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[The point of No return]
Icarus spend the entire day travelling horseback. It is exhausting riding a horse, your back feel like it can break any moment now. When sun dip beyond the horizons and the Celestial Moon graced the mortal world with it's Cold, Serene, tranquil presence Icarus got off the horse to rest.
Strangely enough the horse just galloped around the area he is at, instead of running away. 'Weird'
It didn't take long for Icarus to set an Illusionary boundary field with an Alarm. After that Icarus just leaned on a tree trunk and glanced at the night with all it's mystery, dark beauty. It didn't take long before Stars came out twinkling like midnight Diamonds. Icarus leaning on the tree and wind passing by, ruffling his brown locks; and just watching the scenery before him. The forest, quite and full of danger seems similar to the Dark sky. So peaceful that it didn't take long before Icarus fell asleep.
Usually it takes long for Icarus to sleep. His thoughts running fast inside his head and distracting him, always picturing, imagining things that won't happen. It's just the way he is, his mind is his powerful weapon but it also his great weakness.
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In the morning Sun ray's, piercing the canopy of the tree and fell on a child beneath it. Said child stirred for a bit before waking up. His long eyelashes fluttered open as big, magnificent, pale blue eyes are revealed to the World. his face frown a bit at the sun ray's hitting his face in the wake of the morning.
The child muttered some unintelligible things before getting up. He rubbed his eyes before holding his hips and neck.
"Damn.Talk about being sore in the morning." The Child muttered.
He rolled his hips for a minute before cracking his neck and yawning.
The Child slowly and lazily dismantled the boundary field around him. After that he put two of his fingers inside his mouth, he took a deep breath before a loud whistle came out of his lips.
It wasn't long when a huge Mare came galloping to the Child, the Mare had a majestic white fur/coat(?) with huge hooves and strong muscles that rippled with each thundering step. (A/N: does it feel weird that I'm describing a horse lyk dis?)
The horse was so big that it rivaled a Warhorse with it's 'Horse power', Big, strong muscles and aggressive behavior.(A/N: see what I did there?)
What's weird is that the horse obedient towards the Child as though it had gone through years of conditioning. It's almost Unnatural. As the horse arrived next to the Child, the Child slowly rubbed it's muzzle. The horse Neigh in pleasure.
The Child who was about to mount the horse paused, before his head snapped to and fro and sideways. The Child frowned before slowly, as if he sensed danger, he mounted the horse with caution. He held the reigns before saying "Hya!"
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Icarus frown a bit at the sun ray's hitting his face in the wake of the morning.
He muttered some unintelligible things before getting up. He rubbed his eyes before holding his hips and neck.
"Damn.Talk about being sore in the morning." He muttered.
He rolled his hips for a minute before cracking his neck and yawning.
He slowly and lazily dismantled the boundary field around him. After that he put two of his fingers inside his mouth, he took a deep breath before a loud whistle came out of his lips.
'The horse is definitely weird.' Icarus decided. He doesn't know much of the Ancient Greek but doesn't Horses usually run away during the night if you didn't tie them up? Maybe he's just putting things that aren't there. Maybe horses are like this in Greece.
Nevertheless Icarus decided to just forget about this whole situation.
As he horse stop next to him, He slowly rub its Muzzle while preparing to mount it.
Icarus froze before he can do that though.
Icarus himself was once a predator, you don't get in the Military meek and get out meek. That's impossible. In the military, you gotta be like a Lion in it's natural habitat. You got be dominating if you wanna survive, Ofcourse being in the military doesn't mean you're all powerful and stuff. That's just some brainwash and manipulation to let the soldiers think they're 'Stonger' cause they're in the military. The military want you that way, to make you think you're actually a lion when you're just a house cat trying to roar. (A/N: just pulled this shit outta my ass)
Anyway Icarus knows the feeling of being a predator — no matter how much of a lie that is— And he knows when he's being watched. And right now, he's being watched alright.
