After my farewell with Librarian, he teleported me to the bottom of the mountain though an unkown book, I knew the geography of the mountain and its proximities by the palm of my hand, but the place I was currently in didn´t even got close enough to it, rather, it didn´t look human at all, after my initial shock, my eyes finally understood what they were seeing, it was a burned village…
I started walking by the burned-down buildings, I was shoeless so I felt the charcoaled dirt in my feet, I smelled the recognizable sulfur in the air, my hopes of seeing a human finally collapsed once I got to the center of the town.
Piles of corpses one over other, limbs missing and burned flesh, several men were surrounding this horror, and one threw a torch to the middle, fire spread quickly, dry meat burned faster…
-Captain, 102 villagers died, and 73 are heavily injured, and 24 are in conditions of fighting- said the most young of the troop, his body was covered in a green grayish uniform with red and black stains, his face, still with a fair amount of baby fat, was filled with anguish and sadness.
-Hmm, save the ones more suitable to fight, even if they are in capable condition, if they can fight save them, if not, execute them on spot and use their corpses to forge more mana crystals.
Shock
They were using corpses of innocent victims to fuel their army, and using the remaining survivors as materials for something.
*Crack*
I stepped on something.
I small noise not even me could notice if not for the fact I was hiding myself trying not to breath
That was all it took for their Captain to blitz to me.
***
-General Mugen!
Whilst reporting the number of victims, troops and ammunition left, the general suddenly disappeared, anxious because a possible ambush, all the knights and troops took out their swords and muskets and made a circular formation.
- Qucick, don´t dropped your muskets, knights coat your swords at enemy sight, do not waste aura
- General, confirm your wellbeing!
-Leo, it ok, General number 4527, drop formations battalion, I found a child. - The general, and old man with strands of with hair and several scars on his face, was holding a 8 springs old child, covered in dirt and ash.
- Quick, knight retreat with the child, he is the sole untouched survivor, we must interrogate him in what happened here, finish burning the corpses and look out for any blacksmith house or building, any sword remaining even if its broken is a valuable asset, discharged.
The old general turned around and using an unknown mean, teleported away.
***
Where am i? that was the first question I ask myself as I woke up, I remember a shining object running towards me and fainting from the pressure it made as it came close
But the first question I asked as soon as the soldier on patrol noticed I was awake was-
-Sir, am I going to die?
No matter the world I knew killing a child in cold blood for a normal soldier was extremely hard, and convincing my captors of me not being a treat was the right cour-
-Yes son, sadly, every single one of us is going to die here.