Pete had just woken up after sleeping for a week and has no energy left in his body,
He looked at the people that came in the room. A little smile came up on his face as his eyes fell upon Luna,
Leona brought soup and slowly fed it to Pete,
He fell asleep after eating the soup and only woke up the next day in the morning,
He has regained some of his energy and walked out of the room and saw food on the table prepared by the butler,
He sat on the chair and started eating the food like there was no tommorow,
After eating, Leona told him everything that happened when he was asleep,
Pete was furious after hearing about his fake kidnap story but believed that everything is being controlled by the demons,
"I hate those demons... I will destroy their whole species so that no one has to face them again "
Leona said,
"Don't do anything rash, we have to hide in this village until the things cool down "
Pete calmed down and asked,
"Where is this village and how did you get this house "
Leona said,
"This is Jeer village and most of the houses here are vacant so the village chief gave this house and some land to us "
"There are hardly 50 people in this village and most of them are farmers "
Pete said,
"What are we going to do here? "
Leona said,
"We will train here, you lose your control when you use the holy sword, so you have to learn how to control that power "
"Also you can join the hunters of this village "
Pete nodded and rested for the day,
The next day Pete joined the hunters of the village and goes in the forest to hunt,
He returned with a huge boar that was enough for couple of days for the entire village,
By the end of the month, They have made their place in the village,
Pete would hunt, the butler and Leona did the farming and Luna played with the kids in the village,
Luna had also opened up with them and for those who don't know them, they were a happy family,
Pete and Leona would go to forest everyday to train,
On the other hand, the human army was growing by day,
They were being trained by the elves and their equipment was being prepared by the dwarves,
A year passed by in the blink of the eye,
While Pete was living his slow life, the human army was increasing it's size and strength,
The army now has more than a hundred thousand soldiers and each of them was at least a second rate under the training of the elves,
The elven, dwarven and human kings were sitting on a round table,
The elven king said,
"It would take another year or two in the preparation of the army "
"These humans are too slow at learning "
The dwarven king nodded and said,
"Weapons and armors are mostly ready but the lack of resources is delaying it. "
The human king said,
"The human kingdom lacks the resources, and we are doing everything we can to find new deposits."
The dwarven king slammed his hand on the table and said,
"You are too slow... why can't you do anything faster "
The elven king said,
"Don't scare our meat shields... we need them "
The dwarven king looked at the elven king and asked,
"If they are the meat shields then why are we making the equipment and why you training them "
The elven king sighed and said,
"The meat shields should be capable enough to stand couple of hits before dying "
"These humans are flimsy so they need the equipment and training to be able to do that "
"Also they will buy us time in case we have to retreat "
Soon the night fell,
In the village, Pete fell sleep after eating dinner,
In the Morsh's soul space,
Morsh has absorbed all of the souls,
He looked at the divine chains restraining him and divine energy that filled his soul space,
"It's time to see the outside world "
Morsh gathered all of the dark energy in his soul and released it outside,
The dark energy slowly stared absorbing the divine energy chains and the divine energy around Morsh,
Looking at the pace, Morsh said,
"It's going to take some time... but it will be worth it"
After about a week of outside time,
The dark energy has absorbed all of the divine energy in the soul space,
Morsh took back the dark energy and his strength began to rise exponentially,
It took him another week to absorb the power,
After that he looked around the soul space and released some dark energy on the wall,
The dark energy made a large hole the size of the door and got out,
But was diminished as soon as it got out,
Morsh was surprised and confused and looked outside through the hole,
His eyes widened with shock as he saw the divine chains binding his souls space,
The divine chains were excluding the divine energy and it was strengthening Pete's soul,
But it blocked Morsh from getting out of his soul space,
The chains were too strong for Morsh to simply absorb them,
Morsh calmed down and said,
"That bitch thought of everything... Now I don't have any souls left to absorb and increase my strength"
"But if these chains were here all the time then my strand of dark energy also didn't get outside "
"But I didn't feel it diminishing. "
Morsh was now confused and was thinking when a screen appeared that showed the outside,
Morsh saw Pete sleeping and the dark holy sword next to the bed,
This confused Morsh even more,
"The dark energy in that sword clearly is stronger, that means the strand of the dark energy got outside.... but how? "
Pete woke up at that moment with a surprised look on his face,
He took a deep breath, calmed down and said,
"So you have broken up the restrain "
Morsh was also surprised hearing this and said,
"How do you know "
Pete said,
"The second layer of the retrain just activated meaning the first layer was destroyed. "
Morsh smiled and said,
"Now I get it... but do you think this restrain can stop me... "
Pete said,
"Yes it can, it is ten times stronger than the previous restrain and you can't break it "
Morsh said,
"I don't need to break it... it's time for that bitch goddess to make a body for me "
Pete angrily said,
"Don't insult the goddess you evil bastard... she will not make a body for you as an punishment for your wrongdoings.
