Chapter 49: Deathly night

The light from the lanterns on the streets fell on the dead bodies, making it a gruesome sight. The entire place area was stinking of fresh blood and the two men sucked in a deep breath as soon as they saw the scene filled with gore. 

Gregory and Erik had been in the royal army for decades and had fought quite a few battles. They had seen people dying and blood spilling. Although in the beginning, they had been scared from the sight of blood. Slowly, they had become accustomed to it and had overcome the fear of death.

But now, the known fear which they had experienced the first time at the sight of blood returned to them and it was more intense than it had been before. The scene before them was brutal, terrifyingly gory.

What made it ghastly was that Gregory and Erik knew all the men who now lay dead before them. They had seen the young guards training hard while they joined the army and some of them even had practiced with them during their free time.