Icarus contemplated if he should just go on with his business like he didn't notice it. But then he said 'fuck it' and Observed everything moving and unmoving things that is unnatural in the forest. He didn't find anything, he Released his magic and made Mana fluctuating to fill up the circumference around him. He still didn't Feel, see or notice something wrong. Since the gaze of whatever is watching didn't feel Malicious, he decided to ignore it and go his way. 'Is it the Gods?' He Thought. ' But that can't be right? Im not familiar with God's but they can't be this lacking. they're freaking God's for fuck sakes!'
Icarus shook his head to dispell all his thoughts. He mounted his horse and urged it to move forward. 'Ancient Greek is weird as hell.' ——————————————————————————
It was midday, the sun was hot. Hot enough to melt a pig into grizzling fat oils.
Icarus laid on the horse, bored. Icarus was holding the boo— Tome that the old man gave him. It's only now that Icarus realized that 'Kyrillos' was not exactly the Kyrillos that invited him in his village. The tome is..a magical Tome, obviously. But what's suprising is that it held advanced magic that even Icarus didn't know of, And he's the son of Daedalus. That says much — Not much but meh— This kind of Knowledge can't sit in the village. Someone must've brought it in there.
The tome he received contains Advanced form of Illusions, Runes and Enchantment. Although he's confused because according to his Knowledge Enchantment is pretty much Reinforcement in a nutshell. The Advanced form of Runes is called Glyphs and Formations. Icarus won't study about those, what he want right now is Illusions. Icarus was always fascinated by the Concept of Illusions.
But... Icarus had to put that out too. He wants to know what this so called Enchantments are. They sound Intriguing, no doubt.
The act of enchanting requires an item with no existing enchantments— except if the enchanter has more power than the previous enchanter— knowledge of an enchantment, and the use of an arcane enchanter. It is stated that once an item is enchanted, it can not be enchanted again and can not accept another enchantment. There are certain items that can be enchanted even though they already have an enchantment. [A/N: Skyrim shit]
Yhea... basically a powered version of reinforcement.
'Going by thi—' A clamour nearby caused Icarus to stop his train of thought and close the Tome he was reading. He sat upright on his horse and looked where the noise is coming from. As he looked he noticed 20 knights, or are they bandits? they were around a long line of people dressed in rags with chains on their hands and feet, The one knight ahead of the group pulling the chain. The other knights have whips in their hands, whipping the people that were lagging behind.
Icarus reigned his horse to stop. 'Oh... ' Icarus Thought. He had forgotten that this is the Dark Times, he isn't in the Modern Century anymore. If anything, this scene was almost like a slap to his face to wake and Face Reality.
Slaves. They're a thing in a here, they're legal even — not that they're laws in this time— Icarus stopped dead in his tracks.
what should he do? should he save the people? but... Icarus looked at the 20 or so knights and shook his head.
But the real question here is that DOES he want to save them? It is with misfortune that Icarus found out that No, he doesn't want to save them. Call him Cruel, evil or cold hearted as you want but Icarus has a legit reason for not doing so.
'The lesson that you learn is the one that went hand in hand with pain.' Icarus mused. If Icarus save the people then they'll have no confidence in their selves, they'll always need saving and Icarus can't afford that. If he saves them then that is the same as saving a prey from a lion, or from a Wolf. This is the natural order of life, People suffer and they die. Life isn't fair and Icarus won't be a judge to be the fair one.
Icarus was ready to urge his horse to walk around the group and go unnoticed but as he was doing that Icarus heard a whip and a cry from a child.
Icarus felt his spine straightening. he doesn't know when he got off his horse cause Icarus found himself taking huge steps towards the group of misfit children. It is when he feels hot blood pumping in his veins that he noticed that he's angry. His vision tainted with red as veins bulged across his knuckles, arms and on his forehead.
Icarus can forgive humans doing many things, evil things even. He can forgive then because Icarus himself do them too. But what he can't forgive is beating a child, a child for fuck sakes!!
