The first day here at the forest of giants, I started choosing the 30 giants that I will take with me. In the morning, the first giant that I talked with before came and asked me to choose the giants. By the way that giant’s name is Kino. I was surprised because I thought that they will just randomly give me anyone. So I took our adventurer’s team with me for the selection of giants.

“Hmmm….I can’t seem to find any difference.” Keena said.

“Ha, you just don’t have eyes like real warriors.” Brant said while putting his hands on his waist.

“Yeah, I don’t have eyes like real virgins.”

Carlos and Brant dropped their shoulders down as Keena hit his nerve again. Even I am starting to feel bad for them now. It’s weird that they didn’t even go to a brothel or something. It’s seem to be common in this world. Oh well, let’s leave that for now.

“I think we should ask them. It’s better if we take the ones who wants to come with us.” Daniel said.

I think he is right. If we choose someone who didn’t want to come with us then it’ll create problems later on. So I ask them to raise their hands if they want to fight with us. Most of them raised their hands.

“Wow there is a lot of them. Ok, the ones who didn’t raise their hands can go.”

After that there was somewhat 70 of them. Since we couldn’t come up with anything, we decide to ask Kino for advice. It told us about 50 of the best warriors. So we came down to 50 giants. We still have to remove 20 giants. That’s when one of them spoke.

“HUMAN TAKE ME..I WANT TO FIGHT..”

“eh..yes we are thinking about that.”

“NO HUMAN TAKE ME..” Another giant spoke out.

“I WANT TO FIGHT…”

“I WILL FIGHT TOO…”

Soon enough almost all of them started shouting. Kino started to calm them down. It seems they all didn’t like what Bristol family and kingdom are doing with their forest. So when they heard about me fighting them and asking giants to join me, they were all excited.

It took us a quite a while before we ended up choosing 30 giants. It was hard to calm down the giants who we didn’t select. But since it was Elder’s order, they didn’t show much resistance.

After that we waited for Rodrik and everyone else to come here. Of course, they also teleported like us in the forest. Rodrik who realized his mistake could only apologize. We also didn’t say much about it because it turned out better for us.

As the days went by we organized our forces. The mercenaries who we have hired were scared of giants but after some time it didn’t affect them much. From there we counted days until it was time for our battle.

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At the Bristol castle…

Somewhere in the Bristol castle was a room for it’s master, the General Nestor Bristol. Currently, the room is filled with noises.

“ah...ah...ah...yes..masterrrrr…”

The woman with the black hair moaned loudly as his master took her roughly from behind. The woman named Meryl who betrayed her previous master Lisa Birnmin showed a look of ecstasy as Nestor pounded her like crazy. They were like animals hungry for each other’s body. It doesn’t feel like there is any love or that sort of emotion in Nestor for Meryl. To him she was just his plaything.

But Meryl was satisfied with just that. She was five years old when she was brought as a slave by Bristol family. She always loved Nestor ever since she was a kid. When Nestor turned 14 year old his fiancee broke his marriage with him. Meryl was delighted and angry at the same time. She was happy that now there was no one between her and Nestor but angry at how that Lisa girl refused Nestor.

It was then Nestor told her to stay with Birnmin family and become Lisa’s personal maid. She was confused at first but she soon realized that it was Nestor’s plan to keep an eye on Lisa. So she became Lisa’s personal maid. She work hard on keeping the mask of good and loyal maid on her. It was all for her real master Nestor.

It was hard to hold herself whenever Lisa talked bad about Nestor but she held it in. Both Nestor and Meryl waited for the chance. Nestor wanted Lisa. Meryl knew it and she also wanted her master’s happiness. She was fine even if she is his plaything.

She never liked Lisa. She thought of her as someone annoying. If it wasn’t for the fact that Nestor wanted her, she would have killed Lisa by now for speaking badly of Nestor. So when Den and Lisa ran away from their home, Meryl immediately notified Nestor. It was their chance. They acted upon it. Nestor is still waiting for the brainwashing collar to complete it’s work. But Meryl doesn’t care about it. She was just happy that she doesn’t have to act like a mad for anyone anymore and now she can live with her master Nestor. She never refused Nestor. She never complained about her treatment whether as a maid or in the bed at night. She just wanted Nestor to embrace her and keep her with him.

“ah….master...I love you..”

After they finished with their deed, Nestor got up from the bed and sat on a chair thinking about something. Meryl came close to him.

“What’s the matter, master?”

“It’s been a week since I put that collar on her. She is still showing resistance. It’s quite admirable, but it’s taking a lot of time.”

“But eventually she will give up right.”

“yes, but the longer it take, harder it is going to be for us. Do you really think that Birnmin family is not doing anything? They must be planning something. That’s why I want to completely make her mine before anything happens.”

“Don’t worry, master. She will become yours just like I have been yours always.”

Nestor got up from his chair and took her to bed again. Their night continued for a long time after that.

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At a room in the Nestor’s castle….

A girl lied down on a bed and looked at ceiling with hollow eyes. The pain she was feeling for days has suddenly vanished. It was more like she can’t feel anything at all. There is no fear like before nor pain. There is no emotion at all.

Even though there is a dim light in the room in this night, she could only see darkness.That was all on her mind, deep darkness with a sense of nothingness. She felt empty. She felt she has lost something important. Something that she should know. But she can’t recall it even after trying so hard.

She knows that she has to fight. But she doesn’t know against what or why. All she knew that she felt lonely. Even though there should be no emotion inside her, she felt this strange uneasiness. It’s like a voice telling her to not to give up. Was that her own voice? She doesn’t know it. But she felt that it is right to do what it says.

But still she knew she was losing herself more and more. That’s why she wanted someone to save her. But who will it be? There are some images in her mind. But she doesn't remember them. All she wants is that for someone to take this loneliness away. Someone to be the light that erases this darkness.

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One week has gone ever since we came to this forest. Our preparations are complete. We have all the things we need.

“Sir, I have come back to report..”

The scout we sent earlier has come back.

“Tell me….”

“It is just like we assumed. There strength may be 4000 to 5000. Also they have proper equipment for castle defense.”

“Good, go back and take some rest..”

“Yes, sir..”

I looked behind me. There was Aria, our adventurers team, Rodrik and Gena, mercenaries, giants and other people we got from our connections. A total of 730. It’s much lesser than their army. But we have element of surprise in our hands. We have also planned this out well. We also have 30 giants with us, which will be a big advantage.

“Time has come….”

I shouted out loud for everyone to hear.

“Time has come to fight. Our side is weak in number but strong in will. The will to protect what is yours, the will to get revenge, the will to fight, the will to win and will to get someone back. So let’s show them that there is no one can stop this will. You see that castle over there, let’s burn it and destroy it, let’s go on top of it and raise our flag on it. Let’s show them who is the stronger here. So are you with me…”

“YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…………………….. “

A big shout was returned to me. Well I guess that was good enough for my speech skills. I looked at the night sky. We chose the night to be the best time for this battle. We are going to finish this till morning. I breathed the fresh cold air.

“Den..” Rodrik said to me.

“Let’s save Lisa..”

“yeah, let’s do it…”

I take my sword out and point it towards the castle. Soon my army begins running at the castle. This battle has begun. I closed my eyes. I remembered the moment when I fought with Nestor last time. I remembered his maid Meryl killing Aria. I remembered how desperate I was. I remembered how angry I was.

“ma-master..” Aria said.

“That’s scary..” Keena said

“You look even more sexier..” Crista said.

My expression must have turned into like a devil. I opened my eyes and looked at the castle in front of me. I showed a devilish smile filled with anger and killing intent.

“Be ready. I am coming for you, Nestor.”