The Shadow Monarch Izuku Midoriya

Ch 45: Red Gate Part 5

"Talk"

'Thought'

[System]

His teammates were screaming left and right. Tetsu's eyes were wide open.

That he, Kim Tetsu, would fail like this! He was someone would become Howaitotaiga's elite. He had even received special training for that goal. And now, he was going to fail?! The A-ranker could not accept it.

Their party had endured the cold and hunger and fought with yetis. After that were the ice giants. They had lost two of their members but managed to prevail against them too. The Raid appeared to be going smooth.

The moment they had triumphed over the ice giants, the White Walkers ambushed them from all directions, as if they had been waiting. Those bastards had been watching their party, waiting for their stamina to hit rock bottom. What followed was a massacre. The Hunters fell, one after another, in an instant, "L-leader!"

A fallen Hero stretched a bloodied hand toward Tetsu. Tetsu stepped backwards. A White Walker appeared out of nowhere and slit the throat of the Hero on the ground. While the man gurgled and choked on his own blood, the White Walker raised his head towards Tetsu. The A-ranker screamed.

He turned around and ran into the forest. The forest had ice bears? Those bears were nothing compared to the yetis, ice giants and the White Walkers. Tetsu ran with all of his might. Watching his figure disappear into the distance, the White Walkers raised their bows and took aim. But before they could fire, a White Walker raised his hand and stopped them. It was an ice elf with hair flowing down to his waist. The other White Walkers lowered their bows.

The long hair pointed and gestured to follow Tetsu. One by one, the other White Walkers disappeared from sight.

Tetsu leaped through a bush.

His lungs felt like they were on fire. The image of the White Walkers that smiled while slaughtering his teammates was still fresh on his mind. The man looked down at his hands. The frostbitten hands were losing their sense of touch. His toes had long since lost all feeling. He could not fight properly in his current condition, 'This damn cold... No, if we just didn't starve for the past few days, we would've won.'

To the bitter end, Tetsu could not acknowledge his failure. While muttering to himself, Tetsu raised his head, 'Anyways, how deep am I into the forest?'

He looked around. The smell of blood poked at his nose from somewhere. The man followed the smell. It was close. Moving through the trees, he came upon a clearing and could not believe his eyes, 'How is this possible?'

In front of the caves were over 20 ice bear corpses. He had wondered why he hadn't come across a single bear!

Tetsu said, "What the?"

He studied the corpses. All the corpses had traces of being cut with something. Some of them also had traces of being burned. Izuku Midoriya and his party flashed across Tetsu's head, "It can't be... those bastards did this?"

No. Tetsu shook his head. The wounds on the corpses of the ice bears were made with a sword. To his knowledge, Izuku Midoriya's party did not have a sword user, 'The two E-rankers didn't even have a weapon.'

There was no way they had survived here. Then there was only one other conclusion, 'The White Walkers are also here!'

His heart sank. He had thought that he managed to get away from those elves. To think that he had wandered into another group of them. With a great fear in his heart, Tetsu held his breath and turned back to the direction he had come from.