Icarus breath came out in short,hot and thunderous bursts. He angry, so angry that Icarus can feel his mind slipping away from his grasp like a quicksand.
The vision of the child with blood flowing freely across her back caused Icarus to erupt in a huge, tyrannical magic pressure that is filled with Killing Intent and bloodlust. Magical pressure is like...a waterfall hitting you straight on your skull. Some people can endure that, some people can't. Icarus Magical pressure is like a tide in the ocean, it's huge waves can crush a humans bones and render them cripple or dead. Now a killing intent is even weirder, it's like fear, no, it's like terror. Your worst nightmares come to life. Killing Intent is the intent to kill something or someone, and right now Icarus is ready to murder some bitches.
The cry of that child is like a cry from a Child Icarus once called Miyu with fondness. And that's what made him mad angry.
It didn't take long before Icarus was before them, some idiots were running to him with spears, xiphos and kopis.
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They must been alerted when Icarus released his Magical pressure. But that's no brainer. Icarus side stepped a slash from a kopi and touched the hand that is holding it, immediately a magical pulse came out of Icarus hands and broke the offending appendage. He ignored the cry from the grown ass man and dodged a thrust from another one. He didn't ask questions of why and where, he just Attacked. Icarus touched the chest of a soldier next to him and with a magical pulse, Icarus saw the soldier cough blood and a sickening crack resounding in the area.
Magical pulse. He condeses his magic and release it in short bursts. The mana he releases is so dense that it can kill a average Phantasmal beast.
He moved on to the next target, he didn't water time and immediately broke the xiphos that is coming towards him with a well placed and measured magical pressure and sucked the man on the face with a reinforced punch.
It didn't take long to realize that he's going to tire fast before killing this bunch of nobodies. On the belt that is holding his chiton, Icarus took out the glasses that he made. He immediately wore them. ' I created this glasses mainly for seeing far as I reinforced them but... the secondary ability of them will do for now.'
As Icarus put them on, the sun image on the center of the lenses glowed in the sun. Before the people can figure out what's happening.
Blue lasers came out of his lenses and immediately cut down the 7 men in his eyesight. 'Ten left'
"Surrender and I promise I shall never attack you." Icarus said. His voice full of malice as he stared down at them. Icarus seeing as they're hesitating, he charged the glasses again. The knights, seeing the mysterious things— A/n: did glasses exist in this time?— that the child wore were glowing again they immediately thrown their weapons down.
Icarus cut the chained holding the Slaves and chained the soldiers with it. Thirteen soldiers, the other three were the ones that he didn't kill, he just put them out of commission.
"Hero! she's dying. Please help." A mourning voice distracted him. When he look at the direction of the voice he found out the child that was bleeding on verge of dying.
Icarus ran to them and crouched down to see the child better. Blood was on her back and... on her head too, Icarus concluded after running his fingers on her head. 'Im not good at healing runes but.. fuck it I'ma gonna try.'
"Do you have water?" Icarus asked the lady next him as he casting a glance around him, only to figure out that all the Slaves were surrounding them. "Water People!" After Icarus shouted at them it's only then that they run around like headless chickens.
" Here." A voice behind him said. Icarus just took the water bottle skin without looking the person who gave him it and poured out the water the child's back, letting the water to clean out the dirty blood and the gems too. Icarus doesn't know a lot about health related things but he knows that if he can just heal the wounds without cleaning them then the child is good as dead if he can save her. " What's her name?" Icarus asked the lady next to him to distract her from doing stupid decisions. Hey, a mother can do stupid stuff when she's concerned about her child.
The lady just muttered something unintelligible and continued to blabber about some stuff that he isn't even hearing.
Icarus drew the healing runes across her back, and watched as the runes sunk in the skin and the skin starting to close, little by little until there isn't a wound on her back anymore. Just scars. What he did isn't exactly what you can call healing because he just healed the skin only, the muscles are still bruised.
