Chapter 94: Guilt

Chapter 94: Guilt

"Commander, we are part of Captain Lito's troop, we got lost from the troop and are currently under attack!"

[Captain Lito is already on his way to meet your group. Hang in there. Who's group are you fighting with?]

"Group?" The knight laughed with misery audible in his voice. "We are being overwhelmed by a single kid."

[What?]

"All our mages and 3 healers are down!"

The knight who was talking to Commander Einar raised his sword while wandering his eyes through the thick forest surrounding them. "Where is that brat?" However, the next thing he felt was a clean slice on his neck with a scimitar. His head fell and rolled to the ground.

There were only 6 knights left.

The culprit suddenly materialized right in front of the group while squatting and chasing his own breath. His butler suit was covered in blood while his eyes were shivering in terror. However, the blood soaking his clothes was not from him.

Japheth stood up even though his entire body was trembling and raised the 2 scimitars he was holding. "This is for Agrona."

"It's him! Charge!" One of the knights shouted while rushing towards their enemy.

However, in the blink of an eye, Japheth disappeared leaving only a trace of black fog from his former position and instantly materialized right at the backline and took down the unaware preys. 2 of the knights fell. Immediately, the knights waved their swords in his location but once more he immediately disappeared in thin air and appeared behind the unsuspecting knights and sliced off their necks.

"Damn you, Brat!"

The knight rushed towards him and swung his sword but he managed to parry it using his scimitars and teleported behind the knight and sliced his nape.

As the knight fell to the ground, Japheth's breathing became heavier, and dropped his weapons and stared at his strongly shivering hands. As his enlarged shaking eyes dwelled on the corpses around him, he vomited.

Before he knew it, a knight was already behind him and about to slice him with his sword. However, suddenly, the knight fell to the ground with his body slowly turning into ashes.

"You should not let your guard down, Japheth."

"Captain?" The horror was visible on the faces of the knights as their Captain slaughtered everyone near him one after another.

With his enlarged eyes, Captain Lito watched as he cut his own subordinates in half with his own sword. "Wha- what is happening! I can't control my body!"

"Captain!"

Then, the once united troop started to murder each other. While expressing great horror on their faces.

"It's me! Don't kill me!"

"Forgive me! I can't control my own body!" The knight screamed before stabbing his own ally on his head with his own sword.

The fighting didn't last long, the entire team was wiped out by their own personnel.

"What is happening?" Captain Lito said as his hand removed his helmet and picked up a shorter sword on the ground. "This can't be!" The great terror was visible in his eyes as his own hand aimed the sword at his forehead.

The last thing heard from him was his unnerving dying scream as he stabbed his own.

The entire troop was exterminated.

"Don't let your guard down, you 2 are on the battlefield and not in a park." From the thickness of the forest, Leal emerged and stopped right in front of them. His eyebrows were furrowed while staring at Japheth and Kuro.

Both Kuro and Japheth bowed their heads. "Thanks, Master Leal."

Leal nodded at them and looked up. "This is just the start Japheth, the guilt that you are feeling right now is just proof that you indeed have a heart. Be more afraid if you didn't feel that guilt after killing a person for the first time."

Japheth nodded. "I understand, Master Leal." He furrowed his eyebrows. "However, if you know what we were talking about, does that mean you were already here eavesdropping on us from the beginning?"

Leal closed his eyes and exhaled before clearing his throat. "The war is just at its start. We should move now." And walked and ran towards the thickness of the forest.

Leaving Kuro and Japheth looking at him with their narrowing eyes.