Lightning strikes the trees turning the ground beneath them black. There, a gigantic bone that emerged from the ground pierced the people screaming in pain.
"For the Republic!!"
There was no fear on their faces despite seeing their fellow knights fall to the ground with blood spreading in all directions.
The undead monster's hands started hitting and throwing it at everyone who came running towards it. Loud noises rang out as the guns fired projectiles that emitted bright light, but not a single attack hit the undead monsters.
Everyone holding swords and guns ran like a group of people going to the sky. Falling and then lying on the ground.
"For justice's sake—" A knight whispered as his eyes began to close.
Before he completely closed his eyes, he could see the fellow knight beside him pierced by a large bone in a kneeling pose like he was praying, the sword fell to the side and he then left.
It didn't take long for the sky to fall silent, a person leaning against a tree with a subdued face exerted one last drop of strength before he completely died.
The undead monster that lacked intelligence then moved its rib cage and immediately left to find another prey. Leaving behind the mountain of scattered corpses, the white snow with blackened soil is now patterned with the fresh blood of the warriors for justice.
It took about a few hours before the sounds of the undead monsters moving his ribs faded away, but the storm above the sky had not died down.
Among the corpses and the blood that had started to congeal, a man wearing a white coat patterned with red blood moved his hands to try to support his entire body. He woke up with wet black hair.
It was Kyle.
"Ah— damn it, you fools. I at least hope that one of you plays dead to try to survive. Why don't you use your brains? Whose stupid idea would it be to try to fight an enemy you can't beat," Kyle said with a sickly expression on his stomach.
If only one of you is still alive, I will compensate you. Since the beginning the idea to attack was obviously suicide, it made me have to change my plan a bit, with the deaths of the knights, I want at least two or three people to survive then be able to protect me.
But then there was none left.
I feel sorry for them, they have been betrayed by their own officers to be sacrificed.
Unfortunately, when I tried to discuss to explain the plan when their spirits were recovering, they shouted something that made my ears hurt. So I had to follow their own plan and improvise a bit.
This kind of result was actually what I expected, when one is in a depressed state, one would have a lot of time to think about something, even an idiot would do the same. But usually it will be polarized according to what they experience, this is the problem, for people who are not used to thinking under pressure, they will digest whatever they receive, it will eventually become a suggestion for themselves.
Like a hope that appears in the void, anyone will definitely follow that hope and try to get out of the void. Before someone unintentionally sparks false hope with their mind clouded with despair, I step in to try to influence and give them hope. This has to be some sort of kick or punch, this is the reason why I start insulting them when they start showing emotion, I then have to bend the insult into praise and wishes.
It worked at one point but failed at another, they ended up building their own expectations out of my control. I make the foundation but they finish the building.
It Turns them all into like terrorists trying to kill themselves by screaming the name of the goddess they worship.
And this is what happened to me.
Damn, damn, damn... Will I be able to live alone before help arrives?
I then stepped my feet to try to reach the white coat with a fur collar that I hid under the snow. It was still clean with no blood stains, if I wore wet clothes, the knight's congealed blood might give me frostbite.
Squat down and then grabbed the coat to then clean it from the snow that sticks. When I did, I then felt something warm right in my stomach.
"Blood!!" Kyle muttered that as his eyes started to shake.
A black sword stabbed into my stomach, it felt very hot but didn't burn. I who lost my balance then fell to my knees while holding my stomach to hold back the blood that started to come out.
"From where? Who is that?"
A child's voice rang in my ear when I turned around.
"Are— that idiot Malvinas seems to have missed something. There are humans left, why is he still stupid even though I took good care of him," The little boy behind Kyle started to chuckle.
A small child was there with a hideous face, it was filled with stitches on the face and as a head. I could tell that that child seemed to be undead. Was it possible that he had summoned the monster?
So it's true, there is an offering means there is also someone who provides it. This little kid is the summoner.
"You, why are you doing this?"
The little boy then looked confused. He shook his head in a wide grin that tore through part of his face, it was even touching his ears.
"Oh. I was just following the traces of life from the depths of the abyss, and it so happened that when I came out, I found you. Uncle, do you want to play with me? Be like Malvinas? If you want, you should leave from the goddess church and enter the abyss church, I will be happy to help you."
This is a terrible conversation. I'm getting scared. When I shivered from the cold and terror from the child, he then showed a different expression.
"Hmm.. Uncle, looks like you have a friend I didn't expect."
I then turned my back on the little boy. A strong wind suddenly hit my hair, in there, precisely in the shadow of a dark forest, someone there tried to step closer to me with a facial expression that looked full of confusion.
He had an aura of darkness all around him, a dark shadow rising from above the ground creating a black orb and purple and jet black colored tentacles. He is someone I know.
"Zen. Are you still alive? "
How high is the luck of that kid? Is he just like me, playing dead? That would explain why he's still alive.
As I was planning to pay compensation to Zen for managing to survive. He then said something I didn't understand anymore.
"Why? It's very, very complicated. I don't understand anything you're doing."