'Hey, I did what I could though.' Icarus run his hands on the girl green hair to find the wound that he seen earlier. Only to find no wound there, just blood on her skull.
' da fuq? where did the wound go? ' Icarus frowned a bit. Maybe a saw wrong, maybe there wasn't a wound to begin with. Yhea, that's probably that. But Icarus can't help but feeling a nagging suspicious that, nah man, something's fishy is going on right now. But he just shook his head.
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As Icarus was lost in his thoughts the girl woke up from her unconsciousness. She raised her head to look around only to find a young-in around her age next to her and no one familiar, her eyes didn't see the people behind her or the lady next to her. Only the unfamiliar boy next her. she did the only thing that came natural to her...
She kicked him in the stomach and glided back. She got in a..rather flawed fighting stance. And beared her teeth to the person in front of her, and she actually growled for goodness sake.
Fortunately she saw the people who are familiar to her and lost some tension on her body..
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Icarus who was lost in his thoughts just felt a, admittedly strong kick to his gut. "Urg" Icarus groaned. He looked at the person who kicked him and saw large forest green eyes looking at him with malice.
"By the God's, you just Attacked your Savior just like that?" Icarus clashed his teeth together in agitation.He stood up from the ground and ignored the people apologizing in the Child's stead.' So much for saving people *tsk* '
"Where's is the next Port close to here?" Icarus questioned, still ignoring the green witch child.
The lady that was next to the Green witch replied. "It isn't far, My lord. You'll see it when you exit the forest."
Icarus whistled and waited for his horse. When it came, he mounted it and regarded the people with condescension.
"Well, I'll be off. Be safe next time." ' I'll hate to save you again.' If Icarus had a cowboy head, he'll be dipping it as he talked but alas. Perhaps he should invest it next, it'll be cool no doubt.
"What should we do about the soldiers, Milord?"
Icarus pondered a bit before replying. "Kill them." He said in a emotionless voice without a tilt into it.
"But milord—" Icarus interrupted the women from saying more. "They held you against your Will didn't they? They whipped you, didn't they? so kill them. Take their sword and kill them. I won't repeat myself."
One man is the one who broke the silence in the area and took a Xiphos before stabbing the chained soldiers rather ruthlessly. The Other people followed behind, the.. Innocent kind were crying while doing so. To them what Icarus said was a rule they have to follow no matter what. He's a hero,he saved them and He uses Sorcery. This the ultimate hold Heroes have over common people.
Icarus looked at the Green child scratching the soldiers eyes and biting their throats out. 'Savage!' Icarus didn't look away in disgust, rather he watched in fascination as the girl kill the soldiers brutally.
"You promised to never attack us!" One soldiers cried out to Icarus.
"Yes, I promised. But did they? I didn't touch you soldier. They did." Icarus watched in morbid fascination as blood painted the earth red. Icarus didn't even quiver at the sight of blood, nor the grotesque scene before him.
As the people were busy finishing the soldiers up. Icarus left them to their own devices and planned to leave them and continue his journey.
But before he left Icarus looked deeply at the Green witch before urging his horse to move. The last thing Icarus Saw from those large Green eyes was a silver sheen passing over her eyes.
'Heh. Who are you, girl?'
Can I get some stones please ?🥺 I beg of you dear reader.
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3K words! 3 400! whoa what!
A/N: first I'll like to say no! she's not a witch, it's just that she annoyed Icarus. I mean you save a person then she thank you by kicking you? yhea, I'll be annoyed too. Anyway I'm sure y'all know who she is, so you know why she didn't speak in this chapter. don worry they'll be interacting soon.
1. anyway a Xiphos is a type of sword that Ancient greek used. It's a short sword that is Light weight. it is used mainly for stabbing.
2. Kipos. Kipos is another type of sword that the greek used, it's a heavy sword that is used for Hacking and slashing.
What do you think of this chapter? really I pulled a lot of shit outta my ass. If it doesn't make sense please comment.