As I rode my horse towards the Castle within Xu Chang City. The sounds of laughter, conversations, metal clinging, and noisy crowds gathering began to disappear. Little by little the bustling sounds of the Xu Chang City market place began to disappear into the distance. The once cheerful and busy atmosphere , now is replaced by an acute sense of danger looming within the ever increasing quietness.
As if I've walked into land filled with fog and smoke. A scent that usually found within a battlefield fill the air around me. A sudden chill ran down my back. What is this feeling I wonder ? This quietness were have I felt it before , it feels familiar yet distant to me.
I threaded carefully a head, with my hand stand ready on the hilt of my sword. I kept my senses high, waiting for who ever leaped out from the cover of the dense mass of smoke. hovering above the ground around me.
Suddenly I my movement slowed down as if time itself had slowed down around me. I couldn't move at all while my senses kept moving at a frantic pace. Then there I saw , the skies covered with arrows , wave upon wave of arrows came at me at full speed. Afterwards dozens of men clad with heavy armor charged at me with a menacing roar.
Somehow all these events flashed before me , depicted an ambush hidden within the mists. The scenes shown to me felt real. It wasn't a dream , it felt more like a memory of events which had already unfolded before. The feeling I had within these premonitions felt way to real to be brushed aside as an imaginary state.
My senses focused on the scene at hand quickly took the opportunity to observe more from the visions. As if my senses are telling me that the scenes laid out before me will play an important role in the situation a head.
Events unfold as follows :
- A hail of arrows covered the skies above
- Wave upon wave of arrows loosed upon a singular target
- 15 heavily armed assailants charged forward with a deafening roar
- On the Right 12 assailant stood tall
- On the Left 5 hooded figures crouched on top of a high structure waiting
- From Behind 5 hooded figures riding horses emerged from the smoke
- Within the Building behind the two courtyards up front 30 people guarded the streets
- Finally within the Building 4 figures stood besides a person sitting on the chair on the middle
Assuming all the figures shown are hostiles , I'll have to deal with 100 enemies including the archers who fired the volley of arrows from the first event. spread across different places standing ready to attack me regardless of which direction I turn to. Currently I'm trapped at the epicenter of their formations.
Vision impaired by smoke , hearing impaired by roars of battle. Out numbered and weaken the assailants fell upon me . Steel clashed, arrows whistle, shields banged, horses rage, blood spilled , heads flown apart of their bodies , and death comes to the defeated.
After the foreseeing events ensued, I saw myself standing amongst the bloodied corpses of my assailants, I saw them drowning in pools of their own blood. I saw myself massacring them one by one till all that's left of them were nothing more than corpses laying on the ground blood spattered on the walls of buildings leading towards the massive structure in the middle.
Within that same structure four men rises from the cover of darkness from within the room trying to put up what ever resistance they could muster in the face of an overwhelming adversary. But non the less it is but futile.
The Events ended with the death of the Large figure sitting in the middle of the room. With his back up against the wall , he tried to resist as much as he can despite his right arm being cut of clean from his torso. A dagger stuck between his calf and knee. Made his movement even slower little by little he bleeds into the floors around him.
His eyes filled with fear and anger. He lunged forward towards me , in an attempt to take me with him to the after life. I stepped to his side with my sword swinging forward decapitating him instantly , ending the premonition.
As my senses return to my body , I quickly prepared for what's to come. I whipped my horse into full gallop towards the front were the Heavily armored assailants will emerge. In an attempt to dispatch them as fast as possible before the arrows started flying towards me.
The 15 Armored assailants walked cautiously towards my supposedly position for the ambush completely unaware that I'm currently charging at them in full a gallop.
When they came within my sights , I can clearly see the weapons they're wielding still sheathed on their scabbard. I took the opportunity to kill them of as quickly as I can using the momentum of the raging horse. I jumped of to the side whilst the horse came crushing through their lines.
In the air I saw the gaps of their heavy armors. I rapidly threw my knives at them. 7 assailant fell into the ground as the knife struck their neck. Collapsing down aside their comrades. The horse charge hit two of the assailants in a head on collision . Ramming them into the cold hard ground, rupturing their ribs and knee disabling them.
Amidst the confusion I lunged forwards whilst swinging my sword. Effectively cutting them right at their exposed throats, blood gushed out like a fountain of blood when they realized the wound they're already dead.
One by one I've cut them down with a single slice to the neck. Until none of them remained standing. A scene of of absolute carnage emerged from within the smoke filled streets. After finishing them off , I took their valuables into my storage and sneaked silently into the narrow passages between the large courtyards towards The Left side of the formation.
From the alleys I made my way into the back side of the building unnoticed by the 5 archers waiting on the roof top. I jumped into the second floor, then using the window latch I climbed to the roof of the building.
Once I saw them, their fate is sealed. Arrows fired from the small crossbow hidden underneath my arms. Struck two of the assailants clean in the forehead killing them. Before the rest could even notice that their comrades were dead. I dispatched the other two with my hidden blade slicing through their neck. Before the final assailant could even turn his back I stabbed him right at the heart.
Within a second five of them fell unto the ground next to the building . Their bloods splatter into the ground creating a small pool of blood.
I jumped down and took their items before escaping the scene. I stayed low while running towards my original position. The other Assailants should be arriving on horse back as we speak. Quickly charging towards the scene were their comrades should've been waiting for them to complete the encirclement , but what they found there instead. Is their comrades laying in pools of their own blood.
They halted their horses before dismounting to check on their comrades laying down on the ground , unknowingly fallen into their demise.
I crept behind them and unleashed a barrage of needles lased with poison towards their bare backs. The needles struck their bodies. Within just five seconds they collapsed into the ground. I pulled out my knife and slit their throats making sure their actually dead before proceeding to strip them of their items and valuables.
Afterwards I took their horses and sent them galloping unto the the enemies on the right side of the formation. I ran on top of the walls dividing the streets and courtyards towards the right side just behind the horses.
The Enemies come into contact with the horses charging at them. However unlike the previous assailants they were ready. They ready themselves in a triple layered line and hold on to their spears. Creating a wall of spear blocking the road in front of them. The horses smashed into the wall of spear. The three horses knocked the shield wall back whilst the other two flipped into the air and landed just behind the shield wall.
They thought they had just averted a catastrophe. However they were wrong , after the horses crashed upon them I let loose , the fire arrow flown from my bow struck the horse's pack , igniting the black powder and oil I put inside. Setting the entire section of the road on fire. Burning all 30 of the assailant to their long and painful death.
After the fire settles , I took all of their useful items and left the scene before the civilians and officials arrived at the scene. Avoiding a troublesome scene on my way to the award ceremony.
Now all that's left standing between me and the Award Ceremony is just the enemies guarding the main perpetrator of this ambush.