No Mercy (1)
Link being by himself while planning to massacre a whole City, was going to be very challenging. He started scouting the area further for starters, trying to get an idea of the patrols and their strength.
At night, 5 squads of 5 soldiers would walk around the City. causing havoc as they beat or killed whomever they disliked. Their armor was well made with obvious enchantments adorned on it.
The City was made of 3 sections. The first and most well maintained one was the area in the middle, where higher members of the gang lived with the mansion. The second part had the rest of the gang members as residents and the last one on the edge were the previous citizens and unlucky people who lived there in shabby looking houses and some torn tents.
The first action Link took was taking out he petrols. Every night he would kill all the squads that dared to walk around the City at night, forcing them to increase their security by sending more squads with more members.
That though did not hinder the pace of the killings. To Link they were all mere ants, killing them was too easy. He had all his stealth skills which made his discovery impossible to people of their level.
His actions led to the captains and higher members to suspect that the citizens were revolting. Killing their people right under their noses.
"How can all the squads all around the city die without leaving a trace of a struggle?" A dwarf with a luscious beard yelled at the 4 guard captains. They were on their knees with blood covering their bodies and faces. It looked like they were beaten by the wooden sword the dwarf held in his hand.
"Those fucking trash are mulnourished and weak, how can they do this? You think i'm an idiot?" The dwarf yelled again "You call this a report?" He said, throwing the papers on his desk at their faces. "Bring me the people responsible, or i will cut off your little friends and feed them to you"
The captains quickly stood up and bowed before they ran out. Their eyes were dim and cold with anger as they planned all sorts of torture methods for whomever was responsible for their suffering.
A light shone on the dwarf's desk which he promptly ran towards and pressed, revealing an image of a sharp jawed man with blond hair with a woman massaging his shoulders.
"I just read the report" He said "What is the meaning of this? Did some spies of the kingdom manage to make their way here?"
"We are still unsure, your majesty" The dwarf trembled as he spoke, his hands unsteady and his face pale "We are increasing our security but the results are always the same, the guards just vanish and their bodies later appear beheaded and hung in the main square"
"I left the command to you since you had an impressive history as a commander in the royal army, how can a bunch of rats manage to do all of this under your big fucking nose?" The man on the screen said, as his voice slowly raised into a yell. His eyes shone red as anger consumed him and grabbed the hand of the woman behind him, squishing it into a pile of meat and bones. Horrifying screams came from the woman before she passed out. "You have one day to solve this, or we're going to have a meeting just you and i" The man stood up and walked towards the screen, reaching to turn it off. Before he managed to do so though, his movement revealed what was behind him. Women were laying on the ground naked as blood covered their bodies with large wounds all over them.
The guards started to act as the captains showed no mercy. They captured and tortured innocent people for any information, even going as far as to put some of the blame on a few just to ease their superior's anger.
Link watched this unfold with uncaring eyes. He felt pity for the people but he did not care enough to reveal himself yet. He resumed the killing, as the guards unsuccessfully set up traps that ended in complete failures.
He burned houses and destroyed taverns, while none who saw his face lived to tell. He was like a god of death that descended on a City of mortals as he took their lives like it was nothing.
Link noticed that he became completely numb to it, killing was nothing more than an action. He felt uncaring and cold since he left that dungeon. Zero watched as he went on with his plan with a metaphorical frown.
His cold demeanor was boosted after questioning a few of the guards as he tried to find out what exactly happened to his friend. Surprisingly, they each remembered him vividly with their stories matching. They were nothing but criminals, and with their lives on the line, they sang like birds.
***
Tom appeared out of nowhere in the outskirts of the City. He was noticed straight away by a group of slaves and in which they approached him with bright smiles.
"Welcome, adventurer" The first man spoke with a smile.
"Hi" Tom said, waving in a friendly manner.
"What brings you to our humble City?" Another asked.
"I am here to explore, preferably do some quests in the guild as well" Tom answered.
"Alright, this way please" The man waved him over, gesturing for him to follow.
Tom seeing the man's friendly demeanor, he followed without a second thought. He walked towards the City gates and passed through, frowning upon seeing the state of the place and people.
"Please don't mind them, the guild is in the middle of the City where it is cleaner" The man spoke "These people are refugees that our graceful Lord accepted"
Tom nodded and kept following. He was led inside a tall building that resembled an actual adventurer's guild. Men sat in the main hall as they drank and laughed, but it all halted upon seeing the new face that appeared.
"Dilon, who is that?" One of the men asked with a frown.
Dilon looked back at Tom and then turned to the man with a smile. "Entertainment!"
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The events after that were horrible. Tom was ganged up on and beaten till near death. All his items were taken away from him as he was hung for all to see his sorry state as he begged for his life.
Link hearing this increased his killing speed. At the beginning, he cared about the well being of the slaves, but that was completely gone when he learned that the slaves that brought Tom to the gang members did so to kiss up to them.
"None of them deserve to live" Link muttered. He slowly started to not care about stealth, as he brazenly started killing in the open. The guards fell one after the other as he raged through the whole City.
At first reports were sent to the captains, which filled them with happiness. They thought that they finally found the bastard that kept killing their people, but that quickly turned into horror.
Link ripped through them all, his figure was like a blur as he passed by each guard beheading them instantly. The captains were not his opponents either as they followed in their men's steps.
"Who do you think you ARE?" A scream came from a building further ahead. A dwarf with a hammer appeared and ran towards Link with intense speed, hitting him with it.
Link used his Daggers to guard, but as it made contact, a shockwave erupted as dust flew and his body was lifted in the air and shot into one of the buildings completely appeared on the other side.
"I'm a Level 4 warrior. Bow down and I'll make your death quick" The dwarf yelled.
Link stood up while wiping away the dust off his clothes as he approached the dwarf.
"Shut the fuck up" He said, raising his Dagger at an insane speed, swiping towards the man. A dark line cleaved the air as it flew towards the Dwarf, cutting the man and the rest of the City behind him in half.
5 Million Mana points vanished from Link's Mana Bar.
He then lifted his arm once more and swung towards the mighty castle in front of him, cutting the whole building in half as if a laser cut through. Air currents raged in the area with the intensity of the attack, breaking most of the other buildings.
"I don't need to be careful anymore" Link said "I do not care about what happens with the rest"
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