The dark king

The Party

" where's brok team? "

One of my comrade in arms,brian, ask me a question while holding a unconscious woman in his shoulder

" ...what you gonna do with her? "

I replied with another question as I divert my attention back to my sword, polishing it so that it won't dull and broke in the most critical moment when I will have another battle

" are you a fool? It's obvious right? Do you want to have a taste of her when I done later? "

He scoff at me for a second, then back to looking at the woman with lust writen all over in his face

"....I'll pass "

I say that to him while give him a shooing gesture with my hand. He just snicker at me as a response and walk to the forest direction, humming in the way.

As a veteran soldiers, I'm not surprised with an event like this. Fed up actually, to see all this happened all the time when we come out victorious. It's like we are not different with bandits much. But I know that it's important for something like this to happen. Soldiers risk their lives in battles and wars, we could die any moment, and we need something to keep the moral of the soldiers. As well as motivation.

But aren't this too cruel? I'm here to become a soldier, to protect my homeland, not for butchering helpless peoples. It's like all my hard work to become one of the elite is gifted with more deaths and more rapes, not to protect, but for killing.

I sighed at my own reverie as I look upward towards the sky. It's still midnight, we the knights rank, coming here with 100 of us to infiltrate our enemy kingdom, Elesta. The plan is to make shortcut way to go the Elesta most weapon supply and trading point town, Sherath city, as fast as possible. Then we will take an convenient hiding spot that already planned and wait till the main army attack in front of Elestia door, the fortress that border our Arcaest territory and Elestia territory, blackwall fortress and declare the war with action . Soon when all Elestia attention go to the blackwall and utilise all available soldiers to the fortress, we will strike to the town when it will be become unguarded because lack of soldiers. With that, our armies will surround Elestia, being attacked in the front and back. That's why, even though if the shortcut will have villages in the way, we'll destroy it. Even if it's just only to make the journey one day faster

I sigh again in the thought of destroying and killing another villagers. With that, I look around me to see my fellow knights. They make a feast with foods we ravaged from the houses, make a big campfire with woods from the village building we destroyed, and chatting in the area where we killed most of the villagers. I can even hear three or four of woman cry and man panting sounds from there and there

Night still long, it will be better if I quickly finish maintenance of my sword and go to sleep

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After I done with those scums and buried mom, I walk to the man that now become my master.

" my lord, let me go for a while to get my revenge...I'll kill all the bastards that destroy my village and my life "

I kneel in front of him and lower my head while say so. Silence filled the area as master didn't reply my permission to go

" ....lord? "

I raise my head and saw him looking other direction, I follow his gaze and see that the direction he look now is the direction to my village

" just call me master will do for now. I see many life signatures that at least will be more than 80 peoples, how you fight and kill those many soldiers? "