Chapter 26:

Satoru's madness

The Legend Of Black Knight


Denying in his mind that he would be in trouble just because a little girl had joined the fight on the enemy side, so Ross drew his sword he yelled, running towards them both.

Not being afraid of being hit, so he didn't stop when Hilda moved the spear horizontally, trying to cut him because, amid all the skill that the captain had, she blocked using the sword until he saw a small weapon being thrown to try to hit like last time.

However, knowing the nature of the blow, he just backed off like that, dodging both attacks, maybe it would give him more work than he thought, but he still had cards up his sleeve if this fight went too far.

Without fear, he advanced once more, stubbornly on winning this fight as quickly as possible, he saw his enemy swing the spear once more. Knowing the basic strategy behind the attacks that he had to watch out for, Ross saw the dagger come toward him again, always keeping to what would be his blind spot, his back.

Taking advantage of the height of the spear that aimed at the lower part of his chest, he put into practice what he was taught, a secret conceived for those of higher rank.

When using mana in his muscles, he jumped and went over the spear trying to make room for the dagger to hit the air, while her body turned to the side, the same prepared for what would come next.

When he felt the ground supporting his feet, catching as much momentum as he could move his body fast enough not to give the enemy room to dodge, the knight thrust his sword in an attempt to pierce Hilda's heart.

That he didn't have a lot of time to move, so he used his free hand to hit the flat part of the sword that was coming and swerved it to the side.

Envy wasting no time, he grabbed the edge of one of the daggers and started to spin, then launched his weapon towards Ross, only this time it was faster than before, giving the opponent almost no time to dodge, causing sparks to go off when the armor was hit.

Balancing, Ross's frustration only increased, his enemy had practically the same skill level as him or even superior, having hit her earlier seemed more and more like a lucky break.

Thinking about his next move, he got distracted and left an opening for the attacks. Thus making Hilda rotate the spear and attack using a vertical movement.

When she parried the blow, using her sword to stop the spear from further defending, the difference in strength seemed too great, even for someone who had trained as much as Ross.

Daemons, who are known for their temperaments often driven by emotions, also had bodies superior to humans, especially those they trained their entire lives.

Being pressed more and more by the force of the enemy, the captain barely had time to see this time, two daggers flew towards him, so in desperation he moved his sword at the same time that he threw his body to the side, making one of the daggers collide with your weapon, but the other one hit your armor and generated a small crack.

For moving awkwardly he rolled on the ground and got up soon after hitting his hand on the ground, his anger was already at the limit of what he could bear.

"That's enough, I won't lose, FOR A BEING INFERIOR!"

Taking a deep breath, lightning began to appear around his arm and up to the blade of the sword, so Ross stood up and swung the sword horizontally as if he wanted to cut something, even though he wasn't in range.

Realizing what was to come, Hilda ran and grabbed Envy, who was taken by surprise, doing so, the lightning bolt that soon after was thrown from the sword to pass straight.

The two who were now on the ground, stood up looking at the trees with trunks burned, if the lightning had caught in one of the two, surely the chances of survival would be low.

"AAAAAAH, Shit, why don't you guys die?!"

Terrified Ross exclaimed holding his head, his skin was almost white as snow, the sweat was visible even from afar, his body was shaking to the point that he had to struggle to stop shaking, his hand was once covered by a leather glove simple, now it had only rags of what was once a hand garment.

You could even see that his hand was singed and bruised, but what was frightening was that Ross seemed to be screaming in terror and anger, not in pain, as if he didn't care.

Not quite understanding why Hilda understood by looking at the state of the hand, the lightning magic seemed to demand too much of the user's body, maybe it was newfound magic, or even Ross himself was just a test, the one that mattered, is that this magic was strong in this state, in its full form, it would be overwhelming.

"AAAAAAAH, DISAPPEAR AT ONCE!"

Holding the sword in both hands, several larger beams began to be scattered by the sword, hitting trees, shooting toward the leafy sky, or even the ground.

Afraid of what was to come, Hilda didn't have much time to reason, the armor that covered the human soldier's arms was already starting to melt, he had gone mad.

The blade of the sword glowed like lightning amid a storm, a beautiful glow and at the same time deadly.

Everything happened in less than 10 seconds, when Ross, during his madness, no longer controlled or where the magic would go, he couldn't even stop anymore, his body then lost strength, and his hand opened, the magic before still contained by wire, there was nothing else holding it.

Seeing the sword fall to the ground, Hilda felt the flow of magic spread all over the place, seeing that she wouldn't have time to avoid what was to come, she just hugged Envy while covering her thus protecting her from the great explosion that devastated everything.

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Without understanding his existence, Satoru heard laughter, whining, screams of horror, and even voices that wanted to tempt him in different ways.

Not being able to understand what was happening, suddenly his mind, which before was devastated, seemed to restructure and little by little his senses returned to respond to the commands of his mind when finally his vision cleared.

