When Adui came downstairs, standing on the last step of the staircase, he was greeted with pure chaos. There were these snow-white zombie-like creatures attacking the people in the inn. These creatures didnt have any eyes, nose, or ears. They were human indeed, but their mouth was full of razor-sharp long teeth, and instead of hands these guys had long talons.
What the fuck is going on over here? He thought.
It was then he saw one of the creatures sprinting at him. He then let go of his bag and took a fighting stance. He started pumping mana in his fists, and the creature pounced at him, he simply jumped sideways to evade the attack. The creature crashed into wooden stairs, breaking it.
When the creature started to get up, Adui was already on it. And with all the power he could muster, he punched the creature, making its head explode.
He heard a very shrill cry, and he looked around to see the creatures in the vicinity now had turned to him.
Fuck.
Adui knew that he wouldn't be able to handle the influx of these creatures, so he decided to run instead. He jumped over the broken part of the stairs and started running to the second floor.
He ran for the room at the far end, whose window could get him to the horse tied at the front of the inn. He ran to the door, using his fists to break the door open. As he came into the room he heard a yell, someone was inside the room, but he didnt stop there for a chat and straight away jumped outside.
The muddy street gave him a smooth landing, but soon he had to get up, he didnt see any sign of his horse.
Where the fuck is my horse?
Before he knew it, three creatures jumped out of the window just like him.
With the sun shining its gaze on him, he was ready to fight these creatures. He was about to fight the creature's head-on when he saw something crazy. The creatures started creating a shrill noise. At first, he thought that they were doing a war cry or something. But he soon realized that these creatures were screaming in pain. Smoke started emanating from their body.
The fuck? What are they, vampires?
Adui's train of thought broke when something fell from the sky crushing one of the creatures. He stared at the person in astonishment. The person was a woman, standing tall at least at least 7 and a half feet. She had golden hair, and wearing red-white armor with the cross of the church Itab etched on her chest in a bright golden color.
The woman had a two-handed battle axe in her hands, which she used swiftly used to cut down the other two creatures.
"COWER IN FEAR DEMONS, YOUR DEATH IS HERE," She yelled. "FOR OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!"
It was then another firework was sent to the sky, this changed the color of the dome to black, cutting off the sunlight supply of the village.
"Fucking heretics!" the woman cursed seeing the dome color change.
Adui looked around and saw that the creatures started coming out of all the buildings in the village. They were snaring and aiming at them.
Unbeknownst to Adui, he smiled seeing this. He could feel in his bones, the excitement of facing death. His excitement didn't go unnoticed by the female warrior, she was about to ask him a question when he ran off towards the nearest group of creatures.
One of the creatures swiped at him, he was able to avoid it but barely. The creature's talons crazed him, but it was a superficial wound at best. But the momentum gave him time to strike and it only took one punch to blow the head off the creature and killing it for good.
Swinging his body like a boxer he moved onto the other creature before the dead body of the first one could fall. A kidney and stomach punch later the second one was also done.
It is then that someone struck him over his head, making him fly back a few feet. But he didnt let that deter him. He slid on the muddy road but got his balance back after a few feet.
The strike could have ended very badly for me if I had my previous body. He thought. Luckily I am not the kind of person who backs down from training.
He ran towards the creature and delivered a flying kick, making the creature fly back a foot.
An explosion took place behind him, but he paid no attention to it and just kept on fighting. To say that he was doing a good job would be an understatement. These creatures were going for a kill, while the people that he had killed so far never were as ferocious as these creatures. Even back on earth, when he was learning Muay Thai, his instructors and spar partner only used their fists and legs in the fight. And they never went for the kill.
Which is why, by the end of the fight he had several cuts and bruises on his body. He was bleeding from various places, and it was his adrenaline that helped him to even stand up.
When he killed the last creature, he looked around to find that he had ventured outside of the village while fighting. While the village on the other hand was no more. The buildings that were standing in the place, he could count them all on his fingers. And even the buildings which were standing were on the verge of collapsing. There were large craters around the village, which made it seem that an air-force strike had taken place here.
"You did alright," he heard, "For a mortal,"
He turned to his right, and there was another giant standing before him. This one was a dark-skinned bald man. Like the woman before, he was also wearing an armor of white and red and had the golden cross etched on his armor.
"Thanks," he simply said. "What the fuck were these creatures?"
"These were the spawns made by dark magic. The dark mage that we were following rigged this village with these creatures. In the case she gets attacked, these creatures could have provided her with backup,"
"These weak creatures would have provided her backup?" he didnt believe it for a second. The albino woman was very strong, hell, she was the strongest mana wielder he had met until now. So he was having a hard time believing that someone as strong as her would have something so weak as a backup.
Either he was getting the full picture, or this whole thing was a ploy.
"What is your name mortal?" the man asked.
"Name is.." He stopped and thought whether he should give out his real name or not. Although there was nothing wrong with this body's original name, he rather dont want to meet his father and his brother in the future. So he went with the name of one of the famous rappers, "My name is Drake,"
"Drac,"
"No.. Drake.. It is Drake, with 'k' in the end,"
"You must be an orphan, to have a stupid name like that.. Drac with a k,"
He didnt want to argue about that, "So what happens now,"
"Now, we watch a bitch burn in the name of justice.." The man said while walking towards him…
***
Adui found himself standing in an opening. There was charred ground everywhere, treed turned into splinter or cut in half. In the middle of the clearing were all the bodies of the vile creatures of the village, and between the pile of creatures was a stake, from which the albino woman was hanging in the form of a cross.
He stood there on the side, with all his wounds healed by the bald man. There were three giants before him, wearing similar armor to one another, reading the passage from the bible of Itab. These guys were inquisitors from the church of Itab, here to hunt down the heretic named Tamika.
And now they are going to burn her alive.
Well who have guessed, I am witnessing a live witch hunt.
Adui then looked at his torso and hands, the cuts made by the creature were no more. The bald inquisitor changed and waved his hand around forming a magical circle in the air, which was glowing golden. And a beam of gentle light came out of the circle which healed his every wound. He does a little but is tired because of the loss of blood, but his bruises and cuts have healed, only scars of the battle are left on his body now.
"… May the grace of Itab, in your next life you become worthy of wearing his cross. Amen," the head inquisitor closed his book. The head inquisitor was a grumpy-looking man, with streaks of white hair. And for some reason, he was making his way towards him.
"You are the mana wielder that took care of the creatures," the old man said.
"Yes sire," he said.
The old man looked at him with interest, "Usually mortals cower before me when I stand before them. Yet here you are, unfazed by my me,"
"Ah.." He mumbled, then quickly answered, "Well.. Because I have nothing to hide. It is the heretics and other fools who.. Oppose the church should cower before you. I dont… That is why I am not afraid."
The grumpy old man bloomed a smile on his face, "Good…" Then the old man turned back after hearing the screams of the albino chick. "My brother and sister told me that you fight well. You are a little bit unrefined, but you fight well,"
"Well, my father taught me some moves," he said.
"My sister also told me that you came out of the inn, where the heretic was staying," the old man then looked him in the eyes, "You wouldn't know anything about that heretic, would you?"
He quickly shook his head, "No. I was tired, so I went straight to my room. Then when I was coming down I met the monsters for the first time,"
The old man didnt say anything, just scanned him from top to bottom, then simply said, "You can go now. We set this whole place on fire to burn the stench of the heretic,"
Adui didnt need to be told twice. He straight away went to the inn and scavenged through the rubble a little bit to find his bag. And after that, he straight away ran away from the place, when the dome that had been deployed got taken down…