The Light in Abyss【OC Story】✵The Eminence in Shadow✵

Chapter 2 - Shadow Garden

Amidst the dark forest...

"Keep drinkin', you louts! Today's raid was a great success!"

Drinking around the campfire enjoying themselves were the typical bandits merrily boasting about their recent raid on a merchant caravan.

"Walking around the forest at night with all that art shit on him, merchants are getting pretty careless I say." One tipped.

"Ya catch glimpse of that hag's face as she croaked?"

"Yeah, she was all like 'Please let my son live!', man what a joke!"

They talk about the pleasure that they had when they plundered those innocent people who worked hard to earn a living. With them being bandits, they didn't give a shit about their efforts at all. All they cared about were the money and valuables that they can sell, not sparing a single ounce of mercy onto the innocent.

Bandits, heap shit of scum that deserves to be... punished.

"So then I said, 'If ya wanna live, show me yer valuables-"

*crash*

"W-Wha?! What the hell was that?!"

A resounding crash erupts in the middle of their camp, clouding the area with smoke and dust. Seconds pass as the smoke finally clears, the startled bandits look over to the log tables and saw a cloaked figure with a detested smile.

"Whoo fuckin' hoo! Evening, bitches! If ya wanna live, show me yer valuables!!!" That cloaked figure who's acting like a real dick is none other than my brother, Cid. "I told you to bring out gold dammit! You there jump for me!"

A random bandit then started jumping like a lunatic, probably scared shit.

"W-What's this guy's deal-AARGH!" Another bandit yelped in pain as a dagger pierced through his abdomen.

They all look in shock as I make my entrance from the shadows, my overcoat flailing through the wind.

"What's wrong? The moment you're prepared to stab innocents, you must be prepared to be stabbed yourself." I mocked them with a terrifying glare that sends them shaking. "After all, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, right?"

The bandits all shudder from my presence as I back off to Cid's side.

"Anyway, stay calm gentlemen. We're just midgets who happened to pass by." Cid coyed.

"And surprise surprise, this gives us an opportunity to test out the slime sword and slime suit," I added. 

Wondering why we are using slime equipment? Here's a short explanation from yours truly! Turning common slime mobs into jelly and processing them into equipment makes their magic conductivity a whopping ninety-nine percent magic conductive. This makes it so that the user can alter its shape in any way they want.

In short, the stronger your potential for magic, the stronger the slime equipment becomes. 

"Well then, anyone who wants to die first?" I smiled with malice as we began slashing at them one by one.

*slash*

The bandits could do nothing against us. They were all brute pushovers who only relied on their physical strength after all. I have to say, using all my dagger skills on these small fries was quite disappointing. My dagger effortlessly cut through them like jelly, spilling their blood all over the ground painting a red gruesome art with their painful sounds echoing through the woods. 

With my past life's experiences of honing my skills with various types of weapons against dangerous people, these bastards aren't even what I call worthy enough to be killed with such perfect dagger play.