Preparations for the match continued without incident. Everyone followed Earth who was leading the way into the woods.
everything seemed to be too calm for him, deep down he knew something was wrong, even more so if the hypothesis of the traitor being among them was correct.
Damn it, he thought mentally to himself, it made him uncomfortable, being in an unfamiliar place and at the mercy of nuances he didn't know, he didn't even dare to think about... the Differences and wonders that this new world had to offer, but he it's not ours. asserted himself.
A few small insects now and then passed through his vision, he didn't even think about touching them they could well be poisonous. Touching things you didn't know was asking to lose your life.
Thanks to the butterfly technique I now had a useless eye. My right eye at that moment couldn't see anything, just a grayish white
The technique was a good way to become aware of unfamiliar terrain. The good price... It was one eye less and a little fatigue the more you asked him to observe for you or the distance from the terrain was greater.
I watched as best I could and saw a small path of dry and worn earth in front of us a few meters away. Possibly it had been made by the hands of the mythological. She was going straight to a plain of a plant similar to the wheat of the earth.
The vegetation was very low there, it was a risk to go forward, I thought, but going around in this open space would take a long time. Time was what we didn't have, I thought in return.
My mind was validating the risk of continuing, whether it would be worth our while to be seen by some civilian or Mythological peasant and lose the advantage of the surprise attack.
Evaluate each part and decide if the risks outweighed the benefits. I thought gritting my teeth to myself. It was a phrase I had read in a book at the barracks once, and it had helped me through difficult decisions and had saved me from death several times.
I made the decision after a few seconds thinking about the possibilities, the gains and losses... And I had made a decision.
I signaled for everyone to go around the field similar to that of wheat, but precisely on the left that there was a small hill that could protect us in our crossing.
Everyone readily agreed with the corresponding hand symbol and moved on.
I looked at Neturno and he was clearly nervous, he put his hand in his military pocket. Something he always did.
He was about to do the same when the hiss sounded in my helmet like before... "-What is now Pluto?" He said quickly to the man on the other side of the sign and paying full attention to what he said.
"-General there were some heat readings in sector 7 to 10 and they seem to be moving in sync at a considerable speed." The voice asked quickly.
Sector 7 to 10 I thought for a moment trying to remember something related to these sectors, but I couldn't it was foggy in my mind, I forced myself a little to remember but it only seemed that I lost the information even more.
"-And you could see what they were from there?" Earth continued to go around the plain that was now on her side. "-Unfortunately no, the heat sensor images are not reaching the central. It will take a few hours for the technology sector to fix the signal.."
The problem stunned him for a moment, not the problem itself but the circumstances. Why just now? This mission was of crucial importance to us... To end this war, so how could the federation let something like this happen.
My reasoning was cut off by the voice. "...-I'm afraid you're on your own now." the voice wailed.
"-Okay. Just fix this quick." He said raising his finger to cut off the likely last communication for the next few hours.
"-I'm really sorry, boss. So don't die there, okay?" He said with a light chuckle.
Pluto as always knowing the right time for jokes, Earth thought with a smile on her face.
"-Okay." I said pressing the button that ended the signal. The little squeak sounded from the helmet to my eardrums.
I continued on stepping on stones so as not to leave footprints on the ground, which was a little wet.
When I was in a hollow tree trunk a good few meters when I was standing, I felt as if eyes were looking in my direction and I instantly signaled for the others to stop and not move under any circumstances.
Most who saw the signs stopped, and signaled the others to stop... Except Neptune who didn't see the signs and continued for a few microseconds without noticing that he was supposed to stay still and hide.
Only Venus, who was a few meters away from him, followed, pulling his collar towards him before he left the cover we were in and was seen.
He gave a little gasp at being pulled so abruptly.
Everyone looked at me in a curious and apprehensive way as to why, since they hadn't felt the pair of eyes in our direction.
Bent down, I couldn't look to see whose eyes almost saw us. All I could do was pay attention to the sounds around me, to try by sound to figure out if it was an animal or something else.
