Author note: Sorry for the delay, I want to say that sometimes I will release a chapter a day late, I will need some time to think about the story and characters.

Chapter 5 - Decision -

I’m surrounded by a sea of flames, the heat is burning my flesh but i don’t feel any pain. I stand on top of a mountain of corpses, crying, not because the pain but because i lost everything, a sea of corpses under a sea of flames are the only things i can see, and I, the last one standing, I won the war, just me won the war, even though there were so many countries and millions of soldiers, only I am alive. So many died and what for? No one know why this war started, but no one tried to stop it. I was the only one who fought to stop it, alone, but my power was not enough, because my power was not enough now I am the last one alive. I felt on my back, I don’t have any more strength and I don’t have a reason to live, I let the flames to devour my body, bringing my life to an end. If I were to be reborn, I want to remember this fight so in my next life I won’t lose anything anymore, I will protect the ones I love creating a world where I am the ruler, destroying everything on my way. I will start a war to create a world for the ones I love.

[Very well, I will grant your wish.]

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[...ke.. .p..]

I could hear something.

[H.. wa..e up..]

Someone is speaking to me.

[Evil, wake up!]

I opened my eyes and I found Nele and Nari looking at me with tears in their eyes.

[Hey, good morning.]

I said smiling briefly.

[WHAT GOOD MORNING! W-When we waked up you were sweating and screaming in pain, but no meter how much we tried to wake you up you just wouldn’t open your eyes!]

[What happened? Did you have a nightmare?]

Nightmare? I think i had one, but i can’t remember.

[I think so, I can’t remember but I have the feeling I had a nightmare.]

Yes, I had a nightmare, a painful one, but i can’t remember.

[We were so worried *sob* we *sob* didn’t know what to do *sob*.]

Nari started to cry, we were together for a short time but they are crying for me. I think I have underestimated those girls.

[Sorry, I’m fine now, I just had a nightmare.]

I have the feeling that I need to remember that dream, but no meter how much i tried, i can’t. If it’s important I’m sure I’ll remember, maybe.

After hearing my words they calmed a bit, and after a bit we packed our stuff and resumed our journey. This time the girls grabbed my hand with more strength than before.

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After a hour we were stopped by a heartquake, the movement of the earth and the rhythm of the sound coming from not too far away was strangely familiar.

I knew what this sound was, it was the sound of an army approaching. Nele and Nari looked at me as if asking what to do, but I kept on walking not minding the approaching danger. This was an unexpected fortune.

[Whatever will happen don’t leave my side, grab my arms and don’t let go.]

The girls did as I said not understanding my intentions. I decided to protect those girls, and to do that this was the first, necessary step.

After a while the army appeared at a hundred of meters in front of us, as i thought it was an army of humans. I kept on walking.

As there were no more than ten meters between us, a man riding a horse, probably their captain, raises his hand while saying something at his soldiers, then dropped it. Tens of arrows were shot, at the same moment, flying toward us tearing the air. I kept on walking, the arrows broke as if they hit a wall made of iron, I used only one blade to broke them all, instantly, for them should have looked as if the arrow hit an invisible wall because the blade was to fast for them to see. Then an idea hit me, I grabbed Nele and Nari with my hands and lifted them, then kicking the ground I shooted myself forward, causing an explosion in the place I was a moment ago, leaving afterimages behind me I kept on kicking the ground, increasing my speed. It was a one sided massacre, the soldiers marched in a straight line on the road. With two blades in a “>” shape to move the soldiers out of my way, then I extended a blade on my left and one on my right in a straight line, covering a twenty meters area, then using the momentum of my speed I sliced through every soldier in my way. Kicking the ground I launched myself faster than an arrow, the soldiers couldn’t even react. Their armours were meaningless, my blades were too sharp for them, everything on their way was cut in half, there was a mage with a magic shield around him but when my blade touched the shield it disappeared, then I understood, my blades ignores every defense, they are a weapon who cut through anything.

It took me 2 minutes, in 2 minutes I covered a distance of 5 kilometers killing almost all the soldiers, I could have gone faster but that will have harmed the girls.

I let the girls go, they were not scared nor pained for the death of so many lives. They just looked at me with a smile and then grabbed my hands. They are becoming stronger.

I didn’t killed every soldier, I left alive some of them so they could tell others what happened today. This was only the start, the humans will start to fear me while their enemies will become my allies. Finally I understood what I want to do.

But first, we need more power and allies, not just me, I have to train Nele and Nari too. I want to make this world mine, and to do that, I need to destroy their current ruler, the humans.