Everything about this operation was suspicious, ever since the attack on the Village of Litua the red army hadn't attack any of the 15 outposts in the border, and monster attack went down to without precedents.
Even then, what was the purpose of burning that village to the ground, the red army was smart, their general unknown to us was a capable and cunning existence, gaining a foot of terrain was an impossible difficult task, so, why would an existence so capable decide to throw away years of planning to attack a village at the outskirts of its territory.
It was wrong to think like this.
His objective wasn´t the village, its objective was us.
* Bang *
Sounds of explosions, screams and gunshots were heard through the out-post.
- We will continue the interrogation after we repel the attack, do not leave this building, in case of emergency use this button and I'll teleport right away, I repeat, DO NOT leave the building, understood, Aron?
- Yes, Sir Captain!
- Perfect, I'll take my leave
I quickly grabbed my great sword and teleported to the nearest watchtower.
I closed my eyes and quickly and using aura quickly scanned the field, 2 corporals died in the spot, and 4 more were severely injured, there was a battle on the east side were the explosions occurred and I detected several strong Auras approaching.
- I´m the captain of the frontier outpost, we are currently being attacked, defend your positions, and stand your ground against invaders, don´t lose sight of the enemy under any circumstances, I'll take care of their special units.
Ending my statement I ran towards the approaching Auras, if they got any closer the outpost would be compromised and my men killed, the interrogation lost all his value since their purpose was clear, I had to think what to do with the child later.
Abruptly, the five auras stopped.
Their Auras got bigger and using it they made a circular red dome, so and I couldn´t see what they were doing inside the improvised dome, unable to continue observing their movements, I blinked towards the dome.
As I got near them, the dome shattered like glass and thousands of shards fell to the ground, revealing an hellish field.
It was burned, its charred earth made a contrast with the elven blue blood, the five figures, covered by a red robe, were bleeding profoundly as they retreated to the depths of the forest they came from.
I quickly scanned the area in searched of clues what this dome was for, and found a makeshift Glyph, I didn´t knew what it was for, but from the inscriptions and how the mana flowed in them, it could be a summoning Glyph, summoning, summoning what?
As thinking about the purpose of the Glyph, I quickly made a mind note of the shape of the drawing and using Aura, I dissipated it and quickly followed the robed figures, and as I blinked to their direction a red beam of light fell from the sky to the outpost.
A red light covered the world, the sound of muskets fired at unison like trumpets announced a being's arrival, the world crumbled.
***
The pressure I felt would crush a normal man, but there was no time to worry about an old mans health, quickly blinking to the outpost, I covered myself on Aura and changed my sword, from a great sword to a rapier.
As I arrived, the remaining soldier were battling a rampaged beast, it was a demonic creature, a humanoid monstrosity straight out of hell.
It had a red blood skin, with scales covering its back, legs of a goat and horns of a bison, bullets didn´t seen to affect him, and swords were like toothpicks for him, as his body had already many of them embedded.
The remaining elves were already dead, but in their last breath, they used all of their aura to burn the morgue and hospital of the outpost, killing the remaining survivors of Litua.
- Soldiers, retreat, carry all remaining survivors, and all those who can still fight quickly make a phalanx to cover the wounded, the nearest outpost is 4 kilometers southeast.
- I´ll take care of him, go now! - As he said that, the green military uniform Mugen was wearing shapeshifted to a full body armor, with silver and gold patters.
* Roar *
The beast roared in anger and charged towards the captain, who quickly dodged him stepping aside with a swift movement, only to stab the creature in the neck.
The creature turned around violently and punched Mugen violently,
Mugen withdrawn his sword, which shifted to its great-sword form to parry the punch, Mugen was throw back, spinning in the air he landed light as a feather to the ground, focusing his aura on his feet and sword he dashed towards the creature with great sword at hand.
The creature seeing this, prepared to block the attack, put its arms together and took a step back, Mugen took the opportunity and slide under the creature, using his will, he forcefully teleported the creature 5 meters in the air, and as the demon notices this, Mugen rolled forward taking a kneeling position, just to jump high in the air aiming to the demons hearth, its sword shifted to a rapier and coated with Aura, decimated the demons chest, allowing Mugen to come out, shifting to a great sword and dealing the final slash, cutting down the demonic beast in half.
The corpse fell, the earth rumbled and then its quiet down, the only sound was that of the flames still burning the outpost, 16 soldiers died, and the remaining civilians were nowhere to be found, Mugen deduced the fire completely consumed them.
Grieving, he didn´t notice the corpse was putting itself back together, assuming a humanoid form.
- Oh lord, look at this mess, you must be a capable warrior.
Mugen didn´t hesitate, with rapid footwork, turned around and dashed towards the new creature behind him and tried to stab him in the hearth, only to encounter a sword against his.
- Indeed, you are capable yet boring, why all of your kind all like this when they get old?, such a waste…
The man was wearing nothing, but It didn´t have any features that differentiate him from man or woman, neither his body or face were manly or feminine, whilst carrying a strange yet unique charm.
- Mmm, my job was to finish off some villagers, but I found such a gem I can't control myself, why must I stop myself in front of such a treat, come on, let's have some…
* BANG*
A cold and easily recognizable sound was heard, silence fell yet again, the great opponent born from the evil beast dropped death, head missing.
A child carrying a musket was trembling in front of Mugen, he looked angry, full of hatred, it was an easily recognizable face, it was the face of a man who hated, of a man that would do everything to archive his vengeance.
Yet, that man had the face and body of a child.
That child killed a demon for the first time of his life.
That child killed a man for the first time of his life.