( a couple of days after )
me - phentim , remember the bull horn dragon tribe are very vengeful creatures and are ridiculously smart , we need to act perfectly if we are to fool them .
phentim - but isn't it risky to cause a stampede in this part of the forest , it is after all populated by many other beast clans . such a battle might end up reaching the fort . the other beast tribes could be provoked into fighting.
me - the bull dragons are smart . they are in friendship with most of the powerful beast clans . most beast clan will allow them to pass . after all the bull dragons won't harm them in any way if they don't have a bone to pick with them and the bull dragons are capable traders .
phentim - oh , they can do that also . anyways are you sure that nothing will happen .
me - calm down kid . but you have to be ready , just like how we prepared in the Last few days . we have to move under the assumption that the bull dragons have the black fang under monitoring . the chance of that will be high . i sent the idiot assassin to study their every move over the last few days . let's hope he did not kill anybody important , alerting the entire army
me - I don't get one thing though , why is he so violent . I hope you don't give the excuse of novels and misguided concepts of heroes this time . I know bloodlust when I see it . that kid is full of it . also , don't bother to say that it is due to his ability . I can tell the difference between desiring to kill and wanting to kill
phentim - he had a troubled childhood , commander . I can't say more than that . it is not my place , after all , sir.
me - okay , I won't ask anymore , as long as it does not effect me . but warn your friend to keep it in control , I have dispatched enough of my soldiers for their bloodlust .
the bloodlust is a mental condition that is common among the soldiers. I like to call it the voice . this world is full of spirits , beings that are the last remnant souls of the dead . they like to speak , push people into madness . make them fight each other. lusting for their blood.
normally people don't hear this voice , the luckier have never heard it in their life . some people whose mental defences are weak can hear the voice . the voice is different in each case . some motivate people to commit suicide , some to kill everybody . but it is always something to do with taking a life .
we call that the bloodlust .
soldiers are often the one to suffer with it . after all we lead a morally questionable life and it really does wonders to our mental health. no person can be considered a soldier without doing something he has nightmares about .
me - anyways once phantom comes to this place we will pull of our plans , so get some shut eye .
my plan was simple . I am going to kill a bull dragon while disguised as a black fang tribe member.
while it might sound simple and easy to do , it was not because , simply put , everybody was always killing bull dragon tribe members while disguised as the enemy , atleast the humans .
the bull dragon tribe were not dumb . they held information on every force in their surrounding .
the only reason I was attempting this kind of move was because a lot of factors were suitable for such kind of deception to work , the reason for which I will slowly elaborate later on .i want to sleep now. after sleep doesn't really come easy nowadays to me atleast .
( the next day )
phantom - so before sleeping they remove the idol and pray , cutting their hands and bleeding over it . after bandaging it they sleep. they do this once in few days , though it seems to be different days for different people .
me - that is actually good information .
phentim - are you sure that we need all of this .
me - the bull dragons are a species that is very hard to enrage , they do not anger easily ,but once they do they are the kind that calm down the more angrier they are . the very first thing they will do is follow us. confirm that it was indeed the black fang members who did the killing . they have been fooled enough times In their pasts. even now I am not very sure that we can trick them . don't underestimate the bull dragon with their seemingly berserk nature , they are very smart beings.
phentim- you have said so a thousand times , commander . shall we focus on our present situation .
me - yes , phentim . have you got your weapons in order . then we can leave .
presently me and phentim were wearing the dress of the black fang soldiers . it had been acquired pretty rudely by my shadowy soldier . let's hope that this idiot has not whipped the black fangs army into a frenzy . the problem with being an assassin was the delicateness that it required . one wrong move by an assassin , atleast the royal assassin , and two powerhouses could end up in a war .
that why a bloodthirsty assassin was a loose cannon that nobody could afford .
anyways , we had located our target. it was a bull dragon that was leaving it's territory. the bull dragons held an unfair advantage in that manner . the bull dragons were a rare kind of crazy bunch when they were angry , especially for the death of the young ones .
it wasn't uncommon for the young ones of the bull dragon tribe to have experts of a beast territory guarding them , while they move in their territory .
simply put , no lord of a territory wanted to deal with the consequences of the death of a young one from the bull dragons. it was common for the bull dragons to simply annihilate the entire territory where the incident happen , regardless of whether you are innocent or not .
that's why I would have to make a move when the bull dragon tribe was in transit between two territories.
that would be pretty soon , I think in about a few hours . before that we would have to get to our position .
me - guys , pack up and move right now .
