Chapter 15 – Night Attack (2)

~~ Cecil Point of View ~~

I was called by the captain again to work, it seems this time our troops would just go to the nearby forest.

Frankly the monsters there are weak, they hardly are worth my time, but Windser insists and I somewhat submit, it’s not like I had nothing better do to anyway.

We took a lot of time entering the forest from the other side in a roundabout way, which I didn’t really understood why, but when seeing the purple fog irradiated at night by the forest, I finally got it.

It’s the mana burst effect.

Usually the mana stays inside of the plane, and only emerges after being purified in specific crossings of leylines, where they make them into special spots where the mana flows to the surface.

In this plane, most of the big cities were constructed in the top of those places, this way they could block the mana from leaving the city, therefore making the monsters outside the cities starve. It was a great idea, good job whoever thought about it.

Well, moving on, mana burst is the phenomenon which the mana forcefully burst out of the plane, since it went out on its own, instead of the proper place in the crossings, this mana is wild and the principal case of the appearance of new mutations, like these plants, or monsters born out of the raging mana themselves after a wandering soul is sucked by this furious stream.

By the way, every monster has a soul like a human, elf or a dwarf, but since they were born of the twisted mana, they can only act like mad animals, therefore monsters.

Well, it seems that they can obtain intellect if they become strong enough, in this plane those guys are the so called perfect monsters, but those guys are equal to psychopaths that were twisted due to their ‘extreme raising’ conditions since as long as they remember, therefore it’s not like I had any remorse while ending this cycle of their soul.

Anyway,

When we were in the forest waiting for the mana burst loses its effect, so we could investigate inside the forest, we saw a boy, he was younger and a little shorter than me, although he doesn’t stand out, his pure golden eyes were particularly captivating.

He said he was going to Muno from the capital and the forest was the shortest path with a straight face, what a little chap, was he trying to be a comedian?

We talked a little and he told us about the monsters going wildly, capt looked worried remembering some past events.

It seems the mana burst in this region isn’t exactly news and Muno fort city was attacked several times by sudden outburst of monsters.

Well, that’s obvious, if you guys don’t fix the mana burst problem, the monster will keep mutating.

I didn’t say that to capt though.

Out of nowhere, the golden eyed boy declared he would follow us until Muno as payment for the info, is this little guy crazy? He is sticking with us who have to deal with this problem?

Someone beat some sense on him!

I wouldn’t do it though.

Well, since it’s interesting I keep quiet. The capt looks at me and I pretend to not know anything. He has this incredible look of reprimanding me for not shooing him, but I kept quiet since the little chap is interesting.

What’s more, using my mana to check the fog, I saw that the boy has golden mana, like his eyes.

It seems he was a martyr.

Well, he got the blessing in the ending, so I guess that balance the things. Well, it’s not like me to meddle in other people lives. He probably doesn’t remember it too.

While thinking such things we proceed to enter the forest, we were greeted right after by a wolf pack. They looked so thin, are you guys eating properly? They kept attacking our boys and dying easily, I could hardly get excited, until I saw a big wolf.

This big guy looks like the boss. Guess I should kill him to let those poor puppies flee? Let’s use a little power.

I moved easily while dodging their attacks and putting those starved puppies out of their misery. When I got near the big wolf, I jumped and used my mana to attack him with a thunder.

He got electrocuted by my magic and fell, hey hey hey, already? Uahhh, weak.

Without wanting to waste much time, I simple stabbed him, at this time I felt a chill, when I turned out to see, the capt was looking at me with serious eyes, as if saying ‘here you go again’, sorry capt.

On the other hand, the golden boy was staring in awe, it seemed like he couldn’t believe I took this big puppy so fast, sorry boy, this is hardly worth the time. Well, it’s not like I have anything better to do, so let’s go with the victory pose for now.

Moving through the forest we saw a lot of plant monsters, the capt said to dispose of them, so I did. The other boys and girls were working hard, so I showed my valor and started going a little more wild.

After some groups I was suddenly ambushed! Well, you guys will need a hundred more to touch me though.

I easily deal with them, but I saw some weird flowers on the head of the goblin, so I threw to the capt deal with it. Then I used a little of power and burned everyone.

Talking with the capt, he said those monsters were being controlled like zombies by parasite plants inside their brains, uhhh, creepy. Let’s kill those things fast.

