A Knowledge from the Past

"GET THOSE BASTAAARDS!" A man shouts as he raises his sword as they charge head-on towards the merciless brutes. The sound of armours clanging and shields thumping as they approach the enemy. Heart thudding, sweat building, bodies piling as they continue to rush towards the brutes, a horn was blown on the allied side as the cavalry just arrived. A few dozen horsemens stampede forward as the allied forces gave way for them as they pour out like water from a barrel. The brutes stand powerless as they slowly get slain one by one by these horsemens. The battle was fierce as the horsemen slowly get overwhelmed by the amount of brutes rushing over and out the mountains. "Sire! We're slowly losing more men than we initially envisioned!" A man shouted from outside. "Send out the revised infantry!" A man shouts back from inside the tent. "Yes, sire!" He replies back as he took a bow outside the tent, he turns back and rush towards the line of infantry. "Gird thy loins, noble warriors! The time is nigh! We charge for the sake of the king!!!" He shouts as he raises his sword and waited as the horn is blown. "Chaaarge!!!" He shouts one last time before they all ran towards the battlefield swords high above them ready to strike their foes and there runs the more revised horsemens charging towards the enemies. Gun fire is heard from behind as musketeers aim towards the enemies. As the revised infantry slowly pours out into the battlefield there stand a tall silhouette of a man, an immortal. He raises his greatsword and rests it on his shoulders, he snickers to the sight of the enemies overwhelming the weaker infantry. As the revised infantry was finally out in the battlefield he dashes forward and into the battlefield. Screams and sword clashing is heard as he slowly approach the heat of battle he leaps towards the air and brought his sword down hard towards the pack of brutes. He slash and tore everything in the path even his fellow soldiers, he starts to slowly lose it and smiled as blood litters the battlefield. He is completely drenched in blood he smile widely as the feeling of violence encourages him much more to slay these lowly brutes. He stare at his hand which is covered in blood, the battle continues to rages on, he clenched his fist as he sees a new wave of raiders and brutes rush towards the bloody battlefield.

He reaches for his sword with a wide psychopathic grin and took his stance, and in a moment, he rushes over to a dense spot of the raiders and leaped once more to the air bringing his sword down towards an unfortunate lad. He started hacking and slashing around him as the brutes and raiders notice his presence a decent amount of them turn towards him and rushes over, hoping to overwhelm his being, but unfortunately for them this man is much stronger than they initially thought. The sound of a horn from the enemy's side could be heard faintly as everyone stopped on their tracks and glance towards the sound. Though the man was too busy slashing. A thud is heard before he finally seizes his attacks and turns around to face the new threat. The musketeers were the first one to take a glimpse of the impending doom. The allied forces sounded a horn of retreat as a giant being enters the battlefield, the man was unfazed by this. And smiled widely to himself before he rushes over to the giant and leaped towards it burying his sword on it's shoulder as he lands, although the giant didn't even flinched even an inch as it seems that it doesn't have any pain receptors. His eyes widen as he notices this, he then tries to pull his sword off from it's shoulders but it seems to sink even further in from the giant. He jumped off leaving his sword from the giant's shoulder before his sword slowly get swallowed by the giant's slimy texture. He frantically searched for a weapon before he dives towards a longsword as the giant drop it's feet from where he was in originally standing.

The raiders have fully retreated from the battlefield and so are the allies. Him and the giant stand in the middle of the battlefield the allies watch from behind the fronts as he and the giant fight. His sword does nothing but scathe it's fleshy exterior and give the giant a trimming, but eventually he notices a spot which seems to appear as he cuts a specific spot. "Kyin! I'm here to assist!" A feminine voice shouts across the battlefield. He can't help but look as he continues to slash, without the knowledge of an incoming blow the giant kicks him sending him meters away from it. The girl rushes over to Kyin and checks if he's deeply injured, he nods but it seems he feels dazed he was no longer smiling and he passes out.

As he lays there passed out, the girl aims her musket which was bigger than her. She aims it towards the giant and pulled the trigger sending a musket ball hurdling towards the giant, it blows upon impact to it's side making it spill it's insides before it slowly disintegrated into the ground into a massive flesh goop. She turns towards him and tries to wake him up but to no avail. The allied side cheers to the giant's defeat and the raiders has fully retreated and stopped sending out troops.