( after a couple of hours .)
the forest has grown silent . that was the beasts giving respect to their kings , atleast the minority smart enough to think . most of them just couldn't move in presence of the aura of the kings .
the exchange was happening pretty nicely . after all no beast , smart or dumb would not dare to attack the army .
well , it won't go so nicely for either of the involved party today.
me ( whispering ) - phantom , shadow cloak on me and phentim . after your power return , you can join in .
phantom knives power was manipulating shadows to hide himself. he could create shadow armour which could conceal whoever was under it .
phantom knife ( whispering ) - but the moment that phentim uses his power , the armour will be ripped to pieces . so it would be pretty pointless to waste that armour on him .
me - just do as I say , phantom . don't make me speak again .
phantoms hand began to glow in a dark colour . after a few moments , the glow faded . my surroundings were still the same , just a bit darker .
right now we were invisible , unless the enemy had some kind of a special vision . we had to hurry , the exchange was happening . the bull dragon was crossing the border into the next territory. the beasts actually build walls surrounding their territory , atleast in this locality . the small stretch of forest between the two places, which was a no beasts zone , would only have the bull dragon , alone , though still under the watchful eyes of the two sides . the bull dragon looked like a bull , with wings in the back .
its eyes were a blood red colour , which meant that it was a flame dragon bloodline. well it would be a bit troublesome . the flame dragons were battle maniacs .
me - let's charge , not you phantom .
I had to hope that he did not charge into battle as me and phantom , moved in our invisibility towards that young bull dragons . it was small for it kinds , though it still could tower our us. the bull dragons reaches the size of dragons
when they grew up .
that young bull had noticed us , but it was as I had expected .after all it was kind of hard to ignore when a person was a holding a massive fireball in his hand .
that assassins power came from shadows , naturally or would lose power when all shadows were eliminated .
that was the plan . the bull dragon unfurled it wings , though it could not fly away , because it's wing were not strong enough .
it's wing caught fire and the fire gathered to form a similarly large fire ball over its body .
as for me , I was still sneaking . well it can't be called sneaking if you are charging at the person , though invisibly .
as I had expected the bull dragon had not expected my presence , though with their natural beastly instincts I won't have long .
without any suspense I had reached the bull dragon . I was feeling the heat , because after all I was charging into a fireball .
I jumped on to the bull dragon. ,which seemed to have finally noticed me . I took the sword that I had acquired from the armoury . it was a poison sword . a normal sword blessed with poison spell . which made the sword poisonous ,because it could transfer on it poison blessing to whatever living thing it touched , though in case of this bull dragon , which had literal magma for it blood , this would work in a different manner .
while I am talking a lot in my head ,moments passed in the real world and my sword was still being removed from its scabbard .
the bull has not bothered to deal with me yet , more busy and focused on releasing it fireball that it had summoned . within the moments that we ended up in this place , the experts on the two sides that shared this place as their border , had already begun moving .
I plunge my sword into the bull and jump away .
seeing me , phentim throws his fireball . as the light began to glow , almost blinding , me and phentim make our escape . finally the fireball explodes , creating a wave of light that should temporarily blind our enemy .
phantom knife joined , with his shadow cloak becoming ineffective .
( after a while )
we finally managed to escape the entire legion of armies surrounding us . the bull dragon had died . my sword had melted in its body , along with the poison blessing . once the molten metal reached the heart , well such a young bull dragon had no possibility to survive . anyways , the sword was storing something important , which would ensure bull dragon would die .
that also meant that the two sides , the wing serpents and the dragon wolves , sent their armies to chase after us and kill us .
our corpses would appease the bull dragon tribe , who were pretty single minded in their revenge . as long as you gave them their target of revenge , they mostly focussed on the one who wronged them , though they had some crazy guys also .
right , my body was completely riddled with burns , I was sure my legs had some kind of a freezing curse . one of my arms had to be sacrificed .normally I don't get this injured , but I was both weak and overhelmed . the enemy was a entire group of fourth class , while I am barely considered a fourth class.
anyways , while I might seem very injured , this were only considered to be medium level wounds for me .
to be honest , I wish I could record the glorious battle we were in , but with spells firing from everywhere , colliding into each other , changing trajectories every second , not even I could maintain my focus enough to maintain a record .
this spell of ours had a modern equivalent . it was a magic ability that allowed us to record stuff unconsciously . the higher ups of the black wind empire were said to have access to it. this kind of spell could drastically improve my combat ability , after if you could see every moment of a time when you fought with your full focus , so much focus that at the end of the fight , your brain is too tired to even remember it, it would help you , a lot .
. someday I will get my hands on it , but it would be long time , because after I am definitely not in their good books .