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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4: Protect the Village

Date: Æ1289 7, 3

The sun is about to set near nightfall. Team of patrollers is patrolling, they're walking with their swords in their right.

"Sergeant! We should gather our patrollers in the place inside the village where there's a lot of crowds," a man said who came from the capitol.

The sergeant signal to his patrollers. They normally walked going to the crowded places inside the village, some of the patrollers go to the roof to make sure everything is safe.

"General the command of the heads of the village said that deploy our finest swordsmans in the dark places of the village," the assistant of the general said.

They're in a special room of the village, the headquarters of the Generals, the heads gather the 4 generals inside the village to the headquarters to plan of attack and defend the village.

The headquarter is a big place, there's a board on the left side of the wall and in the middle is another round table with 4 chairs.

In the middle of the table is the whole map of the village, everything is all markdown with a stick and different colors,

Middle of the day, the 4 swordsmans finally arrive at the south pier, the 4 swordsmans sense an unknown presence. They turned around and saw Gakushin Gakure from the east.

"Sir!" The 4 swordsmans speaks to Gakushin Gakure highly and salute.

"Sir! We didn't know that you would come," a girl swordsman said.

"Shikari Gakure deploy me to here... And by the way... I'm just a bunshin," Gakushin Gakure said.

Everyone is surprised because a bunshin can't travel that far east to south.

"Sir! Tha-That's impossible" the girl swordsman said.

"My currently real self is probably in the north by now, and... I'm gonna be coming with you all people" Gakushin Gakure said in a modest voice.

Everyone looks at him, everyone is impressed, the 4 swordsmans can't believe it because all of them are still out of the match.

"Now everyone gets in the boat we've got a long journey to go," the old man said.

The 4 swordsmans and the remaining people got in the boat and sail away, Gakushin Gakure go to the corner of the boat and meditate.

The 4 swordsmen scattered outside the boat to keep an eye on the boat. The captain of the boat is controlling the boat, 2 captains gonna be changing every 12 hours to keep the boat in the right direction and to not sink.

"So this is the stones of the Dark Swordsmans... I wonder who is this thing who has a white eye with black eye particles, impressive" an old man voice hidden in the caves. The stones rise because the old man manages to rise the Dark Swordsmans.

The old man walked straight to a suspicious wall in front of him, he touches it. He accidentally touches a button wall. The Cave suddenly has an earthquake. A door is opening in front of him, it's a stair down to an unknown place. The old man leaves the cave and redoes the summoning of the 4 Dark Swordsmans he leaves and covers everything so it doesn't look that some have come.

Shin is at the gate guarding the gate of the east with the samurai. The samurai detect a presence in the forest. It's not just a normal presence.

"Looks like we've got a little bit of company here Shin..." The samurai said as he stand up.

The other samurai are seeing Shikari Gakure and the Fifth army.

"Shikari Gakure!" The samurai Shouts at him.

Shikari Gakure sees the samurai and the army stop without signaling.

"Your... Miki" Shikari Gakure said in a surprising tone. The samurai remove his hat.

"I'm going to the south, I know that you deploy Gakushin Gakure going for the new continent," the samurai said as he sit down in the tree branch.

"You should go, the boat is probably leaving by now," Shikari Gakure said.

Miki stands up and leaves, Shikari Gakure, and the fifth army move. Miki is supposed to be the first one to reach the south but a Dark mob appeared on his way at least a hundred of them. Miki manages to defeat them all.

In the fifth army, as they travel they see a dead black body and animals at least 20 of them, Shikari Gakure got a little bit curious about where they come from.

"Chief Makurin let's get moving they're might be a spawner around here somewhere... And the Dark dead mobs that we saw probably Miki killed them all" Shikari Gakure said.

Chief Makurin alerts the sergeants on his army to stay guard and look around.

They finally reach the forest to the east gate but fog is covering the whole path.

The samurai that are left in the gate and shin can detect their presence, but something is very wrong.

"I can detect their presence there finally here I can see them. While the horse was running, Shin smelled something. The horses suddenly stopped voluntarily as if they were suddenly angry, Shikari Gakure immediately tamed the horse, Shikari Gakure also immediately smelled what the smell was and the army stopped. They continued and suddenly the smell disappeared they hurried, they got out of the forest and reached the east gate in front of them but Shikari Gakure let everyone in before they rested.

"Everyone get in immediately!!!" Shikari Gakure said aloud.

Everyone got in the gate, Shikari Gakure also go in and shin and the samurai. Shikari Gakure closed the gate and go to the whole barrier that Gakushin Gakure said that the Dark mob left.

"Everyone rest for tonight... Tomorrow is not gonna be a good day," Shikari Gakure warned the army.

The samurai stayed inside the gate. Shikari Gakure starts the barrier technique and closes the whole village.

The finest swordsmans in the village that Shikari Gakure is closing in the village, the people inside the village look up and see that the barrier is closing in.

