--… [So easy?!]
How can I explain my surprise so that it can be understood, the disguise worked well, the imperial army captured me and took the malnourished donkey and me as food and prisoner respectively, after hitting me a little and giving me a cut here and there they threw me into a cell in the castle dungeon, thanks to my new body constitution my wounds heal in a few seconds or minutes depending on the severity of the damage, after that gentle beating I recovered before even entering the cell. In short, it was so easy that even I doubt my luck.
--Is something bad going to happen?... [Well I can always escape by legs and flee to the north]...for now we are going to sleep.
I lay down on the cold floor, while the reddish light of the sunset filtered through the small bars of the vent.
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The noise and bustle of the enemy soldiers stopped a couple of hours ago, darkness and gloom rule the cold structure, my eyes have already adapted to the darkness, the dim light of the stars is more than enough to guide me in the shadows, there are no guards in the dungeon, I quietly left my cell gently and slowly removing the rusty bars of the gate. Armed with the rusty metal bar I climbed the stairs covered in a blanket of gloom.
-- [THIS IS THE SHOW TIMEEEE!!!]
Visualizing my first victim, a simple soldier making a guard round or a poor idiot who went to the latrine at night, screaming in my mind I pierced the rusty metal bar in the lower part of his skull impaling the pipe through the back. Metal shot out of his forehead killing him instantly.
--[Well one less, another thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine to go]
Dragging the deceased towards the stairs, I switched clothes with him and grabbed his weapons, a mass-produced sword, leather armor with metal plating and bronze blades as well as a pair of daggers.
--[Thank you~... you look lonely, but don't worry, you'll be reunited with your comrades soon]
Walking silently, hiding in the shadows and corners, I entered the barracks, quickly and silently beheading many soldiers, repeating this action an infinity of times...
--[Knife goes in~ guts come out~ Knife goes in~ guts come out~]
Repeating and humming that song, I took out two barracks with about sixty soldiers each.
--[They said there were about two thousand, I only count about seven hundred?... I've only been a few hours and I've already killed a good number of enemies, it will be dawn soon... the main event should start]
Sneaking into the enemy armory, I took out the biggest and heaviest weapons, big claymores, war hammers and battle axes, took several of them and moved them to the central courtyard, all the lookouts have been killed, the keepers of the lookout were put to sleep permanently, soon someone will discover my intrusion and raise the alarm, but that's what I hope.
Pinning several oversized weapon sets into the ground in front of the only escape route, I positioned myself with a Hell Guardian at the gates of Heaven.
--ATTACK; ENEMY ATTACK!!!
A bell or piece of metal was struck rhythmically and a great deal of screaming was heard throughout the castle, don't kill everyone in the barracks as it was physically impossible for me to kill them all one by one just kill one part, wake up and seeing your partner drowned in his own blood is something that would leave you quite terrified and out of fighting condition, a fatal blow to enemy morale, for the ethics of this world my actions are immoral and evil, for me it is just standard procedure .
--Where is the commander?!
--ITS DEAD YOU IDIOTS!!!
I yelled to get the attention of all the furious and terrified soldiers, pointing to the body hanging on a beam, the commander saw me while I eliminated one of the archers, and ended up hoisting him like a flag, his body hanging from his neck his sprouted eyes showed orca suffering.
--Kill him!...
Hundreds of soldiers charged in with their weapons, some had their armor half put on others were in underwear or pants, some were totally naked, a bunch of bloodthirsty fools.
--Ha... [Welcome to the slaughterhouse]
Taking a claymore in each hand, I lunged forward and swept without holding back, a circular perimeter was established in that single attack, several bodies were drawn in that bloody circle, screams rose along with the fountains of blood, continuing my charge and using the own weight of the two weapons of weight and edge, I turned cleanly on my heel, making a bloody waltz with the two great swords. After several twists and turns I threw the two swords like a javelin impaling one or several enemies, returning to my starting position I took a battle hammer, a weapon to knock down doors and crush skulls, with a gross weight of around eighty to one hundred kilos .
--To bat...
Carelessly swinging the hammer and letting inertia do the work, I assault and pummel the bodies of the Imperial soldiers, a myriad of small cuts covering my body but only minor damage, the delightful ballad of screams of pain and hate, the the thunder of bones breaking, the acrid smell of blood in the air, all of this filled me with a strange joy, the joy in my heart greater than all else.
[This is what I was looking for!!! I am a violent person, I was always strong and conscientiously critical of laws and politics, I had a good education but I always felt tied down, locked up like I was caged like a beast… yes like a beast, I just wanted to live a little freer, I left my house, I dropped out of university, I started working, I moved into that rundown apartment surrounded by drug addicts, dealers and prostitutes, living among that garbage and away from the laws I felt a little less suffocated but I still felt the chains firmly attached to me skin… laws, useless laws that do not fulfill their function, corrupt and confessed politicians who boast of their unpunished crimes and promote criminality only for their affiliates… oppressing everyone else and living in total anarchy and freedom… I wanted this , I wanted corrupt and unbridled power, political power, military power, economic power… the three pillars of any society I longed to possess some of them… now I am free, have I have a political position, I have this body brimming with strength and vitality, the money? That can be taken by force so it's no problem... most importantly here I can kill! bathing in the blood of enemies, beating and torturing criminals, scaffolding all the sons of bitches I can catch...]
--OOOOAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
I roared, roared with all my might, indiscriminately smashing and smashing everyone in my path, bathed from head to foot in the blood of terrified and fleeing Imperial soldiers.
--HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I laughed, I laughed out loud as my mind and body felt free of their ancient chains, I laughed as I slaughtered the running enemies begging for mercy, threw the hammer at an escaping group stopping them, switched weapons and grabbed the unnecessarily large ax of battle repeating the circular movement resume my macabre dance, cutting, crushing, hitting, kicking, throwing, smoothly finishing all the brave enemies that still pounce on the demonic intruder that is me.
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The sun rose on the horizon and began its path towards the dent, I moved my gooey body and opened the great door of the red castle that is now even redder, hundreds of ravens and vultures were already approaching the structure. I greeted the men of the dukedom, one of the generals stepped forward to the contingent and greeted me with a huge smile.
--OH! Lord Zenit, you are truly our saving hero, only a few dozen imperials escaped during the dawn, but they were quickly cleaned up as ordered all the birds were shot down for the duration of the fight, as promised we will start cleaning up the bodies, they have been called several freight cars to mobilize your payment.
--Thank you, general... I want to take a bath quickly, but first tell me the stakes are ready, how many do we have, what size?
--The boys worked fast, there are about a hundred, a hundred and twenty, about three meters long... what is it that you will use them for...
--Elemental, take the stakes and bodies, make towers of corpses and adorn them with a few impaled ones, make them on the path that the enemy forces are supposed to use, make sure the wind blows towards the empire, I don't want to smell that stink , if you have fuels or explosives place them in the towers too, when the enemy gets close throw a burning arrow and they will explode, it will be a good show.
The weathered military man paled as his hands trembled at my cold plan, a simple adaptation of the defensive acts performed by a certain impaler prince.
--Yes-yes sir...
--We still have all day to prepare, let the men move with the towers of corpses as a priority. I'm going to take a bath.
I left the commander and went to the nearby river.