Chapter 112: Human Only

Sena arises the sword of hers to cut the hand of the elven. The elven had his hand slashed and it fell right on the ground below. Before he could act the sword of Astra cleaved on his shoulders, a burning pain, and an agonizing scream sounded out as the elf gets slashed into two.

The elf was like blooming power. Sena had her body wetted with blood. Disgusting, why does it always happen. She thought. Landing on the battlements of the fortress she glances at the soldiers running to her direction. She raised her sword Astra up in the sky. Her hands were holding the hilt of the sword Astra, she slightly parted her legs away and then beamed of golden light appeared on her sword.

“Golden Stars, bellow for me!”

The sword of Astra sucked in the light from the sky. The dark elven forest quickly felt that there was a blast of wind that cleared the smoke around the elven forest. The smoke was cleared and along with it reveals the dead elves lying around. The soldiers stabbed their swords around the helpless elves. The banners of the lords were being raised everywhere and before long a flag containing the sun’s crown is carried towards the elven forest.

Sena’s eyes glimmered. Her golden eyes shined brightly. Her hair swayed with the breeze and the energy she gathered was already amassing too much energy. However, the beam of light continued growing until it reached the same height as the fortress. Then, transparent ripples appeared roundly behind Sena’s back. The blades of light appeared and it started to target the whole fortress.

A sharp thorny like circle appeared below Sena’s feet. This circle glowed goldenly and it looked like it was the sun’s crown. Sena bit her lip as controls the overwhelming energy pressing her down. Then, taking a step forward, she slashed her sword downward and the golden beam of light fell upon the fortress, cleaving it in half.

The blades of light that appeared in the mirror then flew towards everywhere like a magic rain. These weapons stabbed without mercy against the elven fortress and the elves hiding were impaled and killed. The gates holding the city behind the fortress trembled badly. Sena took another step forward and the burst of her mana erupted wildly enough to break the barrier and the gates that were blocking the city from invasion. Once the gates were slice in two. Sena then lets loose her blade of lights and the citizens and the normal elven that was cowering behind the wall gates of the fortress trembled. It was a rain of blade lights and each blade would hit someone and they would have their organs ripped or heads burst.

The soldiers down below had already and like ants they penetrated the gates of the city, shouting loudly as they can. Sena could see the thousands of soldiers enter and without any energy, she slid down on the battlements. Then, a figure appeared before her, she recognizes the banner lord and nodded for him to go.

The banner lord then rushed to the city while commanding the others to secure the fortress that was just cleaved in two.

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Sena sat on the battlements quietly. Looks like my white cape is blood red again, she thought.

“It has always been like this. Back then, I would always think that the battlefield would earn me glory. Yet now I feel like a tired old horse that has been used for too long.”

She helplessly smiled and muttered.

“That knight that saved me that day, she was fierce and firm. Yet, her eyes were filled with sadness. I always find her as a role model and the dream of mine was because of that knight. Did she suffer things like this too? Did she have to slaughter hundreds too? Hey, Astra, tell me, you also save me from death once. You whose back was so firm despite being little, why were you so bright and shining? Why is my back inferior compared to yours? Hey, Astra, tell me, why is my white cape blood red?”

She said vexingly.

“Isn’t those who save should have their cape white and pure? Tell me, why is my cape so red? I only wanted to become something silly. I always adored and even felt like I wanted to become someone like her and you Astra, who was there to protect me from dire. Tell me, did I diverge from my path? Did I become a monster instead of a knight in shining armor? Hey...”

She said sadly. Sena was supposed to be happy that her attack cleaved the way to victory. In her eyes, she could see the battle happening quickly and ferociously. Shouts of the elves resounded and their despair echoed. The men of the south roared with a victory. The ashes began to rise and the fire spread to the once beautiful elven land.

The giant mother tree that full golden lights bloomed red. Sena stared at the mother tree. The sun’s crown and the Church of Light considered the tree as sacred so there was no one that would dare to burn the tree or at least try to harm it. Sena sat with her back pressed on the battlements. No desire, no willingness to move.

She doesn’t regret her actions. She merely is depressed that she becomes a blood-soaked warrior. She wanted to become the knight in shining armor yet she became the bloody templar that purges those are below them.

“Why me...”

A sob escaped her mouth. The Sena Saclea of the House of Saclea, one of the leaders of the New Order of Light, the Astra Knight that grants victory with her shining sword, the figure unmatched within the fields of battle, adored, unbending and undefeated, sobbed tearfully within the battlements of the elven fortress.

Strong as she was, brave as she was, and her heart as hard as steel. There was something that most people would miss. They thought of Sena as perfect but there was something they were wrong.

She was just human.