The heads of the village deploy a messenger to Shikari Gakure to warn him about the upcoming war that gonna be happening anytime.

"You must be Shikari Gakure... It's an honor to meet you," the samurai said. Shikari Gakure finished rebuilding the barrier. He turned around.

"The honor is mine," Shikari Gakure said. He looks up to the samurai. The samurai teleported outside the gate.

"Shikari Gakure... You should've done it, the world's greatest achievement back in the day." The samurai said as he walks. Shikari Gakure stared at the samurai and still didn't sense his presence.

"I can't sense any presence, hmmm... It's probably because of the illusion oh well I'll just heal myself for tonight and go back home," as Shikari Gakure is thinking he sees the samurai going into the forest. The samurai is gonna place some traps in the east main gate in the forest. Shikari Gakure walks and he's gonna be getting a nice sleep when he gets home.

The third army is still on the way to the east, Fudo Toma wakes up and feels weird as she moves her left arm. She uses her left arm when getting the Dark flower, now she sees the side effects.

"Ms. Fudo Toka we're heading to the left gate of the east, the fifth army is with Shikari Gakure possibly they're in the village by now," Soldier SE said as they travel in the horse with the army. Fudo Toka looks at the way we're the village is. She sees a big barrier covering the whole village. She immediately signals to the third army.

"Speed up your horses were in a danger Zone!" Fudo Toka ready her right hand to open the barrier so everybody gets in. Shikari Gakure senses the energy of Fudo Toka and the third army, he quickly runs to the left gate of the east. The fifth army turned around and see that Shikari Gakure is going to the left gate of the east.

The fifth army goes with him. All of them are in his back.

"Don't! Don't come here!! I'm opening the barrier from the left so Fudo Toka and the third army get in faster. The fifth army stopped and the people look at Shikari Gakure as how he was going to open the barrier at a fast speed.

Shikari Gakure reaches the left gate and finished healing himself, he senses a lot of invisible Dark mobs lurking around but the Dark mobs still haven't noticed the third army and Fudo Toka.

He opened the barrier he did a hand opening barrier the third army is almost there. Hundreds of Dark mobs show up from behind of them.

"Dark Flower!" A Dark flower rises from the ground and blocks the Dark mobs. Fudo Toka uses her power from the Dark monster. She's extremely exhausted because of using she's new power once, she again falls asleep. The third army manages to get in with no casualties. Shikari Gakure closed the barrier.

A lot of Dark mobs manages to destroy the Dark flower that rises. But they're just making wholes to the Dark flower and making the Dark mobs decay themselves and die. Shikari Gakure looked at the Dark mobs, and it seems that the Dark mobs are decaying because of Fudo Toka's power.

Hundreds of Dark mobs show up, it's trying to destroy the barrier but they just got blown away and die. Shikari Gakure turns around and walked towards Fudo Toka and Soldier SE who was riding a horse.

Soldier SE got off his horse and supported Fudo Toka to lie down on the horse, Shikari Gakure flew Soldier SE at least 3 meters away from Fudo Toka using his left hand. Soldier SE was surprised and stopped at his position. Shikari Gakure looked at Fudo Toka's condition, he couldn't see what was in his left hand so he moved to the right. Seeing that he had obtained the power of a Dark mob Monster, he grabbed Fudo Toka's left hand and healed her. Fudo Toka's left hand had purple particles and cracks. His left hand healed immediately.

"Soldier SE how long are you with her? Answer the question," Shikari Gakure said.

"Uhmm... Sir wh-what's wrong I didn't do anything," Soldier SE said in a scared tone. Shikari Gakure walks towards Soldier SE and looks into his eyes.

"Looks like you didn't get infected after all..." Shikari Gakure said in a modest voice.

"Third army go back to your places and get a nice rest you're all going somewhere tomorrow that you'd never seen before. Soldier SE move your ass, you know the rules that you should not touch a girl like her when something Dark is inside oh her," Shikari Gakure said.

"Sir! We didn't realize that she had that kind of thing," Soldier SE said.

Shikari Gakure goes back with Fudo Toka. He grabbed the horse rope and move her towards she's family going home. Shikari Gakure signaled to Soldier SE and the third army to go back and take a break for tonight. All of them walk out and leave their horses.

Middle of the night the 5 great swordsmans are walking inside the castle. They see a lot of houses broken down and a decapitated sword of a king. They all walked straight and didn't look back and just stayed guard and active in their presence.

The messenger finally reaches Shikari Gakure.

"Sir! The heads of the village got you this scroll" the messenger said. The messenger salute and leaves. Shikari Gakure look at the scroll, he opened it and read inside it's said that "We've got an accompany in the south, north, and west... We also deploy Gakushin Gakure in the far north to stop the upcoming war. By: Heads of the village.

