(I was standing on the the side as my sting wolves fought the humans . during our trip to the cliff jack managed to use his superior senses to figure out our enemies position and their numbers . )
( our enemies were fifty six humans , among whom fifty were archers and the remaining were assassins . )
(they were essentially following us in two , one right group and one left group . actually they were circling us and there direction was constantly changing. I called them left and right just to distinguish them .)
( presently my attack was going into a stalemate . , the archers could not aim at the sting wolves which were the size of a small cat , though getting hit also did not mean anything . all they would lose was a bit of flesh , as long as the bones were fine an undead faced no problem , but they had leather defenses which were too thick for our sting wolves .)
( the left side was also handled pretty. jack was holding them of really nicely . almost too nicely, to be honest .)
( maybe I was a bit too unnecessarily scared on what my enemy was capable of . now I had to execute my grand plan , which I had made seconds before . )
me - jack , execute plan alpha as soon as possible.
( saying this i and jack and I slowly made our undead become less proactive as they retreated from the attack )
me - jack , take this scroll . it is the Masters order for you . he is pretty ticked of with you .
jack - wait a seco....
me - just read the scroll .
jack - okay .
(while jack was reading the scroll i gave the last command to every undead . there job was to keep the enemy busy and make sure that they never entered a certain radius of the pit .as for us we had work inside the pit . by now jack had mostly finished his reading and now all i could do was hope that he did exactly as written . what I was doing was a very complex plan and I hated such plans .they often tended to backfire. anyways let's return to the story shall we. )
(we entered the pit , instead of dropping down like we last did , i used the corpse levitation to hold us roughly ten meters below the surface . meanwhile jacks throat began to glow black )
jack( in a loud booming voice ) - you dare to come running here with your tail tucked between your legs . i gave you both one simple job , to make my army as strong as possible . the only thing you did was bring me trouble . something, i will take care of your problem for now. but don't expect me to do so again .
(now came my part , as black flow lit on my arms and began to coagulate into two different orbs . i could feel my enhanced mana storage be emptied very quickly . as my mana storage became emptier my thoughts became blurrier , but I forced my self to concentrate on the two orbs. the two orbs were two death bolts . by now the pain had started , like a hammer striking my head . i don't exactly remember what happen after that as I had over drafted on my mana . i remembered releasing the two orbs . and they did strike their intended target . my floatation spell also had been negated so I would have fallen to death if I did not command one of the snakes to separate my head and jacks head from our bodies by corroding our necks . on hindsight maybe I should have used another method to keep ourselves floating . now that I think of it , it was kind of stupid .)
(after all this i directly got up after everything was over . by then jack was commanding the sting wolves to gather all the bodies that were lying upwards .)
(noticing that I had gotten up jack came towards me . )
jack - can you tell me what in hells name were you thinking young man , doing something so crazy and illogical .
me - don't worry , what I did will possibly help us a lot .
jack - tell me how , young man
me - okay , so let me ask you a question . did the assassins escape .
jack - yep , while you managed to kill the Archers , the assassins were already pretty far away from us. and they escaped soon after the death bolts hit.
me - good good . it is exactly as I hoped would happen from the beginning.
jack - why .
me - just tell me , cloaking magic tends to be pretty mana consuming isn't it .
jack - yep , we don't use cloaking magic unless we are actually following our target and that to only if he has acute senses.
jack - don't you find it weird that they were already in cloak when we met them . for what purpose do you think that was for .
jack - now that I consider it was very weird . it was like they were following the archers troop ,maybe an.enemy troop
me - thats what i thought at the begining , but then I thought as the assassins .if their job was to take care of the archers they had many opportunity to do so , so their job must have been espionage , on us or the archers.
jack - so that's why you did all that acting , huh . to fool the assassins into believe that we have a strong expert on our side . so that's why you took so much risk by doing the dual cast . it's something that only first layer experts can do . no matter how close to the first layer you are , it's just way too taxing for your weak body to handle it .
me - not only that but we also managed to create a smokescreen for ourselves right now . right now they are thinking our base is this pit . so even if they find the graveyard and the altar they will concentrate more here or at least that's what will happen .
jack - so what is the plans . this place needs a lot of preparation . right now this place is like a paper wall , it will take poke to destroy it . will we relocate our entire undead army or we just use part of our forces .
me - to be honest I have no idea what to do , i will be giving that work to you . i will be pretty busy . i am on the brink of leveling up . so I will have to isolate my self to breakthrough . that dual cast , though risky did help me a lot .