But there was nothing, I could only hear two low breaths after so much effort. Which didn't tell me anything.
A few minutes passed and nothing, until the two breaths started to get lower and lower, they were leaving. I finally thought. I was already getting impatient, I even thought about just showing up and shooting down or incapacitating whatever was there.
Prester not being able to hear breathing. Neptune got loose from Venus I don't know how and said in a slightly elevated way. "You can let go of me, Venus, whatever was there must be gone by now." letting go and stepping forward on a dry gain... CLAAAACK that creaked and broke with a loud sound.
But what the fuck was he doing. Everyone looked at him in their own ways. I wanted to punch him right here.
I waited for some time to make sure the breaths returned. But I didn't hear anything, they didn't hear the gain, I thought giving thanks.
"-See I didn't say." Bragging to everyone who just rolled their eyes in disgust and disapproval.
He got up and looked to the side. At that moment his gaze died, the expression went from bragging to genuine terror and he was just able to say... "-What the hell..." and wham in a micro second a sword flew towards the hitting his head and throwing his body brutally to the stone that was next to us.
Blood flew to the face of venus that was closest to him.
And there... The dawn sun rose and the first thing that lit up was Neturno's body that because of the strength the sword stuck in the stone, leaving Neturnus' body there... swaying because of the impact and trapped by the head.
His gaze color went completely black... He was dead.
Venus looked disbelieved because he was next to the then dead Neptune, it could have been him. His look was one of shock and fear at the near loss of life.
Mars who was further away looked a bit skeptical, doubting what had just happened before her eyes, she felt nauseous and started bending over and throwing up in the grass on the ground.
Uranus was in shock and began to cry and curl up in a fetal position on the floor.
Earth on the other hand did not observe the body. He was looking at a forest to the north, his eyes were closed except for what was greenish white. He seemed to be almost in a trance.
The translucent butterfly took flight a few kilometers north of him, and there she saw it on the horizon at sunrise, in the dim light.
On top of a mountain, alone, was a man with blond hair and a sharp look of royalty. His armor was black with gold ornaments and symbols. His armor seemed to be made of obsidian... Damn he thought.
She didn't want to have to face that madman again... she regretted it. On the battlefield from the Finthers Lands to the mountains and plains of the earth to the ends of the Mythological world, it spoke of the clashes of Earth and the generals against the obsidians. The greatest strengths of the Mythologicos... Beings who refused to recognize limits to their strength.
The man noticed the translucent butterfly and just smiled a little convincingly and arrogantly at the butterfly.
He sat on his throne which was in an arranged tent. He poured a drink into his glass and nodded to the translucent butterfly. "-Come I'm waiting for you, old friend."
The connection was lost with the air butterfly and I regained consciousness, it took a while for my brain to become active as before, my vision adjusted to the new perspective and place I was. A few lapses of the butterfly's vision flashed across my vision
My fingers tingled and a feeling of strangeness came over me. Forcing the technique to look at itself was dangerous and costly to my body. One wrong move and my mind would be trapped for eternity in the void of reality.
My eye returned to normal, becoming the usual reddish and slightly golden hue. My vision soon went to the situation where Venus, Mars and Uranus were.
The first was in shock and held his sword like the safe hand of a newborn.
The second was still bad and with a sick and powerless face.
The third, to my surprise, was looking at the endless corpse of Neptune with an empty look, she with the nail pressed her own fingers, hurting them. Blood seeped from her fingers onto the grass.
I looked at Neturno and on the thrown sword, the message was written. "Greetings from Hyury Zateryos the Obsidiam 2."
I closed my eyes and saw Neturnus holding a small photograph in his left hand. On the back of it was written a memento from his Daisy, May Mama protect you from heaven. His body turned because of the rocking and the content of the photo was highlighted in my eyes.
"-I'm really sorry Neturno, I couldn't protect you." He had died holding a photograph... he was in a suit and top hat and he was holding a little girl with brown curly hair in his arms.