Shikari Gakure closed the scroll and walked towards his house. He can't believe that they send Gakushin Gakure to the Far north. Shikari Gakure continues to walk.

"Did the message reach Shikari Gakure? And also call Soldier Æ he's not responding to any of our finest swordsmans inside this village," one of the heads of the village said in a loud voice. They're still in the underground facility they can't go outside or anything, they renovate the village from the shadows. The heads of the village are making moves to defeat the upcoming war about Dark mobs.

"Yes indeed, the message rich him and he doesn't say anything he might already know what will happen," All of the heads inside turn around and see that it is Soldier Æ that speak the Dark voice.

"I didn't expect that you would come let's settle this for the sake of the village," one of the heads of the village said.

All of them leave the meeting. The generals are planning some kind of attack using the barriers but they're gonna need Shikari Gakure in case Gakushin Gakure didn't manage to kill all the Dark mobs.

Shikari Gakure and the Armies are retreating they're going home and getting a nice sleep with their family.

"I'm home," Shikari Gakure said. Even though he's all alone he's still saying I'm home or I'm leaving. He goes upstairs and goes to his room and his bed and sleeps.

Gakushin Gakure in the north manages to find an underground spawner but it's all empty, he was surprised too much that he realized what was happening. He quickly gets off the cave and straight runs.

He manages to run outside but he's still in the north, he might need to get in a big tree to get a rest. He walks towards an entire forest in the north finds a big tree branch and sleeps.

"Morning"

The fifth army is in the middle of the east gate the third army is on the right side and the second army is on the left. The armies are all ready whatever happens. The generals are on their back and the civilians straight up evacuate to the safest place in the village with the finest swordsmans.

They lock the entire village and close the presence so the enemies won't be able to detect them, Shikari Gakure is in the fifth army leading the fifth army.

Fudo Toka is at the medical place of the village. She's still not waking up. The heads of the village decided that they will not gather the entire finest swordsmans in one place and instead they position them into different locations inside the village.

Shikari Gakure looked up, the sun is barely shining up, he looked at the barriers in the sky that he rebuilds he needs to remake a new one at a speed if something not favorably in them happens.

They wait, the armies are still in their positions ready anytime.

"Soldier Æ! Deploy an owl to the other village we might be not the one they gonna attack," the general said. Soldier Æ

Soldier Æ summoned an owl into the air using his special technique, it landed on his left hand. The general gave three scrolls to Soldier Æ. Soldier Æ flew the owl and left, a small hole at the top of the barrier. Shikari Gakure made a hole in the top and he immediately closed it as well for the owl to get out.

An explosion occurred outside the village. The armies look at the explosions outside the village. At least 2 or 4 big trees are getting blown up but not enough to destroy it. Shikari Gakure senses the presence of the samurai that he left outside the village last night.

He senses that a lot of Dark mobs are already dead outside the village and the samurai is fighting. He Indian sit and do the bunshin technique a same of him appeared on his right. The bunshin quickly stands up and runs through the middle gate.

Since it's a bunshin it quickly runs through the barrier and goes to the forest. A lot of Dark mobs show up in front of him but all of them got sliced without even moving Shikari Gakure's sword.

The armies can't do anything but watch, they imagine that no a 2 man is standing against an entire army or probably more than an entire army.

As they see Shikari Gakure in the far distance outside the village more explosions occurred they don't what's happening but they are well trained against war and fighting.

A massive strength can be sensed. The soldiers and Chief can sense it. Shikari Gakure is walking towards the massive strength from where it's coming from it's on the left side of the village.

The sky suddenly turns black Shikari Gakure stops where he walks. He looks at the sky that there are a lot of massive big trees falling. It hit the barrier. Shikari Gakure continue walking, the armies are terrified some of them started to lose their fighting spirit.

A lot of massive big trees are falling to the sides of the village but there's a lot more coming.

All they need to do now is to wait.

"General!! It's coming from the left side of the Gate!" A soldier said.

The general just looked up like nothing is happening. The armies look up and the barrier is not even getting a scratch from the massive big trees that fall.

The armies are impressed as they see that the barrier isn't even getting destroyed and it's 5 thick layers. The samurai and Shikari Gakure stop, they kill a lot of Dark mobs. At least a hundred of them. They looked at the sides of the village that it was not safe to go back. They stay in the woods until the village stops getting rained by massive big trees.

"Shin calls Gakushin Gakure, tell him that he needs to destroy the big monster spawner in the north so we could easily be done," Shikari Gakure said in a modest voice.

Shin teleports a message instead of teleporting a call to Gakushin Gakure.

They see a big monster on the left side, the second army is still standing inside the left barrier of the village. The Dark monster is getting blown up by the bombs. After a few minutes, the Dark monsters go down a good thing it doesn't reach the barrier.

An entire army of Dark mobs shows up. Carrying swords and magic books. The Dark mobs are with the Dark shira, if they mistakenly open the barrier they will get destroyed.