arm and, pushing off from the ground, jumped onto the gate.

At the moment of the jump, Nora was pulled up for a second, and the surroundings blurred, and with a sharp jerk he found himself on the wall. Urug threw him and the child on the floor and looked at the carnage and said.

- Sit here and watch.

Uncomprehending, Nor looked in the direction of the field and saw hundreds of nasty-looking eaters, every second dozens of monsters died from arrows flying at them. Most of the people who were together with the Burrow had already been devoured, and the rest stood pricking the wall.

Many of the monsters, noticing that some of their prey had escaped, got angry and ran towards the wall at full speed, but on the way they met arrows flying at them. A crowd of monsters slowly approached the wall, they ran over the corpses of their own kind, and some stopped to devour them.

Watching this, Nor could not believe that there would be so many monsters. While he was watching the approaching crowd of monsters, a calm voice was heard.

- Eaters are a disfigured accumulation of flesh and bones. They become stronger by devouring the flesh of a living being. You see ordinary death eaters in front of you, I don't know how they appear, but their number is frightening. If you compare them with an enhanced person one-on-one, a person with serious wounds will win, because of the monster's low intelligence.

Nor, hearing what was being said to him, looked at Urug in confusion and hesitated a little and asked.

- O-ordinary eaters, are there r-really any unusual o-ones?

Urug looked at the teenager and grinned.

- What do you know about the development of rashu?

Seeing Urug chuckle, Nor felt a little better and shook his head after thinking about the question.

- All right, in trouble I'll tell you more about it, but now remember, an improved person is the first step in the development of the rashu, you often saw them in the settlement as an internal patrol. Next comes the one who has reached the limit, this is a person who can already apply rashu a little. There are not many of them in our settlement, you can see them now, so most of them serve in the external troops. And the strongest in our settlement is the one who went beyond the aisles, there are only four of them, and I am one of them.

Urug said the last part of his lesson with a little pride in his voice. Nor was surprised that he was being told such information. For him, the external troops were something frightening and scary, but also incredible and unattainable. A few seconds later, Urug's voice was heard again.

- As for the death eaters, as I said before, these are ordinary death eaters, and when they eat enough flesh, they mutate into fortified death eaters. Their difference from the usual is bone armor, under the skin that cannot be pierced with conventional weapons. Only a rashu weapon with a rashu boost can easily penetrate it. After them comes the leader of the devourers, he differs from other stages with his more developed intelligence and powerful regeneration. The leader of the devourers who migrated to our area is responsible for this wave.

While Urug was giving lessons, several eaters who somehow survived the shelling approached the wall. When one of the monsters was about to climb the wall, he was blocked by two men in leather armor, which was surrounded by a watery glowing yellow mist.

In their hands were the same glowing copper swords, the guard of which was a sharpened white bone.