The scene that unfolded in front of him seemed impossible, but there were all the colossal figures, cut by a strange light, it had no fixed color, it alternated countless times like a rainbow, which made even less sense because of the fact of that being space, where the light shouldn't even be possible to be seen.

Afraid, he looked up, and the supreme figure from before was no longer there, just a cube the size of a grown man's hand, wandering through the void.

Before he knew it, Satoru saw a humanoid figure walking, but for some reason, he couldn't identify who or what, so soon the figure's hand moved and cut the air with Satoru.

Startled, the young man suddenly opened his frightened eyes and raised his upper body, seeing that he seemed to have returned to the other world, he looked at his own hands, still in the form of armor, his face seemed to have returned to human form.

Looking around at the bodies of soldiers, hundreds of bodies, which had lost their color, being taken over only by a strange and uncomfortable white, which was unnatural.

When he got up, Satoru once again felt the fear of himself and what he was capable of doing and still had no idea of his full potential.

Suddenly, a gigantic thunderbolt erupted in the forest, and the crash was heard from miles away. Afraid of what might have happened, he seemed to forget everything that had happened around him and got up running in the direction of where the lightning came from.

Going as fast as he could, Satoru entered the forest and went first towards the city, then he soon saw the fire spreading among the trees, so he swung his sword and dispersed the mist towards the fire, which was absorbed.

However, no one seemed to have noticed his presence, the fight between soldiers of the kingdom and the elves, showed clear superiority of the soldiers, even though their number was much smaller than before.

In a hurry, Satoru used all the fog of embers he had and created some arrows by his arm and then launched them towards several soldiers who screamed in pain as they were hit, not dead but incapacitated.

Surprised, the elves saw the young human from earlier, in his black armor, firing black projectiles that pierced the enemies, giving them an extra edge, but before they could say anything, a voice came from above.

"Hilda went towards the lightning, go, we'll take care of the rest!"

Shooting an arrow and hitting an enemy he hid behind a tree, which Satoru had no vision of, then the voice of a dark elf he'd known for some time, Gileon wielding her bow.

Nodding, Satoru continued on his way past everyone, the destruction of the beam then turned out to be very large, trees destroyed everywhere, the dust already settled, until he reached the center from which such power had emerged.

Seeing a charred body lying on the ground, Satoru couldn't even recognize it anymore, even though he knew who the person was, at that moment the body was decaying and unrecognizable.

Suddenly, he heard what sounded like the sound of someone crying, when he looked to the side, his entire body froze, as if protecting someone, Hilda's back which was all burned from the explosion.

She had taken a direct hit, even though her stamina was greater than anyone else's, not even she could resist such unbridled power. Not wanting to believe what she saw, suddenly one of Hilda's wings moved and Envy came out with tears in her eyes.

When she saw Satoru stopping looking astonished, she started calling to him that nothing seemed to hear, and he approached slowly, when she touched the body, there was no heat, only cold skin.

Moving her carefully, a part of her face had also been burned, and deep wounds as if hit by several projectiles, one of her eyes was blind, the other was hard to tell.

With blood almost covering her entire body, she seemed to be breathing hard, no one knew how long she would last in such a deplorable state.

“Sa…to…”

“DO NOT FORCE, I'LL TAKE YOU TO THE TOWN!”

As if waking up suddenly, Satoru lifted the body of his partner, his family, and started to run, but then, he felt a hand touching his face, not understanding what was happening, Hilda smiled in a way that the young man did not understand why.

Unable to contain the sadness any longer, as the woman's hand lost strength, Satoru began to cry, as soon as she closed her eyes and lost her strength, not knowing what to do, he fell to the ground on his knees.

What was going on, he must have been wondering, what kind of death was this, the woman he carries hadn't even had her last moments to say anything, she had simply died there in his hands, giving him no chance of doing anything.

How unfair was that, someone who hadn't even had really happy moments in her life was finally enjoying it, but it was too late, as she couldn't even understand everything she felt, and now she had died protecting what she most treasured. without even being able to say goodbye.

Without realizing it, the emotions overflow one by one, what had never really healed, now showed itself in broad daylight, exploding, the sadness and anger that just seemed to devastate everything without any shame.

Unable to take it any longer, the young man's screams echoed all over the place, even those who were farther away could hear and witness, cries of pure despair converging little by little into the purest hatred that could exist, the contempt for the lives of those who they only brought with them pain.

Which, Satoru no longer even seemed to care, when putting the body on the ground, he stood up and with black eyes that shed tears and more tears in sequence.

His body shuddered and several black tentacles showed themselves, disgusting and bizarre, he didn't look like something alive, but a kind of incomprehensible demon.

Spreading slowly, they lifted the inert body of the young man and advanced towards the battlefield, bringing with them all the madness of someone who seemed to care about nothing.

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