Caution: (There is gore in this chapter)
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David wakes up lazily from the rough wooden bed, patting the sleeping figure next to him, rousting the figure awake from her slumber. Escaping from the comfy fur blanket, David struts outside, taking a swig of water from the nearby well, seemingly ignoring the cold bodies lying nearby, bathing in their own blood.
Rousting from the warm bed, a lithe figure rises, scratching her brunette hair as she slipped off the blanket, uncovering an elegant figure fully armored in dark leather, several places tainted with brownish spots.
Yawning as she strutted to David, she stepped on the hand of an unknown body, crushing its bones and tearing its tendons, casually getting herself a swig of ice cold water as well.
"The air sure is crisp today" Exclaimed David as he proceeded to slip out a few pieces of hard bread, chomping on them with occasional sips of water to wash them down.
"Uhm" Answered Kannette before also grabbing a piece of bread from David's pack, chomping on them dry, an unwise decision.
"Ugh" Kannette groaned before casually grabbing David's cup, drowning its contents before sighing in relief. Watching her, David was amused as he sniggered before filling another cup with water, continuing his meal.
Around them, groups of kids doing their business. Some are also having their meal, some are grabbing a few bodies and piling them up in the corner, some are sharpening their weapons, some are using their war axes to dismember the bodies before throwing them onto a pool of pungent red liquid that seemed to be boiling in silence.
Finishing their meal, David and Kannette also proceeded to grab the bodies in the house that they stayed in, throwing some of them to the pile, some to the blood red pool.
Grabbing the head of the body, David seemed to be unbothered by their grayish murky eyes, emotions of anger and despair frozen on their unmoving faces. Grabbing the stiff and strangely heavy body, David dragged its body closer to the pool before placing its head onto a nearby log. Grabbing his heavy saber from his waist, he took a breath before raising it high over his head, decisively cutting down onto the neck.
A misaligned blade, the head hung stubbornly to the body by the spinal cord. Annoyed, David took another swing, this time using the back of the blade to crack the now brittle bones before taking another swing. A clean cut this time.
The head rolled down from the log, yet it didn't stop, mysteriously continuing their inertia, slowly but surely rolling towards the blood pool before disappearing without a ripple.
Unbothered with the disturbing actions, David proceeded to rotate the body before taking more swings, amputating the 4 limbs of the said body before kicking them towards the pool, leaving the body in a state of what could be described as a meat nugget.
What was peculiar was the fact that no matter how much they brutalized the bodies, no blood seemed to spill or splatter, in fact there was no blood to be seen at all. Everything seemed to have an almost inhuman, mechanical feel at the actions of the kids, as if this was an automated action, a factory of death and blood.
Grabbing a little body, Kannette decided that her rapier wouldn't be useful in this task, she grabbed a heavy meat cleaver on one of the bodies before bisecting the body with a single cut, tossing the two halves near the pool before grabbing another body from the pile.
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Beside the rhythmic sound of thuds and steps, the air seemed to be still with an empty silence.
There was nothing, there was no chirping of birds, of the rustle of wind against the purple and blue leaves, time seemed to have been frozen over the small village.
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David Dawn
Race - Human - Male -
Age - 21
Battle Power: Level 0 (mortal)
Strength - 7 - Level 0 (mortal)
Agility - 9 - Level 0 (mortal)
Life - 6 - Level 0 (mortal)
Perception - 5 - Level 0 (mortal)
Intelligence - ? → ? Level 0 (mortal)
Active Skills:
Passive Skills:
Kickboxing → Flow of combat (Uncommon → Uncommon)
+Chain your techniques
Facade (Rare)
+Controls emotions and expressions
Daydream ( Epic)
+Immersion into the Unreal
+Complementary ability: To be or not to be (Epic) - LOCKED -
Sprinter (Common)
+Sprint faster
Abilities:
–Null–
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