"That place is your prison from now on. "
Morsh sighed and said,
"So that's the case.... "
Pete said,
"Yes and you can't do anything about it "
Morsh smiled and said,
"Let's forget about it... so where are you now? "
Pete angrily said,
"How can I just forget you enslaved my comrade and the king and made them do evil things "
Morsh said,
"They enslaved you first and made you do evil things too... "
Pete said,
"They were just controlled by the demons at that time, but you did that on purpose "
Morsh sighed and said,
"You have not changed a bit "
Pete said,
"No I have changed, I am stronger now... I am now a sword grandmaster "
Morsh smiled and said,
"Is that so... "
Pete said,
"Yes and just watch me get back everything you took from me "
Morsh calmly said,
"What did I take from you? "
Pete thought for a moment but after that just covered himself with blanket saying,
"Don't talk to me you evil bastard "
In the morning Pete told Leona and the butler about Morsh's awakening,
Morsh saw this and thought,
'He is still stupid enough to tell his secrets to others '
Leona asked,
"So do we need to restrain you at night "
Pete said,
"No, he can't take over the body now... he can only see and hear what's happening outside "
The butler said,
"So there is no way for him to take control over your body "
Pete thought for a moment and said,
"There is but he will be under my control "
Morsh smiled when he heard this but didn't say anything,
Outside, Pete ate the breakfast and goes for the hunt,
In the castle of the capital city,
The three kings were sitting on a table when an elf entered,
He kneeled and said,
"My lord, we have found the whereabouts of the hero "
The eyes of the three kings widened with this news,
The dwarven king said,
"Where is he ? "
The elf said,
"He is living in a small village named Jeer "
The elven king smiled and said,
"Prepare hundred human soldier and an elven and dwarven master warriors "
The dwarven king said,
"Why do we need to prepare, let's just go and capture him "
The elven king said,
"Do you think we can just capture an grandmaster with only some masters "
"We need to plan this meticulously and make sure he can't run away "
The elven king then ordered the elf,
"Find everything about him, what he did, how's his relationship... don't leave a single thing about him "
The elf stood up and, bowed and left the room,
The elven king then asked the dwarven king,
"Is that thing finished? "
The dwarven king nodded and elven king smiled seeing his nod,
In the village, Pete returned from the hunt in the noon,
He worked in the field till the night and in the dinner table at night he said,
"If I ever tell you to hide or run away, just do it "
Leona aske confused,
"Why? we can fight too "
Pete said,
"I know you can fight, but I will only tell you this on two cases "
"First, the enemy is too strong and you will hinder me and second when I let him take control "
The butler asked,
"Can he use the holy sword like you "
Pete nodded and said,
"He wielded the holy sword before me and without any backlash "
The butler nodded and said,
"We will do what you tell us to do "
They ate the dinner after this and goes to bed,
A week passed by and In the morning they were eating the breakfast,
Leona said,
"I think they found us "
Pete asked with a surprised look on his face,
"How can you say that "
Leona said,
"Too many merchants visited the village this week but they didn't look like merchants "
"They had the build of warriors "
The butler said,
"We have to run away if that's the case "
Pete said,
"No we will not run away, I am strong enough to protect all of us "
Leona said,
"But we can't let the villagers get into this.. "
Pete expression changed when he thought about the villagers,
He thought for some time and said,
"We will escape tonight. "