Isn't this obvious, I'm now being stabbed by a sword and I'm about to die, why are you saying such obvious things? How many more clues are needed for you to understand my current situation. I would die from loss of blood, and if I were left alive by that little kid, he would definitely turn me into a hideous monster.
I then looked back, but what I saw was just the headless corpse of a child covered in black tentacles and dozens of black orbs floating in the air. That terrible little child died right in front of me.
"What!! When did it happen?"
If my thoughts aren't mistaken, it must be Zen's doing since he's the only person left besides me.
I looked back at Zen, he chuckled because of the expression I put on. Zen seemed to have realized something, he then opened his mouth again.
"Fufufu— no one will know what you did unless you tell them directly. Checkmate, this chess game is officially over. This is amazing, with my own eyes I have seen the chess game that has ended, the stage you prepared, I really, really want to see it."
A very low and scary sound, I feel like I've heard that voice before. It's not the Zen voice I know, it's like the hooded demon I saw in the dungeon.
Just to be sure, I was going to use the Skill Aprissal that I was only able to use a few minutes ago, but then the pain in my stomach made my hands start to lose strength.
I cast a Skill on Zen as my eyes started to close. My heart skipped a beat when I saw Zen's stats, it made the blood scatter around me more and more. I'm cold now and I'm starting to lose consciousness.
In the darkness where I couldn't see anything, my consciousness completely disappeared but the writing was still there—
[PROFILE]
[ Name : Zen Bariel ]
[ Class : Shadows Assasin ]
[ Level : 100 ]
[ Age : 18 + (Unknown ) Year-Old]
[ Gender : Male ]
[ Race : True Demon]
[STATUS]
[ Strength : 285 ]
[ Vitality: 80 ]
[ Agility : 98 ]
[ Carismatic : 45 ]
[ Inteligence : 20 (+10) ]
[ Stamina : 100 ]
[ Luck : 87 ]
[ATRIBUTES]
[ HP : 97000/ 97000]
[ Mana : 8300/8300 ]
[ Stamina : 100/100]
[ Skill Point : 0 ]
[ Physical Attack : 267]
[ Magic Attack : 32 ]
[ Physical Defense : 40 ]
[ Magic Defense : 65 ]
[ Physical Penetrate : 38 ]
[ Magic Penetrate : 2 ]
[SKILL]
[ Shadow Slash lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (1 Minute) ]
[ Ultimate Sword Shadow Lvl Max: Cooldown Skill (12 minute) ]
[ Earth Breaker Lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (3 Minute) ]
[ Heavy Attack Lvl 8 : Cooldown Skill (2 minute) ]
[ Black Thunder Lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (6 minute) ]
[ Perfect Clone Lvl 5 : Cooldown Skill (1 hours) ]
[ Sword Black Fire Enchant lvl Max : Cooldown Skill ( 5 Minute) ]
[ Curse of Heart Lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (3 hours) ]
[ Begining World Shadow Lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (3 hours) ]
[ The Particel Shadow Lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (5 hours) ]
[ Perfect Maneuver Lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (30 Minute) ]
[ Shadow Teleportation Lvl Max : Cooldown Skill (15 Minute) ]
[PASIVE]
[ Wind Slash Lvl Max ]
[ Shadow Aura Lvl Max ]
[ Intimidation Lvl 8 ]
[ Speed UP Lvl Max ]
[ Auto Mana Recover Lvl Max ]
[ Auto Shadow Energy Lvl Max ]
[ Heavy Armor Lvl Max ]
[ Shadow Heaven Lvl 7 ]
[ Light Glutony of Sword Lvl Max ]
[ The Particel Shadow Thunder Lvl Max ]
[ TITLE ]
[ World Disaster ]
[ Hidden World Bos ]
[ The Pride ]
[ Seven Deadly Sins ]
[ Curse Of Darkness ]
[ Black Magic ]
[ Dark Sword Master ]
[ Dual Face ]
[ Comander of Secret Organisasi ]
[ Non-Elemental ]
[ Human Killer ]
[ Elf Killer ]
[ Shadow Equipment ]
[ Hidden Aura ]
[ Recover Master ]
[World Disasters]
[Unknown: Data cannot be displayed, requires Aprissal level 8 to be able to display it]
[ The Pride ]
[ The ruler of the pride, the pride that is invincible among all demons, the shadow among the gaps of darkness in the world is the abode of a mysterious existence that moves behind the scenes, the strongest demon among all demons : can form a cult that will increase all base stats by a large amount 15% for every 100 loyal adherents permanently, as well as strengthens dark magic by 400 + 120% Physical Attack/ magic Attack when fighting elemental-type magic users and 80 + 35% Physical Attack/ magic Attack when fighting light-type magic users ]
I thank you guys for getting this far. By the way, what do you think about Zen? he really is something.
For the next volume, a new chapter will start soon, it will be fully using Pov 3, so I hope you guys will prepare yourself with the narrative of a Villain without justice unlike normal shounen stories, because this is completely their mindset. There are some mysteries that will be solved but there will also be some new mysteries that will appear. I hope you will continue reading NPC Villain.