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He slowly opens his eyes to find himself in a house, fire crackles from the fireplace. He was alone. He clutches his head, he groggily stand up from the bed and walked over to the front door of the house, he notices that his armour was gone. He shook his head as his vision continues to spin and opened the door. Once he opens the door the blinding rays of the sun hits him in the face he covers his eyes to the sun and looked around. "Ah, Kyin! You finally woke up!" A high pitch voice says and he looked to his right to find a little girl. The girl rushes over and hugs him, he felt that he knew who she was before she ended the embrace, he was just the same size as her. "Ah, sorry Vesp... Did I worry you..?" He says scratching the back of his head, "Aiiya..! My head still hurts from that..." He says pained. She laughs and apologized for what had happened, he interjects before she could finish the sentence before he blamed himself for it. "Hey, Vesp. Remember that time you wanted to be a sorceress?" He says curiously raising an eyebrow, she thinks for a moment and nods, "Of course! Why? Something caught your attention?" She tilts her head. He laughs and nods and spoke that there's gonna be a sorcerer visiting town today. She beams up and excitedly begs for him to take her there, which he accepts gratefully. They walk to town, and after several minutes of walking they finally arrived to the sorcerer's stand a booklet sits outside the stage. The whole thing was closed Vespera pouts, "It's not even open yet..." Kyin thinks for a moment and had an idea, "Hey! Wonder what's inside that book?" He asked as he nudge her on the shoulder, she thinks for a moment and came to a conclusion that, "I think it contains the spells they use..?" She says unsurely of it. He smiles and nods, "Yup, that's right! Wanna read some it? Besides, he's not here, I'm sure he's fine with it if we just take a glimpse of the contents of it, correct?" He smiles as he looks at Vespera, "I dunno..." She says as she continues to think of the possible outcomes of everything. Kyin smiles widely without a warning he opens the book, and flip pages upon pages. Vespera looks at him in anxiety, "Hey! Don't do that! What if the sorcerer punishes us from doing this!" She said as she frantically looks around, he didn't mind and continued flipping pages from the book until he comes across a page. "Ooh! This one looks—" he was abruptly stopped as a tall bearded man in a robe exits the stage, "Oi! What are you kids doing with my tome!" He shouts angrily and stomps towards them. Kyin and Vespera screams in fright and runs away in fear and anxiety, "You good for nothing kids! Rummaging to someone else's belongings!" He shakes his head in frustration and closes the book.

The two continued running before they reached their house, panting. He turns around and back to Vespera. "He didn't follow..." He pants. She looks at him with an irritated stare and yells, "You just woke up from an injury and now you do this?! I told you not to mess with his stuff! You never learn, do you?! " She shakes her head and goes inside, still irritated by what had just happened. He shook his head and pulls out a brown old paper. It's a page from the tome, it reads "Immortality".

The day passes normally as the two plays in the yard. The night comes, and the two begun preparing for bed. Kyin pulls out the piece of paper once again. He then reads the full passage of the page, "Ytillarommi ot Ytilat-rommi I tnar thy, y-ti-lat-rommi." He looks at his palms and touched his face but nothing seemed to be amiss. He shook his head and angrily crumple the piece of paper and threw it outside the window. She sees this. "What did you throw outside?" Asked her with a skeptical look, "Nothing, I just found a dirty paper in the bed," he said, completely disappointed about it. She shrugs and got on her bed. "You know... I'm sorry if I yelled at you... I was just scared if the sorcerer punishes us for it..." Vespera says apologetically. Kyin forgives her and told that it was all his fault and should be the one apologising, she smiles and he does too before saying good nights to each other before going to a peaceful slumber through the night.

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He opens his eyes and found himself in a medical tent; clutching his head before glancing towards the sound of the burning firewood from a pit. He got up from the bedroll before he walks over to the doorframe of the tent. He shook his head as his vision was dazed. As he stepped outside, a high pitch voice is heard, he looks to his right to find a girl with a big musket behind her. "You're finally awake, Kyin." She says as she embraces him, "Ah, sorry, Elisa... Did I worry you..?" He smiles as he returns the embrace. She nods and smiles back before handing him a bowl of stew. "Eat up, you've been out for a while." She says as she rests her gun next to her as she sat down on a stool. He smiles and gulp on the stew in one go. Kyin seems to sigh deeply as he stares at the burning amber from the fire he seems puzzled. Elisabeth seems to acknowledge this and asked what was wrong.

He speaks, "It's my sister..."

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(Author:Lehmonn)