Choice

"We found shit..."

Lucia broke me out of my reverie when we found the cave but was it too late?

There were several people with the same clothes and weapons visible.

Lucia pulled me close and started whispering

"They are the king's army, must be under mission"

I looked at her and raised my eyebrow

"And what's wrong?"

I saw sweat dripping from her forehead as she never took her eyes off her enemies.

"They are strong, if we go against all of them together it will be difficult"

I smiled as I thought about how we could separate those 10 men

"So the plan is there, 5 each?"

I raised my hand for a touch while she looked at me with a strange look and soon after she knocked

After a while we were on each side of the cave and the men

When I saw Lucia's figure walk towards them, covered in blood, limping, she took another step and fell.

'Fall fall fall please'

two men recognizing the clothes started running towards her

when blood flowed, with a fluid stroke of her knife she cut the necks of the two guards

the other guards raised their guards and I saw some throw powers at her, but it was too late,

Lucia ran into the forest, not fast enough to be lost, but to be followed safely.

a smile blossomed on my mouth

'She is good'

4 of the remaining guards ran after her and four others stayed behind.

As soon as they were out of sight I started walking towards them with a relaxed expression.

Sensing my presence, three of them moved and stood one at each angle,

while the last one just watched me

'Well what's the best way to break a formation?'

I started running towards the one closest to me while khan's cloudy sword materialized.

I faked a cut at the man who reacted by taking another step back

with peripheral vision I saw the other closest attacker attack me from the side

His swing was unnecessarily long to generate more force which gave me the opening I needed

His face fit perfectly in my hand as I grabbed his head and began to squeeze while lifting him high enough for everyone to see.

"Look, you can run away if you want, as soon as I finish what I have to do you can, so surrender"

I said with a relaxed face while everyone watched me with a contrast of emotions

When I looked at the last attacker I froze

I saw red eyes, memories sweeping through my head of those blowing themselves up in the village, who were being controlled by someone else making my blood boil

two of them dropped their weapons when I tightened my grip on the blade,

I imbued mana and jumped with all my brute strength, I murdered them both in cold blood

"Change of plans, I will obliterate you"

I said matter-of-factly as I tried to keep my anger under control,

I took the weapons of the dead and advanced

I attacked the last one in the formation and stuck his companions' swords in his limbs so he couldn't move

Clap clap clap

The woman who was far away started to clap her hands.

"So there were survivors. Congratulations to you"

She said with a satisfied smile on her face.

"But your luck ends here"

she advanced towards me with her bare hands

I deflected her blow with the side of my sword and counterattacked with my sword, she bent to the ground as if it were made of paper and threw two small star-shaped blades at me

hitting my arm, she smiled and then turned her pivot foot and started running through the forest

I started following her

with all my focus on her, when two men in simple clothes threw themselves at me,

I saw the smile on the woman's face

'Throwing doormats to delay, huh?'

I cut them both without missing a beat and continued to follow her,

As we left the forest more attackers with different weapons attacked me, I didn't pay much attention as I continued running after the woman

my despair increased when I saw some buildings in the distance,

I used mana to go faster as I launched towards her like a bullet,

She pivoted and looked me in the eyes before I felt my sword pierce her flesh, my satisfaction becoming hollow as I saw that her eyes were no longer red.

I saw her look at me with confusion and then at the sword in my hand, despair in her eyes, the same as the boy's

made me feel like vomiting, when a scream made my whole body shake

"MOTHER!"

a child started running towards the body and crying, I started sweating

"CALL THE GUARD!"

I HEAR SEVERAL VOICES AROUND THE BUILDINGS

"YOU MONSTER!

I ran back into the forest to get away from all this, my heart sinking as I felt disgusted by everything I had done.

I saw the different bodies of men and a perception passed through my mind

'They were not armed'

Tears began to sweat from my eyes as I saw the bodies on the floor, of the men I...

killed,

'What's the difference between me and them?'

I started vomiting remembering the feeling of having killed the woman, still vivid in my head

'You monster, you only bring misfortune'

I started to shake as I walked back to the cave, but just as I was about to leave the forest, I heard a voice that I recognized well.

"Herran... what did you do?"

I felt my heart sink and my body stiffen at her voice

"I..."

I looked down in shame when I heard screams

"CATCH THEM!"

I started to run unconsciously and I felt Lucia running after me, when we went down through the cave, I slipped and there was no time for her to brake as we fell into an endless pit of darkness.

everything went dark.