The afternoon was like that, just dealing with the plants, I don’t know how much died at my hands, at least hundreds, probably.

Yet I could hardly feel my mana surging, guess plants don’t have souls, this was a total waste of time, really! Well, even if they did, I guess I would need to kill thousands to have some effect since they are so weak, boring.

Night falls, capt tell us to wait, I spend some time chatting with the golden boy and the cap, but nothing happens really, so I slept a little.

In the middle of the night I awake when I notice the earth trembling a little, what was that?

Focusing my mana on the eyes, I saw hundreds upon hundreds of monsters coming.

Hey, who let the plants out? Seriously.

“It can’t be helped, guess it’s time to be a little serious, after all capt will cry if he loses his men, right?”

Then I focused my sight on capt and told him with my eyes ‘do your work’, he looked really displeased, so I showed my back to him and walked towards the monsters.

Moments later I felt the surge of divine energy running through my body.

Fufufufu, you can’t win against me capt. But since we were in a pinch, I decided to not tease him anymore and do my job.

But I have to say again, although he is still unpolished while fighting, his blessings are really strong, he’s probably going to reach Riviera in this cycle, huh?

Suddenly dozens of vines flashed towards me, whoa, guess it’s not the time to be distracted thinking about such a silly things.

I use my coated sword and cut the nearby zombie plant goblin, my attack was aimed toward his flower head. Without much trouble I make his head split in two, like I’m using a knife to split butter.

There’s blood everywhere, disgusting. Let’s turn up the heat so they become coal in the same instant.

After that, every attack killed monsters and they didn’t splashed blood, but simple turned into completely burned things, hahaha, success!

I stop to make a victory pose, but when I look, there’s no one viewing. Uhhh… embarrassing, let’s stop this for now and focus on the little guys.

I use my sword without stop, when I notice, everything around me is dead, whoa, did I played too much?

At that time I felt the earth trembling once more, when I look up, there’s a really tall carnivorous plant, those things are normally a meter tall, but this guy easily reach a least three store tall building.

I can’t let this guy mess with the others, so let’s burn him a little. I pull the sword back in the scabbard. When the sword is in sheathed my magic becomes stronger, because the inscriptions of the scabbard, it’s basically like a 2 in 1 sword-wand.

Let’s use a little spin this time to be easier to pierce. The mana in the tip of the handle started rotating fast, then I separate then into ten parts, every of those transform into flame lances.

“[Fire Bolt]”

The energy blasts from my sword handle like arrows and pierce the great body of this tall bastard. The arrows stuck in his insides and burn him. While I’m still controlling my mana, he tries to use his mana to quench my fire, do you really think I would you do that?

I make the lance energy go wild and explode inside the giant plant, making parts of him flew everywhere.

Disgusting, let’s flee from here. I move towards a place near the capt, there I saw he was being beaten badly by a few dryads.

“You guys are really helpless without me…”

I can’t let this opportunity pass, as I act smug and saw the captain pissed face, while he is enduring yelling at me.

“Hahaha! Calm down capt, it was just a joke”

With a jump I moved towards the dryads that was messing with them, in a instant I was behind them, looking from close, they really look like people, I wonder if there’s a soul inside this one.

I unsheathed my sword and easily pierce their bodies, they didn’t even knew I was here until they died, but knowing monsters have great vitality, I use the heat of my blade to burn them while at it.

The guys from the formation look at me with astonished eyes.

Uhh, guess I was a little too serious? I didn’t do anything though, strange.

I better stay low in the other fights.

Still, I didn’t feel anything after killing them, in the end their souls weren’t here, it looks like each of those monsters were just a puppet without souls, even if plant monsters are aberrations, to not have even one with a soul, it seems suspicious, especially the normal monsters which had the parasites.

I wonder if the Moon Dryad sucked their souls to control them.

Looking at the surrounding and seeing there was still plenty of those weak monsters there, I couldn’t help but sigh. Why do I have to kill those guys when they are only puppets?

Well, at least the guys from the middle finally started moving to fight, guess I should take a break here.

So I move towards the middle and look to capt and the boy, asking.

“The soldiers can handle them now, right? I’m hungry”

Seeing the captain ‘I give up’ face always makes me giggle, furthermore the boy is looking at me passionately, maybe he likes strong people? Well, he’s kinda messed in the head, maybe that’s it… But if you’re having a crush, sorry golden boy, you will need at least another cycle for that.