*Crack* *Crack*

If a person were to look at from afar this scene, one would simply suggest it as a village in a celebration of a festival, as the bonfire puppetered the shadows looming frantically depicting a dance of the sorts.

Yet if one were to gaze upon closely at the source of the shadows, a horrendous sight could be seen, as dozens of effigies made of twitching fresh mangled corpses sewn together as if forming a mocking joke to life.

Bones protruded from the flesh as variety of unseen life gnawed at its bleeding carcasses, slowly and unhinged.

*Sob**Sob

Not from afar this scene a, fountain presumably the center of the village where all manner of bustling activity was now replaced by a single horizontal pillar and on it is a naked boy tied.

Just below his feet or to be exact his orifice was a long wooden stake that is most likely used to erect the effigies, and the boy is surely would be subjected to one as well.

'Mmhp!'

The bawling eyes of the boy reflected a man with a three horns on its head as it came to clear view and closely looked on his struggling self as if to revel at the fact that the boy's life is at its hand.

*Clop**Clop*

Standing domineeringly atop of the destroyed fountain with its legs resembling that of a horse's, the monster wielded a hammer and slowly approached the blunt edge of the stake, but not before his red eyes gleamed at his audience.

"Hieeek!!!"

"Kakakakak!"

"I'll bet two swings"

"One for me, this is Kryos we're talking about here!"

The gesture seemed to have received a round of applause as different kinds of unnerving sound reverberated throughout the village. Some the sound of animals, while some others was unspeakably poor imitations of horrendous voice of humans that spewed joy, but amongst the crowd a robed one stood with a disapproving look on its face.

The monster with the leg of a horse then swung the hammer back, this action caused the basin of the fountain to start trembling and cracking, enough testament to know that this monstrosity had a supernatural strength.

*Swoosh*

With a sudden movement, it swung the hammer forth with a sound that seemed to have broken the wind and soon that sound was replaced of a flesh being torn apart.

"K-Kieek!?"

"Who is i-?!"

*Phweeee*

The head of the executioner was nowhere to be seen, and soon sounds of confusion rang throughout the vicinity as whistling sounds of arrows demoralised and annihilated the cohort of monsters.

"Keiek!!"

"Th-they're h-!?"

"Go and get help from the co-!?

The two monsters with features similar to that of a human soon had their head lopped of before their sentence soon came to finish.

"T-traitor!?"

The boy looked on this carnage with blurry eyes and saw a robed man swiftly taking out three of the creatures, with a sword that gleamed the light of silver accompanied by a cascading of the blood that danced through its fallen foes.

The man removed his cloak that was soon carried by the breeze of the night, and what the boy only saw was a glowing crest resembling an animal before unconciousness took him.