Chapter 8

Now that Einar was on the road again, with enough food to last him all the way to the capital, he had no more worries.

He would just keep going the way he had done until now, using every night to train the one technique he had

He did not meet any more villages in the desert, since not many wants to live out there, in the middle of nowhere. When he got out of the desert, the villages got much more frequent. The scenery also changed from the sand all around, to now a small dirt road going through a forest.

It was almost like walking in a tunnel, as all of the trees were covering the sky. One could also hear all the animals around, making many different noises. It was completely different from the quiet desert, where the only sound you could hear was the occasional raven, and wind blowing the sand.

Einar enjoyed the feeling of life around him. He enjoyed the green leaves all around him, the wind blowing in the bushes, the birds singing, it all just seemed much livelier for him.

"Clang"

*Clang*

After walking for a while, he could hear the sound of metal clanging together. It was not a sound anyone would enjoy, it was piercing his ears, in an annoying way.

He started running towards the sound, to see what it was that doing it.

"CLANG!"

The sounds got louder and louder, and they pierced his ears even more. He did not like this sound, but he had to get used to it since this was the sound of fighting.

As he got closer, he found what it was that was making these sounds. It was two sides of people, fighting each other. Einar saw a big carriage lying on the ground, on the side of the road. The right side had two broken wheels, so it could not drive.

They could not get it to drive even if they wanted to, since the two horses that were pulling the carriage were already dead.

In front of the village, he saw two men, who looked like knights. They had metal armor on, which looked like heavy-duty. There was nothing special about the armors, except the perfect shine they made in the sun.

One of them carried a huge knight sword, which he had to use two hands to hold. While the other was using a shortsword and shield.

The men they were fighting were around ten in numbers. They all looked like a normal villagers, with a little bit of leather armor. They were all holding shortswords or daggers, they did not look like people who were ready to fight two knights.

As Einar kept looking at the fight, he found that the two knights were actually losing the fight. The bandits were overwhelming them with numbers, and lots of reckless attacks. The two knights were fighting in perfect unison, but they could not keep up with the opponent's number.

"AAAAAAAHH"

The knight with the knight's sword suddenly yelled, as som 'Aura' blasted out of his body. He suddenly dashed to one of the opponents who stood by himself. He gained a huge amount of speed. The opponent was far from ready, and before he knew it, he was cleaved in half.

"ARGH" The opponent couldn't react as he was cut in half. He threw up a huge amount of blood before he fell to the ground with lifeless eyes.

The knight with the shortsword took this opportunity to go in and strike one of the other opponents. He slashed the head off of the opponent, without him even looking at the knight.

The knight with the knight's sword started a massacre, as he went in and took two more down. His speed was so explosive, that none of them had a chance to react.

"STOP HIM!" A man looking like the leader of the villagers yelled out as he pointed at the knight with the knight's sword. "I will stop this guy!" He looked over at the knight with the shortsword as he said.

Einar already knew which of the guys was in the bad, so he started to move down there to support the knights. He did not want one of them to die if he had a chance to save him.

The knight with the knight's sword was caught off guard, as he was suddenly surrounded by 5 villagers. They tried to stab him, but they could not penetrate his armor.

"BLUAARG" Suddenly the knight with the knight's sword threw up a bunch of blood. He looked down and saw one of the villagers had stabbed his dagger in the seem of the armor.

The knight with the short sword saw this, but he was pre-occupied by the leader. He could do nothing but look at his partner, then wait for his doom.

"SHING!"

"ARGH!!"" Two of the villagers surrounding the knight fell to the ground without heads. Their bodies fell to the ground, spurting blood everywhere.

Suddenly the knights heard a sound coming from behind them. When they looked over, they saw that a boy had joined the fight. They had no time to react, as they were still in the middle of a fight.

"Thanks, kid!" The knight with the knight's sword still had to thank him.

After saying his thanks, he turned to the last three people standing around him. He would not have trouble dealing with them, even though he might be wounded.

He swung the huge sword, cleaving one of them in half while cleaving another half through. The guy that was cleaved in half, died instantly, while the other guy was still alive with a sword inside him.

"Bluargh" He threw up a mouthful of blood before he fell to the ground.

The knight now turned to the last guy, giving him a menacing look. After intimidating his opponent, he swung the sword and took his head off.

"And, there was one!" The knight looked at the last guy, who was the leader. The knight was showing a grin, which made him look terrifying with the blood around his mouth.

The leader of the villagers saw that everything had been lost, he now had no chance of winning this fight. So he pushed back the knight with the shortsword, before turning around to run.

He did not get far, as the knight with the huge sword was faster than him. The knight caught up in a few seconds, as he just cut off the head of the leader.

A bloody scene had unfolded in front of Einar. He saw ten dead bodies, and there was blood everywhere. To his surprise though, he felt nothing. This was his first time killing humans, but he did not feel any different from killing a monster.

"Hey kid, thanks for the help!" As Einar was emersed in his own thought, he heard someone yelling.

"Yeah, Thanks, kid!" Both the knights were thanking him now. They were both doing a knight's bow, to show their respect.

"Don't worry about it, I did what anyone would do!" Einar looked at them with indifference, he did not know if they were friends or foe yet.

"No, you saved our lives! Not just anyone would do that!" The knight with the shortsword said, with a thankful look.

"I-Is the fight over?" Before Einar had a chance to respond, he heard a feminine voice from the carriage. He put his sword to his handle, as he looked at the carriage.

"It is done, my lady!" The knight with the huge sword responded to the voice with a small smile. "You can come out!" He continued.

Hearing that the knights knew the owner of the voice, Einar took his hand away from the sword and returned to an indifferent attitude.

The knights both went over to the side of the carriage, to help out the person inside. One of them opened the small the, while the other took the lady's hand to help her with the step.

When the lady got out of the carriage, she looked at the bloody scene. It frightened her, her face went from a healthy pink to a pale white. She did not know what to say, or what to do. She just stood there frozen.

"You okay, my lady?" The knight with the huge sword said with some concern.

"I-I'm f-fine, Bernard!" She held her stomach and her mouth as she responded. It was obvious that she felt sick.

"Let's get out of here!" The knight with the shortsword said, as he took the ladies hand and started walking.

"Yeah ... You coming?" Bernard looked at Einar with curious eyes.

"Sure" Einar did not mind tagging along. To him, these people were very gullible. They had no defense towards Einar. This made Einar feel bad, that he had his guard up towards them. Einar did not put his guard down though, he would rather be cautious than dead.