Carlon's Past (Part 5)

Regnier's eyes widened seeing hundreds of strange creatures that walked and killed anything in front of them, the creatures then attacked Regnier with swords like knights but when Regnier block his attacks, these creatures broke Regnier's sword with very strong force. Regnier jumped back quickly avoiding the other creature's slashes and observing them, Regnier was shocked by the fact that he was beaten in terms of strength because Regnier was the strongest knight on the continent but he was defeated very easily with just a simple slash from the creature.

'...Are you humans?' Regnier asked the creatures a question in a sinister tone.

'...NO PERMISSIONS.' The creatures answered in unison and startled all the knights around.

'WHAT'S THAT?' One of the shocked knights looked back while blocking the enemy's attack.

'...Is that reinforcement...?' One of the Vivid knights said with a slight smile.

But suddenly the head of the knight was hollowed out and charred by the fire that quickly penetrated his head, the fire came from the hole in the palm of one of the creatures that instantly killed him.

'HAAA?' The Zealuterra knight who fought the knight was shocked by his enemy's head which suddenly had a hole and was charred.

'HELP-' The knight asked for help in fear to the other knights but suddenly his vision became dark and his head and body were hollowed out and charred by the creature's attack.

'RUN!' All the Zealuterra and Vivid knights ran away in fear from the creature.

'GET OUT OF HERE IMMEDIATELY!' Regnier came and took one of the swords stuck in the ground and fought the creatures.

'COMMANDER!' The Zealuterra Knights shouted for their commander in a slightly frightened tone.

'GO, HURRY! REPORT TO THE KING-'

All of the Zealuterra Knights looked back and immediately stopped their steps, their eyes widened and saw something they couldn't believe. For the Knights of Zealuterra, Regnier is a very kind and strong commander for them, all the actions taken by Regnier are kindness and justice for those who follow him but what the Zealuterra Knights see makes them shocked with a sad expression that gradually forms after saw that Regnier, a very strong knight and a figure of justice for all the people of Zealuterra, was pierced by a fiery sword from the creature right in the chest through the heart and burned it. This incident left all the Zealuterra Knights speechless because it happened so fast, but a few seconds later they realized what they were seeing and tears streamed down the faces of all the Zealuterra knights.

'COMMANDER!!!' The Zealuterra Knights screamed in voices trembling from sorrowful cries after seeing that scene making their bodies feel powerless.

'Ugh...! RUN! DO NOT LOOK BACK!' Regnier frowned and released an enormous amount of mana from his body creating an electric shield that prevented the creature from taking any further steps.

'UGH..!' Even though they wanted to deny this, what Regnier said made a lot of sense to them and they were forced to run for Zealuterra.

Carlon slowly realized seeing the familiar barren land startled him and opened his eyes wide and looking around, he saw one of the knights pick him up and carry him away along with the other Zealuterra knights.

'W-WHAT IS THIS?!' Carlon asked while being shocked at the things around him.

'WE HAVE TO RETURN...! REPORTING IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT IMMEDIATE DANGER TO ZEALUTERRA!' The knight who lifted Carlon answered with a shout because even a small sound would not be heard amidst the crowd of Zealuterra knights running as hard as they could.

'B-BUT WHERE'S THE COMMANDER?!' Carlon looked around for the commander but found none.

'UGH... SORRY BUT... THE COMMANDER SACRIFICE FOR ZEALUTERRA.' The knights held back their sorrow and kept looking straight ahead and carried on their commander's final mission.

'?!' Carlon who heard this immediately shocked him and wondered, a very strong knight could be defeated by an enemy he did not know.

'BUT WE HAVE TO BRING HIM TOO..!' Carlon answered the knight hoping that the answer given by the knight was in accordance with what he wanted.

'THIS IS FOR ZEALUTERRA.. AND COMMANDANT, SORRY.. BUT WE HAVE TO LEAVE COMMANDER..' The knight gritted his teeth and held back his sorrow.