( for now I had to trust jack , which for reason I was doing way too easily .there could charm magic involved but I was not so sure . i would have to look into it later . anyways I had to enter isolation for now as this first step was way too important and I could not risk there being any form of distraction being present . )
(MEANWHILE SOMEWHERE FARAWAY FROM THE FOREST WITH THE PIT )
( the surroundings were full of tents , each housing a large number of soldiers .these tents were empty right now as all its inhabitants had gone to the center of this mass of tents from where loud screams could be heard . )
(they had gone to see the flogging of six men each held on a wooden pole. right next to the flogging there was a in a bright white armour . the armour gaudy and seemed too out of place , he was reading from a sheet of paper
man in white armour - under the command of i , demon slayer black sword , have sentenced these men to undergo the death sentence for official abandonment of duties and the crime of fleeing the battle field . they shall undergo said punishment through the whip of thorns.
(after roughly half an hour the screams stopped as the bodies lay limp on the wooden pole . the wooden poles were stained with bright red blood . black sword returned to his tent followed by an old man . the tent was pretty simple . a simple cot , trunks to the side and simple table in the center with four chairs . )
old man ( practically screaming )what in hell were you thinking , you actually tried to do something so extreme . why did you kill those assassins . wasn't it you that ordered them to retreat once they found the enemy base . and that you would show them true hell if they were to not follow this particular order .
black sword - simple , if we had allowed to let them be free , they would have gone blabbing and everybody prefers to blame the leader for whatever happens , they don't see that I have already located the enemies base which would have taken us weeks with any other method.
old man - but it is your fault , we could have gone slower . there was no need to send those troops so deep so quickly , we could have slowly narrowed it down . what happen to you , you were ruthless before ,yes but this is too much . its as if those lives don't matter to you anymore . what kind of devil possessed you .
black sword - no devil has possessed me , i have just been reminded of my goals . you do remember why I had picked my name , black sword don't you , because my sword shall become black from the black blood of all the evil beings i slay .
old man - are you willing to sacrifice the life everyone you love to do so, black sword .
( saying this the old man left pulling the flap down so hard that a part of it tore .)
black sword ( collapsing into a chair nearby )-why don't they understand , i don't like what I am doing , but I must do it or it will get out . the undead have already located it . i don't know how long the seal will exist . we need to hurry up or this world shall be destroyed .
( suddenly in a chair nearby a mist emerged and seemed to completely cover the chair , until it recombined to form a figure .)
mist figure - naturally they won't understand . they know nothing , so your action seem to be that of a madman. your cause is one of the greatest there is . it is often the pain that all great people have to face .
black sword - but what do I need to do now . the elder has great influence , if our arguments continues , we will be fighting each other more than our enemies .
mist figure - you know what you must do . no matter what happens we can't allow the undead to break the seal open. I don't care what you must do , just make sure that he does not interrupt our plan . I will help you as much as I can.
black sword - is it really necessary do so , I mean he is just telling what he feels is right .
mist figure - that is what it is at the beginning , a voice . but that voice plants a thought in your head , which will soon become a idea and before you know it , it will become the very doubt that will stop you from doing what is necessary to keep the world safe .
black sword - give me a few minutes . i will be ready .
(after a while he came to the mist figure , which was almost stationary during the entire period . )
black sword - I ready to do it , supply me with a few wolves . I will take care of him .
( if one looked onto his eyes now , they could feel a sense of coldness . some would find it attractive and some would find it scary . )
( the mist figure disappeared and jack left the tent . )
(a few minutes after , near the forest )
old man - what do you think you are doing . don't scare me like that , I am an old man after all . do you think my heart can handle all this , though I am sure you don't care nowadays
black sword - what must I say , master , I am sorry . I have done many things I will regret and I will do many things that I will regret . but what needs to be done must be done. why did you have to resist me master (tears began to flow out of black sword eyes ). I didn't want to this to someone like you , but you forced me to .
(jack suddenly caught his masters hand and plunged a dagger into it . the dagger began to glow in a black colour which began to spread into the old man's body . )
old man - what have you don....
( the old man shut up as black sword pushed him into the forest . )
( the old man began to feel the killing intent around him , he saw figures shifting in his surrounding . he tried to control the Mana in his body , but the black mana seemed to have restricted his Mana from flowing somehow . )
(suddenly he felt something approach his throat . he jumped backwards managing to barely dodge the attack . he finally saw his attackers which seemed to glow in the moonlight . )
old man - you dare to control the starlight wolves , they are sacred creatures .
black sword - I apologise master , I never wanted something like this to happen . I am leaving master , I can't see what is going to happen here.
( saying this he left , as behind him he could hear the sounds of punches and biting . but he could not hear it for long as loud clamour arose out in the tents with soldiers screaming " wolf attack , ready your defenses. .")