Chapter 2.1: New...Life?

I feel….

tired.

Mountains of emotions have been toppling up on Hatz, and all he could do was stand blankly in the middle of the snow. But the blizzard soon got chilly, and Hatz thought he should bury his dad and other people in a warm place. He starts to walk, with those lifeless eyes and strengthless hands still gripping onto George.

On the other side,

As the shadow arrived at their basement, it was spacious and eerie, all Henry could do was resist the bind with his remaining strength. The bind actually turned into a shadowy look rope that was wrapped up on Henry's whole body.

"Tch! Cheeky brat," Hatz got the shadow's arm out. She also could not regenerate it because it was a light attribute. "We're here~" The shadow spoke, still in a happy manner, tolerating the pain. After that, she deliberately threw Henry to the ground hard. "Ugh!" Henry was facing sideways, lying on the floor. Somehow, Henry wasn't scared at all if he had a considerable disadvantage at the moment. Not bad for a 14-year-old kid.

Soon, there was a shadow showing their appearance from the dark space which made Henry hesitant and scared. He felt the shivers, he felt the strong Dark attribute flowing down his spine from it.

"Woo~ greetings to the general~," The shadow who brought Henry said with a tone that has a bit of respect, which means this general was strong, they are likely to be on a different level than her.

"Mia." The shadow general called her with a young male voice around his mid-20s, "Is that the prince?". The fact that he ignored the missing arm of Mia was an act of hierarchy; the title "General" is not an easy piece of cake to acquire. Although the appearance was still a shadow, Henry felt that this guy was staring down at him. He did not say a word because he knew that his neck would be slashed in an instant if he were to speak a word.

"Hmm~ Nice guess general Aldo, it is actually his lil' brother"

"Oh?" Aldo takes a step then crouches to Henry to have a look,

Henry also looked at him, he tried his best not to be scared, I need to escape from this place, I have to find my brother.

"You...It must have been painful," in other words, Aldo knew what happened to their village. He then smiled at Henry then lifted his chin with his sharp shadow fingertips, "You can live the life you want, use us by any means. As long as you have our power, including me, we will fully support you, our little prince." He stood up then looks at Mia, his eyes directs at Henry then moves his eyes to the left, Mia already knew what that meant, then complied, "Understood"

Shadow Prince is a higher title,

It is powerful and has almost all authority over the Shadows' faction compared to Generals getting lower than Colonels. Moreover, it is very similar to a military force, but this is more of a "power-devours-the-weak" type of living. Besides, Mia is also one of the colonels. The higher title you get means how stronger you are, and this is the kind of system the shadows have implemented compared to aristocrats in the City. They rely on family backgrounds and mere history. Even so, this applies nothing to the current person indeed,

After all, in this modern society, power, abilities, and combat are more influential now that the Golden Age has ended.

Going back to the scene, Mia drags Henry to a very dark place, they enter another room but this room made Henry even more frightened.

He saw a chair, at the top of it, it looked like something that can be worn by the head, and beside the chair were many tools that Henry could not recognize.

Without his big brother, Hatz by his side, for the first time in his life,

Henry wanted to run away,

Brother!

He struggled with all his might from the bind, he kept on moving, hoping that at least, the rope would get loose a little, but it did not budge. He turned away from the direction that Mia was leading him, he tried to move on the ground but,

"Woops! No running lil' boy, are you not excited about your new treatment? Hm?" Mia dragged Henry back with force, pulling his neck towards the chair.

"NO!" Hah…Brother. His breathing was getting harder because the rope was tightening his neck with Mia's force.

At last, Mia was getting irritated by Henry's stubbornness and then decided to wack his neck to make him unconscious.

With a sound of smack, "Agh!" Henry's vision was getting blurry and at that last moment,

He felt and knew he missed his brother already.

Bro…ther....

Going back to Hatz's side, right up to now, he won't stop shoveling until there are enough holes for each body to bury. Unsure if it is day or night, the fatigue has been getting to Hatz, he was already tired from the beginning but he still continued to dig and as for George, Hatz put him beside a bonfire to keep him warm.

As time passed by slowly, the sound of the shovel shoveling and the squishing sounds made from dragging bodies on the snow continued. Until every one person has been buried peacefully, the snowfall quickly covered the bumps that were clear on the ground, the bonfire has been alive till now and Hatz wanted to walk up to it. He let go of his heavy iron shovel and did not spare a hand to put it properly as he walked wearily. His physical state was very dire, he kept on panting and his sweats kept on flowing. From the weather, Hatz could easily fall ill.

"Hatz! You should rest! You've been shoveling for 3 hours!" George said out loud for Hatz to hear.

Hatz diverted his lifeless eyes to George as he slowly walked to the bonfire.

"Wa….ter" His consciousness faded then fell just beside the bonfire, thinking that the bonfire could melt some snow beside it to produce water. It did not matter to him if it was dirty, as long as he could drink a few drips, then that was enough for him.

George casts a protection spell with a small light round circle that can heal him, even if he is in his weapon form, he can still help Hatz at least this much.

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