'BUT..!' Carlon tried to refute his statement but he realized that it made sense even though it was hard to accept.

'SORRY, WE MUST-' The knight said to Carlon and looked at him but didn't get to finish his sentence.

The knight's voice suddenly disappeared as if cut off along with the sound of the Zealuterra knight's footsteps and explosions behind them, Carlon widened his eyes who were looking amidst the crowd of Zealuterra knights. Carlon's face looked completely distraught and shocked when he saw a huge explosion in the middle of the crowd of Zealuterra knights blowing everyone up and killing them.

Carlon woke up from his stupor and looked around, the scenery he saw made his face filled with obvious disbelief and despair.

'H..huh..?' Carlon's voice trembled with despair but couldn't hold back the tears that were streaming down his face.

The cruel glances that he saw around him were the corpses of the Zealuterra knights that were crushed and burned from the explosion, Carlon who was trying to say something but felt as if something was suppressing the words inside him, Carlon's eyes slowly became dead fish like as if not alive while looking at the corpses of the knights. Carlon's tears streamed down his face which looked as desperate as before, his mentality torn apart cruelly by the cruelty of the war, Carlon desperately looked at the hundreds of creatures that attacked and destroyed the war slowly approaching him but suddenly all the creatures The creature stopped right after someone's voice said to them all.

'Stop.' The subtle female voice stopped the movements of all the creatures and revealed itself.

She walked out from behind the creatures and showed herself, a beautiful woman with light cyan hair with beautiful dark blue eyes stopped right in front of Carlon.

'Hmm..' The woman looked at Carlon and thought for a moment before walking back with all the creatures.

'W-wait... why didn't you kill me..?' Carlon asked in a desperate and trembling voice.

'...You don't even deserve to be killed, I'm only letting you live since this is only a weapon trial.' The woman answered Carlon coldly as if heartless.

'Y-You killed them... Zealuterra knights.. and commander.. just for a trial..?' Carlon's face grew desperate and shocked at the woman's words.

The woman ignored him and left the Land of Chaos with the creatures, leaving a distraught Carlon alone.

'...' Carlon's bitter cry rang out around the place without anyone hearing it.

2 days later, Carlon decided to leave the Knight of Zealuterra and left the kingdom without a word and returned to the village. The head of the village who was ready to welcome Carlon was surprised by Carlon's face which looked desperate and looked the same as when he was small, the head of the village quickly hugged him.

'Carlon.. what happened..?' The village head asked sadly and hugged Carlon tightly.

'...Am I really wrong... or am I... childish...? cruelty on the battlefield is so.. inhumane..' Carlon answered in a small, trembling voice.

The village chief's face was filled with sorrow at Carlon's words and realizing that he had seen such a cruel thing on the battlefield, the village chief gently hugged him and soothed the sorrow he was feeling. Carlon, who had been holding back his sadness, began to let go and tears flowed down his face while hugging the village head. Carlon's cries were heard by the villagers, making them aware of Carlon's presence, whom they missed. He had just returned from a bad state, the villagers gathered together comforted the distraught Carlon and slowly healed him of his despair.

The memories slowly disappeared and Carlon's consciousness returned to the present to see Duke who was listening to his story and Naku next to him.

'I see... that's really cruel..' The duke's face turned slightly pale hearing Carlon's story.

'...Is uncle okay?' Naku asked Carlon with a worried face to him.

'Uh.. yes I'm fine.. it's because of the villagers and the village chief that I'm who I am now.' Carlon smiled gently at Naku and gently patted his head.

'...So my brother will protect Zealuterra until the end..' Duke's face looked sad but proud of his brother when he said that.

'...Thank you Carlon, then... I will give you any weapons you want in my gratitude... I will ask the black smith of my choice to forge a special weapon for you.' Duke looked at Carlon and Naku with a smile on his face.

'But... um... alright..' Carlon sighed and smiled at Duke.

'Yee.. new weapon.' Naku said while smiling happily hearing their conversation.

NOTE:

I'm taking a break till friday because of my university.